Davida Hawthorn was a

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player. She was from New York. She won a three

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s at the

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in the women's team, women's doubles with Lea Thall-Neuberger and mixed doubles with William Holzrichter. She was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1994 and was the 1945 US champion.

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