tence in No, 12 of} Association Football Feading:—"The Referee shall, it required, examine the players' boots before the commencement of a match or during the interval." Refarens at Home often do avail themselves of that provision and not infrequently, exercise their authority to send man his boots. The same Law says that bars or studs shall not more than a half-inch fron: the sole of the boot, shall have all their fastenings driven in ush with the leather, "and—this being very important—"studs shall be round in plan, not less than half an inch in diameter, and in no ease conical. oF pointed." "In a. fast-moving game! there must be an occasional accidental hack, which cannot be helped, and no sportsman worthy of the name nurses that as a grievance, especially. when "Sorry, old man" ina genuine tone accompanies it, but obviously the: Association has it jh mind to prevent. terious consequences from sich ae-eidents, and remarkably nasty wounds. can be caused by illegal boot fittings. The other day, on one of the Soccer grounds at the Race Coursa, there war Ploked up @ conical oather stud, three-quarters of an inch in depth, which had been fastened with fower than ten one-inch wire nails. These nails, driven in close together from the centre of the cone, £0 that their heads formed almost a solid metal stud, had lasted better than the: leather, with the result that. they formed a distinct projection, and a man struck by it would have known all about it, This apart from the fact that the conical stud alone was an illegality.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.