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For what it is worth-30p per te'am pl,ace, plus one' reserve, per annum-can it be that for the priv1ilege of stag1ing the greatest table tennis show on ear~h, dis­enchantment with the parent body is be'ing seriously thought of?

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If they are prepared to roll up the'ir sleeves and work to that end one would rightly expect that others would be' willing to put their hands in thelir pockets if only to show faith in the establ'ishment which, after all, also shares the' comm'on ground of grass root table tennis.

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Team Events by George R. Yates

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'''Who loves yer, baby?" Certainly Anton Stipancic's compatriots after the left-handtzr had beaten Stellan Bengtsson to give Yugoslavia their 5-2 victory in the men's team

evenit final. Photo ,by CTK, Praha.

Swedes dislodged and Silver for English Girls

Nolt since Berlin in season 19t5'l-62~ when r,epres'ented by Markovitc, Korpa and Vecko, had Yugoslavia carried off the men's team title in the European Chta,mpionships.

They lost it in Mla/lmo on the next occasion, wh,en ,beaten in the final !by Sweden:i a f!ate thart aliSO \befell the1m, Imemorably, in ,Moscow (~6\9-'70) 'and in Rotterdalrn ('71-'72).

But tin Prague this year, over the period March 27-30, they regained the coveted Hungary Cup and in so doing terminated a six-in-a-row run of successes by the 'Sc,andin­avians.

It 'was a spl,endid finall e-ncounte~ in tihe Cze.ch fcapirt,al 'whrere, 'with their usual vo:ciferous support, the Yugoslav trio of Dragurtin Surlbek, Anton Stip,anci,c and M,ilHvoj2 Kara'k'asevic, triumphed S-2 over Kje~l Johan­sson, SteH,an ,Benrgts:sO'n and the up-and-,coming U,l:f 'Thorsell!.

Young ~horselll it was who was first Ito the tahle ,anld lfirst to 'win a game) over Surrhek, Ibut it was Ian initial suocess that stung the V j,esnik player £Irom Zagreb into all-out attack and the Yugoslavs w'ent 11-0 in front.

The Ilead was destined to be shorlt-lived as Be;}llgtsiSon levelled the m'at.ch score' in a 2­straiight be.ating of K,ar,akasevitc, tihe talH '.P,en­ho'lder, back on the s,cene after a period of ar:my servi!ce.

But from :then on matters went ,a1wry for the defending ,champions as firstily Johansson £eH to Stip,ancic, to be fOIUowed in def,eat by Bengtsson, who went under to the \hail} of

buNet-like forehand sm,ashes fired by the mighty right anm olf Sur1;>ek. 3-1 to Yugoslavia and the stadium rocked to the din of full ­blooded roars from a thous,and throats.

A,lIl credit then to ThorsteH in !the next set who, in suclh an at,mosp:here, had the audacity to beat the le/ft-handed Stipanci'C aJnd narrow the gap.

QUIT THIE A,REINA

It 'wals at this stage that the Yugosltavian Associations (President, Mihovill Kapeltanie, a m'?tmiber of th'e E.T.'T.U's M,anagement Com,mit­t,e1e, cou~ld stand it no longer and ,quit the arena to ,relieve the :p,ressure on .taut nerve's.

Sound only penetrated to the labyrinth below and if it w,asn't an earthquake it must have been a totalIy unexpe'cted win for Kara­kasevic over Johansson that shnok the stadium to its very foundations!

And s,o it proved las Mihovi,} came up for air to salmple ,the ~pr~'Vailin:g e,csrtasy oooasioned by the illuminated s,corehoard whi'cih showed Yugoslavia 4, (Sweden 12.

'T,o retain the tittle' a~ll three me.mbers of t1h,e Swedish te:am Ihad to win the,tr final sets and Bengtsson h?\gan with a 21-18 opening \~aJme' success ov,eir Stipanci1c and ba,ck into the ,cata­comibs went the Yugoslav 'President. He needn't have done as, backed by ,a ,chorus of hallelujah­like proportions, Stip,anci,c 'leve,llled and won aimids!t s,cenes r,eminisicent 'Of the stor,ming of the Bastiille. .

It was all over, Yugoslavia bad won, Stdpan­cic was be,iug tossed in the air and the smile on team tra,iner DuSan 'Osm'anagic's face stretched from Belgrade to Dubrovnik.

.Resolute from the very outset, Yugoslavia p,rovided the .first Q1pposi'tion for E'll\~land fto

cry from the Yugoslav bench as Dusan Osmanagic (nearest camera) Ie'ads the exhortations.

Photo 'by ICT'K, Praha.

"Com,e on Stip" is the

ta,ckle, one calculated :to desitroy tihet morale of 'most tela.ms.

It didn't, despite the. 5-0 d:r:ubbing admi~is­te,red by tlhe Sla;\r.s, aliI ltD :stral,g!ht Igalmes, w~:th Denis INe.a~e' and Des'mond Douglas rlJWlce suffering, Ni1cky JarviS' Ollice.

DllSLlIKE ,Despite his diS'lik'e.of the ,adopted tball, Nea~·e

managed three unconvincing victories a.g,ai'1lst Poland Ito whi'ch IDouglas and Jar'vis ,ad'd,ed one each, Iboth ,losing tih,eir other set .in the' 5-,2 vi1ctory re'corded.

