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21 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tu, Jan 1, 1980 28 Personal notices, Page 22 Classified ad index, Page 22 HUGHES LET OFF HOOK Laird leads fight long AUSTRALIA 156 and 3-167 WEST INDIES 397 MELBOURNE. A dropped cat ch has.allowed Australia to live to fight a New Year battle with the West In dies in the second cricket Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ian in, but in where? Bruce Laird pulls away after being struck on the hand by a ball from Michael at the MCG yesterday. Hickling has high hope for 'Honour From FRANK BIRD PERTH. Hobby trainer Ken Hickling declared last night that his stayer Regimental Honour would start in the Melbourne Cup "after winning the Perth Cup on New Year's Day." "I've got a horse who can stay and sprint and he'll be saved for the run home," Hick ling said.

He added that he would spell Regimental Honour after the $150,000 Perth Cup, 3200m, and make the 1980 Melbourne Cup his mission. Since his purchase by a WA syndicate headed by Hickling and his wife in Victoria 15 months ago. Regimental Honour has been a sensational success. His stake earnings of -only $9,000 in his Victorian career fade beside his WA winnings of $147,000 in 12 months. Last Wednesday, he showed that he was at peak form with an impressive win in the C.

B. Cox Stakes, 2400m, at Ascot, ridden by Roy Higgins. Last night Higgins said that Regimental Honour would not be troubled by the extra distance of the Perth Cup. Regimental Honour's Perth Cup jockey will be John Wilson who will be aiming for his fourth Perth Cup. He rode Meliador to win the 1979 Perth Cup.

Wilson predicted last night thvt his top-weight of 54kg, would not bother his mount. "He's a true handicapper and could be Australia's top stayer inside 12 months," he said. Regimental Honour is likely to firm on course to 3-1 outright favourite ahead of Victorian, Rothschild, who will be ridden by English jockey Willis Carson. Rothschild's trainer, Andy White, says he had an out an out stayer who has only 49kg, a drop of 10kg on the 59kg carried when he was third to Regimental Honour in the C. Cox Stakes.

Sydney jockey Malcolm Johnston, who will return to ride Meliador at Canterbury tomorrow, has the mount on the 8-1 chance Brechin Castle. But Brechin Castle has been under daily veterinary treatment for influenza. Her trainer, Bob Cramp, thinks that she will run a big race. Brechin Castle has not started since her convincing win on December 15 in a 2200-metre race at Ascot. She has a near-bottom weight of 49kg.

Owner trainer Bob Bransby has engaged Steve Cauthen, the champion US jockey, for the 33-1 chance Jungle Patrol. SELECTIONS: Regimental Honour 1 Rothschild 2 Brechin Castle 3. Latest marktt: 4 Regimental Honour 9-2 Rothschild 6 Santosa 8 Brechin Castlt 10 Rclnella 12 Belle Talk, Tobviofl 14 Gllbev 16 Olttanv, Great Cat 20 Truc-antattan. Gav Affair. Hvatt Kim Hughes, Australia's vice-captain, was the lucky batsman dropped at fourth slip by Lawrence Rowe off Michael Holding when he had scored six yesterdity.

Australia at thlt stage were 3-132. So Hughes went to 33 not out and Bruce Laird to 63 not out in an Australian second innings total of 3-167 by the time bad light ended the third day 40 minutes early. That left Australia still 74 runs short of a 241-run deficit after West Indies had replied to Australia's miserable first innings 156 with a formidable 397. Now much depends on Laird, who played a plucky innings of 246 minutes, and the fortunate Hughes if Australia "are to set the West Indies a second innings task. Peter Toohey is next in and, in his present form, it would be expecting a miracle for him to rattle up an impressive score.

After Rod Marsh. the Australian batting has little to offer. And the wicket is two-paced enough to make run-gathering tricky. Not that it seems that way as the West Indians added 61 runs for the loss of their last three wickets after resuming yesterday at 7-336. There was a light drizzle that lasted for most of the day.

The Australians, faced with a mammoth deficit, began shakily with Julien Wiener finding himself in all sorts of trouble against Roberts and Holding. Laird aside, the Australians took a completely irresponsible approach to their batting, waving unnecessarily at balls well outside the stumps and giving the West Indians every chance to wrap up the match quickly. Wiener was only the first of a line of culprits. From BRIAN MELBOURNE. The return of Ian Chappell, the former Test captain, to the Australian team will do nothing to make England's New Year prosperous.

