WOMEN AND SPORT.
The strenuoustiess of cross-country running for women is again emphasised by the collapse near Brighton of a girl athlete while taking part in the Sussex women's cross-country championship. The girl was Miss Hilda Buckland, aged 18, who collapsed after running a quarter of a mile of the three-miles course. Miss Buckland, who started well, was unconscious when she was picked up by the spectators. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane stated that cioss-country running imposes a very heavy strain on women. " i think, as a general rule, that women must clo themselves permanent harm by this form of sport. It is one of the most harmful and least beneficial branches of athletics that women can follow." A woman holder of British hurdle and long jump championships said: " There is very little overstrain among women who go in for athletics at all seriously, because they acquire a gradual condition of fitness through regular training arid know exactly what they can do without harmful cfToct."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20867, 8 May 1931, Page 5
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