Meeker Flys Home to Game [Published]

Photo caption from published version of 47-605_001: "MEEKER COMES A'FLYIN' - Howie Meeker, flashy third baseman of the Kitchener Panthers, left on Saturday for a brief holiday in Chalk River, north of Ottawa, after the game in Guelph. In order to be present at the game against London last night he was flown in from Northern Ontario by Art Diesbourg's twin engine plane. He is shown above as he landed at the K-W airport."

Image of Howie Meeker looking at the camera while exiting from a small plane with jacket and ball glove in hand.

Title supplied by Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff.
47-605_001 appeared on Page 8 of the Tuesday, September 2, 1947 edition of the newspaper as part of the article: "Panthers Win, Halted in Playoff Games."Photo appeared on Page 8 of the Tuesday, September 2, 1947 edition of the newspaper as part of the article: "Panthers Win, Halted in Playoff Games."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection

47-605

47-605_001

1947-09-01

1947-09-02

1 photograph : b&w negative ; 10 x 8 cm

negatives

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Baseball players
Airplanes
Meeker, Howie

North America

Canada

Ontario

Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)

Public Domain

University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. Meeker Flys Home to Game [Published]. 47-607_001.