Evening Post from Bristol, Avon, England • 24

EVENING POST SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30 defensive Escape Rovers BRISTOL I BRICHTOH 'HEADS ON "CHOFPINU BLOCK deadlock CUFTON LEAD AT INTERVAL by JEFbCMY BRIEM The new laws on kickin to touch hindered rather'! than helped attac king design against Worcester at Eastfield Road th is afternoon Although enjoying the vast majority possession they led at half-time by only a singl unconverted try Former Bristol and Cornwall by ROBIN PERRY It was an untidy first half at Scunthorpe this afternoon where neither attack looked like producing the punch to bre ak the defensive deadlock Scunthorpe we nt closest to making a breakthrough when Sloan headed on to crossbar two minutes fr om half-time Manager Bert Tann sprung a surprise this morning by leaving out Harold Jarman the record-breaking right-winger when he named his team It was the first time that Jarman has been dropped in four seasons but he remained in the squad as substitute Biggs who missed game with Oxford because of a knee injury was fit to return at centre-forward and Bobby Jones the: man who had deputised for him replaced Jarman on the right-wing with Munro remaining at outside-left Ih defence Stuart Taylor repkeed Stone at centre-half There was an untidy start as two teams with comparably disappointing records so far this season struggled to gain some kind of winger was well placed sent his header welt over Munro was penalised after clashing with stead and after conferring with the linesman referee Singleton lectured roaming leftwinger he spoke to Parsons for late tackle on Sloan Between the two incidents Sunthorpe were unlucky to go ahead when meeting Barton's from the left beautifully sent a powerful header on to the crossbar As the ball rebounded Williams headed it behind Barton's second corner cleared more easily llailf-time: SCUNTHORPE BRISTOL ROVERS Wellington prospects brighter One win from four matches cn be described as the best of starts for Wel- jjngton but the prospects are brighter than these results suggest gv phlis on the right clearly going to be After telling Brighten share nelders at the annual meet ing of the club In Hare this morning thai the highest 'mount ol manet In the history had been spent on transfer fees chairman Eric Courtney King said: II we cenUnue challenge for promotion the end will be jastllcd bul this does not happen certain heads will be on he chopping block" When manager Archie Macaulay dealing with team poller said iaver that he was a little concerned about the chopping or remark" Mr Courtney King smilingly remarked No only your head Archie" Yeovil off the mark at last Yeovil Rugby Club are off the mark at last After three rather humiliating defeats they came into their own at ed to vic-points to three 'ast Saturday Yeovil only one try in atches The five they scored at Swanage will certainly give their morale a boost particularly as the opposition they now have to face will not be quite so demanding Best news of the week was that Ian Smith who played in Sherborne 1st XV last season will be turning out for the club for the rest of the season Smith who lives at Pendomer was in the AXV this afternoon but is expeCLecj to be challenging soon for promotion He plays either at wing forward or in the centre and it seems that Yeovil are more likely to use him in the latter position To make last Saturday easily the most successful of the season so far the A and Extrfa A also won against Castle Cary and North Petherton A respectively BAY XY KEEP SHIELD Hawke's Bay drew 12pts 12 with Wellington today in their seventh and last successful defence this season of the Ran-furly Shield symbol of New Zealand inter-provincial Rugby Union supremacy Hawke's Bay trailing 9pts drew level in the last seconds with a dropped goal by Blair Furlong A try scored by Otago last Saturday was the only occasion on which the Hawke's Bay line was crossed INDIAN VICTORY India today won the Eastern Zone final of the Davis Cup against Japan at New Delhi and qualified for an inter lunette against South Africa the European Group champions Winners ot the India South Africa tie will meet Spain in the inter zone final for the right if challenge Austra la holder-ot the trophy in Brisbane1 next December forward David Mann making: his debut in the Worcester i second row had to leave the field in the very first minute But Mann who has just started a course at Worcester Teacher training college was quickly back with a damaged finger strapped up Visiting full-back Tayler was a long way off target with a 50 yard penalty attempt and Clifton came back with some useful forward and backs linking in which Orr and Howard were prominent From 'one'ortie Williamson almost jinked clear only to be smothered by quick Worcester cover and next Martin was! crowded into touch after being given a half-chance by aSaun- deciifbtonkcame within inches of scoring when Wijjjamson fielded a loose fly klfck cut through to the full-back and sent Martin racing dear He was caught from behind by a fine cover tackle from Worcester wing Gerry but within a couple of minutes Clifton did Scrum-half SMITH slipped as he shaped to pass from a five-yard scrum but he recovered quickly to dive through a huge gap to the posts as Worcester deployed for the pass New full-back Morris hit an upright with what should have been a simple conversion Worcester came back strongly near the interval with fly-half Veale prominent but the Clifton cover just held often at the last gasp Half-time: CLIFTON 3pts WORCESTER Nil visit is postponed Gloucester Rugby Club have postponed next Thursday's fix urc with Clifton so thai il can be played under flood