JOCKEY IN SEARCH OF SURGEON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19759, 9 April 1926, Page 5

JOCKEY IN SEARCH OF SURGEON.

NECK BROKEN IN THREE PLACES. Living on a small pension in North London is an ex-jockey who in 1920 broke his neck in tlivee places in u racecourse accident in India. He came over to London last vear and has been treated at two hospitals; there is only once chance in a hundred he has been told, of an operation being successful. Vet he is quite prepared to face the risk if he can find a surgeon who will undertake the task. “They calico me Ihe On ,n!l i-t‘ '"'ha.' said the former jockey, Mr J. Dale, to a representative cf the Daily Chronicle, ‘‘but I am confident that I can he cured." To outward appearance Mr Dale looks normal, and can move his head in any direction. But, to quote his own words, his body is like "one Ini’p utinv bone,” due. he believes, to the pressure of » piece of bone on the spinal cord, over the whole suifar: of his body is a tingling sensation, win ii only ot. | > durin ■ me nm. lie is asleep. He has lost all sense of touch in the da-kness. Mr Dale’s accident came about while he was riding a mount inaptly named “Charitable," which came io the ground, breaking a leg Altogether Dale was in hospital for 16 months —he has been X-rayed times—for, ui addition to his broken neck, he fractured two ribs, his right foci, and his right fore-arm. For 23 years Mr Dale was in India as a trainer and rider.