Leeds Mercury – Thursday 30 December 1937

Eric Brook In Light Training

 Quick Recovery from  Peritonitis 

A month ago Eric Brook, the Manchester  City footballer and member of Mexborough’s  Yorkshire Council cricket team, was ill with  peritonitis. Yesterday he sprinted round  the playing area of Manchester City’s  ground.

He left the nursing home, to which he  was rushed on the morning of Manchester  City’s home match with Grimsby Town on  November 27 for an immediate operation for  appendicitis, a fortnight ago, and he spent  Christmas with his parents in South Yorkshire.

Brook, who is 30, resumed light training  yesterday and expects to be able to play football  before the end of January. Such a quick recovery is unprecedented even for an athlete and Brook says that his progress has astonished the specialist who conducted the  operation.

Before Brook, who is England’s International outside left, became ill he had not  missed a first team game since Barnsley  gave him his big chance 12 years ago.