The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 15

Paps 15 ftjeitlNM! SUuituigtratp TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1977 SECTION 2: Sport; News, Finance, Classifieds pages 15, 16, 20 Finance pages 17-19 News page 21 Classified Index page 28 I- Sport Piclrap back for LEAGUE MAN'S SEVERED EAR SEWN BACK game foil Cop By ALAN CLARKSON Tim Pickup has successfully negotiated the first stages of his Rugby League comeback with Canterbury-Bankstown and will face his most demanding challenge on Friday night. Ml mP land last Sunday. He organised the attack around the rucks and had the team functioning well. the weekend of March 19-20. Utility back Greg Brentnall and centre Mick Ryan are out of Pickup has been chosen as five-eighth for the Wills Cup match against St George at Bel-more Sports Ground in his first full game since his return to football.

"Tim is getting more confident with every match and we feel that he is ready to play a full game in the firsts," Canterbury coach Mai Clift said last night. The pressure will be on the Canterbury backs to hold their spots for the clubs opening premiership match against Cronulla-Sutherland on Magpies Dr Dooley was satisfied with the operation but could not" gauge its success because the flow of blood was not strong in the part of the car that was sev- crcd. contact lens. The find was made by Conway's team-mate John Ribot. Some Valleys officials claimed Conway's ear was bitten.

Others contended it was sliced by a boot. of five minutes while players from both sides helped Conway. As players searched on hands and knees for the missing piece of ear, the crowd thought they were looking for a Mark Conway, Brisbane Valleys Rugby League winger, is pictured above being helped from the field after losing part of his right car during a match at emergency operation in the dressing-room. Conway, 20, was left lying on the ground after a fierce incident just before half-time. Four players were sent to the sideline for a "cooling down" period junior grants By ALAN CLARKSON Western Suburbs Leagues' Club has suspended financial assistance to the districts junior and school teams for six months.

Lang Park, Brisbane, on Sunday At right, Valleys club president, Dr Tom Dooley, centre, and his wife, Jan, prepare to sew back the severed piece of ear in an form but he has a tough personality to emulate. The NSW team Is: Bob Pro. ctor (Svdneyl. Russ Pascee fSyd). lan Cooke (Svd).

Greg Corban (Svd). Bob Hollywood (Svd. Phil Downer (Goulburn), Gary Downey (Goulburn). Rick Adamiak (Svd), lan Vines (Goulburn). Les Wark (Svd).

John Cowan (Syd). Jell Pater, son (Syd). Bruce Willott (Bath, urst). Larry Mcintosh (Syd), Robert Divinev DUAL SHOCK IN HOCKEY Duggan's race return stop clubs, Enfield Federals, has secured a sponsor who is providing the gear for the club's 16 teams." Mr Coghlan said the leagues club usually paid the difference between the season's takings and the payments for trophies and ground rental, which was about $13,000. In addition, the leagues club provided gear for the juniors and school teams, and this cost more than $20,000.

Dudley Beger, secretary of Western Suburbs Rugby League Football Club, said last night that the licensed club had decided not to give any grants for six months. "It is up to the people in the district to gel behind the leagues club to help it overcome its temporary problem," Mr Beger said. By ALAN SPEERS Jockey John Duggan will return to race riding at Randwick on Saturday, anxious to make up for lost time. Smith would dearly love to play in the firsts against Canterbury. In an interview during Sportsaction on ATN Channel 7 last Sunday, Smith said a number of players were keen to catch up with Canterbury halfback Steve Mortimer.

It was obvious that Smith is keen to lock horns with young Mortimer, one of the brightest half back prospects in Sydney. Western Suburbs luckless prop Jim Murphy will go into hospital on Wednesday for an operation on his fractured left arm. Murphy broke his arm in last Friday night's tough game against Canterbury-Bankstown and a specialist advised him yesterday to have a plate inserted. LTnf0t- ball for at least 10 weeks. It is the second time in a few months that Murphy has fractured his left' arm.

"At least this fs a different spot from the last time," Murphy said last night. Murphy has had more than his share of "bad breaks." He has fractured his' jaw four times in three separate incidents in addition to the two fractures to his arm. With Murphy out, the selectors will. decide tonight between Pat Hundy and Peter Young as his possible replace- ment for Saturday's Brookvale Oval clash with Manly-Warringah. The League has switched the match Eastern Suburbs and Newtown, set down for the Sports Ground on Friday night, to Henson Park on Sunday Afternoon.

tor spinal injuries, received in a fall from Prince Pakistan poised The board of directors, of the licensed club decided on the move last November. A special meeting of junior club secretaries was fold of the decision just before Christmas. Sixty junior teams as well as a number of school teams are affected. Junior Rugby League officials estimated last night that the Leagues' Club's grant to the juniors and the schools was worth more than $35,000 a year. Mr Sid Coghliin.

the secretary of the Western Suburbs Junior Rugby League, said that he believed the move was only a temporary measure. "Like manv clubs in Sydney. West Lcacues Club has been forced to trim expenses because of the enormous overhead in running the club," Mr Cochlan said. "It came as a blow to us and to the schools. One or two of the clubs are unhappy but there is nothine we can do exceDt in a pool near his South Coogee home.