iighu or Wednesday Decern bei 6 But this will not be the first game under the £5000 flood lights A special match against the Bosuns has been arranged for Monday November 6 and St College will play under light on November 29 Fixture secretary Mr Doug Dawe said that a further floodlight match had been ar ranged with Loughborough Colleges for Wednesday Fe bruary 14 All the floodlight games wifi start at 7 15 pm IN BRIEF Weston-super-Mare 5 (Deidre Walton 4 Sara Andrews) School 0 Weston jfl 6 (Rosalind Pane 3 Margaret Snort 2 Gillian Croston) Sexey's tl 1 (Margaret Oliver) as just wide and after 32 inutcs the scores were level i Bridgend found their defence sorely tried and when a clear 'ng kick for touch hovered and as taken outside the 25 by iillard the centre immediately at the first line of cover yler was on right and owered his shoulder and harged Williams made the runching tackle but Tyler as ready to slip the ball away his left where IWPEY was rfectly placed for the scot ng pass AINGE duly converted a splendid opportunist try and ristol were now ahead Half-time BRISTOL llpts i- BRIDGEND pts Allen Gays valuable boot The improved place-kicking ability of full-back Allen Gay has been one of the most pleasing features of Rugby displays so far this season For several seasons the club has suffered badly be-j Cause easy penalty and con- version kicks have been missed: but now Gay is promising to develop just the consistency Bath want In eight games this season and he been asked to kick in all of them Gay has collected 29 points with his boot If he can maintain this consistency he could well become the 150-point-a-season kicker Bath are looking for Neither has steady advance been accidental or in any sense lucky but rather more the true reward for dedicated hard work Throughout the summer full-back alive to the criticism that his kicking both punting and placed has been his weakest feature has been practising on his own His effort does not seen to have been in vain for as well as finding the accuracy with his goal attemfs Gay has increased the length of his touch-kicking as well Bath naturally are highly delighted for it makes them-a much moredangerous side and one which supporters consider has yet to show its full potential There are still some problems to sort out afra the inability of Geoff Frankcom to play regularly because of A duties has shown that Bath are still short of class mid-field players The influx of newcomers is still not complete though and only this week Bath had two more promising acquisitions One is wing three-quarter Stephen Jeffray who played in the Army side which won last Inter-Services championship He was then a cadet at Sandhurst Now he is stationed at Larkhall The other is Len Beel a lock forward who urfil now has been better known as a soccer player He kpt goal for Southern League Bath City last season hut has now decided to freturn to Rmhv a game which he used to play at school AC0ST1NI FASTEST PRACTICE LAP Italian Giacomo Agostini favourite to retain lus world SCO-cc title had the fastest oractice lap time yesterday for Canadian motor-cycle Grand rii Riding an MV Agura Agostini covered the f-bound rain ham- pered course In- lmin J2see Leader in the class was I Britain's Mike Hailwood who clocked 1 39 3 on his six-cvlnder Honda The fastest 125 quajl- fler wbs another British -ider Bill Ivy with Minehead Rugby Club are un able to raise a side for their away match with Hornets Weston super-Mare today an asset to the team and his speed and determination should bring him a nuiyibor of tries Aian Sloman at stand-off who has come up from the colts is another player of real promise win over Sidmouth brought three fine tries all from threequarter and both Phillips and Sloman got a try apiece pack proved too strong for Wellington on Tuesday and ability to get the ball is going to pose their biggest groblem particularly if ooker Arnold Trott cannot return to full fitness An Jearly blow to the club is decision to retire because of Army commitments He has been a more useful wing- forward during his short period with the club GOALS LIST Leading League and Cup scorers before matches: DIVISION Davies (Southampton) Olivers (Southampton) Hurst (West Ham) Ritchie (Sheffield Wednesday) 9 each' Lorl-mer (Leeds) 8 Moore (Nottm Forest) Peters (West Ham) 7 each Division II: Hector (Derby) Lee (Bolton) 9 each (Derby) Woodruff (Crystal 8 each) Brown (Cardiff) Ingram Blackpool 7 each division III: Yardley (Tran-rttere) 11 Jones (Bury) 9 Napier (Brighton) 8 Atkins (Stockport) Harris (Reading) Mulholland (Barrow) Murray (Walsall) 7 each DIVISION IV: Rloch (Luton) Talbot (Crewe) 7 each Holmes (Lincoln) Howarth (Aldershot) King (Newport) Loyden (Chester) Massie (Halifax) 6 each Then a not Sloan corner crashing was Old Askews Right wing COLIN PARR gave Bridgwater an early lead with a well-taken try which PETER HAWKINS converted from the touch line But Bridgwater made little headway in the next 20 minutes and it was the Old Boys who went close to scoring Outside-half Mark Baxter and flanker Brian Balchin werfe both checked near the line in quick succession Bridgwater finally broke away and a grubber kick from Clive Webberpaved the way for another try in the comer by PARR PETER HAWKINj) soon foloweff this up with a penalty goal and then GEOFF PAISEY dived over to score when a kick by Brian Scott bounced for the defence and fullback Roy Gummer hit the post attempting to convert BAXTER finally kicked a penalty goal from in front of the posts just before halftime Half-time: BRIDGWATER 14pts OLD ASKEANS 3pts Wellington Bideford Bideford did all the early pressong and tookyfne lead from a side combined hand- ling