There was no security guard in the room as he suddenly pulled a short-handled sledgehammer out of a bag slung over his shoulder and attacked the trophy case.The man repeatedly smashed at the armoured glass casing until it broke open. He tried but failed to remove the trophy from the broken cabinet and then tore off his jacket and shirt to reveal a T-shirt emblazoned with Maori sovereignty slogans.Nearby building workers grabbed the man, who was arrested and was due to appear in court today to face criminal damage charges. The America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in international sport and the most coveted prize in sailing, was badly damaged yesterday in a political protest by a 27-year-old Maori man in Auckland, New Zealand. Britain has two women world champions: Jane Couch at welterweight and Cheryl Robertson at bantamweight.. But if women want to box and medically there is no reason why they shouldn’t box, they should be allowed to do so.”Women in ring combat is a concept which is certainly gaining a professional profile in America.
Firstly there must be a good deal of preparation to be done through the rules and regulations that apply. Secondly there must be a sufficient number of women who want to box.”At the risk of being chauvinistic, there are a lot of people in boxing who have some reservations. This comes only seven months after the British Masters at Collingtree Park in Northampton became infamous for its diseased greens.. Schools amateur boxing will soon be able to open its doors to female participation. Girls keen to wear gloves at the grass roots of the sport will be permitted to try their luck from October according to Chris Andrews, chairman of the National Schools’ Boxing Association, which stages its jubilee championships at the Aston Villa Leisure Centre on 22 March. Players have been told there will be no fixed penalties imposed on anybody wishing to withdraw from next week’s Turespana Masters in Gran Canaria.Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal are among the entrants at Maspalomas, where seven of the greens have been damaged by fertiliser scorching. “The 11th was so fast last year (he played then as the US amateur champion) that people couldn’t keep putts on the green, especially when the wind was blowing from right to left.
That’s borderline on getting unfair.”There is also concern for the state of the courses on the the European Tour which has had to apologise again for the condition of one of them. Tiger Woods will go looking for his first major in four weeks’ time believing that the Augusta greens are dangerously close to being unfair. It produced an average score half a stroke above its par of four.. I thought it would be a fair test, even if the wind blows,” Janzen said.The wind did blow during the first round, and scores were higher than expected on this flat course with no out of bounds and almost no water.”There’s more to this course than we first thought,” Montgomerie said. “I didn’t manage to have a stable round and that’s it.”The misery continued for Scotland’s Sam Torrance, who improved on his opening 81 by 11 shots but still bowed out with a seven-over-par aggregate of 151.Colin Montgomerie made a solid start in the Honda Classic at Coral Springs, Florida, shooting 68 Thursday to stand one shot off the pace in a group of five players. “Things didn’t go the right way,” said the Spaniard, who hooked off the tree-lined course three times.
