BOYS’ RACES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4394, 3 April 1909, Page 3

BOYS’ RACES.

■f (To the Editor.) i SiE,—Pray extend the hospitality of your columns to the opinions- of our highest medical authorities, and so save many a boy from physical wreckage in his youth or later years.—l am, ete., J. HERBEBT FABMEE, Old Harrovians and Middlesex County Bootball Captain, 1886-91. 19, Portland Place, W. ' January 26, 1909. Dear Mr Farmer,—ln reply to your inquiry we have no hesitation in saying that we consider that school and cross country races exceeding one mile in distance are wholly unsuitable for boys under the age of 19, as the continued strain is apt to cause permanent injury to the heart and other organs. -We are, etc., (Signed) SIB LAT7DEE BRUNTON. ’ g SIR THOMAS BARLOW. i DR. JAMES F. GO' /DHART--1 DE. W. HALE WHITE. SIR ALFRED FRIPP.