However, none of these fights were for a world title. Among the women she defeated during that span were Brenda Burnside, by an eight round split decision at the Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, and Del Pettis, knocked out in the first round of their rematch, which also ...
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Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), organization that provides professional tournament golf for women and annually holds the LPGA Championship tournament. Several professional tournaments for women were staged during the 1920s and ’30s; importa
Unique given names were more frequent for women, for the poor, and for blacks, and infrequent in the professions. The highest percentage of names not found in the professions occurred among the poor, especially the black poor.DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1982.51.2.543 被引量: 7 ...
It was not until the 1940s that efforts began in earnest to form a professional golf organization for women. The first, the Women’s Professional Golf Association (WPGA), was chartered in 1944. Standout players soon emerged, including Patty Berg, Louise Suggs, Betty Jameson, and, especially,...
As demonstrated by early modern and more recent biographical anthologies, women were active in the arts of Golden Age Iberia in greater numbers and to a greater extent than is usually recognized. Yet although the names of many women artists from this period have been recovered, our knowledge of...
Locations Section 1. Title: This Association shall be known as THE WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION, and shall at all times be operated and conducted as a nonprofit association in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado providing for such rights as granted to associations of this...
With some of the biggest names going head-to-head on Saturday night in Las Vegas, who's pulling the strings in the fight game? See where Canelo Alvarez, Dana White and The Rock land. 96dMike Coppinger WWE NXT tag team championship history The history of the NXT tag team championship, ...
First-naming, a new term we introduce, is another form ofuntitling, omitting a woman’s professional title when men’s are used. As we wrote inGlass Walls,we coined the termuntitlingto describe women’s titles being omitted and replaced with first names in professional settin...
Despite promoting women’s baseball as alegitimateprofessional sport, Wrigley and Arthur Meyerhoff, the league’s later owner, were not champions offeminism. Team names such as the Milwaukee Chicks, theFort Wayne Daisies, and theRockford Peachesreveal their biases. Players were also required to embo...