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Show .. Jliss Hanneman with the Back Dive Half Completed Mile. Suzanne Leuzlin Completing H """.-w Powerful Reverse Twist Serve in Tennis i - - ; I ' : - '" - - ' ' ' .. . ' - ' ' ' - V- ' ., , : I - 1 , , V Mile. Suzanne Leuzlin Compl xvV Powerful Reverse Twist Serve i v w v , x. , v v I .... . . I ' Ik i , v Remarkable F jV; All Lines of C - ;; ma Just ! i J - ' i ' II ' HE recent re i Bwimming v .... women contE g ; . York Sportsmen's. SI 'vmsI, . -: . . ." J Square Garden, direi . : -v.,. .,..... 7 . to the increasing e: i. v:1.; ' leteo in a'.l branches i s. ; . : Here was indeed t : .'4 - is . a score of fine, mo I r ' v S'S . . S. carrying off swimmi ; i beuTfe mixed audier 4V ! :. i santS during a who 3 'I v to Jan. 9, and doing s "!"''! I ! fidence and unemba t A t ri. I I they were so many f I s: sterner sex. t I This is the second : I ;:" . - I ;.; Ss. s .In connection with t : f f I I ' i : 5 ' It is the most empiial ' ' t I - . that young women I C N ' s placing themselves i I v $ ' . , wlth young men in I v f 4 ' highest resources o: ; f . $ '" i" -' - -i strength, skill and c ' - .; ,;j Although amateur ; " .: ii- :, jV are so proficient in 4 r ; I - t ', '-J and In all water spo L f s g vie in records with ii&. . like Annette Kellerr , " -' ' . diving trophy. It dt ! J i .-'' that their Photi I r ':--r-yx i"' ""' frequently printed I V ; connection with th i' " Such names as Eis f - 't V - of the world's woina fx., pionship; Nelllo Ot f -. ! ' tarely over sixteen '! .. V-i yards In 1 minute j.i ' v" Simpson, Miss Edr S . Bartildes, and, amc V- - , ' ..r-- the Misses Josphin I 4 man, Rita Groniield Y - Hogstedt and Elsie jA.v. v "-I At their age gi shielded from any oc f-i-- t world, was doing he ( ' - letic pretentious we j. - 1 . like game of croqu tj-' ' well screened from . If grandmamma Is i t v' ' ' - that has come ovr-r ' years, what amaz"S . v that the. higher the t, , ' addicted are Its pirli ' ! k ports. Grandmamn ! v...-: the working classes. ' 'c'... sort of thing In the r s parents have no time L ! 7 bring th:m up," but " ' daughters of parents &xsv inherited refinement. p , A'ct she hears of ! it' I Boston, outwalking, fzi swimming tho men i-f Grandmamma's atlile not hesitate to reml John Jacob Astor ant erine Force, trea-ur X , golf links and on the casion she may prodi and show grandma ':' N, familins of the lan ""TVaj athletic daughter;;. y It is only since 1 i '-'iS.f. pay exhibitions n( j i"tv amateurs have con XX ' ' country, with the k 'S swimming ant dlvl y. '"-A grammes praetleally !:. - : the case at the N. ' N : L ' ' 1 - S-H Bhr f t - the iii '-sCr - '" '..'.'?., of progrf ' ' - ; .. ! to the clemandn for ' .. . " ' culit'.-ntn In all rae - - , v ronnlt of a nerd f ;-. . ' 't . 1 . sikI moftiy caused b A y ' 'v- x. - :ial gain. ThiH rier. . V trees tid v, holly o " There nrt! nbfuit a V ' n the f'nited Stale .. A r or partly for mrrllr ft' v, ? - t.li ennrmoii!-. ftianf "'', ' foregone conclusion ;it-t ' .'J dlataiit. rulure tree ... .-. , 'I planted to meet the V j rowliiK, (jt i'l;;o we ' - , : -.,.-. 'k v)1. lark of neee: ry d ' H, i ' A 1 '''' Presenro of " "'" ' 'A.. '' j the Ihln inti'T hark and lis tonic and Mrs. Carey Kumsey (C'aroi iiarriman) in Action on the i'olo Field. Remarkable Progress Made by Women ih All Lines of Outdoor Sports Since Grandma Grand-ma Just Sat, Around and Knitted THE recent remarkable exhibitions of swimming and diving by young women contestants at the New York Sportsmen's. Show, held In Madison Square Garden, directs renewed attention to the increasing efficiency of women athletes ath-letes in all branches of out-door sports. Here was indeed a significant spectacle a score of fine, modest, well-bred girls carrying off swimming and diving honors before mixed audiences of tens of thousands thou-sands during a whole week from Jan. 2 to Jan. 9, and doing it with