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'Mport 20 OBSERVER SUNDAY 24 JULY 1 988 tin 'si' ADRIAN MURRELL pFooflgjD a 4 p)rifft o-ugDsjOL) Duck-egg blues its 1X2 SCYLD BERRY matic right to an annual Test match. Many a village scoreboard is capable of saying what the last man scored; people are forever moving behind the bowler's arm; and the episode of the drains on Thursday was the final straw of tiresomeness. The play was vital immediately it resumed. In the Test match of 1984 here, West Indies took a first innings lead which was small but critical and led to their victory. Events so far suggest that this game will follow the same course.

England could have done with a more positive reaction from David Shepherd when Dilley appealed against Arthurton and Harper in the very first over after the resumption. The appeal against Harper when a yorker hit his toes was particularly persuasive. It cannot be said that the umpiring has favoured the home side in this series. Foster, on his welcome return to the side, attacked from the football stand end under low cloud. He passed the bat as frequently as anyone and even some of his length balls were taken by Jack Richards with his fingers pointing to the sky.

Not an over of spin was bowled of course, as England had nobody who could bowl one. Arthurton, the 23-year-old left-hander from Nevis, found his feet in Test cricket when Dilley gave him the chance to hook. He revealed muscle too in a short but well built physique. More pugnacious than Gomes he square drove another boundary in the same over to take the West Indies within 20 of which had been promised by the new captain. The one area in which Chris Cowdrey has been a success is in selection.

At the first attempt, he has succeeded in bringing the rest of the panel into the 1980s. He has helped them to choose six batsmen at last, the policy which has been staring England in the face since Ian Botham's back broke down, although the selection then went to the opposite extreme and was too defensive for a team 2-0 down. In their first innings here, when England were 80 for four wickets, there was a last ditch to hold back the invasion. More than that, Lamb and Robin Smith good English names at least both answered fire with fire. They had, like Sisyphus, almost pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain when it rolled back and crushed the lower half of England's order.

One is not asking for the moon, simply for an England-second innings total of around 200. Even that might be enough for England to prey upon the frailties to which West Indies will be prone if they have to chase 150 in their final innings. ENGLAND First Innings 201 (A Lamb 64; Ambrose 4-58) WEST INDIES: First Innings Haynes Ibw Pringle 54 Ouon Smith Ollloy 13 Hooper low Foslsr 19 Richard Curtis Foster A Loglt Foster Prlngl 44 Artfiurton Richards Prlngl 27 Hsrper not out 31 Marshall Gooch Prlngl 3 Ambrose Ibw Prlngl WKM Bnamln not out .7 Extras (lb 14) .14 Total (Svricts) .23 Fall of widest: 8-14, 7-210, 8-222 Bowling: Dlltey 15-5-W-1, Foster 30.54-97-2, Prlngl 204-73-5, Cowdrey 2-00. first ball was on target and somehow I managed to play it with the middle of the bat. Although I stayed for about 18 minutes I.

was unable to get off the mark before Cowie did get one past my defence. The walk back was even longer and in an attempt to get my mind off a duck on debut I went to a cinema the following day, only to find I was watching a newsreel and seeing myself being bowled on the big screen. I remember looking hurriedly left and right, fearful that someone sitting nearby would recognise me. Hutton scored one in the second innings but raised his first century in the second Test at Old Trafford. This has been a week of memories.

Last Thursday, Yorkshire and the Pudsey St Lawrence club honoured me with a dinner in Leeds to commemorate the half-century since the Oval Test of 1938 when I managed to surpass Bradman's record. Among the 500 guests were Neil Harvey and Ray Lind-wall and so many other friends, including the lad I shared a net with before my very first hundred at Pudsey. I was overawed at what proved to be a moving occasion and I felt very fortunate to have had the experience. Thinking of England then and looking at England now I would like to see our players getting more on to the front foot, thrusting the left pad down the pitch. It is usually fatal to try to play these West Indians off the back foot.

If Cowdrey had been on 'the front foot he would not have been out for nought. He will learn and I wish him as many happy memories. at Headingley England's total. When Pringle replaced Dilley at the Kirkstall Lane end to begin the most productive spell of his Test career, Arthurton drove him powerfully through mid-off before being caught behind. When West Indies were still seven runs in arrears, Marshall got away with padding up to an accurate ball from Pringle.

