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Hingis wins Family Circle Cup Selector
expects Warne to fight for Test spot Malik,
Younis likely for World Cup Selection
a miracle, says Mohanty Lanka
to host U-19 World Cup Sweden
upset; Brazil win
No differences with Bhupathi: Paes Balkan
conflict hits world soccer clubs National
football academy for Goa Holders
Punjab down Railways |
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Aussies gain 81-run lead ST JOHN'S (Antigua), April 5 (Reuters) — Australia dismissed West Indies for 222 inside the first hour on the third morning of the fourth and final Test today to gain an 81-run first innings lead. The hosts, 2-1 ahead in the series, resumed at 197 for six but their last four wickets fell for just 17 runs. Paceman Glenn McGrath started the slide when he bowled Nehemiah Perry for six. Leg-spinner Stuart MacGill dispatched Curtly Ambrose for nought then Carl Hooper was run out after adding only seven to his overnight 40. Hooper fell victim to an accurate throw by McGrath, fielding at third man as he went for a second run. Last man Courtney Walsh hit three before McGrath had him leg before to finish with three for 64, the best of the Australian bowling. Adam Dale, Colin Miller and MacGill took two wickets apiece. Master batsman Brian Lara lashed the third-fastest century in West Indies Test history. Lara left Australia gasping on the second day of the fourth and final Test yesterday, with an 82-ball 100, beaten only by Viv Richard and Roy Fredericks. The truly gifted West Indies captain had arrived at the crease in all too familiar circumstances — his team struggling on 20 for two in reply to Australia’s first innings of 303. By the time he had finished West Indies were 136 for three a total extended to 197 for six by the close, 106 behind. Carl Hooper was unbeaten on 40. Lara, dropped by Colin Miller on 14 then almost run out, rode his luck and smashed three sixes and 15 fours in another demonstration of devastating batting. His first 50 came in 61 balls with eight fours and a six. The second 50 was from just 21 balls with another seven fours and two sixes. It was his 13th hundred in 63 Tests and the second time he had made three centuries in successive Tests. The century took only 96 minutes but his concentration suddenly deserted him after he reached the mark and wicketkeeper Ian Healy took a one-handed catch on the leg side off paceman Glenn McGrath. But while Lara was at the crease the scoreboard rocketed. The man who cracked 213 in Jamaica and followed up with his superlative unbeaten 153 in Barbados to turn the West Indies from a team of also-rans into 2-1 series leaders hit precisely 100 of the 116 scored. Third wicket partner David Joseph was simply content to stay in the teens and watch in awe as his partner flayed Australia’ attack. Miller, able to deliver both medium pace and off-spin and replacement for leg-spinner Shane Warne, blotted his copybook by dropping Lara at mid-on. Batting at number 10, Miller had cracked a run-a-minute 43 in a 53-run ninth wicket partnership with his captain Steve Waugh. Miller’s innings included two pulled sixes off paceman Curtly Ambrose, pick of the West Indies bowling with five for 94. Then Miller, playing his first game of the series, removed West Indies openers Adrian Griffith (9) and Sherwin Campbell (8) in a splendid opening spell of medium pace that was rewarded with figures of 4-1-5-2. Adam Dale, another newcomer, finally had the stubborn Joseph leg before for 28 and followed up by removing Jimmy Adams, caught behind without scoring. Skipper Waugh contributed 72 not out as he led from the front in Australia’s battle to save the series. Once again he was his country’s top scorer. Ambrose took his haul to 366 wickets in 88 five-day games and moved above Pakistan’s Imran Khan as the seventh best Test wicket-taker. SCOREBOARD |
Era ends as Becker bids farewell BONN, April 5 (Reuters) — An era ended for German tennis at the weekend as Boris Becker made his last Davis Cup appearance. Becker teamed up with David Prinosil in Saturday's doubles to give his country a 2-1 lead over Russia in their first round tie. "There is a slight chance I might play in the next round if we qualify," he said after the pair achieved a thrilling five-set win over Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Andrei Olkhovsky. But Russia claimed both reverse singles yesterday to win 3-2 and advance to the quarter-finals. So disappointed was Becker that he shunned the closing press conference and left Frankfurt straight away. Becker, three times Wimbledon champion, plans to retire completely as player by the summer but will remain German team manager, continuing to work alongside captain Carl-Uwe Steeb. The former world number one, who steered Germany to victory in 1988 and 1989, has a unique Davis Cup record. He has won 38 of the 41 singles matches he has played in 28 ties. The only men to have beaten him are Spaniard Sergio Casal, who did it twice, and Dutchman Paul Haarhuis. Arguably the most formidable fighter in the history of the game, Becker, who had been concentrating on doubles lately, was the perfect Davis Cup player. "I wish every man could once hear his national anthem played for him", he once said. "Suddenly, your