Beverley, the only amateur club to beat professional opposition in the Silk Cut Challenge Cup when they achieved that feat last year as well as in 1908-9, will play the Leeds side, Bisons, in the first round of this season's competition next month. Prize-money for the cup has gone up to a record pounds 322,000.
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