MATCH FOR CHARITY
All-American To Kick Off
Tony Lavelli. four times a member of the All-American basketball team. will kick off at the start of the annual charity Rugby match between the Police and the Combined Newspapers at the Show Grounds on Sunday. Mr Lavelli. who is touring New Zealand as musical director with the Helen Shapiro show, played basketball tor Yale University. He previously toured this country with an American team playing against the Harlem Globetrotters several .veers ago The proceeds from the charity day will go to help the intellectually handicapped children at Merivale School. As well as the Rugby match there will be a display of flying, gymnastics, horse tumping, dog obedience and other novelty events.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29937, 26 September 1962, Page 6
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119MATCH FOR CHARITY Press, Volume CI, Issue 29937, 26 September 1962, Page 6
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