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Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams
The Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC) and is a four session board-a-match event, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the first Sunday of the NABC and is restricted to female players. History The event was introduced in 1933 and was originally held at the winter NABC (there were only two NABCs - summer and winter). The original trophy was donated by George Coffin. Page 78. In 1963, it was moved to the spring NABC. In 1976, the board-a-match format was changed to a knock-out format. The board-a-match format was re-introduced in 1986. The event is now held at the fall NABCs. Dr. Jim Sternberg donated the current trophy in 2001 in memory of his wife, Marsha May Sternberg, who died in 2001 after a six-week battle with cancer. Winners Five champion teams defended their titles without any change in team personnel, on s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain the game of bridge and serve the bridge-related interests of our Members."'' Its major activities are: * sanctioning games at local bridge clubs and regional events * certifying bridge teachers and club directors * conducting the North American Bridge Championships (NABC) * providing education materials and services * administering the ACBL masterpoints system for tracking player performance * providing oversight for ethical behavior and play *Besides representing the interests of its members with the World Bridge Federation, , it had more than 165,000 members. History The ACBL was created in 1937 by the merger of the American Bridge League and the United States Bridge Association in 1937. At that time, its bridge tournaments were open only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Kemp
Edith Freilich née Seamon (September 8, 1911 - May 14, 2011) was an American bridge player, "one of the world's greatest female bridge players". As a player in important tournaments, she was also known as Edith Seligman, Edith Kemp, and Edith Kemp Freilich. Among women, she is second to Helen Sobel Smith for winning the greatest number of North American Bridge Championships. She was from Miami Beach, Florida. Edith Seamon was raised in South Orange, New Jersey. Her brother, Billy Seamon, and sister, Anne Burnstein, also became leading bridge players. Freilich won the top two KO events on the ACBL calendar, the Vanderbilt and Spingold, in 1963. In 1984, her team won the Wagar. Freilich was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1997. Freilich died in Miami on May 14, 2011. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 1997 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Utegaard
Helen Utegaard is an American bridge player from Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Beijing. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1988 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1974 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1988 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (5) 1971, 1973, 1981, 1984, 1988 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1992 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1975, 1988 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1975 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1987 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1992 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1991 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). From 2010 the event is officially the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, as it is contested ... (1) 1980 References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Moss
Gail Harte Greenberg (born 1938) is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Gail Shane, Gail Moss, and Gail Moss Greenberg. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she was one of 73 Women World Grand Masters, ranked about 40th by placing points that do not decay over time. has tempered her partner's exuberance with some sharp reproofs. Bridge accomplishments Awards and honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, von Zedtwitz Award 2013"Induction by Year" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Wins * (2) 1976, 1978[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judi Friedenberg
Judi Radin, née Friedenberg (born 1950), is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She played also as Judi Solodar. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Radin ranked 33rd among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 21st by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-09. Radin is a graduate of . In North American competition, Radin was second in the 1974 champions (open board-a-match), a title few women have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Johnson
Marilyn Kinsman Johnson (February 18, 1928 – October 31, 2007) was an American bridge player from Houston, Texas. She won three world championships, one at women pairs and two at women teams, all in partnership with Mary Jane Farell. Farell and Johnson also won the North American von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs in 1978, which no other pair of women has done (1930 to 2014). Johnson, a native of Rutland, Vermont, majored in chemistry at Wellesley College and worked 33 years for Shell Oil. She died in Houston, aged 79. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1978 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2) 1968, 1973 ** Hilliard Mixed Pairs (1) 1957 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (4) 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1967 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1973 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoda Walsh
Rhoda Walsh (born 1933) is an American bridge player from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate from Loyola Law School and is an attorney. Walsh is a World Bridge Federation (WBF) Master and a North American (ACBL) Grand Life Master. In competition, she earned a bronze medal with the 1968 USA women in the quadrennial World Team Olympiad. That year she also won three major women's North American Bridge Championships—the Wagar Women's Knockout Teams and both tournaments, the Whitehead and Smith playing with two different partners. Walsh is a two-time winner of the annual Whitehead Women's Pairs, inaugurated 1930, playing with Hermine Baron in 1968 and with Kerri Davis in 1972. She is a three-time winner of the annual Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (est. 1961), playing with Dorothy Talmage in 1968, Amalya Kearse in 1972, and Sabine Zenkel in 1989. Five major championships for women pairs, with five partners. She won the major pairs championship for seniors, Leventritt S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Jean Hawes
Emma Jean Hawes (''née'' Fisher; July 5, 1912 – July 28, 1987)"Hawes, Emma Jean" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-17. was an American player. She won 11 national titles and four world titles during her career. Hawes was born in and graduated from at only 18 years old. For 15 years she partnered with New Yorker |
Nancy Gruver
Nancy Lois Gordon Gruver (August 12, 1931 – January 28, 1990) was an American bridge player. She won more than a dozen American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) "national" championships and finished second in two world championships. Gruver graduated from the University of Maryland and lived for some time in Ellicott City, Maryland. She died of a heart attack at Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, survived by her husband John A. Gruver, one daughter and one son. In World Bridge Federation (WBF) competition, her second-place finishes were in 1966, playing with Sue Sachs in the second quadrennial World Women Pairs Championship, and in 1981 Venice Cup, playing with Edith Kemp on the 6-person USA women team. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (14) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1977 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (2) 1965, 1986 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (3) 1967, 1979, 1981 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1982 ** Wagar Women's Knockou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqui Mitchell
Jacquelyn M. "Jacqui" Mitchell (born 1936) Mitchell... is as utterly self disciplined at the table as she is away from it... She passes much of her time at the table doing embroidery as though determined to remain detached, but those who trifle with her do so at their peril. If her bidding sometimes appears orthodox, or a little too conservative, her card play and defence are of the very highest quality. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2003"Induction by Year" ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 16 November 2014. Wins * World Championships ** (2) 1976, 1978 **[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermine Baron
Hermine Baron (November 1, 1912 – September 27, 1996)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American contract bridge player who was a Grand Life Master. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, she moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1940s. Having contracted polio at an early age, she played the game from a wheelchair. At her death, she had accumulated 22,654 masterpoints, the most of any woman in the USA. Winner of several national titles and over 100 regional events, she also represented the USA internationally in 1968, 1978 and 1982. Baron died in West Hollywood, California, in 1996.''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2002. Playing record * Grand Life Master with 22,654.52 masterpoints — the most of any woman in the U.S. at the time of her death in 1996 * Helen Sobel Smith Trophy: Life Master's Women's Pairs winner in 1963 with Anne Burnstein * McKenney Trophy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Hayden
Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two with her husband Alan Truscott. Her 1966 book, Bid Better, Play Better is considered a classic and was progressively updated. Early and later life Truscott was born as Dorothy Johnson in New York City. Her parents, Dorothy and Reginald Johnson, were keen bridge players and taught their daughter the game when she was 7 years old. Truscott would normally watch her mother play the game, but her father would allow her to bid and play his hand when he poured drinks. One evening a player was late, and she was allowed to fill in. That introduction made her a "bridge addict" for the remainder of her life. She graduated from Smith College and briefly taught mathematics in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first two marriages ended in divorce. Her third, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