A,gainst Au:stria'!1 in tlhe next m,at!cih, 'Plaul Day 'made his deibut fo~ 'Ellig:!,and in this event, to the exclusion of 'Douglas, who, like- Neale, also had (this Imental phobia about the p'l'asti,c baH. England 'made heavy weathe,r .of this encount,er for, after D,ay had beaten Welnnlann, the Austrians went into a 2-1 ,lead fo:Uowing wins 'by 'Th;a1Hinger over J.arvis and by ISchHiter over N'ealle.

[t all} came ri,ght in the end, 5-3~ the other losls Ibeinlg suslt,ained (by INeale~ who wlas bearten by ThalHnger, but ilt WHIS N~ale who ~nally got 'Eng1land rho-me with an ellgihth set VIctory over Weinm,ann.

But from then on IEngland (lost ground 'when heaten, preidictalb\ly, by the vastly . .improved French te:a1m" 'whose Jaoque'S Se.crletIn not,ched a treble, supported 'by ·a set each frOrm iPatridk Biroche,au and Christian (Martin.

It was Birocheau 'who cast the die for the end 5-2 result in favour of France when, in the opening slet he had a 14, 1~4 ,win ove1r Neale. Both E,ngl~nd's victories 'wer,e registered by Jarvis with ·Day, justifi,arbly retained, losing out to Secretin and Martin.

Substituting Andy Barden for D,ay in the final m,at'ch OIf the first stalge encounters, against Hungary, brought no div:denids for Engl,and ,as the Middlesex youngster was thrice delf'eated, alllbe.it in the third ,game on ea:ch occasion.

Uarvis agailt'"'cam,e up trrumps w.ith a treble, but 'Neale, after a hri,ght Sltart against Horv,ath, failed ·miserably in opposition to 'Tim,ar and the ageing defender, Janos Borzs,ei.

Fourth ourt of six was our finishing Stage 1 (Group B) position, being next 'oa-Iled upon to meet 'Cz,echo:s~lovaki,a, who ,finished third, behind Sweden ,and Russia in the p'aralHell Group A, the p!lacing at stake ibei.ng in the 5 to 8 band.

f.RE:STiOREID ,Douglas was Ir,estored ,for this penuLtim,ate

en·counte'r to the excllusion of INeale, Ibut only Jarvis succeeded in prolongiI1Jg the m,at,ch (by a sbcth set when he ,accountedl for Jiri Turai in th,e thi'rd. We 'lost 1-,5.

And so we were to finish seventh or ei,ghrth depending on the result of a slelcond mleeti'Dlg, wilth Hung,ary who~ in their previous mat'ch against F'etdetral 'Germany, had been se,en off 5-1.

No change was made in ,the Hunga,rian team, who throughout had ope,rlated devoid OIf the servi/ces of the inc,apacitated Ist,van J onyer and Galbor 'Ger,ge,ly, hut :EngI.and hroughrt Iback N·e.a1e in plaice of Barden to line up at IfuH strength as per ranking.

;D,espit?' the lfirst -dhr,ere selts ,allil going to la deciding ,ga.me, 3..0 read tlhe s,corehoard in our favour" but thell"e' iWias no 'chants of "'IE,asy,easy" ,from the E,nlglish supporters.

IPerhaps alS weilll, :for the ,H'ungaria'll.s took th,e next trwo when Borzsei (again O'utlastred Neiale to win 22J20 in the id'ecider' ,and Ferenc 'Ti1mar had a tot,ally unexpe'c!t::ed win over Jarvis.

Fears were relieved, however, as firstly Douglas p'olished off Zolt.an. Horvath and the coup-de-grace was administered by Ne.ale over T'im,ar in a complete reversall of the'ir previousmeeting,.

ISev,e!ll~h place then w,as our finislhing posi­tion, one beneath that olbtained in NQovi Sad, but it Icould, and should, have been higher but for that 4-5 relve~Sre to HUlligalry in the first stmge match.

Iif Itlhere waiS dejection in the m'ale camp, Eng,lantd's women did thei,r very \best to dispell it and 'with succes'sive vi'ctori,es over HoHand, Russia, Sweden, POlland and iRumanila~ topped tlheir first stage group in 'm,ajestic style.

,Linda 'Howard set the patltern against the Netherlands in the opening match ,when, as the first player on court, she sihaitt,ered the Dutoh If1raternity and their ",wonder :gi'rl", IBet­tine Vrieskoop, with scores OIf 4 ,and 11!

JH,l 'Ham,m?Tsley beg,an tentatively, going to thr,ee with Sonja Heltzel, Ibut tlhe douibles brought no proibl,ems and '3-0 Iwas the final s'core.

APPREIHEIN'SIN'E A,gain in the second 'match~ ,ag,ainst the

Soviet Union, it was Linda who sparked the

3-1 'win when~ in the first set.. she overca:m,e Elnlira Antoni,an. JiB, stilLI ap,prehensiv1e, 'wenit do-wn :to Zoy.a Rudnova tbut the l1ead fW'as restored ·when our IgirllS won the doubles, against Ant,oni,a,n partne1red Iby Tatjana iFerd· man.

