Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1910 — BAR MAN COACH FOR WOMEN [ARTICLE]

BAR MAN COACH FOR WOMEN

Secretary Sullivan Says Athletics for Fait Sex Should Be Confined to Themselves. “I am very decidedly opposed to employment of men as athletic instructors or coaches for girls or'women,” says James E. Sullivan, secretary of the Amateur Athletic association. “It Is a mistake to have a man, for example, In a girls’ gymnasium, or to have him coach or direct girls in their athletic exercises. “A man coach in a girls’ school will naturally present his theories from a masculine standpoint. He will tell his pupils to play a good, rough game and instruct them to do things as a boy or man would do them. “Girls’ athletics when conducted along safe and sane lines. Is a real benefit to the health of the girls. They must not be jxploited, however, as female Sandtfws, Sheppards, Sheridans, or as show girls. A girls’ basketball team must not be trained in tricks, nor should it be sent around the country to exhibit the players for gate money. “Competition for girls should be in its own group and in private, without an admission fee, and without the sensation-seeking crowd. Girls should be kept in their own group and not permitted to take part in publio sports.”