SPORT IN BRIEF

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32385, 26 August 1970, Page 10

SPORT IN BRIEF

(three under par) for a 277 total in the rain-delayed final. Tom ■ Weiskopf and Rod Funseth were tied for second place, at 280. Funseth had a 66 and Weiskopf took a 71. N.Z.P.A., Sutton (Massachusetts). TENNIS FINAL The Australian, R. Ruffels, won the Pennsylvania men’s singles tennis championship with a 6-2, 7-6, 6-3 victory over J. Filloj (Chile). Ruffels swept Flllol aside in the final set, ending the match by winning nine successive points. Fillol failed to return Ruffels’s service in the last game, four times netting the ball.—Reuter,Haverford.

QUALIFIER The New Zealander, S. McHardy, yesterday qualified for the Long John £lO,OOO matchplay golf championship at Moor Park with a score of 72. A total of 67 competitors —34 playing over the west course and 33, including McHardy, over the high course—qualified for the tournament proper.—Reuter, Rickmansworth. MURRAY’S INJURY The Canterbury Rugby fullback, S. M. C. Murray, who was a late withdrawal from the team to play Auckland last Saturday and who was later admitted to Middlemore Hospital with an unexplained back injury, is likely to remain in hospital for some time. Mr J. K. Torrance, who managed the Canterbury