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"Athletic maids to arms!...We are taking up the
sword, and high time it is, in defense of our
so-called athletic bodies to give the lie to those
pen flourishers who depict us not as paragons of
feminine physique, beauty and health, but rather as
Amazons and ugly ducklings all because we have
become sports-minded...
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"No longer are we athletes the pretty maids of
yesteryear. Our perfect 36's are being ruined, our
features are becoming quite 'Frankensteinish,'
shout these croquet and pat-ball advocators, all
because we are no longer satisfied with being just
a 'rib of Adam', but we have elected to hurl the
discus, throw the javelin, run and jump as 'Adam'
does....
"The modern girl is a better worker and a happier
woman by reason of the healthy pleasure she takes
in tennis, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, running,
jumping and other sports. The sacrifices which
girls have to make to keep themselves fit are all
for the good. They work better because they play
better. When one sees the well-filled playing
fields today, one has no fear for the future of
Canadian womanhood....
"The girl athletes have successfully crashed the
sacred sanctum of men's sports realms. The sporting
public likes them and wants them...
"Would all this ballyhoo of leathery-limbs, flat
chests, physical injury, be a direct result of male
resentment to the female intrusion of their
athletic circle? Can it be that they just 'can't
take it?'"
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