Loughboro’ girl’s ambition.

Leicester Evening Mail, Monday 11 January 1932

To win the amateur billiards title

Loughborough may one day be represented in the Women’s Amateur Billiards Championship!

This is the ambition of Miss Thea Hammond, who is always capable of 40 breaks.

She is an athletic, blue-eyed brunette, who thinks nothing of getting up at 6 o’clock in the morning and swinging the clubs for an hour before proceeding to her business as a bookkeeper in a local hosiery factory. She also deals with the firm’s foreign correspondence.

“I think it is an ideal game for women.” Miss Hammond told the “Leicester Evening Mail” Loughborough representaitve. “I would like to hear from anyone who would be interested in forming a club. I play about three times a week, and I am striving to become eligible for the women’s championship.’

 JOY OF GAME

I wanted to know if she had hopes of starting a billiards fashion among Loughborough girls.

“Well, the game fascinates me and I play for the sheer joy of It,” she replied.

“Snooker as well?” I asked.

“Yes. I find it a change after a few hundreds up. Very rashly. I put my name down for the hospital tournament, for which there are 64 entries—all men. But after that. I intend to cut it out and concentrate on billiards.”

“You cannot manage both, then?” I inquired.

” Snooker does not help me to progress in billiards—I find myself taking a pot when a cannon should be the game.” she explained.

Miss Hammond quite convinced me of the seriousness of her intention to persevere until her ambition is realised.

She is also deeply interested in physical culture, and one of her regrets is the passing of the Ladles’ Town Club, lack of support causing the termination about two years ago.