LOP-SIDED SPORTS.
Acoording to an eminent doctor, there is a possibility of the next generation becoming lop-sided, if hockey gains in popularity in future seasons as it has done. The spectacle of lop-sided young men getting their shoulders padded a couple of inches higher on one side seems rather absurd, but the doctor says:— "Much ham is done by games that exercise one side of the body more than another. Batting and bowling at cricket, golf, lawn tennis, hockey and bowls are examples of one-sided exercises whereas football, swimming and walking are sports that make for equal development. Excessive playing of one-side games may easily and injuriously affect the brain. Muscular movements of the right side of the body are controlled by the left half, of the brain, and vice versa. If one side of the body is constantly exercised, and tile other not, one half 6f the brain will be over-developed, and. the other half will waste for want of use. * This is only likely to happen in extreme cases; but one-sided games tend to make the player lopsided, and to have one shoulder higher than the other. For this reason they are particularly unsuited to women."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 August 1913, Page 4
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198LOP-SIDED SPORTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 August 1913, Page 4
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