The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 38

Bring Out the Best in Wood with 36,683 Page 34 Saturday December 9, 1972 Ceabore Stains From all good paint and hardware stores or ring 69 5195 THE AGE STEEL CORD RADIAL TYRES A HEART OF SUPPLE STEEL Harry White now on Rowdy Prince Sheahan but not down9 out CHRIS EVERT WILL STAY HOME By PERCY BEAMES They were talking' about a baptism of fire for Paul Sheahan when he faced Dennis Lillee as an opening- batsman against Western Australia at the MCG yesterday and he certainly got it! Sandown switch 1 3 But he proved it takes more than a Lillee bumper to put him out of action, and he earned high marks for an innings of courage and determination. The second ball Sheahan faced from Lillee reared sharply and crashed into the side of his head. "I was lucky. I was hit in the thickest part of the skull," he said later. The ball flew high in the air, and Lillee, following through down the patch, caught it.

Blood flowed freely from Sheahan's cut head as he was helped from the field, dazed and shocked. Two doctors attended him in the Victorian dressing room and he was advised against batting again yesterday. But when Victoria needed more runs, Sheahan decided to ignore medical advice. He returned to the crease when Tan Redpath was out for 87 in a Victorian score of 5201. And he did not have long to wait before renewing acquaintance with Lillee but if he had any fear of the West Australian he did not show it.

Lillee bowled about another dozen deliveries to him and he never hesitated to get both body and bat in line with the ball. He went on to finish with 37 not out. Sheahan did not blame Lillee for hitting him on the head in fact he did not hold anyone responsible but himself. "I sighted the ball all right," he said after play had ended, "but it came back at me from outside the off stump. "I decided to duck under it, but my feet didn't move.

I still thought 1 was safe, and that it would go over my head. "It was a shock when it didn't. At the time the 'lights' almost went out, but except for a feeling of floating on air, I knew what was happening, and what I was doing. "I was aware of being helped from the field by John Inverarity and Ross Edwards, and that there was blood everywhere, on my gloves, clothes and pads; "It was the first time I have been hit on the head, and it wasn't nice." Sheahan would not have batted again if he had not felt a lot better after taking a nap in the dressing room. "I felt much better after the sleep, and I was all right at lunchtime," he "I told Stackie during the afternoon that I had recovered, and when he said 'do you want to bat after I said 'yes' and that was it." Sheahan's 37 not out against WA yesterday gives him a total of 497 runs since the Pakistan match.

On the MCG this season he has been out for an average of 248.5. By TONY KENNEDY Jockey Harry White has switched from Magic Influence to Rowdy Prince, in the Croydon Handicap at Sandown today. The surprise change was made yesterday without disagreement between White and Doug Mack, trainer of Magic Influence. There is little chance of U.S. teenage tennis champion, Chris Evert, playing in Australia this summer.

She had been invited to compete in the Australian Open championship, starting at Kooyong on Boxing Day, and the NSW Open. An AAP report from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jast night quoted Chris's mother as saying Chris had turned down the invitation. "It just wouldn't be feasible for her to go to Australia this year. She wouldn't be able to take that much time off from school, but she is looking forward to playing in the tournaments next year," she said. Chris Is in her final year of high school, and graduates in June.

Mrs. Judy Dalton contacted Miss Evert's father yesterday, but said last night she could not comment on her negotiations with him until she has informed the promoters of the Open, Tennis Camps of Australia. LTAA president Mr. Wayne Reld still has not heard whether a London insurance company will agree to his suggestion to put up a $50,000 purse for the winner of the Grand Slam the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles.

Mr. Reid made the suggestion to ensure top competition at the titles, and it was hoped to entice most world stars to the Australian Open at Kooyong. Mr. Reid said last night he expected news on Monday, but this may be too late to help the Australian event this year. roggy ABOVE: Paul Sheahan reels backwards and down, felled by a Dennis Lillee thunderbolt in a fiery opening to the Victoria-WA Sheffield Shield match.

