Show olympics will destroy their elegance dr frederick rand hand rogers new york state director of health and physical education told the of the amateur athletic fed ed aeration flint lie he and his bis department would support them in their opposition to girls participation in the 1932 olympic games one of the principal reasons he advanced fur for his stand was his belief that participating in competitive sports destroyed a womans comans beauty he said he thought women ought to do all they could to make themselves beautiful and he approved powder and rouge but when woman becomes manly lionly asserted doctor rogers she takes lakes a step downward 1 I am strongly lo in favor of games eames for girls lie he told more than women college and high school physical directors here for the federation convention ven tion but I 1 am just as strongly appo opposed ted to the competitive spirit competition always tends to destroy beauty women in competition or lit in competitive games lose that w which Is beautiful |