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36 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1989 SPORT 4 YACHTING: Tim Jeffery describes the fatal accident aboard Creightons Naturally as she ploughed through high seas in the Southern Ocean 'Heroic crewmen' fail Dalton fends off to save Tony Phillips British challenge By Tim Jeffery GRANT DALTON'S New kel is holding her 67-mile British sloop Rothmans after of the Whitbread Round the Last Thursday Rothmans had closed to within 40-miles present non-surfing "ketch conditions" clearly suit Dalton's yacht. Fisher dessel.has edged north to 50 been the most southerly yacht in fleet last week at 49 deg S. "'We were within two miles of some icebergs," said Dalton yesterday, "though never had to alter course for them." Dalton, however, is sure places will change in the race before the first finisher reaches Fremantle in about 10-days time. "Yachts behind us like Belmont and NCB Ireland are reporting light northerly winds. But there are some tricky winds coming Certainly, the maxis are converging.

Pierre Fehlmann's Merit is one mile behind Rothmans, with Peter Blake's Stein- Zealand ketch Fisher Paylead over Lawrie Smith's 17 days at sea on Leg Two World Race. lager 2 another mile astern. Yesterday these three were making more than seven knots, while ahead of them Fisher Paykel had dropped to threeknots. LEG 2 (Punta del Latest positions (distance to go): Class 1: 1, Fisher: Paykel (G Dalton, Zealand) 2944 miles; 2, Rothmans (L Smith, GB) 3011; 3, Merit (P. Fehlmann, Switzerland) 3012; 4, Steinlager 2 (P Blake, Zealand) 3013; 5, Fortuna Extra Lights (J Gandara, Spain) 3025; 6, Union Bank of Finland (L Ingvall, Finland) 3034; 7, Charles (A Gabbay, France) 3057; 8, Martela (M Wiikeri, Finland) 3099; 9, Fazisi (S Novak, USSR) 3165; 10, The Card (R Nilson, Sweden) 3196; 11, Satquote British Defender (C Watkins, GB) 3221; 12, Gatorade (P Sicouri, Italy) 3240; 13, NCB Ireland (J English, Ireland) 3378; 14, Belmont Finland I (H Harkimo, Finland) 3406; 15, Liverpool Enterprise (B Salmon, GB) 3960.

Class 1, Equity Law iN (D Nauta, Holland) 3988. Class 1, Maiden (T Edwards, GB) 4519; Rucanor Sport (B Dubois, Belgium) 4591; 3, L'Esprit de Liberte (P Tabarly, France) 4671; 4, Schlussel Bremen (R Muller- Germany) 4873; 5, La Poste (D Maille, France) 5005. Cruising: 1, With Integrity (A Coghill, GB), 4936; 2, Creightons Naturally (J Chittenden, GB) 5331. RORC show ambition BRITAIN'S Royal Ocean Racing Club are to send three-boat teams to both the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii next August and the Sardinia Cup in the Mediterranean a month later. Buoyant after victory in this summer's Champagne Mumm Admiral's Cup, a British team will contest next month's Southern Cross in Sydney, so will have contested all four of the world's top offshore team events in 13 months.

But the Southern Cross team shows that Mike Peacock's Juno IV is about the only world-class boat presently in commission. She is likely to be of the Sardinia Cup team. This event has adopted the new Admiral's Cup format of level racing teams at 30.05ft, 35.05ft and 40.50ft IOR rating. The teams for Hawaii the Japanese Kenwood Corporation have made £25,000 available to each seem likely to use char. ter boats.

The RORC's closing date for candidates is Jan 31. Tim Jeffery HOCKEY Surbiton inspired by promotion prospects By Chris Moore HAVING failed by two points to take the Pizza Express London League title last year, Surbiton are making renewed efforts to finish on top this season as part of their drive to win a National League place. Ian Jolly, the Army and bined Services player, scored twice on Saturday as Surbiton beat Cheam 4-0 for their sixth successive victory. David Francis, this season's top scorer with eight, added another to his total. "Although the club's playing strength is better than ever, we know we have to reach the National League to make sure of our future," said Sean Cotter.

"We've made a good start to our London League programme but there are some strong sides breathing down our necks. It is not going to be easy." Surbiton, one of the bestknown clubs in the London Blackheath and Arenpstead by two points, but Spencer, lying in fourth place, could be their biggest threat. With a game in hand, Spencer still have a 100 per cent record. Surbiton are one of the few clubs able to finance an artificial grass pitch. But they have to overcome planning problems before it can be laid at their Sugden Road ground.

