Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — WHY GIRLS CANNOT THROW. [ARTICLE]

WHY GIRLS CANNOT THROW.

There la *. Scientific Reaxon, Conaiaiina; of Difference in Their Structure and That of Boys. In this, the season of outdoor sports, the boy st school is prone to poke fun at his sister, because she prefers to skip the rope, and deride her /because she cannot perforce throw a top at all, while he can make his spin every time. And he generally consoles himself for laek of her company by saying that “girls can’t throw, nohow.”' In this he is far nearer right than he thinks, perhaps. Girls cannot throw, at least, not like men can. And they never can. They are not “built that way.” When a boy throws a stone he crooks his elbow and reaches back with his forearm, and uses every joint from shoulder to wrist. The boy’s arm is re'<xed; a girl throws with a rigid arm. Tnic is because her collar bone is longer and set lower than is a boy’s. This interferes with the free motion of her arm, required in throwing accurately.