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  27 augustus 1949………………. Nel Hermsen   doet boodschappen Tenniskampioene Nel Hermsen doet boodschappen bij een filiaal van het Abcouder Kaasboertje (P. Kroon), Van Woustraat 19 (foto Ben van Meerendonk) ____________________ Nel Hermsen (voluit Petronella Frederika Hermsen, 1924–2016) was een van de meest succesvolle Nederlandse tennisspeelsters van de jaren '40 en '50. Nel Hermsen domineerde de Nederlandse tenniswereld vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zij werd driemaal Nederlands kampioen in het enkelspel (1949, 1950 en 1955). Daarnaast won zij talloze titels in het damesdubbel- en gemengd dubbelspel. Internationaal succes: In 1947 en 1949 bereikte zij de kwartfinale van Roland Garros in het damesdubbelspel. Ook speelde zij meerdere malen op Wimbledon, waar zij in 1949 en 1951 de derde ronde bereikte. Na haar huwelijk in 1952 stond zij in de sportuitslagen ook bekend onder de naam Nel van der Storm-Hermsen. Het jaar 1949 was een absoluut topjaar voor haar. In dat jaar won ze n...

  The Queen's Gambit  is een Amerikaanse dramaserie gebaseerd op de gelijknamige roman van Walter Tevis uit 1983. De miniserie bestaat uit zeven afleveringen en werd op 23 oktober 2020 uitgebracht op Netflix. De serie won een Golden Globe als beste miniserie. Anya Taylor-Joy kreeg een Golden Globe als beste hoofdrolspeelster in een miniserie. The Queen's Gambit  is een fictief verhaal dat het leven volgt van wees en schaakwonder Beth Harmon tijdens haar zoektocht om 's werelds grootste schaker te worden, terwijl ze worstelt met emotionele problemen en een drugs- en alcoholverslaving. "The Queen's Gambit" (Damegambiet) is een schaakopening. Het verhaal begint halverwege de jaren vijftig en loopt door tot in de jaren zestig. Het verhaal begint in Lexington, Kentucky. De negenjarige Beth, die haar moeder heeft verloren bij een auto-ongeluk, wordt naar een weeshuis gebracht. Daar ontmoet...

Al in 1919 hadden enkele jongens uit West-Nijmegen het plan bedacht om onder de naam Victoria te gaan voetballen. De eerste tijden speelde men op de hoek Biezenstraat-Waterstraat, waar later de H. Theresiakerk kwam te staan. Daarna werd er een veld beschikbaar gesteld door de vlasfabriek, ongeveer op de plek waar nu de Honig is. Men speelde af en toe een vriendschappelijke wedstrijd totdat men het tijd vond om het serieuzer aan te pakken. Op 23 januari 1921 zag N.H.C het licht, de Nijmegen-Hees-Combinatie. In café Boers op de hoek van de Lange Hezelstraat en de Bottelstraat werd besloten onder deze naam te gaan voetballen. Men sloot zich toen ook aan bij de Gelderse Voetbalbond. Onder leiding van voorzitter Van Schaik werd binnen 2 jaar de vierde klasse bereikt. Op 1 december 1926 werd tijdens een vergadering een voorstel gedaan om tot naamsverandering over te gaan. Dit werd gedaan omdat er in Nijmegen een andere club was met de naam H.N.C, en dat kon nog wel eens voor verwarring zorge...

  Ca. 1970: Sporthal "Terminus", Nieuwe Markt De veemarkt, die sinds de late zestiende eeuw op diverse plekken in de binnenstad van Nijmegen plaatsvond, werd rond 1885 naar de Nieuwe Markt verplaatst. De veemarkt was succesvol, zodat men rond 1939 nieuwe Veemarkthallen bouwde, waardoor de oude Korenbeurs moest wijken. Bij de Veemarkthallen hoorde een poortgebouw dat de naam “Terminus” droeg. Dit had betrekking op de nabijgelegen tramremise. Eind jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw werden de hallen gesloopt, na nog enige tijd als sportaccommodatie dienst te hebben gedaan. Fotocollectie Regionaal Archief Nijmegen

  137 jaar geleden kreeg Nijmegen de eerste wielerbaan van Nederland In Nijmegen stond de eerste wielerbaan van Nederland. De bijhorende Maatschappij tot exploitatie van een velocipedebaan heeft maar vijf jaar bestaan. Op 25 februari 1885 kwam er vanuit Nijmegen interessant nieuws voor de wielerliefhebbers. ‘Alhier is dezer dagen opgericht een Maatschappij tot exploitatie van een velocipedebaan,’ aldus een annonce. De initiatiefnemers zochten naar 15.000 gulden om de eerste wielerbaan van het land aan te leggen – in onze tijd te vergelijken met bijna twee ton in euro’s. Binnen een half jaar was dit geld gevonden en meldde notaris Joachimus Gerhardus Masman in De Nederlandsche Staatscourant het bestaan van een Naamloze Vennootschap. En toen ging het hard, want op 13 augustus 1885 was de officiële opening met nationale en internationale wielerwedstrijden. De baan was 333 meter rond en met vier puinsoorten ingestampt. De bochten waren vijftig centimeter opgehoogd. ‘Een wielertentoonst...