Firebrands, who won the Sun Life West League last season but failed to get through the National League -offs, have made an impressive start towards retaining their title. Four successive victories without a goal conceded have left them at the top of the table, three points ahead of Plymouth. Mason, their 16-year-old keeper, was again unbeaten on Saturday as they beat West Wilts 4-0: DIVISION 2 PW A Pts St Albans 7 6 1 0 24 8 19 Brean 4 14 5 15 Lyons 5 15 9 15 Neston 4 13 8 14 Bournville. 4 13 14 Gore 3 14 6 13 Doncaster 2 2 9 12 1 Coventry NW. 3 4 LO 9 3 Taunton Vale 2 3 6 9 00 Guildford 3 10 8 03 Cambridge City 9 9 14 AN 10 16 Broxbourne 9 19 7 5 17 18 A Peterborough 7 0 2 5 4 22 Ipswich go on rampage By Cathy Harris HELEN EN BRAY and Bev Fairey each scored for Ipswich in their 10-1 defeat of Bury St Edmunds in the Essex Super League, which keeps them in front of the A Division.

Trojans' surprise 2-0 defeat of Southampton has moved them up to joint-third in the South First Division but Wimbledon, who are unbeaten after four games, are four points clear at the the top. Berkshire forward Gill Deverson scored a hat-trick to help Bracknell beat Portsmouth 5-0. The victory keeps her team in second place and in touch with SQUASH RACKETS Stamina the Jansher key JANSHER KHAN, the world champion, emerged victorious after a marathon contest against Jahangir Khan, the holder and top seed, in a Canadian Open final in Toronto lasting 130 minutes. Jansher, 20, won a seefinal, featuring many long rallies, 15-4, 7-15, 15-6, 9-15, 15-7 for his first Canadian Open title. The match, the longest recorded in the evernt, ended Jahangir's winning Openstreak of 19 matches.

CANADIAN EN (Toronto) Final: Jansher Khan (Pakistan) bt Jahangir Khan (Pakistan) 15-4, 7-15, 15-6, 9-15, 15-7. Former national women's champion, Lucy Soutter, beat world No 4 Danielle Drady 9-3, 9-0, 9-3 in the opening matches of the National Women's Superleague but UTC Cannons, still lost 2-1 to Reebok Nottingham. Caversham beat IMS Courtlands 3-0 in another match. TODAY'S DIARY National League, Div 1: Hemel Hempstead Crystal Palace (8). LAWN LTA Winter Indoor Series (Stalybridge) (5).

LTA Challenger (Telford). ROUND-UP Davis dies from crash injuries JOHN CHITTENDEN, the skipper of Creightons Naturally, yesterday radioed details of Sunday morning's tragedy in which one life was lost and another saved during the second leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race in the Southern Ocean. The crewman who died was Tony Phillips, 36, a bachelor from Lund, near Beverley, Humberside, and the only son of Lt Col Joseph Lady Katherine Phillips. He was a cousin of Capt Mark Phillips. A man swept overboard serines same time was Bart Van den Dwey, 25, a Belgian.

He was later saved and according to Chittenden "is recovering well from hypothermia and The accident happened early on Sunday morning when the 80ft British cruising yacht was running downwind before a westerly gale. She gybed heavily, breaking one of the backstays mast. Creightons gybed supporturally involuntarily a second time, breaking two of the winch winding pedestals on deck. Fifteen minutes later, the crew were dropping the mainsail to sort out the chaos when two extremely large waves hit the boat. She broached on the second one and spun around, breaking the spinnaker pole on which a small jib was set.

Tony Phillips and Bart Ven den Dwey were swept off the deck and into the tumbling and icy sea. Both men were wearing lifejackets and equipped with mini flares and personal locator beacons and the crew deck immediately deployed life rings and a marker buoy. Creightons dropped her sails and motored back into the big seas, using a radio direction receiver to locate the men's beacons. Van den Dwey was recovered and rescusitated, and then Phillips was also picked up after some 30 minutes in the water. Efforts to revive him, however, failed.

