SPORTS GIRLS PACKS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1926, Page 1

SPORTS GIRLS PACKS.

ATHLETIC WO.MF..VS C 1.l I LI) REN

LONDON. November 28. The assertion hy Dr Leonard AVil•fiams that the playing by girls ol games originally invented for big hoys and yoiinji hhmi is producing u i.ut o combative young giantesses and a creature who Ims the male rather than the female characteristics, is strongly supported hy Mr Alfred Praga, R.R.A.. the portrait painter and President ol the Society of .Miniaturists. He said to a. reporter yestcrady:

• • All the modern games anil amusements leave their mark upon facial expression ;so inuell so, that L. can tell whether a girl is a motorist, a sportswoman, or a dancer. Girls of to-day arc. in fact, developing the motoring fa, c, the dancing luce and the sports law. "i lie elicet of this over-indulgence i: -porl creates a hard type ol lace -.hat no amount ol use n> the lip-stick or old er aids to complexion will overworn. Among the hundreds of girls I every year, I very rarely come across one with a fresh, youlhlid late. When I do ils possessor is generally a voting girl just from .school who has not participated in these strenuous .-ports. ’ WFAKI.Y SONS: ,Mi-,s Clmr lot to Cowdroy, headmistress of (.’rough End High School and College. X., and a member of the Joint Committee on the Physical education of Girls, said:

•' I !i:.ve sihvavs maintained that the playing ut' sirenuous games by gills in '.heir • teens ' tends to make thorn hard :111r| masculine, both physically and mentally. I have hound again and again that women who develop masculine! rhaiwtoi'isties, d they have children, have hoys who are generally weakly, and I hat it is ihc small, delicate. leminiue woman who parses on |he strength she has held in trust to her boys, who are strong and manly." Mr lelliott l.ynn, vice-president of the Women’s Amateur Athletic Asoeiation, said: •■lf ike girl who is tall and strongly built, and has a masculine kind of mind, spends her life in crochet work mill cooking, it will not alter her ligure or her point of view, but il her n 1 lira 1 inclinations be allowed some outlet in snorts she will be a far better and a liner individual than il these natural instincts were suppressed or crowded out.”