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34 The Sydney Morning Herald Monday, January 27, 1992 AIRHAWK by John Dixon CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 3335 VORDVIT 21 85 Leo, Trev and Paul were sipping apple juice at the Sports Bar. One man was a gymnast, another a triathlete, while the third was a blend of all three names. What type of VOO MEAN, FOC as ldns as rr TAKES TO PINt? j. THE OLP SKINFLirvfTS sportsman was he? "3j '7 IP Ol) CAN HEAR HOW VX3 VOO FOf? AS LONeS INTENP STAyiN 'A HE NEEP5 OS, WITH VOUC geAND- HAWK 1 FATHER, S.eooDON?, wmfi LETS ME I'LL M5Tn-i Wim. ry.CZ ur-r-lJ win riCOr-WJ Jj 25 Biting what is served uptji random for tea.

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(5) 44M 127 SPORT SUMMARY ffS JmnWIlCBX Information ind pictures supplied Sydney 0055 29800 NSW 0055 25321 by the Bureau of Meteorology Coastal 0055 25111 Interstate 0055 33221 (Vic) 10. Fernandez (WA) 12 Situation at noon yesterday 1 2 Surman (SA) a 3. WOMEN SemM mnr: Pottharst (SA) 15 Green (WA) 7. Mjr: WUIcocks (WA) 15 0 Vukosa (NSW) Prelim Vukosa (NSW) IS Pottharst (SA) 5. Vukosa (NSW) 1 2 1 2 Willcocks (WA) o.

dale (Qld) 15 38. 400m hurdles: Simon Holingsworth (Tas) 50.74s Tony Briggs (Vic) 51 42s Malcolm Bult (WA) 52.08s. 2000m: Simon Doyle (Qld) 5m00 84s (Aust record) Shaun Creighton (AIS) 5m03.00s Alessandro Lambrus-chimi WOMEN: 3000m walk: Kerry Junna-Saxby (NSW) 12m17.09s Jane SaviMe (NSW) 1 2m55.06s Sue Cook (Qld) 12m56 72s Shot put: Bernadette Serone (NSW) 15.29m Michelle Haage (NSW) 14.44m Kylie Standing (NSW) 13.40m. 100m hurdles: Jayne Moves (WA) 13.51s Sally Heagney (WA) 13 84s Rebecca Starcevich (WA) 14.16s. Rocks 48 4.

Small 46.6 A Phelps 46.3 Andracic 46.2. Agg Butler 147.15 Asper 147.7 A Antiniou 146.11. Lillicrap 145.10 Brown 144.13 Rocks 143.12. A Phelps 141.8 Andracic 139.5 Small 139.4. Final Agg A Asper 29626 Butler 295.27 Wright 29430 Kennedy 29420 Ashton 293.28 Hart 293.21 Bailey 291.29 A Rowlands 292.25 Fenton Northcott 292.24.

Brown 28923 Rocks 286.18 Owen 284.19 Glover 294.17 Moore 283.18 Lillicrap 283.14 A Pearce 282.20 Smith 282.18 Somer-ville 282.1 7 Bushby 281.18. Chaplin 280.1 3 A Phelps 278.1 5 Coen 275.12 Small 272 14 Brown 26 1 S. Tyre: Hind 243.6. WATERSKIING SHELL MARINE GRAND PRIX on Newcastle Harbor: Boys reported 32mm. For the six hours to 3 pm there was no rain reported.

RAINFALL REGISTRATION (24 hours to 9 am yesterday) North West" Slopes: Granite Heights 7. Linbri 6. Ogunbil a Woolbrook 12. Northern Tablelands: Armidale S. Glen Innes 4.

Gowan Brae 25. Invereli t. Tenterfield 2. Drake 8. Highrent 02.

Jeogla 6. Tabu lam "Muirne." 14. Wattlegrove 15. Central Tablelands: Kurrajong Hts. 1.

