THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1980.
Another day's sensational cricket
LOCKE'S MAGIC PUTTER MISSING
Capetown, Feb. 22.
Bobby South African golfer
Locke's wagle putter which helped him win the British Open Four Umes and become champion of 13 countries was mising today after the car accident in which he badly Injured.
WAN
the The puiter was missed in
wreckage ofler Locko's car hit
an electro train in a Cape. town 'suburb over the week- end.
Locke who was in hospital with
a skull fracture was not told by friends when the loss wan established boosuse he has had the putter alice boyhood.
The rusty-bladed putter which has an old hickory shaft and
whiny Wom leather grip is more than a mascot to him He has a fatallatio bellor in its PrOwCEL.
Hospital authorities expeet him to recover completely but his plaxa to leave for the British Open in April may be upset because of the mishap in - which his ear was wrecked.~~
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Gold medals for Germany, France and Soviet Union at Winter Games
Squaw Valley, Feb. 22.
in third Test
ENGLAND SLUMP TO 280 FOR NINE AFTER 177-RUN
FIRST-WICKET STAND
Kingston, Feb. 22. Another sensational day's cricket resulted in England slumping to 280 for nine wickets, after Colin Cowdrey and Geoff Pullar had led off with a first-wicket stand of 177, on the fifth day of the third Tost here today. England enter the last day of the match tomorrow with a lead of 204 runs with one wicket standing. But the deterioration of the pitch as the day wore on means that West Indies will have to fight hard, and a thrilling finish that could go either way is in store,
Cowdrey,
who scored
A skiing postman, a hotelier and a woman physical education teacher
won gold medals in the Winter Olympic Games today for Germany,magnificent 97, thereby missing France and the Soviet Union.
Georg Thoma, 22-year-old Mise Guseva, racing in the postinan who delivers mull on Brst heat of the Women's 1,000
kis in the Black Forest, gained Germany's third gold medal of th Games by taking the Nolle Cardsited event,
27-year-old Va
Meires Speed Skating Cham-Soviet Union pionships, put up the fine tome Germany
of one min 31.1 bon-then had Jent to wait noxiously while the rest hotelier of the fold attempted to lack
it down. From Faute Savoie, won the Men's Downhill Race
lu be- : Framed's Strst
erillist,
gold
Defied predictions
The Soviet Union, tike Germany, took thele rold mrdal tally 40 three when 22-year-old Klora Guseva swept to victory In the Women's 1.000 stètres speed Skating event,
Thomu drtled the Expert predictions to hold off feed
Sweden
France
Canada
Switzerland
United States Austria Poland
She had a tense moment at the end when Poland's Elwira Seroczynska, competing In Finland. the Anal heal, appeared to Norway have a good chance of doing
a better time, but crashed heavily only 40 metres from the finish.
Misa Seroczynsito, unhurt after the fall, was reputed un- officially to have been lever with Miss Guseva's, June rounding the final bend, just after which she fell.
Carol
Near-perfect
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Norwegian and Soviet skiers and win the Combined event. He led after yesterday's G0-metre
Helss, 20-year-old jump. first part of the combina-
Stated tion, but today: with the dis- United
University advantage of in injured should-student and World champion, er, he faced rivals much beller held a lead of nearly 50 points eross-over her nearest rival at the fancied than he in the
figures county part of the event, over end of the compulsory
15 kilometres of tough going at in the Women's Figure Skating
McKinley Creek
Thoma Baisher fourth today in 30 mlus 23,8 soos (subject to official confirmation)---A per formance which was good enough to keep him out in front in the Combined event, the big test of skiing versaillity.
Tense moment
Vuarnet, an all-round sports- man who also swims and plays lawn tennis, soccer, handball! and basketball, swept down the 3.095 metres coure on Squaw Fenkla 2 mias 0.0 rees to win.
the Downhill in a huge held of 66; sklers from 22 nations.
He was half a second
isetid
of his nearest rival, Banspeler Lanig, of Germany (West).
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Championship.
She traced near-perfect balewarda outside bracket this morning in the final of the Ave figures and was given first place by all nine judges, who gave her 2120 marics for his gave her an aggregate of for 837.8 turks, against 792.0 her closest opponent, European champion Sjouke Dijkstra, Holland-Reuter,
Medal standings
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Squaw Valley, Feb. 22. The Soviet Union was today st leading in the medal standings after eleven tiles had in the Eighth been disputed Olympic Winter Games here.
Standings are: "
2
5
3
0
1
bis second century in the game by three runs, and Pullar (06) Gold Silver Bronze gave England their best start in
a Test match for ten years.
