Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — Woman’s Athletic Progress. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Athletic Progress.

A time is foreseen by Harvard's physical director when women as a result of their, devotion to athletics will overtake man in physical development. By grace of tennis, golf, horseback riding, swimming and through gymnasium training young women who have leisure for such pursuits have greatly improved their physique within a generation. Yet the progress made, Dr. Sargent thinks, is only the beginning. Fashion, freedom from worry and other causes are ail helping a development which will eventually make woman man’s physical equal if not his superior. It is not to be forgotten that woman is fast becoming man's equal in business and politics as well as his partner in athletic sports, and that she rpay be expected to assume her share of the cares and worries from which she is now free and which retard physical growth. There are other considerations. It has not been shown that a girlhod given to strenuous athletics is conducive to good looks in middle life or that an uncorseted outdoor existence fosters the desired symmetry of outline in the matron. Fashion may yet interpose objections. It is not impossible that a regulation of feminine college sports in the interest of scholarship and class standing may be enforced as the result of masculine agitation for an equality of the sexes in sport.—New York World-