Mt Bovce AWS 02. Southern Tablelands: Bombala 02. Northern Rivers: Ballina 4. Cape Byron 0 8. Grafton 32.

Lismore 3. Mullumbimby 04. Murwillumbah 4. Nimbin 9. Tweed Heads 5 Whiporie 18.

Woodburn 8. Mid North Coast: Bellbrook 11. Coffs Hbr. O. 12.

Kempsey 11. Smoky Cape 16. Pt Macouarie 2. Hunter: Gresford 1. Jerrys Plains 02.

Singleton 02. Upper Chichester 2. Williamtown 0.4. WcHlombi 06. South Coast: Merimbula 04.

Montague Is. 2. Moruya Heads 02. Metropolitan Richmond 06. Forecasts for today issued at 8pm yesterday.

Metropolitan A mild to warm and mostly fine day. Chance of a shower or two early. Sunny periods and light to moderate SE wind. Statewide Isolated showers on the coast Very warm and dry inland. Early fog patches on the tablelands.

Light to moderate SENE winds. On the water Tasman Sea west of Long 160 degs East: SWSE winds IS to 20 knots of 35s, 20 to 25 knots of 35s. Moderate seas on a moderate swell. A few showers, mainly in N. NSW Coast: SEE winds 10 to IS knots.

winds IS to 20 knots early on coast, easing. Seas slight to moderate on a low swell in S. A shower or two in N. Sydney Waters: SE winds lOto IS knots. Seas moderate on a moderate swell.

Mainly fine. Interstate u-1 i-iugnes (lop feunj Graziano (Macho) Robertson (Bloody Mary). U-16: Campbell (My Three Sons) Gibbens (Soringloaded) Hughes (Top Gun). U-13: A Ross (Southwark Racing) Patterson (Night Stalker) Turner (Warlord). Women: Hunt (Firebird) Munkman (Kroboats) Graziano (Bloody Mary).

Girls U-19 Campbell (My Three Sons) Kell (Night Stalker). U-16: Webb 1h14m42. 6: Tamiyo Nayuki Oap) 1h15m31. 7: Mayumi Kumagai (Jap) IhlSmSI. 8: Joanne Cowan (Aust) 1h16m17.

9: Gillian Bes-chloss (U.S.) 1h16m28. 10: Gillian Horovitz (U.S.) 1h17m40. MOBIL GRAND PRIX MEET At Sydney AtMetk Field MEN: High Jump: David Anderson (WA) 2 28m Ian Garrett (NSW) 2 20m Michael Hawkey (Vie) 2.20m. Long jump: David Culbert (Vic) 7 71m Michael Morgan (Vic) 761m Rod Mapstone (WA) 7.47m 400m: Paul Greene (NSW) 45.76s Anthony Ryan (Qld) 4606s Joshua Cool (Vic) 46 33s. Hammer: Sean Carlin (SA) 72 42m Peter Baxevanis (Vic) 7074m Paul Carlin (SA) 64 30m.

110m hurdles: John Caligiuri (Vic) 13.91sKyleVankuvp(Vic) 14.15s David Cooper (Qld) 14.62s. WOMEN: 1500m: Jodie Hebbard (Qld) 4ml 2.69s Sarah Collins (ACT) 4m13 40s Anne Cross (Vic) 4m13 80s. 400m: Denean Hill (US) 51 23s Sophie Scamps (NSW) 52 67s Sharon Stewart (Vic) 52 71s. 400m hurdles: Gail Luke (Tas) 57.44s Jenny Laurendet (NSW) 5760s Leisa Bruce (Qld) 57 96s. 100m: Melissa Moore (NSW) 11 52s Jane Ovenden (WA) 1 1 54s Cathy Freeman (Vic) 1 1 55s.