Although Belgian's jacket was inflated, Phillips' was not. Creightons' crew believe he hit one of the lifeline stanchions at the edge of the deck when he went overboard. "It is not thought likely was conscious once in the water," said Chittenden. The skipper described the actions of Julian Morris, 27, an accountant, and Barry Mercer, 46, an interior designer, who A URUGUAY AFRICA AUSTRALIA Punta del Este. -Fremantle Where the two miles crewmen fell overboard ,500 CRICKET New Zealand call up Cairns and Patel CHRIS CAIRNS, a mediumfast bowler and useful batsman, and all-rounder Dipak Patel, who bowls spin, have been called up to bolster the injury-hit New Zealand team touring Australia.

Cairns, 19, is the son of former Test bowler and big-hitter Lance. He plays for Nottinghamshire but is yet to play a Test. Patel has played seven. The New Zealanders were down to nine fit players when batsman Andrew Jones and paceman Gary Robertson were injured during the drawn fourday match against Australia. They will remain with the team and are expected to be available for the Test in Perth beginning on Nov 24.

TOUR MATCH (Perth). New Zealand 283 296-7 (I Smith 123, Wright 107 not); Western Australia 374-9dec. Match drawn. Australia's Ashes-winning team could face a shake-up when selectors meet this week to pick a side to play New Zealand in their first Test since the 4-0 series win in England. The retirement of leg-spinner Trevor Hohns means at least one addition must be made, but an injury to all-rounder Steve Waugh and fine batting performances early in the season by several young players might result in a reshuffle, if not for the New Zealand Test, at least for later Tests against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

The departure of Hohns, 35, from the Test scene is complicated by the knee injury suffered by Tim May in the Nehru Cup, which will sideline the offspinner for at least month. Viv Richards been named captain and Clive Lloyd will manage the West Indies cricket team for series against Eng. land, the West Indies Cricket Board of Control announced yesterday. England are due in the Caribbean in January for a five- Test series and several oneday internationals. Left-hander Darren Lehmann hit 228 to salvage a draw for South Australia in their Sheffield Shield match with New South Wales at Adelaide Oval yesterday.

The Victoria-Tasmania match was also drawn. 516-7dec 179-2 (S Small 79, SHEFFIELD, SHIELD. Adelaide: New Bayliss 48 not); Australia 519 (D Lehmann 228, A Hilditch 44; Whitney 5-125). Match drawn. Melbourne: Victoria 259 161-7 (A Dodemaide 30 not); Tasmania 381.

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Atmospheric conditions in the wastes of the Southern Ocean, where the 23-strong fleet is skirting the Antarctic ice pack, make radio telephone contact difficult. Chittenden eventually contacted the race chairman, Rear Admiral Charles Williams, via ship telex relayed by another British Whitbread entry, Tracy Edwards' Maiden. Admiral Williams was able to convey the wish of Tony Phillips' parents that their son should be buried at sea. is a very dignified way for hint to depart but desperately sad," said the admiral. "'The ceremony will take place at 10 o'clock this morning." Mr Phillips' death is the first in the Whitbread since three men, Paul Waterhouse, Domanique Guillot and Bernard Hoskins, were lost overboard in the inaugeral 1973-74 race.

The yacht is presently some 5,300 miles from the finish of -the second leg in Fremantle, her Western Australia, and 1,500 miles from Cape Town. She will my continue in the race. two Richard Collard, whose natural products cosmetics and toiletaries company, Creightons for Laboratories, sponsored the yacht with £400,000 said he was "shattered" by the news." the "But one thing is certain," he added. "I am going to meet the boat in Australia when she Tony Phillips, 36, who died on Sunday after being swept off the deck of Creightons Naturally comes in. And, I'll be crewing her on the next leg with David, my 23-year-old son." Creightons Naturally is one of two yachts with corinthian crews in what is the longest, toughest ocean race in the world for fully -crewed yachts.

The race, dominated by resolutely professional crews, takes the boats through some of the emptiest and most rugged waters on the globe. Like the majority of her 21- strong crew, Phillips, a former Dragoon Guards captain, gave up his job as an insurance broker to compete. He paid £12,000 for his berth on the six-leg, 33,000 mile race. "Challenge and adventure, were the motives his application. There is a sad irony in the tragedy, because this was one crew in the race always likely to sail within their abilities and put seamanship before speed.

Gary Mason set for a December fight with Mark Wills, of the United States BOXING Mason faces toughest test yet GARY MASON, the undefeated British heavyweight champion, is convinced the toughest test during his build up for the clash with Mike Tyson will be when he meets American Mark Wills at Wembley on Dec 6. Mason regards Wills as "a dangerous opponent who can take a punch, give a punch and very much resembles Tyson in his fighting Wills, from Los Angeles, was only one of two sparring partners to last the distance when he By Ken Mays trained with Frank Bruno for the Briton's fight with Tyson. Mason said: "The American heavyweights believe that British boxers are easy pickings but have learned to their cost in the past. I am confident that I can beat Wills although I don't expect it to be easy. "I can guarantee it will be a fight whether it lasts just one round or goes the full 14 rounds," stressed Mason.

