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During a talent show given at Chengtu, China, missionary Margaret Simkin sees some husky young women from Ginling College displaying their skill in dance, fencing, Chinese boxing, and European gymnastics. While describing the show to friends in Canada, Simkin said, “There is abundant hope for China in such as these.”
The Hon Hsing Athletic Club is established in Vancouver, British Columbia, and its chuan fa classes were probably the first organized Chinese martial art classes in Canada. However, non-Chinese students were not allowed until the 1960s. “It used to be that the Chinese instructors wouldnt teach Westerners,” Raymond Leung told Ramona Mar in 1986. “But its wrong to think that if we teach them, theyll use it to beat us. With every new student, I think we make one new friend.”
In Montreal, 19-year old Joe Weider publishes the first issue of Your Physique, a 12-page mimeographed newsletter devoted to bodybuilding. (The difference between bodybuilding and weightlifting is that the former is semi-erotic muscular theater whereas the latter is nationalistic athletic competition.) It sold well, and by the 1960s, Joe and his younger brother Ben were leaders in the health and fitness publishing industry.
Hundreds of English witches gather in the New Forest to send Adolf Hitler the telepathic message, “You cannot cross the sea.” According to Gerald B. Gardner, an English warlock who also wrote a noted book on krisses and other Malay weapons, the gratifying results of the Battle of Britain were proof of the continuing power of English sorcery.