Women In Sports

[vintagesportscollector]

+1 Berg

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Great Berg cards!

I found this article about a 1927 Roslyn Yippers versus Wenatchee Apple Knockers game amusing; “the umpire was surrounded by a gesticulating group including a few women who were not backward in expressing their opinions of umpires who were either blind or paid by the other team, and so forth.” (June 20, 1927 Wenatchee Daily World)

Plenty of Pre-War bloomer girl baseball teams...

After the US Women's impressive World Cup victory thought I'd revisit this thread with a story of a female manager in semi-pro baseball shortly after women's suffrage.

The 1925 Edmonds baseball club was managed by Emma A. Hough (1877-1940). Born in Nebraska, she moved with her family to Edmonds/Everett/Snohomish, Washington shortly after 1920. She was never referred to by her name in newsprint in reference to the team, just by her husbands' "Mrs. Frank Hough". The only employment info of Frank Hough (1871-1946) I could find was as a "Clothes Presser" on his WW1 draft registration, yet he and Emma had been married since 1894. How she started to manage a town baseball team is a mystery.

She knew baseball, after the team lost to Snohomish County League champions Granite Falls she proposed, "Mrs. Frank Hough, manager of the local team, challenged Nevins, manager of the Granite Falls team, for another game on the Everett grounds, with a Seattle Umpire, but Nevins refused unless he could have his same umpires he had at Granite Falls. Our boys have done excellent work this summer.... and the loss of Sunday's game was not entirely their fault." (9-25-25, Tribune Review) 5 to 4 loss in ten innings to Granite Falls. The Edmonds team finished their 1925 campaign with 18 wins and 4 losses, to capture the Snohomish County Independent Championship.

[steve B]

Not a mainstream sport in the US, but ..........

Beryl Burton UK cyclist

World champion road - 1960, 1967
world champion pursuit - 1959,60,62,63,66
Second 1961, 64, 68
third 1967,70,71,73

And this bit, probably the best of all

In 1967, she set a new 12-hour time trial record of 277.25 miles– a mark that surpassed the men’s record of the time by 0.73 miles and was not superseded by a man until 1969. While setting the record she caught and passed Mike McNamara who was on his way to setting the men's record at 276.52 miles and winning that year's men's British Best All-Rounder. She is reputed to have given him a liquorice allsort as she passed him. Apparently, McNamara ate the sweet.


Steve B

Incredible example Steve! IMO all of women's sports are not mainstream.

I hope this does not get the thread moved elsewhere but todays headlines seem to be about Becky Hammon as a potential head coach in the NBA? http://www.sbnation.com/2015/7/21/90...gue-highlights

Thoughts?

[travrosty]

Charlotte Dod one of the most versatile womens athletes of all time, tennis, golf, archery and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Dod

[grainsley]

I think Althea Gibson deserves a mention here. I first heard of her from a part she had in a John Wayne movie, The Horse Soldiers. After garnering some interest in her, I did some research....not only a tennis pro (won Wimbledon), but also a pro golfer. Just sounds like a very interesting woman. And generally, I find women more interesting than men, but that's just me. And I think she just recently had some U.S. stamps issued with her on them playing tennis.