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THE GUARDIAN Tuesday May 31 1988 Golf New link for BBC 12 SPORTS NEWS Soccer Play-off final: Walsall 4, Bristol City 0 off GDwee Cynthia Batomara Kelly's presence was less apparent. Bristol were no worse yesterday but Walsall were far better. Kelly, who has attracted the particular attention of Liverpool, made an immediate impact, playing deeper and doing more work for himself. It took Walsall only 11 minutes to go ahead when Pender failed to clear after tackling Shakespeare. Kelly collected the loose ball and gave Waugh no.

chance. A few minutes later. HIPP Putting the clouds behind him Woosnam holes out THE substantial growth of golf as a television sport was emphasised yesterday at Wentworth when the Volvo European Tour and the BBC signed a new five-year contract, writes David Davies. The contract covers the PGA Championship, European Open, British Masters, Grand Prix of Europe, the Benson and Hedges International and the next three Ryder Cup competitions. It will cost the BBC 700,000, but Ken Schofleld, the Tour's Executive Director, said the Tour expected to make 12 million out of the arrangement thanks to fees charged to sponsors and the larger prize funds generated by the TV presence.

Both sides professed themselves happy with the new contract. Jonathan Martin, the BBC's Head of Sport, said golf was attracting tremendous interest. "When Nick Faldo holed his putt to win the Open there were eight million viewers, and that is an astonishing achievement. When Sandy Lyle won the Masters five million people watched him at midnight. The Littlewoods Cup final between Arsenal and Luton was watched by 4.3 million.

"The contract covers three more Ryder Cups, and that is now a major golf and TV occasion. Golf is expensive to cover but we are determined that it should continue." The Open Championship needs 25 cameras for its hole-by-bole coverage and the whole operation costs 400,000, making the costs per hour about 16,000. Schofield pointed out that the contract covered less WoosBDam cs tack ffiromni dJespanir In the Suntory they were six-footers; yesterday it was only four, although Woosnam, in his excitement, thought it was five. "Hello," he said to himself, "I've been here before. If I miss this I'll most probably lose." So he holed it, for his fifth birdie of the day in a round in which only two putts of any substance, a 15-footer at the fifth and a 10-footer at the seventh, went in.

In doing so he set a target for the only man who could beat him, Ballesteros. The Spaniard, though, was having one of his ever so so-so rounds. After four holes he had lost his overnight lead to Woosnam and he was never to regain it. He played the 13th thoroughly badly, rescuing a par with a 10-foot putt, and then at the short 14th hit what the pros call David Davies IAN WOOSNAM beat a host of the world's top players, plus all the doubts induced by a three-month slump, to win the Volvo PGA Championship yesterday over Went-worth's West Course. He had a final round that con sisted of 34 shots and 33 putts, a nve-under-par 67 tor a total ot 274, 14 under par.

He was two ahead of Severiano Ballesteros and Mark James, and four ahead of Roger Chapman and Marie MCNulty. He beat a Held that contained four other mem bers of the world's top ten, all the members of the European Ryder Cup team, and the top 40 of the European Tour last year. There could be no more con vincing way to announce to the PHOTOGRAPH: PETER LLEWELLYN the "brolly The umbrellas were open in the gallery, Ballesteros's tee shot pitched among them and whoops, there it was on the green. The crowd saved him again at the 16th, and his tee shot at the 17th brought down leaves from the trees forming the out-of-bounds on the left. But where was Seve's ball? In the middle of the fairway, of course, from where he hit a one iron, he said, He added: "But for some reason it ran and ran to the back and over the green." Ballesteros then chipped badly, putted poorly from 12 feet, and left himself needing an eagle to tie.

He did not get it and he did not deserve to. There was only one deserving winner this week, for Ian Woosnam has borne his trials well, and now is triumphant again. won 13-2, redeemed the family sporting reputation in 1980 by beating, on his way to the title, the formidable Ronan Rafferty, and became the first of three Welshmen to win in the Eighties, the others being Philip Parkin and the holder, Paul Mayo. The latter is now professional, but the field remains the strongest ever, with three players off one handicap having been balloted out of the draw, the first time that has happened. At 6,643 yards Royal Porthcawl is not long by modern standards, but there are six par-fours well over the 400-yard mark, four of which are played into the prevailing wind and can test the best.

