Controversial Kiwis beaten
NZPA-AFP Bradford
The controversial Kiwi rugby league XIII -was beaten, 52-24, by aBARLA President’s XIII in a charity match in aid of the Dave O’Connor appeal fund at Bradford yesterday. The English Rugby Union barred five rugby
union players from taking part because the Kiwi XIII featured several professional rugby league players, including Hull’s New Zealand test star, Gary Kemble.
The match was crowned by the flying wing, Peter Lewis, who notched a hat-trick of tries for the President’s
O’Connor, the Great Britain amateur rugby league forward, who was paralysed after breaking his neck while playing in an international in France last month, was described as “poorly” in Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, northern England. <
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Press, 12 May 1987, Page 64
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