The Age du lieu suivant : Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 52

10 1HE Ml 6 OCTOBER 1997 Picture: ANGELA WYLIE Norwood the new premier Football EbDnttz' odd tig" I Athletics i Norwood broke a 13-year drought to win the SANFL premiership by a massive 73 points against arch-rival Port Adelaide before a near capacity crowd at Football Park in Adelaide yesterday. Norwood showed it deserved being tagged the best team in the South Australian competition under coach Peter Rohde by inflicting Port Adelaide's worst finals defeat. The Redlegs increased their lead at every change to deny the Magpies a fourth premiership on the trot, running out comfortable winners 19.12 (126) to 7.11 (53). Both teams fielded players from last weekend's history-making AFL premiership side Adelaide, with Brett James and Aaron Keating lining up for Norwood and Troy Bond with Port. The Magpies, without Scott Hodges (injured), also called on Crows Simon Tregenza and Brett Chalmers as well as the Power's Peter Burgoyne, Nigel Fiegert, Tom Carr and Stephen Carter.

But it was to no avail as the minor premier, without captain and dual Magarey medallist Garry Mcintosh (suspended), controlled the midfield at the start and never looked back. Norwood, kicking into a strong breeze, took the game out of Port's reach halfway through the second quarter and all but throttled the Magpies in the third term. Port, which lost Chalmers in the second quarter, had few winners but Norwood's drive from the centre and half-back produced match winners for them all over the ground. Mercurial rover John Cunningham, who finished with two goals, was inspirational and collected the Jack Oatey Medal for best afield. Harvey and James West both chipped in with three goals and Andrew Pascoe, lames, Stephen Pitt, Andrew Jarman and James Thiessen put in significant contributions.

For Port, there was no trademark comeback and nothing worked for coach Stephen Williams despite valiant efforts by captain Tim Ginever, Bond, Tregenza and Mark Clayton. JIM STYNES has claimed his fourth Melbourne best and fairest award, defeating Todd Viney, Andrew Leon-celli, Glenn Lovett and Andrew Inger-son. It was Stynes' third win in a row. The other was in his Brownlow Medal year of 1991. By LEN JOHNSON Greg Lyons was a national junior steeplechase champion until he was told to give away running because of chronic foot problems.

Now, 17 years later, Lyons' feet are so much better that he was able to dance away from his opposition yesterday to win the Fit for Life Melbourne Marathon. After the race, which he won by more than three minutes in two hours IS minutes 51 seconds, Lyons recalled the medical advice he had been given. "My doctor and physio told me to give it away or I'd end up in a wheelchair. I found other things to do, but they don't give you that high you get from running. Lyons left school early and worked in a variety of jobs, most demanding physical labor.

In 1990, he returned to running, of sorts, when he got a job with a glass and bottle recycling company. Lyons worked as a "jockey" on the recycling round, running off the back of the truck. To his surprise, he found he could do it without pain. Lyons picked up quickly once he returned to competition, winning the Victorian 10,000 metres track championship and the state half-marathon championship in 1992. Magnus Michelsson pushed the pace from the start yesterday, completing the first five kilometres a lap of Albert Park Lake at a 2:11.0 pace.

Lyons took -over soon after and got a break at the 10-kilometre drink station. Lyons said his only bad moments were on the return section along Beaconsfield Parade from Port Melbourne to Elwood. "I started to feel the pinch there." Despite looking ragged several times late in the race, he held his form well and lost little He received $3000 for his win, missing the $5000 bonus for a course record by just 43 seconds. In fact, Lyons' worst moment did not come in the race, but some two-and-a-half weeks earlier when the recycling round that got him back into running almost put him out of the marathon. "A car went through a roundabout," Lyons said, "and I thought it was going to run into the back of the truck." He leapt for safety, turning his ankle as he landed on the road.

It was not until a few days before the race that he was confident he could run and put in a late entry. Michelsson was rewarded for his aggression with second place in a personal best of just under 2:19.00. The women's race went to first-time marathoner Tracy Newton. The' 21-year-old Newton, winner of last year's Melbourne half-marathon, ran 2:48.34 to beat former Melbourne marathon winner Colleen Stephens. AUSTRALIA'S entrants in the world half-marathon championships at the Slovakian city of Kosice on Saturday performed only moderately.