Frederick "Curly" Neal was born on May 19, 1942 in Greensboro, North Carolina He was one of the most memorable basketball players who played with the Harlem Globetrotters. Following in the footsteps of Marques Haynes, Neal became the Trotters' featured ballhandler, a key role in the team's exhibition act. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Neal attended James B. Dudley High School and Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1959 to 1963. At Smith, he averaged 23.1 points a game and was named All-Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) guard. Neal played for 22 seasons (from 1963 to 1985) with the Globetrotters, appearing in more than 6,000 games in 97 countries. His shaved head earned him his nickname, a reference to the Three Stooges' Curly Howard. In the 1970s, an animated version of Neal starred with various other Globetrotters in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon Harlem Globetrotters as well as its spinoff, The Super Globetr...

  Ca. 1985: Sportpark Grootstal. Luchtfoto van de voetbalvelden van het Sportpark Grootstal. Toen het sportpark aan de Nieuwe Mollenhutseweg klaar was in 1964 kwamen SCE en SV Hatert te voetballen op het sportpark. Een sportpark midden in de samenleving van Hatert, Grootstal en Hatertse Hei die een belangrijke maatschappelijke functie vervulde. In 1988 besloot de gemeente huizen te willen bouwen op de grond van het mooie sportpark. In 1990 is SCE weggegaan naar Sportpark Lindenholt en in 1996 SV Hatert naar Sportpark De Vossendijk. In 1997 werd begonnen met de bouw van een woonwijk op het voormalig sportpark. Bij de ontwikkeling van dit gebied hadden gemeente en bouwers veel ambities: er moesten betaalbare woningen komen, er moest gemêleerd gebouwd worden, verscheidenheid in architectuur en menging huur en koop, de wijk moest “duurzaam” worden. De meeste woningen waren ruim voor de eeuwwisseling voltooid. In 2001 zijn, als laatste project, drie appartementencomplexen aan de Carnot...

   In the mid-1970s, during an excavation project at Stirling Castle in Scotland, a grey ball was discovered. It was found behind some oak-panelling in a bedroom once used by Mary Queen of Scots during her reign in the 16th century. It has since been declared the world's oldest football!  The ball which looks to be made from a pigs bladder, was re-discovered in 1999 in the archives of Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. Tests confirmed that it was created between 1540-1570, that made the ball 436 years old!  Mary Queen of Scots once refereed a ground-breaking game between a team of Englishmen and a Scottish-French side in 1568. Mary would not have had the freedom to roam outside the castle, so the match would have taken place within its walls.  Mary helped the teams keep their cool, in a match described as "without foul play". The game lasted two hours, but the result was never recorded. It is unknown if the Queen herself, used the ball. The ball is currently...

She was a baseball star. At bat, a good hitter. On the basepaths, a fast and fearless runner. Born in 1922 in Los Angeles, CA, Thelma "Tiby" Eisen became interested in sports when she was around twelve or thirteen years old. By fourteen, she was playing in a semi-pro softball league. At eighteen, she was a fullback in what would be a short-lived professional football league for women. And in 1944, Tiby joined the American Girls Professional Baseball League, where she would play in 966 games, stealing 674 bases. After her professional baseball career ended, she played in a local Los Angeles softball league. Years later, while helping establish the women's exhibit in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993, she said, "We're trying to record this so we have our place in history. It's important to keep our baseball league in the limelight. It gets pushed into the background ... [just as] women have been pushed into the background forever. If they knew more about our le...

  Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial, and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring. At age 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and turned professional later that year. At age 22 in 1964, he won the WBA, WBC, and lineal heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston in a major upset. He then announced his conversion to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali. He set an example of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1966, two years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali further antagonized the white establishment by refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, citing his relig...

On this date in 2005, at the 77th Academy Award presentation, 2004's "Million Dollar Baby" won four awards, including Best Picture. Producer Albert S. Ruddy loved the story and was determined to make it into a movie and spent four years trying to find backers who were interested in helping him make it. "I couldn't get anybody interested," he said in an interview, "and I'm talking about people who are friends of mine, people I've done business with for years. They'd tell me, 'Who wants to see a movie about two old grizzled guys and a girl fighter?'" Eventually, he found someone interested, Clint Eastwood. He read the script and said "It's a downer...but God, it's gorgeous." At age 74, Eastwood became the oldest Best Director Oscar winner for this movie. This was one of two times when the presenter handing Clint Eastwood his Oscar was Barbra Streisand. She previously handed him the Best Director Oscar of "Un...

  Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, toen alle mannen vochten, werden de meeste banen die vrijkwamen door hun afwezigheid, ingevuld door vrouwen. De eigenaren van de honkbalteams, die niet wilden dat honkbal voor onbepaalde tijd stil zou liggen, besloten teams te vormen met vrouwen, dus werden scouts door het hele land gestuurd om vrouwelijke spelers te vinden. Een van de scouts reist door Oregon en vindt een vrouw genaamd Dottie Hinson, die ongelooflijk is. Hij benadert haar en vraagt ​​haar om mee te doen, maar ze is niet geïnteresseerd, maar haar zus Kit wil weg uit Oregon en biedt aan om met hem mee te gaan; hij stemt alleen toe als ze haar zus kan overhalen om mee te gaan. Als ze meedoen aan de auditie, worden ze gekozen en zitten ze in hetzelfde team. Jimmy Dugan, een voormalig speler die nu een dronkaard is, is de teammanager. Maar hij vindt dat het geen echte baan is, dus hij drinkt en doet niet bepaald zijn werk, dus Dottie stapt naar voren. Na een paar maanden waarin het lij...

