From the Minneapolis Daily Star:

Women Join
in Horseshoe
Pitching Club

Experts Engaged to Give
Instructions in Sport at
Playgrounds

	A woman showed off her horseshoe grip in about 1920. (Photo courtesy of mnhs.org)

A new sport for women, that of horseshoe pitching, is now being developed and popularized in the Minneapolis playgrounds and parks. Miss Dorothea Nelson, women’s recreation director of the park board, has organized a corps of expert feminine pitchers to give instructions in the sport at the Minneapolis playgrounds. Miss Nelson claims that horseshoe pitching is about the only sport which all women, regardless of lack of training in athletics, can learn to play, and that the beginner and the skilled player all share the same benefits to be gained from this out-of-door sport.

Star players who will act as instructors in the Minneapolis Women’s Horseshoe Pitching association are: Mrs. John Dahl, 2539 Eighteenth avenue S., Mrs. Hazel A. Botts, 929 Fourteenth avenue S.E.; Mrs. Allen Hay, 4231 Washington N., and Mrs. Alex Cummings, 893 Twenty-second avenue S.E.

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