WHAT GIRLS CANNOT DO

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 86, 10 January 1928, Page 15

WHAT GIRLS CANNOT DO

There were many women in Mr. Edward Bendon Turner’s audience recently, and .he talked about the woman in athletics. Mr. Turner is consulting physician to the Princess Helena College. He said that women could best compete on equal terms with man in ewimining. 'Woman possessed as good a body covering of fat as man, besides which the good swimmer received support from the water (states the London “Evening News”). The two sports women should not attempt are Rugby football and the tug-of-war, he proceeded. Mixed games, such as hockey, spoil the play of the men, or else the girls tear themselves to pieces in their efforts to keep up with the greater speed and endurance of the men players. Woman is not built for speed and endurance. Man is one-third broader at the shoulders than at the pelvis. In woman those proportions are , reversed. Her frame has less space than a man’s for tho heart and the lungs. She is inclined. too, to knock-knees. The crack woman at any game is about 25 per cent, less efficient than a man. In physical aptitude for games the crack woman is jibout equal to tho boy athlete of 16. ! remember attending a woman sports meeting. A hundred yards away I picked out which was the champion. Her shape was more like that of a man.