Then, of course, there is the AVID KELLY was the hero at Walsall yester day as he has been repeatedly through the season. He finished with a I hat-trick that helped them to victory over Bristol City in the replay ot the piay-on tinais ana enabled the club to mark its Vi- centenary with a return to the Second Division after an ab- senceof25years. Afterwards Tommy Coakley, the manager, clutching a mag-t num of champagne and sur- rounded by thousands of cheer-2 ing fans threatening to lift the corrugated roof off Fellows Park, Diedged that the club would try to hang on to their sought-after striker tormerly a sweeper in a chocolate factory SS whose seven goals in the play-offs took his total for the season well past 30. Kelly, whose contract is up for renewal, was also reassur-ing. "This is not necessarily my last match for Walsall," he said.

ZZ "I've always said that if we didn't get out of the Third Division I would have to leave. Now that we are up, I don't know what's going to happen. "I'll have a few talks with different people. I'll leave it until after, the European Championships are over and then decide where I go from here." But Coakley said he would be trying today to persuade Kelly to stay. Kelly, whose inclusion in the Republic of Ireland squad was confirmed yesterday, was the difference in a match that com-" pletely turned round Satur--' day's second-leg result when Walsall, 3-1 up from the first leg, allowed City to draw on aggregate.

Walsall have a reputation lo- cally for winning the annual fight against promotion. They are prone to fade at the crucial moment. On Saturday City looked much the better side and Stapleton Ian Ridley II I NJURY may have prevented two of the Republic of Ire- I land's old guard in Liam Brady and Mark Lawrenson from enjoying the crowning moment of illustrious international careers, but for another there should be a happier conclusion. Frank Stapleton will, after all, lead the Republic in the European Championships, which start in West Germany a week on Friday. The 31-year-old striker has recovered from a hamstring injury and was yesterday named to captain the squad of 20.

The Republic's manager Jack Charlton has, however, included Tony Cascarino as cover should Stapleton suffer a recurrence of the injury in tomorrow's final warm-up match, against Norway in Oslo. The Millwall striker impressed on his recall after a three-year absence, scoring his first international goal in the 3-1 win over Poland in Dublin last week. Charlton's squad is a predictable one, with the emphasis on experience, and the presence of five Liverpool players, three from Celtic and three from Youth squad are vandalism spree Ction abroad dipped fur-" ther yesterday when Bristol Rovers's 15-strong youth squad and two club officials n11Ann4 Alt were aiiesieu iui oucsni uis-orderlv conduct in West Ger Amateurs drink in the greatness of Lock's Common David Davies on Royal Porthcawl, the classic links course that this week is host to the Amateur Championship rest of the world that he is back as a threat every time he tees up the ball. Woosnam won 50,000 to climb the Order of Merit, but more important was the PGA title. In April, after missing the cut in the US Masters, he literally ran from the course and hid in the locker room.

Yesterday he said of another Masters, the Dunhill event at Woburn starting this Thursday: "I wish we could start now." His confidence is back and the swing is once again the essence of simplicity. His consistency of this week, in producing rounds of 67, 70, 70 and 67, comes from sheer hard work. When he was despairing, he worked harder than at any time of his life and while most of it, according to him, was "brainless ball bashing, practising a Clubi one of the world's great courses, came into being. But much was to occur before we come to the Amateur Championship, which started in this Welsh resort yesterday. That historic vestry meeting was being held in a pub, the Lamb and Flag.

The brothers Vivian left half a crown on the table as a token of gratitude, and what more natural than for a vestry member to make the first item of any other business the motion: "I do now move that we have a jug in." As it turned out the second motion, and presumably the third, was exactly the same, for later that same happy night a song was composed, the first line of which is all that remains: "Who sold the Lock's Common for a gallon of drink?" Ninety-seven years later conviviality is still a highly visible trait at a club which was made Royal in 1909. The course has moved a few hundred yards down the road, it is now of 18 rash to draw long-term conclusions from the new role given to Andrew who has only limited experience as a captain at club level. Cooke pointed out that Bryan Barley needed a rest after playing in all four tour games, while the idea of switching John Bentley from the wing to the centre had been rejected. In fact England are seriously short of cover after the departure for home of Simon Halli-day and John Buckton who was ruled out of the tour with concussion. Will Carting does not join the tour until Sunday.