as much confidence con-fidence and unembarrassment as though they were so many professionals of the sterner sex. This is the second year of that spectacle . In connection with the Sportsmen's Show. It is the most emphatic possible illustration that young women of to-day insist upon placing themselves on a basis of equality with young men in sports demanding the highest resources of physical health and strength, skill and courage. Although amateur athletes, theso girls are so proficient in swimming and diving, and In all water sports, that they actually vie in records with the best professionals, like Annette Kellermann, who offered the diving trophy. It does not shock them at til that their photographs and names are frequently printed la the newspapers In connection with their athletic triumphs. Such names as Eisle Hanneman, winner of the world's woman's fancy diving championship; cham-pionship; Nellio Greenhall, who, though tarely over sixteen years old, swims l'ju yards In 1 minute 3'4 seconds; Misr? M. Simpson, Miss Edna Cole, Miss Millie-Bartildes, Millie-Bartildes, and, among Ecores of others, the .Misses Josephine Bartlett, Lucy Freeman, Free-man, Rita Greenfield, Mary Nerich, Martha Hogstedt and Elsie Sutton. At their age grandmamma, tenderly shielded from any contact with tho outside world, was doing her "tatting." Her athletic ath-letic pretentious were limited to a ladylike lady-like game of croquet on the home lawn, well vcrened from tho public view. If grandmamma Is amased at the change that has come over girls In the last forty years, what amaz'S her mott, probably, ia that the higher the social scale the more addicted are its girls to strenuous outdoor sports. Grandmamma might expect that the working classes." woso hard-working sort of thing In the eat" of "hoydens of parents have no time in which to "properly bring them up," but not In Hie case of the daughters of parents possessing wealth and inherited refinement. Yet she hears of Miss Eleanor Sears, of Boston, outwalking, outriding and out-swlmniing out-swlmniing tho men of her own social set. Grandmamma's athletic granddaughter does not hesitate to remind her that both Mrs. John Jacob Astor and her sister. Miss Catherine Cath-erine Force, treasure their triumps on tho golf links and on the tennis court. I'pon occasion oc-casion she may produce the Social Register and show grandmamma that tho tlrst families of the land are sprinkled with athletic daughter;;. U is only since 1!H0 that, great, public, pay exhibitions of women athletics-amateurs athletics-amateurs havo come Into vogue In this country, with their favorite feats of swimming and diving forming tho programmes pro-grammes practleally exclusively, as was the case at the New York Sportsmen's Show this season and last. New York girls who have grown up In beach villages vil-lages and took to tho water like ducks when mere children have made such exhibitions ex-hibitions famous even In several inland cities. As most persons living along the North Atlantic coast are aware, it is the swimming swim-ming girls more than the swimming men who started and have kept up the fad for all-the-year-round surf bathing. On the coldest day of December, just past, with the mercury edging down near to zero, and with the ocean at Coney island registering regis-tering a temperature of 42 degrees, more than a score of girls belonging to Winter sea bathing clubs disported themselves in the icy waves for a quarter of an hour at a time. The growth of athletics m colleges for girls no longer causes surprise in either sex. The polite, secluded, essentially fdmlnine young ladies' seminary began to he supplanted a generation aco by "coeducation" "co-education" and by colleges for women, conducted on the same general lines as those for men. And very shortly the college col-lege athletic feature was established to complete an intellectual and physical system sys-tem of education that should