THE LEAN TENNIS GIRL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19001, 25 October 1923, Page 4

THE LEAN TENNIS GIRL.

FIGURE BEING RUINED. Dawn tennis is ruining the feminine figure. This is the opinion of an eminent London physician, who has studied the activities of women of all ages on the tennis courts this season. “Lawn tennis enthusiasm,” he said, “has caused many women to suffer from tennis elbow, painfully strained muscles of the arms and legs, and fixation of sight, due to keeping their eves constantly on the ball in the blazing sun. “Most of them are right-handed players. In consequence the right side of their bodies is over-developed compared with the other. The soft, rounded flesh is reduced until they becom lean, tough, and unattractive. “The constant wearing of heelless rubber shoes makes the feet flat and ungainly and spoils the shapeliness of the legs. “Prolonged exposure to the sun on the tennis court has ruined thousands of women’s complexions for months to come. The delicate pigments which supply the Englishwoman with her blooming complexion, which is unrivalled anywhere in (ho world, have been burned out. When the sunburn fades out of their cheeks it will he succeeded by an unattractive pallor, instead of by the poach bloom characteristic of the English girl.”