ALCOHOLIC NIPS FAILED.
Mr. A. Alexander, F.8.G.5., Director of the Liverpool Gymnasium, began e^rly as a total abstainer, and writes in the Good Templars' Watchword that in his first athletic championship competition, which required large skill, strength, and endurance, being pitted against some of the finest athletes the British army could produce, he did notfeal very hopeful of success. As the contest proceeded he felt his powers gradually giving way, and was thinking of an honourable capitulation, when he was joyfully surprised by his Herculean opponents suggesting a five minutes 1 respite on the score of fatigue. Whilst he oooupied his five minutes in bathing the muscles and rinsing the mouth with cold water, his rivals resorted to an alcoholic nip. On resuming work they fell off in their form, complaining of feeling ' done up.' But he felt much refreshed by the cold water application, and as a result was able to score his first important victory.
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 25 September 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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