Sidney Silodor
Sidney Silodor (1906-1963) 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.
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.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
Awards
Wins
- Bermuda Bowl (1) 1950
- North American Bridge Championships (34)
- Master Individual (1) 1951
- von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1946
- Rockwell Mixed Pairs (3) 1951, 1955, 1956
- Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963
- Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1940, 1944
- Fall National Open Pairs (2) 1941, 1946
- Vanderbilt (8) 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960
- Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1952, 1956, 1961
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954
- Reisinger (6) 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961
- Spingold (3) 1943, 1951, 1957
Runners-up
- Bermuda Bowl (2) 1958, 1961
- North American Bridge Championships
- von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (2) 1943, 1956
- Wernher Open Pairs (3) 1941, 1950, 1958
- Vanderbilt (1) 1953
- Spingold (1) 1936
- Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1946, 1959, 1963
- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962
- Reisinger (3) 1944, 1948, 1951
- Spingold (5) 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961
Books
Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor".
- 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
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