The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 25

THE AGE, Monday 14 May 1984 25 Sport Extra 3 Moffat hurt in touring car crash at Surfers Win to Baker-Finch First major who, was struggling to maintain his slender lead. As the leading quartet raced under the Dunlop Bridge on lap 17, Moffat touched the Falcon of Wilmington, who was being lapped. Both Moffat and Wilmington left the track, as did Harvey's Commodore. Johnson was able to maintain a two second lead over McLeod following the incident. Richards moved into third place, followed by Tasmanian Steve Harrington and Victorian Warren Cullen.

both in Commodores. Johnson now leads the championship with 91 points, ahead of McLeod, 77, Peter Brock, 73, Cullen, 48, Richards, 46, and Moffat 45. Comodore had also been involved in the incident Ambulance drivers attended Moffat, who suffered severe shock, and doctors at Southport Hospital said he had suspected broken bones in both hands. However, a hospital spokesman said last night that Moffat was in a satisfactory condition and had been allowed to go home. Neither Harvey nor the other driver involved in the incident Sydney's Garry Wilmington, suffered injuries despite badly damaging their cars.

Dick Johnson won the 25-lap race run in wet conditions, finishing 3.8 seconds ahead of Peter McLeod's Mazda RX7, with Jim Richards, third in the JPS BMW, a further 24.2 seconds away. BRISBANE Touring car champion Allan Moffat was rushed to Southport Hospital yesterday afternoon following a high-speed crash during the fourth round of the Australian touring car championship. Moffat's Peter Stuyvesant Mazda RX7 speared off the Surfers Paradise circuit backwards under the infamous Dunlop Bridge when he touched a slower car while attempting to move into second place. The Mazda skated 400 metres across wet grass, missing a solid tyre barrier and a marshal's car before crashing head-long Into a small tree. Moffat was pulled from the badly damaged car by Marlboro HDT driver John Harvey, whose Boomers win, but Gaze not satisfied Driving the Palmer Motorcraft Ford Falcon.

Johnson won the start and was never headed throughout the 80 kilometre race. Race teams waited until the final minute before the start before deciding whether they should switch to treaded wet weather tyres. However, all elected to run on dry weather racing slicks. Harvey, from the second row, moved into second place maintaining a two second gap from leader Johnson until lap 12 when he was passed by McLeod. Three laps later Moffat displaced the Commodore driver to fourth position.

On lap 15, the leading four cars had bunched behind Johnson racing at Flem-ington, but not a horse in sight. This was the scene at Headquarters yesterday during the running of the Australian 10km professional athletics championship. BELOW: Viv Woodward scores a clear win Pictures: PETES MAYOH Smiles at last as China stays in LOS ANGELES, 13 May. After several days of bad news about countries withdrawing from the Los Angeles Olympics, Games officials yesterday broke their own rules to announce that China would attend. They had previously refused to disclose which countries had for- mally agreed to take part, saying it was inappropriate to do so be- fore the deadline for acceptance on 2 June.

But officials telephoned reporters with the news that China bad 'officially agreed to take part, the announcement coming four days after the Soviet Union said it would pull out. The president of the Los Angeles Organising Committee. Peter Ueberroth, later gave a news conference to discuss the development "If you are getting battered about and there is some good news, I think it is only to fair to mix it (with the bad news)." he said. The Los Angeles Games will be the first at which China and Nationalist-ruled Taiwan will both compete. The Soviet Union and six of its allies East Germany.

Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia, Mongolia. Viet- nam and Laos have cited fears for the safety of their athletes in Los Angeles as the reason for withdrawing from the Games. Ueberroth said he would definitely travel to Lausanne in Switzerland for a special meeting of international Olympic officials on Friday if the head of the Soviet Olympic Committee. Marat Gra-mov, was also going to be there.

He renewed his charge that the Soviet Union was trying to persuade non-communist countries as well as its allies to pull out of the Games. "I do not think there is a Third World country, a developing nation, or a non-aligned nation that is not feeling the (Soviet) pressure." he said. Ueberroth said he believed African countries that boycotted the 1976 Olympics in protest at New Zealand's rugby links with South Africa would not do so again, although they are objecting to an English rugby tour of South Africa. He based his belief on the fact that a similar rugby tour in 1980 did not prompt African countries to pull out of the Moscow Games. in MOSCOW, the first bid by an international sports chief to reverse the Soviet withdrawal has had no visible impact and Moscow has reinforced its decision with a growing media campaign in support of the pull-out.

title rising PERTH, Young Queens-lander Ian Baker-Finch scored his first major Australian golf title with a four-stroke win in the $40,000 Western Australian Open at Royal Perth yesterday. The 23-year-old Baker-Finch shot five birdies in his four-under- par 68 for a total of 272 16 under. He beat titleholder Terry Gale. a five-times winner of the Open. The West Australian veteran could manage only a 71 yesterday.

