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Show WOMEN STARS TO HOLD MEET American Women Plan on Entering Track Meet At Paris r.V ALTUR CAMP UpeoJal Dispatch tO Xlw Standard i Ixsmlner, (Copyright. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) NEW YORK, July 29. The greatest great-est event of the year, from a human standpoint will bo tho entry of a team of American women athlotos in the trccl and field meet for women to be held next month in tho Pershing stadium, stad-ium, Paris. International competitive athletics for our girls would have raised a Btorm of protest not many years ago and as for our ancestors the idea would have been simply unthinkable Vet here is a team of some fourteon American girl athletes sailing abroad to try their prowess on track and fleid against picked women of other nationalities. nation-alities. A great many estimable persons aic evidently under the impression that these girls are of the type that com-posed com-posed former women instructors In baseball teams and bicycle rlder.-Qufte rlder.-Qufte the contrary. They are girls from our best schools and colleges Miss Hit on and Miss Mean are nnd r- graduates aj Smitii college Miss stine Is from the Leonia, N. J.. school Miss Sable and Miss (Jllllland ire Now Jer-Bay Jer-Bay normal school girls Miss Ethel Walker is from the 'Ethel Walker ihool of Stmsbury, and Miss Hard-uick Hard-uick i a student a the Florida state o'l, ge i n- strange tbinp is that no girl wnosc bom, is in New England Is a member of 'I'm team. There Is Ilttio reliable information concerning the best records of the forelgnei-s whom the American girls will meet. Whether they are j,rood or mi diocre remains to be seen. As a mutter of fact there has la , n so little oinp- nilon In I rack and lield events among the WOOASn that it Is dlfllcult to Judge whether we are sending over likely winners or not So far as our records go, the girls selected show decided class. Moreover, More-over, they habO been working under' the direction of Dr Ilarr Easton Stewart and Miss Rusenbaum ana have shown marked Improvement I Miss Stlno, for Instance, is credited with 33 feet 10' Inches tn the hop, step and Jump, and close to sixteen feet in tho broad Jump. Mi9s Voorhes has cleared 4 feet 9 Vg Inches In the ' high jump Here., apart from all questions Of records and winning or (losing the meet In Paris, we have a tremendous upheaval. or what 1 promises to be an upheaval in the lives Of girls the world over It follows fol-lows the emancipation of women In 1 Ivll life n will bo severely criticised and greatly praised. Somo will call it iu ifeminlne others will picture dls-jastrous dls-jastrous physical results. Rut we can I only wait, watch and study the effects ef-fects and then draw conclusions. The future may hold much of slg-nlflcancs slg-nlflcancs 0nes it mean thai within Is decade women's colleger and girl.-, sol Is win be in the iame competition With our young men's Colleges and I I OOls? Who n u B0 ? |