NOT FOR WOMEN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 17, 15 August 1928, Page 6

NOT FOR WOMEN

ATHLI-TICS TOO STRENUOUS. OLYMPIC. ODIJ^APSES. LONDON, Ths* collapse.' of several women ath- : letes iV the final of the' 800,metres ' at the Olympiad, when they fell by the side of the, track apparently suffering from dangerous strain, has, aroused adverse medical comment here. i: ■ ■. Sir Peraval Phillips, the soeciat correspondent, of the "Daily Mail,", describing the scene, says: "Miss Thompson, a pretty . Canadian girl with fair, bobbed hair, lay face, d'own- ' ward*, with her head on her arm > sobbiW,convulsively. Thr-fja/of heir tried! vaJinly to Jrxmisjole! Sb° *ptt3-ced ~to be in.! acute •pain, as well as suffering from disappointnii'a* u\ her defeat. j "Miss Hi&rt»v the, Japanese runner, had to massaged before; she was able to, leave .the track. She limped to the. dressing-room, too ex- '.. hausted to put on her shoos." NATURE AGAINST. THEM.

One specialist declares that women ■are not physically buijt. |o,.iintlefga the strain of -races." '''Nature mfade woman to bear chiKlren,'' he said, "and she cannot rid herself of fat* j k to the extent of necessary physical fitness (demanded jfor featsi cf ex-i treme endurance. She ha® a layer of f fat laround her heart that makes the attempts to lenrulate men positively v>. dangerous. , , "Women must realise that no ; amount) of-training will ever alter., ; jthdir physicali •condition, TJrue, wa are getting a race of women who are half men, but they never will com- | pare wi ( th men. physically." Another, points out tha;t after generations of soft living,, civilised women hare become vmSt for such strenuousf effort. Women of this sort are not likely to become mothers. Therefore, races, do not serve a useful purpose. Men : athletes,, on the contrary, have/'children who : improve the standard, whjch is all for the collective good.