BELOW: "Just there," Sheahan, right, tells Lillee, as the two Test teammates get together after the day's play for a bury-the-hatchet drink and a friendly chat. event card, is very firm at 47 in the Noble Park Hep. The only shortener In the race is Friar's Joy, 81 to 71. My Wally eased from 41 to 92 and Tablelander, 101 to 121. White rides With such great patience and judgment over a distance that Kamatook looks the horse to beat in the Uracsicla Handicap.

Kamatook was a last-start camera-finish second to Dual Conflict over 2-100 metres at Caulfield on November 25. There may have been an excuse for Kamatook that day, as he got to the front on the home turn, which may have been a bit too early. Dual Conflict came from behind with a later run and just got up to score by in White had been engaged for Magic Influence, and the connections of the gelding expected him to be the jockey. But Rowdy Prince's trainer, Arch McClements, contacted White and offered him the ride on the gelding. Rowdy Prince must have done well in his work, because White asked Mack for a release and this was granted once Mack had obtained "Midge" Didham for Magic Influence.

White rode Magic Influence at the gelding's last start, when he was second to Rickshaw Lad at Sandown on November 29. Magic Influence finished very strongly from ninth on the home turn to be beaten three-quarters of a length. On the same day Rowdy Prince, ridden by L. Howard, was ninth to Chipstead in the 1000-metre Light-wood Handicap. Before that Rowdy Prince beat O'Readon and Mao's Peak over 1100 metres at Kyneton, on November 8, and was second to Prize Lad over 1000 metres at Cranbourne on October 11.

In the interstate prc-post betting on the Croydon Handicap, Magic Influence is quoted at 51, and Rowdy Prince 71. Abdul is holding his place as favorite at 92. The only betting moves on the race yesterday were Viking Star 71 to 61, and Mowgli 81 out to 101. Chipstead, the hottest favorite on the seven- owler's batsman half a head. pre-post Bracsida is the Kamatook favorite for at 41.

shortener in The only cracks vital 4 By PERCY BEAMES Victorian opening bowler Alan "Froggy" Thomson is no batsman but he won a victory over Dennis Lillee at the MCG yesterday. Lillee, in taking four Victorian wickets for 76 runs for Western Australia, had shown the Melbourne public just why he was such a success in England. the race has been Amundsen, 81 to 61, while New Prince has eased 101 to 151, and Just Easy, 121 to 151. Melbourne Cup winner, Piping Lane, will be on trial in the Harrisfield Welter for the Perth Cup on January 1. Plans have been made to fly Piping Lane to the West, but if the gelding does not pull up well, trainer George Hanlon will have no hesitation in missing the trip.

Train travel for Colts The VCA Colts will travel to Sydney by train, and not plane, on Monday. All players are requested to report to team manager Keith Rigg at the Interstate platform before 7.30 p.m. on Monday night. felled in the Sheahan was Fifth-round by deliveries to crawl to double figures, Rose suddenly cut loose against Lillee. In six he doubled -h(s hitting throe a One of these he hooked high and the ball carried down to fine where Paul Nicholls waited under the catch.

The ball hit Nicholls' hands, bounced out and Tolled into the gutter for 4. Rose was then 17. He went on to make 48 before a wild hook off Lillee outside the off stump ended his innings. Redpath fought his way to 87 before he, too, fell to Lillee, who pulled a Keith Miller act to claim the success. Instead of going back for his normal 25-yard run, Lillee suddenly whipped around from about six paces, raced in and banged down a good delivery.

It came back a little off the pitch and Redpath, forced to prod early, edged a catch waist high to Inverarity in the slips. There was too much streakincss and uncertainty in his innings of 203 minutes for this to be counted as one of Redpath's best batting performances, but it carried tremendous value for Victoria. Lillee bowled 19 bvers over six spells and each time he was the dominating personality on the field. He wasted nothing by sending the ball down the legside; his subtle changes of pace always kept the batsmen on tenterhooks and there was always the disconcerting bumper. But when it came to the battle of the bonus point 'Froggy' was the hero of the Southern Stand.

