The Teltscher Trophy
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The Teltscher Trophy Edinburgh 20 - 22 May 2016 Participating Players PARTICIPATING TEAMS Team A Northern Ireland Team B Scotland Team C England Team D Wales Team E Patron’s Team Team F Republic of Ireland Rex Anderson is a retired solicitor living in Coleraine NORTHERN and is currently writing a history of the NIBU. His Cam- rose career commenced in the 60’s when he played with IRELAND his father. Rex holds the record for Camrose caps hav- ing played just over 100 times. In 2015 he played on the Irish Senior Team which reached the quarter finals in the D’Orsi Bowl in Chennai. David Greenwood is a retired Financial Adviser. He has represented Ireland on a number of occasions, and has played in 5 Camrose matches with his wife Diane. His partnership with Rex has been the bedrock of the N Ireland Camrose team for many years. He is the only member of the team to have won the Camrose (albeit playing for England at the time!) Rex David Anderson Greenwood Ian Lindsay has represented the NIBU with five dif- ferent partners. He is a retired chartered accountant who now acts as Treasurer for six charities connected with music, the visual arts, health and the disabled. He devotes a great deal of time to bridge administration and is a past Secretary, Chairman, Congress Organiser, and President of the NIBU, and a past President of the Irish Bridge Union. Michael O’Kane is a retired solicitor from Downpat- rick with a keen interest in horseracing. He says he is a past everything in the NIBU, but has now opted for an easier life. He has played in the Camrose on a number of occasions. His partnership with Ian Lindsay is new. Ian Michael Lindsay O’Kane Hastings Campbell is an Estate Agent specialising in PC Student accommodation in Belfast. He has represented Northern Ireland more than 60 times with a number of different partners. Hastings takes his bridge very seri- ously as long as it doesn’t interfere with his true pas- sion, cricket. Sporting Index are reputed to be laying a spread on the number of sets Hastings sits out if a Test Match and a Camrose match were on at the same time. Ian Hamilton aka The Mad Doc, is a retired GP and Occupational Physician based in Belfast. Though he plays a role in Instonians Rugby Cub his main other interest is cricket, having followed England round the world, usually to see them lose. He still manages to turn Dr. Hastings Ian out for his old boy’s 20:20 team. He is a regular member Campbell Hamilton of the N Ireland Camrose team. Brian Short played for Great Britain on 3 occasions before Scotland got international autonomy, with long- time partner Sandy Duncan. He has over 40 Camrose SCOTLAND caps for Scotland, with series wins on two occasions and two ties, and multiple European and Olympiad ap- pearances for in both Open and Senior events. He won the Gold Cup in 2006 and has won every major Scot- tish event, including the premier teams competition (the Scottish Cup) on 12 occasions. His other main interests are his family (they like him to call with his DIY skills) Brian hill-walking, and occasional (very bad) golf. Short Alan Goodman has played Camrose, European and Olympiad for Scotland’s Open and Senior teams, and captained a number of different Scottish teams over the last 8 years. Having retired, he is now busier than ever as Chairman of a Scottish charity and captain of his lo- cal golf club. He is married with three grown up daugh- ters and a 4 year old grandson. Perhaps best known during his partnership with Boris Schapiro, Irving Gordon’s list of achievements in- Alan cludes winning the World Senior Pairs, several Gold Goodman Cups and Spring Foursomes, a Silver medal in the Sunday Times plus other titles in the UK and abroad. He has represented Britain at the European Champion- ships (Open team) and Scotland at the European Cham- pionships at both Open and Senior levels. He won his latest gold medal with the Scottish team in the Com- monwealth Nation Championships 2010 held in India. This is his third appearance with Danny in the Teltscher Trophy, having been on the winning team three years Irving ago, and runners-up last year. Gordon Danny Kane took up bridge when he was a young Physics teacher in Glasgow and went on to run a school bridge club which produced several junior international players. He then partnered the late Jimmie Arthur in his first Camrose in 1989 and around that time achieved four wins in the Scottish National Pairs. In the mid 1990’s he gave up bridge