WOMANS EQUALITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20108, 29 March 1928, Page 2

WOMANS EQUALITY

SPORT BARRED WHAT GIRLS CANNOT DO. There were many women in Air Edward Bcadon Turner’s audience recently, and he talked about the woman in athletics. Air Turner is consulting physician to the Princess Helena College. He said that women could best compete on equal terms with man in swimming. Woman possessed as good a body covering of fat as man, besides which tnc good .swimmer received .support from the water (states the London Evening News). The two sports women s-hould not attempt are Rugby football and the tug-of-war, he proceeded. Mixed, games, such as hockey, spoil the play of the men, or else the girls tear themselves to pieces in their efforts to keep up with the greater speed and endurance of men players. AVoman is nor built for speed and endurance. Alan is one-third broader at the shoukiers than at the pelvis. In woman those proportions are reversed. Her frame has Jess space than a man’s for the heart and the lungs. She is inclined, too, to knock-knees. The crack woman at any game is about 25 per cent, less efficient than a man. In physical aptitude for games the crack woman is about equal to the boy athlete of 16. I remember attending a woman sports meeting. A hundred yards away I picked out which w-s the champion. Her shape was more like that of a man.