CRASH IN AMERICA
BASKETBALL PLAYERS TRAGEDY TO CANADIANS NEW YORK. March 31 A private aeroplano carrying tho Canadian Toilers basketball team of Winnipeg, champions of Manitoba and Canada, and a party of 14 in nil, crashed near Neodesha, Kansas, to-day, killing six and seriously injuring eight. The team had been playing at Tulsa, Oklahoma. The dead include Mr. A. H. Hakes, pilot; Mr. H. H. Egges, co-pilot; Mr. J. H. O'Brien, Minneapolis, owner of the aeroplane; Messrs. Miko Shea and Joe Dodds, players, and R. H. Bonynge, business representative of the tea m. Messrs. Allan C. Sampson, president, and George Wilson, manager, were injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21457, 3 April 1933, Page 9
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104CRASH IN AMERICA New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21457, 3 April 1933, Page 9
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