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Cross in Hand Bridge Club

Lloyds Bank

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x COMPETITION AND TROPHY HISTORY x

 THE CLUB CURRENTLY PLAYS THE FOLLOWING COMPETITIONS.  TROPHIES OR/PRIZES ARE AWARDED EACH YEAR.

THE HILBOURNE CUP

Donated by Deidre & David Hilbourne, this competition was conceived to foster wider friendships within the Club.

To qualify a player must be a fully paid up member of the Club and have played a minimum of five times. Each round must be played with a different partner who should also be a member of the club.

All sessions will be played as a one winner movement and will be scored in the normal manner and, for each round played, individual results will be recorded for each player.  This will comprise their finishing position. 

The best 5 finishing positions will be aggregated to provide a total for the year. Any or all of the rounds played will be entered into the competition. If a member has played more than once with the same partner then only the result from the earliest date they played together will be considered.

A cut must be taken before a session to determine N/S and E/W polarity of each pair.

The cup will be awarded to the player with the smallest number of finishing position points

 

THE ALASTAIR GRAHAM TROPHY

The Alastair Graham Trophy was donated to the Club by Jay Graham, wife of our late Chairman.  Alastair always felt that our Annual Event was a particularly important date in the Club's calendar and this trophy is presented to the pair who win the one session pairs event on this very popular occasion.  At least one of the winning pair must be a Cub member.

THE OLIVER HANSON CUP

The Oliver Hanson Cup was presented to the Club by his fellow committee members in his memory and is awarded to the player with the highest average calculated from the 20 best scores achieved between January and the end of December.  Only games played with both players being members can be counted.

THE CROSS IN HAND SILVER SALVER

Each year we play a friendly Teams match against Crowborough Bridge Club for this silver salver.

MONDAY NIGHT - REALBRIDGE GIBBONS CUP

This cup was donated by Christine Gibbons for the committee to decide how they would like to use it.  It has been decided that this cup will be awarded to the Monday Night Realbridge Player with the highest percentage over 20 games.

 

 

General Information

CROSS IN HAND BRIDGE CLUB - OUR HISTORY

Sometime in 1985, John Blake, the proprietor of the Bridge Inn at Stonegate, placed a notice in Friday-Ad, the local free advertising paper, for anyone interested in playing duplicate bridge to come to his pub for a meeting one Wednesday evening and to play duplicate bridge in a convivial atmosphere. That meeting sowed the seeds of Cross In Hand Bridge Club.

The records do not show who went to that meeting or when exactly when in 1985 it was. However, in January 1986 John decided to stop running what was his club and it was agreed that we form our own club with John agreeing for us to continue to play at his pub. He very generously donated the original duplicate boards (which we continued to use until a year or so ago), playing cards and other bridge sundries. We first played as our own club at the Bridge Inn on Wednesday 22nd January 1986 as the appropriately named Bridge Inn Club.

It is interesting to note those who played at that first meeting of our club. They were:

 Colin Bennett (dtr)  Peter Garvey (treas.)  
 John Blake (chmn)  Helen Garvey  Roy Tilbrook
 Alan Burton  Dick Gellender Masters(dtr)  Ray Theis (sec)
 Peter Chapman  Jan Gellender Masters  Diane Theis
 Len Collis  Oliver Hanson  Audrey Wright
 Bill Daltry  Maurice Locke (dtr)  Harold Wright
 Walter Fiske  Derek Pooley  

After John left the Bridge Inn in March 1986, we remained there until about May, but the new owners were not really interested in us staying, so we moved on, and on and on… We played, briefly at The Conservative Club in Burwash, The Crown (now closed) in Blackboys and then for several years from about August 1986, when we changed our name to the Cross In Hand Bridge Club, at The Cross In Hand Inn until about August 1989. When the latest owners of the pub decided that we could not stay it was at that point we decided that pubs were not suitable venues for us and we moved to our present home at Waldron Church Hall, but, during all the moves, members stayed loyal to our little club and the membership gradually increased.

In the course of 1986, amongst others, the following joined the Club:

 Richard Barrett  Harry Frostick  David Pooley
 Jim Benson  George Hearn  Cath Sandbach
 Pat Brewer  Carol Ingles  Jim Sandbach
 Phillip Brewer  Graham Ingles  Mary Teviotdale
 Ruby Dawson  Colin Manley  Phyllis Townsend
 Barbara Frostick  Cécile Messa  Fred Townsend

Times change and the old Bridge Inn is no more. In its place are two executive homes.

Some of our original members have, sadly, passed on, others have moved away, and more have come and gone over the years, but many of the names we see here are, happily, still playing at the club or returning now again as welcome visitors.

It is fascinating to see what one ad., placed many years ago by a publican in Stonegate, produced.

Our twentieth birthday is quite a milestone in the Club’s history and it seemed appropriate to record how it all started and who was there. But that was then and this is now, so we just look forward to many more happy years of bridge at Cross In Hand.

Created by Peter Garvey for the 20th Anniversary celebrations - January 2006