{"id":611905,"date":"2026-05-30T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:57:08","slug":"tribute-to-two-former-amateur-rugby-league-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611905\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to two former amateur rugby league players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Charlie &#8216;Chuck&#8217; Livesey (age 86) was an Ulverston stalwart for many decades and ended his career, playing well into his late forties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chuck was hard as nails and led from the front in some\u00a0very good Ulverston teams, and he was a proud man when he played alongside his late son Jonathan for the Dragley Beck side.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chuck\u2019s funeral\u00a0was well attended on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  John &#8216;Spiller&#8217; May (age 93) was another hard forward who took no\u00a0prisoners like Chuck Livesey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He played in a Walney team that had amateur internationals\u00a0in the likes of Gordon Westwood, Hughie Rea, Harold Studley and Colin Lavery\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0His funeral takes place at the Trevelyan on Monday, at 11.30am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie &#8216;Chuck&#8217; Livesey (age 86) was an Ulverston stalwart for many decades and ended his career, playing well&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}