THREE BROKEN LEGS
(PA.) DUNEDIN, This Day. In a fifth grade Association football match at Green Island on Saturday, play was halted when 15-year-old William Geeson broke his rwht leg The ambulance was called and play was resumed after a short interval. Fourteen-year-old Jack Christie then broke his right leg. The ambulance arrived and took' Christie and Geeson to hospital. The players continued the match, but not long afterwards 15-year-old Jim Dennison broke his right leg. The astonished ambulance driver came hack again to collect Dennison. The teams finished the match without further upset.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1948, Page 4
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94THREE BROKEN LEGS Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1948, Page 4
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