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Pjos 11 Wtfrntoafruto SECTION 2: Sport, Finance, Motoring, Classified Sport Motoring Finance 1113 14 15 Classified Index 16 MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1972 Egyptian will Walters, crippin give nsw edge Aiam's Knockout win in final over MELBOURNE, Sunday. New South Wales beat Victoria by one wicket with five balls to spare in a thrilling finish to the Australasian knockout competition match at the MC6 today. miss Cup to concentrate on Villiers By BERT ILL YE Egyptian, the short-priced favourite, today will be scratched from the Summer Cup at Randwick on Boxing Day. This decision followed a conference last night between owner Mr Stan Fox and his trainer, Jack Denham. A ,,13 Ik Doubles bookmakers at Rosehill last Saturday had Egyptian a clear favourite for the Villiers Stakes and the Summer Cup They considered that Egyptian had only to start in each race to win.

Mr Fox yesterday requested an early decision so that he could announce publicly the stable's plans for Egyptian. "I did not want the general public to do their money 'cold' by backing Egyptian in the Summer Cup," he said. "Jack Denham has until Tuursday to scratch Egyptian, but he will withdraw the horse from the Summer Cup tomorrow morning." 'TEMPTATION' Doug Walters shows great power in his brilliant innings at the MCG yesterday. leaving him out of the first two Tests against Pakistan, demoralised the Victorian attack in a scintillating display. Crippin, who brought up his 50 with a soaring six over mid-on off Higgs, then got a five from four overthrows from Sieler.

He was dismissed for 66, including five fours when he "holed out" to Paul Sheahan, off Max Walker. Nine runs later, Sieler came into the attack for the first time and the state of the match changed dramatically. SCORES VICTORIA NSW In Melbourne VICTORIA SHEAHAN Taber Gltmour ROSE Collins Gll- mour 30 SCHOLES Taber Collins 95 I REDPATH Benaud Collins 42 BALDRY Walter! Collins 18 A SIELER run out 16 ROBINSON not out 14 WALKER Collins 1 LIVING not out Sundries 8 Seven wickets for 232 Fall: 14 S3 176 1S2 201 213 215. Batting tlmai 205 minutes. Overs: 40.

BOWLINGl Thomson 8-1-37-0 Gllmour B-0-52-2 Walters 4-0- NSW Sheahan Redpath CRIPPIN Walker COLLINS Hurst Sieler A TURNER it Robinson Sieler WEBSTER run out GILMOUR Ibw Sleler O'KEEFFE not out TABER Ibw Walker THOMSON Hurst BERNARD not out Sundries Nine wickets lor 233 Fall: 21 42 1S0 159 159 176 202 205 227. Batting time: 194 minutes. Overs: 39.3, BOWLING! Hurst 8-0-39-2 Living 8-1-45-0 Higgs 8-0-54-1 Walker 8-0-53-2 Sleler 7.3-1- 29-3. Crowbi 7.162, Gat takings! S5.000. NSW won by am wicket.

The scene was tense as NSW, chasing Victoria's 7-232 compulsory closure, were 9-227 when Alan Hurst bowled Jeff Thomson six runs wanted and 12 balls to be bowled. The crowd of 7,162 clapped, cheered and whistled wildly as NSW spinner Kerry O'Keeffe was joined by Stephen Bernard, whose eight innings in the last three seasons had totalled four runs. Bernard got a single, then O'Keeffe gained the strike with a bye off Hurst's last delivery, for which wicketkeeper Richie Robinson appealed for a juggled catch, then failed to throw down the wicket, as the batsmen raced through. NSW still wanted four runs when Alan Sieler, Victorian left-arm slow-medium, came on to bowl the last over. With the crowd roaring and Victoria, O'Keeffe encouragement to Sieler gained a single from the first delivery, Bernard a single off the next ball and O'Keeffe clinched NSW's win with two off the third delivery.

GREAT CATCH It had been a great match 465 runs scored. The backbone of NSWs win was the superb third-wicket stand between Doug Walters (71) and opener Ron Crippin (66). The pair slammed 108 runs, off 113 deliveries, in 65 minutes. NSW were in trouble at 2-42, after losing opener Ross Collins (5), caught at second slip by Ian Redpath, off Hurst, and captain John Benaud (8), bowled, at to pad, around his legs by leg-spinner Jim Higgs. Walters, determined to show the Australian selectors they were wrong in Walters, 71, in only 75 minutes, lofted his first delivery hard and high over Walker's head at mid-on.

