The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 71

STILL 293 Nava finish to Open score El YA easily A METROPOLI TAN Adriatic de fender halts' a drive with his body during yesterday's game at Lambert Park against A GEORGETOWN, with one wicket down for 20 runs in their second innings have a desperate fight on their hands to avert defeat against Caribbean champions British Guiana. I Bowlers FROM yesterday on the third day of the four-day match, Australia still had 293 to score for victory. The cause of Australia's troubles was a sparkling 157 by West Indies Test star Basil Butcher. Butcher, in powerful, punishing form, hit three sixes and 22 fours in 165 minutes of sure and aggressive batting. It was his second century in successive matches against the Australians he hit 117 in the second Test at Port of Spain.

lie got his runs out of 198 put on while he was at the wicket, finishing with a flourish in a last wicket stand of 45 with Edwin Mohnined, whose share was one run. Pace man Neil Hawke was the Australians' most successful bowler, taking three wickets for 30 runs. Spinners Peter Philpot and David Sincock also took three each, Philpott for 75 runs and Sincock for 65. By PHIL WILK1NS St. George-Budapest erased Prague's moments of glory from memory in the Soccer premiership yesterday with a leisurely 3-1 win.

RICHIE BEN A UD GEORGETOWN, Sat. It's a bit late to be go- Ing back to school when 4 you are in the Australian eleven but some of our bowlers should do a "re-j fresher" course. The fundamentals are the thing they are lacking at the moment the car-1 dinal points of length and direction that stood them in such good stead in the first Test match in Jam- i Col McGregor won his first major 72-hole golf tournament in six years as a professional yesterday at Bonnie Doon. McGregor, 25, came from behind equal eighth with one round to play to. win the N.S.W.

Open. McGregor finished with rounds oi 70 and 69 for a total of 286, two under par, to win by a stroke from Darrell Welsh and two teenage professionals, Bob Stanton and Bob Mesnil. The 1963 champion Peter Mills, left-hander John Davis and the N.S.W. amateur champion Barry Baker were next on 288. In an exciting finish the issue was in doubt until Stanton, playing near the tail-end of the field, dropped a stroke at the last hole.

Out of bounds McGregor had practically written himself off in the tournament when after a first round of 76 he hit two shots out of bounds, to take an eight, at the sixth hole in his second round. However, he finished that round with a 71. Yesterday he shot 35 each way with four birdies for a third round of 70, then reeled off a 69 (36-33) with six birdies. McGregor's win, however, was made possible by the collapse of the leaders, including Baker who led him by five shots at the end of the third round. Baker finished with a 76, to be leading amateur.

Stanton twice dropped two strokes on one hole in his third round of 75 and this probably cost him the championship. col McGregor Stanton put himself back in the running when he made the turn in 33 with six pars and three birdies in the last round before he three-putted the tenth to drop a stroke. He paired the next seven holes and needed a regulation four at the last to tie with McGregor. Stanton over-clubbed and took three to get down from the back of the green, finally missing with a three and a half foot putt. Welsh made a good recovery after a poor start.

He had a first round of 77, then shot 69, 70, 71. Billy See Hoe made a course record with a last round of 67. He dropped the stroke at the 6th, then birdied six of the next 12 holes. Peter Mills also staged a good finish with rounds of 70 and 68. He finished the last nine holes in 32, four Sydney Naval had a convincing win over Newtown in the Australian Rules match at ErskicteviEHe Oval yesterday.

Naval won by 67 points 16-9 (105) to 5-8 (38). A first quarter burst of eight goals paved the way for their easy win. Clever rucking by Naval's big men Jim Croysdale, "Jocka" Dean and Col Mason, soon had; speedy rovers John Kelly and Ken Taylor on the attack. Ably supported by forwards Les Davis and Geoff Shone Naval had four goals in the first eight minutes of play. Naval led by 40 points at the first change and gradually increased their lead in each succeeding quarter.

At half-time they led by 47 points, 10-3 (63) to 2-4 (16). In the second half Naval centreman Jack Harding was too often left unmarked. He seized every opportunity and quickly drove the ball down to his forwards. Desperate bid A desperate last-quarter effort enabled Western Suburbs to gain a hard-earned victory over University at University Oval. West won by 39 points, 20- 19 (139) to 15-10 (100), after University had led by nine points at the last change.

University, who trailed by 24 points at half-time, overran Wests in the third quarter, scoring eight goals to Wests three. however, took control in the final term and, attacking almost non stop, rattled up eight goals to a tiring University's two. Best for Wests were Roger Nohes, Ray Anderson and John Godwin while Dave Ramsden, Elias Vuvu and Col Keeble stood out for University. Despite fielding nine reserve grade players of the previous week Eastern Suburbs 21-17 (143) easily defeated South Sydney 7-17 (59) at Trumper Park. For Easts Mick Fitzgerald dominated the centre consistently placing his team on the attack.

Centre-half-back Brian Ratcliffe. ably supported by full-back Jack Hamilton, held the backs together splendidly. St: beat Balmain 21- 16 (142) to 7-12 (54) in a one-sided game at Hurst-ville Oval. 1 SYDNEY NAVAL 16-9 (105) (L Davis Taylor 3 Shone Dean Partridge 2 Mathieson Croysdale Shelley Wilson) beat NEWTOWN 58 (38) (B Ever-ard Free 2 Brooks) WESTERN SUBURBS 20-19 (139) (R Price Roser 4 A Yard Cox 3 Frond A Webb 2 Sharrock) beat UNIVERSITY 15-10 (100) (D Coals 4 Keeble 3 Ramsden 2 Cottam Ouinn Bbklev Cook Northam Vuvu). EASTERN SUBURBS 21-17 (143) (G Boysom Ayton Ryan 4 Wilton Pandells 2 Sharpe Fitzgerald Hilton Goostrev Roberts) beat SOUTH SYDNEY 707 (59) Hourigan Bolitho 2 La Paveous Fallon Friend).