Marshall may have less cause than anyone in the world to be nervous when he bats, but this was carrying casualness daringly far. Harper took West Indies into that all important lead when he hit three fours in one over from Foster, the third of which should have been caught in the slips, preferably by Athey at second since he was offered first bite at the cherry ahead of Cowdrey at first. Gooch, now restored to second slip, demonstrated how it should be done when he caught Marshall off Pringle. However, he had nobody to his right to distract or to leave it to. Gower then dropped Ambrose at third slip.

Before the rain returned at 4.45 there was only time for Pringle to pin Ambrose leg before, and for Harper and Benjamin to conduct West Indies to a lead of 37 with Walsh to come. Pringle's previous best Test figures were five for 108 against West Indies in the Edgbas-ton massacre of 1984, when all his wickets arrived after the West Indian total had soared past 300. Yesterday he would have gone one better if the slip fielding had improved, TONY PAWSON at Folkestone movement of this pitch hard to combat with Bent soon out to an agile slip catch. Having inquired of his Worcestershire Test colleagues, Hick might be got out Chris Cow with this king-size bouncer at Arthurton. SCTODgODDg) ODD flUu iGrnsQDuODi ESiriteirs MY THOUGHTS were very much with Christopher Cowdrey when, as the new captain, he walked to the wicket on Friday in what was a critical situation for England.

Allan Lamb and Robin Smith had both played excellent innings, long struggles against an attack that gave little or nothing away. Yet it was upon Cowdrey that the real pressure fell. The son of a famous father and previous England captain, his performance was awaited with keen interest all through the cricketing world and by those many millions who may follow the game from a distance but whose appetite for further news had been whetted by the selectors' decision. What would his mother and father be thinking? What would Cowdrey himself find to occupy his mind as he took what seemed to be a long march? Watching him took my memory back 51 years when I went out to bat in my first Test one Saturday at Lord's. I was younger than Cowdrey but I did not have the extra daunting responsibility of captaincy.

I did have form, having scored more than 500 runs in the previous week or so, but that did not stop me wishing I hadn't been selected as I walked out on to the field. I felt bad. My nerves were in a shocking state and my bat was shaking as I prepared to receive my first ball from Jack Cowie of New Zealand. AU my life I had hoped that the first' ball would not be straight; you know what happens if you miss a straight ball. Cowie's MICHAEL CAREY at Leicester Uncharacteristically, Lever was mostly at fault, unable to drag his line away from the leg stump.

It would have been Briers, as Gower's deputy as captain, who first initiated disciplinary action again DeFreitas, Leicestershire's prodigal England bowler, for not giving 100 per cent in the game against Derbyshire. DeFreitas was dropped from this match and Leicestershire's prompt action, along with Nottinghamshire's similar move over Chris Broad, was an admirably swift and decisive way of dealing with players of a suspect attitude. Briers had other things on his mind, though, when Essex at last began to put the ball in the right place. As it moved about, sometimes bouncing indifferently, Cobb fell to East's diving one-handed catch off Pont and, soon afterwards, Boon was Ibw to Lever. Then in his second spell, Lever, who had started to ROGER PURFLEET In Indianapolis away winner in the long jump with a leap of 7.45 metres, equalling her American record, while in the 1500 metres Mary Slaney achieved another double, having qualified earlier in the competition for the 3,000 metres.

She won in convincing fashion, leading from start to finish with a time of 3min 58.93sec. She opened up a 20 metres gap at one point, was caught by Regina Jacobs on the final lap, but just floated swamps NIGEL BRIERS completed quite a week as captain, disciplinarian and in-form opening" batsman by holding Leicestershire together yesterday. His accomplished unbeaten innings of 118 out of Leicestershire's 226 for six made sure his own bowlers1 would have something behind them when they use aiwellrgrassedipitch. Briers has had to graft for his runs all season on the type of pitches that have been prepared at Grace Road. Despite that or rather perhaps because of it he still averages over 40 and this was another example of the mixture of.

the doggedness, selectivity and luck required. After the loss of 30 overs to overnight rain, Essex did not think twice about fielding first when Fletcher set eyes on the sort of pitch which might have reminded him of the good old days (for bowlers, anyway) at Ilford, Clacton and other points east. This one was slow, giving Essex's depleted seam attack little margin for error. IN A brief yet dramatic passage of play in Northern gloom, West Indies seized a first innings lead which is liable to be of the utmost significance in the fourth Cornhill Test. Since Allan Lamb is on crutches, the likelihood is it will be converted into the thirteenth West Indian victory in their last 14 Test matches against England.