Andrew said yesterday: "I had a couple of games with Cambridge as a centre, and I he was also, unwittingly, practising concentration. It paid off yesterday when he not only won, he survived playing with the interminable Bern-hard Langer, in intermittent squalls, under considerable pressure. Now he can start looking once again to fulfilling his ambition for the year to become the world No.l. He will be the stronger for having learned the lesson of the last three months: "The game says to you, 'You can't be the best in the world just like that'." He ended last season, of course, as the best match player in the world, having won the Suntory over this same course. And when he came to the 18th yesterday he faced the kind of putt that he had known three times in that championship, and had holed each time.

holes, of course, and it has become a linksland classic. Few places can provide all the ingredients of seaside golf as irequently as does Porthcawl, for in addition to its fescues underfoot and the fine sand, the wind always whistles, at varying velocities, up the Bristol Channel, testing shot-making to the full. I have played Porthcawl on a day when that wind would be troubling even the sure-footed sheep further up in the valleys; when, for the first three holes, I had to carry my golf bag held vertically on my left side to prevent my face being shredded by fiercely driven sand. Stand on any tee or any green at Royal Porthcawl and you can see the sea. A trivial claim to fame perhaps, but not one on which the course depends.

It is one of the most demanding of its type in the UK, and has not hosted an Open simply because of a lack of off-course facilities. But almost every other British event of note has been held there the Ladies Championship three times, the Curtis Cup once and now the Amateur for the fifth time. The first time was in 1951 when Dick Chapman, in an all- captain am looking forward to an interesting challenge. But I have no long-term ambition to become a centre. As far as captaincy goes, I was in charge a few times at Cambridge, captained Yorkshire Under-21, and led the county in two of their five games last autumn." Among the forwards, Nigel Redman and Wade Dooley play together in the second row for the first time on the tour, while the England captain, John Or-win, rests, like Barley, after playing four games in succession.

David Egerton returns to his customary No. 8 position after playing at flanker in the Test, while Mick Skinner, who David Plummer hi Napier THE Porthcawl Easter Vestry of April 1891 was, collectively, puzzled. Before the good men of this ancient type of parish council was a proposal that a golf course, whatever that was, should be allowed on Lock's Common, a piece of waste ground. "Just what is it that you want?" inquired one of the parish elders of the two brothers, Harry and Willie Vivian, who had presented the proposal. He was told that there would be a series of holes, nine in all, a few hundred feet apart, four or five inches wide, a couple deep, and set out in haphazard manner.

"Is that all?" asked the vestryman, who clearly could not see the attraction. "Well, I do now move that the consent of the vestry be given to Messrs Harry and Willie Vivian to cut the turf as suggested by them for the playing of the game known as golf." In that moment what was to become Royal Porthcawl Golf when put through by Goodwin, he slotted the ball home again as calmly as if he were taking a penalty. HawKer made it three with a header from Goodwin's corner a minute later. Willie Naughton, doing a remarkable impersonation of a flying whale, nearly made if tour before half-time but his header was just wide. City started the second half with a succession ol corners that had the home nerves jangling as they had on Saturday, but on the hour Kelly beat Gat hers and struck a powerful shot which glanced oft Humphries before spinning wickedly round Waugh to go in off the post.

Just before the end shun was sent off for a foul on Barber, who had been called on to make three finger-tip saves but otherwise was not seriously troubled. The ugliest scenes, however, were police horses moving on to the terraces to menace a largely well-behaved crowd, and police dogs so close to the pitch during the match that Norman Hunter's reputa tion looked like heme challenged. But the City supporters trooped off quietly and so, when they had had their fill of celebrating, did Walsall's. WaioU: Barber; Taylor, Dornan (Sanderson, 74min), Shakespeare, Forbes, Goodwin (M Jones, 58), Hawker, Hart, Christie, Kelly, Naughlon. Bristol Cflyt Waugh; Llewellyn, Newman, Humphries, Pender, McClaren, Milne, Gal-liers, Shutt, Walsh, Jordan.

Rafereei Courtney (Spennymoor). crowned Manchester United will alert the rest of Europe, even if the Republic eight-match winning streak has not. The only excluded player who could possibly be disappointed is Mark Kelly, the 18-year-old Portsmouth winger, a recent debutant, but Charlton sees him as a likely lad for the next World Cup campaign. Charlton has settled on a 44-2 formation but the blend of two strikers has yet to resolve itself. Aldridge, without a goal in his 14 internationals, and Stapleton are the probable pairing, but the explosive form of David Kelly for Walsall and country four goals in three matches makes him difficult to ignore.

