DRINK AND ATHLETES
LADY ASTOR’S VIEWS
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LONDON, February 16. (Received February 17, at 12.30 p.m.) Lady Astor, replying to a cable from Chapman, the cricketer, states: “I urge that signatories do not allow themselves to bo used for a newspaper stunt. Everyone knows if one takes two teams of young men of equal skill and one team drinks and the other is teetotal the teetotalers will keep their form for more years and play more consistently than the others. This is applicable to all athletes, also to politicians, even to and every walk in life, including cricket. We know men whose brilliance lias not survived regular drinking, even though they are never drunk.” [ln the House of Commons, during the debate on a private Prohibition Bill, Lady Astor assailed the liquor advertisements, singling out one of an athlete quaffing beer after an innings. “ Why we are beaten at cricket.” she said, “is simply answered. Because the Australians did not drink.”]
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Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 12
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163DRINK AND ATHLETES Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 12
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