Despite all Mason's apprehensions, Wills has lost nine of his 20 contests since he began boxing in 1981 including two defeats by Tim Witherspoon, who deprived Bruno of the world title first time around. The Sheffield promotion featuring British cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson next Monday, has called off because there is no suitable replacement for challenger Lou Gent who has a back injury. Pat Barrett, the British lightwelterweight champion from Manchester, will face Joey Ferrell, of Philadelphia, at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, a week today. The American has had 10 knockout wins in 19 bouts. LAWN TENNIS Injury dents Graf's ambitions AN ANKLE injury threatens to ruin Steffi Graf's bid to win the Virginia Slims Championship in New York this week.

The top seed, practising at Ivan Lendl's indoor court at his Connecticut home last Thursday, twisted her left ankle she went for a volley and was rushed to hospital. Miss Graf was then reduced to tears when told that she should not put any weight on the foot for at least four days. Miss Graf is striving for the By John Parsons in New York only major title to elude her last year and has extra incentive after being paired with Jana Novotna the Czechoslovakian who went so close to beating her at Brighton last month in the first round. So far this year only Gabriela Sabatini, in Florida, and Open final, have beaten Arantxa Sanchez, in the French. Graf in 81 matches.

Wembley event in doubt LEN OWEN, tournament director for the Silk Cut Championships at Wembley, yesterday expressed fears that his event may not take place next year because of the threat of a bigmoney exhibition being organised for the same week, writes Martin Myers. The Silk Cut event will be placed in a "free week" in 1990, meaning it is not guaranteed any world top-10 players. "We have to compete with a tournament in Moscow and one VICTOR DAVIS, the former Canadian Olympic swimming champion, died yesterday two days after he was struck down by a car in Montreal. Davis, 25, had been in a coma with a fractured skull, brain haemorrhaging and spine injuries since Saturday. He retired from competitive swimming in July, and 2 had won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke gin record time at the 1984 Angeles world, Olympics.

That record stood for five years until American Mike Barrowman broke it in August. SNOOKER: Joe Johnson, the 1986 world champion, produced one of the surprise results of the season when he beat Stephen Hendry 5-3 to take the Grand Prix Norwich Union title in Monte Carlo. Final: Johnson bt Hendry 5-3: 74-67, 45-73, 88-15, 55-64, 59-34, 37-84, 57-35, 64-50. Jonathan Birch, the No 1 seed from Middlesbrough, today meets Andy Sharpe, from Northern Ireland, for a place in the quarter-final of the IBSF World Amateur Championship in Singapore. IBSF WORLD AMATEUR CH'SHIP Last 16: Birch (GB) A Sharpe (GB); Natale (Canada) Merchant (India); Finstead (Canada) Clarke (GB); Gorsky (Australia) Dawkins (GB); Campbell (GB) Mifsud (Malta); Chan (Hong Kong) Henderson (GB); Jones (GB) Triratanapradit (Thailand); Doherty (Rep of Ireland) A O'Connor (Rep of Ireland).

ICE SKATING: Joanne Conway, the deposed British figure skating champion, has received another setback to her plans for the European championships in Leningrad in January. Conway, 18, from North Shields, who lost her title to Emma Murdoch at Basingstoke last week, has her left foot in plaster to rectify a dropped third toe joint and will be unable to skate until early December. GOLF: Two Irish brothers play. ing in a Dublin tournament hit holes-in-one on the same course on the same day. Statisticians reckoned the odds repeating the feat were 50 billion to one.

Tom Plunkett struck first with an ace at the 145-yard 12th on Dublin's Elm Park course. His brother Oliver followed suit a few minutes later at the sixth. BADMINTON: The Gold Medal Challenge, one of the high profile events of the season, will collapse unless a sponsor can be found by Thursday, the Badminton Association have warned. CRICKET: Brian Close, the Yorkshire cricket committee chairman, and Geoff Boycott, the committee member for Wakefield who has criticised the Yorkshire management, have both withdrawn from tonight's televised debate. Yorkshire Television, however, said the programme would go ahead.