Jill, nnw playing with increasing 'confidence, brought ,m,atters to finality iln Ibeating Antunian. Sweden's gir,ls were nexit for the hamm,er, Ann­Chri[tin HeJlman and Birgitta ,Olsson offerring but token r,esistance in losing 0-3.

Having been confined to the Ibenc:h, ICarole Knight 'w,as g'i'ven heir 'chanc,e to shine in the nexlt ,match, ,against \Poland. Unfortunate,ly ,f'or the C,l1e've}.and girl, as like a suhstiturt,e in a foo,tlhallll m,alt,ch.. it proved difficult to get into the swing of things, and ICairole lost in her one ,and only team outing tlo E,wa lOlek -17, -;20.

IAfga:,llIst the same player J ilil relgistiered s,cores of 6 and 11, helat ,Anna Przygoda \10 ,and 11, ,and comhined ·wilth ILinda for the inevitable doubles success for a 3-t result. ­

Up against the redou'btalble Maria Alexandru in the opening set a,g:ainst Rum,ania, Linda ffai.Ied 'to p1rovide the whirll1wind start. ,But ,all was w,e'l,l .in the end with ,both Jilll ,and Linda beating Liana ,Mi:hut 'w!ho, with the 'girll na,med Maria, also :lost ,the doubles.

In the resultant semi-final play-offs Erzebet Palaltinus, of Yugoslav,ia, had a sensational win over Jill, 18 and 8, but this storm.y beginro ning was weathered as (Linda steadied the boat in beating Dubravk.a IFabri.

fA victory course fw,as' tn,en set, with the doubles ,easily taken and J HI, now' srt:albi,lis,ed, aocountiDig !for Falbri.

Russia fought their way into the finall by aocounting for the host nation 3-2 with I'lona U:hlikova carrying the fi:ght to them in ,be,alting both Rudnova ,and Antonian. ,But not so B'lank,a Sillhannva, who also fa'i1led in the doubl;es.

'Thus was the stafge set for a second ,meeting b2:tw,een 'Engl.and and th.e !Soviet Union 'with gOlld m,edals as the stak,e.

RIIGHT FOOT

Jilll, playing superbly, ,got us off on tlhe right foot by beating Rudnov:a on1y for ,Linda, in her vitaJ set-to w.ith Antonian, being sUibje'cted to nerves and resultant defeat.

'The "crunch" came in tlhe doubles Iwhen the pairing of 'Rudnova and Antoniran paid off and the Soviet duo !brough:t ,ahout Itthe first de.fe,at :f'or the (English plair since- 'Gal,cutta, 16

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'''How's about that then?" could well have been the imp,ression given by Milevo1e Karakasevic in his set with Kjell Johansson, which the Yugoslav penholder won.

Photo by 'CTK, Praha.

Zoya Rudnova who, by defe:ating Linda Howard in the women's team final, won the ma,tch for the Soviet Union.

Photo by 'CliK, Praha.

and 1\4. This was a reall disappointiUllent for England. HUNGARY CUP (MEN)

,But alB 'Wlas not yet lost as Jill Ilevelled the Category 1, Stage 1

maltch score in 'beating Antonian 8 and 1!3" GROUP A1 2 3 4 5 Won Pos. 1 SWEDEN 5-0 5-1 5-2 5-1 4 1~eaving LInda rwiitih t:her une:nvilafble t,a:sk of 2 Czechoslovakia 0-5 2-5 5-2 5-2 2 3"/taking" Rudnova ,for the match ,and the gold. 3 U.S.S.R. 1-5 5-2 5-1 5-1 3 2

.,If' 4 Federal Germany 2-5 2-5 1-5 5-0 1 4Extr,emely .nelrvou~ and gui,lty of many half 5 Bulgaria 1-5 2-5 1-5 0-5 0 5

shots, the Surrey gir,l was' not up to it'lespe­ (Rumania scratched) cialTly ag.ainst a playler olf the c,alibre of GROUP B1 1 2 3 4 5 6 Won Pos. Rudnovia" who proved far too experienced a 1 Hungary 1-5 5-4 1-5 5-0 5-1 3 3

2 YUGOSLAVIA . 5-1 5-0 5-1 5-0 5-1 5 1ca1mpaigner. 3 England ...... 4-5 0-5 2-5 5-3 5-2 2 4

So rthe\re it rw:as'l ,defeat at the £inarl hur,dle, hut 4 FRANCE ...... 5-1 1-5 5-2 5-1 5-1 4 2 5 Austri\a ...... 0-5 0-5 3-5 1-5 2-5 0 6what a perlform,ance th,e English fgirIs ga1ve 6 Poland 1-5 1-5 2-S 1-5 5-2 1 5and how' w;e,ll ,they 'm·e,rited ;the silver ,medals! English Resultswith ,which tlhey had to ,content the'mselves. v Yugoslavia (lost 0-5)

S:allute mesdalmres. D. Neale lost to D. Surbek -9, -20; lost to A. Stipancic -IS, -12.

