Agnes Gordon

Agnes Leslie Gordon (née Willson, April 25, 1906 – May 24, 1967)

At the North American Bridge Championships meet in November–December 1963 (then called "Fall Nationals"), Gordon and Eric Murray won the premier annual championship of the North America, the Rockwell Mixed Pairs. Their score in the final session, 506.5 of 650 top, or 78%, is the highest single-session score in the history of national-level ACBL pairs competition (at least, it was from the 1930s to 2009). They went on to earn silver medals in the second quadrennial World Team Olympiad with a second-place finish behind Great Britain.

She died in a Buffalo hospital in 1967 from cancer.

Gordon was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2009.

Wins

North American Bridge Championships (6) Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1963 Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1961 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1967 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1956, 1962 Reisinger (1) 1948

Runners-up

North American Bridge Championships Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1956 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1957, 1963, 1964