Maureen Connolly Injured
SAN DIEGO, July 20. The tennis champion, Miss Maureen Connolly, was crushed against a cement truck while riding her horse here today. She suffered a leg injury. Doctors said X-rays showed a fractured fibula, the small bone in the shin. As soon as the X-rays were developed, Miss Connolly was taken to the surgery where surgeons took three hours to sew up a jagged and deep laceration of the leg and repair tendon damage. Doctors said Miss Connolly would be unable to defend her United States women’s crown at Forest Hills, New York, next month.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27408, 22 July 1954, Page 11
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