A BROKEN NECK

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 6

A BROKEN NECK

AUCKLAND JOCKEY’S FATE ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE Listeners hear no good of themselves. An Auckland Jockey Just out of hospital is quite satisfied upon that ■ point. “His case is hopeless,” said the doctor. “His neck is broken.” Imagine yourself to be lying in hospital, and after the doctor has examined you, to overhear what he has to say anent your condition when talking to the nurse who has you under her wings. This was the predicament the horseman recently found himself in after a fall off a green hurdler at the. recent Auckland winter meeting. He was sent to hospital with injuries to the neck, and after the first examination, and just as keen to hear of the true state of affairs—as most patients are—he probably broke out in perspiration. HEARD TOO MUCH The conversation overhead was certainly not an encouraging one for any sick man to hear, and one can picture just how sick the patient would become upon hearing these words of doom pronounced. Little did he think that it was quite within the bounds of possibility that the death sentence might very well have applied to some - one else in another part of the institLition. But that was the "explanation, and it was later found that the jockey was suffering from nothing more serious than bruised muscles of the neck. Ra.y Olive —for it was he, and he had been injured when Royal Present fell at Ellerslie—was not a serious case, and he is now out of hospital, little the worse for his But he is resigning from the listeners-in league.