STRUCK BY FIST.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20283, 27 August 1937, Page 6

STRUCK BY FIST.

DEATH OF FOOTBALLER FATHER’S REMARK AT INQUEST (Special to Times.) WHANGAREI, Thursday A statement that he had been told by his son that an opposing player had hit him with his fist was made by tile father of Angus Colin McLean, the 2i-year-old Waipu footballer, who died from head injuries received in a Rugby game at Mareretu on July 31, at the inquest held to-day into the player’s death. Ernest Percival Clement Jury, schoolmaster, of Mareretu, who was referee of the match, said that he saw McLean stumble and fall among a bunch of players. Witness asked McLean what had happened and McLean replied that someone had struck him with his elbow. John McDonald McLean, supplementing his evidence at the original Inquiry, said that his son told him that he caught an opposing player who had the ball, and this man had swung round and hit him with his flst. “ I asked Colin several times afterward about It, and he repeated his previous statement,” said witness. The Coroner, Mr. G. H. Morrish: Why did you not make this statement at the original inquiry, when you said as far as you could see the game was quite clean? Witness: I did not then think I would say anything about it. On the application of the police the ooroner granted a further adjournment.