FATAL INJURIES
ON FOOTBALL FIELD
DEATH OF TWO PLAYERS
(United Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., April 7. During a Rugby match at- Cplylon on Saturday a youth named Louis Phillip Allerby received injuries necessitating his admission to hospital here, where he died later. Deceased whose parents reside at Colyton, towards the close of the game was seen to play the ball and a little later fell unconscious. Examination disclosed severe internal hemor : t-hage, due to a blow on the side of the chest-. There is no suggestion of rough V voung man named Cecil Bennett . " of Mr G. W. Bennett, Raupo, when Xing in a- football match at Ruawai, received a kick on tbe bead and was renderede unconscious. A doctor m. called in, but the young man never r<_ gained consciousness, and died at o'clock in the evening. Deceased was a well-known all-round athlete and a general favourite.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 8 April 1924, Page 5
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