Chappell, 36, was formally recalled by the Australian selectors yesterday for the second Test against England starting at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. In a general reshuffle after the withdrawal of Rodney Hogg with a back injury, the selectors have dropped left-arm spinner Ray Bright and brought in Chappell and NSW fast bowler Len Pascoe. Jeff Thomson, who missed the second Test against the West Indies being played in Melbourne, also returns to make a squad of 13 for the Sydney Test. Despite his form in a nets fitness trial in Brisbane on Sunday, I believe that Thomson will be dropped from the eventual line-up and that Peter Toohey will be made the 12th man. The inclusion of Ian Chappell, Australia's form batsman, will be a tremendous boost to the weakest department in the Australian team.

The South Australian captain, who retired from Test cricket after the 1975-76 series against the West Indies, has made 82, 60 not out, 63 not out and 154 in bis four most recent innings. AUSTRALIA 1st innings 156 WEST INDIES 1st innings Runs Min 4s GREENIDGE Higgs Dymock 48 137 5 HAYNES Hughes Dymock 29 32 4 RICHARDS Toohey Dymock 96 161 9 A KALL1CHARRAN Laird Higgs 39 88 4 ROWE Lillee 26 64 2 LLOYD Marsh Dymock 40 142 2 MURRAY Dymock 24 87 1 A ROBERTS lbw Lillee 54 90 6 GARNER Dymock Higgs 29 56. 5 HOLDING not out 1 19 CROFT lbw Higgs 0 7 Sundries (41b, 7nb) 11 TOTAL 397 Fall: 1-46 (Haynes) 2-156 (Greenidge) 3-215 (Richards) 4-226 Kallicharran) 5-250 (Rowe) 6-305 (Murray) 7-320 (Lloyd) 8-390 (Garner) 9-390 (Roberts) 10-397 (Croft). Denotes six. BOWLING Lillee 36 7 96 3 Hogg 6 0 59 0 Dymock 31 2 106 4 Higgs 34.4.

4 122 3 Chappell 5 2. 3 0 AUSTRALIA 2nd innings WEINER Murray Croft 24 70 1 LAIRD not out 63 246 3 A BORDER lbw Holding 15 73 2 CHAPPELL Murray Roberts 22 19 1 HUGHES not out 33 67 4 Sundries (71b, 3nb) 10 Three wickets for 167 Fall: 1-43 (Weiner) 2-88 (Border) 3-121 (Chappell). BOWLING 1 A Roberts 12 0 45 1 Holding 17 5 46 1 Croft 11 2 30 1 Garner 13 1 36 0 Baiting time: 246 min. Overs: 53. Crowd: 14,486.

Gate: $37,692.25. Holding in the second Test ramatta Cup at Rosehill on January 19. "After that he will be eased for a short time before 1 prepare him for the Sydney Cup, then the Brisbane Cup," Bridge said. There is definitely a big cup in store for this horse," he MOSSOP Ian Chappell It will be interesting to see the position in which lan Chappell will bat. He has been going in at No 3 for South Australia, but went in as No 6 in both the one-day internationals.

Toohey has been batting at No 6 in the Test team, but Allan Border, apart from his second innings century against England in Perth, has hot looked good at No 3. Chappell could lill either spot admirably. Pascoe, 29, certain to bowl in Sydney will be returning to Test cricket after three appearances in England during the 1977 tour. The Australian squad is: Greg chappell (capt). Kim Hughes (vlcc-capt), Bruce Laird, Jullcn Wiener, Allan Border, Peter Toohev.

Ian Chappell, Rodney Marsh, Dennis lee, Geoff Dvmock, Lcn Pascoe. JerJ Thomson and Jim Hlogs. From ALAN CLARKSON making gestures at anyone. He simply gets mad with himself. Nielsen had a long talk to Sadri after telling him of the fine and warned him against any repetition.

Nielsen has no doubt Sadri will quieten down. Hopefully he is right, because the young American is a good player. Reaching the semi-finals has been a surprise for Sadri. He did not believe he could do this well, although his driving ambition is to be the best in the world. He is ranked 45th in the world but after his performance in the Australian titles he will probably drop down to the 30s.