OTHER RESULTS: MEN: 100m: Damien Marsh (Qfd) 10 37s Tim Jackson (NSW) 1039s Dean Capobianco (WA) 10.43s. 800m: Simon Still (Qld) 1m48 02s Dean Kenneally (AIS) 1m48 59s Barry Acres (WA) 1m49 14s Pole vault: Simon ArkeM (SA) 5.50m Greg Duplantis (US) 5 40m Adam Steinhardt (SA) 5 25m. Shot put: Graig Watson (Vic) 18 55m Jason Impey (NSW) 16 01m Peter Lons Men's triple jump: 1: Leonid Voloshm (CIS) 17 33 mts. 2: Mans Bruziks (Latvia) 17.26. 3: Alexander Kovalenko (CIS) 16 68.

Men's long lump: 1: Llewellyn Starks (US) 807 mts 2: Robert Emmiyan (CIS) 7 98. 3: Vladimir Ochvan (CIS) 7 96. Pole vault: 1: Sergei Bubka (CIS) 5 90 mts. 2: Grigoriy Yego-rov (CIS) 5.80. 3: Vasily Bubka (CIS) 5.80.

OSAKA WOMENS MARATHON In Tokyo Japanese unless stated 1: Yumi Kogamo 2 hrs 26 mins 26 sees. 2: Akemi Matsuno 2 2702. 3: Katrine Done (Ger) 2 27 34. 4: Yoshiko Yamamoto 2 27 58. Wang Xiuting (China) 2 28 56.

6 Junko Asari 2 28 S7. 7: Naomi Watanabe 2 2943. 8: Salomi Iwashita 2.29.53. 9: Miyoko Asahina 2.30.48. 10: Kurm Araki 2 31.14.

TOKYO CITY HALF MARATHON (210975 km). In Tokyo Men: 1: Steve Moneghetti (Aust) one hr 0 mins 27 sec 2 Arturo Barrios (Mex) 1 h00m42 3: Cosumus Ndeti (Ken) 1h01m04 4 Lee Bong-iu (S Kor) 1h01m04. Ibrahim Hussein (Ken) 1h02m10 6: Aparecido Antero da Silva (Braz) 1h02m14. 7' Paul Arthur (Aust) 1h02m16. 8: Masaki Ova Jap) 1h02m19 5 Akira Nakamura (Jap) 1h02m34.

10: Hitoshi Shintaku (Jap) 1h02m46. Women: 1: Liz McColgan (Brit) 1h07m1 1. 2: Lisa Ondieki (Aust) 1h08m33. 3- Lynn Clayton (Aust) 1h12m25. 4: Li Juanzheng (China) 1h14m35.

5: Alicia Moss (US) ATHLETICS INTERNATIONAL INDOOR MEETING In Uevfn. France Men's 1300 metres: 1: Dieter Baumann (Ger) 3 rmns 39 25 sees. 2 Herve PhelicDeau (Fra) 3 40 06. 3: Enc Dubus (Fra) 3 40 82 Men's 60 metres hurdles: 1: Mark McKov (Can) 7 46 sees. 2: Igor Kazanov (Latvia) 7.52.

3: Tomasz Nagorfca (Pol) 7 54 Women's 60 metres hurdles: 1 Lvudmila Narozhilenko (CIS) 7.82 sees. 2 Natalya Gngoryeva (CIS) .7 95. 3' Momaue Ewanie-Epee (Fra) 7.95. Women's 1.S00 metres: 1: Frederiaue Quentm (Fra) 4 mins 12 80 sees. 2: Ivana Kubesova (Czech) 4 12 94.

3: Elly van Hulst (Neth) 4 13 35 Men's 400 metres: 1: Charles Jenkins (US) 47 09 sees. 2 Ste-Dhane Oiagana (Fra) 47 37. 3: Devon Morns (Jam) 47 43 Men's 200 metres: 1: Frankie Fredericks (Namibia) 20 55 sees. 2 Nikolav Antonov (Bulg) 20 60 3: Andreas Berger (Austria) 21 38. Women's 200 metres: 1: Irina Privalova (CIS) 22 26 sees (European record).

