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Her teams also finished second or tied for second ten times in 15 years from 1950 to 1964!.
Her teams also finished second or tied for second ten times in 15 years from 1950 to 1964!.
The premier American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) annual championship for women teams since 1976 is the Wagar Women"s Knockout Teams, named for Wagar. (The Fall National was one of several "national championships" for open pairs. The Rockwell was and is the major championship for mixed pairs) Wagar retired from bridge competition in 1978.
She had lived in Atlanta most of her life and she was honored by Atlanta bridge players on August 31, 1982.
At that time Alan Truscott (New York Times bridge columnist and continuing editor of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge) credited her with 27 "national titles", which he believed to be the greatest number for any living woman. In a column three months after her 1990 death, however, he credited her with 24—with comment only that they included two of "the prestigious Spingold Knockout Teams".
Wagar was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1999. As a competitive bridge player at least during the 1940s she was sometimes covered under the names Mistress
Margaret West. Wagar and Mistress
Wilkinson Wagar of Atlanta. In one 1944 society column of The Atlanta Constitution, "Margaret (Mrs Wilkinson) Wagar" appears in two of the three items. Honors Wins Runners-up North American Bridge Championships von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1943 Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1947 Whitehead Women"s Pairs (1) 1945 Wagar Women"s Knockout Teams (10) 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (5) 1933, 1944, 1949, 1950, 1962.