Boxer From Ship Rushed To Hospital
. WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. The Austraiian welterweight boxer, Leo Heaney, aged 24, of Sydney, who arrived in the Dominion on the Wanganella, today was rushed to the Wellington Hospital for an emergency appendicitis operation when the ship berthed. The ship's officers said Heaney 's brother, a member of the crew, advised the ship 's doctor at midday yesterday . tiat the boxer Was seriously ill. The case was diagnosed as appendicitis, but the ship's doctor and a passenger doctor (Dr. J. W. Kemp) decided, after consultation, that an 'Operation could be postponed until Heaney reached Wellington Hospital. " Heaney 's ohly comment as he was placed in the ambulance was: "I think I will be going back in January." Heaney 's last fight was in Sydney where he was knocked out by the Austraiian weiterweight eliampion, Jack Hassen. He was reported to be planning to "free iance" in the ring in New Zeaiand. %
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1949, Page 6
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