THE Falkland Islands National Sports Council’s excellent idea to use National Girls and Women in Sport Day to encourage women into local clubs was the inspiration for this week’s centre pages, looking back at some of our sportswomen in recent history.While my chat with Mrs Mally McLeod about physical education at Darwin School wasn’t strictly on the record, I’m sure she won’t mind me saying I’m still chuckling at her description of the sack race as “that one in the bag.”It was a genuinely joyful feature to research. Not only did I have the pleasure of hearing the women’s stories first-hand, I also found myself leafing through copies of the Falkland Islands Magazine from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s in search of sporting snippets.What struck me was how little reporting there was on women in sport during those decades. Had I ventured longer into 1970s and 80s editions of...