"My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing that could have come to me. Without it I should have missed all the grim struggle upward and the reward that waited at the end of it all." Annette Kellermann was just six years old when she developed weakness in her legs. This required her to wear painful steel braces and to help recovery, her parents enrolled Annette in swim classes. As a teen her legs recovered and she became a champion swimmer, a record holder in the 100 yard and mile races in her native Australia. But more than just swimming, she became famous for advocating for women’s rights. "I can’t swim wearing more stuff than you hang on a clothesline," she once said. In a time when women were expected to wear dress and pantaloons to swim, she wore a one piece suit. And while doing so led to her arrest in 1907 in Massachusetts for indecency, with time she helped change the social norms. Her one piece suit, known as the Annette Kellerm...

For about a decade around 1880, the national pastime in the U.S. was a sport called pedestrianism. Pedestrians, the term for athletes who competed in the sport, would walk around a track, some to accomplish a specific distance goal, others in competition with one another to see who could go the farthest distance over a specified time. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of spectators, would come to watch. One of the best pedestrians of the time was Frank Hart. Frank, an immigrant to the U.S. from Haiti, endured many challenges competing in the sport. Some athletes refused to shake his hand, people yelled at him, one spectator threw pepper spray at Frank mid competition, and there were rumors that someone once tried to poison him. But he continued to compete. He won his first race in 1879. And on April 10th, 1880, in front of a crowd of about twenty thousand on the final day of a six day competition, Frank set a world record, finishing the race having walked a total of 565 miles. Not...

Peter Jackson was one of the best boxers of his time, winning the Australian heavyweight title in 1886. Though a fighter by profession, he was calm, collected, his demeanor dignified. In the ring he was methodical. Outside of it he stood proud of his race and fought back against discrimination. With force if he had to, but he never used his strength and brawn to bully. From his success in Australia he moved to the U.S. looking for fighting challenges. But racism hindered his opportunities. As his boxing life waned, Peter became an actor, touring with the stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the role of Uncle Tom. When speaking about considering the part, he said, "if Uncle Tom is a success, I intend to play it, but it does not do to be too confident." And he approached the role with a diligent perspective that "acting is like everything else, it needs practice." Deteriorating health took him from the ring and the stage and at the young age of 40 he passed away f...

  Chuck Connors, born Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors on April 10, 1921, in DeKalb, Illinois, was an American actor, professional basketball player, and baseball player. Known for his towering presence and rugged charm, Connors became a beloved figure in American television, particularly for his role as Lucas McCain in the popular Western series "The Rifleman." Before embarking on his acting career, Connors played professional basketball for the Boston Celtics in the late 1940s and later pursued a career in baseball, playing for the Chicago Cubs. His athletic background contributed to his physicality and screen presence, which served him well in action-oriented roles. In 1958, Connors landed the role of Lucas McCain in "The Rifleman," which debuted in 1958 and ran until 1963. The series was notable for its portrayal of a widowed rancher raising his son in the Old West, and Connors's performance was marked by his authoritative yet compassionate demeanor. His charac...

  David Carradine, born on December 8, 1936, in Hollywood, California, was an American actor known for his distinctive voice, unique screen presence, and versatile range. He was born into a family with a rich acting heritage; his father, John Carradine, was a renowned actor, and his siblings, Keith and Robert Carradine, also found success in the industry. David Carradine's upbringing in this environment shaped his own approach to acting, making him one of the most intriguing and eclectic performers of his generation. Carradine’s career took off in the 1970s with his iconic role as Kwai Chang Caine in the television series "Kung Fu" (1972-1975). His portrayal of the wise and principled Shaolin monk in search of his half-brother resonated deeply with audiences, earning him widespread acclaim and establishing him as a household name. The series was notable for its exploration of Eastern philosophy and martial arts, areas that Carradine, who had a genuine interest in martial ...

  David Akeman, better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), (June 17, 1916 – November 10, 1973) He was a singer-songwriter, musician, comedian, actor and semi-professional baseball player, best known for his role as a main cast member on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Akeman was well-known for his "old-fashioned" banjo picking style, careful mix of comedy and music, and his memorable stage wardrobe (which consisted of a long nightshirt tucked into a pair of short blue jeans belted around his knees—an early form of sagging— giving him the comical appearance of a very tall man with stubby legs). The costume had many antecedents, including Slim Miller, a onetime stage comedian said to be Akeman's inspiration. Akeman kept his audience with his traditional playing and his mixture of comedy and song. He scored country-chart hits with "Chewing Gum" and "I Wonder Where Wanda Went". Between 1962 and 1971, he recorded s...