ATHLETICS & LIQUOR.
LADY ASTOR SPEAKS OUT. TOTAL ABSTINENCE CHAMPION. United Press Assn. — Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Feb 16. Lady Astor, replying to a cable from Chapman, states: “I urge the signatories not to allow themselves to be used for a newspaper stunt. Everyone knows that if one takes two teams of young men of equal skill and one team drinks and the other is teetotal, the teetotallers will keep form for more years and play more consistently than the others.. This is applicable to all athletes, also to 'politicians, even to journalists and every walk of life, including cricket. We know men whose brilliance has not survived regular drinking, even though they were never drunk.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18256, 18 February 1931, Page 10
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