BILLIARDS FOR WOMEN
SPORT YET TO BE INVADED GAME SPREADS IN ENGLAND Since women have invaded the field of sport, and excelled inmost, of the games tout were supposed to be the prerogative of men, one-can hardly realise why the one pastime that should have an-appeal to the sex has been almost forgotten. As an indoor game, billiards can have no rival, providing mental and physical exercise, and inculcating the true sporting spirit at the same time. Moreover, no game calls for greater delicacy'of. touch, and once the woman plater becomes . a proficient amateur, a new interest is created in the sport gon--61 Tlie game is spreading in England, where, several of the bettor-class meti s clubs are devoting one evening a week to women’s matches, Recently one playot was credited with making a 100 break. In Sydney there are several women players who make $0 and 60 breaks afc intervals. Billiards is described by-an English woman as “the perfect slimmer.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 7
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161BILLIARDS FOR WOMEN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 7
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