WA'S Other class nlavpr in the hieh-calibre field. Graham Marsh was a further three strokes behind. The tall, well-built Raker-Finrh who has emerged as Australia's rising star in tne past six months, averaged 68 for the fnnr rnnnrfc tn reap a $7200 cheque. Gale and Marsh both played superbly from tee to green, but lessened flip nrKsnrp An tho young front-runner by failing to caDitalise nn the preens Hale who trailed by a stroke after the Uhird round never reallv recov ered from a double-bogey at the par 3 second. After missing the green ne cnippea to witnin Z'2 metres but uncharacteristically three-putted.

In typical fashion, he fought back and got within two strokes of Baker-Finch after narrowly missing a hole-in-one at the 14th. But a bogey five at the 15th made the task virtually impossible. Marsh, who now heads for Japan again, finished with a bird ie after an eagle-chip rested on the edge of the hole, for a 70. He was frustrated man after pepper- Connors crashes 6-0, 6-0 From RICHARD EVANS NEW YORK, 13 May. Jimmy Connors, the reigning US Open champion and one of the greatest winners the game has known, suffered the extraordinary humiliation of losing 6-0, 6-0 to Ivan Lendl In a semi-final of the WCT Tournament of Champions, at Forest Hills here.

Just after John McEnroe had completed his 31st consecutive victory of the year with a straight-sets destruction of Jimmy Arias, Connors emerged on a court which was surrounded by his favorite New York fans expecting to see him to perform with all his customary exuberance and skill. Instead, they saw a slaughter. There was nothing physically wrong with Connors, he just got thrashed by a man who produced enough fire-power on the damp clay to drill boles in a brick wall. Unfortunately for Jimmy, his defences proved to be about as comparatively resilient as plywood. Lendl, looking supremely confident, didn't bother to attack the net.

Playing the way that comes most naturally to him on a slow surface, he stayed back, raking the court with powerful drives until Connors made an error. Whenever the American tried to come in, Lendl picked his spot, and passed him. It was all over in 52 minutes. Connors, who has never failed to win a game in his illustri- Woodward races off with title Despite drubbing the Yugoslav national league team Buduc-nost three times in as many days, the Australian men's basketball team urgently needs tough international competition, according to its coach, Lindsay Gaze. Speaking after his team had comfortably beaten Buducnost 103-65 at Albert Park yesterday afternoon.

Gaze said: "We need four series of games like this one against the Yugoslavs. I'm satisfied with our performance as the start of our preparation, not the final product." The Boomers were to have played a top-flight United States college team here in mid-June but the trip was cancelled. Since then Gaze has invited Italy, China and West Germany to tour Australia before the Los Angeles Olympic Games but without success. His latest plan to give his team much needed preparation against the European playing style is to send his assistant coach, Adrian Hurley of the Australian Institute of Sport, to Paris this week to try to persuade teams competing at the European Olympic qualifying tournament to tour Australia before Los Angeles. Closer to the Games, Gaze intends to take the team to a large naval base in San Diego, United States, where the competition will be superior to college basketball, he says.

Australia defeated Buducnost, a middle ranking team in the first division of Yugoslavia's prestigious national league, 102-80 in Sydney on Friday night and 98-80 in Canberra on Saturday night before some 2500 people. Yesterday, only 1100 or so squeezed into Albert Park. The crowd would have been sizably bigger had the match been played Minutes before the break NSW had a golden opportunity to draw level when Australian Institute of Sport full-back Ken Wark used clever variation on a penalty corner to find an unmarked Morgan, who slotted the ball past Olympic goalkeeper Neil Snowden. However, South Australian umpire DougSchirripa ruled an incorrect trap by Wark and disallowed the goal. NSW peppered the Victorian goal with a succession of shots in the opening minutes.

