Setback for Aust. captain
NZPA-AAP Brisbane The Australian rugby league captain, Wally Lewis, may miss the start of next season because of a broken arm suffered in Sunday’s World Cup win over New Zealand in Auckland. Lewis, who returned home on Monday, will undergo immediate surgery and his right arm could be in plaster for six months. The Australian skipper went straight to hospital
where X-rays revealed a bad break. Lewis had been confident he would only be out of action for six weeks and be able to play a full season with the Brisbane Broncos next year. But the break is similar to that suffered by the test centre, Mai Meninga, who snapped his right arm twice last year, had a plate inserted, and rebroke it in his international comeback.
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Press, 12 October 1988, Page 42
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