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CRITIC OF WOMEN’S SPORtS LONDON, July 4... “ Mrs Grundy appears to have left England for Australia,” was the comment made by Mr W. Buchanan Taylor, director of Lyons, Ltd., whose Women’s Sports Club is the largest in Britain. Mr Taylor was referring to a letter sent by an Australian, Mias Rae, denouncing women athletes.
“We find that athletics encourage cleanliness, self-respect, and happiness, and increase efficiency,” he said. “It is nonsense to say that sport makes them immoral. On the contrary, it keeps them from dreary street flirtations, to which other girls of their class resort in order to escape monotony. “Running shorts are not immodest. Everyone knows that women’s street evening dress is often more provocative. Quieter, more womanly girls could not be found. The Australian critic should go to Berlin and see thousands of naked athletes to realise the hopeless antiquity of her views.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21386, 14 July 1931, Page 7
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