But it was Victoria which scored first when its fourth Olympian, Colin Batch, converted a penalty stroke in the 39th minute. Three minutes later veteran Tony Gillon, one of the best players for Victoria, scored a superb individual goal to sweep his side to a commanding 4-1 lead and NSW was shattered. NSW goalkeeper Bob Proctor was forced to leave the field midway through the first half after he was accidentally kneed by a Victorian attacker. It is feared the injury could sideline him for the rest of the series. A second successive hat-trick by Olympic striker Terry Walsh star Jan Bafeer-Firzch: confident ing the pin all week, but never getting his putting in order.

Full credit must go to Baker-Finch, who made some telling putts for par but also missed bis fair share of birdies yesterday. "I felt the pressure early, but after saving par at the sixth and the 1 1th, each from six feet, I became more relaxed," he said. "I am rapt at winning. It hasn't really sunk in yet It is my first big win in Australia and it was done against some good company." Baker-Finch, who won the New Zealand Open last November and was runner-up in the Australian Open in the same month, showed great poise and confidence yesterday. Starting at 12 under, he set a target of being 14-under after nine holes, a feat he accomplished after three birdies and a bogey at the second.

Leading scores: 272 1 Baker-Fincb (Old) 70. 67. 67 68. 276 Gale (WA) 66. 69.

70. 71. 279 Marsh (WA) 71. 69. 69.

70. 282 R.ley (NSW) 70. 72. 68. 72.

284 A Mowatt (am. WA) 7S. 69. 69. 71: Moore (Old) 72.

68. 70. 74. 286 Shaw (NSW) 73. 68.

74. 71: McWnmney (NSW) 72. 72. 72. 70: Parry (am.

WA) 71. 71. 69. 75. 287 Smith (WA) 72.

71. 74. 70. 288 Senior (Old) 70. 72.

72. 74. 289 1 Senior (Old) 73. 73. 69.

74. 290 Slephen (WA) 70. 75. 68. 77.

291 Perfrernent (NSW) 73. 73. 73. 72: Davis (NSW) 70. 73.

73. 75; I Stanley (Vk) 71. 67. 76. 77.

Jimmy Connors: heaviest loss ous 14-year professional career, won only 16 points. Lend! said later. "Of course it was very satisfying for me. I was bitter about Jimmy, not as a person but as a player, after the way he had beaten me in two US open finals, so I wasn't going to give him a chance to get into the match." Bravely, under the circumstances. Connors attended the post-match news conference but was somewhat on the defensive, naturally enough.

"Okay, whafdo you want me to say?" he asked. "That Lendl's a God? Today he just played too well." In contrast to Lendl, McEnroe produced his full variety of strokes against Arias, who is ranked number five in the world and is supposed to be at his best on clay. Spectators would never have guessed, watching the way McEnroe toyed with him. Drop shots and angled volleys and a high percentage of first serves were the main weapons the New Yorker used to romp through a 6-1, 6-2, rout In this form he makes the game look ridiculously easy. yesterday to take a four-stroke lead into the final round of the JUS500.000 (about SA545.000) Byron Nelson golf classic.

Stadler, who with an eight-under-par total of 205 is bidding for his first victory in 20 months, had an eagle, seven birdies and a double bogey during the round that he called: "Maybe my best this year." Australian Wayne Grady, who was second after a first round 68, slipped back with round of 74 and 72 to be on 214, equal with countryman David Graham, who fired a 66 yesterday. Leading scores: 20S Craig Sladter 70. 71. Mike Smith 74. 67.

68 211 lee Trevino 72. 70. 69: Tom Watson 73. 72. 66: Mark OMeara 74.

71. 66 212 Andy Bean 74. 69. 69: Jay Haas 70. 72.

70: David Edwards 68. 7S. 69: Chio Beck 74. 69. 69 213 Tom Kite 72.

73. 68: Oave Ban- (Can) 67. 73. 73: George Archer 72. 69.

72; Payne Stewart 75. 70. 68 214 Wayne Grady (Aust) 68. 74. 72: David Graham (Aust) 72.

76. 66: Hal Sutton 75. 68. 71 HAMBURG, 13 May Unseeded Juan Aguilera of Spain added another big name to his list of victims when he beat Argentina's Guillermo Vilas to reach the final of the West German Open tennis tournament yesterday. Aguilera, who knocked out reigning champion Yannick Noah of France on Friday, won 7-6, 6-3.

In today's final he meets Henrik Sundstrom, who beat fellow Swede Mats Wilander for the second successive time, 6-2, 7-5. LONDON, 13 May Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle both shot third round 66s to threaten Howard Clark's bid for his first British golf tournament win in the Car Care Plan International at Moortown, Leeds, yesterday. Leading scores: 20S Faldo 69. 70. 66: Clark 68.

