WOMEN AS ATHLETES
EFFECT ON THEIR HEALTHLondon, Feb. 3. * Disagreeing with the Italian docisjon against women competing in the Olympic Games, sportswomen’s societies contend that athletick preserve womens energies aiid build up strength, rs ' Gbolde, secretary of the Wbmen s Sport Club, points out that some of Britain? finest women'athletes are now married and have the bonniest children. Mrs. Cornell, formerly Jfe Mnr ,e l Guph, holder of the hurdling al ’d *°”S iiimp championships, declares that nothing is better to equip a woman lor motherhood than the fact that site has been trained as an athlete. Sir Arbuthnot the eminent suraeon, disagrees with these views, and sayfs that running and jumping are too strenuoi)? for most women. They induce physical defects that cause overstrain.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1931, Page 7
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