featuring the Rugby League World Cup: Great Britain v Australia
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.50* Football Preview
Sam Leitch introduces Grandstand's up-to-the-minute football preview, featuring match analysis and the action and personalities in the news.
1.10*; 1.40*; 2.10* International Table Tennis: England v Japan
For the JAL Trophy
The strongest team in the world including the reigning world singles champions Shigeo Ito and Miss Toshika Kowada in action against England's top players, Denis Neale (Yorkshire), Chester Barnes (Essex), and Pauline Piddock (Kent). Highlights of this best-of-seven match at the Central Hall, Birmingham.
1.20*; 1.50*; 2.20* Racing from Newbury
1.30 The Hedge Hopper's Novices' Hurdle Race (Div 1) (over 2 miles)
2.0 The Hermitage Steeplechase (over 21 miles)
2.30 The St Simon Stakes (over 11 miles)
2.35*; 4.30* International Swimming: The Bologna Trophy from the Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh.
Britain's major swimmers compete in this annual triangular match between Scotland, England and Wales - the final major swimming event of the season.
2.55* International Rugby League: The 1970 World Cup: Great Britain v Australia from Headingley
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the whole of Great Britain's opening match, in which they face the reigning World Champions, competing for the V & G trophy
Joining Great Britain and Australia in this seven-match World Cup Tournament are New Zealand and France. The competition is run on a League basis (two points for a win, one for a draw) and the top two meet in the final at Headingley in two weeks' time when the whole match will be covered in Grandstand.
4.50* Results Service
Grandstand Timetable:
12.50 Football preview
1.10 Table Tennis from Birmingham
1.20 Racing from Newbury
1.40 Table Tennis from Birmingham
1.50 Racing from Newbury
2.10 Rugby League preview/Table Tennis
2.20 Racing from Newbury
2.35 Swimming from Edinburgh
2.55 Rugby League: Great Britain v Australia
4.30 Swimming from Edinburgh
4.40 Teleprinter
4.50 Results Service
Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events.
(Eddie Waring's 10 out of 12: see page 9)