68. 69 207 Lyle 69. 72. 66: Waters 71. 69.

67 209 Rivero (Soain) 72. 67. 70 210 1 Canizares (Spain) 73. 72. 6S: B.

Waites 71. 71. 68 WA, Victoria clear Allan Moffat: allowed to leave hospital after treatment ner, Toshiba Yamaha Dealer team rider Stephen Gall was sec ond and expatriot American Marty Moates finished third. BRISBANE An attempt to have the 1987 World Student Games staged in Brisbane had failed, the city's Lord Mayor, Alderman Roy Harvey, announced from Venice las! night. He said Zagreb in Yugoslavia had been awarded the Games.

Alderman Harvey said despite Brisbane would still be bidding for the 1992 Olympic Games. SYDNEY Concord marksman Ian Griffiths yesterday finally won a Queen Prize the New South Wales title at Malabar's Anzac rifle range. Griffiths, 39, finished the three-day event ahead of 500 other com petitors with a score of 348 from a possible 355, including 31 central bulls. Also on 348, but with less cen trals, were Port Jackson's Mark Buchanan and Spencer Dunstall from Ungane. Buchanan, the overnight lead er, posted 28 centrals and Dunstall, 24.

Another five marksmen record ed 347 with six on 346 and seven BRISBANE The powerful Auckland Rugby pack yesterday paved the way for a 27-3 win over Queensland at Ballymore. Auckland scored four tries to none in the whitewash. big time P.MEIB. 12.8 14.12 22.18 26 23 (179) STOWH 2 1 117 17 11 19 IS M2 Goals: Port Melb: O'Riley 4. Cock 4.

Love 4, Goss 4. Hrkins 4. Swan Rodda Anderson 7 Wilbantstown: Fothenngham 7, Hummel 5. Sim mons 4. Hoss.

Dullard. Sail. MurDhy. Best: Port Melb: Swan. Ferinno.

Coltms. Carter, Ctark. Rcdda. Love. WiBiamstown: Simmons.

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Umpires: Torney. Vergona. Goalkickers M.Fotheraigham (W'twn)7 32 I. Morrison (Sand) 24 F.Cook (Port Metj4 18 R.Brever (Sand) 18 P.Stevemon (Camb) 16 cf84.10.11o6 Next week Port Melb Camb PraHran Wlown West Freston sand Uandenong ODurg frank ston SDnngvale Werrtbee. Thirds scores Springy 19.12 Dand 15.16 Frank 24 Sand b.

Oak 19.5 Moor lb.l Berwick JJ.b Mord 3.6 Pres 24.21 Camb S.4 Cob 2S.18 Northc 12.10 Wav 19 20 Bruns 18.10 Bos 23.17 Kik CIS Melb 28.22 Willm 18.1 Werr 37.29 Geel 3.4 Suns 17.18 Caul 8.7, pra bye. VFA beats SA by two goals ADELAIDE A composite VFA Second Division side defeated the South Australian Football Associa tion team by two goals in the inter state clash at Thebarton Oval yesterday. The Victorians overcame sluggish start they trailed by five goals at half-time to out- score the SAFA by seven goals in the second half and win 17.14 (116) to 15.14 (104). Kicking with a strong breeze in the last quarter, SAFA was only five points in arrears, but it could not match the VFA's tenaritu By MATTHEW RICKETSON at the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre, but that venue was unavailable because of the forthcoming ice skating show featuring Torvill and Dean. Playing their third match in as many days, the Yugoslavs simply ran out of puff in contrast to their opponents who are conditioned to playing three games in three States over three days for their National Basketball League clubs.

During what may be their last game in Australia before the Olympics, the Boomers meshed smoothly, particularly in defence, but were rarely pressured as they moved the ball downcourt or set up a player to take a shot More importantly, perhaps, Ray Borner (210cm) and Brad Dalton (201cm) bullocked and bustled under the boards. As the captain, Phil Smyth, said after the match, "that's the first time I can remember Australia outmuscling a European side. We traditionally have been undersized but that is not the case anymore." The Buducnost coach, Vlado Djurovic, a former first division, national league player in Yugoslavia, was unhappy with his team. For much of the game yesterday, Djurovic, a tall, imposing figure in a natty camel, double-breasted suit who bears some resemblance to Ron Barassi, berated his team for their tardiness. After the game he said bis team "played very badly, we are very While Djurovic thought Australia was unlikely to win a medal at the Olympics (his choice is the United States followed by Yugoslavia and Italy), he was most impressed by Smyth who, he said, would make the Yugoslav Olympic team, and 18-year-old Andrew Gaze, who is good enough to play first division in Yugoslavia's na-tional league.

