FOOTBALL MISHAPS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1175, 10 July 1911, Page 4

FOOTBALL MISHAPS.

SEVERAL PLAYERS INJURED. (By I'eloEiapb—Press Association.! Auckland, July 9. A young man named Frederick Strong, aged 22, was admitted to tho Auckland Hospital yesterday suffering from serious internal injuries received while playing football. Leonard Owen, nged 35, living at Newton, was also admitted (o the hospital last evening, suffering from an injured knee, sustained during a football match. Playing in the second grade Northern League match, Northcote v. Ponsonby, at Victoria Park, Malcolm Taylor, a forward player for Northcote, met with a nasty accident by which his arm was broken. Timarti, July 8. Tho funeral of the late Mr. T. Hcrtnon, who was accidentally killed while playing football on Thursday, was attended by from 800 to 1000 people, the procession being nearly half a mile long. Footballers, and members of the Rowing Club, Hibernians, and tho Builders' and Bricklayers' Union, with which Mr. Hertnon had been connected, turned out in strong force. Dunedin, July 8. Whilo playing in an Association school match between Mornington and tiio High School this afternoon, Athol Islip, of 'Morningb'n, ca'mb into , collision with an opposing player, and sustained a compound fracturo of the left leg below tho knee.