Bridge pairs to Wignall
PA Auckland The leading Christchurch contract bridge players, J. R. Wignail and R. P. Kerr, won the New Zealand pairs championship in Auckland at the week-end. This was their second win in partnership, but the success represents an outstanding effort by Wignall, who has now won the title seven times. Wignall is a sharebroker whose partner on five occasions was F. P. S. Lu, now a professor at Canterbury University. Kerr is also a professor at the same university. The first five placings were.— Wignall and Kerr, 1354, 1; P. H. Marston (Christchurch) and G. M. Sims (Auckland), 1331, 2; M. L. Cornell and D. J. Evitt (Auckland), 1313£, 3; L. P. Hobbs (Te Awamutu) and P. L. Warren (New Plymouth), 1309 j, 4: Mrs P. McCartney and B. Northey (Auckland), 1309, 5
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Press, 7 September 1976, Page 14
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