Word: womens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane...
Uppermost in the minds of spectators at the Women's National Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills, L. I., last week was the question: Who will be the other finalist? Perhaps sure-finalist Helen Wills herself thought she knew when she said, "Sarah Palfrey ... is the best young prospect in the tournament...
...Toronto, Ont., tens of thousands of sportsfolk and natives last week strained and scrambled to get a look at 45 thickly greased women, some with sketchy swimming suits, some with none, as they dove into the cool waters of Lake Ontario, swam away around a two-mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha...
...Tennis. Women's National (Forest Hills, L. I.)?singles, Helen Newington Wills of Berkeley, Cal.; doubles, Mrs. Phoebe Watson & Mrs. L. R. C. Michell of England...
National Colored (at Bordentown, N. J.) ?men's singles, Edgar G. Brown of Chicago; doubles, Eyre Saitch of Harlem. N. Y. & Sylvester Smith of Baltimore: women's singles, Ora Washington of Chicago...