VALUE OF THE SUN
BUILDING SPORTSMEN. PHYSICIAN’S OPINIONS. London, Aug. 3. Emphasising the value Of the sun in .building the perfect sportsman, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, well-known physician, writing in the Daily Mail, says Don Bradman could never have attained his present perfection if he had lived in England’s sunless climate. No polo team of white men can hope to defeat first-class Indians and the same applies to cricket, £ • Arbuthnot contends. In additiSh to food, habits and exercise the factor playing the greatest part in obtaining the most rapid and prolonged body functioning is exposure to the sun. Sir Arbuthnot instances France’s climatic advantages, of which the feat of the tennis player Borotra is a great example. Nevertheless England, in .spite of her climate, possesses, he says, many notable veteran , athletes, the principal of whom is Hobbs, who, at 49, is still England’s most reliable batsman.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1932, Page 9
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