hands are wet and you get those goose pimples and you don't know why. That's Davis Cup." He made his debut as a 17-year-old in 1985, shortly after his first Wimbledon triumph, helping Germany reach the final, which they lost 3-2 to Sweden in Munich. Two years later in Hartford, Becker kept Germany in the world group with a memorable five-set win over John McEnroe which took six hours and 39 minutes. In 1988, Becker and Steeb presented Germany with their first Davis Cup victory by defeating Sweden in the final in Gothenburg. The real hero was Steeb who tamed Mats Wilander, then the world number one, in five sets in the decisive singles. The following year, Germany beat the same opponents in the final in Stuttgart, with Becker outclassing Wilander. "I was in the best place to admire the best player in the world", Wilander said at the time. Now semi-retired, Becker,
31, said last February that he would probably play his
last tournament in July in Stuttgart. |
Hingis wins Family Circle Cup HILTON HEAD ISLAND (South Carolina), April 5 (Reuters) — Eighteen-year-old world number one Martina Hingis overwhelmed 17-year-old Russian Anna Kournikova 6-4 6-3 in the final of the $ 1 million Family Circle Cup yesterday. Kournikova, now 0-2 in finals, threatened only once in the match, when she broke Hingis’s service in the seventh game of the match for a 4-3 lead. In the changeover, however, Hingis removed her white baseball cap as if to say it was time to get serious. The 1997 Family Circle champion and owner of five Grand Slam singles titles did just that, winning the next six games en route to a 66-minute victory. The turning point came in the ninth game of the match when Kournikova took a 0-40 lead but then committed three errors in succession. "That was a very important game when I was down 0-40 at 4-4," Hingis said. "Somehow I just said to myself try to hang in there and try to make the next two, three points and then she got a little bit shaky." The only other critical moment came with Kournikova serving at 30-40 in the sixth game of the second set when Hingis charged in and smashed a high forehand to the backhand corner for a 4-2 lead. The victory gave Hingis her 23rd singles title. She won $ 1,50,000 to increase her earnings for the year to $ 964,571. Kournikova, ranked 20th in the world and the tournament’s seventh seed, earned $ 70,000.
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India need a sixth batsman A few hot blooded idiots in the crowd tried to spoil a wonderful occasion. What happens is, most of the crowd are supporters of the home team and come expecting India to win. When their hopes and expectations are destroyed then frustration and irritation boils over into anger. Reason and common sense goes out of the windows and objects are thrown onto the ground. If anyone gets in the way 'they cop it'! Its only a few people who lose control very much like a spoilt child, who when he can't get his own way, throws a tantrum. If cricket gives in to this sort of irresponsible behaviour then anytime a home team is losing, section of the home crowd will attempt to get the match called off or get it replayed by throwing objects. Hooligans must be made to understand cricket will not bow to a few thugs. If India had been winning the match everyone would have been happy as it was Pakistan were awesome. The batting of Inzamam was the best I have seen him play this season. He has been making runs but without his usual flair. I always got the impression that he was in second gear with more to come. Yesterday he was at his commanding best picking off fours and singles, with ease. Even his running between the wickets showed a marked improvement. He was looking eager to score singles for his partners and that eventually was his undoing with another Inzamam mix-up to add to his long list. It was the only blemish in a superbly controlled innings. The most thrilling part of the evening was the fast bowling from Akram and Akhtar who destroyed the Indian innings before it got started. Akhtar is such an impressive, thrilling sight. A genuine fast bowler who loves to 'stick it up' the batsman with a few short ones. He gets the crowd on the edge of their seats and got up the nose of Saurav Ganguly with a bouncer that gloved him. Ganguly thought it was above shoulder height and should have been called a no-ball. Words were exchanged between bowler and batsman to raise the temperature in the middle. Ramesh was flat footed against the extra pace and Dravid was to late on a ball that cannoned into his pads. Amazingly he was given not out by umpire Parthasarathi whose umpiring throughout the match was sub-standard. It spoilt the occasion a bit and left players and commentators mystified. Afridi was plumb LBW to Agarkar when on 34 as he shuffled across the crease, yet was given the benefit of doubt. When it looked as if the umpire was a classic not-outer, he gave Khurasiya out LBW to a ball that pitched outside leg stump, so shouldn't have been out. Players need to have confidence in the officials and require the best men out in the middle. Everyone will make mistakes — it is human nature — but the errors have to be kept to a minimum. Borderline decisions always be debated but umpires must get the easy decisions right otherwise the players lose respect for the man. When all is said and done, Pakistan were too good for India. Without Tendulkar and Azhar the batting looked weak on paper and fragile against the fast men. It was men against boys and India need to re-think their batting line-up for the World Cup. A sixth batsman is needed to add depth, the return of the two big guns and a better technique against the faster bowlers. — PMG
