BALL TEAM CRASHES
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SIX PLAYERS KILLED EIGHT SERIOUSLY INJURED CANADIAN CHAMPIONS
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NeodeSha (Kansak), Mai*. 14. A private aeroplane carrying: the | Ganadian Toilers' '])asketbaU team, of Winnipeg, chanipions of Manitoba, ,a party of f ourteen in /adl, crajshed near here to-d'ay, killing- six, ancl seriously injimng1 eijgiht. The .Toilers are the present Dominion charppions .pending this year's approaching play offs. They had been playing at Tulsa (Okl'ahoma), prior to taking part in the play off for- the Do,mdnion championship. Th'ose killed include: — Mr. A. H. Hakes-, pilot. Mr. H. E. Egges, co-pilot. Mi*. J. H. O'Brien (Minneapolis), owner .of the plane. Mr. Mike Shea, a pdayer. Mr. Joe Dpdds,- a player. | Mr. R. H. Bonynge, business representative of the team and Mr. 'George Wilson (mianager), are believed to be I dying. ! The condition of Mr. Allan C. Sampson (manager), is not critical. Others were injured in varying degrees.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 April 1933, Page 5
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