be a worthy rival of that which had so loug benefited the opposite sex exclusively. "Teams'' of rival women's colleges were soon struggling- for new records. In 3 POT Miss Laura Clement, YS'ellofley, class ot lf"7, mad9 the 100-yard dash In 13 1-3 seconds, sec-onds, breaking the previous record of 14 2-5 seconds, held by Vassar. The 1H3 athletes of Barnard made these records: Eight-pound shot put, Miss Eleanor Hab-sell, Hab-sell, 2S feet 3 Inches. High Jump, Miss Salllo Pero, 4 feet 4 Inches. Discus throw, Miss Margery Hillas, 6S feet. Baseball throw, Miss Jean Mohle, ISO feet. Women tennis players are npproachlng closer and closer the records of men play, el's as witness the remarkable performances perform-ances of Mile. Suzanne Leualin among the "crack" women servers. Miss Helen Dalton, prominent among tho young women amateur athletes of New York City, not only makes tho 100-yard 'iash In seconds, but is a clever gym- nast, swimmer and basketball player. Miss Julia Downey won that championship In l'U.'l, being ciose-pressed by nnother sprinting sprint-ing marvel. Miss E'dna MeBrlde. Some of the younger women of the New Yot k-N'ewport soelul set are quite famous a'hletes. To her proficiency at golf Miss .Marion Holllns, for exam, do, adds remarkable remark-able gifts nnd daring nt that most hazardous hazard-ous of men's games, poio. She Is a member mem-ber of the "Meadow Larks Four." who startled tho English players last Summer by appearing on tho field in competition with a team of men. Miss Hollins's companions com-panions In that game were MI..S Emily Randolph. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock and the latter's daughter. Miss Helen Hitchcock. And fur quite a while the "Mendow Larks" held their on against their J5.cn opponents op-ponents Another of these daring women polo players is Mrs. Carwv ltunisey. who lacks only a man's strength of arm to be in the front rank at. the sport. Bath Beach might be called a nursery of girl swimmers and divers. Miss Els'o Hnntirman, the world's champion woman fancy diver who headed tho list of entrants at the Sports men's Show, was f v. brought up and still - lives there, a young v. woman of education ' " and independent for- tune. Bath Beach is also the home and - ' training quarters of ... Nellie Greenhall, the i :V: marvellous sixteen- -4 jfw"v- year-old record r . .. woman swimmer. . -00'- Her record now is .afr - enly eleven seconds i v i. ;. short of the best v 4 ; man's record for 100 -j .'V yards 54 4-5 sec- onds. She is train- . '' . ing in the expecta- ". . -"' - tion of some day " '-t 4- equalling the best f swimming sprint of either man or worn- an. Miss Greenhall " ' has a sister, Daisy, who a3 a schoolgirl of fourteen is already al-ready drawing near to her as a swimmer and diver. These grls, bred at the ocean beaches, who swim all the year round, are so accustomed ac-customed to the tlgitfitting, jne-pieee swimming suit that to appear In it as swimming or diving contestants before audiences numbering thousands does not embarrass them In the slightest degree. The thought of making new records excludes ex-cludes every other. Neither are they apt to become "stage-struck" and hanker for professional honors. They are true "sportsmen." "sports-men." Hiss Hanneman, for instance, who as an amateur outdives any professional in the world, says she is about ready to quit even the amateur field. Both Miss Hanneman and Miss Greenhall, Green-hall, however, probably will be seen in their aquatic specialties at the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific Exposition In rivalry with native Hawaiian girls. Probably most people will he surprised to learn that these Bath Beach girls yield nothing to the Pacific Islanders in the way of swimmmg or diving, div-ing, and the Hawaiians already know It. As Is natural, their proved prowess in athletic sports has caused women in various vari-ous parts of this country to