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Whitehead Women's Pairs
The Whitehead Women's Pairs bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Whitehead Women's Pairs is a four-session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the second Thursday of the NABC and is restricted to female players. History The Whitehead Women’s Pairs is an event for partnerships consisting of two female players. There are two qualifying sessions, followed by two final sessions. The contest was held annually at the Summer North American Bridge Championship until 1962. That was changed the following year and subsequently contested at the Spring North American Bridge Championship. At stake is the Whitehead Trophy, donated in 1930 by Wilbur Whitehead of New York, a great bridge authority and a member of the team that won the Vanderbilt Cup in 1928, the first year it was in play. Whitehead (1866–1931) was president of the Simple ... [...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] |
Gratian Goldstein
Gratian Goldstein is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** Marcus Cup (1) 1950 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1955, 1958 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1969 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1948, 1953 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (2) 1947, 1948 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1966 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1967 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1972 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1961 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1945, 1971 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs The Whitehead Women's Pairs bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Whitehead Women's Pairs is a four-session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying ... (1) 1953 Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldstein, Gratian American contract bridge players ... [...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 |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Alicia Kempner
Alicia Kempner is an American bridge player from Palm Springs, California. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1962, 1969 ** Barclay Trophy (1) 1954 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1946, 1960 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1955 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs The Whitehead Women's Pairs bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Whitehead Women's Pairs is a four-session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying ... (1) 1965 Notes External links * Living people American contract bridge players Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) People from Palm Springs, California {{Bridge-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Sachs
Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islands, Australia * Sue, Fukuoka, a town in Japan ** Sue Station (Fukuoka), a railway station * Sue Lake, a lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States Other uses * Suing (to sue), a type of lawsuit * Sue (name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name) * Sué, a god of the Andean Muisca civilization * Sue (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' specimen * '' Sue Lost in Manhattan'' or ''Sue'', a 1998 film * Subsurface Utility Engineering * Sue ware, ancient Japanese pottery * ARC (file format) or .sue * Door County Cherryland Airport's IATA code * Mary Sue or Sue, an idealized fictional character * Yoshiko Tanaka or Sue (1956–2011), Japanese actress People with the surname * Carolyn Sue, Australian physician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Rita Seamon
Rita Shirley Seamon (October 20, 1924 – July 14, 2022) was an American bridge player. Rita won a North American championship in 1974 playing with her husband William Seamon. She placed second twice in the Women's Pairs playing with her daughter Janice Seamon-Molson. Personal life Her husband William Seamon was also a bridge player. Rita and William had three children: Rick, Michael and Janice. Michael Seamon and Janice Seamon-Molson are both bridge players. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1974 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1996 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs The Whitehead Women's Pairs bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Whitehead Women's Pairs is a four-session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying ... (2) 1961, 1989 References {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Solomon
Margery Lee Golder Solomon (''née'' Mastbaum; August 14, 1908 – March 4, 1995), was an American bridge player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As Peggy Golder in 1942, she became ACBL Life Master number 33, the third woman to achieve the rank after Sally Young and Helen Sobel."First 100 Life Masters" ''Glossary and Library'' Bridge Guys (bridgeguys.com). Retrieved 2014-12-10. Life Solomon was the daughter of Etta (née Wedell) and , a Philadelphia real estate investor who specialized in mov ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jane Farell
Mary Jane Farell (March 12, 1920 – 5 October 2015), also known as Mary Jane Kauder, was an American Contract bridge, bridge player. Farell grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and "couldn't wait to get home from school to kibitz whenever my mother had the game at our house." The family moved to Los Angeles when she was 17 and she began playing duplicate bridge there "with the young men I dated". She married one of them, Arnold Kauder, who was her mentor. (They divorced.) She began teaching bridge after World War II. Mary Jane and Arnold Kauder won the Hilliard Mixed Pairs (a secondary "national" championship after 1946) in 1949 and finished second in 1950. They were second again in 1957, behind Bob Adams and Marilyn Johnson. Johnson and Mary Jane Farell became a strong partnership and won three world championships together. Her second husband Jules Farell died in 2005. Farell was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1998. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 1998 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
