The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-21
Pugilism
Baseball
Racing
WOMEN KNOWN IN
WORLD OF SPORT
They Are Good Players of Tennis
and Golf, and Have Records
in Shooting.

! portant factor In sport?
| We never gave the subject much
thought until day or so ago, when
our attention was called to the large
number OF our sisters, wives and other
fellows sisters and wives, who have
forged into international prominence
| through skill In various lines of sport
It's no pooh-pooh or piffle matter,
| this fact that the strenuous American
| girl has assumed her place at the fore
1t wasn't so a decade ago, but some
chap from the other side came over
here with caustic pen and wrote
| things; among other statements he
made was one that America was de-
teriorating because Americans didn't
know how to play
Bing! The girls were up and at
II like rescue gang at mine cave
| in. Marshmallows and the six best
sellers were started In the direction
the wind was blowing, and American
women began to take an interest In
something more strenuous than holo.
ing a lap dog and discussing the lat
est things in French bathing suits.
Golf and tennis attracted the largest
number. because the very young, the
mlddle-aged and the elderly could get
their satisfy out of them. You'll no
tice that this feminine awakening was
weight for age handicap II you
watch the professor closely.
In the renaissance every healthy
girl found desire TO run, ride. golf,
drive, shoot. fish, sail. or paddle a
canoe as naturally as her brother.
And as she progressed she decided
she did not want the services OF mere
man. either.
While golf and tennis have the lars'
est following. baseball, swimming.
fencing yes. and boxing. shooting.
wrestling, mountain climbing fishing
and basketball have their deyotees by
the thousand.
Take golf. Miss Kate Il. Harley is
golf champion; Frances Griscom. Mrs
Ronald II. Barlow, Harriott and Mar
garet Curtis arc among the brilliant
stars of the game to say nothing of
hundreds and thousands of others OF
not so we'll known. but brilliant per
formers.
May Sutton Stars at Tennis.
The name Of May Sutton Is synony-
nous of tennis. The California whirI-
wind swept the worlds best off their
feet. Not only in this country but
abroad. Tennis had never seen her
equal. She gave up the game for 4
love all' match which found her AZ
the altar.
But the championship remained In |
California. for another girl from the |
golden west. Hazel Hotchkiss. Invaded
the east this summer and repeated the |
success of the eX-champion. Like Miss |
Sutton, the new champion is a splen-
did specimen of young American |
womanhood magniicently muscular, |
she cares nothing for graceful pose !
and pretty effects. She plays 10 win, |
and is all a fine, healthy American
girl should be
Turn TO baseball. and Vermillion, |
Ohio, boasts OF the best pitcher that
ever wore sklrts-yes. and she is |
better pitcher than many profess
slonal drawing salary. is Alta Weiss. |
With curve ball, plenty of speed and |
Il good change OF pace, she has al
tanned high place In sport. Not
laudablc, some may say. but she made
good and that S enough.
Even Tackle Auto Game.
In the automobile game many wom-
en- shine, but the most notable arc
Mrs. Kenneth II. Otis. who holds sew
eral road records. and Mrs. Jean NJ
Cuneo. holder of the New York to
Philadelphia records.
lselin is a name familiar TO readers
OF American yachting history. for
Oliver Iselin has thrice defended the
Americas cup. and his wife has not
only sailed on the defenders during
the international races. but handles
Il 70-loot racing sloop with the skill
of Charlie Barr
Riding TO hounds is the favorite
sport of hundreds of women, and none
Is better known than Miss Edith Col
ford Of the Monmouth County Hunt
club, who takes a 6-foot fence, a ditch.
or guides her, hunter over broken
ground with the most skillful pink
coat that ever stTaddled pigskin.
Two American women have won
titles as master of fox hounds-Mrs.
Allen Potts, sister of Amelio Rlves.
and Miss Edith H Bird, The former
lives i'm the hunting section of Vir-
glna. and the latter is master of the
Endean beaSles of East Walpole,
hldoSs Tol ueI WnlppcIS-lH she nus |
Katherine Roosevelt and Helen Ho
mans
Lucille MuhaI Likes Horses,
But queen of the equestriennes Ia
that fetching little girl with the
"howdy' smile. Lucille Mulhall OF
Oklahoma, mistress OF a 10,OO0.acre
ranch. daughter Of Colonel Zach Null
hall. and the best ropethrower that
ever wore a divided skirt.
Miss Mulhall runs her ranch. rides
the most fractious cayuse that ever
made cowman grab leather, and
wlthal is as modest and charming as
tho sweetest girl grad that ever grad.
ded.
Coaching may not strike many as
much of sport. but the man who can
tool four-in-hand through crowded
streets commands admiration So
when Miss Mary Hartman or Mrs.
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr, duplicates
this. we must admit that in the
language of the small boy: They
sure are there"
Did you ever climb a mountain