FATALITIES ON FOOTBALL FIELDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 846, 31 May 1910, Page 3

FATALITIES ON FOOTBALL FIELDS.

TWO SPECTATORS DROP DEAD.

Mr Geo. Flyger, of Palmerston, dropped dead on the Showgrounds on Saturday, while watching a football match. The late Mr Flyger was a keen football enthusiast and was usually an interested spectator of Saturday matches. On Saturday be was standing near the 2s grandstand, when he was seen to stagger and fall to the ground. Two first aid men were promptly on the spot, aud carried the body into one of the dressing sheds. Dr. Peach was quickly in attendance, but pronounced life to be extinct. Deceased was aged 63, and formerly carried on a tailoring business in Wanganui aud Feildiug. SIMILAR FATALITY AT WELLINGTON. Wellington, May 29. A sad fatality occurred on the Athletic Park on Saturday afternoon during the interval between the first and second spells of the Poneke-St. James football match. Mr Frederick Robert Hills, residing in Daniel Street, and employed by the Prouse Timber Company, dropped dead. His son was playing for St. James,, and was not aware of the fatality until he saw the body of his father being carried across the field on a stretcher just when the second spell was about to commence.

Mrs Hills, too, was sitting in the grandstand when she was informed of the death of her husband.