Faced with the daunting task of scoring three runs to give Victoria an extra batting point off the last ball of Lillee's over the 65th of the innings he didn't flinch. Lillee drew deeply on his great resources of energy, raced in and hurled the ball down straight at the stumps. Incredibly, it flew back faster than it had arrived. Somehow, Thomson had timed his stroke perfectly and the ball flew high over mid-off to the fence. No wonder he scampered down the pitch waving his bat in triumph.

Victoria had scored 7265 off 64 overs when WA skipper John Inverarity recalled Lillee. At stake was one more batting point for Victoria if it could score another 10 runs. Sheahan, who had returned to the crease after taking a sickening blow on the head from a Lillee bouncer (story above), took the score to 269 when he hooked the West Australian to the fine leg boundary. A single to Sheahan and a 2 to Thomson and the scene was set for that dramatic last ball. Thomson's 4 took Victoria's tally of batting points to five and captain Keith Stackpole immediately declared the innings closed at 7276.

Victoria probably ended the day in a much better position than anyone would have dared believe after the sensational start when second over. Every Victorian batsman was unnerved by the incident and who could really blame them Even Stackpole, Who lias handled Lillee's speeds and lift with often awe-inspiring confidence, had moments of. real trouble against him. The second ball Stackpole faced took the top edge of-the bat and flew completely out of control high ovef the head of slips. He sparred at one or two others before playing a shot he will want to forget.

His feet and the bat were not on speaking terms and the ball flew to second slip. John Scholes was the second batsman to lose his wicket as Victoria staggered to 273 at lunch. Scholes took an hour to make 17 before he was bowled between bat and pad by medium-pacer Les Varis. Yet the setback signalled the start of a fighting comeback by Victoria. Alan Sieler helped Ian Redpath lift the score to 96 with possibly his best batting display for the season before he fell victim to Lillee.

But the batting boost that Victoria really needed came with the partnership of Robert Rose and Ian Red-path. Rose was anything but confident early in his innings. The Collingwood batsman has not had the happiest of seasons and he knew that another failure could end his State cricket career. But he gritted his teeth and stayed to put on 102 in 97 minutes with Redpath. Even so he needed some luck.

After using up 61 Tony Mundine BRISBANE. British Commonwealth middleweight champion Tony Mundine took another step towards a world title fight at Brisbane's Milton Tennis Courts last night. I 4fj i 1 iMiv 4 Mundine knocked out American Lonnie Harris after 30 seconds in the fifth of 10 scheduled rounds. Mundine had lost the fourth round when he appeared to hit Harris below the belt. Referee Des Crabbe ruled a low' punch and allowed Harris the rest of the round to recover.

ficent barrage of rights at Harris' head. Harris appeared outclassed, backed into the referee's corner and Mundine quickly punched him senseless. In an earlier bout, Australian junior welterweight champion' Hector Thompson knocked out American lightweight Renaldo Victoria in the fourth round of a 10-rounder. It. was a most disappointing spectacle, with Thompson proving classes better than his opponent.

At the start of the fourth round, Mundine appeared to catch Harris with a low punch. Referee Des Crabbe reprimanded him and gave Harris time out to the finish of the round. Mundine, who auto matically lost the round, remonstrated strongly with Crabbe but was silenced when his trainer Em McQuillan jammed his mouth-guard back into his mouth. The American thus had a three and a half minute break before the fifth round. Mundine, Infuriated by the ripped a magni Mundine, who had started slowly in the first three rounds, seemed infuriated as he came out for the fifth and laid a flurry of hard right-hands on Harris' jaw.

