Did They Ban Darts in Liverpool?

According to a survey of pubs in 1930, the average time someone in Bolton took to drink a pint of beer was 52 minutes. In Liverpool, it was 22 minutes. If you have five pints in a night, it slows down, doesn't it? OK. So I read this in a book called Darts in England, 1900 to 1939, a social history by Patrick Chaplin. And he really does talk about darts quite a lot in this context as well. There was this thing in Liverpool that they banned darts and actually any pub games. They thought it was encouraging people to go into pubs. But what happened was it had the opposite effect. You just drank more because you didn