DARTS “IMMORAL.”
PROHIBITED IN NATAL HOTELS. LONDON, Jan. 18. Dai-ts, dominoes, quoits, and “shove half-penny” have been banned from all hotels and other public places by the Natal Licensing Board as “immoral games,” according to the Durban correspondent of the News-Chronicle. The ban on darts, which is being warmly attacked, resulted from a member of the board seeing a bet made, and from the hoard’s conten-, tion that darts is an incentive to excessive drinking, though a Durban clergyman declares that dart players drink less than men who prop up against the counter. He adds that lie enjoys an hour’s game of darts, during which ho consumes only two half-pints of beer.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 7
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112DARTS “IMMORAL.” Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 7
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