Harris' handlers claimed after the fight that the low blow had affected the American but agreed it was an accidental punch. Mundine, the world's number three middleweight in the latest WBC ratings, looked particularly dangerous in the fourth and fifth rounds. Harris, formerly sixth-rated, couldn't handle him, but it was hard to tell what affect the low blow had. As the fight opened, Mundine, appeared slightly puzzled by the close-range punching tactics of the American, who weighed H.4. Mundine opened up wilh good combination punching to the head in the third round but Harris, who was working in close, caught him several times with short rights.

One in particular shook Mundine who was still not anywhere near his top. vicroniA First Innings Runs Iviln. Fours K. STACKPOLE, Brayshaw, Lillee 12 47 1 P. SHEAHAN, n.o.

It It 4 J. SCHOLES, Varls 17 III 2 I. REDPATH, Invcrnrlty, l.lllce 17 111 7 A. SIELER, Brayshaw, l.lllce 2S .1 R. ROSE, Marsh, Lillee 48 7 .1 R.

ROBINSON, Invorarlly, Nicholls 20 .17 a M. WALKER, and Varls Id 2.1 2 A. THOMSON, n.o 8 13 I Sundries 3 Total for aeven wickets dec ,.276 BattlnR time 317 niin Fall: 26, 43, 96, 198, 291, 231, 262. BOWLINO Lillee 19-3-87-4; Masslc 13-2-43-0; Varls 9-1-49-2; Nicholls 13-1-52-1 Brayshaw a-1-15-0; Hanna 1-0-10-0; Inverarity 3-0-17-9. WESTERN AUSTRALIA First Innings Runs Mln.

Fours R. CHARLES WORTH, n.o 0 10 0 K. McAULLAY, n.o 0 19 0. Sundries 4 Total for no wicket 4 Batting time: 10 minutes. BOWLING Hurst 1-1-0-0; Thomson I-1-0-9.

Bonus points: Victoria 3, WA 3. Altcndancc: 8735; receipts: 13674. BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL GOLF PROFESSIONAL The Brisbane City Council Is inviting offers from qualified Golf Professionals to accept an appointment as Professional at its Victoria Park Golf Course, Brisbane. The Professional sholl.be entitled to receive (a) All profits on the sale of golf equipment and accessories. (b) All hire charges on golf equipment and accessories.

(c) All fees for tuition given by himself or his assistants. The period of appointment shall be for seven (7) years. In return for the rights to the above, Interested persons should advise the Council of the following: 1 What annual rental the Professional is prepared to pay to the Council for the use of the Professional's shop. (2) What extra or additional golfing services the Professional is prepared to provide at the Course. (3) Full details of their experience and qualifications.

Victoria Park is an 18-hole Golf Course, situated ust over one mile from the centre of the City. Last ycor, 46,251 attendances wero recorded, Including 26,713 visitors. Any additional Information required may be obtained from the undersigned to whom replies should be forwarded so as to be received by 4.00 p.m. on Fridoy, 5th January, 1973. They're Racing with Bert Bryant, 3UZ.

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The duties involved will be to officiate at 1 Greyhound Meetings and to carry out and imple ment the policy formulated by the Board. The successful applicant should be capable of supervising the duties of fellow stewards and of advising the Board on matters relative to the control and regulation of Racing. Salary will be by negotiation. Superannuation will be available after a qualifying period. The successful applicant must have own car for which an allowance will be paid.

Applications in writing marked "Chief Steward" should be accompanied by'a detailed resume of past experience, including advice of age and qualifications and should be forwarded to The Secretary, Greyhound Racing Control Board, 126- Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, 3002. Applications close at 12 noon on Monday, December 18, 1972. WERRIBEE RAGES TODAY COMchns rfenartlng oppoilte Forum Thtatrt. tail coach HEALESVILLE RAGES TODAY mi SALE RAGES TODAY 6 Races First 1,25 If avi 11.10 a.m. fart 11.20 ralurn.

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