HEALTH

S.M. Bose is ASI chief
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — Prof S.M. Bose, Department of Surgery, PGI, has been elected President of the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) in a nationwide poll involving 10,000 members. Professor Bose won the election by a big margin.

The ASI has its headquarters in Chennai and represents all surgeons of India. Professor Bose is the first surgeon from the PGI to be elected to the post. Only two others from the North—Prof Santokh Singh Anand in 1958 and Prof Yudhvir Sachdeva in 1968 — have occupied this prestigious post.

Professor Bose had earlier been the President of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology and also a Governing Council member of the ASI for six years.

SPORT

Rock Rovers beat United Brothers
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — With 4-2 win over visiting United Brothers Club team from Canada, the Rock Rovers Club, Chandigarh, today displayed its prowess in an exhibition hockey match played here today at the Sector 18 Hockey stadium. The match was organised by the Chandigarh Hockey Association. Mr YP Vohra, Secretary of the association, said the late S.N. Vohra, the founder of the CHA and the man who endowed much to the hockey in the city was also remembered. A two-minute silence was also observed in his memory. Mr Chandersekhar, vice-president, Indian Hockey Federation, was the chief guest and gave away prizes.

The visiting team participated in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hockey Tournament at Delhi last week. Tomorrow, the Canada club will play another exhibition match at the Hawks stadium, Ropar with Ropar Hawks.

In the match played today, Jerum Kujur scored two goals. The Chandigarh team took the initial lead when Jerum converted a penalty corner into a goal in just third minute of the tie. However, the UBC team was able to equalise it in seventh minute by Harbajan Singh through a field goal. Now it was the turn of Rock Rovers, Sarub Bishnoi converted a penalty corner into goal in 20th minute taking a 2-1 lead.

In the second half, Jerum struck again with a field goal to surge ahead at 3-1. The lead was further enhanced when Vikram Saini of the Chandigarh team did a field goal in 38th minute to have a sizeable lead.

The visiting team seemed very slow and their coach, Preet Pal, said a few of the their players had left for Canada after the Delhi match. Canada players mostly non-resident Indians, then had the chance to score the goal in 42nd minute when Brij Singh scored field goal and reduced the lead to 2-4. Visitors got four penalty corners in 4th, 18th, 29th and 47th minute but they failed, while the local team were awarded in 3rd, 20th, 27th, 28th and 59th minutes and they managed to utilise first two.

Ravi Khalan, a Vancouver-based player, said three of their players form part of the national junior team of Canada. He said such matches would provide exposure to the promising players.

The team: United Brothers Club: John Mcknon, Nirmal Singh, CP Singh (Capt), Santosh Kumar, Ravi Khalan, Jagmohan Singh, Brij Singh, Harbajan Singh, Nripjeet, Gurinder Sandhu, Stev Werren, Kamal Bring, Gurcharan Grewal, Jaswal Singh, Onkar Singh and Surinder Kaler. Manager — Gurcharan Grewal; President — Onkar Power; coach — Preet Pal.

Rock Rovers: Ajit Gopal, Sarub Bishnoi, Ashwinder (Capt), Jatinder Kumar, Baldev Singh, Pardeep Singh, Surjit, Jerum Kujur, Inderjit Chadha, Jaswant, Navdeep, Gurdeep Singh, Rupinder Grewal, Vikram Saini and Rajpal Singh; and Manager — Amarjit Singh.

Softball meet
MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh, bagged the Panjab University Inter-College Softball (women ) Championship, which concluded here on Thursday. Ramgarhia Girls College, Ludhiana, was placed second, while Government College for Girls, Sector 11, and Panjab University secured third and fourth position, respectively.

Kabaddi championship
The Chandigarh Kabaddi Association will hold the 18th Senior UT State Kabaddi Championship for men and women on January 16 and 17 at Government College of Education, Sector 20. Selected players will take part in the 48th Senior National Kabaddi Championships to be held at Mandya (Karnataka) from February 7 to 11. Entries close with Prof Harjinder Singh, Government College of  Education on  January 15.

City to host five tennis events
By Arvind Katyal

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — Chandigarh will witness a series of international tennis tournaments in the next five months, thanks to the infrastructure created by the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association. Today the CLTA complex boasts of six synthetic courts including two deco turf centre courts. Then the Rural Tennis Area programme has proved a boon for new upcoming players. The rise of Sunil Kumar, a Davis Cup player, at the age of 16 is another success. Tushar Liberhan of the city is already donning the national colours. Amanjot and Saurabh in the boys section and Shruti Dhawan and Harsimran Kaur among the girls, are making waves at the national level.

This year, ITF Junior meet will be held for both boys and girls from January 29. This six-day event will see some top-ranking players from all over the world. There will be 64 boys and 32 girls. The first leg of the tournament will be held from January 22 at Delhi and the third at Calcutta from February 5.

From February 19, the city will have for the first time, the ATP Challengers meet for seniors (men) where some top-ranking players of the world including India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will be seen in action.

Mr Kailash Nath, General Manager of the CLTA, said that from April 9, the ITF Women’s Circuit Tennis Tournament will be played at the CLTA. From May 28, the CLTA will host the final round of satellite tournaments. The city meet will be the fourth after the earlier legs held at Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi.

ADMINISTRATION

157 buses challaned
From Our Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, Jan 11 — In a drive against vehicles not following traffic rules, 157 buses were challaned, here today. The drive was carried out by the State Transport Authority, Chandigarh. The Chandigarh Traffic Police also assisted the STA in its drive.

A senior official in the STA said buses belonging to Punjab and Haryana roadways and some buses of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking were challaned for various offences under Motor Vehicle Act. He said a few private buses were also challaned.

The STA had put up its nakas at the Transport Chowk and the roundabout of Sectors 20 and 21. The offences under which the buses were challaned included faulty number plates, absence of Pollution Under Control certificates and faulty tail lights.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr B.S. Bassi, when contacted, said the drive would continue. He said the idea was not to challan but to educate the drivers to obey traffic rules. Mr Bassi advised truck drivers to properly display the number plates on their vehicles.

On January 8, the Chandigarh Traffic Police, under a special drive, had challaned over 240 vehicles. Fifty trucks with mud-coated or blurry number plates were challaned by the police. Truck drivers without numbers painted on both of the vehicle were also challaned. Drivers of three commercial vehicles were challaned for driving vehicles without indicators. Two others were fined for driving vehicles without break lights.