Both fell within three balls of each other half an hour after lunch and the later baimen were always struggling against the West Indies attack, which look full advantage of the tricky pilch.
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N. AMERICAN
ZONE DAVIS CUP DRAW
The
With. the spinners getting plenty of turn, and the pace- inen making the ball rear at times and on other occasions "shoot," only Peter May with 43, his best score of the series, showed any form.
England slipped from 228 for four
to 280 for nine in the 00 minutes after tea.
Pace bowler Chester Watson was West Indies most success- ful bowler, taking four for 33.
Wesley Hall, West Indies' not other opening bowler, was anything like so dangerous as Melbourne, Feb. 22. The was in the first innings when tor 69. He took nevem draw for the
North he American Zone and the inter-finished with only one for 78. Zone Ules of the 1980 Davis Cup competition was made here to- day by Mr Donald Ferguson, dry, President or the Australian who Lawn Tennis Association drew the cards from the huge Davis Cup trophy.
Results of the draw are:
FIRST ROUND
United States v. Canada. New Zealand v. West Indies,
Mexico, bye.
Venezuela, bye.
(Mexico axl Venezuela will meet in second round).
The winner of the American
the Zone will play
Eastern survivor in the inter- Zone semi-thal,
Zone
The winner of this semi-final will meet the European Zone
for winners challenge Australia Trophy-Router.
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The day's play
Geoff Pullar and Colin Cow
the England openers, quickly scored the 11 runs needed to clear their side's first innings deficit of 70 when the
maich Afth day of the
begari here today.
Two successive legalde boun- daries by Cowdrey off Wesley Hall, the West Indies Inst bowler, took England into the lead, and 20 runs came in the first half-hour, Cowdrey claim- ing 23 of them.
At 71 the partnership had become the bent between openers for either side in the series, beating the unfinished sland between the same pair In the second innings of the first Test.
the Cowdrey did
not went padded vest under his shirt that he sported on Saturday as pro- teelien against short-pitched deliveries.
con.
Half-inch cracks were visibic
in the pitch, causing it to re- semble a gaw puzzle, This is a feature of the Sabina Park wicket and does not necessarily lead to the bowlers getting any help.
Ramadhin managed to get one off-break to turn very cop siderably, the ball beating the wicket-keeper as well and going down the legside for iwn byes.
Kantri dropped another catch, this time at long-on The Sabina Paite crowd wore
with Barrington three. But first time how seeing for the
it was not a costly miss, con bat as his beat. Alexander did not call for the Cowdrey
of Pullar with now ball as the spinners were He raced ahead
of drives On a series
either by this time getting plenty of side of the wicket, and excelled, tum, and when Joe Solomon with powerful hooks.
was put on In place of Scarlet, England's 100 went up ofier Solomon trapped Barrington 152 minutes and Cowdrey com-leg-before with the rerand ball pleted his own Afly from the of his second over.
next ball. Almost immediately May and Ted Dexter, the new
he gave Rehan Kanhai at mid-balsman, obviously decided (hat| wicket
a difficult low chance off Sonny Ramadhin.
Below standard
This
was only England's third three-figure opening stand in the last 26 Test matches she has played, and runs continued to flow.
Pullar reached his fifty after he had been batting five minutes short of three hours.
the occasional risk was worth laking in order to give Englund pitch good score before the became too difficult.
Dexter pulled Solomon to the boundary and May on-drove Ramadhin for another four, tn take the total to 20% after 285 minutes.
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Archie Moore
defend title against Schoeppner
Miami, Feb. 22.
Alexander immediately took The West Indies bowling and the new ball and Dexter eat two ground fielding was much below successive fours off Watson be- their usual standard. The spin fore nearly being bowled by a bowlers made on the batsmen and even
the leg-stump to the last ball of the recall of Hall ten minutes before same over. This delivery never lunch falled to check the bats-left the ground...a sign of how
tricky the pitch was becoming. men.
little impression "shooter," and finally lost his American boxer Archie Moore today accepted an
At the interval, England were 194 without loss, having added 99 in the 30 minutes play this moming Cowdrey not out 93 was in sight of his second hun dred in the match.
offer to defend his light heavyweight cham- pionship against the No. 2 contender, Eric Schoeppner of Germany.
Mike Smith got off the mark irst ball, thereby avoiding a
Moore's manager, Jack Kearns, | of $200,000 to Moore to defend. pair, and stayed with May until wired Jack Fugazy, General against the German. the tea Interval when England Director of Feature Sports Inc., were 152 runs ahead with six that he would accept his offer
wickets left
Both men played fairly con-
Shortly after junch when the all-apin attack of Kegfidently considering the unex-
and Scarlett
Ramadhin pected things the ball was doing operated. the stand became sometimes lifting and on other the best for England's first occasions never leaving the wicket since Reg Simpson ground, and Cyril Washbrook put on 212 against the West Indica at Nottingham in 1950. The run
rate slowed down as Gerry Alexander spread his Aelders out and at 177 the stand ended when Pullar was
to leg before a ball from Ramadhin ihat kept low.