At least England's slender bowling resources did not break down, Neil Foster performing adequately and Derek Pringle more than that. Pringle indeed had outstripped all his past efforts as an England bowler by the time the weather became its inclement self again. It was as well for England that Viv Richards had already been dismissed. If the West Indian captain had batted yesterday, he would have been in a smouldering mood after being taunted with racial abuse by a spectator who told Richards, extremely unfairly, to get on with it while the umpires were deciding on the time to resume play, 2.45. The West Indian manager Jackie Hendriks called the incident 'most unfortunate and most distasteful' but not unprecedented.

Richards said afterwards that there was 'the usual ranting and raving at Headingley'. He was the victim of racial abuse here in 1985 when Somerset played Yorkshire, who later apologised, and the same happened in earlier years at Harrogate. The inability of a few individuals to treat a member of the opposition and another colour with respect adds to the list of reasons for Headingley to lose its auto- Kln)fi KENT, already 35 points clear in the championship, played themselves into a strong position against their main challengers by taking the first seven Worcestershire wickets for 104 runs. After Tavare had put the visitors in Ellison and Penn fully exploited conditions favourable to swing and seam. My sympathies were with the struggling batsmen as I played on just such a lively Folkestone wicket on my honeymoon and missed the first 17 balls to the considerable amusement of the crowd.

Still, in a match of this importance, it was no laughing matter for Worcestershire. Having won yet again against the odds in the absence of their charismatic captain, Kent were less handicapped by Test calls than their opponents who are without their main strike bowler and anchor batsman. That loss proved an instant as the openers struggled. Lord was missed by Marsh in Ellison's first over and caught at slip in Claude hits 80 not out ON his eightieth birthday on Wednesday Claude Lewis will be in his sixtieth year on Kent's staff and still acting as their scorer, writes Tony Pawson. He is one of cricket's most unusual all-rounders, an important and economical asset as player, coach or scorer.

Economy was also a feature of his slow left-arm bowling. No Woolley or Blythe, Lewis had to fight for his place in the strong Kent teams of the thirties. But among his memorable performances were 12 wickets on a 'sticky dog' at Old Trafford in 1934 in Kent's last championship win there. In 1939 Lewis finished close to the top of the bowling averages, with war intruding at the peak of his potential. His first victim in county cricket was the distinguished Patsy Hen-dren, and when he turned to scoring, his first partner in the box was Hendren again.

Lewis is a founder member of Kent's most prestigious cricket society, the Hoppers Tie club. This was started by the Kent and England wicket keeper Les Ames when the county introduced a club tie for members but forbade the players to wear it. All society appointees had titles of jobs in the hop-fields, and it and Lewis was made 'lollipop man'. It was in keeping with his kindly, patient character that his title related to the job of taking sweets to the pickers' children. Lewis, who has seen the first-class game alter beyond recognition, approves of some changes and dislikes others, such as the modern cricketers' penchant for extravagant limbering-up exercises on the field.

He modestly attributes his own success to the greats of old being good enough players of spin to get an edge to balls the moderns would miss. rjj ml col rI col of mm IAN MALIN Newell, Chris Broad having been dropped following Robinson's resignation of the captaincy and mutterings of a dressing-room revolt. The new opening pair put on 76 before Harvey Trump, a 19-year-old off-spinner making his championship debut, brilliantly caught Robinson, who has withdrawn his resignation, for 50. his third still without scoring. Hick at once made it look a different game as he reached double figures after only five balls.

A flashing square cut and a majestic pull sent the ball racing to the boundary over the sodden outfield. Mere mortals, Ll however, were still finding the lift and WINSTON DAVIS, Northamptonshire's West Indian pace bowler, kept Sussex under a cloud at the County Ground. On a foul day that all but wrecked the Britannic Assurance programme, he took a career-best seven for 52 as Sussex were skittled out for 118 in only 32.5 overs. Tim Robinson ended a torrid week for Nottinghamshire with a half-century against Somerset between the showers at Taunton. He opened the innings with Mike Btrcoleco DAVID BROOME'S success on Queensway Lannagan in yesterday's Fly Emirates Stakes earned him just 400 one reason why this was a low-key contest in which few tried their best.