2: Oksana Styeoi-eheva (CIS) 22 97 3: Galina Malehugina (CIS) 23 05. Women's 3.000 metres walk: 1 Madelein. Svensson (Swed) 12 mins 14 01 sees 2 Yelena Niko-laveva (CIS) 12 3062. 3: Natalya Serbmyenko (CIS) 12 35 65 Women's high jump: 1: Stefka Kostadinova (Bulg) 2 02 mts. 2: Inna Babkova (CIS) 1 96.

3: Yelena Yelesina (CIS) 1.93. SPEEDWAY BENDIGO INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY: Victorian Speedcar Cship: 25-lap Final: Gilbert (SA) Pearce (Vic) Nelson (Argo). BASKETBALL NBA Charlotte Hornets 107 Indiana Pacers 105. Miami Heat 103 Dallas Mavericks 101. Orlando Magic 99 Cleveland Cavaliers 96.

Philadelphia 76ers 1 1 5 New Jersey Nets 94 Phoenix Suns 121 Washington Bullets 115. Chicago Bulls 1 14 Houston Rockets 100. Denver Nuggets 107 Milwaukee Bucks 100 (OT) Utah Jazz 104 Seattle SuperSonics 103. New York nicks 100 Los Angeles Clippers 93. (vie) dreen liA).

Modified Productions: Australia Day Challenge: Jacobson Mills A MAILS I Kh, ias Forecast for 9 am today Parkinson Burton. The world Closing times for surface mails at the GPO. Closing dates later TENNIS inan a week aneaa are approxi Weather conditions, with minimum and maximum temperatures in major world cities on January 25 were: mate inquiries: ou 91 U5. Albania. Yuaoslavia.

Ian 31 Brisbane, fine 30 Canberra, fine 26 Melbourne, fine 23 Adelaide, fine 24 24 Perth, fine 38 Darwin, storm 32 Alice Springs, showers 35 Bangladesh (via Singapore). Feb 3 Belgium (via Melbourne). Jan 28 Brazil. Ian 31: Canada. Feb 7 FORD AUSTRALIAN OPEN At the National Tennis Centre.

Flinders Park Final Day (Prefix denotes seed) China. Hong Kong. Feb 3: Cook day. Light SE winds. Temps: Broken Hill 15-30.

The regions MENS SINGLES: Final: 2-Jim Courier (US) 1 -Stefan Edberg islands, jan 31: Austria. Finland Germany. Feb 6: Fanning Island Fiji. Feb 4: Czechoslovak Rep. Hungary.

France. Denmark. Italy Netherlands. Sweden. Switzerland.

Ireland. Feb 6: Greece. Bulgaria. BIATHLON 10-KM BIATHLON MEN'S WORLD CUP In Anterserva. Italy 1: Aleksandr Popov (CIS) 27 mins 04.3 sees.

2: Ricco Gross (Ger) 27 42 5. 3: Jon Age Tyldum (Nor) 27.46 7. 4: Johann Passler (Italy) 28 06.4. 5: Mikael Loefgren (Swe) 28 07.7. 6: Eirik Kvalfoss (Nor) 28 094.

7: Hubert Leitgeb (Italy) 2809.5. 8: Patrice Baillv- oweaen) b-i b-4 b-tL WOMEN'S DOUBLES: Final Northern Rivers: A shower or two. Light to moderate SEE winds. Temps: Cape Byron 21-28. Lis-more 21-29.

Grafton 20-30. Midnorth Coast: A coastal shower 4-Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain)-Helena Sukova (Czech) cgyDi. suoan. jan 41: c-uam Marianas Islands. Jan 29: Hawaii Caroline Marshalllslands Feb 7 b-Mary-joe Fernandez-Zina Garrison (US) 6-4 7-6 (7-3).