Cowdrey out
May wore a padded vest under bla alilet init only the occasional ball rose into the body.
Aly Khan wins drawn-out
court case
"The pacemen still operated after ica and May made a fine
Paris, Feb. 22. cover drive to the boundary A Paris appeal court today from Hall, but with 11 added,
ended a long wrangle over Smith fell leg-before to Watson
the ownership of an 18- from a bali that kept low.
year-old racehorse when it ordered the stallion to be handed over to the Aly Khan.
time in the series and looked May reached 30 for the first
completely confident despite the awkward pitch.
He presumed no doubt that the ball would keep low but probably regretted his decision
Pullor had made G6 fours and when he was stuck in the back the West Indies had waited three! by a bumper from Chester Wat-hours 54 minutes for their first success, but three balls later Cowdrey was out.
Trying to cut Scarlett, Cow- drey was caught at the wicket as (M. C. Cowdrey 114, W. Hali fe played back.
Cowdrey, who had score za 7 for 09).
West Indies: 1st innings-353 runs in the last two overs before
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London, Feb. 22, Wolverhampton Wanderers, drawn away to Leicester City In the quarter-finals of the English FA Cup, were installed favour- iles at 1-2 to win the competi thon at tonight's callover at the Victoria Club here,
Wolves were backed to win £0,000, with Sheffield United and Shelleld Wednesday, who meet on United's ground, both backed to win £3,000.
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11-2 Burnley.
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Scoreboard
Engl°nd:
1st Innings-277
lunch, hod added only four in (G. Sobers 147, E. McMorris the first half-hour. He there 73, S. Nurse).
fore missed the distinction of
England 2nd innings
scoring two centuries in the same G. Pullar, lbw Ramadhin.. 30 Test by only three runs,
M. C. Cowdrey, e Alexander, Cowdrey's failure to achieve b Scarlett
this feat was all the more un- K. F. Barrington, lbw Solo- fortunate because on Satur- mon dar-before he scored the R. B. H. May, ↳ Hall umpire signalled four leg- E. R. Dexter, b Watson byes when Cowdrey indicated M. J. K. Smith, lbw Watson that the ball had come off his R. Illingworth, t Ramadhin gloves.
K. Ewelman, lbw Watson .. reached a century in each inn- D. Allen not out.....
Only five Englishmen have F. S. Trueman, lbw Watson
ings of a Test match, with Denis J. D. Statham not out
Extras Compton in 1946-7 against Aus- tralia. providing the only instance since the war,
Taking spin
England wend 101 ahead when these two wickets doll at the same total and weng ăn n
good position as the pitch was taking certain
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Last week Kearns said he was writing of any light heavy- weight title defences on the pos- Dibility that Moore might be chosen as the next opponent for | heavyweight championi Ingemar
Johansson.
After Johansson
However, Johansson said in New York on Sunday night that an agreement had been reached on a return match with Floyd Patterson in July the New -York Polo Grounds.
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In announcing that he would take the Schoeppner flight. Kearns told Fugazy that Moore still wants to meet Patterson, or the winner of their fight if It comes oft.
The National Boxing Association took away Moore's etle on Feb. 15 bocause he bad not defended against the No, 1 challenger, Harold Johnson, but Archie still is recognised in June, New York.
The horse, Prince Blot, never won any bli event because it was injured at the start of its racing career, but it has stred many winners. It has under court
custody Normandy stud Bince 1953.
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been
The Appeal court today
reversed a judgment given fast April by a lower civil court which ruled that Prince Blot had not been sold to the Aly 5 Khan.
18
10
45
20
Total (for nine wickets) 200
Wicket talis: 1-177, 2-177, 3-190, 4-211, 6-238, 6-289, B-200, 9-280.
Bowling To Date
Hall Waison Ramadhin Scarlett Solomon
23
Sobers
MR W
2 3 78
22 8 65
37 13 38 27 11 61
0 1 20
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18
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"Johnson is still in the run-
ning Keams said, "but Archie has licked him four times and We think a new fors would be a better box ofeo attraction," --AP.
Scottish Cup results
The Ali Khan told the lower court that a Normandy breeder, M. Celestin Herbiine, sold the borso to him for 60 million (old) francs (about
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Mackay wins U.S. tennis title
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London, Feb, 22. Results of today's football
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