"I know I can get into the top 10," he said with the confidence that is part of his game. Sadri's main weapon is a blistering service. He started, intensive practice on improving his service when he was 19 and worked for two to two-and-a-half hours a day until he felt his right arm was ready lo drop off. He played in the Australian titles last year and got through a couple of rounds. 'Holiday justice9 for lucky Sadri sjr rafaL, MELBOURNE.

John Sadri was fined $250 yesterday for the language he used on court during his quarter-final singles win in the $00,000 Marlboro Australian Open tennis championships at Kooyong. From BRIAN MOSSOP But he survived long enough to make 24 runs in a total of 43 befoic edging a lifter from Croft to be caught behind by Ocryck Murray. At 51 Allan Border sparred outside the off stump and was lucky not to be caqght as the ball bounced just in front of diving second and third slips, Gordon Greenidge and Vivian Richards. That did not stop Border from flirting in his area of greatest weakness against the lifting ball. But when he went, it was to a shooter from Holding that kept low and trapped him in front.

Border's contribution to a total of 88 was 15 in 73 minutes, and there must be doubts about his ability to hold down the No 3 spot for much longer. Greg Cjiappell's innings was a mixture of the correct and the not so correct and he had made only 22 in 33 minutes when he attempted to hook Roberts and gloved a catch to Murray. Laird had reached his 50 in a patient 165 minutes, square-cutting Roberts after surviving an lbw appeal against the same bowler. Struck a nasty blow on the left hand earlier, the opener, at least, was full of fieht. Hughes instilled little confidence, before or after beine dropped.

But he hung on until the umpires called a halt and. with greater application, he-could still make things awkward. But nings after Australia's first-in-capitulation there seems the battinc armoury little mat can Keep tne West Indies from seeing in the New Year with their first win in Melbourne and an unbeatable 1-nil series lead. NSW in line for easy win TASMANIA 212 AND 5-196 NSW 6 (DEC) 517 LAUNCESTON. The NSW Sheffield Shield team is poised for an innings win and 22 bonus points in the match against Tasmania here today.

At 5-196 in their second innings on the third day, Tasmania are still 109 runs short of forcing NSW to bat again and their only hope of saving the match seems to rest on whether threatened rain eventuates. Yesterday, Tasmania resumed (heir first innings at 5-122 in reply to NSW's 6 (dec)-517. They were dismissed for 212 and were forced to follow-on. trailing by 305. After the dismissal of Robert Woolley, who shared top score of 61 with David Boon, Tasmania lost their final four wick-els for only 10 runs.

NSW paccman Geoff Lawson took 4-39 off 19 overs and leg-spinner Robert Holland 4-82 off 28 overs. In Tasmania's second innings, former "Sydney batsman Gary Goodman (20) and Rob Jeffery (43) figured in an opening partnership of 57. Today. Woolley (37) and skipper Brian Davison (27) will resume their unfinished partnership of 62 in 51 minutes, due mainly to adventurous batting by Woolley. In the first innings, Woolley and David Boon figured in a record sixth-wicket partnership of 114.

TASMANIA NEW SOUTH WALES At NTCA Ground, Launceston NSW 1st Innlnoa 6 (dec)-S17 TASMANIA 1st Innings GOODMAN Holland 12 JEFFERY lbw Pascoe 13 KNIGHT McCosker Holland 2 SMITH lbw Lawson 1 0 BOON lbw Lawson 61 1 DAVISON Rlxon Lawson 0 WOOLLEY Rlxon Lawson 61 CAMPBELL McCosker Holland 1 HADLEE not out 27 WILSON I Rlxon Holland 0 MAJEW5KI Rlxon Beard 21 Sundries (3b 21b 1w 7nb) 13 TOTAL 212 Fall! 17 25 26 38 43 1S7 160 160 167 212. BOWLING: Pascoe 20-3-64-1 Lawson 19-6-39- Beard 11-4-14-1 Holland 29-7-62-4. Battlnq lime; 290 mlns. Oversi 76. TASMANIA 2nd Innings GOODMAN lbw Lawson 20 JEFFERY Davis Lawson 43 KNIGHT McCosker Holland 9 0 SMITH Channcll Holland 10 ECCN Holland 32 1 DAVISON not out 27 WOCLLEY not out 37 Sundrlei (2b 4lb 1w llnb) 18 Five wickets lor 196 Palh 57 80 80 122 134.