"I feel great. I can't wait to get back into the saddle," Duggan said last night. Duggan has one early mount at Randwick. Just Ideal, his likely ride in the $100,000 Doncaster Handicap at Randwick on April 9. Just Ideal will run in the weight-for-age Apollo Stakes, MOOrn.

Duegan's return is opportune. Last night Bart Cum- back punching Mattioli, 24, strongly tipped as a world-title contender, went down for two counts in the second round when the Spanish-based South American landed with- explosive right hooks. Mattioli had his 45th win in 51 bouts with two draws and four losses when he landed a flurry of punches in the third, fourth and fifth rounds. HARRY WHITE by Duggan, was second to Van. Der Hum in last year's Melbourne Cup.

John Letts will ride Think Big in the Australian Cup and Midge Did-ham will be the stable's main Cup hope, three-year-old Ashbah. Maybe Hahal and Vivarchi will tackle the Newmarket on March 14 before leaving Sydney for the Doncaster. Cummings hopes to have twe runners in the Golden Slipper on March 26, Vain's Image and Monakea. ly Monakea, a colt by Wilkes, will have to qualify for a Slipper start and may be a runner in the Todman Slipper Trial, at Rosehill on Saturday week. JOHN DUGGAN mings, for whom he is No 1 rider, announced plans for.

a determined assault on stake money at the Golden Slipper and AJC autumn carnivals. Cummings' top stayers, Think Big and Gold and Black, outstanding mare Maybe Mahal and last year's Golden Slipper winner, Vivarchi, are bound for Sydney after competing in the Australian Cup and Newmarket Handicap on March 12 and 14, respectively. Cummings 'said that Harry White, who rode Think Big to win the Melbourne Cup in 1974 and 1975, has preferred Gold and Black in. the Australian Cup. Gold and Black, ridden TAB WASHOUTS work a lot harder.

Consistent ram has "Some of the junior caused the cancellation of clubs have been trying to the following TAB meet-raise a sponsor for their ings: teams this season. TURF: The postponed "One of our senior Hawkesbury meeting set fnday nights game but both will receive strong consideration tor the first premiership match. Ryan, sent off in last Friday night's Wills Cup match against Western Suburbs, appeared before the NSW Rugby League judiciary committee last night on a charge of using "a deliberate head-high tackle." He was suspended for one Wills Cup match and fined $50. Brentnall has strained ligaments in his knee and in spite of daily treatment at the Lewisham Sports Clinic he could not be considered for selection last night. Unless there is improvement in the next 48 hours, Brentnall will probably see a specialist.

With Phil Charlton back in the forwards, Steve Hage, who was a strong player against Wests, is relegated to reserve grade. St George coach Harry Bath will again use the Wills Cup as a trial for his first-grade premiership team. The Saints are starting to take shape but there are still a couple of positions to be decided. Tonight, Bath will give a lot of thought to retaining veteran Billy Smith in his team to play Canterbury. Smith played well against Cronulla-Sutfier- down for today has now been abandoned.

TROTTING: Fairfield last night. GREYHOUNDS: Went-worth Park last night. in common with the second on the same program. True Value wjn for Frost last Saturday night, leading all the way in 2m 3s on a slow track after starting from barrier seven. Frost finished second with Hopeful Gift on Saturday night.

Les Poyser, who is training and driving Little William for owner Mr Alan Clinton, a NSW Trotting Club committeeman, has set the pacer for the Mount Eden Mile in two weeks and the Queen's Cup at Gloucester Park in Perth on March 29. At Fremantle, Little William was sixth early, outside the leader at the bell, and in front on the turn. He covered the mile in an outstanding lm 59.6s a track record. RECORD LOOMS IN Thomson's chances MIRACLE MILE or tour are slim The Craven Filter Miracle Mile, to be run for the 11th time Friday night, has a lot sporting contests throughout the world. AUCKLAND, Monday.

The chances of injured fast bowler Jeff Thomson touring England with the Australian cricket team, appear to be slim. Tree'sflGiRLinmYDflnK G0LDI6 HflUin ujRRRcn Bennv SETTING THE PACE for victory PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Monday. The touring Pakistani cricketers are well placed to score their first win on tour at the close of the second day in their four-day game against Trinidad. On a wicket favouring spin, the Pakistanis gained a first innings lead of 42 yesterday before their spinners dismissed Trinidad for 138 in their second innings. This left the Pakistanis the easy task of scoring 93 runs for victory and at the close they were 22 for no wicket.

