JOCKEYS’ SKULL CAPS
ADOPTION ADVOCATED. London, Feb. 18. Discussing the numerous recent hurdle and steeplechasing accidents, Sporting Life points out that all Australian and New Zealand jockeys wear steel skull caps. The paper declares that if these were worn in England they would save many nasty scalp wounds, and even concussion. It mentions that a photograph of a skull protector of Ted Moon, the famous cross-country rider, at present in Melbourne. showed 19 deep dent? of which any one might have caused concussion, and possibly death.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1924, Page 9
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