emulate their , sisters In South Africa acd the Balkans by contributing to the fighting strength of their country. Several years ago the Colorado Colo-rado Legislature passed a new militia la which admitted women to the Colorado-National Colorado-National Guard. Quite recently Mrs. J. Hungerford Mil-bank Mil-bank organized a regiment called th "Columbians." to be a "woman's complement comple-ment to tho New York National Guard. Her Idea was warmly applauded by the National Federation of Women's Clubs. Is all this as it should be? Are women any tho better or happier, or better promoters pro-moters of the happiness of the world in general, through becoming trained athletes? ath-letes? Does it make them more beautiful or otherwise charming than were their grandmothers? On these points the authorities agree that physical exorcise that Is natural and exhilerating increases the beauty and grace of tho female form. Look at the great masterpieces of painting and sculpture. sculp-ture. Is not Diana, the huntress, morn graceful than Venus, wno devoted herself exclusively to love-making? Can you hesitate for a moment In your choice between be-tween the airy lightness and grace ol Atalnnta, champion girl sprinter of myth-olorrv. myth-olorrv. nnd (he merely uxorious Juno? - Mis3 Elsie Hanneman Beginning One of Her Hazardous Back Dives X Miss ' "h Elsie V. A Hanneman Beginning V One of , Her Hazardous Back m Si: Dives ports w, was t v, ' and still . a young v. i education ' ident for- . Beach is ome and - . V arters of ... ."- '.-. . A ahall, the i :y; . . , sixteen- I r e c o r d r . . ' ' swimmer. -. r ? now is ' seconds i ' the best -.- ; d for 100 -- ' 4-5 sec- -.- is train- . '' . expecta- . fir " - "S. )me day 'f. the best - VN sprint of V - . or worn- t s . . Greenhall ,. , X r, Daisy. K r' .. schoolgirl " n is al- - ; ing near XI"'1 - ' - ' a swimmer and diver. J--:;, . - ." Is, bred at the ocean beaches, V '. .''': ail the year round, are so ac- i - 1 . ...... j ) the tlgh.tfiuing, jne-piece . - . - j suit that to appear In it as , . , .- j or diving contestants before V-'1 1 numbering thousands does not v ... - - . ! them in the slightest degree. : " " ' ' r , 1 ht of making new records ex- - . .'. -y other. Neither are they apt 1 "stage-struck" and hanker for - 1 honors. They are true "sports- j. f . .- - i i Hanneman, for instance, who X ..... . eur outdives any professional in i - . says she is about ready to quit . j nateur field. i ; - ' ' 3 ;s Hanneman and Miss Green- - , . .. ver, probably will be seen in - - j tic specialties at the Panama- ft . .... J position in rivalry with native . ; . ; . J iris. Probably most people will . . .. J ed to learn that these Bath - . .. . f s yield nothing to the Pacific : n the way of swimmmg or div- ", ..'" e Hawaiians already know It. ( ... . , - tural. their proved prowess in V . .-. - v . . i arts has caused women in vari- t '-. ' .. . - v f this country to emulate their - . . ; South Africa and the Balkans ' v. ' itlng to the fighting strength of V . ' ... ? ry. Several years ago the Colo- y. - , .. . $ lature passed a new militia law - f lined women to the Colorado v - - uard. , . .' ; . . ' gently Mrs. J. Hungerford Mil- , '1 nized a regiment called ths . - - " . j is," to be a "woman's comple- - -. !io New York National Guard. ' was warmly applauded by the ..: . . i ederntion of Women's Clubs. - . - ,v s as it should be? Are women ( . ? iter or happier, or better pro- 9 v the happiness of the world in s .... - l rough becoming trained nth- V -s it make them more beautiful ; . .so charming than were their - . - rs? ; ; points the authorities agree :al exorcise that Is natural and $ . . 4 g Increases the beauty and . ' . lie female form. Look at the k . . erpieros of painting and sculp- , . . . . ? ' not Diana, the huntress, morn ' . - ?? I inn Venus, wno devoted herself , to love-making? 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