movement ROGER GRIEG touching down a try which his brother -MIKE GRIEG converted Wellington beaten for possession in scrums and lineouts had few chanees Guy Vickery nearly reduced the arrears putting a penalty kick just wide Then good handling by the Wellington back saw Sprague tackled a yard out But Bule-ford were soon back on the attack and but for mischances would have gone further ahead Half-time: WELLINGTON Nil- BIDfeEORD 5pts BOUT MAY BE POSTPONED A wrenched back may force Argentinian Oscar Bonavena to postpone his world heavyweight title fight eliminator against American Jimmy Ellis arranged for November 11 doctor has ordered him to stop training and rest while he receive drug treatments for the injury which he sustained against Karl Mildenberger (West Germany) this month Bonavena resting at his Buenos Aires home on an extra hard surfaced bed is optimistic that he will have recovered inside a wel American swims to world best Catie Ball a 15-year-old from Jacksonville Florida who already holds two world records broke a third when she won the 220 yards breast-stroke in the amateur swimming inter-1 i national betw een Great 1 Britain and America Crystal Palace today Catie went into the lead at the start itnd stayed there to win in 2min eight-tenths of a second inside the record held by Galina Prozu-menschikova of Russia The British swimmer who chased the American girl home Jill Slattery of Sheffield was not even in the race officially She was replaced in the team hy Amanda Radnage (York) but she swam in an extra lane Herstime of 2min 48sec beat her Nritish and English records foite distance by a second Miss Radnage trailetr behind in 2min 515sec ASTONISHING Another British swimmer Sylvia Platt proved the selec tors wrong in the 110-yard backstroke Swimming in an extra lane she put in an astonishing last length to move from fourth plaee to win in 689sec the best time of her career and only two-tenths of a second outside Linda I 'recent British record The two official swimmers in the race Pokey Watson and Janet Franklin of Taunton both clocked 71sec: but the judge placed the American girl first In the 110-yard freestyle the world record holder Bobby McGregor clocked 539sec less than half a second outside his best to beat America's Stephen Rerich by two yards John Thurley was pulled along with such good effect by the American dual world record holder Mark Spitz in the 220-yard butterfly that he broke his British and English records by nearly two seconds in 2m in ll3sec Spitz finished three yards shcRid Alan Kimber was nearly 10 yards down at one stage in the 440 freestyle but he got to within inches of Grant Bert at the finish Britain scored an unexpected win in the 4 bv 220 yards relay but Bobby McGregor was given a fright on the last leg by Mark Spitz whose time for his 220 yards was one min 589 sec the fastest ever recorded in this country overall time of 8 min 118 sec was more than 12 seconds inside the old British record LINDSAY IS OUT OF OLYMPIC PARTY Hugh Lindsay (Wealdstone) and Epter Deadman (Barking): who i Helped England's amateurs beat Ireland fast Saturday are 1 left out of the 17 players from whom the Great BritainfOlympic XI to meet Celti-c on October 9 will be chosen powerful midfield man Dave Andrews who missed the Ireland game because of Injury returns with Roy 1 Sleap (Hendon) and Roy Towns end (Wealdstone) Five Park' players complete the party Swift Peter a 12-1 chance ridden by Selkrii came from behind to snatch victory In the £19904 Australian Jockey Club Derby over II miles when spring horso race meeting opened at RawJarSdt todwy Few ideas But there were too many errors and two few ideas for either side to rise above the early mediocrity There was one expectant moment when a lob from Hemstead far out on the right looked like troubling Briggs But the goalkeeper dragged the ball from under the bar and it was the 17th minute before there was any sign of a positive breakthrough by either attack On occasion Taylor was turned the wrong way by Harney who spurted forward He drove in a crisp low shot which Briggs advancing towards the centre-forward saved well The first glimmer of action from defence came after 20 minutes when Ron-aldson moved to the right to take a pass from Biggs He neatly rounded Taylor on the outside and clipped over a centfe almost from the by-lirfe Wayne Jones' was waiting on the far post but Hem-stead got his head to the ball first and turned it behind for a corner which proved of no benefit to Rovers Chance lost Hillard might have put Rovers ahead a fter 27 minutes when he moved up flank With defence more concern about the lofty Taylor who had also moved up Hillard found himself well positioned and unmarked But he mistimed his header a kick dropped into the goalmouth and a chance was wasted By the half-hour forwards had begun to move with a little more purpose but there was no real penetration It was a thrusting run by Harney in from the right that brought the most menacing raid for some time and it needed a rugged tackle and the concession of a corner by Parsons to get Rovers out of trouble Then Colquhoun found himself unmarked out on the left with the ball at his feet but he made poor use of the chance running 20 yards before hitting in a low shot on the run which Briggs saved with little difficulty i Scunthorpe gone ahead fiveminutes from half time when Colquhoun nodded a cross from the left by Foxon over to Sloan who was moving in on the far port The right- Ivor Smith with his Wesley Road Liberal Club team winners of the First Division trophy which was presented at the annual dinner of the Trowbridge and District Men's Cribbage League at the DriU Halt last night i.