Wilbur C. Whitehead Explained
Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead (1866-1931) was an American auction bridge and contract bridge player and writer.
Whitehead was president of the Simplex Automobile Company but retired in 1910 to devote himself to bridge. He invented several conventions of bidding and play and was instrumental in standardizing procedures in auction bridge and later in contract bridge.
Whitehead was one of the members of the Bridge Headquarters, a group of experts who developed a bidding system named the Official System. Sidney Lenz (another Bridge Headquarters member) deployed this system against Ely Culbertson in the so-called "Bridge Battle of the Century" of 1931. (Whitehead had helped Culbertson during Culberton's early days of poverty).
Whitehead was a member of the team that won the Vanderbilt Cup in its first year (1928) and finished second the following year. He was a contributing editor of Bridge World. He wrote a daily bridge column, "Sound Auction Bridge", which appeared in the New York Evening Journal.
In 1930 he donated the Whitehead Trophy, which is still given to the winner of the Whitehead Women's Pairs, an annual tournament.
Publications
- Author:
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Royal Spades . 1913 . Mudie & Sons . London . 2. .[1]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Conventions of Auction Bridge . 1914 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Auction Bridge Standards With A Complete Explanation Of The Art Of Bidding . 1921 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [3]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Auction Bridge / Authoritative Leads and Conventions of Play . 1923 . John H. Smith Pub. Corp. . New York . 2. [4]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Auction Bridge Summary . 1925 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [3]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Complete Auction Bridge . 1926 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York. 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Auction Bridge for Beginners . 1928 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [3]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Contract Bridge Standards . 1928 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . New Picture Method Bridge . 1929 . Experimenter . New York . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Studio Lessons in Contract Bridge . 1929 . Author . New York . 2. .[1]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Championship Bridge Hands . 1929 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [3]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Winning Bridge . 1929 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [1]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . How to Win at Bridge . 1929 . Experimenter . New York . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . The Teaching of Auction and Contract bridge . 1930 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [1]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Bridge Made Easy / Contract and Auction / Series No. 1 . 1930 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [3]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Contract at a Glance . 1930 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Quick and Easy Contract Bridge / Quick and Easy Auction Bridge . 1930 . Author . New York . 2. [5]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . Play Auction Bridge . 1930 . De Bower Pub . New York . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . The Contract Bridge Yellow Book . 1930 . Eyre & Spottiswoode . London . 2. [2]
- Book: Whitehead, Wilbur C. . What (To Do) And Why — Contract Bridge . 1931 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [1]
- Co-author:
- Book: Whitehead . Wilbur C. . Cook . Frank A. . Duplicate Auction Bridge . 1928 . Frederick A. Stokes Company . New York . 2. [6]
- Editor:
- Book: Whitehead . Wilbur C. . Cochran . Thomas C. . Auction Bridge Handbook . 1926 . Henry Holt & Company. 2. [7]
- Forward:
- Book: Mott-Smith, Geoffrey . Contract Bridge and Advanced Auction Bidding . 1927 . Minton Balch . New York. [8]
- Book: Smith, Victor . Contract Bridge Simplified . 1930 . Smith Bridge Studios . Miami, Florida. [9]
References
Bibliography
- Book: Bourke . Tim . Tim Bourke . Sugden . John . Bridge Books in English 1886-2010: an annotated bibliography . Bridge Book Buffs . Cheltenham, England . 2010 . 978-0-9566576-0-2.
Notes and References
- Bourke (2010), page 445.
- Bourke (2010), page 444.
- Bourke (2010), page 443.
- Bourke (2010), page 443.
- Bourke (2010), page 605.
- Bourke (2010), page 510.
- Bourke (2010), page 78.
- Bourke (2010), page 301.
- Bourke (2010), page 391.
