Aarons, Ruth Hughes
Table tennis
b. 1910, Stamford, CT
d. 1980
The only American to win a world table tennis championship, Aarons never lost a match in tournament play during her four-year career in top competition.
She won the U. S. national singles championship four years in a row, from 1934 through 1937, and she also won the mixed doubles title each year, with four different partners: Sam Silberman, Sidney Heitner, Victor Barna, and Robert Blattner. In 1936, when she won the world singles title, Aarons teamed with Anne Sigman to win the national women's doubles championship.
Aarons was a member of the U. S. squad that won the 1937 Corbillon Cup, emblematic of the world women's team championship.