The Planets Rises Sets 5.15am 7.32pm Venus 334am 5.50pm Man 4.19am 6.41 pm Jupiter 950pm 9.16am Saturn 624am 8.13pm PHASES OF THE MOON Moon enters the last quarter today at 227 am. BOYS SINGLES: Final: Grant India. Jan 31 Indonesia. Irian Jaya (via SingaDore). Feb 3: Israel (via ovle (NSW) Bnan Dunn (US) Salins (Fra) 28.14 2.

9: Andreas Zingerle (Italy) 28 21.2. 10: Herve Melbourne). Feb 5: Japan. North D- O-U. Tao is victorious in junior championship Korea.

reD Kenva. uaanda or two. Light to moderate SE winds. Temps: Coffs Harbour 20-26. Kempsey 19-28.

Port Mac-ouarie 20-25. Taree 19-27. Hunter The chance of and early shower on coast, otherwise fine. Light to moderate SE winds. Temps: Newcastle 18-26.

Scone 16-31. Illawarra and South Coast: Cloudy periods. Early shower or two. Moderate SE winds. Temos: Woll- BOYS' DOUBLES: Final: Grant Doyle (NSW)-Brad Scott Sceney hianain (i-ra) zoz MEN'S CUP STANDINGS 1- Zinaerle 95 ots 2- TvlHitm Tanzania.

Feb 3: Kiribati. Ocean Island. Feb 4: Lord Howe Island. Jan 28: Malaysia. Jan 31: Malta (via Genoa).

Feb 6: Nauru (via bureau of I til JrJ METEOWOLOCY I lLye reairn niai tm 1TT- aT-i-a, ,7" -SfcdzSi. Yesterday Meioournej. jan za. New Caledonia. Jan 30: New Zealand Ian 31- ivicj Lex carrington-Jason Thompson (US) 6-4 6-4.

Nutri-Metics Bendon Classic WOMEN In Auckland 1st round: O'Reilly (US) 1-N Mivaoi (lao) 6-4 6-1. I Hetherina- 88. 3: Popov 80. 4: Frank Peter Roetsch (Ger) 68. 5: Gisle Fenne (Nor) 66.

6 SergekTarasov (CIS) 65. 7: Geir Einang (Nor) 62. 8: Jens Steinigen (Ger) 60. 9 equal: Sergei Tchepikov (CIS) 58 9 equal: Christian Dumont (Fra) 5B. 9 CHESS ongong 1 7-25.

Nowra 16-25. Bega Norfolk Island. Feb 14: Pakistan (via Singapore). Feb 3: Papua New The trauffh nF Inw nrMciire whifh hmiioht Inn ilmilwi- lauinea. hen Philippines (via PETER PARR Northern Tablelands: Moderate to high fire danger.

A fine, mainly sunnv dav. Liaht WF uiinric vaien Kinenko (CIS) 58. nong Kong). Feb 3: Poland. Feb 6: Portugal (via Melbourne).

Feb 4: Samoa. Ian 31: Sinoaryorp Feb 4 ton (Can) Faull (Aus) 6-2 6-4. Gregory (RSA) Pleming (Aus) 6-2 7-5. A Gavaldon (Mex) 7-L storms of NSW is now NE corner, further thunderstorms' likely, diminishing. A ridge of bigb pressure lies of Temps: Armidale 13-27.

Invereli WOMEN 7JKM EVENT 1: Davidova Peteherskaia (CIS) Solomon Islands. Feb 5: South Africa. Zimbabwe. Feb 6: South Amsterdam, cloudy. -2-0: Athens, cloudy.

5-11: Auckland, cloudy. 18-25: Bahrain, cloudy. 11-16: Bangkok, clear. 23-31: Barbados, clear. 22-30: Barcelona, rain.

8-9: Beijing, clear. -5-5: Beirut clear. 11-16: Belgrade, cloudy. -5-5: Berlin, cloudy. 0-2: Bermuda, cloudy.

