Heres the story of Francis Anderson. A he who won all the ladies tournys. You woulda lost your 10k back then. The sad thing is is that no one knows who the real woman's champ was back then.
http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2007/03/is-frances-anderson-real-person.html#.UjueMvvD98Q
Frances Anderson (1871 - 1928) billiards champion
Revised 6/2/1012.
Frances Anderson was the first female billiards champion, from the 1890s. At that time there were very few women's touraments. Frances, from Kansas or Indiana, offered $5,000 to any woman who could beat her, and went undefeated for 25 years. She also beat most of the men whom she played against. She was paid well for her appearances, taking on challengers and giving exhibitions, even into the 1920s, and toured North America and Europe.
By the late 1920s she was aging, and her nerves and eyes were letting her down, and was often ill. She wasn't the first professional billiards player to take the suicide route. She chose her end in a hotel room in Sapulapa, Oklahoma in 1928. Only when her body arrived at the mortuary was it discovered that she was male-bodied. A Mrs W.D. May (née Anderson) read the newspaper accounts and travelled to Sapulapa to identify the body, whom she claimed as her missing brother, Orie. She produced an 18-year letter and the writing matched writing by the deceased. The body was released to the Anderson family who took it back to Newton, Kansas for burial.
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Thanks for the link Dorabelle that is an interesting read but that is not at all what I am talking about that person "Frances Anderson" was a cross dresser, has not had sexual reassignment, taking drugs to repress manliness and make boobs etc and tried to live as a women other than dressing however he/she did at that time, what I am willing to bet is that todays modern women who are very confident and comfortable in their respective sports they play (golf,tennis,pool) can defend the honor of womanhood in their chosen sport. Let me know when they have a transgender reassigned individual who is trying to play a major event with all of the XX champions in attendance and you or whoever has action. The player in question must have had the surgery and be taking the drugs whatever to be more woman like to qualify, not be full blown raging testosterone hiding in a dress.
Personally I don't think SVB, Earl, Efren or even Richie Richardson (farther down the list type player) is going to look at crossing over anytime soon, would have to be a pretty strong player for me to think one person is a favorite versus the field. Past the top 100 men many of the women can win some matches for sure. I have seen Jeanette beat some men with a big name who were in the top 100 playing even in regional events, the same for other top women they can and they have beat men in tournament races playing rotation pool specifically 9 ball, plenty of women have prevailed against top men so no man is guaranteed a win against a field and a man who needed to be a women might just be more focused on sexuality than on the match. Enough of the women play at a high level it would take a full blown stone cold champion to be close to being guaranteed a tournament win and even then anything can happen in a race and they have multiple races to win a tourney. I think todays modern female fields have some decent players so Frances whoever would not have had to have won against everyone was such an event held today.
BTW - How did Frances do against the "men champions" of the day did she ever give such a match a shot?
I looked some more for info on what games Frances played did not find that but here is the memorial writeup about him/her
I found it here
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24752081
They even had a picture of the gravestone, how small the internet makes the world - wow.
Birth: 1871
Death: 1928
Frank O. Anderson
The body of Frank O. Anderson was brought to Newton Tuesday from Sapulpa, Okla., and a private funeral service was conducted at the Sprinkler Mortuary this morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. A. R. Hardy, pastor of the Baptist church. Interment was made in Greenwood Cemetery.
The case of "Orrie" Anderson is peculiarly strange and sad. He came of fine family, was unusually keen mentally, though not robust physically. He was high strung tempermentally, independent in his disposition, and estranged himself from his family years ago, when he was remonstrated with about gaming, and he told relatives that he would go away, that they would not hear of him again, and would not even know when not where he died.
About two weeks ago, a man who for many years had posed as a woman by the name of Frances Anderson, "champion woman billiard player," committed suicide in a hotel at Sapulpa, Okla. Descriptions of the man, after his sex was disclosed, aroused the interest of relatives of "Orie Anderson who lived here. Mrs W.D. May is a sister, Joy Anderson is a brother, and another brother George, lives in San Francisco. Mrs. May finally went to Sapulpa to endeavor to identify the body, and was convinced that "Francis" Anderson was her estranged brother. She had letters and a postal card received from him some 18 years ago, and when compared by experts, the writing was declared to be the same as recent writing known to have been done by the dead man. So positive was the identification established, that the body was turned over to her and other relatives by the authorities at Sapulpa, and was shipped here to Sprinker Mortuary. Numerous Newton people remember Orie Anderson when he lived here and although it had been years since any of them had seen; several who saw him at the mortuary have declared without hesitancy that they are convinced that the person who has posed as Frances Anderson is none other than Orie. His peculiarly shaped nose in unmistakable, his high cheek bones, high forehead, the effeminate size and shape of his hands, his size,apparent age, his hand-writing, the name he adopted, the calling he was in - every detail is absolutely convincing and positive in the identification.
As Frances Anderson, he was here about six weeks ago and gave an exhibition at one of the local billiard parlors, and his conduct at that time, now that the strange developments have become known, were exactly like that of Orie Anderson. He was nervous, quick, silent, but he still showed his old time skill. He stated that he had been traveling the country giving exhibitions for many years, and no one who saw him disguised as a woman here had the least thought but what he was what he posed to be.
It is a sad, strange case, and while the sympathy of all will go out to those of this family remaining, there is a satisfied joy in the knowledge that the wayward boy has at last been found, even though in death, and those notwithstanding, his doubtful career and estrangement of years, the tenderness and compassion of sisterly and brotherly love was available for the last rites in his behalf which was possible for human hands.
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Parents:
John D. Anderson (1837 - 1896)
Mary E. Bissel Anderson (1850 - 1891)
Burial:
Greenwood Cemetery
Newton
Harvey County
Kansas, USA
Created by: Barb
Record added: Feb 19, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 24752081
