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GOLF No pear tree for Partridge England coast to victory ENGLAND beat the West Indies by three wickets to win the Champions Trophy limited-overs cricket tournament in Sharjah. England restricted the West Indies to 7-235 off their 50 overs and replied with 7-239 off 48.1 overs. SOUTH Africa's Des Terblanche won the Asian Masters matchplay title in the Philippines yesterday but not the way he wanted, after Tasmania's Brett Partridge pulled out injured. Victorian Scott Laycock won the foursomes final with Englishman Ed Fryatt, beating Americans Gerry Norquist and Christian Pena 3 and 2. Terblanche, 32, led by two holes when Partridge withdrew on the 27th of the 36-hole final with strained tendons in his forearm.

Partridge hurt himself on the 25th hole while playing an eight iron out of heavy rough. He went on for two holes but decided not to risk making it worse as he has some more big events next month. 7'' Jf'i Js on Ufa i "Mrttami" a PACE-SETTER: Craig Parry can see victory in his mind but will need to overcome lapses in concentration to take out the Classic WEST INDIES WILLIAMS A Brown Croft 55 CHANDERPAUL run out 76 LARA st Stewart Ealham 2 HOOPER Ibw Fleming 34 SIMMONS not out 39 HOLDER Ibw Fleming 0 LEWIS Fleming 16 ROSE run out 0 WILLIAMS not out 9 Sundries (31b 1w) 4 Seven wickets for 235 Fall: 97 101 164 174 174 200 200. BOWLING: Brown 5-0-35-0, Headley 7-0-39-0, Ealham 10-1-26-1, Hollioake 10-0-50-0, Croft 10-0-40-1, Fleming 8- 0-42-3. ENGLAND A BROWN Chanderpaul Rose 1 A STEWART Hooper 51 KNIGHT run out 24 HICK Hooper Lewis 9 THORPE not out 66 A HOLLIOAKE St Williams Hooper 16 EALHAM Walsh 4 FLEMING run out 33 BROWN not out 4 Sundries (1b 161b 5w 9nb) 31 Seven wickets for 239 Fall: 14 89 107 107 152 165 235.

BOWLING: Walsh 9.1-1-39-1, Rose 10-0-36-1, Dillon 6-0-36-0, Simmons 4-0-25-0, Lewis 9- 0-51-1, Hooper 10-0-35-2. ENGLAND WON BY 3 WICKETS Gomes wins Pipe Masters HAWAIIAN qualifier Johnny Gomes beat veteran compatriot Michael Ho in the final of the Pipe Masters surfing event in Hawaii. It was Gomes's first win at Pipeline, in the first final contested by two qualifiers. Australia's hopes in the final event on this year's world championship tour were snuffed out in the quarter-finals when Mark Occhilupo, Matt Hoy and Beau Emerton were eliminated. Occhilupo's result was enough to secure the No 2 world ranking behind Kelly Slater, with Australians filling six of the top 10 positions.

Jones ruffles a few feathers WELSHMAN Barry Jones snapped up the vacant World Boxing Organisation super-featherweight title when he unanimously outpointed Wilson Palacio of Colombia. The 23-year-old Jones, unbeaten in 17 fights, was awarded the decision bv 116-112, 118-112 and' 118-110. Jamili in a canter ERIC Jamili of the Philippines stopped Britain's Mickey Cantwell in the eighth round to take the vacant World Boxing Organisation straw-weight title. The referee stepped in to stop the contest after consulting the ringside doctor when Cantwell took a series of big punches in the eighth. Bffll7lnS ffTDtfi) 0D WRETCHED: Parsons DEAL: Sampras Pete saves $80,000 per trip THE agent for tennis star Pete Sampras had an idea for shrinking his client's travel budget pay for some flights on charter jets with fame instead of cash.

Under the plan arranged by IMG, Sampras appeared in magazine ads for Executive Jet Aviation Inc this year in exchange for flights to Europe, which can cost $80,000 round trip aboard a chartered plane. Injury ends Welsh rugby star's career WALES captain Gwyn Jones will never play rugby union again after badly injuring his spine in a club match last weekend, his father said. Jones has been in hospital since being injured playing for Cardiff against Swansea last Saturday. He had surgery during the week to ease the pressure on his spine. "He won't play again," his father Alun told a news conference.

