Eva Karolina Aronson, 1955

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August 28 1955

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, August 28, 1955

Man's World? Gals Have Day In Chess Tourney at New York
Field is Rated As Strongest Of It's Kind by Merrill Dowden
This may be a man's world, as advertised, but you wouldn't think so if you should visit the Marshall and Manhattan Chess Clubs in New York this week.
For the ladies have moved in, bad and baggage, at these two strongholds of the bearded gender.
The occasion is the 1955 United States Women's Championship, which will continue through September 6. And the current tournament is rated as the strongest of its kind ever held in this country.
Competing for the first time in the same tourney are four U.S. women international masters: Mrs. Mary Bain, Mrs. Gisela K. Gresser, and Miss Mona M. Karff, all of New York City, and Mrs. Sonja Graf Stevenson of Palm Springs,Calif.
The other contenders are Mrs. Eva Aronson of Chicago; Mrs. Lena Grumette, Hollywood; Mrs. Willa White Owens, Avon Lake, Ohio; Miss Lucille Kellner, Detroit; Mrs. Jacqueline Piatigorsky and Miss Nancy Roos of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Mary Selensky of Philadelphia.

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