Race Broadcaster In Sensational Car Plunge
(Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 22. A radio announcer, Mr Eric Walsh, was unable to broadcast the Caulfield races yesterday as was his custom, owing to a sensational experience the previous night when his motor car, in which he was accompanied by two companions, plunged into the River Yarra near the Spencer Street docks. Mr Walsh and Mr Reginald Tonkin, escaped through the car windows, rose to the surface and were rescued by men on the wharf, but Mr James Kelly, imprisoned in the submerged car, was drowned. Mr Tonkin is a member of the Victoria Racing Club’s staff as was also Mr Kelly. *
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1939, Page 7
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