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D. Douglas lost to M. Karakasevic -18, -IS; lost to Surbek -17, -13. N. Jarvis lost to Stipancic -21, -13. v Poland (won 5-2) Jarvis bt Z. Fraczyk 13. 14; lost to S. Fraczyk -17, -20. Douglas bt S. Fraczyk IS, -17, 12; lost to R. Czochanski -20,

16, -14. Neale bt Czochanski II, 22; bt Z. Fraczyk -19, 18, 17; bt S.

Fraczyk -19, 10, 18. v Austria (won 5-3) P. Day bt R. W,e'inmann -12, 12, 13; bt H. Schlut~r 8, -19, 13. Jarvis lost to F. Thallinger -20, -21; bt Weinmann 20, 14; bt·

Sch'luter 18, 17. Neale lost to Schluter -19, -17; lost to Thallinger 22, -12, -18;

bt Weinmann 12, 19. v France (lost 2-5) Neale lost to P. 5irocheau -14, -14; lost to J. Secretin -20, -II. Day lost to Se'cretin -IS, -13; lost to C. Martin -14, -13. Jarvis bt Martin -21, 9, 14 bt Birocheau 20, 19; lost to Secretin

-21, -12. v Hungary (lost 4-5) Neale bt Z. Horvath 12, 9; lost to F. Timar -13, -12; lost to

J. Borzsei -19, -15. A. Barden lost to Timar -14, 10, -13; lost to Borzsei -20, 16, -8;

lost to Horvath -IS, 18, -15. Jarvis bt Borzsei 19, -17, 10; bt Horvath 17, 12; bt Timar 21,

-II, 16. Stage 2 AS Bulgaria 5, B6 Austria 3 A4 Federal Germany 5, B3 Hungary 1 A3 Czechoslovakia 5, B4 England 1 A2 U.S.S.R. 2, Bl Yugoslavia 5 Al Sweden S, B2 France 2 English Results v Czechoslovakia (lost 1-5) Douglas lost to J. Kunz -19, -21; lost to M. Orlowski -13 -14. Jarvis bt J. Turai 20, -12, 19; lost to Kunz -16, -14. Barden lost to Orlowski -9, -15; lost to Turai -IS, -12. Stage 3 For positions 9-10 Poland 5, Bulgaria 0 For positions 7-8 England 5, Hungary 2 Jarvis bt Borzsei -17, 18, IS; lost to Timar -16, -10. Neale bt Horvath IS, -13, 17; lost to Borzsei -16, 20, -22; bt

Timar 13, 13. Douglas bt Timar 19, -17, 18; bt Ho,rvath 10, 14. For positions 5--6 Czechoslovakia 5 Federal Germany 3 Kunz ibt P. Ste:llwag 16, 19; lost to J. Leiss 14, -19, -19; bt

W. Lieck 12, 17. Turai lost to Leiss -16, -17; lost to Lieck -9, 19, -12. Orlowski bt Lieck 20, -19, 12; bt Stellwag 13, 8; bt Leiss 19, 16. For position 3-4 U.S.S.R. S, France 2 S. Gomozkov bt R. Hatem 10, 11; lost to J. Secretin 19, -14,

-19. B. Burnazian lost to Secretin -13, -16; bt P. Birocheau 19, 18. A. Strokatov bt Birocheau IS, -14, 14; bt Hatem II, 16; bt

Se'cretin 26, IS. For positions 1-2 YUGOSLAVIA 5, Sweden 2 Surbek bt Thorsell -IS, 17, 16; bt Bengtsson 17, -19, 12. Karakasevic lost to Bengtsson -II, -18; bt Johansson -13, 16, 2I. Stipancic bt Johansson 18, -21, 14; lost to Thnrsell II, -18, -15;

bt Bengtsson -18, II, 13. Category 2. stage 1 GROUP A2 1 234 5 6 7 Won Pos. DENMARK .... 5-2 5-0 5-0 5-0 5-1 5-1 6 1 Luxembourg 2-5 3-5 5-4 5-4 3-5 3-5 2 6 GREECE 0-5 5-3 4-5 5-3 5-1 5-2 4 2 Finland 0-5 4-5 5-4 5-1 4-5' 5-4 3 4 Scotland 0-5 4-5 3-5 1-5 3-5 3-5 o 7 Wales 1-5 5-3 l-S 5-4 S-3 5-3 4 3 Turkey 1-5 5-3 2-5 4-S S-3 3-S 2 5 GROUP B2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Won Pos. NETH ERLAN DS 5-3 5-0 5-0 5-0 5-0 5-1 6 1 ITALy . 3-5 5-1 5-0 5-2 5-2 5-1 5 2 Belgium . 0-5 1-5 5-0 S-l 5-1 5-0 4 3 Switzerland . ,0-5 0-5 0-5 4-5 0-5 2-5 o 7 Norway . 0-5 2-5 1-5 5-4 1-5 5-4 2 6 Spain 0-5 2-5 1-5 5-0 S-l 4-5 2 4 Ireland 1-5 1-5 0-5 5-2 4-5 5-4 2 5 Stage 2 A6 Luxembourg 5, B5 Ireland 3 AS Turkey 5, B6 Norway 2 A4 Finland 5, B3 Belg.ium 2 A3 Wales 5, B4 Spain 3 A2 Greece 2, Bl Holland 5 Al Denmark 5, B2 Italy 1 Stage 3 For positions 25-26 Sco:land S, Switzerland 0 For positions 23-24 Ireland 5, Norway 1 For positions 21-22 Luxembourg 5, Turkey 3 For positions 19-20 Be,lgium 5, Spain 4 For positions 17-18 Wales 5, Finland 3 For positions 15-16 Italy 5, Greece 2 For posit.ions 13-14 Denmark 5, Netherlands 2

