P314 CEEFAX 314  Sat 13 Feb  22:31/23
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      WORLD MEN'S            
      LAWN CHAMPION HIPS     
    from Auckland          
                                        
 Ir land took th  four  g  d m hal      
 b ating th  host counts  27-15.        
                                        
 Th  N w Z aland  s b kan w  l a aim t  
 Jim Bag  '  sid  to l ad 8-0.          
                                        
 But th y we   not in th  sam   lat  a  
 Bag  , Rodn y McC sch on, John         
 McCloughlin and S mm  All n. Earle     
 th y had b aten Scotland 22-20.        
                                        
  al s lost th i  chanc  to b  in th    
 final afte  a shock 25-13 d f at b     
 Papua New Grin a. Th  W l hman a       
 lost th  bronz  to England 21-18.      
                                        
 Scot  illi  Wo d b at Rob  t    l   f  
  ale  to mo   into th  s n le  f n l.