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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 14

Cardinal Bourne, who has now celebrated his sixty-first birthday, is held in high respect throughout Londpn.: He ; is by birth a Londonei. He was born;at Clapham. and his father, who .was a Civil servant in the .post office, was a convert to Roman Catholicism. The late Bishop Lenihan, of Auckland, was also closely associated with Roman Catholic work in Clapham before coming to New Zealand. This by the way. Cardinal Bourne was the. youngest member of the .English episcopate when he' was translated from Southwark .to Westminster as . Cardinal Vaughan's successor in ' August, 1903. At the Consistory, held in 1911 the Archbishop assumed "the hue of Westminster," his elevation to the Cardinalate being hailed with joy by his flnck.

"Pupil" writes: "Prior to the Soccer match, Watersiders v. V.M.C.A. A, I was watching the - Johnsonville lads playing, in front of goal. One player had on a' pair of hockey shin pads, whilst several others had an odd one on either left or right leg: These shin guards or pads were fastened with the ordinary buckle and strap. I approached one player and asked if he was aware that his shin, guards were illegal. He admitted he was not aware"of the fact, and was thankful for the tip, and stated that they played last week with them on, and I noticed they wore, them again on Saturday. Perlia'ps it' escapes referees' notice, but I would' like you to kindly give,space to Rule 12: "It is the duty of referees, if asked, to examine players' boots before the match or during the in-, terval. Tlie referee must order off the field of play for the remainder of. the game any player whom, during the progress of the play, he finds wearing: fa) Nails not 'flushed with .the leather; (b) metal plates or : projections : . (c) guttapercha on bj s boots or on his shin guards: (d) bars on soles or heels of.his boots that do not. extend from side to side or his boot, that are less than- 4-inch wide, more than £-inch .deep and not transverse or flat; (c) studu on poles ny heels of his boots, not. round in plan, less than J-inch in diameter, more than i-iiicli deep, . and conical '.or flat. During the .'progress of a game, the referee can 'enforce the law without waiting for an appeal. There is no necessity, to rcpovt Ibis offence. The ..law: includes metal dins or buckles, etc... Unit are daivoruus-cither- on the boots or shin guurdE.'-