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS MEN

ENGLAND Douglas Jarvis Neale Barden Day F A Opponents

0-2 1-1

0-1 1-1 2-1

0-2 3-0 1-2 2-0

0 5 5

5 2 3

Yugoslavia Poland Austria

2-1 0-2 0-2 2 5 France

0-2 2-0

3-0 1-1 1-1

1-2

2-1

0-3 0-2

4 1 5

5 5 2

Hungary Czechoslovakia Hungary

3-5 10-6 7-9. 0-5 2-2 22 27

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS - WOMEN

ENGLAND Hammersley/

HammersleY Howard I(night Howard F A Opponents 1-0 1-0 1-0 3 0 Netherlands 1-1 1-0 1-0 3 1 U.S.S.R. 1-0 1-0 1-0 3 0 Sweden 2-0 0-1 1-0 3 1 Poland 1-0 1-1 1-0 3 1 Rumania 1-1 1-0 1-0 3 1 Yugoslavia 2-0 0-2 0-1 2 3 U.S.S.R.

9-2 5-3 0-1 6-1 20 7

IRELAND Leonard/

Serlior Leonard Seniol' F A Opponents1-0 1-0 1-0 3 0 Finland 0-1 0-1 0-1 0 3 Belgium 0-1 0-1 0-1 0 3 France 1-1 0-2 1-0 2 3 Austria 2-0 0-2 0-1 2 3 Scotland 2-0 1-1 0-1 3 2 Turkey 2-0 0-1 1-0 3 1 Italy 1-0 1-0 1-0 3. 0 Turkey

9-3 3-8 4-4 16 15

SCOTLAND Fleming/

Smith Fleming Smith F A Opponents 0-1 0-1 0-1 0 3 France 2-0 0-1 1-:) 3 1 Austria 1-0 1-0 1-0 3 0 Turkey 2-0 0-1 1-0 3 1 Finland 1-1 I-I 1-0 3 2 Ireland 0-1 0-1 0-1 0 3 Belgium 2-0 1-1 0-1 3 2 Spain 2-0 0-2 0-1 2 3 Denmark

10-3 3-8 4-4 17 15

In topping thei r second category in the women's team event England's silver medalists in the women's team event (from I to r): Jill Hamme~sley, France won all their eight matches without dropping a set.

Claude Bergeret won 7, Brigitte Thiriet wOtl 6 and Yveline LeclerC,arole Knight, Linda Howard and D..p.c. Bryanl Merrett. won 3. B,ergere't and Thiriet, as a doubles combination, won allPhoto hy 'CTK, Praha. their 8 sets without dropping a game!

IRELAND v Rumania (won 3-1) Langan Caffrew Cairns F A Opponents Howard lost to M. Alexandru -10, -11 bt L.Mihut 16, 11; Ham­

3-0 1-2 1-2 5 4 Spain mersley bt Mihut 13, -20, 8; Hammersley/Howard bt 0-2 0-2 0-1 0 5 Be,lgium Alexandru/Mihut 19, 19. 1-1 0-2 0-2 1 5 Netherlands Stage 21-1 0-2 0-2 1 5 Italy A6 Poland 2. B5 Luxembourg 33-0 1-1 1-1 5 2 Switzerland AS Netherlands 3, B6 Bulgaria 2 3-0 1-2 0-3 4 5 Norway A4 Sweden 3, B3 Hungary 23-0 0-3 0-2 3 5 Luxembourg A3 Rumania 3, B4 Fed. Germany 12-0 2-0 1-1 5 1 Norway A2 U.S.S.R. 3, Bl Czechoslo,vakia 2

Al England 3, B2 Yugoslavia 1 16-4 5-14 3-14 24 32

v Yugoslavia (won 3-1) Hammersley lost to E. Palatinus -18, -8; bt D. Fabri 17, 12.

SCOTLAND Howard bt Fabri -10, 18, 14. Hammersley/Howard bt E.Yule McNee Forl<er F A Opponents Jeler/Palatinus 9, 13.3-0 0-3 0-2 3 5 Greece 0-2 0-2 0-1 0 5 Denmark Stage 3 2-1 0-3 2-1 4 5 Luxembourg For positions 11-12 0-2 0-2 1-1 1 5 Finland Bulgaria 3, Poland 2 3-0 0-2 0-3 3 5 Wales For positions 9-10 2-1 0-3 1-1 3 5 Turkey Netherlands 3, Luxembourg 2 2-0 1-0 2-0 5 0 Swi tzerland For positions 7-8

Hungary 3, Federal Germany 1 12-6 1-115 3-8 3-1 19 30 For positions 5-6

Rumania 3, Sweden 2 For positions 3--4

WALES Czechoslovakia 3, Yugoslavia 1Griffiths Davies Owen F A Opponents B. Silhanova lost to Palatinus -16, 19, -9; I. Uhlikova bt Fabri