ST. GEORGE 21-16 (142) (G Green McDonald 5 Dwver 3 McKenna 2 Tyndale Mc-Court Wlllats Heenan Mo Kernan Kemp) beat BALMAIN 7-12 (54) (R Young 2 ForteV Lane Rabone Irwin iuua ttiiu iui ilium vi uie I second in Trinidad. 4 Since then though there a lw, I .1 nan uccii wiiui js piuucii'iy best termed a reaction and the bowling of the side has 'J been very poor indeed. With the West Indian batsmen there is only i one place to bowl that goals to is siraignr at tne ou- stump and occasionally 'a' arm oursiae. 3t This would induce the flashing stroke that might nrmg worK ror me starving blip fieldsmen.

Bowl at their pads and will 4.W.L- nmnii with an ease that sends the ball flashing to the square leg or midwickct boundary. It is not as though there wing-half, and until he suffered a leg injury in the second half, he piloted the defence most ably. Prague attempted to save the game during these minutes when their opponents were" reduced to 10 men, but it was a hopeless quest. ST GEORGE-BUDAPEST 3 (J Galambos 2 Warren) beat 1.697 second-half goals forward John team a runaway at Lambert Park ute. Five minutes from full-time Watkiss scored the fourth.

The first half produced soccer at a break-neck pace. Weakened The Metro defence appeared to spring from the clouds on numerous occasions after Apia had the goal at its mercy. Metro confidently stopped each Apia first-half attack and at half-time appeared to have an even chance of winning. But in the second half the defence weakened under relentless pressure from Watkiss, Giacomcffi, Bennett and Wong. BUDAPEST 3 (G Galambos 2 Warren ooal) beat PRAGUE 1 (R Bliti).

APIA 4 (J Watklns 3 Gla-cometti) beat METKO A 0. Crowd 2. COO. Saints, last season's runners-up in the championship, have rarely had such an easy day against opponents who were rated so highly. Gone was the flowing combination of Prague's team of last weekend when they defeated Metropolitan Adriatic 6-1.

Saints out-played them man for man throughout the entire 90 minutes of the match at Sydney Athletic Field. Inside-right John Warren, who can only train once a week with the team because of University studies, was an unobstrusive but successful link man between Saints' backs and forwards. Todd's dash Left winder Dave Todd, the 600 purchase from Corinthian, harried Prague's defence unmercifully. Left full-back Roger Hillary, who calmly walked into Saints' training camp a few weeks ago and asked for a game, played Slate winger Roy Blitz out of the match. Hardly a man in theside could be faulted defenders Herbert Stegbauer.

Mel Clarke, Manfred Schaeffer, Tibor Zuckermnnn and Hugo Rodriguez crushed Prague's attacks. George Yardley and John Galambos were ever-present to sound danger signals in Saints' forward line. The only surprising feature was that they could not defeat Prague by a wider margin. On many occasions they narrowly missed scoring. Winger Dave Todd "set up" his side's third goal when he beat four men in a sideline dash and then hooked the ball into the centre for Galambos, to mump nome ras i For two men who were playing their first premiership match together, Todd and Hillary combined splendidly on the left flank.

Saints' regular centre-half Peter Banicevic was unable to take the field for the game because of a head injury sustained last weekend. As a result, Zuckermann retained his position as Three splendid by Apia centre Watkiss gave his win against Metro yesterday. After a scoreless first half, Apia, with Watkiss prominent, scored a 4-0 win. Two of Watkiss' goals were disputed by Metro players who claimed he was off-side. However, even allowing for this, Apia were in complete control in the second half.

Watkiss' first goal came three minutes after half-time when he dashed down the right wing and scored from an acute angle. Apia's outside-right Johnny Giacometli inside Watkiss' next goal look easy after lie sent a square pass from the wins to the front of the Metro goal for Watkiss to cut in. Giacqrnetti added Apia's third gdafjri the mlin-i Three Is anyone in the Australian side of excessive pace to match the devil extracted from the pitch by Hall and Griffith. Bad start The end of the British Guiana innings came when Butcher skied a Philpott legspinner to long-off where Hawke safely held the catch. British Guiana was all out for 284, leaving the Australians 293 runs to make for victory.

The Australians made a bad start in their second innings. With the total at 15, Lawry played a ball from left-hand paceman Miller into the covers and called for a run. Trimble hesitated then came through but Mayers returned to the wicketkeeper and Murray caught him just out of his ground. It could prove a costly loss for the Australians who will need an. inspired effort from their thin batting ranks to make another 290 runs.

Lawry. and Shepherd are together with only Thomas and Booth to come as batting specialists before the all-rounders and tail-enders appear on the scene. Ailing Hall is improved GEORGETOWN, Saturday (A.A.P. Special). The condition of the West Indies pace bowler Wesley Hall was much improved yesterday.

Hall has been confined to his hotel with a high temperature for more than three days. The temperature was down end he was able to get out of bed. ft I nard worK Instead we have three hA medium pacers in the 1 1 Test side and Peter Allan of about the same pace on if the sidelines. McKenzie at the moment is certainly, nothing more than medium pace and is clearly feeling the hard work he has had in the past year He is the main offender, In fact, with lapses in directs tion and often is to be seen 6 these days bowling at the pads of batsmen whose H4AH.U ll. irli on-siHp.

of the nitrb Both Mayne and Hawke have erred in this regard as well and in recent games utithe openers have had a easy time with the 71 )TJrJE SUNHEtRALD, 11 1965 I 71 1 Australian bowling. 1.