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Cup challengers' court threat
IN BRIEF
. NEW YORK, Friday (AAP). —
America's Cup syndicates threat
ened yesterday to drag the San
Diego Yacht Club through the
courts if it does not accept all com
ers next year.
The decision was made at a
summit of eight syndicates — six
challengers and two American
would-be defenders. .
Led by Australia's Alan Bond,
the syndicate leaders met with
New Zealand merchant banker,
Michael Fay, who has won the sole
legal right to challenge San Diego
for the Cup in big boats next year.
□ HARRIS BACK: Sydney jock
ey Wayne Harris will return to rid
ing on Monday after the
Australian Jockey Club committee
reduced his suspension of five city
meetings to two yesterday.
- AAP
□ AUSTRALIANS HURT: Two
of Australia's young Olympic bob
i
sleigh team have been injured in a
crash during training for the third
round of the World Cup at Igls,
near Innsbruck.
Brakeman lan Gilmour, 20, is
being x-rayed for a possible frac
tured shoulder, and Stephen Craig,
20, has a cut knee.
- MP
□ STEELERS STAY: The Illa
warra Steelers rugby-league club
was granted yesterday a 20-year
lease on the Wollongong
Showground, seemingly ending a
long-running dispute over the
club's future home base.
— MP
□ EQUAL RIGHTS: All Austra
lian State and Territory Football
Leagues will have equal voting sta
tus within the National Football
League from March, the NFL gen
eral meeting resolved in Mel
bourne yesterday.
For the past six years, the VFL
has had five votes at the NFL ta
ble, South and Western Australia
each had two' with Tasmania,
NSW, Queensland, the Northern
Territory, the ACT and the Austra
lian Amateurs one each.
Delegates from all States unani
mously rejected a proposal that
NFL Headquarters should be
moved from Melbourne to Can
berra.
— AAP
□ DOUBLES LOSS: Australians
Laurie Warder and Peter Doohan
have suffered their second succes
sive defeat in the Nabisco Masters
Doubles Championship at the
Royal Albert Hall, London, losing
6-4,3-6,6-3,7-5 to Miloslav Mecir
andTomasSmid.
— AAP
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