FATAL KICK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 190, 13 August 1934, Page 7

FATAL KICK.

YOUNG FOOTBALLER. ■ PLAYED ON AFTER INJURY. FORMER FLOCK HOUSE BOY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TAIHAPE, this day. A kick which resulted in death was received in a junior representative Rugby match between Rangitikei and Taihape at Mangaweka on Saturday. The victim was Stanley Johnson, aged 23. Following a loos© scrum, Johnson was accidentally kicked on the head when on the ground, but he resumed playing. Some ten minutes later, still feeling dazed, he was replaced, and he watched the rest of the match from the sideline. After changing his clothes at the conclusion of the match he complained of a sore head, and as there is ho doctor resident at/ Mangaweka ho was transported to the Taihape Hospital, some 17 miles, by car. He died on his admission to the hospital. At the inquest this morning, before Mr. W. H. Fookes, J.P., as coroner, a verdict of death due to cerebral hemorrhage, following an accidental kick, was returned. Johnson was an orphan, one of the original Flock House boys. He is believed to have no relatives in New Zealand. He was employed on a farm at Pukeokahu.

LEG BROKEN.

RECORD CLAIMED.

LOVELOCK AGAIN.

SPECTATOR AT MATCH. COLLAPSE OF SCRUMMAGE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, this day. While watching a football match from tne sideline at Tuakau on Saturday, Mr. A. E. Holland, aged 50, was knocked down and had a leg fractured. Mr. Holland was keenly following the game, when, following a scrummage, several players collapsed over the line, carrying Mr. Holland with them. After receiving medical attention the injured man was conveyed to Auckland Hospital.

Russian Woman's 8100 ft Jump With Parachute. . 6500PT DELAYED PALL. (Received 11.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, August 12. Mile. Buseva claims to have broken the world's record for a jump with a parachute from an aeroplane. This was done from a height of 8100 ft and she fell 0500 ft like a stone until she opened the parachute 1000 ft from the ground. The previous day she jumped from an aeroplane at an altitude of 6500 ft and fell 5200 ft in 30 seconds, then opened the parachute and landed. HEAVY COSTS. Americans Withdrawing from Centenary Race. ONE WOMAN DETERMINED. NEW YORK, August 12. The aviation editor of the "New York Herald-Tribune" states that the majority of the American entrants for the Centenary air race have withdrawn for one reason or another, mainly the great expense entailed in equipping aircraft and transporting them to England in comparison with the probability of winning prize money. Present indications are that America's representation will be small, if not nonexistent, at the take-off on October 20. The writer says he understands that Turner and Pangborn, as well as Gatty, have definitely decided not to start and that Wiley Post, although he has not withdrawn, is considering doing so. Among the several prospective women entrants only Laura Ingalls is still carrying forward her plans.

R.A.F. SQUADRON. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. Flying-boat Squadron 203, commanded by Group-Captain Saul, comprising three short Rangoons, will leave Basra on September 5 for the Melbourne Centenary. They are due to arrive hi the Victorian capital on October 8. RECORD BROKEN. ROUND AUSTRALIA FLIGHT. ADELAIDE, August 12. A South Australian airman, Mr. James Melrose, arrived at Parafield aerodrome to-day, thus completing a flight round Australia —about 7500 miles —in five and a half days. He broke the record established by Mr. J. Broadbent in 1931 by nearly two days.

DEFEATS U.S.A. RIVAL. (Received 12 noon.) AMSTERDAM, August 12. In an international athletic meeting, J. E. Lovelock, the New Zealandor, defeated W. Bonthron, of United States, in the 1500 metres race by four-fifths of a second. J. Cornes (Oxford University) was third. The time was 3.53 3-10. i In the high jump Johnston (United, States) won with a jump of sft sin, and Metcalfe (Australia) was second with sft Sin. Metcalfe (49ft 9iin) won the hop-step-and-jump, and Woodhouse, of Australia, the pole vault, with 12ft 9Jin. The winning high jump is given by cable as 65 inches, but this is nearly a foot below the standard jumping of both Johnston and Metcalfe. Lovelocks time for the 1500 metres was only 4 3-10sj outside the world record. *