Susan Michelsson was 52nd in 74:51 in the women's race, won by Tegla Loroupe of Kenya in 68:14. National half-marathon champion and City-to-Surf winner Lee Troop was 58th in the men's race in 63:43 and Pat Carroll 63rd in 64:09. Shem Kororia of Kenya outsprinted his teammate Moses Tanui to win, both being given the same time of 59:56, the fastest in the world this year. Hootf seven-shot lead in the third round of the German Masters at Motzener See near Berlin. Langer left his opponents reeling as he went out in 31, six under par after a chip-in eagle and five birdies along with his only bogey at the sixth.

He scorched home in Just 29 strokes with six more birdies to head playing partner and Ryder Cup tedmmate Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain, who shot 66, by seven strokes. "I played very well but obviously putted like a dream," said Langer, who needed only 22 putts with his long-handled putter. Australian Wayne Riley fired a 69 to be four-under 216. ANNIKA SORENSTAM surged to a tie for the lead as she maintained her three-shot edge over Australian Kar-rle Webb In the third round of the LPGA Betsy King Classic tournament in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Sorenstam and Webb both had 68s, leaving Webb tied In eighth i Greg Lyons on his way to a near record in the Melbourne Marathon.

Parry's luck turns With Yankee batter levemiiti wmi gimiu Main Japan Win place, but still within striking distance for the final round. AMERICAN Davis Love moved a step closer towards atoning for his Ryder Cup disaster when he grabbed a two-stroke lead after the third round of the Bulck Challenge at Columbus, Georgia. Love, who lost all four of his matches last week in a losing US cause, compiled six birdies and one bogey in a five-under-par 67. He was at 17-under 199, a tournament record low 54-hole score. Compatriot Stewart Cink also shot 67 to move Into second place at 15-under.

New Zealand Grant Walte shot 65, the day equal lowest round, to vault into a tie for fifth at 10-under. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN Terry Gale hunted down Queensland's Bob Shaw to win the Australian PGA seniors championship in a play-off on the Twin Waters course in Maroo-chydore yesterday. Gold Coast-based Shaw, 52, had led from the first round but finally succumbed when he missed a two-metre par putt on the first playoff hole to hand the title to Gale. O'Neill sinks US Baseball The Yankees had just four hits. The grand slam by O'Neill was the only hit of the fourth and the first post-season grand slam since Joe Pepitone's in game six of the 1964 World Series against St Louis.

O'Neill also had a run-scoring single in the first and became the first Yankee to drive in five runs in postseason games since Thurman Munson in the 1978 World Series against Los Angeles. In the Mariners' win, Buhner and Sorrento hit consecutive home runs in the ninth to offset yet another collapse by the Seattle bullpen. Roberto Kelly and Ken Griffey had run-scoring hits for the Mariners, who cut the Orioles' series lead to 2-1 with game four scheduled for today at Camden Yards, Baltimore. The Mariners are trying to become only the fifth team to win a best-of-five series after trailing 0-2. Tokyo, Sunday Australian Craig Parry made some amends for a frustrating US PGA Tour season when he charged through to win the Japan Open at Koga today.

Parry fired a one-under final round of 70 to win by one shot from Japanese MasaskI "Jumbo" Ozakl and Seiki Okuda, and Frankie Mln-oza of the Philippines. The win, worth $271,000 In prize-! money, was compensation for Parry i who had been unable to notch his first American win despite a series of high-placed finishes. Parry finished today with a two-over total of 286. Ozakl, Japan's most successful golfer with 105 career victories, including four this season, was bidding to tie the record with a sixth Japan Open victory but fell short I with his closing 71. Peter Senior did best of the other I Australians but was 13 shots behind Parry.

BERNHARD LANGER fired one of the i Driest rounds In European Tour history, a 12-under-par 60, as he built a Cleveland, Sunday David Wfells pitched a five-hitter and Paul O'Neill hit New York's first Major League post-season grand slam in 33 years for a 6-1 victory over Cleveland yesterday. The Yankees' victory gave them a 2-1 lead in their American League division series Earlier in Baltimore, Seattle used strong starting pitching from Jeff Fas-sero and ninth-inning home runs from lay Buhner and Paul Sorrento to beat the Orioles 4-2 and stay alive in their best-of-five series. New York won its ninth straight post-season road game and will try to close out the best-of-five series here tonight at Jacobs Field. The clubs split two games in New York last week. Wells showed the form that enabled him to win a career-best 16 games in 1997.

He retired 14 of the final 15 batters he faced and did not walk one. Cleveland starter Charles Nagy once again could not handle the Yankees, allowing five runs and walking six..