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April 22 , 1911 ] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
THE MODERN SPORTSWOMAN. 
Tiie active participation in field sports by 
women marks a modern development. Fifty 
years ago no woman would have handled a gun, 
much less a rifle, or would have dared to beard 
a lion or a tiger in the field, or have dreamed 
of a day on the moors all to herself or taken a 
hunting box with a string of hunters for the 
winter. Yet women do all these things now. 
Sport for women is catered for as amply as 
sport for men; ladies’ golf links, championships, 
rifle clubs and tennis tournaments flourish 
amazingly, says Lady Violet Greville in London 
Chronicle. 
The number of women in the hunting field in¬ 
creases every year, and many of these Dianas 
ride as hard as men. Lately they have taken 
to riding astride and wearing neat breeches and 
boots, so that it is difficult to distinguish the 
sexes on horseback, and certainly the thin 
young girl, looking just like a boy, is a very 
attractive figure, but she is essentially modern. 
The girl who walks the moors all day, who 
climbs hills and brings down her stag with an 
unerring rifle is rarer, but she exists. Salmon 
and trout fishing rank next in popular esteem. 
Curiously enough, this love, this craze for 
sport in women synchronizes with the possible 
extinction of sport, for already it is difficult to 
keep up hunt subscriptions, barbed wire renders 
riding unpleasant if not dangerous, and the 
breaking up of large estates will soon make 
game preserving impossible. Sport will be con¬ 
fined to fishing or to grouse shooting over deso¬ 
late and barren districts, where the heather 
flourishes and the ptarmigan breed. On these 
lonely hilltops wild birds will still be found 
when the rest of England is divided into allot¬ 
ments and building estates. 
With the women who care for sport it is 
a very real and solid enthusiasm. They will 
follow their husbands in Africa in the pursuit 
of wild game, they will tramp the stubble and 
the turnip fields all day, they will flog the water 
unceasingly, they will crawl, scramble, creep, 
climb and lie motionless for hours on the 
chance of getting a stag. 
In all sport there is a certain element of good 
fellowship and camaraderie which is exceedingly 
pleasant, and the friendships of the hunting 
field, for instance, are among the most endur¬ 
ing and delightful of memories. Even rivalry is 
good tempered, respect and admiration are ex¬ 
perienced for those who are keen and skilful in 
the sport they prefer. It is a little strange to 
say the least of it that so many women should 
be taking up sport, rifle shooting and games at 
a time when tbe great mass of men go to look 
on at contests in which they themselves play no 
part and of which betting is one of the most ob¬ 
jectionable features. 
From real sport the element of money get¬ 
ting is entirely absent. Hunting, for instance, 
is the most democratic of pursuits; the noble¬ 
man mounted on his 300-guinea hunter, the 
doctor, the schoolboy, the farmer and the train¬ 
er, all are equal, all interested, all enthusiastic. 
People may hunt for various reasons, but to 
the expert majority it is the hounds working 
and the science of hunting that appeal most 
keenly. Women probably love the galloping, 
but it exhilarates and excites them, while their 
presence has almost entirely obliterated the use 
of bad language and hard swearing in the hunt¬ 
ing field. 
It would appear as though the masculine de¬ 
velopment of women, the sense of rebellion and 
revolt had driven them to enter the same sports 
as men, a tendency strongly developed in 
modern girl schools, where hockey, golf and 
cricket are more highly appreciated that the 
ladylike accomplishments and quiet study of our 
mothers. Needlework is at a discount, but the 
eye, the ear, the hand and the body are all 
trained in field sports, and the modern Diana, 
with her zest, her joie de vivre and her inde¬ 
pendence has apparently come to stay. 
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