Boxer is fighting for life
fIV.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) SYDNEY. The American welterweight boxer, Chuck Wilburn, who underwent an emergency brain operation yesterday morning, was still on the critical list, a hospital official said last night. Wilburn, 22, of Cleveland, Ohio, suffered a brain haemorrhage after a 10-round bout with the British Commonwealth junior-welter-weight champion, Hector Thompson, at a Sydney club on Thursday night. Early yesteday Wilburn underwent a four-hour operation in which a neurosurgeon bored tiny holes into his skull to relieve fluid pressure on his brain.
For much of yesterday, Blacktown Hospital bulletins had Wilburn’s condition as “very critical.” When told of the boxer’s plight, Wilburn’s wife, Carol and three-year-old daughter, Carla, broke down and wept in Cleveland. His wife was attempting to get a passport and $l4OO yesterday to go to Australia to be with her husband.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34119, 3 April 1976, Page 52
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