Walker turned, ran 30 yards and crashed to the turf in taking a great catch. NSW struck trouble again in Sieler's seventh delivery when Alan Turner pushed a ball to John Scholes, only 15 yards in front of the wicket, and called new batsman Stuart Webster, The single was not on and Webster was run out. NSW had lost three wickets for nine runs and this became 4-21 when Gary Gilmour (2) was trapped leg-before by Sieler, off the seventh ball of his second over, to make the score 6-171. But then Turner and O'Keeffe put on 31 runs for the seventh-wicket before Turner (35) was stumped by Robinson, off Sieler. SCHOLES 95 Victoria's innings, equally as crowd-pleasing, was highlighted by two fine stands 79 runs in 76 minutes by John Scholes (95) and opener Robert Rose (30) for the second-wicket and 83 runs in 55 minutes by Scholes and Ian Redpath (42) for the third-wicket.

Scholes' 95 came off 128 deliveries in 140 minutes, 15 fours, but once again that elusive first-class century eluded him. He got a fine edge to a ball from medium-pacer Ross Collins and was caught behind by Taber. Collins was NSW's best bowler, taking four wickets in a row after lunch, to finish with 4-54. Scholes's innings won him the $50 Man-of-the-Match award from MCG secretary Ian Johnson. Chappells sway Shield SCREW PUTS GERMAN YACHT By BOB ROSS A broken orestay rigging screw has virtually put German yacht Ydra out of the international One Ton Cup series.

12-87 wins match H08ART, -Sunday. A very obvious lack of big-match competition brought about Tasmania's defeat today at the hands of Pakistan's one-man attack skipper Intikhab Alam. It was Aiam's match as his leg-spinners earned 8-54 in the first innings and 4-33 in the second for a match analysis of: 29.7-4-87-12. He came on at 1-52 in the first innings and took eight of the nine wickets to fall. In the second innings he came on at 3-103 and took two quick wickets, and then came on again at 7-179 and bowled Rodney Cass and had another wicket to ensure Pakistan's win by an innings and four runs, Tasmania were out for 182 and 211 in reply to Pakistan's first innings of 7-397 Alam gave a wonderful display of controlled spin and flight, with little assistance from the wicket.

In the first innings, nine wickets fell for 99 runs in even time and only professional players, Rodney Cass (38) and Jack Simmons (43) showed the value in patience and application in the first innings. Peter Roberts scored 42 in each innings and in the second innings Tony Ben-neworth (45 not out) earned his place in the Combined XI. PAKISTAN 1st Innings 7 (deo-397 TASMANIA 1st Innings 1B2 TASMANIA 2nd Innings ROBERTS Ahmed Saljad 42 DOOLAN Altai 18 8 CASS Alam 73 PATTERSON Moham- nad HOWARO Ibw Alam 16 PALFREYMAN Naslm. ul-Ghanl i CARTLEOGE Alam 3 SIMMONS A label Naslm-ul-Ghanl 4 BENNEWORTH not out 45 hooper Barl Alam 0 APPLETON Nawat 5 Sundries 4 TOTAL 211 Falli 23 82 92 120 123 128 144 183 208 211. BOWLING: Altai 4-0-17-1 Nawaj 4.7-0-32-1 Sallad 7-0-20-1 Mohammad 20-2-74-1 Naslm-ul-Ghanl 15-0-28-2 Alam 13-2-33-4 Ahmed 31-3-0.

Pakistan won by an binlngi and four runs. UD1II Dayana rated with Galilee PERTH, Sunday. Jockey John Miller today rated WA Derby winner Dayana the equal of the former stayer Galilee. "Before the WA Derby I regarded Galilee in a class of his own," Miller said. "This is understandable because among the races I won on him were the Melbourne, Sydney and Caulfield cups.

"But after the Derby I had a change of opinion. Dayana and Galilee are similar in many respects but Dayana left me with the opinion he could prove even better. In the first market issued for the Australian Derby Dayana was quoted at 5-1 on. He is favourite at 3-1 for the Perth Cup but bookmakers warned today that his price would be cut to 6 to 4 if he won the Derby as easily as expected. Ernie Smith, stable foreman for his brother, trainer Tom Smith, said today that he regarded Runyon as a better prospect for the Perth Cup than The Developer.

