KAY STAMMERS'S DILEMMA

Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 17

KAY STAMMERS'S DILEMMA

While most lawn tennis stars do all they can to remove unwanted ouncesMiss Kay Stammers wonders- how to gain a few pounds, states a London writer. She weighs only Bst 2oz, She should weigh at least 9st, “I do everything I can to put on a few pounds,” she said, “ But just over Bst seems to be my fighting weight. 1 certainly feel very fit.” Kay’s get-fat diet includes plenty of fruit, at least one big salad a day, with plenty of mayonnaise, vegetables, meat, all to the good, wholesome foods, and no fads. And by way of extra nourishment her mother insists that she drinks stout.

But she is always so busy that she has no time to put on those wished-for pounds. As well as her daily Dennis' practice at Wimbledon she is helping to arrange charity tournaments, doing all the work of organising and collecting "players. She arranged one in Wiltshire recently, at a friend’s country house in between knocking up with her friends in practice matches and lessons with Dan Maskell. In her spare time she swims, rides, plays golf, attends luncheons, and watches other people play other games. But she is very firm about one thing. She refuses to indulge in late nights. For the last two months she has kept to a strict early-to-bed rule.