UMPIRE RESCUED BY POLICE
MKLBOURNE, sopt. 2. * After being bashed about the facc and body by a hostile crowd at l'ort Melbourne, the umpire in an Australian rules football match escapcd by being bodily lifted on to a liorse by a niounted policenian. This incident was only one of the highlights in the match between Coburg and Port IMcJbourne. In a little ovcr an liour wireless patrol iiolicc with drawn batons twiee chargod a crowd. A gang of youths stoned and tried to overturn a police car carrying the boundary umpires and stone, s inj«i;x>,d, thj;ee policeni.cn.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1946, Page 5
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97UMPIRE RESCUED BY POLICE Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1946, Page 5
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