SOCCER PLAYER'S INJURIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 155, 4 July 1927, Page 7

SOCCER PLAYER'S INJURIES.

I I FIBULA AND TIBIA BONES BROKEN LONG ABSENCE PROBABLE. As a result of coming into contact j with Batty in the Thistle v. Tramways match oil Saturday week, M. Kay.l Thistle's outside left, sustained an in-j jury to his left foot. He left the field! ' before the end of the match, but played | a strenuous game for a considerable | time after he sustained the knock. | The injury troubled Kay during the j | week, and he was unable to take his i place on Saturday last in the team. As, the pain in his leg showed no signs of casing, the player came under the notice of Dr. Neil McDougall. hon sur--1! geon to the Auckland Football Asfocia- ' lion, who on Saturday night carried out an X-ray examination of the limb. It was that the fibula and tibia ! were broken, and Kay will require to j } undergo probablv prolonged treatment. \ ' TAKE IN' ONE' COL BLOCK KAY ] I Kay's injury happened at a most unfortunate time. For the player himself it is particularly so, as he was attic to obtain work only last week after • four months' idleness, while so far as Auckland Soccer is concerned, with the :;ear approach of important representative games Kay's absence will be a heavy blow. \ As the insurance scheme propounded ' | by the A.F.A. has not yet, materialised. J the Thistle Club at its meeting to-night [ will consider the question of what can | i>e done in the injured player's interest. *i Dr. McDougall is optimi>tic regarding _ I Kay's recovery, which it is hoped will ? j be attained before the Auckland repreI sentatives leave at the end of August e j on the Southern tour.