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women’s trying to ape men in
athletic affairs. I am glad this
sort of new woman is dying
out,’ she wrote in 1918, but
she did devote an entire
chapter of her autobiography
to an examination of the
position of women in a male
arena.
Swimming, she believed,
was ‘a woman’s sport’
because men had so many
other sports ‘where women
make a poor showing’ or