(AAP-Reuter) named when the tourists are selected on March 19, after the Centenary Test against England in Melbourne. Thomson would stay behind conditionally, to prove his fitness, before being sent to join the tour. The pin in Thomson's shoulder will be taken out on March 30, the day the Australians leave for England. After a rest day today Australia will take little time to score the 28 runs needed to mop up the second Test and the series against New Zealand tomorrow, weather permitting. TJlitsT new Zealand in inningi 3 Australia 1 inninoi lAH'SA 1s A TURNER Edwarda cainu so cirn ti CHAPPELL riin'oul 58 COSIER nd Calrnt 21 0 WALTERS Hadlci Chatfleld 16 MARSH Ibw Hadlee 4 GILMOUR Chatfield 64 KEEFFE Conjdon Hadlct 32 LILLEE not out 23 Sundrlti 23 Total TtT rain 31 i7i 202 217 "1 Chitriiid cairn; iWPk 4.2.14:6: There were two shock selections in the New South Wales men's field hnrkpv tpnm fnr thr.

Australian championships in rertn in May. Hard-running Ooul- burn forward lan Vines has earned his first State cap. The second surprise was the choice of St George forward Bob Hollywood as a. fullback replacing former NSW No 3 back Laurie Bcwes. Although Hollywood has often claimed his preference for the inside forward position, the NSW selectors appear to have chosen him for his versatility.

He was the top fullback of the 1975 NSW Colts side. New South Wales will be weakened by the absence of Olympian Ron Riley and brilliant halfback Bob Bartlett. Riley's goal-scoring in the past few years has rewritten the record books. Centre-forward Jeff Paterson is in great JEFF THOMSON "It's about 70-30 against on my count," Lord said today. Lord has already told the board, and the selectors, that Thomson is available.

What Lord would prefer is for Thomson to be Ground was washed out yesterday giving Victoria second place on the Sheffield Shield table. NSW needed to win this game outright to take second place and $4,250 in prize money. Play was abandoned with New South Wales at 6-237 overnight in reply to Victoria's first innings of 9 In their first innings New South Wales declared at 9-147. Victoria bad 91 points from eight games with two wins and six draws to finish behind. Western Australia who had 138 points.

The final day was abandoned late yesterday afternoon after umpires Bill Copeland and Kevin Carmody declared the ground unfit. The loss of yesterday's play as well as nearly four hours on Friday and Saturday deprived both teams of a chance to win. BILL WHITTAKER This is the opinion of his manager David Lord, who is at the second Test here between Australia and New Zealand. For Thomson to win selection on the tour, past selection processes would have to be discarded. The- selectors and the Australian Cricket Board would have to gamble on sending a player on tour hoping that he would prove his fitness.

i Lord believes, that, in Thomson's case, it would not be a gamble, as Thomson would be back to his fastest and best by Test time in England. Medical opinion in Brisbane backs him. But he doubts whether the selection panel or the board can be swayed. An orthopaedic specialist treating Duggan cleared him to return. Duggan will ride track-work at Randwick this morning, his first time in the saddle since the fall.

He will see the specialist on Friday as a final check. The brace on his neck was removed a fortnight ago and the young jockey has been swimming daily Mattioli comes Monday. Rocky Mattioli, Australia's Italian-based light-middleweight, recovered from two knockdowns to stop Venezuelan opponent Amaldo Olivares in the fifth round of a scheduled 10-round contest in Rimini, osraU Roche, near WCT lead Tony Roche and Ken Roscwall are seeking a place in the finals of the World Championship of Tennis in the United States. With eight tournaments to play, Roche is equal fifth and Rosewall equal seventh in the struggle to make the last, eight in Dallas on May 10 to 15. The leading players! are: 1 Jimmy Connors (340 points).

2 Dick' Stockton (320), 3 Cliff Drysdale (240), 4 Tom Okker (210), 5 Ilie Nas-tase and Tony Roche (200), 7 Wojtek Fibak, Vitas Gerulaitis and Ken Rosewall (180), 10 Eddie Dibbs (160). Other Australian plac-ings are: Ross Case (equal I2lh. 120 points), John Alexander (equal 20th, 60 points) and Rod Laver (22nd, 50 points). Meanwhile, Jimmy Connors has earned more than in prize money in the first two! month of the year. Connors has $115,000 Dick Stockton, the second highest money earner.

