Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-29 | Page 6 | Bishops Oppose Female Athletes

BISHOPS OPPOSE FEMALE ATHLETES BERLIN July 20 By By By The Asso Asso- Associated Associated elated Press Women Press Women athletes of Bavaria had a hard time arranging their annual Held field day At first the Bavarian bishops In In- In declaring It was shameless for lor Christian women to show their legs before a 11 mob of gaping males Then Margarete Miller a II well-known well Catholic writer attacked the man man- management management saying it was entirely un un- under der the domination of men mm Despite these protests the Bavarian arlan State Athletic federation stuck to Its program and the field day came off at Neuburg on the Danube as origInally originally I planned