OUT OF LUCK
i “DICK” STACK, POPULAR i LEAGUE FOOTBALLER, } WASN’T BORN UNDER | ANY LUCKY STAR
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
Was a footballer ever more unlucky than “Dick” Stack, the Auckland Leaguer? After months in hospital as a result of a badly broken leg and ensuing complications, Dick was getting about again on crutches and the amputated member was getting on nicely when a tin of oysters, sent to him as a special treat, sent him back to quarters with a nasty bout of ptomaine poisoning. On the road to recovery again, Dick had the misfortune to sustain a severe fall when coming down some steps at the hospital on his crutches, and broke a bone in his other foot, as well as bursting some of the stitches in the old wound. Only a man with the heart of a lion could have stood up to what Stack has been through, and still have a cheery smile for his old friends and football comrades, as Dick always has when they go along to see him at the Auckland Hospital. He is still there, and a prime favourite he is, too, with everybody for the way he has “stuck it out” in as trying an ordeal as a man could go through. A WORTHY EFFORT The concert organised by the League authorities on Christmas night to provide an artificial leg for the popular Newton forward has realised the tidy sum of £ 61, and there are still some tickets to come in. The committee in charge of this splendid effort is not resting at that. It is feared that “Dick” will be unable to follow his old occupation when he is out and about again, and the first step in another big effort to do the right thing by as keen a club man as ever played, has been the booking of Carlaw Park, by permission of the A.R.L., for April 21, when a big club day will be held, and all proceeds will go to the Stack Benefit Fund. In the meantime an effort is being made to enlist the services of the Ponsonby Boys’ .Band, one of the most popular musical organisations in Auckland, to put on a concert, and help to swell the fund.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 269, 3 February 1928, Page 10
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375OUT OF LUCK Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 269, 3 February 1928, Page 10
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