INJURED MEMBERS OF LIONS TEAM
Brophy And English Going Home (New Zeatana Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 13. N. H. Brophy and M. A. F English, injured members of the Lions team, will return home by air next week. They are returning at the request of the Home Unions Committee. because medical reports say that neither will be fit to play again on the tour. The chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union (Mr C. S. Hogg) said today that the Lions manager (Mr A. W. Wilson) bad been informed this morning of the request Mr Wilson later said that the request was one he agreed with. Brophy and English are expected to leave early next week.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28946, 14 July 1959, Page 19
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