3-0 2-1 0-2 5 3 Turkey 17, 13; bt Palatinus -19, 16, 15; Uhlikova/M. Zizkova bt1-1 0-2 0-2 1 5 Greece Jeler/Palatinus 7, 17.1-1 0-2 0-2 1 5 Denmark For positions 1-23-0 2-1 0-2 5 3 Luxembourg U.S.S.R. 3, England 22-1 2-1 1-2 5 4 Finland Z. Rudnova lost to Hammersley -IS, -12; bt Howard 10, 18;2-1 2-1 1-1 5 3 Scotland E. Antonian bt Howard 16, 12; lost to Hammersley -8, -13;3-0 1-2 1-1 5 3 Spain Antonian/Rudnova bt Hammersley/Howard 16, 14.3-0 1-2 1-1 5 3 F'inland

- Category 2, Stage 1 18-4 10-12 4-13 32 29 GROUP A2 1 234 5 6 7 Won POSe

FRANCE 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0 6 1 Austria 0-3 0-3 1-3 3-0 3-2 3-2 3 4RUMANIA CUP - WOMEN BELGIUM 0-3 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0 5 2Category 1, Stage 1 Scotland 0-3 3-1 0-3 3-0 3-1 3-2 4 3

GROUP A1 1 23456 Won Pos. Turkey 0-3 0-3 0-3 0-3 3-2 2-3 1 6 U.S.S.R. 1-3 3-0 3-1 3-0 3-0 4 2 Finland 0-3 2-3 0-3 1-3 2-3 0-3 o 7 ENGLAN,D 3-1 3-1 3-0 3-1 3-0 5 1 Ireland 0-3 2-3 0-3 2-3 3-2 3-0 2 5 Q.umania 0-3 1-3 3-1 3-0 3-0 3 3 GROUP 82 123 456 Won Pos.Sweden 1-3 0-3 1-3 3-0 3-1 2 4 GREECE 3-1 3-1 0-3 3-0 3-1 4 1Poland . 0-3 1-3 0-3 0-3 0-3 o 6 SWITZERLAND .. 1-3 3-1 3-0 3-1 3-0 4 2Netherlands 0-3 0-3 0-3 1-3 3-0 1 5 Denmark 1-3 1-3 3-0 3-1 3-0 3 3 GROUP 81 1 234 5 6 Won POSe Spain 3-0 0-3 0-3 3-1 3-0 3 4 Hungary 2-3 3-1 2-3 3-0 3-1 3 3 Italy 0-3 1-3 1-3 1-3 2-3 o 6 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 3-2 1-3 3-1 3-0 3-0 4 1 Norway 1-3 0-3 0-3 0-3 0-3 3-2 1 5 Fed. Ge'rmany 1-3 3-1 1-3 3-0 3-0 3 4 Stage 2 Put me with the big m,en was the fulfilledYUGOSLAVIA 3-2 1-3 3-1 3-0 3-1 4 2

0-3 0-3 2-3 o A6 Turkey 3, B5 Norway 0 ambition of this young Yugoslavian supporterBulgaria 0-3 0-3 6 AS Ireland 3, B6 Italy 1Luxembourg . . . . . . 1-3 0-3 0-3 1-3 3-2 1 5 sea,ted next to his hero, Stipancic.A4 Austria 0, B3 Denmark 3 English Results A3 Scotland 3, B4 Spain 2 Photo by BohUJmH Novotny, Pralha.

A2 Belgium 3, Bl Greece 0v Netherlands (won 3-0) Al France 3, B2 Switzerland 0 L. Howard bt B Vrieskoop 4, 11; J. Hammersley bt S. Heltzel 16, -IS, 1~ Hammersley/Howard bt Heltzel/Vrieskoop II, II. Stage 3 COVER PHOTOGRAPHFor positions 23-24

Italy 3, Norway 1v U.S.S.R. (won 3-1) Howard bt E. Antonian 14, -16 16; Hammersley lost to Z. For positions 21-22 Dragutin Surbek holds up the. men's teamRudnova -16, 16, -17, bt Antonian 19, 12; Hammersley/

Howard bt Antonian/T. Fermnan IS, 15. Ire land 3_ Turkey 0 trophy won at the 10th European 'Champion­For positions 19-20

v (won 3-0) 3, 0 ships in (Prague by Yugoslavia with a final 5-2Sweden Spain Austria Hammersley bt B. Olsson 9, 17; Hammersley bt A-C. Hellman For positions 17-18 victory over the defending champions, Sweden.

19, 16; Hammersley/Howard bt Hellman/Olsson 19, -14, II. Denmark 3, Scotland 2 Tbe line-up behind Surbek reads (from I to r): v Poland (won 3-1) 15-16 Zoran Kasanovic'l Anton Stip'anci,c, DamirFor positions C. Knight lost to E. Olek -17, -20; Hammersley bt A. przygoda Switzerland 3, Greece 1 Jurcic (partly hidden), Dusan Osmanagic10, 11; bt Olek 6, 11; Hammersley/ /Howard bt Olek/Przygoda For positions 13-14

16, 15. France 3, Belgium 0 (Trainer/Coa,ch). and ,MiIivoje Karakasevic.

