OFFER REFUSED
TERMS FOR RUGBY PLAYER SULLIVAN DECLINES CONrTRACT [bt telegraph—OWN* cobbespon-dent] NEW PLYMOTJTH, Sunday J. L. Sullivan, the Taranaki and All Black Rugby footballer, has refused the offer of an English League club to play in Englaift on a four years' contract. Sullivan's passage had already been booked by the English club, and, had he accepted the offer, he would have sailed on Tuesday. The booking has been cancelled. The reported terms of the offer to Sullivan were £SOO cash before he left New Zealand, £5 per week during the; currency of his four years' contract and payment for each match at the rate ; of £5 for a win, £3 for a draw and £2 for a loss.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 10
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119OFFER REFUSED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 10
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