Mary Jane Farell
{{short description|American bridge player}}
Mary Jane Farell (March 12, 1920 – 5 October 2015), also known as Mary Jane Kauder, was an American bridge player.{{OEB|5|616}}{{cite web|title=Mary Jane Farell 1920-2015|url=http://www.acbl.org/mary-jane-farell-1920-2015/|publisher=acbl.org|accessdate=9 November 2015}}
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.https://web3.acbl.org/nabcwinners?event=Mixed+Pairs+%28Hilliard%29 Hilliard Mixed Pairs winners and runners-up (1931–1962). ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-17. 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=
=Wins=
- World Mixed Pairs (1) 1966
- North American Bridge Championships (14)
- von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1978 {{cite news
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- Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1960 {{cite news
|title=List of Previous Winners
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|page=5
|date=2014-03-27
|accessdate=2014-10-16
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- Hilliard Mixed Pairs (1) 1959 {{cite news
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- Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1982 {{cite news
|title=List of Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/01/bulletins/db9.pdf
|page=10
|date=2014-03-29
|accessdate=2014-10-16
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163816/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/01/bulletins/db9.pdf
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- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (10) 1964, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1984, 1990 {{cite news
|title=List of Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf
|page=10
|date=2014-07-21
|accessdate=2014-10-16
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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163711/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db4.pdf
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=Runners-up=
- North American Bridge Championships
- Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (4) 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 {{cite news
|title=List of Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db1.pdf
|page=7
|date=2013-11-29
|accessdate=2014-10-16
|url-status=dead
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- Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (4) 1961, 1967, 1973, 1987
- Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1988 {{cite news
|title=Women's BAM Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db3.pdf
|page=4
|date=2013-12-01
|accessdate=2014-10-16
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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163618/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db3.pdf
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- Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1969, 1989 {{cite news
|title=List of Previous Winners
|publisher=American Contract Bridge League
|url=http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db7.pdf
|page=14
|date=2014-07-24
|accessdate=2014-10-16
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163650/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db7.pdf
|archivedate=2014-10-21
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References
{{reflist |25em |refs=
[http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/farell-mary-jane "Farell, Mary Jane"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308180013/http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/farell-mary-jane/ |date=2016-03-08 }}. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
}}
External links
- {{ACBLhof|farell-mary-jane}}
- {{WBFpeople}}
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Category:American contract bridge players
Category:Sportspeople from Cincinnati