BOWLING: Pascoe 14-7-31-0 Brard 16-3-23-0 Walters 2-0-15-0 Lawson 14-3-43-2 Holland 21-8-66-3. Ratting tlmel 2S7 mlns. Overt: 67. Crowd: 200. onus polntu NSW 11 Tal 4.

Laird has his injured hand sprayed by an Australian trainer. Recall Ian's mouth magic MELBOURNE. I have a suggestion to offer Australian cricket administration now that Ian Chappell has been given absolution. Eye Spy the Sydney Gupi says Les Bridge By BERT LILLYE Ambitious plans were announced for Eye Spy after he emerged as the best horse to run at the lacklustre Randwick meeting yesterday. Sadri was reported for one incident of an audible obscenity during his 7-6 6-3 6-7 6-4 win against Rod Frawley.

In the other singles quarterfinal, failing light stopped play with Mark Edmondson leading Col Dibley 6-3 4-6 6-3. Sadri, 23, of the US, was reported for only one of several incidents during his match against Frawley. Kurt Nielsen, the "super referee" at the tournament, took reports from linesmen, the central umpire and from tournament referee Jim Entink. Nielsen spoke to Sadri after a doubles match and told him he had been fined $250. Sadri was also told that the fine could have been heavier but he was being let off with the light amount because it was New Year's Eve and it was the last Grand Prix tournament ot the season.

Sadri, hopefully, will learn from this fine. In the several matches I have seen him play he has used gestures with his hand and his racquet and he is far too vocal. He explained earlier in the week that he is not swearing or 200 Bold Billy nyaronigni, junoi rairoi Bridge's original plan for Eye Spy was to run him in the last AJC Metropolitan. That mission was shelved when the five-year-old Caught a cold and was spelled. Eye Spy, who was foaled by an unraced Premonition mare, has stout staying blood in his pedigree.

By Dik Browne His highly publicised powers of invective, his masterly control of the well chosen word, his undoubted ability to get his message across should be fostered and encouraged and pointed at last in the right direction. Many times during this match the thought has crossed my mind that some modern cricket version of the pioneering bullock drivers of the past century would be worth his weight in gold in handing out salutory advice to young batsmen who appear to be hell bent on throwing their wickets away. So many opportunities, therefore, will come Ian's way that I fear for the souls ol the SCG members who will be within ear-shot of the dressing room next week once he clears his throat. If Chappcll's recall was inspired with this important job in mind I confess that for the first time this season 1 fully agree with the cricket hierarchy. Australian batting has slumped frightcningly.

Recklessness and slap-dash tac-. tics have become an over-by-over feature. Bruce Laird's performance yes- From BILL O'REILLY terday was easil ily the best, 1 have seen technically, that trom an Australian since Greg Chappell's century in Brisbane. Despite the fact that Laird was giving an inspiring, if not completely copybook, example at one end, first Julien Wiener, then Allan Border and Kim Hughes' reacted as though Test cricket meant no more to them than a halfhearted workout at the nets. I felt a strong urge to include Greg Chappell in that list too, seeing that twice this season he has fallen foul of his faulty hook shot.

The West Indies fully deserve the win they will reap if this match goes on uninterrupted. They have bowled better, fielded better, and batted infinitely better than the Australians. Their speed bowlers have the uncanny knack of serving intelligently to our batting weaknesses. The New Zealand-bred gelding was bought especially to win a feature staying race in Australia and his immediate target is the Sydney Cup at Randwick next Easter. Trainer Les Bridge made a special trip to New Zealand last May to buy Eye Spy as a tried horse and rated him an odds-on chance to win yesterday.