in hockey sparked Western Australia to its runaway win over previously third-placed Tasmania. Walsh followed his three-goal haul against NSW on Saturday with another triple in a performance that confirmed beyond doubt he has beaten the knee problems that have him plagued for the past two years. The West Australians were always the masters, racing to a 6-0 lead by half-time with three goals by full-back Craig Davies and one each by fellow internationals Terry Leece, Peter Haselhurst and David Francis. It was then left to Walsh to complete the rout with his hat-trick in the second half and help the title-holder register its third double-figure score of the tournament WA has now tallied an incredible 41 goals from its four matches while conceding two. In the remaining matches Queensland beat Northern Territory 6-0 and South Australia disposed of an enthusiastic ACT 4-1.

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The Victoria-NSW match was an absorbing battle that did little to settle the question of supremacy between the two arch-rivals, despite Victoria's comfortable winning margin. Two disallowed NSW goals and a dazzling three-minute burst by Victoria early in the second half finally separated the teams. NSW got away to a fine start when junior World Cup left-winger Wayne Morgan scored an opportunist goal from a penalty corner in the first minute. But the Victorians recovered well and grafted their way back to a 2-1 lead at half-time with goals by Los Angeles Olympians Jim Irvine and Nigel Patmore. UK ban fears grow Vivian Woodward scorted an outstanding win in the Coles Australian 10 km athletic championship at Flemington racecourse yesterday.

The Devonport-based Woodward, in one of the best runs of his career, clocked 30 mins 53 sees on the tough course over two laps of the dirt track. Second place went to defending champion Frank Shevlin in 31:07, with fellow-Victorian Michael O'Connor a further 18 seconds behind in third place. "I was very determined. I don't like people telling me a week before the race they are going to beat me," Woodward said after chalking up his 33rd national title. Last weekend in Devonport, Woodward set an Australian record of 13:59 for 5000 metres when he took the Australian title for that distance.

The sealed handicap conducted in conjunction with yesterday's championship was dominated by Geelong athletes. Rory Wilson took handicap honors with a run of 33:20. Ward Scynczak was second and veteran Frank Cato was third. Stawell runner Kevin Liston won the over-40 championship while Bendigo's Jack Clarke landed the over-50 title. West Australian teenager Jeff Leisk won the 1 1th Castrol Mr Motocross series at the Reg Hunt Park circuit, Broadford, yesterday.

Leisk convincingly beat Australia's top motocross competitors in three of the four heats. Four-times Mr Motocross win the square and star full-forward Mark Fotheringham was starved of opportunities. The result left Williamstown supporters with serious doubts about whether their team can perform under pressure against the stronger sides. It should be remembered that its first three wins were against moderate opposition in Frankston, Coburg and Springvale. Port Melbourne, on the other hand, showed it still has the strength and depth of talent to again play a major part in this year's finals.

First division I for Agst PC Pts 194.4 16 171.6 16 140.0 12 117.5 12 116.0 12 102.3 8 99.3 8 95.9 4 65.7 4 61.3 4 65.5 47.9 CWELL C. WEST SHAM PRESTON W'stovm Frankston Coburg Port Mek. Dandenong PVahran Sertagvate Werribee 4 Ktt 327 4 647 377 3 1 75 4SZ 449 563 4b5 484 473 435 438 S25 547 370 S63 414 675 4 428 653 4 280 584 7 DENNIS JOSE Boroughs back in BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY MELBOURNE. SUNOaV, NOON 11884 LONDON, 13 May Fears are growing here that England could be blocked from competing in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh as a protest against the England rugby tour of South Africa which starts this week. Black African and Third World countries are said to have enough votes to force through a ban at the 26 July meeting of the Commonwealth Games Federation in Los Angeles, the 'Sunday Times' reported.