Jones is comfortable in hospital and has slight movement in his limbs. Reuters "I'm playing the best golf of my life," Parry said, but he wasn't prepared to declare himself over the line. Anything can happen on this sleeper of a course, designed by American Robert Trent Jones jnr, especially when the wind blows. Indeed, he got to 1 1 under yesterday before handing back four shots on the back nine. Former US Open and PGA champion Payne Stewart promised to wear colourful plus-four outfits, assuring us he wouldn't be mistaken for a goanna in the scrub, and again he was true to his word with startling blue trousers and a shirt which could only be described as fruit salad in appearance.

Did it help his golf? Well, for a while. With rounds of 69-77, he was conceding Parsons nine shots, but with a start to match the flashness of his clobber, he picked up four birdies in his first eight holes to make inroads into his deficit However, through the next eight holes he gave back his net gain and finished with a par 72. He will not win today, but he does have the major consolation prize victory in the pro-am run in conjunction with the tournament. Teaming with tennis star Todd Woodbridge, who showed considerable skills off his 12 handicap, they finished 28 under the card for 54 holes in the net stroke event for a runaway win. Given that Stewart had 17 birdies for the week, that means Woodbridge contributed 11 net birdies.

By PETER STONE "DID you get on with the bookies?" Tom Parry asked yesterday. Unfortunately not, but the odds posted earlier in the week of 8-1 about his son Craig winning the $275,000 Coolum Classic looked awfully generous and are proving to be just that Seldom do the numbers men make mistakes, but they'd clearly overlooked the extraordinary form Parry brought with him into the tournament and, with rounds of 70-68-71, the little bloke has a two-shot advantage over Queenslander Shane Tait coming into today's final round. Overnight leader Lucas Parsons, who had a one-shot advantage over Parry going into the third round, had a wretched day, shooting a 76 to trail by four strokes. Robert Allenby, too, started the day with high expectations but a 73 leaves him four shots adrift of Parry. Parry snr had a twinkle in his eye, so clearly he had backed his son, but it was only the glint of determination that could be seen in the eyes of Craig Parry as he went about his business yesterday.

With three young children, Parry has not been in a party mood these past few days but rather having quality family time. His head has been clear each day he has stepped onto the tee in this end-of-year event, when you see normally staid professionals heading to 209: Craig Parry (NSW) 70 68 71. 211: Shan Tait (Old) 72 70 69. 21 2: Craig Jones (Okf) 73 68 71. 213: Robert Allenby (Vic) 70 70 73, Lucas Parsons (NSW) 68 69 76.

214: Ken Oruce (Old) 71 72 71, Robin Byrd (US) 69 73 72. 215: Elliott Boutt (NZ) 71 71 73, Wayne Smith (WA) 69 73 73. 216: Tony Carolan (Old) 72 75 69, Don Fardon (Old) 75 72 69, Robert Willis (NSW) 70 73 73, Gary Evans (Old) 74 70 72. 217: Grant Kenny (NSW) 74 77 66, Mathew Goggin (Tas) 72 76 69, Craig pence (Vic) 71 74 72, Nick O'Hern (WA) 77 68 72. the tee still in high spirits.

One player no names, no pack drill remarked yesterday: "I'm three under. I hope I don't sober up." He did shortly afterwards and finished with a three-over 75. Parry's record since early October has been second only to that of recently crowned Australian Open champion Lee Westwood. He won the Japan Open, gaining a 10-year exemption to that circuit, finished third twice in Japan and was third in the Australian Open, one shot out of the playoff between Westwood and world No 1 Greg Norman. Before that, he finished fifth and sixth in his final two events on the US circuit One wonders whether the bookie, when he was setting the odds, had a touch of the sun or a drop of the deadener.

Perhaps even both. 80 THE SUN-HERALD, December 21, 1997 5.