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Selector expects Warne to fight for Test spot SYDNEY, April 5 (AFP) — Australia’s chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns on Monday said he expected Shane Warne to fight to regain his Test cricket spot despite his talk of possible retirement. Warne said in the Caribbean on Saturday he would reconsider his international cricket future after the World Cup in England in May-June after being left out of the team for the fourth Test against the West Indies in Antigua. However, Hohns said here today he did not think the legspinner would act hastily. "It is always a natural thing when people suffer a disappointment that they are going to show that disappointment", Hohns told National Radio. "But knowing Shane he
certainly would not make any rash decisions and I’d
been very confident that he will continue on and
certainly fight back", he said. |
Malik, Younis likely for World Cup ISLAMABAD, April 5 (PTI) — Veteran batsman Salim Malik, fast bowler Waqar Younis and leg spinner Mushtaq Ahmed are expected to make a comeback as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) awaits the return of triumphant skipper, Wasim Akram, to select the teams for the Sharjah Tournament and the World Cup. The PCB, which was to have announce the teams yesterday, has delayed the World Cup selection as it wants Akram to be present in the selection committee meeting. Akram, who led Pakistan to
a convincing win over India in the triangular series
final at Bangalore yesterday, is expected to return today
and will sit with the three-member panel in Karachi
tomorrow to pick the team, PCB sources said. |
Lanka to host U-19 World Cup COLOMBO, April 5 (PTI) — Sri Lanka will host the third edition of the under-19 cricket World Cup in January next year, Ian Smith, South African cricket board director, today said. Smith, who was the chief coordinator for the last edition held in South Africa last year, told a press conference today that 20 countries, including associate members of the International Cricket Council will participate. Sixteen countries including the nine-Test playing members, had confirmed participation in the tournament which would be held over a month in half a dozen centres in the island. The under-19 World Cup would be partly funded by the ICC and money would also be generated from television rights. The South African edition, where England emerged winners, was a big draw and Smith hoped it would make a similar impact in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan board had
already started preparations. The board's chief
executive, Dhammika Ranatunga, would attend an ICC
meeting at Sharjah next week to discuss things to be tied
up, including the identification of a sponsor, the added. |
Selection a miracle, says Mohanty BHUBANESWAR, April 5 (PTI) — Getting selected in the 15-member World Cup team yesterday after being excluded from the 19-member list, seam bowler Debasish Mohanty considers it nothing short of a miracle. "I had lost hope after failing to make the cut when the squad was reduced to 19 members. But I was sure of making a come back sooner or later," a relaxed Mohanty said. The lanky paceman’s joy knew no bounds as elated family members offered sweets to all visitors. "Many had put faith in me when I was in the list of probables. But I was disappointed and felt let down when the pruned list was announced," Mohanty, who heard of his selection on television, said. Disclosing that he actually had lost hope of being in the World Cup team this time, Mohanty said his hopes were rekindled when a recent news report spoke of the possibility of his inclusion in the side. Mohanty’s inclusion in the team, however, is subject to clearance from the hosts England and Wales board as he was part of the preliminary 30-member squad but not the 19-member shortlisted team. Mohanty, however, was confident of the hosts accepting his inclusion in the side since Tom Moody had found a berth in the Australian World Cup team despite not being in the initial short list. Cricketing circles here also expressed happiness over Mohanty’s selection with Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) Assistant Secretary Satya Mohanty saying justice had been done to the talented bowler. Pointing out that Mohanty had grabbed five Delhi wickets in a Ranji Trophy match on a lifeless Barabati Stadium recently, the OCA official said many believed Mohanty would be really effective in English conditions. "His exclusion from the short list had come as a big shock," he said. Mohanty, the first cricketer from Orissa to play for the country, said his next aim would be to find a place in the playing 11. "Though pacers like Javagal Srinath, Ajit Agarkar and Venkatesh Prasad are in the side, I fancy my chances. But I will have to prove my worth," he said.