Runyon carried 57 when he won the December Handicap on Saturday and his Cup weight is 51. "I was forced to change my opinion after the December Handicap," he said. "Runyon has improved since coming to Perth and has the ability to be handily placed throughout the Cup." Smith said that The Developer, who was favourite for the Cup before the December Handicap, should not be written off. He covered a lot of extra ground and would improve with the run and over the extra distance. The Developer, a winner at his three previous starts, finished eighth in the December Handicap with 50.

His cup weight is 45. Queensland star Knee High gave a slashing Cup trial when beaten a neck by Runyon. From No 16 at the barrier he finished on from fifth at the 400-metre mark. Knee High carried 58.5 and has 51 in the Cup. 'Black By ROD HUMPHRIES Teenager Ken Grove increased his record to 14 State Open diving titles at Tempe yesterday but was still lamenting his black days at the Munich Olympics last August.

Grove, 19, easily won the one-metre NSW title to complete a clean sweep of open events he has con- tested since he was a raw l' U-year-old. i But if Grove had not had such a disastrous I' Olympics he twice hit I the board with his feet during dives he believes he would be in the United States now on a sporting scholarship. "I only had to finish in the top 15 and I would have been offered a scholarship for sure," he i laid. I "As it was I hit the Hans Beilken, the quiet German yachtsman, stared at the broken screw yesterday and said: "After all, we sail for fun. There is no point in getting too sad about it." Beilken's Ydra is second on overall points in this international offshore championship.

But the current 270-mile race carries double points. The fitting broke late on Saturday night after six and a half hours of beating into a strong 30-knot southerly. Ydra was in the leading group, half a mile behind Stormy Petrel (Charles Curran and Graham New-land, Australia), a quarter of a mile behind Pathfinder (Roy Dickson, NZ) and alongside Wai-aniwa (Chris Bouzaid, NZ). At the time Ydra had only to travel another six miles to round Flinders Islet before the long run north to Cabbage Tree Island. It was carrying a No 3 jib and one reef in the mainsail.

Afterwards the wind moderated and finally dropped to give the type of light running conditions in which Ydra excels. Beilken, 36, who has twice won the One Ton Cup, was disappointed but philosophical about his misfortune. Beilken, a sailmaker, paid the freight bills of more than $5,000 to bring Ydra to Australia. He and his crew have paid their own air fares and, like almost all of the from Beau Rouge in an effort to make the four-year-old race better than he did in the Festival Handicap. Hill has booked Larry Olsen, a strong jockey, to ride Beau Rouge.

Tom Smith will not have a runner in the Villiers and Cup. Peter Cook has accepted the Villiers ride on Blue Count and Kevin Langby will be offered the ride on stablemate Torumba. Blue Count, an impressive winner last Saturday, yesterday developed a boil in the mouth. "I will get a veterinary surgeon to treat it tomorrow. In the meantime, I am bathing the boil," trainer Bill Neale said last night.

Sid Spinks is likely to gain the Villiers ride on Bounty following Chris Gwilliam's suspension. Sun Opal, following a sound gallop at Newcastle last Saturday morning, will run in the Villiers. Trainer Jim Tinson will offer the ride on Sun Opal to Bill Camer and Neville Voigt. Voigt last night gained the Cup ride on Dark Diamond, following Peter Cook's decision to ride Staid. Dark Diamond won the Summer Cup last year.

Lincoln's Inn, following his break-down last Saturday, will go for a lengthy spell. VILLIERS STAKES, 1.600m 6-4 Egyptian. 6 Deau Rouge. 10 Blue Count. 12 Nightfall.

14 Bounty, ponderosa. 16 Desert Beau, Roadwise. 20 Sun Opal. Dorlca Lass. 25 Odyssey.

33 Big Butch, Bell's Ben. Nangar. 40 Tough Guy, Torumba, SUMMER CUP. 3 Staid. Copy Book, 6 Big 8utch.

Dark Diamond. Just Lester. 10 Nymphet, Odyssey. 14 Cervantes, Roy Boy. 16 final Show.

20 Light Finish. 33 Meg-alo Boy. 50 Bur Oak. secret Spinner was floated in great secrecy from Rosehill to Beaudesert. The same thing happened last week when Cophetua was taken from Rosehill to Southport.

No one knew that the gelding had left Rosehill and the touts on the Gold Coast knew nothing of his arrival. Cophetua, a six-year-old, had not raced since last March, and his only win in 20 starts was in a modest Gosford Maiden Handicap last January. But on Saturday Cophetua won with ease after being backed from 4-1 to 5-4; after being at odds-on at one stage of betting. "I had never ridden at Southport before and I was not told what race I was to ride in," Spinks said when he returned home yesterday. haunt Grove where he is a class-and-a-half above his rivals.

