MAN FALLS DEAD.
, WHILE WATCHING GLOAMING AND THE HAWK. DEATH iOF TAKAPAU SPORTSMAN The one' sad and unpleasant incident in connection with the Gloaming-Tho Hawk contest was the sudden death on the main grand stand of one of Hawke’s Bay’s oldest- and most highly esteemed sportsmen, Mr William Ellingham, of Takapau. One of the very finest type of sportsmen was' Mr William. Ellingham, one who loved a good horse: and who was perhaps more proud of the fact that he had bred a Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase winner, than of anything else connected , with h's career as a racing man and'breeder. Coming from a large family of brothers, all 'of whom were real sportsmen, Mr William Ellingham for many years was never without a horse on training, and he won quite a large measure of success usually training the horses himself and getting his younger brother Alf, (afterwards mine host of the Pacific Hotel, Hastings) to ride them. Mr William Ellingham was watching the race through glasses when he collapsed in the grandstand and died.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 11 May 1925, Page 3
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175MAN FALLS DEAD. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 11 May 1925, Page 3
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