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Balkan conflict hits world soccer
clubs As Crystal Palace’s Sasa Curcic on Thursday returned to Downing Street to continue his protest against NATO air strikes, a week of condemnation by ex-pat Yugoslav players heads towards an angry end. On Wednesday night a Serb playing in the South Korean league, Sasa Drakulic, unveiled a ‘NATO stop assault’ T-shirt after scoring, echoing a similar protest made by the Yugoslav international Dragan Stojkovic each time his Nagoya team-mates scored in Japan last weekend. In England the Belgrade-born midfielder Curcic caught the headlines by parading a similar message around Selhurst Park before Crystal Palace’s game with Bradford City last Sunday. And, although UEFA has criticised these players for mixing politics and football, it has fallen short of threatening sanctions. Curcic and his fellow Serb at Palace, Gordan Petric, were left out of the side for the Bradford game and Palace intended not to play either until the war is over. However, today Curcic will see the manager Steve Coppell "to tell him I am ready to play at Norwich tomorrow". The Charlton goalkeeper Sasa Ilic says he will play tomorrow but Dejan Stefanovic of Sheffield on Wednesday is expected to boycott their game against Coventry. Yesterday the Yugoslav FA denied reports being investigated by UEFA that it incited its players abroad to boycott games. However, this conflicts with a quote from Dragoje Lekovic, a player with the second division club Malaga, who explained his absence from the side last weekend by saying: ‘I"m not playing because my federation is stopping me.’ Spain are waiting to see whether five Yugoslav players will carry out their threat made last Sunday to boycott games this weekend. Pedrag Mijatovic of Real Madrid, Albert Nadj of Oviedo, the former Aston Villa striker Savo Milosevic now of Zaragoza, Goran Djorovic of Celta Vigo and Slavisa Jokanovic of Tenerife demonstrated outside the US embassy in Madrid last weekend when Mijatovic, wrapped in a Yugoslav flag, stated that he and his compatriots would not play "until our families emerge from their cellars". The remaining 12 Yugoslav players in the Spanish top flight could also join a boycott. These include Dejan Stankovic and Veljko Paunovic of Real Mallorca, who play at Chelsea in the first leg of the European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final next Thursday. However, Stankovic is suspended for that game while Paunovic is expected by local sources to play in it. However, Atletico Madrid’s Yugoslav coach Raddy Antic, who wore a white armband at last weekend’s friendly in Middlesbrough, said: "It is better to show how you feel by playing." In last weekend’s
second division games about half the 23 Yugoslav players
involved refused to play while most of the rest wore
black armbands. In Germany the Stuttgart players Sreto
Ristic and Kristijan Djordjevic have asked to be left out
of the side for tomorrow’s game saying they were
"too worried about their relatives to be able to
produce their best". Miroslav Stevic of Borussia Dortmund, who will play, has asked his playing compatriots to donate their bonuses to humanitarian funds in Yugoslavia. In Portugal Yugoslavs in the first division sent a letter to the country’s president Jorge Sampaio asking for an end to Portugal’s participation in the NATO air strikes. The most drastic action
came in France where the Metz striker Vladan Lukic has
been given indefinite leave by his club to return to
Yugoslavia. "I will put myself at the service of my
government and do what they ask," he said. —
The Guardian, London |
National football academy for Goa PANAJI, April 5 — Goa was yesterday promised a national academy of football as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made a series of promises to woo the electorate here. While the Minister of State for Youth and Sports, Ms Uma Bharati, yesterday announced that she has agreed to the demand of setting up a national football academy in the state, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, announced at a public meeting on Saturday that the Centre had agreed to the Environmental Protection Plan for Goa and would ensure that the airport here be functional 24 hours. Earlier, the Minister for Power, Mr R. Kumramangalam, had announced a transmission line project so that the power crisis could be resolved. Football, being a passion
for the Goans, Ms Uma Bharati took an immediate decision
when the Governor, Mr J.F.R. Jacob, brought the long
pending demand to her notice when she called on him
yesterday morning. The youth hostel would be used for
accommodation of the footballers who would come here for
training. She said her ministry would meet 50 per cent of
the expenditure on the academy barring the cost of the
land for the stadium etc. |