Grove, who is recovering from a right-knee injury which seriously curtailed his practice, still scored a high 469.20 points at Tempe yesterday. Second-placegetter was Greg Robertson, NSW country champion from Grafton, who scored 399.00, with junior champion John Pertdall, third on 395.25 points. Grove and Melbourne's Olympian Don Wagstaff are close rivals but being 600 miles away does not help either of them. Grove will step up his training now and he will join a long line of Australian sporting stars to come under the guidance of City Tattersall's conditioning expert George Daldry this week. Next step is the Australian championships in Adelaide in February and, if Grove does well enough, the world championships in Belgrade in July and August.

Madaleine Barnett, wife of leading coach Jack Barnett, won the women's event with 392.80 points, with Aniella Klaverstyn second on 361.95 and Carol Grant third with ,349.10. A Villiers Stakes win by Egyptian, now the 6-4 favourite, will be popular on Saturday. "It was a great temptation to try to win the Villiers and Cup," Denham said. 'The Cup field looks like being so weak: but the two races arc run within three days and it is a bit too close for my liking. is a top-class horse and I can't take the risk of 'flattening' him." The withdrawal of Egyptian has left Staid a clear favourite for the Summer Cup.

Doubles bookmakers now are finding it difficult to assess the opposition to Egyptian and Staid. They have had to call on the failures Beau Rouge and Copy Book as the respective second favourites. Tom Hill, on Bill Camer's recommendation, will remove the blinkers Spinks' By BERT LILLYE A successful betting coup on Saturday climaxed one of the year's best-kept racing secrets. It began last Thursday when Sid Spinks was booked to ride a horse at Southport. He was not told its name and he was firmly instructed not to tell anyone of his mission.

Spinks stuck solidly to his contract. No one at Rosehill on Saturday was aware of his departure that morning for the Gold Coast. The coup was engineered by Rosehill trainer George Musson, a master at beating the bookmakers. At Beaudesert in Queensland they still talk of Musson's first-up coup with the brilliant sprinter Spinner in March, 1958. days' diver KEN GROVE finished up 32nd out of 35.

"It was the only time in competition I had ever hit the board with my legs and it bad to be at the Olympics," Grove said. Grove had performed exceptionally well in lead-up competition in Europe, including a fifth behind Olympic gold medallist, Italy's Clans Diabisi. HIGH SCORE "I think I could have finished around 15th if I hadn't hit the boards," he said. So instead of winning a chance to gain more experience and knowledge in top American competition. Grove is stuck in Sydney match ADELAIDE, Sunday.

The Chappell brothers, this time Greg and Trevor, have placed South Australia in a strong position against Western Australia in their Sheffield Shield match at the Adelaide Oval. Trevor got the runs and Greg the wickets to swing the game in South Australia's favour. At stumps, Western Australia were 6-160 in their second innings for an overall lead of 218. Earlier, South Australia from a position of 7-117 had dragged their first innings to 296 in reply to Western Australia's 7-354 declared. Les Vans (41) and John Nicholls (2) will resume Western Australia's second innings tomorrow, the last day of the match.

WA's skipper John In-verarity has not yet batted because of a chipped bone in the middle finger of his left hand. He is expected to bat with a splint on the finger tomorrow. In SA's first innings batting revival, Trevor Chappell (70) received solid support from Ashley Mai-lett (43) and Mike Hendricks (66). QUICK WICKETS Trevor, who came to the wicket at 4-90, defied the WA attack for four and a half hours in steering SA to within 58 runs of WA's first innings score. He shared in an eighth-wicket stand of 81 with Mallett and a ninth-wicket stand of 75 with Hendricks.

Hendricks was SA's surprise packet hitting six fours in his 120-minute innings of 66. Then in WA's second innings Greg Chappell took three quick wickets Ross Edwards (17), Rod Marsh (39), Ian Brayshaw (2) to put SA on top. The new look for the Victorian Sheffield Shield side is youth against NSW at the MCG next Saturday and in Sydney on December 29. The team Is: Scholes leapt). Bedford (v-caDt), Baldry, Bright.