for many years when he started his own golf business. However, since retiring, his interest in bridge has been renewed. This is his third Danny senior Camrose with partner Irving Gordon, with whom Kane he also played in the recent Camrose series in Wales. Aside from bridge, he is keen on sports. In his more ma- ture years, golfing has become the replacement for his professional sports of boxing, Thai kickboxing and full contact karate. Other hobbies are cooking (and eating)! SCOTLAND Anne Symons has been a regular member of the Scot- tish Ladies team for a number of years, playing in Lady Milnes, Europeans and Olympiads. She has also been part of the only women’s pair to play in the Camrose for Scotland. This is her fourth year captaining the Senior team and she is also now involved in Junior coaching and captaincy, thoroughly enjoying her roles at either end of the age spectrum. This weekend Gerald Haase represents Scotland for the first time in the Senior Camrose. This will complete a full set of junior, open, and senior Camrose appearances for Scotland. Anne Symons Gerald is a native of Glasgow and qualified as a doctor (NPC) in 1973. For the last 32 years, he has lived and worked as a pharmaceutical physician in London. Gerald began playing bridge at Glasgow University and was a member of the team that won the British Universities Congress in 1970. Before moving south, he had several success- ful partnerships, in particular with Michael Rosenberg and George Cuthbertson. In 2013, he was a member Gerald of the Scottish senior team that finished 5th in the 2013 World Championship in Bali. He has won many na- Haase tional events including three Scottish Cups, and, the Blue Riband of UK Bridge, the Gold Cup, twice. Gerald and his partner John Murdoch were members of the team that won the recent senior trials, and, in addition to this weekend, they look forward to playing for the Scottish senior team at the European Championships being held during the second half of June in Budapest. John Murdoch is a retired librarian and trade union- ist. He started playing bridge at 11, reached his peak at 12, declined thereafter and is now reduced to playing in John senior events. He has won all of Scotland’s major events Murdoch including a triumph in the 2015 Benjamin individual when he thought he was last. To avoid a crisis of con- science he did not check the scores. Sally Brock has had considerable International success in the past. She makes her living partly by typesetting travel guides, and partly by professional bridge of one sort or another: writing (columnist for the Sunday Times), play- ing and teaching online. In recent years she has formed a partnership, both at and away from the bridge table, with Barry Myers, a long-time friend who has recently ENGLAND returned to bridge after a long absence. Sally has recently added to her international successes. In the Venice Cup with the England Women’s team she won a silver medal in 2013 in Bali and a bronze medal in 2015 in Chennai. She also won silver with the England Women’s team at the European Championships in 2014. In 2014 she was part of the team which won the Women’s Sally Team competition at the World Series in Sanya, China. Brock Sally is also leader of the Women’s Under 25 squad. Barry Myers played in the Camrose with Robert Shee- han in 1986 and again in 2015 with Sally setting, he thinks, the record of the longest gap between first and second caps. This pales into insignificance beside the gap between winning his first and second national competi- tions: 1974-2010. However he says that in his defence that he gave up the game for a number of years when he read for the Bar - still being a practicing criminal barris- ter. Now that he is in partnership with Sally, he believes Barry that further success is only just around the corner (!?) Myers Nicola Smith has won just about everything there is to win at the game. At world level she has won the Ven- ice Cup twice (1981 and 1985) and the World Women’s Individual once (1994) as well as silver medals (1976 and 2013) and a bronze medal (2015) in the Venice Cup . At European level, she has won the European Women’s Teams seven times (1975, 1979, 1981, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2012) as well as a host of other European competitions and has a clutch of silver and bronze medals at European women’s level as well. She has played in the last ten Olympiads, now renamed the World Mind Sports Olympiad winning the Gold Nicola Medal in Beijing in 2008 and in Lille in 2012.