Today's Dubai Cup, worth 18,000 to the winner and being used as an Olympic trial, will be a different matter. 'I'd like to be in the same place at the same time Broome said. He will be riding his Olympic hope, Countryman, who collected faults in the squelchy ground yesterday. 'He's had two weeks off and he took advantage of Broome said of Countryman. 'But he needed the break, you can't keep them mentally at peak for too Davis drey was told: 'If he gets out of bed in the mood to score a hundred he will score a Certainly he looked in that mood but after a break for rain he forced Ellison off the back foot straight into gul-ley's hands.

Kent's joy was still uncon-" fined as the clatter of wickets' By the close the visitors had faltered to 173 for four. Elsewhere it was a depressing round of umpires sploshing out to examine the quagmires, and Tannoy announcements of early lunches and teas. The sprinkling of spectators at Lord's had to wait until 5.45 before seeing Middlesex bowl a grand total of four overs against Surrey, while Warwickshire didn't even go through the motions at Edgbaston, calling off the Sri Lankans' first county game at 10.30. Selection was postponed until 8 August, after six of the eight short-listed riders have competed at the Dublin Horse Show. 'It prolongs the agony, but that's what pressure is all' said Broome.

The decision makes today's event crucial for Janet Hunter and Robert Smith, who are not included in the team for Dublin. Smith wanted to go, whereas Hunter was told to forget about taking Everest Lisnamarrow to Dublin by trainer Ted Edgar. 'I told her she can't do everything with the strikes Sussex iw Olympic Foster falls in the face of the system Kent Worcestershire At Folksston Kent won toss WORCESTERSHIRE: First Innlno Bent Benson Penn 5 Lord Penn Ellison 0 A Hick Taylor Ellison 21 A Leatherdale Marsh 22 A Neale not 38 Weston Tavare Ellison 0 Rhodes Ibw Penn 7 Newport Ward Pienaar ....16 llllngworth not out 11 Extras (IM0, wl. nb1) Total (7 wkts, 41.4 .132 Fall ol wickets: 14, 2-23, 3-39, 440, 542.6-71,7-104. Bonus points: Kent 3 Wore 0 Close of play Leicester Essex At Leicester Esssx won toss LEICESTERSHIRE: First Innings A Cobb East Pont 29 NE8riersnot out 118 Boon Ibw Lever 2 Willey run out 6 Whitaker Ibw Lever 12 Potter Miller bTopley 10 Lewis Lllley Pont 18 Whlttlcase not out 17 Extras (Ib3, w2, nb9) Total (S wkts, 74 overs) 238 Fall ot wickets: 1-S7.

242, 3-78, 4-109, 5-140, B-177. Bonus points: Lelc 2 Essex 2 Close of play Middlesex Surrey Al Lord's Middlesex won tots SURREY: First Innings Clinton not out ..14 PD Atkins not out 5 Extras 0 Total (0 wkts, 4 overs) .1 Close ot play Northants Sussex At Northampton Northants wen tost SUSSEX: First Innings Falknsr Ripley Capet 8 Lenham Ripley Oavls 15 Wells Ibw Davis 3 A Wells Ripley Davis 6 Parker Larklns Davis 13 Imran Khan Ripley Cspel 4 Speight Robinson Davis 10 I Gould Davis 8 ACS Plgott Ripley Capal A Clarke not out. 24 A Bunting Ripley Oavls 3 Extras (b1, IbB, w9, nbB) Totsl (12,6 overs) .118 Fait of wickets; 1-18, 243, 344, 4-45, 5-53, 842, 743, 844, 948. Bowling: Davit 18.5442-7, Capal 18-2-694. Bonus points: Sustsx 0 Northants 4 NORTHANTS: First Innings Cook not out 7 Larklns Sptlght Imran Khan 0 Bailey not out 14 Extrat (bB) Total (1 wlrt, 6 overt) 28 Fall ot wicket: 1-9.

