ATHLETICS IN THE EAST.
YOUNG CHINA AWAKENING. London, June 3. The correspondent of the Times at Shanghai says that 400 Chinese, Japanese and Filipino athletes are competing in the Far Eastern Olympic Games. A wonderful feature will be a display of massed, drill and athletic exercises exercised by 1000 Chinese schoolgirls, the harmony and grace of their evolutions equalling the best in Western schools. Physical culture has taken a strong hold of the daughters of the Far East, who formerly could only hobble with painfully-bound feet. Modern Chinese girlhood has awakened to the delights of tennis, swimming, gymnastics, wrestling, and even boxing, and does them uncommonly well.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1921, Page 10
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107ATHLETICS IN THE EAST. Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1921, Page 10
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