Clipping:Spikes banned in the AA

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Date Thursday, March 4, 1886
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Mr. Harry Weldon, Secretary of the Brown Stocking Club, returned from Lousiville this morning, where he attended the meeting of the Association held there yesterday. Mr. Weldon says that the Association adopted a new rule relative to the shoe plates used by players. The rule restricts all players in the Association to the use of the regulation plates. The matter is brought up, it is said, for the reason that three players of the St. Louis Club, namely, Latham, Caruthers and Nicol, had been in the habit of wearing a shoe used by sprinters, the spike of which is long and sharp. The argument advanced was that the sprinter spike was quite a dangerous thing to have attached to a player’s foot. The three players mentioned were considered excellent runners. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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