Clot ot play Somerset Notts At Taunton Kent won toa NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: First Innings Newell Burns Marks 21 Robinson Trump Mallender 50 Johnson not out 45 Martlndale Burns 10 Randall Waugh Marks 0 Stephenson not out 30 Extras (b6, Ib1, w1, nb9) ....17 Total (4 wkts, 87 overs) .173 Fall ol wickets: 1-76, 2-86, 3-106, 4-107. Bonus points: 8omsrst 1 Notts 1 Close ol play No play rain BRITANNIC ASSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP. Cardiff: Glamorgan Yorkshire: Portsmouth: Hampshire Derbyshire. TOUR MATCH: Edgbaslon: Warwickshire Sri Lanka. TODAY'S MATCHES REFUGE ASSURANCE LEAGUE (2-7 unless stated).

Cardiff: Glamorgan Yorkshire 1.30-6.30); Portsmouth Hampshire Derbyshire Folkestone: Kent Worcestershire: Leicester Leicestershire Essex; Lord's: Middlesex Warwickshire; Northampton: Northamptonshire Sussex; Taunton: Somerset Nottinghamshire. SEES Dilley isn't dallying ralDD continued. After making all his early runs off the edge Leath-erdale began to play some handsome drives. But passing Hick's score so went to his head that he slashed at a wide ball for Marsh to take a tumbling catch. Weston was then toq jate in removing his'jbat from Ellison's outswinger to give Tavare simple catching 'Practice while persevering Penh disposed of Rhodes.

As the pitch eased, Ellison could no longer conjure the form which once made him an asset to England. So Neale and Newport brought stability to the batting with Newport looking particularly comfortable until he mistimed a hook at Pienaar. Illingworth's batting approach is uncomplicated, a simple compound of 'block it or flog it'. He did both with some success while Neale batted with composure and growing confidence to now display a nice variety of attacking strokes. The burgeoning revival was halted by a torrential downpour of the kind which had threatened throughout this dark and humid day.

efftwfi Edgar said. 'She wants to ride him in the Derby next weekend and it would have been too much to go off to Dublin the following Yesterday Edgar was assisting his 17-year-old daughter, Marie, when she added the Vauxhall Opel British National Young Riders Championship to her remarkable store of successes this year. Last weekend she won the individual Junior European title and in May she defeated her seniors to win the Windsor grand prix. All three of these successes were achieved with the grey Everest Surething, who, despite looking a httle jaded yesterday, achieved the only clear round of the second jump-off to defeat Nigel Coupe on Invincible Lad. hack Club.

But he certainly wobbled when lifted into an ancient sedan and carried in triumph around the camp by bearers. After the obligatory trigger test and glass of champagne at the National Rifle Association office, a whole ritual of celebration followed last night as he was chaired around the various club HQs and toasted in the appropriate manner. No, they are not all crusty old colonels who enjoy firing 7.62 millimetre bullets at distant targets the NRA claims shooting is second only to angling among participation sports but it was all terribly British on the range yesterday. Misdemeanours of any kind are almost unheard of three have occurred since 1918, resulting, as one official put it, in 'the blighters being banned, not for life, but for GENEVIEVE MURPHY at Hlckstead swing the ball, got a fingertip to Briers's firmly struck straight drive and deflected it on to the stumps to run out Willey as he backed up. Willey flung down his bat, presumably in a gesture of disappointment.

Certainly, there is no crueller form of dismissal and he did not share the collective mirth of the Essex side. After that, while Briers carefully worked out what was possible on this pitch, the rest of the batting was mixed. Whitaker, who is wretchedly out of form, was Ibw to Lever and both Potter and 'Lewis perished to attempted hooks. Briers, having reached his ninth half-century of the season, should have gone soon afterwards, but Border could not hold a waist-high chance off Topley at second slip. Thereafter, the Essex bowling still tended to be variable and Briers, despite some playing and missing, occasionally produced some forthright strokes through the covers and reached three figures out of 194 with his seventh boundary from his 191st delivery.

away from her on the final bend. Being a mother now takes priority in Slaney's life and has made her a less tense person athletically, which in turn makes her contests in Seoul with the vibrant Tatyana Samolenko, the Soviet Union's world champion at 1500 metres and 3,000 metres, that more compelling. The American system of selection has in most events during the trials in Indianapolis worked, unless the astonishing peaks achieved by the sprinters cannot be repeated in Seoul. Jacqueline Humphrey is a hurdling name barely known in the United States and certainly not among the European promoters. But she got it right on the day, flashing to victory in the 100 metres hurdles in 12.88sec, achieving one of her rare wins and pushing the Olympic champion Benita Fitzgerald-Brown out of the team as well as Stephanie Hightower-Leftwitch, one of the country's most consistent performers for the past eight years.