Higgs. A Hurst, ft Robinson. Ross. A Sleler. A Thomson, Walker, Yallop, WEST AUST 1st Innings 7 dec) 354 SOUTH AUST 1st Innlnot CAUSBY Marsh Llllle A WOODCOCK Edwards Massle 10 I CHAPPEL low Brayshaw 44 CHAPPELL Marsh Lll- CUNNINGHAM Invtra- rltv Llllee CHAPPELL low Millie JENNER Marsh Llllee I FREEMAN Marsh Brayshaw A MALLETT Ibw LMIIO HENDRICKS It Marsh Brayshaw HIERN not out Sundries Total Fall! II II SO II 117 1QM 273 296.

BOWLING: Llllee 24-4-87-5 Massle 25-3-94-z vans 3-0-1 o-o Nicholls gravsnaw 4-34-3 Batting time: 417 minutes. Bonus points: West Aust ftfti.rh Aii.t 2. Progressive point! West Aust aouin ausi WEST AUST 2rwJ Inning McAULEY Freeman 22 ANN A run Out 22 SDWADOS Henrirlrk Chappell 17 I VARI5 not out St USRtM I Chasnell Chappell 19 I hayshaw jenner Chaopell CHARLESWORTH Hendricks Mallett NlCHnLIt nn out Sundries 1S Sl wickets tor ISO Fall: 25 54 SB 127 137 140. OWllNGi Hlern 7-0-20 Freeman s-o-37-l a tnappeii 15-9-41-s Manetl 10-4-ae-i jenner i.g-z-o. Batting timet 189 fntnutte.

Crewali 7,110. Gate takings 2.84. OUT overseas competitors, have lived aboard the boat in Sydney to save hotel bills. They receive no help from German yachting authorities, who have had their coffers drained by the Olympics. During yesterday, the lead in the race was being closely contested between Pilgrim (Graham Evans, Aust.) Wai-aniwa and Stormy Petrel.

The leaders should have rounded Cabbage Tree at about 10 pm and could finish early this afternoon. HALF TONNERS In the final race of the Half Ton Cup a 200-miler around Cabbage Tree, Plum Crazy (Tig Thomas) and Pajen (Jack Savage) were sharing the lead at 6.30 last night east of Bird Island. They were a mile ahead of Defiance (Doug Broo-ker) and Pretender (Peter Wilcox, NZ). Another mile behind was the New Zealan-der Kidnapper (Bill Belcher) half a mile off fellow New Zealander Mokoia (Todd Fyfe). Another mile behind were three Australian yachts, September, Skylark and Shenandoah, one mile ahead of Endeavour III and Evolution.

Defiance won the start and was first to clear Sydney Heads but Pajen and Plum Crazy were going faster and higher in the light easterly breeze that prevailed in the early stages of the race. "His service return was too good," Dibley said later. Evonne Goolagong played with masterly control to defeat 23-year-old Victorian Kerry Harris 6-1 6-2 in the women's final. Miss Goolagong, who conceded only 1 1 games in five matches proved that she was a class above her opponents. She combined touch and power in a near faultless exhibition that forced Miss Harris into many flustered hurried shots.

Australian Davis Cup squad members Geoff Masters and Ross Case were untroubled to defeat the Russian pair Metreveli and Teimuraz Kakuliya 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 in the men's doubles final. In the women's doubles Victorian Janet Young and Russian Zenya Biraiukova won with equal ease from Australians Heien Gourlay and Fvonne Goolagong 6-3. 6-2. Third A title for Metreveli ADELAIDE, Sunday. In a three-hour duel today the 28-year-old Russian Alex Metreveli, defeated Colin Dibley 7-5, 5-7, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 to win the South Australian tennis championships title for the third successive year.

Metreveli has gained permanent possession of the silver trophy with his great performance today. Metreveli showed he is a well-disciplined and resolute competitor. Trailing two sets to one against Dibley, Metreveli varied his game with change of pace and judicious lobs to gain the early initiative to take the fourth set 7-6. DOUBLE FAULTS In three visits to Australia Metreveli has won nine State titles and has lost only two singles to Mai Anderson in the Australian last year and to Phil Dent in the NSW championship three seasons ago. Dibley lost because his service betrayed him in the crises.

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in Australia Tr United Distillers Ply. Ltd. Australia' largest, fflotf experienced distiller. 1 Board with my leg in the springboard event and the judges gave me only ones' in the points. 1 finished 27th out of 31," Grove said.

"It really threw my confidence because one mistake like that and you're finished. iThen I clipped my toes the 10-metre highboard lid got a set of threes and iree-and-a-halves and I i.