HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Amateur Athletic Association Of England, Arthur J. Lamb, Babe Pratt
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A matriarch of modern athleics, cook worked to promote female paricipaion in sport. Toronto ladies athleic club (1924) and canadian ladies athleic club (1926) Sprinter: 1926 olympic trials, cook ran the 100 metres in 12 sec (world record, 1928 olympics, gold medallist in women"s replay. Used journalism to counter stereotypes: frail image of women"s athleics, male prowess. Direct response to arthur lamb, outspoken criic of women"s paricipaion in the olympics. Compared canadian female athletes with american counterparts. In contrast to male sports journalists, cook fought constant criicism. Cook inspired other female journalists, such as bobbie roseenfeld: globe and mail column: feminine sports reel . 1955, cook became the irst women inducted into the canadian sports hall of fame. Myrtle cook trophy presented annually to canada"s top athletes. 19th century ideals of amateurism declined in journalism. Newspaper reports of player salaries, revenues of sports teams, and the high costs of ickets. Sports columnists complained about the problems caused by commercializaion.