Holders Punjab down Railways TRIPPAYAR (Kerala), April 5 (PTI) — Indian Railways had mixed luck, their men going down to holders Punjab in a thriller and the women prevailing over West Bengal, on the opening day of the third National Volleyball Championship here yesterday. Punjab defeated Railways 27-29, 25-23, 26-24, 25-17 in a keenly fought match. The first set saw Indian Railways using smashes to good effect to take the lead. However, Punjab fought back, levelling the scores on five occasions, before running out a winner by two points. Both teams excelled in the second set, which was over in 20 minutes. The teams were level at 3-3 and 4-4 and again at 16-16 and 21-21. Railways managed to grab just two more points before Punjab shifted gears, taking four points in a row to win the set. The same exciting fare was witnessed in the third. Both teams levelled four times, but Punjab won the set at 26-24. Punjab did not have to exert much in the last set, as the Railwaymen seemed to have run out of steam, losing it 17-25. Earlier, in the women’s section, Indian Railways defeated West Bengal in straight sets 25-12, 25-9, 25-15. Sangeeta, Vaisali and
Salomi were the main architects in the Railways’
win. The Railways raced to a 10 point lead in the first
set and after that never looked back. Though Bengal tried
to make a fight out of it, they just could not match the
all-round skills of the Railways. |
Sweden upset; Brazil win LONDON, April 5 (AP) — Karol Kucera led Slovakia to victory over defending champion Sweden and Gustavo Kuerten masterminded Brazil’s win over Spain on a day of Davis Cup upsets yesterday. Meanwhile, the USA set up a July quarterfinal confrontation with Australia at the place it all started, the Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, in 1900. Kucera, the World No. 10, scored a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 over Thomas Enqvist to clinch the match and Thomas Johansson’s 6-4, 6-4 victory over Dominik Hrbaty was no more than consolation as the Slovaks won 3-2 in Trollhattan. It was the first time since 1991 that Sweden had been beaten in the world-group first round and Slovakia goes on to meet Russia, who downed Germany in what is likely to be Boris Becker’s final Davis Cup. "He played an unbelievable match,’’ Enqvist said of Kucera. Everything I did, he came up with something better.’’ Kucera said that the result would give tennis a much bigger impact in his country. I think the Davis Cup will be bigger in the Slovak Republic’’ after the prestige of knocking out Sweden, Kucera said. Despite Becker’s heroics in a five-set doubles victory for Germany in Frankfurt on Saturday, the Russians hit back with singles victories by Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin. Kafelnikov rolled over Tommy Haas 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in one hour and 32 minutes to pull Russia into a 2-2 tie and leave Russia’s fate in the hands of the 19-year-old Safin, who did not cave in under pressure in a 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, 6-4 victory over Nicolas Kiefer. I played very well throughout the match,’’ Safin said. It was a very important victory and a very nice experience. I always like playing for Russia.’’ Brazil downed Spain on red clay at Lleida, not far from Barcelona, and Kuerten was the star as he returned to the form that earned him the French Open title two years ago. He crushed Carlos Moya, who recently had a brief spell as world’s No. 1, 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 to give his country a 3-1 win which sets up a quarterfinal match with France, which downed the Netherlands 3-1. In the final, meaningless match, Alex Corretja scored a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Brazil’s Marcio Carlsson, who substituted at the last minute for Fernando Meligeni. Back in the world-group for the first time since 1992, Britain hit back from two matches down to draw level with the USA at 2-2. Tim Henman scored a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) victory over Todd Martin, who suffered from an incorrect line call while leading by a set and a break and admitted later he lost concentration. But Jim Courier’s dogged determination and immense concentration earned him a 6-4, 6-7 (7-3), 6-3, 1-6, 8-6 victory over Greg Rusedski for a 3-2 triumph for the Americans. That means they will meet Australia, a 4-1 winner over Zimbabwe in Harare, and the venue will be the Longwood Cricket Club where Dwight Davis began the competition 99 years ago. Belgium came back from 2-1 down to beat the Czech Republic 3-2 and faces Switzerland, which downed Italy 3-2. In Harare US Open champion Pat Rafter downed Byron Black 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 to clinch Australia’s place in the quarterfinal and Mark Philippousis scored a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Wayne Black in the final match. At Nimes France qualified for the second round after Cedric Pioline beat the Netherlands’ Richard Krajicek 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5). The win gave France an unassailable 3-1 lead over the Dutch and Jerome Golmard made it 4-1 by defeating Paul Harhuis, 6-4, 7-5. In Gent, teenager Xavier Malisse beat Slava Dosedel 3-6, 6-4, 6-0, 7-6 (9-7) to give Belgium a 3-2 victory. The home team was 2-1 down after Saturday’s doubles but Christophe Van Garsse began the comeback with a 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Bohdan Ulihrach. Belgium advanced to a quarterfinal match against Switzerland. The match in Neuchatel was already decided after Switzerland’s two singles victories on Friday and a doubles triumph on Saturday but Italy won the two reverse singles. Davide Sanguinetti downed