20-22: Bogota, cloudy. 8-20: Brussels, clear. -4-3: Budapest cloudy. -3-5: Buenos Aires, cloudy. 21 -27: Cairo, cloudy.

8-17: Calgary, cloudy. -82: Caracas, cloudy. 16-25: Chicago, cloudy. -10--5: Christchurch. rain.

12-15: Copenhagen, cloudy. 0- 2: Dhah ran. cloudy. 10-16: Dublin, cloudy. 9-10: Frankfurt cloudy.

-3-4: Geneva, dear. -8-1: Harare, cloudy. 1 7-28: Havana, cloudy. 19-24: Helsinki, clear. -7-1 Hong Kong, clear.

14-19: Honolulu, clear. 18-27: Islamabad, cloudy. 11-16: Istanbul, cloudy. 3-6: Jerusalem, clear. 1-8: Johannesburg, clear.

15-29: Kiev, cloudy. -51: Kuala Lumpur, clear. 23-31 Lima, clear. 21-28: Lisbon, clear. 4-11: London, cloudy.

0-6: Los Angeles, clear. 12-29: Madrid, clear. -3-9: Manila, clear. 23-31: Mecca, cloudy. 19-30: Mexico City, cloudy.

8-20: Miami, clear. 17-21: Montevideo, cloudy. 20-24: Montreal, clear. -25-3: Moscow, cloudy. -3-0: Nairobi, clear.

13-26: Nassau, dear. 21-26: New Delhi, dear. 9-27: New York, cloudy. 0-10: Nicosia, clear. 3-16: Oslo, cloudy.

-3-2: Rio de Janeiro, cloudy. 18-28: Rome, cloudy. 5-10: San Frandsco. cloudy. 3-1 1: San Juan, cloudy.

22-28: Santiago, clear. 13-29: Sao Paulo, cloudy. 17-31: Seoul, clear. -2-2: Singapore, doudy. 23-31: Stockholm, cloudy.

-41: Taipei, rain. 14-19: Tel Aviv. dear. 4-17: Tokyo, clear, 1- 9: Toronto, dear. -20-0: Vancouver, cloudy.

5-10: Vienna, doudy. 2-2: Warsaw, doudy. -7--6: Wellington, rain. 1 3-1 9. ANTARCTIC (9am yesterday) South Pole, blowing snow-25: Vostok.

fine-40: Casey, cloudy 1: Davis, Mawson. windy4: Macquarie Island. windy7. Satellite picture noon yesterday. 15-51.

Central Tablelands: High fire danger in W. Low cloud and drizzle in E. clearing early. Fine and mainlv Amenca israzn snown above). Jan 31 South Korea.

Feb 3: Spain (via Melbourne). Jan 28: Sri Lanka. Feb 3. Tahiti. Jan 31 Taiwan (via Hong 24 mins 21.7 sees.

2: Grete Nykkelmo (Nor) 24 28 3. 3: Anlissa Reztsova (CIS) 24 31 9. 4: Anne Eivebakk (Nor) 24 46 9. 5: Nathalie Santer (Italy) 24 523. 6: Elena Golovina (CIS) 24 53 8.

7: Elena Belova (CIS) 2505.8 8: Nadeida Alesieva (Bulg) 25098. 9 Inger Biorkdom (Swe) 25 14.5. reo j. inaiiano. jan Tonga.

Ian 31: United KinoHnm sunnv Wwards. Light SWSE winds. Temps: Mudgee 14-31. Katoomba 12-21. Orange 10-24.

Southern Tablelands: Mainly fine day with sunny periods. Light winds tending moderate in afternoon. Temps: Cooma 10-24. Feb 5. USA East Coast.

Feb 7: USA west coast. Mexico. Feb 7: USSR. Feb 6: Vanuatu. Feb 5: Vietnam 5i (via Singapore), jan 20.

