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Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs
The Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). Usually called simply the "Life Master Pairs" or "LM Pairs", this is a six-session pairs tournament open to all players without regard to age, sex, nationality, or membership. It is restricted to Life Masters, now a modest career record in ACBL sanctioned play, which leading players from overseas are able to achieve by attending a few NABC meets. If it remains the most prestigious competition for pairs, that may be because it is older than the parallel spring and fall events, the Norman Kay Platinum Pairs established 2010 and Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs established 1963. History The Life Master Pairs is a six-session event with two qualifying, two semi-final and two final sessions. It is restricted to Life Masters. At stake is the Von Zedtwitz Gold Cup. In 1930, Waldemar von Zedtwitz donated the Gold Cup, which ... [...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] |
Oswald Jacoby
Oswald "Ozzie", "Jake" Jacoby (December 8, 1902 – June 27, 1984) was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time and a key innovator in the game, having helped popularize widely used bidding moves such as Jacoby transfers. He also excelled at, and wrote about, other games including backgammon, gin rummy, canasta, and poker. He was from Brooklyn, New York and later lived in Dallas, Texas. He was the uncle of activist and author Susan Jacoby, as well as father of James Jacoby, an author and world-class bridge player in his own right. Early life Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, he was taught to play whist at the age of six and played his first bridge at ten. During World War I, he joined the army at 15 by lying about his age but spent most of his time there playing poker. Dropping out of Columbia University (where he was in the class of 1922) as a math major to become an actuary, he became the youngest person ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Weiss
Albert "Dingy" Weiss (December 24, 1900 - September 1981) was an American bridge player from Miami Beach, Florida. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** Senior Masters Individual (1) 1947 ** Open Pairs (1928-1962) (2) 1939, 1951 ** Vanderbilt (3) 1948, 1963, 1965 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1946 ** Spingold (1) 1953 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Masters Individual (1) 1945 ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (3) 1949, 1952, 1962 ** Vanderbilt (1) 1960 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1952 ** Reisinger (1) 1936 ** Spingold The Spingold national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Spingold is a knock-out team event that attracts the top contract bridge players in the world. T ... (1) 1972 Notes External links * American contract bridge players 1900 births 1981 deaths Place of birth missing Place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Sherman
Ruth Therese Sherman (November 24, 1903 – April 6, 1965) was an American bridge player from New York City. In 1944 she became ACBL Life Master number 45, the sixth woman to achieve the rank."First 100 Life Masters" ''Glossary and Library'' Bridge Guys (bridgeguys.com). Retrieved 2014-12-11. In (ACBL) competition, Sherman won two of the three most important annual tournaments, the Chicago Board-a-Match (now ) in 1944 and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hazen
Lee Hazen (April 2, 1904 – February 13, 1991)"Hazen, Lee" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16. was an American attorney, player and baseball player from New York City. Hazen graduated from and received a J.D. from . Hazen was inducted into the |
Bertram Lebhar Jr
Bertram may refer to: Places *Bertram, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Australia *Bertram, Iowa, United States, a city *Bertram, Texas, United States, a city *Bertram Building, a historic building in Austin, Texas *Bertram Glacier, Palmer Land, Antarctica Other uses *Bertram (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname *Operation Bertram, an Allied deception operation leading up to the Second Battle of El Alamein *Bertram-class air-sea rescue boat, a Royal Australian Navy class of two vessels disposed of in 1988 *Bertram Hall (Radcliffe College), a dormitory building *Bertram Yacht, a subsidiary of the Ferretti Group See also *Bertrams, a UK book wholesaler *Bertrams, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa *Bartram, a surname *Bertrand (other) Bertrand may refer to: Places * Bertrand, Missouri, US * Bertrand, Nebraska, US * Bertrand, New Brunswick, Canada * Bertrand Township, Michigan, US * Bertrand, Michigan * Bertra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wagar