Ivo Heuberger, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6) and Gianluca Pozzi
scored a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) over Roger Federer. |
No differences with Bhupathi: Paes CHENNAI, April 5 (UNI) — India's tennis ace Leander Paes today spiked speculation about the so-called differences with his compatriot and doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathy. Contacted by UNI, Leander, who arrived here from Calcutta last night to get set for the Gold Flake Open Championships, beginning at the tennis stadium this evening, said: "It’s all just media speculation." It’s being overplayed, he averred. Leander confirmed that he was looking forward for a "great time" at the Gold Flake Open, where he would be going for a hat-trick of doubles triumph with Mahesh. "I have always been doing well here, and every time I come here I’ve been enjoying my tennis", he said. It may be recalled that it was in this championship for the first time that Leander and Mahesh won their first major doubles title in 1997. Leander and Bhupathy have been given the top seeding in the doubles in this year’s Gold Flake Open. Leander said he would be aiming to do well in both singles and doubles at the Gold Flake Open. Last year Leander progressed up to the quarterfinals in the singles competition. Asked about his impression of the field at the Gold Flake Open this year and how far he was hopeful of advancing, Leander, parrying the question said, "I will be taking one match at a time." Leander is drawn to take
on a qualifier in the first round of the singles event. |
Medals of former sprinter stolen GOLD COAST (AUSTRALIA), April 5 (AP) — More than 200 medals and trophies chronicling the career of Commonwealth Games sprint champion and Australian Olympian Kerry Johnson have been stolen from her parents’ home. Johnson, (35), said on Saturday that the medals were irreplaceable and appealed for them to be returned. "They’re a whole history of my athletic career which my father had collected and they’re something that can’t be replaced,’’ Johnson said from her Brisbane home. "But they’re of absolutely no value to anyone else.’’ The medals include her first win as an eight-year-old sprinter to those won in Queensland State and Australian Championships as well as commemorative Commonwealth Games and Olympic medallions. Johnson’s 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medal for the 400-metre relay and silver medals for the 100 metres and 200 metres were at her home at the time of the robbery. Johnson represented
Australia in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. |
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105 golfers for C'garh Open CHANDIGARH, April 5 (TNS) — One hundred and five golfers from all over the country will sweat it out in the next four days for the Samavir Sahi trophy in the Chandigarh Amateur Open Golf Championship starting tomorrow. Shiraz Kalra, the runner-up in the just-concluded 98th Amateur Golf Championship of India, Harmeet Kahlon, Digvijay Singh, Amit Luthra, Amesh Jaitha, Shiv Kapoor, Simarjeet Singh, H.S. Kang, Aman Behl and Manav Das are among the amateur players to be seen in action. Giving this information to The Tribune, Dr G.S. Kochhar, Chairman, Media and Publicity, Chandigarh Golf Club, said the trophy had been instituted in memory of the late A Samavir Sahi. This year's tournament had been sponsored by Bharat Petroleum. Entries have been received from Bihar, U.P., Delhi and region. Besides the Main Challenge Trophy, the other prizes are runners-up prize, second runners-up prize, best nett prize and the second and the second best nett prize. The four-day tournament starts tomorrow at 7.30 a.m. Heroes Club win CHANDIGARH, April 5 (BOSR) — Heroes Club, Ambala, blanked JK Club by two goals to nil while Netajee Club defeated Vital Club by one goal to nil in the Ambala District Club Football League being played at War Heroes Stadium, Ambala Cantt, here today. Vimal to lead CHANDIGARH, April 5 (BOSR) — Vimal Bali will lead Chandigarh in the All India Shooting Ball Tournament being held at Ludhiana on April 10 and 11, according to a press note of the Shooting Ball Association of Chandigarh. The team is: Vimal Bali, R.R. Yadav, Basant Singh, Manvir Singh, Prince, Pritam Singh, Pardesi, Ram Kishan and R.K. Loomba. Wrestling meet HAMIRPUR, April 3 (FOC)
— A day-long state level wrestling championship will
be held at Samrala village of the district on April 10.
This was stated here today by Mr Hakamsingh, convenor of
the Jai Lakhdata Himachalaya Wrestling Club, Samrala. He
said that cash prizes would be given to the winner and
runner up. The closing function will be presided over by
Education Minister Ishwar Dass Dhiman. |
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