Bridge could hardly believe his eyes when bookmakers gambled against Eye Spy easing his odds from 10-9 to 2-1 for the Sunset Handicap, Any fears Bridge may have felt before the race were allayed when Eye Spy ran out a comfortable winner. Eye Spy (2-1) beat Asnazu (7-2) by a length and three-quarters, with a further long neck to Flaming Desert (6-1) third. "He won like a top stayer in the making, but he is crving out for more ground." jockey John Marshall said later. Bridge plans to start Eye Spy over at Rosehill next Saturday, then the $15,400 Par- Sadri fell foul of the officials for an incident after the third set when he led 4-1 in the tiebreaker but lost the set to the gritty Queenslander. Frawley, whose return of service is a strong point, had difficulty in handling the speed of Sadri's services.

Mark Edmondson took the first set of his match against Col Dibley and led 2-0 in the second set. Dibley, who has rarely played better in Australia than in this tournament, broke back to level at 2-2, and then cracked Edmondson's service for the set. Mr Entink used a photographer's light meter to test the light. He ruled after the third set that it was too dull for championship tennis. The match will continue this morning.

It will be a tough day for Dibley. He has to resume his quarter-final match and, if he wins, play a semi-final and a semi-final in the doubles. In today's semi-finals Guil-lermo Vilas will play Victor Amaya and Sadri will meet the winner of the Edmondson-Dib-ley match. MARY field only because of the number of withdrawals. She had played and been beaten in qualifying rounds in three previous tournaments.

Yesterday she gained confidence as the match progressed and won the first set tie-breaker seven points to nil. She had an uneasy moment in the second set, when after leading S-nll, she dropped the next three games. "It worried me. I lost concentration, hut was able to pick up in that final game," Mary said. Today in the semi-finals she meets Sharon Walsh, who breezed into the seml-finnis niih a 6-0 6-3 win over Michel Gnrdal.

In the other semi-final Barbara Jordan meets Rcnata Tomanova. WIN OR LOSE, Rand wick's training tracks are a worry Owners, trainers and Jockeys are upset about the disgraceful condition of the training tracks at Randwick. There were strong moves yesterday to form a deputation to complain to the AJC committee. Randwick, a sand-based track, has been ravaged by an unusually long drought, hut jockeys claim that the training tracks do not receive enough watering. The A grass, once the equal almost of the course proper, now is a burned out.

sparsely grassed rink. Curator George Johnstone is not to blame. His staff was pruned from 35 to 2V, which becomes a strength of 18 because each man is entitled to five weeks holiday a year. I hear that the Randwick ground staff will be Increased In the immediate future, and an additional bore has been put down. BERT LILLYE.

WANTS REST HAGAR THE HORRIBLE From ALAN CLARKSON MELBOURNE. Mary Sawyer intends sticking to her plan to take a complete rest from tennis, despite making the semi-finals of the Australian Open championship at Kooyong yesterday. Showing her bubbling personality, Mary won her quarter-final against Janet Newberry 7-6 6-3 yesterday. Later she said she would play in two more tournaments early this month and then have a three-month rest. She said she had spent only three months in the past five years at her home in Perth.

"I will do anything, but play tennis in those three months," Mary said. "I've had no experience at any sort of work so I'll prob BELIEVE MB, LIFE IS, ft doiJ't YoU Not missyouk at old house OMCE TriE KIPS LEFT I COULPM'Tr TO MOVE TO A SMALLEP PLACE ably get a job as a barmaid or driving a car, or something like that," she added. In her matches Mary has not given any indication that there is the slightest cloud on her horizon. She is a wonderful personality on the court. She tries desperately hard for every point, but has not forgotten how to smile.

Her little squeals and shouts of anguish add to the colourful personality she has developed during the titles. Mary did not Rive herself much of a chance of setting past the first round when she was driivtn to play Inp seed iruinin Ruzlcl, but she won in three sets. Mary gained a place In the Battle royal by VJs A desperate battle has emerged between So What, sailed by Geoff Hughes, and Craig Hughes's Nu Htssy for final honours in the Australian VJ championships at St George today. The unrelated Hughes have sailed evenly throughout the scries, but were brought closer together with Geoff's second and Craig's fourth placing in the fourth heat yesterday, leaving them only a quarter of a point apart. It's Pegasus (David Anstcy) won the race convincingly in a dying 15 knot breeze.

But gear damage and capsizes in the earlier heats have left it out of the title race. Friction, sailed by Michael Law, has taken the junior title with its second win yesterday..