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-----~------------_...._­ Nove'mber 4 [taly v Nethe1rlands Grele'ce v Austria 'Bulgaria v B,eligiumON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Poland v Ireland

By THE EDITOR

TRIUMPH IN 8ARAJEVO

rNot ,content with the.ir SUlC'ceSis in the 'men's tealm event OIf the 10th European ICha'mpion.. shipS' in IPrague, Yugoslavia took the P,r1elmier ,Division title of the EUirope,an ILea'gue wIth a fi;nal ,ex1citing iwin over 'C'zechosloViakia in Sara­jevo, on April l l4.

IThe malt1ch w,as 'whol!ly disastrous for f.ormer E:Uiropean ch,a!mp.ion, M'Llan Orlowski, who finished up !beaten Ifour tiimes, his final defeat Iby Anton Stti.pancic giving Yugos,lavia the match and the title'.

Prior to that Jaroslav Kunz had 'k!~:pt the contest open 'with ,wins over hoth Stipalncic and 'Dr,a~gutin rSurbek~ the other ,Czeich win coming f,rom 'Illona Uhlikova, 'who beat IErzeibet Pall,att.inus. Individua'I scores:­D. \Surhek (bt M. 'Orlowski 18, 15. A. IStipancic lost to J. Kunz 1.5, -11, -16. \E. (P'allartinus ,lost to I Uhliko'V,a -19, ..15. St'ip,a11lcic/Surhek ht Orlowsk'i/M. Schenk 1\5,

'19. Stipanci,c/Palatinus btOTlowski/UhHkova -12,

~14~ 8. Surlbek :lost to Kunz -211, -!2.3. Stipanci,c ht IOlrllowski -l i5, 14, 17.

J aoques ISec,r?tin~ the newly-crowned [Eur'~­

pealIl ,mien's singles ,champ.ion, ~ept. up hIS' winning rways f,rom P,rague ,by ibelng In'Vollved in four s,epararte wins in tJhe 5-2 victory for F1rance over the Soviet Union in Oalen, on April, 13.

In singles play he a:ccounted, ,as he' did ~n Pralgue, for Anatoliy Strokart:ov ?nd, ,alIso In straight games, .for Bagirat ,Bur:naZlau.

iPa,r:tnelred by a?atrick Biroclh'eau ,and IC'laude Berg:er,et, Iboth doubles were als9 captur,ed by th,e Fre,nch. 'The otihe,r home WIn came from Birgitte Thiriet, Who rtr'iumphed 2~-2:3 on expe­dit'e in the thi'rd ,ga1me a:galnst Elmlra An:tonian. Scor,es: ­J. Secretin ibt A. Strokatov [14, 12. IC. lMartin lost ito B. 'Burnazian -24~ -1;9. B. rrhir.ie:t ht IE. Antonian 17, -15" 2:3. P. Biroch,e:au/Secretin ht S. Sarkhojan/Strok,a..

Itov 11, 15. Secriet'in}Ber:ge'ret fbt Sarkhojan/Antonian -.14,

19, 1118. J

Secr,etin btt IBurnazian 15, 119. Mcw:-tin .lost to rSt'rokatov ";14, ..12.

[,n 'Miskolc, on April 14, iHungary ,went down to their fifth loss OIf the s'eason when beaten 6-1 :by S'w,eden, .the deposed champi~ns.~ rwhos:e only loss was incurr1ed by Ann..ChrIstIn HeIII­man to Be:atrix :Kis!hazi. Scores:­J. Borzse:i lost to IS. Bengtsson "'/25, -12. Z. H,orvath lost to K. Joh,anss'on ..20, -14.

B. Kishazi lbt A.~C. Helliman 19, 16. B. IFrank/Horvath lost to B,engts'son/Johansson

..)12, -117. BOfzsei/\Kishaz'i lost to U. ThorS'e[l/Hellman

..18, 19, -,114. Borzs,e'i lost to Johansson -24, 19, -8. Horvath lost to Ben'~tsson -5, -19.

lFIN~L TAJBLE IP IW L IF APts

Yugo~,la'Vi,a . . . . . . . . .. 6 '5 1 26 16 5 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 2 311, .1.1' 4 Fr:alnce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4- 2 27 1'5 4 Czechoslnvaki,a 6, 4 2 25 '17 14 Soviet Union . . . . . . .. 6, 3 B 23 119 3 Hunga1ry . . . . . . . . . . .. 6, t 5 8 34 \1 Poland* .... . . . . . . . . .. ,6 0 6 7 3.5 0

* De'm:oted. At Itlhe Biennial ,Meeting of the IEuropean

Union, h,elld in Prague on March 28" a Fr'en'ch proposal retlating to the compos.ition of the Euro!p,e'an ,League DiVlisions r,e,ceiived a 2il~8

voting \ma~or:ity in fa'vour of the' ,firS/t divis'ion to ,co~m'Prise'eight tle,alms. A'C'cordingly, with Po},a,nd de'moted, En~land and :Fedelral Germany 'wiere both UJpHft,ed without the ne1ces­sity 'Of a Iplay--off.