ID: Petra benaat (Ger) 25.17 8. WOMEN'S WORLD CUP STANDINGS 1: Schaaf 118 Dts. 2: Golovina uouiourn iu-b. Canberra 11 -2b. Northwest Slopes and Plains: High to very high fire danger.

Fine and mainlv sunnv dav. Liaht to moder SHIPPING i-ieio (Aus) -b (-b) 5-1. 3-1 Berger (Isr) Rossides (US) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3. A Smashnova (Isr) Borneo (GB) 6-3 6-3. Jensen (US) A Trail (NZ) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2.

5- Martin (US) Thompson (US) 6-4 6-4. 8-A Fusai (Fra) Costain (NZ) 6-0 6-3. Novelo (Mex) Mroz (Pol) 7-5 4-6 7-6 (7-2). O'Reilly (US) Sharpe (Aus) 7-5 3-6 6-1. 4-N Dahlman (Fin) Radford (Aus) 7-5 2-6 6- 1.

6-N Pratt (Aus) Stacey (Aus) 6-4 6-0. 1 Driehuis (Hoi) Adamkova-Guy (Cze) 4-6 6-1 6-4 A de Vries (Bel) McManus (NZ) 6-1 6-0. 2-N van Lottum (Fra) Benjamin (US) 4-6 6-1 64. 2nd round: O'Reilly Hether-ington 4-6 7-5 7-6 (10-8). Gavaldon Gregory 6-36-2.

Smashnova Berger 6-2 6-1. Martin Jensen 6- 1 6-2. Novelo Fusai 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4. Dahlman O'Reilly 7- 5 6-4. Pratt Driehuis 6-2 6-2 van Lottum de Vries 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7-4).

Fourteen-year-old Trevor Tao of South Australia won the Cepacol. Australian junior championship in Adelaide on Friday. Leading final scores (54 players, 1 1 rounds): T. Tao A Meldrum (Queensland) 814; J. O'Carroll (Victoria) R.

Curtis (NSW), M. Salter (NSW), E. Teh (WA) 7fc; B. Marshall (NSW), I. Wright (NSW), A.

Au (NSW), A. Davies (Vic), P. Dell (WA) 7. V. Jennifer Harrington; 14, also of South Australia won the Australian Girls title with 10 out of 1 1, second was Gabriella Grbovac (SA) with 81? -points.

Leading final scores in the North Rocks Non-Smoking Tournament were: G. Canfell (NSW) 5146; Laird (Q), K. Hornung (SA), J. Curtis (NSW) 5. Stephen Pickles won the 32-player Australia Day Weekender at the Chess Centre with 5146.

Meanwhile overseas, Melbourne finished third in the Asian Cities 99. 3: Anne Briand (Fra) 98. 4: Antie Misersky (Ger) 95. 5: Reztsova 90. 6: Eivebakk 80.

7: Belova 77. 8: UscN Disi (Ger) 76. Average annual rainfall in Sydney over 133 years. 1226.7mm. Average over 133 years, for January.

104.3mm. Rainfall from January 1 to date 66.2mm. Total from January 1. 1992 to 9am yesterday. 662mm.

Total for corresponding period of 1991. 54.5mm. Total from 9 am to 3pm yesterday. Omm TEMPERATURES 9am 22.0 deg 24.6 deg Bom 21.7 deg Sydney maximum to 3 pm 2S.7 at 2.13 pm. Sydney minimum to 3 pm.

19.3 at 6.07 am. Barometer: 9 am 1014.3. 3 pm 10139. 8 pm 1014.9 hectopascals. Humidity: 9 am 73.

3 pm 61. 8 pm 64 per cent. OTHER CITIES Brisbane 23-31. Canberra 8-24 Melbourne 13-21. Hobart 11-17.

Adelaide 13-24. Perth 23-33. Darwin 23-31. Alice Springs 21-31. WEATHER SYNOPSIS For the 24 hours to 9 am the lowest minimum was 1 at Thredbo.

