The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 65

SPRINTER DS XPAiS! PROGRAM Commonwealth Games sprinter Andrew Ratcliffe announced yesterday that he would concentrate on the 400 metres next year in addition to the two shorter sprint events. MEDAL TO GRESHAM Ratcliffe, running for University of NSW, had just beaten the best in the State with a time of 47.7 seconds in a special 400 metres at the men's inter-club athletics at Hensley Field. He was a good two metres clear of schoolboy star Leo Hollestelle (Rand-wick-Botany) as the runners hit the straight and was able to maintain his II dm, 8 Australian international golfer Tony Gresham needed three birdies to win the Autumn Medal with a two-under-par 70 at Manly yesterday. Gresham had his birdies nt the 11th, 16th and 17th to beat Jim Ward and Peter Headland by a stroke. Ward picked up no less than six birdies to be four under the card with three holes to play.

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Safe, sure road holding performance. lead to the finish. I Hollestelle's usual fight-: ing finish deserted him for once and the junior record holder was pipped on the line for second by Boris Stcherbina (Western Sub- i urbs). Hollestelle may be re- ceding from a form peak 1 which recently saw him Tower his time to the State junior record of 47.3 seconds. Ratcliffe, who has won the State 100 and 200 metres has clone very little serious 400-metre running until this year.

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The well-sailed Swanson 36 Nfatika (Tony Pearson) won the Cruising Yacht Hub's short ocean race around Lion Island yesterday. Matika won by 3m 36s from the improving Patrice 'Ray Kirby) with another 30s to Duct (Joe Diamond) on 10R corrected times. Love and War (Peter Xnrls) was fourth and Cap-'ce of Huon (Gordon Incite) fifth. Apollo (Jack ooklyn) took line honours. The race started in a drift with most of the fleet taking more than an hour get out of the Harbour before the nor'easter finally came in at 10-15 knots.

A surprise winner in the Middle Harbour Yacht Club Half Ton Cup divi- sion race was September (Doug Gilling) from Shenandoah (Peter Cole) with 1 Summer Wind (Owen Hasemer) third. Currawong (Bill Burrows) was fourth, Butterscotch (Max Stokes) fifth and Plum Cray (Tin Thomas) sixth. September sailed a good tactical race, laying the Long Reef mark precisely while others overstood and overstamiing by 100 yards in this fleet wvs enough to lose four places. Shenandoah, which had led the fleet before over-standing, ran through from fifth at the mark to finish second. THRILL SAILING ALEXANDRIA: Chalmers Tyre 6ervict, 71 Euslon Rd.

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ICL Computers (Ron Johnston) was second, lm 44s behind the winner. Twenty-nine seconds astern came KB, skippered by Dave Porter, fol-owed by Glen Grant whisky (Dave Parks). Kool (Peter MacLeod) and Anyhow (Mike Chapman). ICL Computers had capsized soon after the start. Corrigan's Express coasted to the front at Shark Island when the leading boats, Heuga Carpets and Glen Grant Whisky, had problems with their extras.

A lead of several minutes looked good enough. But the champion boats stormed home and KB, after some indifferent work to windward, did especially well. Anderson St. 41-eoif, And at Service Stations displaying the Goodyear sign. WINS TO RIVERVIEW Riverview scored a GPS morale boosting double on tne Lane Cove River yesterday.

Riverview were untroubled to win hi iJitr.l- ges to take out the youth eights. They won the third-grade eights from Haber-field by 1 1 lengths and the youth eights by a quarter1 of a length from Drum-, moyne. 1 630 The Safety Minded Company Iwade eights and a half- later held off challen 67 THE SUN-HERALD; MARCH 3, 1974 67.