ALREADY DYING
FOOTBALLERS PLAY OX INJURED DURING GAME When Robert William Jameson, stand-olf half of an old boys’ Rugby team playing at Birmingham a tew 'weeks ago, returned to the field after going oif when brought down in a tackle, he was already dy.hg, said a doctor at the inquest. He had ruptured l an artery of the brain. He would have died even if he had gone straight to hospital. Twenty-yenr-old Samuel John Pow- . mil. of Spenknnm road, St. Helens. * Lanes, injured when a scrupled- & lapsed in a Rugby match at Warrington (Lancs), played on but died two days later. Haemorrhage had begun, said a doctor at the inquest. The verdicts were: “Death by misadventure.’*'
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 218, 9 August 1939, Page 1
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116ALREADY DYING Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 218, 9 August 1939, Page 1
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