Talk:Nico Gardener

More info needed
A couple of facts that need establishing: 1. I'm fairly sure Gardener's family were Jewish, but I cannot find a definitive reference. 2. Date of Pat Gardener's birth needed; indeed any factual information on her life would be welcome, doubly so if anyone can find sources that can be referenced. Biographies in bridge magazines and books are long on anecdotes, but short on hard facts! Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Alan Hiron's obituary quoted in the Britiosh Brisge Almanack says that his surname was originally Goldinger, which I take to be a Jewish name. JH (talk page) 10:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I understand that; I was hoping to elicit something more definitive. Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Pat Gardener
"His wife, Pat Gardener (c. 1920–1988), was also an international player: she played in four European women's championships."

Under what name did she play in EBL championships? Nico alone is a 'Gardener' at {WBFpeople}-finder.

--P64 (talk) 23:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Were the early European championships held prior to the founding of the EBL? JH (talk page) 09:23, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I've now looked her up in The Official Encyclopaedia of Bridge and The British Bridge Almanack. Both agree that she played in four British teams in the European Championship. Unfortunately neither gives her name before marriage. In the latter publication I found the names of all Britain's teams. As "Pat Gardener" she played in 1953, 1955 and 1957 (p407). And there aren't any other "Pat"s listed who could be her. In the table of most British appearances on p410 she is shown as having 3. So it looks as though the figure of 4 quoted in the OEB and in her BBA obituary is in error (no doubt both relied on the same source). JH (talk page) 16:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Nico Gardener is also the only hit for 'Gardener' at EBL Player Lookup. Pat Gardener should have a record. --at WBF as well as EBL, i understand, for WBF includes EBL championship events and awards some WBF masterpoints there. I have supposed they use the same database. ...
 * Pierre Albarran is a hit for 'Albarran' with one result, 1st in the 4th European Team Championships, 1935 (International Bridge League, prior to EBL).
 * ... I infer the problem is that early players who did not win the European championship, or place 2nd in the Open series, have no entries in the database. I guess players have been identified (ID assigned) only in the course of entering those high-ranking teams. See 4th EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS --only two Open and one Women teams.


 * Recently I noted this, partly, at Jack Marx (bridge). But it didn't occur to me that the other players are entirely missing. I hope that this write-up will fix the matter indelibly in mind, at least for me for a few years. --P64 (talk) 17:13, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Truscott bridge column featuring Gardener
Alan Truscott, NYTimes 1990-01-21.

We cite that fancy pdf version at BridgeGuys as a source for the birth of Leo Baron in Poland. It may be interesting here, if not valuable in the article, for it provides a diagram of the featured deal with Gardener as declarer, South. The public archive at nytimes.com usually if not always lacks the diagrams. --P64 (talk) 01:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Link to wrong person
According to the link to 'Pedro Juan', one of Nico Gardener's partners was a runaway slave who led a revolution in Hispaniola in 1676. I suspect the link is in error.Mikeindex (talk) 12:45, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Fixed. I suspect that the link preceded the runaway slave having an article. JH (talk page) 16:23, 12 March 2018 (UTC)