The Camrose Trophy is the championship between the five home countries, held over two weekends, with the host country fielding a second team to ‘make up the numbers’. My team qualified to represent England for one of those weekends – Andrew Black’s strong squad played the other – and between us we won! And yes – before you ask, I did play!
One of England’s brightest ever stars (and one of the nicest) was Tony Priday who died, aged 92, a few years ago. He played in the Camrose almost continuously from 1956 to 1986 and came out of retirement to play one more in the mid-1990s – which ofc his team won. Tony had two of the most essential qualities a great bridge player needs: technical ability and experience. Here he demonstrates he had a double dose of both (see diagram).
A good auction landed Tony in 4♠ when the partnership appeared to lack a Heart control.
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