Charlton said last night that Kelly will not travel to Norway but after a brief rest links up with the squad on Thursday. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND SQUAD. Goal- keepers: Bonner (Celtic) Age 28, Caps 22 Peyton (Bournemouth) 32, 23. Defend Morris (Celtic) 24. 4: McCarthy (Cellic) 29, 26; Moran (Manchester United) 32, 35: wneian (Liverpool) 26, 26: riugnton (Tottenham) 29, 35: Anderson (Newcastle) 28.

15. MkffleM players! Houghton (Liverpool) 26 14; McQrath (Manchester United) 2B, 22; Sheridan (Leeds) 23, Sheedy (Everton) 28, 13; O'Brien (Manchester United) 24, 6: Oahrki (Sheffield Wednesday) 31. 23. Strikers! Stapleton (Derby) 31. 62.

Aldridge (Liverpool) 29. 14; Kelly (Walsall) 22. Cascarino (Millwall) 25, Quinn (Arsenal) 21. Byrne (Le Havre) 27. 14.

arrested after in Germany cover the damage. The youth squad had been competing in a German tournament from which they were knocked out on Sunday. The episode, following Saturday's riots at Chelsea and disturbances in Lausanne, was greeted with alarm at home. A spokesman for the Minister for Sport Colin Moynihan said last night: "Uefa will no doubt be hearing about this latest incident, and it certainly will not help those English clubs wishing to compete in Europe again." The Rovers chairman, Denis Durnford, said: "I'm horrified at the reports and calling for a full inquiry as soon as they get home, 22 SaafordUtdvMornington- 23 SprkigvaloUvLalorU Victoria Fourth Division 24 BenUeighwKartngsl(6) Boroniavungwarnflu 26 Chelsea vRosanna 27 B. Brunswick Pasco Vale- SB FerntreevKeysboro- 2S Holland PkvVriMams town (1)- Australia Super League SO aayswatervAthena(lO) a 31 Perth HaHav Sorrento 1 32 Stirling Mv N.Perth 1 Australia Second Division 33 BakjavMetvMe 1 34 Bassendean Keimscott (SI 38 rerndataCoekburn(11) 35 Forres tfleld Fremanne 1 37 Ooenens Cast Perth 1 SB sfoneyvKwtnana.

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conviviality. The clubhouse can be a minefield for the aspiring golfer, as it was for a group of touring Americans who arrived one lunchtime after their first round, all wearing those execrable' peaked baseball caps. "Gentlemen," said the recently retired secretary, Squadron Leader Douglas 'SarnfteTf'MBE, "it is not the custom in this country to wear caps in the clubhouse." And lo and behold, they all took them off. "And now," added the Squadron Leader, "I'll be pleased to buy you all a pint." That was their introduction to the joys of Marstons Pedigree. Not many went out for the afternoon round, and it is probable that the vestrymen would have agreed with their decision.

Michael Bonallack, now the championship secretary, described it as "unbelievable." Dodd, one of three players banned for a year by Wales in 1986 for misconduct on a training trip to Spain, said: "They were the worst conditions I've had." tirely satisfied him, and his next race will be another domestic one, the GRE British League Division One match on June 12. His first international race is now expected to be at Portsmouth on June 19 when Britain meet France and the Soviet Union. His partner will be Tony Morrell, who had such a promising indoor season. Neither of these races is likely to stretch him to the pace he really must find at international level; that is likely to occur somewhere in Italy on a varm evening late in June where the pace making will be sharp but not the competition. The sort of meeting like the one in Florence seven years ago when he ran 1:41.73, the current world record; he has been around a long time.

The promoters in Seville, awash with money it, seems to attract so much talent, are thus disappointed for the second year as far as Coe is concerned. He was due here a year ago but injury prevented him racing and kept him out of action for the remainder of the season. That long break causes the present caution and the snide remarks which may now follow will hardly penetrate the Coe hide. He has a philosophy about winning when it really matters and Seville at the beginning of June in Olympic year has a very low priority. sieve cram has promised 50 to the ITV Telethon for every second he clocks under eight minutes in tomorrow night's "My best time for the distance is 7min 43sec, so I could be paying out quite a bit," Cram said.

Cautious Coe puts off his entry to the international arena American final, beat Charlie Coe and Bob Hope played and lost early. In 1964 Michael Bonallack won one of his five British titles and in 1973 Dick beat Peter Moody in a final that was to have unfortunate undertones. The year before, Moody had won the Braba-zon Trophy and was indisputably one of the best players in the land. But he was not picked for the Walker Cup team that went to the United States that August, and in a bitter letter to a newspaper renounced the amateur game. He has not competed at national level since then.

