He could come out with an axe and he wouldn’t get sent off.”Lowe now wants to meet the referee, Phil Houston, to try to ensure consistency in what is certain to be a tense third Test.”I just hope that, if one of our players gets caught for a high tackle, he won’t be sent off,” Lowe said. “I’m worried that the referee will panic and send someone off for tying up his shoelace.”Demand for tickets for Elland Road has surged following Britain’s win at Old Trafford, with several clubs selling out their allocation and a full house of around 40,000 expected.The former Wigan coach, Eric Hughes, sacked last week to make way for the return of John Monie, is considering an offer to take over at the new club formed by the merger of Barrow and Carlisle.The clear-out is continuing at Halifax, where the 22-year-old back-row forward Simon Baldwin has become the latest to reject terms for next season.The England international joins Paul Rowley, Michael Jackson and Mark Perrett – all of whom have also played at international level – in seeking new clubs before next year, while last season’s regular full-back, Mike Umaga, is already playing rugby union for Rotherham.Halifax, who are due to move out of Thrum Hall and ground-share with Halifax Town in the new year, are trying to bring down their wage bill before the new season, during which a salary cap will operate for the first time.. Westwood finished second, three strokes behind the winner,

Mark Calcavecchia Photograph: Erik S Lesse/AP. The Great Britain manager, Phil Lowe, has complained bitterly about the failure to suspend Gorden Tallis for the deciding British Coal Test at Elland Road on Sunday. The Australian second row was placed on report for a high tackle after being warned for the same offence three times at Old Trafford last Saturday, but a League committee has decided that he has no case to answer.
The British management has also decided against citing him for an elbow on Chris Joynt earlier in the game, but Lowe said: “My biggest fear is what will happen on Sunday He has set the standard now. Britain’s Lee Westwood acknowledges the crowd’s applause on the 14th green during the final round of the Sarazen World Open at Chateau Elan in Braselton, Georgia, on Sunday. “We are tracking Silk Cut, can see Chessie Racing and Cayard is within striking distance,” he said.Most surprising has been the performance of Toshiba, Dennis Conner’s American entry which is now being skippered by Britain’s Paul Standbridge.

He is in eighth place out of the nine yachts, and anxious to make up ground.WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE (second leg, 4,600 miles, Cape Town to Fremantle): Latest positions: 1 Swedish Match (Swe) G Krantz 4,267 miles to finish; 2 EF Language (Swe) P Cayard 100 miles behind leader; 3 Chessie Racing (US) D Smith 106; 4 Silk Cut (GB) L Smith 113; 5 Merit Cup (Monaco) G Dalton 116; 6 Innovation Kvaerner (Nor) K Frostad 126; 7 Brunel Sunergy (Neth) H Bouscholte 129; 8 Toshiba (US) P Standbridge 133; 9 EF Education (Swe) C Guillou 173.. He should now be able to control the other eight yachts but is still subject both to patches of light airs as he digs into the conveyor belt of westerlies, and the ever-present vulnerability to gear failure.Once again George Collins’ Chessie Racing is showing well – third-placed, with Dee Smith guesting for Jim Allsop for the Southern Ocean leg, and back in head-to-head contention with Lawrie Smith in Silk Cut.In fifth position is Grant Dalton in Merit Cup “We are on the comeback trail,” he said last night. “We are all drifting around out here without rhyme or reason while Swedish Match sails off. A high pressure has ridged in around the southern tip of Africa and run right over the rest of us.

The worrying thing is that it will stay like this for a couple of days.”The bonus for Krantz is that he is between the rest of the fleet and the weather systems coming from the south-west. The charge to the south by Gunnar Krantz and Swedish Match had delivered a 100-mile lead yesterday on the second leg of the Whitbread Round The World Race from Cape Town to Fremantle. The fight for second place was led by Paul Cayard in EF Language while Christine Guillou in the all-woman EF Education brought up the rear.
“This is not the way this leg is supposed to be,” Cayard said. Sampras, Rafter and Rusedski have what it takes to prove that any similarity is just a mirage.ATP Tour ChampionshipRed GroupPete Sampras (US)Patrick Rafter (Aus)Greg Rusedski (GB)Carlos Moya (Sp)White GroupMichael Chang (US)Jonas Bjorkman (Swe)Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus)Sergi Bruguera (Sp)Today’s matchesSampras v MoyaRafter v RusedskiChang v Bruguera. The sandy hue could be mistaken for the slow clay of the French Open. “The balls are very big and very heavy,” the Spaniard said.The colour of the court is one factor that might help Bruguera and his fellow baseliners psychologically. The higher bounce of the ball is similar to the courts Rusedski and Rafter prospered on at the US Open.Bruguera, a former French Open champion, considered the court here to be slow enough to allow spectators to “see more tennis”, but felt that the balls being used would favour the big servers.