Chch pairs win N.Z. bridge
PA Wellington Two Christchurch pairs yesterday finished first and second in a three-day trial held in Wellington during the week-end to determine selection in the 1976-77 New Zealand contract bridge team. The successful pairs out of 14 contestants who played a round robin series of 13 matches were P. H. Marston and W. Kun, who led the field with an aggregate of 174 victory points, and R. P. Kerr and J. R. Wignail, who scored 172. The lead changed hands continuously between these two pairs. Under trial rules both pairs are automatically selected for the 1976-77 national open team; a third pair will be selected from other trial entrants, in due course by the New Zealand management committee.
Third and fourth were two young and unknown Auckland pairs: K. R. Rotherham and M. L. Daroux, 164, and L. R. Wright and M. D. I. Meyer, 160. J. B. Cordwell and V. Gravis of Wellington were fifth with 156 points; L. P. Hobbs (Te Awamutu) and P. L. Warren (New Plymouth) finished in sixth place with 145 points.
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