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CONDITION OF RAY HIGHTSHOE IS CONSIDERED VERY SERIOUS SERIOUSDoctors Doctors Have All but Despaired of Saving Young Jockeys Life LifeCRETE CRETE 111 May 21 According to a re port received at Lincoln Fields today the condition of jockey Ray Hightshoe is very serious and the doctors in attendance have all but despaired of saving the twentythree yearold riders life Mrs Shirley Hightshoe young wife of the Texan is in constant at ¬ tendance at his bedside with their nine monthold dajughter dajughterHightshoe Hightshoe was stricken with pneumonia during the Sportsmans Park meeting His condition grew steadily worse and he un ¬ derwent four blood transfusions Sunday night Septicemia more widely known 33 blood poisoning set in Monday A serum for the treatment of this disease was rushed by plane from Philadelphia to Chicago on Tues ¬ day and the young rider showed improve ¬ ment He took a turn for the worse hov ever Tuesday night nightThe The condition of Ralph Hightshoe younger brother of Ray who received a fractured collarbone here Monday when his mount Hunter went down was repor as im ¬ proved Ralph is confined to the St James Hospital in Chicago Heights along with Bill Thompson who also suffered a fractured col ¬ larbone in the same accident Thompson yaa riding Macks Hope and his condition is also reported as improved
