INDIANS' NARROW WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 9, 11 July 1938, Page 8

INDIANS' NARROW WIN

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, July 9. The Prince of Manavadar's Indian hockey team gained a narrow victory over New Zealand Universities by two goals to one. There was an attendance of upward of 7000. The teams were evenly matched. Universities putting up an excellent defence in the face of the Indian's best attacks.

The first score was by Universities, Hubbard. left-wing, following in when Aldred had drawn the Indian goalkeeper. Sultan Khan, inside-right, scored both the Indians' goals, the second being a clever shot which the goalkeeper just failed to stop. In the second half the Indians were attacking all the time, and Universities had little chance to get away, but the defence, particularly by Hercus in goal and Hogben, at full-back, kept the score down.

PILOT INCINERATED

CRASH IN AUSTRALIA

AIR FORCE TRAGEDY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, June 17.

The fifth Australian Air Force crash this year, and the twenty-first in the last two and a'half years, caused the death of the pilot, Sergeant R. D. Pomeroy, and critical injuries to Aircraftsman Daniel Purdey. This brought the death roll this year to six.

The latest crash occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Llandillo, about 30 miles west of Sydney. The plane, in which Pomeroy-was doing cloud-flying practice, crashed after he attempted to do a stall turn at 2000 feet. He made desperate efforts to pull the machine, a Hawker-Demon, out of the stall, but was unable to do so.

The machine crashed in wooded country, hitting a tree. The main plane of the wing took the full force of the smash, and the machine burst into flames.

Pomeroy, strapped in the cockpit, was incinerated. Purdey was thrown out. His parachute caught fire when the burning machine crashed out of the tree beside him. He was able to give the parachute release the necessary half turn, but his hands were too badly burned for him to give the final punch on the release catch to free himself. <-

James Mills, a resident of Llandillo, gave a graphic account of the crash. "I was cutting wood on the banks of the creek," he said, "when three Air Force planes appeared overhead, and, to me, appeared to be stunting. After circling the paddocks for about 15 j minutes, one increased its altitude and disappeared towards the Richmond Aerodrome. A second continued to circle, but the third, the one which crashed, descended to a height of about 50 feet, just over the tree tops. As it was completing a half-circle, the nose crashed into the top of a tree 40 feet high, and the branches became entangled in the propeller. The plane then nose-dived, and crashed a few yards from the trunk of the tree. THE RESCUE OF PURDEY. "The machine burst into flames, and when I rished over I found Purdey lying on the ground. He was trying to rise to his feet. The plane was blazing fiercely. Purdey staggered towards me with his clothes alight. He had a parachute strapped to his back. I pulled his jacket, sweater, and flying cap off, and tried to smother, the flames. He told me how to release the parachute which had just caught fire. I removed his flying helmet, which had been scorched. Purdey's face, hands, and arms were shockingly burned. . "About this time two other men reached the scene, and while they helped me to drag Purdey away from the fire, Purdey, who was suffering great agony, exclaimed, 'George. Can't you get him out.' He was referring to Pomeroy, who was imprisoned in the pilot's seat of the plane, completely enveloped in flames. The heat was so terrific that it was impossible to get within 100 yards of the fire, and we could do nothing but stand by and see Pomeroy incinerated." Little hope is held for Purdey's recovery. Expressing deep regret at the tragedy