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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Gynecologic Disorders. Some doctors still fear that women who participate in competitive sports suffer bad effects, including masculinization and menstrual disorders. But Illinois' Dr. Gyula J. Erdelyi insists that most of these fears are groundless. Reporting last week on a study of 729 Hungarian women athletes, Dr. Erdelyi called...
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But Dr. Erdelyi noted that competitors in certain sports-swimming, diving, skiing, ice skating-are more susceptible than other female athletes to gynecologic disorders such as dysmenorrhea (painful, difficult menstruation) and inflammation of the internal sex organs. Menstruation, he found, often impairs ability: "I found extremely poor performance in tennis...
Itsy-Bitsy Leagues. On one subject-competitive team athletics for children below high school age-the doctors were decidedly leery. More than 1,000,000 U.S. youngsters now participate in highly organized programs such as Little League baseball and Pop Warner football. "We have itsy-bitsy leagues of all descriptions...
Said Washington, D.C. Pediatrician Felix Heald: "If young children must play team sports, there are certain sports more adaptable to their age group-like soccer -which really require a greater degree of physical fitness than football or baseball." Another Heald suggestion: "We could do away with gymnasiums if we did...