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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: BATTLE OF THE SEXES
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Date: Mon, 3-Oct-83 16:07:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  3 16:07:46 1983
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>  Just thinking- remember when 30 year old Billy Jean King beat 50 year
>old Bobby Riggs in tennis?  All this net.nonsense of women doing equal work
>for equal pay (full equal syndrome) got me to thinking (bet you didn't think
>I could).  Why can't/don't woman compete on an equal basis with men in the
>sports in which the physical differences play NO part!?
>    
> 1) Chess- fully a brain "sport"; where's the women?
>
> 2) Golf- dosen't take lots of strength
>
> 3) Bowling- I know, this is a skill sport not a muscle event.
>
>     Any ideas?              
>
>                                   GEORGE
>
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    Yes.

    1) Chess is not entirely a brain-sport.  Difficult as it is to believe,
	most chess masters loose their physical stamina by the time they are
	about 40, and thus drop out of the top level of play.   [Where is
	Bobby Fischer??].   Wracking your brains is very exausting, which is
	obvious if you have ever taken a long, hard, test.

    2) Golf needs enough strength, so that women are put at a disadvantage,
	especially when driving (down the green).

    3) Bowling also needs strength.  In general, the faster and heavier the
	ball, the more strikes are thrown. 

    Women participate in all the above sports.  In golf & bowling there are
    seprate leagues.   In chess, (I believe), there is only one.

Steven Maurer