INJURED FOOTBALLER.
AMPUTATION OF A FOOT. ACCIDENT IN A MATCH. While playing in a football match at Moree, New South Wales, on April 20, Richard Dowden, a member of the lona team, was injured so gravely that his condition last week was still critical. He is a patient at the Coast Hospital. Dowden's foot turned under him • as he took the ball. The bone in the lower part of the leg was shattered, and tho broken end forced downwards through the flesh. Tho unfortunate young man was, of course, attended to at Moree, but his condition was such as to make it imperative that he should be sent to Svdnev for treatment. Ho was accordiriglv' 'placed on a train and conveyed to the Coast Hospital. There two operations on the wounded leg have been performed, and at the last there was amputation of tho foot. Dowden's condition has been very serious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20252, 11 May 1929, Page 15
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