Margaret Wagar (April 6, 1902 – January 6, 1990) was an American bridge player from Delaware, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia. The premier American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) annual championship for women teams since 1976 is the Wagar Women's Knockout Teams, named for Wagar. Previously it was the Women's Board-a-Match Teams, which she won six times including four in a row from 1943 to 1946 with identical teammates Emily Folline, Helen Sobel, and Sally Young. Her teams also finished second or tied for second ten times in 15 years from 1950 to 1964! Wagar also won the premier championship for women pairs four years in a row with Kay Rhodes, the 1955 to 1958 Whitehead Women's Pairs tournaments (and were partners on the runner-up women team seven years in a row from 1952 to 1958). She and Sobel won the Fall National Open Pairs in 1947 and 1948; she and John Crawford won the Rockwell Mixed Pairs in 1948 and 1949. (The Fall National was one of several "national championships" for open p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Silodor
Sidney Silodor (November 13, 1906 – August 4, 1963) was an American bridge player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania. Silodor was named to its hall of fame by ''The Bridge World'' in 1966, which brought the number of members to nine, and was made a founding member of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995. Silodor was born in Newark, New Jersey to Charles and Pauline Silodor, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He was married to Elizabeth Collins. He died of brain cancer at Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital in 1963. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966"Induction by Year" ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Stone
Tobias Stone (June 6, 1919 – February 15, 2012) was an American bridge player and writer from New York City. Stone was born in Manhattan. He and Janice Gilbert married in 1955; divorced in 1975. He retired from bridge and in 1986 moved to Las Vegas, where he died in 2012. Stone was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2003. Publications * 237 pages. * 237 pages. Preface revised by Alvin Roth. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2003"Induction by Year" ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-22. Awards * (1) 1956Wins * |
Helen Sobel
Helen Elizabeth Sobel Smith (''née'' Martin; May 22, 1909 – September 11, 1969) was an American bridge player. She is said to have been the "greatest woman bridge player of all time" and "may well have been the most brilliant card player of all time." She won 35 North American Bridge Championships, and was the first woman to play in the Bermuda Bowl. She was a long-time partner of Charles Goren. Biography Sobel Smith was born Helen Martin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Cornelius and Ethel Martin (''née'' Murphy). Her father, whose own father had emigrated from England, was working as a machinist when Helen was born in 1909, joining a 5-year-old sister, Dorothy. 1910 United States Census Helen was a chorus girl in her youth. At age 16, she was already performing with the Marx Brothers in shows including ''The Cocoanuts'' and ''Animal Crackers''. She only knew only how to play pinochle and Casino until another chorus girl taught her bridge: she took to the game like a duck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Goren
Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr. Bridge" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s. Culbertson, Goren, and Harold Vanderbilt were the three people named when ''The Bridge World'' inaugurated a bridge "hall of fame" in 1964 and they were made founding members of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995. According to ''New York Times'' bridge columnist Alan Truscott, more than 10 million copies of Goren's books were sold. Among them, ''Point-Count Bidding'' (1949) "pushed the great mass of bridge players into abandoning Ely Culbertson's clumsy and inaccurate honor-trick method of valuation." Goren's widely syndicated newspaper column "Goren on Bridge" first appeared in the Chicago Tribune August 30 1944, p.15. Early years Goren was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Fishbein
Harry J. Fishbein (April 18, 1897 – February 19, 1976) was an American bridge player and club owner. He used to be a professional basketball player. In competition, Fishbein was a runner-up for the world championship in the 1959 Bermuda Bowl, playing on the United States team in a three-way round-robin among Europe, North America, and South America representatives. Fishbein was "the presiding genius" of the famous Mayfair club r Mayfair Bridge Clubref name=morehead/> for more than 20 years" – proprietor of the training ground of experts from 1943 to 1966. As of 1960 he was also ACBL Treasurer. He developed the Fishbein convention as a defense against preemptive opening bids. Biography He was born on April 18, 1898, in Manhattan, New York City. He died on February 19, 1976, at the New York Infirmary following a heart attack. Legacy Fishbein was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000. He was a second cousin of the noted Orthodox Jewish scholar J.D. Eisenstein. Publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
