Sidney Silodor
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Sidney Silodor (1906–1963)[1] was an American bridge player. Silodor is 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.[2]
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.[3][4][lower-alpha 1]
Contents
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
- ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966[3][lower-alpha 1]
Awards
- Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1963
Wins
- Bermuda Bowl (1) 1950
- North American Bridge Championships (34)
- Master Individual (1) 1951 [5]
- von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1946 [6]
- Rockwell Mixed Pairs (3) 1951, 1955, 1956 [7]
- Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963 [8]
- Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1940, 1944 [9]
- Fall National Open Pairs (2) 1941, 1946 [10]
- Vanderbilt (8) 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960 [11]
- Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1952, 1956, 1961 [12]
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954 [13]
- Reisinger (6) 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961 [14]
- Spingold (3) 1943, 1951, 1957 [15]
Runners-up
- Bermuda Bowl (2) 1958, 1961
- North American Bridge Championships
- von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (2) 1943, 1956 [6]
- Wernher Open Pairs (3) 1941, 1950, 1958 [16]
- Vanderbilt (1) 1953 [11]
- Spingold (1) 1936 [17]
- Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1946, 1959, 1963 [12]
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962 [13]
- Reisinger (3) 1944, 1948, 1951 [14]
- Spingold (5) 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961 [15]
Books
Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor".[18]
- Silodor Says: the grand slam of bridge literature (New York: Pageant Press, 1952), 240 pp., OCLC 2556615
- Contract bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney, Silodor and John A. Tierney (Chestnut Hill, MA: Stanley–Allan Co., 1961), 442 pp., OCLC 5691240
- Complete Book of Duplicate Bridge, Norman Kay, Fred Karpin, and Silodor (G. P. Putnam, 1965), 496 pp., LCCN 65-22224
Articles
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Bridge World monthly magazine, established by Ely Culbertson in 1929, named nine members of its bridge hall of fame including Culbertson from 1964 to 1966, but it never named another. Almost thirty years later, the ACBL established its hall of fame with the Bridge World nine as founding members. It named eight new members in 1995 and has inducted others annually since then.[3][4]
References
- ↑ "Silodor, Sidney". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Induction by Year". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hall of Fame (top page). ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
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- ↑ "Sidney Silodor" (obituary). The Montreal Gazette. August 5, 1963. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
- ↑ New York Times - Lead with 24 trick difference
- ↑ New York Times - Underleading an ace
External links
- Citation at the ACBL Hall of Fame
- Sidney Silodor international record at the World Bridge Federation.
- Sidney Silodor at Library of Congress Authorities, with 2 catalog records