Anti-apartheid groups have been frantically lobbying to gain support from the necessary two-thirds of the 55 member countries within the federation. Sam Ramsamy, chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, the unofficial body which co-ordinates sports boycotts of South Africa, said: "I have counted the votes and we will win by a big majority." There has been concern in the federation about the lack of condemnation of the South Africa tour from the English Commonwealth Games Federation. PARIS, 13 May Ahmed Saleh of Djibouti won the Paris marathon yesterday in a time of 2 hrs 11 mins 58 sees. France's Jacky Boxberger, last year's winner, was second in 2:11.59 and Saleh's compatriot Djama Robleh was third in 2:12.11. In Frankfurt, Ethiopians Sefa Nedi (2:11.18) and Kebedi Balcha (2:11.40) finished first and second in the Hoechst marathon.

Charlotte Tesker of West Germany was the first woman in 2:31.17. IRVING (Texas), 13 May Craig Stadler equalled the course record with a seven-under-par 64 C0.0..O.. A A i 1 34- WA north-westerly wind of 10 to 15 knots. Slight to choppy sea. MELBOURNE AND CITY AREA: Fine.

A cool and mainly sunny day after early morning frost patches. Light to moderate north-westerly wind. EHT 18 deg. Outlook for Tuesday: Fine. Cool to mild.

North-west wind. CAPITAL CITY FORECASTS Sydney: Mostly sunny; 21. Adelaide: Mainly fine; 19. Canberra: Fine; 17. Hebart Showers; 14.

Brisbane: Showers; 23. Townsville: Fine; 28. Darwin: Fine; 32. Alice Springs: Fine; 23. Perth: Showers 21.

THE TIDES TODAY Port Phitkp Heads High Water: 11.09 am. 11.11 pm. Low Water: 3.50 am. 4.38 pm. Willumstown High Water 12.S7 am.

2.15 pm. Low Water: 7.49 am. 8.16 pm. Tooradm High Water: 12.32 pm. 12.34 am.

Low Water: 5.13 am. 6.01 pm. TOMORROW Port PMIv Heads High Water 12.12 pm. Low Water. S.04 am.

5.54 pm. Williamstown High Water 1.S2 am. 3.25 pm. Low Water. 8.51 am.

9.21 pm. Tooradm High Water 1.3S pm. Low Water 6.27 am. 7.17 pm. suxf PUKETS TODAY Rises Sets Port Melbourne, which was in danger of sliding into oblivion after three straight losses, showed it will still be a power in the VFA this season with a decisive 50-point win over a disappointing Williamstown yesterday.

The Boroughs, spurred by playing coach Warwick Irwin, set up their first win of the season with a brilliant 12-goal first quarter which stunned the previously unbeaten Seagulls. The home side managed only two goals. Williamstown officials billed the game as the club's centenary match in the VFA and the younger players appeared overawed by the occasion. Port Melbourne kicked to the scoreboard end, favored by the breeze, and with Irwin, Bill Swan, Kevin Goss and Jason Love running riot, set up a match winning 68-point lead at the first change. High-marking forward Grant O'Riley and veteran full-forward Fred Cook were also dominant players in the early part of the match and Williamstown playing coach Terry Wheeler was powerless to stop the onslaught.

Ruckman Graeme Clark, a late replacement for Brett Chadband, surprised with a solid performance against the Seagulls' giant ruckman Kim Kershaw at the centre bounces. Williamstown struggled to clear the ball from Isolated showers wr rooorted from Itw coast and ranges yesterday and snow Ml on mt northeast highlands. The highest rainfall lor the 6 hours to 3 pm was 4mm at Mount Hotham. The sky was partly cloudy and a light and variable wind prevailed inland. In the south a west to northwesterly wind was locally fresh.

Maximum temperatures yaried mainly between 13 and 17 degrees, the eatremes being 19 degrees at MUdura and 1 degree at Mount Hotham. In Melbourne, the temperature ranged from 4.9 degrees at 7.20 am to 16.7 degrees at 1.40 pm. A nigh over the Bight emends a ridge over Victoria and New South Wales. A broad westerly airstream with embedded cold fronts covers ocean waters south of the continent. The high wM move slowly eastwards and remain the dominant feature controlling the weather in Victoria.

FORECASTS FC3 TCOAY WARNINGS: NIL VICTORIA: Isolated coastal showers clearing during the day. Fine elsewhere after early morning fog and frost patches. A cool and generally day with light to moderate west to north-west erly wind. Slight to moderate sea. CENTRAL DISTRICT: Fine after early morning inland fog and frost patches.

A cool and mainly sunny day. Light to moderate west to northwesterly wind. Outlook for Tuesday: Fine. Cool to mild. North-west wind.

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