THE HOCKEY GIRL
(To the Editor "N.Z. Times,”) Sir, —X notice in your columns ol this morning two drawings, one entiled “The Hockey Girl*' and the other "The Girl who does not play Hockey/* Now, there is a good deal said in favour of hockey for girls and a good deal against it, but without going into the benefit obtained to health, I wish nevertheless to refute the idea expressed in those pictures, which, I taae it, suggests that the hockey girl has the advantage as far as the development of good looks. As a hockov player I havo travelled to Day's Bay and Miramar and have scon a considerable number of the girls' teams, bjit X cannot call to mind that I was struck with their good looks eithei in face or figure. Taking an average 1 think that the hockey girls compare very unfavourably in this respect with the girls who do not play. Hookey may add to their health, but it certainly does not add to their beauty either in grace of movement or in deportment, and I do not think that anyone who has travelled with a team will suggest that it odds to the sweetness and gentleness of language which we men admire so much in a woll-brod lady.—l an., etc., HOCKEY, Wallace street, September 10th.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6623, 12 September 1908, Page 15
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