Scotland's Olympic middle-distance hopefuls, Tom McKean and Yvonne Murray, made a rare home appearance at the national championships in Glasgow yesterday and both were in impressive form, mites Sandy Sutherland. Murray, the 23-year-old Musselburgh athlete, running virtually solo, clocked 2min 2sec to set a new championship best performance for the 800 metres and her time was also inside the Ann Purvis's national record. McKean was equally impressive, bettering his own 1987 championship best performance for the 800 metres by almost one second. Tom Hanlon, the 19-year-bld Edinburgh Southern Harrier, demonstrated his dominance of the 1,500 metres in Scotland to retain his title in 3:47.43. Yesterday Lannagan jumped clear in the opening round, judged on time, to finish in 76.28 seconds.

He defeated John Whitaker on Next Gammon (76.88) and Steven Smith on Brook Street Vista (78.11). In all but one respect Broome was right in saying this was 'hardly selection stuff. The exception was Next Amanda, ridden by Michael Whitaker, who refused twice at the open ditch. Next Amanda's dislike of ditches has been manifest before; this must put her out of contention for an Olympic place. The Empire MiiWb "I BOB HOLMES at Bisley GREG FOSTER'S fight against the unyielding selection system which the Americans adopt to pick their Olympic track and field team ended on the Indiana University arena three obstacles from the finish of his 110 metres hurdles final.

Foster needed to finish in one of the first three places in the final to make a challenge in Seoul. But with his broken left arm the odds always were stacked against him. There was no bitterness, no regrets. 'I don't want to remain a guinea pig to change the system. I came here knowing I had to win a place in the first three, what else can they do? It's the best he said.

Three weeks ago, Foster, twice world champion, fell in training, breaking both bones in his left forearm. There is no way in which the Americans could make allowances for such an accident. Foster had to be on the start line for the trial and take his chance. He did and all it proved was that the Americans are not prepared to find a door to ensure that the best men wear their Olympic colours. In the preliminary rounds with the plates and screws used for pinning the breaks removed and only heavy bandaging to protect himself, Foster never looked like the whiplash who has dominated the event on so many occasions.

When it came to his semifinal he was flying, much better, but at the sixth his other arm became entangled with the man alongside him and he ran into the seventh 'That's hurdling. It could have happened at any he said. The astonishing Florence Joyner achieved her sprint double, winning the 200 metres, but there was no world record: her time of 21.84sec was a tenth outside it. Jackie Kersee was a run- THEY SAY Bisley is the last outpost of the British Empire, and if you had slipped out of the stockbroker belt and into the Surrey woods there yesterday afternoon you may well have thought it was making its last stand. Ninety-four riflemen and' six riflewomen were to be seen letting rip with their Lee Enfields and other worthy weapons at distant targets, while a posse of Redcoats made a brief appearance.

But this was no Custeresque showdown, it was the final of the Queen's Prize, the most coveted honour in full-bore shooting, and the red coats belonged to the band of the Wessex Volunteers, who played: 'Hail the Conquering Hero' for the eventual winner, John Pugsley, an Exeter vet. ol cm col tt ml to) r- co Check for Little wooda.Vernona and Pugsley triumphed after a dramatic sudden-death tie-shoot with Colin Mallett, a fourth-generation rifleman from Jersey, and David Armstrong, a medical student at Bath University. Pugsley's final bull clinched his first Queen's after Mallett had been eliminated in the first of the extra rounds. It was a memorable climax to a competition that had begun on Wednesday with an entry of 1,300 which had been whittled down to just 100 as yesterday's proceedings got under way. To give them their proper title and to do anything less at such an auspicious occasion would be to commit a cardinal Zettera.

Score draw draw sin this elite group is called 'The Hundred', and judging by their clinical accuracy at both 900 and 1,000 yards, the Empire was certainly striking back. Yesterday was something of a family affair, for Mallett, 22, whose father Cliff was competing, and for the husband-and-wife combination of Nigel Cole-Hawkins and Ginny Measures, who still shoots under her maiden name. Mallett did have the consolation of having collected the Queen's silver medal on Friday for the top score in the second stage (also after a tie shoot) but could not stop Pugsley, a 39-year-old from the PESCA win 1J Pts. home win 1 pi. Astonjshing: Joyner..

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