For the six hours to 3 pm maximum temperatures ranged from 36 at Brewarrina and Tibooburra to 17 at Thredbo. Winds were chiefly SWSE. locally fresh on the coast. RAINFALL SYNOPSIS For the 24 hours to 9 am there was some rain, chiefly from thunderstorm, in the NE. and Grafton The following information was ate SE winds.

Temps: Moree 18-34. Tamworth 16-32. Central West Slopes and Plains: Locally high fire danger on plains. Fine and mainly sunnv dav Light supplied by the Maritime Services 9: Jirina Adamickova (Czech) 69. Rapid Championship in Dubai on Saturday.

Thirty-one cities from 15 nations competed. Leading final scores: Manila 2936; Jamshedpur (India) 25V4; Melbourne 25; Lahore (Pakistan) 21. Ian Rogers of Sydney scored 50 per cent in a category 1 1 grandmaster event in Czechoslovakia last week. The Acer NSW Computer Championship, City of Sydney Rapid Play and Teams Lightning continue today at the Sydney Hilton. Chatswood Chess Club" has an open lightning event tomorrow evening.

The Alekhine Memorial tournaments commence next Saturday at the Chess Centre of NSW -telephone 211 2994 and will continue for nine weeks. The main open event is from 630 to 10.30 pm and the event for lower-ranked players will be played from 2 to 6 pm. ooaro at pm yesterday. lu tiena Meinikova (CIS) do. tWECTED ARRIVALS TODAY MIKHAIL SHOLOK.

DH 3. OPAL -'OU-i: HYfcLUKUSSIYA. SCPT OPAL 27B 051- XI FFNr. Km I SHOOTING DH 5. VSTAR 241 2601: ANRn! FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY at JATAKAK I A.

BU i. UBS 202 38 Ranoe: Dav 2: Mum A win in ruKI TODAY and variable winds. Temps: Dubbo 14-32. Parkes 14-32. Southwest Slopes: High fire danger Fine and mainly sunny day.

Light to moderate SWSE winds. Temps: Wagga 11-30. Albury 11-29 Rhrerina and MIA: High fire danger Fine and mainly sunny day. Light to moderate SSE winds Temps: Griffith 12-31. Deniliquin Upper Western: High fire danger Fineandmatnlysunnyday.

Light to moderate SE winds. Temps: Cobar 18-35. Bourke 20-37. CORNELIS VEROL. BD 2A.

ABC gfe- rflVJ VOLLEYBALL D33 ni if. UKItNIAL CRANE. BLB 1. PSS. CAPITAINE QUIR.

DH 9. DELM Antiniou 50 5 Northcott I Griffith 504. Rocks Lillicrap 49 5 fowler 48.3. A Phelps 482 Chaplin 47.3 Andracic 46.2. 700m Wright 50.8 Hart 505 Kennedy 502.

A Pearce 50.2 Brown 49.6 Moore 49.2. Doble 49.3 A Phelps 473 Andracic 47.1. 800m Butler 50.4 Wright 49.5 A Simms 49.5. Lillicrap 49.3 Brown 485 tAI-tl-ItU DEPARTURES TODAY BEL OMBRE BLS-S Hkl 777A74- DIET PEPSI LEAGUE at Surfers Paradise: MEN: Seml-t mnr: Fernandez (WA) 17 Prosser (WA) 1 5. Mjr: Surman (S A) 1 5 Janssens (Vic) 8.

Prelim 8 Fernandez (WA) 15 Janssens Pollution The maximum pollution index recorded yesterday was 17. a low reading. A low reading is forecast tor today. BYELORUSSIYA CPT ncsil Lowe Western: Moderate to hioh Cloud in WA associated with moist air and diurnal thunderstorms. Frontal doud lines are of Tas and in the ocean.

Cloud Lowd Howe bland remains of earlier front.j.- 278 051: CONUS. GOR'l. DAL fire danger. Fine and mainly sunny.