Duncan Evans, the man whose father, David, kept goal for Crewe against Tottenham in the FA Cup match that Spurs Gale and hearty STEVE DODD, a 21-year-old from Barry, braved torrential rain and a gale-force wind to score a four-under-par 68 at Royal Porthcawl, an amateur course record which gave him a three-shot lead over the 280 other competitors in the Brit- Andrew was left out of the Test team at Ballymore, returns at flanker. Several Wallabies were hurt in the Test. Injuries have ruled their lock, Steve Cutler, No. 8, David Carter, and the wing, David Campese, out of the New South Wales team to meet England in Sydney on Sunday. ENGLAND (v Australia Invitation XV tomorrow).

Adamson (Wakefield); Evans. Buttimore (both Leicester), Andrew (Wasps, capt), Underwood (Leicester): Bamoa (Bath), Robson (Mo-seley); Chilcott, Dawe (both Bath), Pearce (Northampton), Redman (Balh), Dooley (Fylde), Skinner (Harlequins), Egerton, A Robinson (both Balh). Replacements: Webb (Bristol), Bentley (Sale), Harding (Bristol), Probyn (Wasps), Moore, a Res (both Nottingham). Rob Lozowski has succeeded David Pegler as Wasps captain. and Anthony Clement also flew home yesterday, Clement only just making it after an internal flight mix-up.

Their replacements Jonathan Mason, of Pontypridd, and the Llanelli flanker Gary Jones, are. expected to arrive tomorrow afternoon. Mason, his club's full-back and top scorer last season, flew into London from holiday in CorfU yesterday. His kit had been sent to Heathrow to save him an extra journey to South Wales. Wales will be looking to put all the mishaps behind them tomorrow when they take on the Second Division side Hawkes Bay.

Given their record on this tour, nothing can be taken for granted, but the tourists need nothing less than a substantial victory many, scene of next month's European Championship finals. The squad, accused of causing 1,000 damage by bending traffic signs, ripping advertising hoardings off walls and uprooting flowers, were arrested in Mannheim in the early hours of yesterday. A police spokesmen said I a. r-nur, nmWt "DlinnTII! but the entire party was later released after de-positing around 1,000 to Injured Norster likely to miss remainder of Wales tour John Rodda In Seville SEBASTIAN COE, the Olym- aaVpic 1,500 metres champion of 1980 and 1984, has deferred the opening of his international racing season. He was due to be among some of Britain's high fliers of track and field for a hot night's competition here tomorrow but has decided to stay at home and carry on with his training.

Steve Cram meets Steve Overt over 3,000 metres, Peter Elliott and David Sharpe are up against one another over 800 metres, Kirsty Wade is in the entry and the Olympic javelin champion, Tessa Sanderson, will give some indication about her chances of defending that title against the challenge of Fa-tima Whitbread and others at the end of the summer in Seoul. Coe's decision will bring all kinds of reactions, among them that he is ducking the opposition. Since he accepted his invitation Elliott and Billy Konchel-lah of Kenya have joined the 800 metres which, with Rob Druppers of Holland, would have made it a scorching affair at the beginning of a long Olympic year. Coe does not want that. "There is an extra eight weeks to this season before we get to the peak and since I have not had an international 800 metres since the European championships in 19SS.

I decided that I would do better to delay things and not lose the training," he said. Coe won the Middlesex 800 metres title on May 14 in lmin 48.8sec, which, taking all things into account, could not have en Robert Armstrong in Adelaide ENGLAND, battered but not discouraged by their defeat in the first Test, have chosen Rob Andrew, their regular fly-half, as centre and captain in a rather experimental team for their match against a South Australia Invitation XV in Adelaide tomorrow night. Tim Buttimore of Leicester, who was called into the squad from Sydney last week, also plays his first game for England, in the centre. The team manager, Geoff Cooke, said that it would be Paul Wilcox Australia First Division CampbeOtown Cumberland 1 Croatia vWT Bjrkalta 1 Uon Orange Modbury 1 ParaHliiaioionia(S) Salisbury Hellas (14X- Wooovua AO law Australia Second Division AstsraavPtAoelaMS(lfl) Brighton Cv Blackwood 1 Elizabeth vSaaford 1 EnfMd Central CHst 1 NoariungavAazurrl(S) Queensland Third Division Ooodna v. University 1 KlngsiidgvBnllgh 1 Figures in parentheses indicate draws in KB LB CHANCE (home teams).

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