Fred Trueman and Geoff Cope, the former Yorkshire and England bowlers, together with veteran cricket commentator Don Mosey, also a Yorkshireman, will be among those taking part. West Indian cricketers Franklyn Stephenson, Faoud Bacchus and Ezra Moseley have written to the West Indies Cricket Board of Control seeking reinstatement after they were banned for life for playing in South Africa. Clyde Walcott, the board's president, said they will be reinstated if they pledge in writing never to tour the Republic again. in a (A the leaders when the league resumes in January. Aries League-leaders Lichfield beat Rugeley 3-1 while in the NatWest Hampshire League New Milton maintained their position at the top when they beat Basingstoke by a similar score.

NatWest Hampshire Lge: New Milton 3, Basingstoke 1 Romsey 2, tersfield 0 Eastleigh 2, Yateley 0- Hamble Old Girls 1, Isle of White 0. South First Div: West Witney 1, Eastcote 0 Southampton 0, Trojans 2 Sunbury 1. Wimbledon 4. Brack nell 5, Portsmouth 0 Winchmore Hill 0, Wor thing 1. Aries Lge (Midlands): Sutton Magnates 3, Cannock 2 Lichfield 3, Rugeley 1 Streetly 4, Barton 1 Sutton Ladies 2, wich 0- Dudley 0, Aldridge 3 West Brom 2, Dudley 11.

SOCCER: Fans will stand on part of Hillsborough's Leppings Lane terraces for the first time since the FA Cup semi-final disaster, when Sheffield Wednesday meet Sheffield United in an all-ticket Zenith Cup tie next Tuesday. Around 2,300 United fans will stand in the raised corner of terracing between the north and west stands. The central section where 95 people died remains closed indefinitely. Austria's football authorities have responded to the opening of East Germany's borders with the West by giving its neighbour 5,000 tickets for the Group Three World Cup qualifying game between the two countries in Vienna tomorrow. TABLE TENNIS Syed shows top form as England storm in By John Woodford Martina Navratilova, assuming she has fully recovered from her recent injury and illness, is due to begin her campaign tonight against another teenager eager make a major breakthrough, Mary Joe Fernandez.

in Brazil. I don't mind that too much but now I hear rumours of yet another exhibition mooted for the same week," said a worried Owen. "If we don't get anyone in the top 10, we will not stage our tournament." Owen, is however, determined not to make any hasty decisions and is adopting a wait-and-see attitude. Michael Chang, the American, 117, won the Silk Cut title on Sunday. Sarah Loosemore, unable to defend her singles title at the recent Prudential National Championship through injury, will face her successor, Clare Wood, in the LTA Challenger tournament second round at Telford today.

Miss Loosemore has hardly played competitively since her victory over Hana Mandlikova in Australia almost a year ago. Players taking part in this week's Johannesburg grand prix tournament will be banned from competing at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the International Olympic Committee confirmed yesterday. The WCT world doubles event is to continue even though sponsors Nabisco are ending their five- association with next month's event at the Royal Albert Hall. MATTHEW SYED, 19, the England No 6, ruthlessly outplayed both his opponents as England triumphed 5-1 at Bolton Town Hall last night, in the last and most exciting of the series against the Soviet Union. Syed combined defence and smashes of high quality to help give England a 3-1 series win.

Syed twice returned shots to the table from outside the court area to beat Andrei Mazunov, the Soviet No 1, and the brilliant youngster Maksim Shmyrev. Alan Cooke, the Commonwealth champion who played in all four of the matches, also won his two games last night in a match which lasted a marathon four hours. 5, Soviet Union 1 (England names Syed bt A Mazunov England, 21-19, 11-21, 21-15; A Cooke bt Shmyrev 21-17, 23-25, 21-16; Andrew lost to zunov 15-21, 21-14, 17-21; Syed bt Shmyrev 21-16, 14-21, 21-18; Cooke bt Mazunov 21-12, 21-17; Andrew bt A Mazunov 21-12, 21-17. Administrators throughout the sport are concerned about the influx of emigrant players from the Chinese a mainland. At the Midlands Open in Birmingham at the weekend, the singles winners were Chen Xinhua, now based in Huddersfield, and Geng Lijuan, Nol on the women's world list in 1986, who is now playing for Canada.

Chen plans to marry an English woman shortly but present indications are that inside the sport, opposition to his appearing for England will be generated. The Daily Telegraph WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE 0898 500 653 Calls are charged 25p per minute off -peak 38p at other times.