BOY SERIOUSLY HURT
Hit by Athlete’s Hammer SPORTS GROUND MISHAP By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Nor. 17. In Napier concussion was received by a 14-year-oid boy, Gavin Stuart, this evening when he was hit on the side of the head by a 16-pound hammer which had been thrown by an athlete named Campbell while practising on McLean Park at the conclusion of a Napier athletic meeting. As Campbell was about to throw the hammer either he slipped or the hammer left in a direction he did not anticipate and went toward two boys who were sitting on a fence 50 or 60 yards away. Both boys were knocked from the fence. Stuart was struck on the side of the head, while the other boy was struck only by the chain. The ,f latter soon recovered, but Stuart was removed to hospital. His condition is serious.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 13
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144BOY SERIOUSLY HURT Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 13
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