Roche, who is phas ng out of tournament tennis, nas earned $43,713. TI i i It QITIa hAlnC! fjidiflc IIClllO CT AJW XT! 1 1 NEW YORK. Mon- day. Jack Nicklaus ral- I'ed with three birdies and a spectacular eagle on the back nine yester- day to win the Nicklaus clinched his first tour of yr when he sank a 20-foot putt for an eagle three on the 532-yard 15th hole. ne UI5U ouuicu mc 17th but bogeyed the 8th for a two-under 70 for the day and a 72-hole total of 275, 13 under Dar.

Nicklaus finished three ahead of his play. jng partner Gary pjaycr of South Africa, who had a 73 in his final round. Nicklaus. Plaver and Gil Morgan were tied at the ninth but Player and Morgan bogeyed the 11th and Morgan fell out of contention witn a aoume bogey at the 15th. at Harold Park next majority of the great The winner needs a rare brand of talent to the standard of an Olympic gold medallist or a champion golfer.

A split-second error can cost a pacer the Miracle Mile, unless he fs another Mount Eden. Mount Eden. the most remarkable speedster in my time in trotting, was able to, win the event after settline down 50 yards behind the field. The other nine win ners were superbly ef ficient. This year's field has a blend ot speed ana stamina which could result in the winner clipping a fraction from the race and track record of lm 58.4s.

held jointly by Paleface Adios and Reichman. If the racers cover the first half-mile in 59 seconds the strong such as Pure Steel. Markovina, Don't Retreat. Royal Force and Paleface Adios are capable of coming home in 59s. That would represent, a lm 58s mile and a $10,000 bonus to the winner for breaking the record.

VIC FROST, the former coal miner who be- Rain keeps NSW fourth in Shield came a champion trotting driver. Is excelling in tbe United States. Frost left Australia with a small team of pacers a month ago. He has started four horses at the Los Alamitos track in California for two wins and two seconds. Running Rein won first-up last week and Blue Pattern finished VIC FROST NSW champions Paleface Adios ($303,062) and Don't Retreat ($237,027) top the prize money Int.

Perth pacer Royal' Force has run the fastest time of lm 57s. Royal Force, to- be driven by Dudley Anderson, is the Australian mile record-holder. He has never raced at Sin I Faslm Mm I are Al's Holiday and Truant $940,049 prize money in field MELBOURNE. The final day of the Victoria-New South Wales cricket, match at the Melbourne Cricket He said: "I don't think that driver Brian Gath will want Markovina to the pace. "The contest for the lead might prove to be between Lincoln Star and my horse.

Pure Steel has the edge because he will start from two, with Lincoln Star outside him at three." GLANCE I Drinr I BMtlni THESTkRSOF'SWMPOO' TOGETHER in TUNS HIST G6RT FR0B6 Robert lugbber scott brrdv, TONIGHT 8-30 The Craven Filter Miracle Mile next Friday night has the fastest and richest pacing field ever to contest the sprint at Harold Park. All six candidates have gone faster than two minutes for the mile. They have won a total of $940,049 in prize money. new Zealand 2nd inninn Jackie Glea-c howarth Turnir son Inverrary Golf Gas turner V'iMM'b sjp Fort Lauderdale, LiiiM. Florida.

BIG-RACE STATISTICS AT A Harold Park but will be brought from his Banks-town stables for a trial there today. Pure Steel's Western Australian owner. Mr Russell Roberts, said in Perth yesterday that he was fairly confident that the powerhouse stayer could lead the field into the first turn. llU I Plstlnis I sum I rrtftaontT Armagh. set COL0.0V."0,".".

1 surgess 'waikar 38 EDWARDS Marah Luice 0 -i winter 1 chatfield not out 4 I Total 175 rain io 12 23 31 si 136 Line' n.3-72.6 ciimour v.n.p,m 39 60 138 4 31 30 30 91 3 21 27 3S 63 1 ,1117 Markovina SA lm59s 26 8 49 $88,963 B. Gath 5-2 1221 Pure Steel WA lm59s 21 12, 38 $172,788 J. Retzlaff 3 I 3 3861 Lincoln Star Vic lm 57.3s 19 16 76 $34,887 R. Conroy 20 4 1314 Don't Retreat I NSW lm 58.7s. 42 26 81 $237,027 L.

Moulds 5-2 5 1113 Royal Force I WA lm57s 23 22 87 $103,452 D.Anderson 7 6 4222 Paleface Adios I NSW lm 57.1s 67 37 '137 $303,062 C.Pike 8 SHEFFIELD SHIELD TABLE at. Sel. Matcll oil Ml pta Total 6 2 1 3 1 1 The two reserves Ntw South Wall! 1 19 33 JO 62 South Australia 1 1 6 28 2V 5 62 NoMi Quaenaland and South Aultralla ach rtcalvad match polnta tor tltd matcll,.