V.-P. National Amateur Wrestling Association, Author of " Wrestling," "Jin Jitsu." Official Referee,

Olympic Games, 1908.

Hockey as a Game for Girls - Its Increasing Popularity - The Necessary Outfit and Clothes - Some of the Rules - The Hockey Association

For those enjoying good health and possessed of fairly robust physique there are many delightful out-of-door pastimes, but of them all hockey is far the most popular - and deservedly so. It provides the most healthy and enjoyable exercise, and combines these with all the benefits to be derived from team play. It is a valuable exercise for girls and an exhilarating recreation, but, because it is a strenuous game, the above reservation is desirable.

In the women's colleges in America hockey is very largely played, but no student is permitted to en<r a team until she has been medically certified as fit.

In 1898 there were fifty-seven ladies' hockey clubs affiliated to the governing body; six years later there were 300, an incontestable proof of the extraordinary grip on public favour the game has obtained. These latter figures do not include the countless girls' school hockey clubs.

Viewed solely as an exercise, hockey is of the greatest value; it tends to invigorate the circulation, develop increased lung power, strengthen the heart, and, by strengthening the muscles of the back, to aid in the acquiring of that graceful carriage of the body which is never associated with physical weakness. Beyond all doubt is it that the game has exercised a. very beneficial influence upon the health of the womanhood of the country.