Word: sportswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. By Elizabeth Atterbury Connelly, 29, sportswoman, daughter of Pennsylvania R. R.'s President William Wallace Atterbury: James Alexander Connelly Jr., Villanova, Pa. coalman: in Media, Pa. Charge: indignities...
...stream is a State fishing license. Women who are squeamish about handling worms will not be sorry that fly fishing alone is permitted. On hand to teach them the art is a State warden of their own sex. She is Edith A. Stoeher, 27, a husky, genial sportswoman who breeds English setters on her farm near South Wethersfield, likes to hunt, fish, trapshoot. Last fortnight, in a field test with four other applicants for the job, she proved her skill with rod & reel, her knowledge of flies, knots, trout. Publisher Beck expects her to turn out many a woman angler...
...Leonardo Arpinati, Undersecretary of Interior and head of the Italian Olympic Committee, revealed last week the result of experiments at Bologna by Italian doctors on Italian sportswomen. "Our investigations have proved," said Signer Arpinati, ''that sports do have a beneficial effect on woman's physique. The sportswoman, however, should not attempt such things as the discus throw. She should not take part in any contest likely to injure her beauty...