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- 1 2 "Mather Flyers Are Looking for Games". San Francisco Chronicle. November 10, 1918. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Three Thousand See Mather Field Flyers Beat Fort Baker". Oakland Tribune. November 29, 1918. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Marines Win Championship of Service Teams by Defeating Aviators: Fliers Make Game Finish, But Lose Out". Oakland Tribune. December 15, 1918. p. 54 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Marines Wallop Mather". Los Angeles Times. December 15, 1918. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.