GIRLS AS ATHLETES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 3

GIRLS AS ATHLETES.

USE OF BAD LAAtRALE. A COMPLAINT IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Jan. 6. i The habit of hockey girls using a bad | expletive when they meet with nasty i knocks is the subject of an official protest by the All’ England Women’s Hoc-key Association. The association instances the ease of j a leading Englishwoman forward who was eomnletely knocked off her game hy the language of an opposing halfback. The n.sso-ration’s magazine explains that it is feared in some quarters that hockey will lower the girls’ tone and ! make them rough. Therefore the pracj tice of swearing must be discouraged, Captains of hockey teams have beerrequested not to allow smoking ii club-houses. “It is too silly for words.” says Mn Charters, the Irish international lioekej player, when referring, to the allega tions. “Players may ejaculate ‘Bother! or ‘Dash!’ but never turn round anc

curse an opponent. For really bad language, go to the women tennis players.” “The language women use makes xiie umpire blush, especially if he is a man. I have threatened to send oft women if they repeated offensive, epithets,” savs Mr Savage, ex-president of the North Irish Hockey Union “They think,” he went on,, ‘that emancipation permits them to use strong language because it is mannish, and it lias a natural sequence in girls rushing off the field at half-time and full-time to indulge in cigarettes.”