ALCOHOL AND ATHLETICS.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 371, 18 May 1926, Page 13

ALCOHOL AND ATHLETICS.

Harold “R»*d” Grange, tin* football idol, Bpeaking over the radio, on Golden Rule Sunday, emphasized tinfact that fair play and clean living are essential to success in all lines of endeavor, “Football is like life." said he. “One fellow carries the ball and gets most of the credit. Yet ten men have helped him to push through, and without them he would not have gained an inch.” “There is only one way 1 know of to b**oome an athlete: Get lots of sleep and live a normal, regular, healthy life. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink liquor. Don’t be a loafer on the street. Think, dream, and believe that you will come to the top and you’ll get then-.” “Several things have helped nu in football. I have never smoked in my life. My father saw to it thai 1 kept good until I got my growth.” Football is one of the be*! games ever played. It demands more from

tin 1 player than auy other game. Its revrardß are spiritual rather than material, but they are certain. “Red'' Grange said that the big thing which he had won from football was not the present monetary reward, but, rather, the more permanent matter of a training in courage, stamina, and ability to use mind and mirschw more effectively.

“Red” Grange proved his belief in tlie Golden Rule when a cigarette firm offered him 10,000,000 dols. for the privilege of using his name with the insinuation that he sinok« d that brand. He said that the monetary reward of football was secondary. He proved it by the above incident. “The benefits are in character building.” F.VMOI S FOOTBALL COACH Gl\ FS 01*1 MON. “1 have been a total abstainer all my life. During the past thirty years 1 have been connected, as player and coach, with college athletics. 1 know the evil effect of alcohol on the moral and physical ife of anyone who uses it. 1 have never observed any good from the use of it. 1 would not waste time trying to train or develope one who uses alcohol. A boy or young man who drinks does not give himself a fair chance.” —Fielding “lluii)-up” Yost, football coaeli. (OthTXILS AND CIGAKKTTFS. DAMK NELLIE MELItA. in her Hook of Instuctions, just issued says: “You must be wvll in order to sing well. Cocktails ami Cigarettes must not even be in a singer's vocabulary.”