Athletes and Alcohol.
Our champion athletes are unanimous in their condemnation of alcohol. The Cyclists' Koute Book says: " Alcoholic drinks should be avoided; they prevent good work being done." In a six days cycle race in New York, with thirty-three entries, all who took alcohol dropped out. The winner of the race was a life abstainer. - Our King's prisemcn at Bisley all
tell us that alcohol is fn'a 1 to their success ; that the hand is atea-Jit r, the eye surer, the h'.ad clearer aid the judgment sou.ider wit hi ut alcohol.
Similar testimony as !o the worse than uselessness of nlcnh"l as a generator and sustainer of energy is afforded by the experience of all <ur great athletes—cricketers, swimmer", pedestrians, gymnasts, runner**, boat infers, wrentiers, and others—confirming tha words of that great doctor, Sir Andrew Clark, who said.— "l'or all purposes of sustained enduring and frui'ful work, lu my experience, alcohol does not help, but hinders. I am bound to say, thai for all honest work, alcohol never helped a human soul, never, never, never."
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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8048, 3 November 1906, Page 1
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