SUN AND SPORT
BRITAIN'S DISADVANTAGE
WHY BRADMAN IS GREAT
LONDON, 3rd August. Emphasising the value of the sun in building the perfect sportsman, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, well-known physician, writing in the "Daily Mail," says that Don Bradman could never have attained his present perfection if he had lived in England's sunless climate. jSto polo team of. whito men can hope to defeat first-class Indians and the same applies to cricket, Sir Arbuthnot contends. In, addition to food, habits and exercise the factor playing the greatest part in obtaining the most rapid and prolonged body functioning is exposure to the sun.
j Sir Arbuthnot instances France's climatic advantages, ox which the feat of the tennis player Borotra is a great example. Nevertheless England, in spite of her climate, possesseb, he says, many notable veteran athletes, the principal of whom is Hobbs, who, at 49, is still England's most reliabh batsman. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 10
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149SUN AND SPORT Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 10
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