REASON FOR SHORTS
WOMEN TENNIS PLAYERS. ADDS POINTS TO GAME. London, September 16. “Some people think we wear shorts for vanity, to show off our legs. The real reason is that they add points to our game,” said the well-known tennis player, Miss Freda James, defending “too-short-shorts.” When Miss James, playing for the Wightman Cup at Eastbourne yesterday, appeared in exceedingly abbreviated shorts, a woman spectator declared “My goodness, what an amazing and awful sight!”
Miss James added: “Every little helps to win a game. Complaints about brevity are ridiculous.” Freda’s mother is less emphatic. She thought her daughter’s shorts could be improved with a little lengthening. “But it’s not for me to say,” she admitted. “I suppose I shall get used to them.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 6
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124REASON FOR SHORTS Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 6
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