N.Z. player upsets snooker
NZPAReuter Johannesburg A New Zealand Maori, Norman Stockman, continued a series of surprise wins when he beat the 11-timcs South African champion Jimmy van Rensburg. 4-2. on the fifth day of the world amateur snooker championships at Johannesburg. Stockman, aged 40, played well yesterday in beating the 44-year-old South African. He won the first game with several small breaks, lost the second when ran Rensburg made a break of 72. but at the interval held a 3-1 lead. Van Rensburg won the fifth bv a wide margin, but one slip—when he left the black over the pocket—cost him the match in the sixth frame as Stockman ran up a 31 break to take it, 65-52. The defending world champion, Ray Edmonds, of England, suffered his second successive defeat when Doug Mountjoy, the Welsh champion, beat him convincingly. 4-1. _____
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