Soccer English Players To Join Gisborne Club
, (Ncid Zealand Press Association) ( AUCKLAND, Nov. 13. J ) Three prominent English ama- i , teur Soccer players will come 1’ to New Zealand early next year c 1o augment Gisborne’s Eastern Union Club, already one of the i strongest in New Zealand. They ' are D. K. Bygrave, aged 33. inside £ or outside left: D. J. Lapwood, ' aged 25. full-back: and R. Leakey, < ( aged 23. goalkeeper. 1 As a result of their acquisition, i Eastern Union will be a strong 1 ’ favourite for the Chatham Cup i next season, unless in the mean- J i time the former English inter- J national Ken Armstrong and ; Scottish international John AirdJ should be attracted elsewhere. Leakey should go a long way, t towards compensating the cluo i lor the recent loss of the former ' i Australian and New Zealand i* I goalkeeper. K. Hough, to Auck-i, [land.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 5
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