Referring next to the Se.cond Division, l,ast season comprising: two groups, it was resolved to hav,e one division, a:gain OIf ei,ght tea,ms, this henceforth to ibe known ,as iDivision l' 'with the former Pre'mier to be cia.}I!,ed the ISuper Division. /R,estructured throughout thefuU compos'ition and fixtur,es for season 1976-77 ar1e:­Super Diviison 1976 Se:ptember 30

(Czechoslovaki.a v Soviet Union Sweden v IHung:ary :France v England ;F,e'dera,ll Ger:many v Yugoslavia

October 14 Yugos,lavia v England ISwedelll v Cze'chos'lov:akia :France v Federall IGerman~ Soviet Union v 'Hungary

No:ve:mber 4 ICze,choSllovakia v Yu~goslavia IFederal Germany v Sweden Hunga'ry v IFrance E.ngland v Sovi'et Union

December' 15 \YUlgosla,vi.a, v Hungary France' v Cze,choslovakia ISweden v England F,ederal G,er'many v Soviet Union

1977 January 19

Yugoslavia v Soviet Union En~land v 'Cz'e'chos,lovakia ,Fr,ance v Sweden ,Hungary TV Federall German~

February 10 Yugoslavia v Fr,ance rCzechoslovakia v ,Federal \';er,many Engla,nd v Hungary ISoviet Union v Sweden

March 3 Sweden v Yug'oslavia IHungalry v Czechoslovakia So!Viet Union v Fr;ance' ~Federal! Ge1rm,any v England

Divislon 1 1976 Se:p,tember 30

IP'oland v Austr.ia [italy v BelLgium IGre'elce v Ireland BuJ~garia v ,N,etherlands

OctOber 14 IAusrtria. v Italy(Belgium v Gree:cie Ireland v ,Bulgaria iN etherl!ands v Polland

December 15 INeth'er,Iaillds v Greelce Austria v IBulgaria Ireland v Italy IBelJgium v Poliand

1977 Janu.ary 19

/Gree'ce v Italy'Bullgaria v 'Poland Ireland v Netherlands lAustria v Bealgium

February 10 Poland v Greece Netherl'ands v Austria [:tall'Y v [Bulgarial 'Belgium v Ireland

Marich 3 \POlland v Ita!ly Belgium v 'Neltheir,lands Grie.e,ce- v Bulgaria Ireland v AUSltri,a

Division 2 1976

:Spain v Scotland Luxe'mbourg v 'Switz'eirland

Nove,mber 4 Scotland v W,ales Switzerl,a,nd v Spain

Dece,mber 15 Wales v Srwi,tzle:rl:and Splain v L uxe,mibour:g

1977 January 19

Luxe'mbourg v Wales ,Switze'rlla;nd v Scotland

February 10 Wales v Sp,ain Scotland v Luxenllbourg

Division 3 Relgiona:l-To he fix,ed.

EURO;PEAN YO/lITH ICHAMPIONSHIPS ~S' ther'e, ,appears' to ,be Isom,e 'confus.ion in

the inlt,eripire:tat,ion ,olf the neiw Rule regarding A,ge 'Eliigi!bi1lity, som:e ,eXlplanation is ne!cessairy. (1) 'Ther,e is no change in the ~Rule rrie,garding Junior alge as laid down Iby the iI.'T.T.F. (2) But be,cau~e the- Youth Championships t,ake' place ia:fter July 1st, hoys and. Igirls 'who we!re in their 1,ast ye'ar ,as Juniors during ,the' season just ended, ar.e eli.g~bae to play. Th,e' sam,e condition applies in r,espect of ICadetts.

This year's 'Cha,mpionships, to be c.onducted by tthe Austrian Association, OVeir the period July il0~18, \have :been S,witcihed .firom Kre1ms to :tJhe [Bundesz,ent1rum Sudstadt" IM,odlling, near Vienna.

EQUIPME[N!T ADO'Prf'IONS IThe following equip1m,ent ha!s 'been adopted

fO'r us,e in the European Leatg,ue next two seasons.

iDunlop Sup'er Balls for A\ll 'Divisions. Stiga T'a:bJes for the :Super Division. J 0011a Ta'bles for Dilvsl• (1" 2 and 3. Joola :C'ounrters for All Divisions. SchHdkrot ,Nets ,for AliI ~)iv:isions.

Altt,ention is drawn t.o the new Rule which states ithat "Host Associiations' not using Adopted IE,quipm'ent sha/l!l'lose 2 league point.s". A:ttelntion is also draiwn to the new Rule WhICh imposes a Fine of .too S~wiss F1rancs on Assp­,ciations not ,comp,ly.1ng WIth the procedure laId down for the sending of resUJltls.

E.T.T.U ELEiCTIONS There we're no .nomina.tions in opp.osition to

the four Office-holders ,ali: ,thel fBi,ennial./Genera'l ,Meeting of the lE.T.'T.IU. in IPraigue, ~lth J1!PP iSchla:f (President), Jos'ef N,ekv,asI1 (VIce.. P:resident), Mrs. Nancy iEv,ans (Hon. Gen. Sec.) and Henk vanD'ilst (Hon. T,reasurer) duly re-elected with ac:cll'ai'm.

'Th'ere we,re nine' nominations for sev1en ;plac.es on me- iManag,g,ment ,Committee 'with the- following retur~ed:­

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Votes EUROPEAN TOP TWE,LVE Johansson -7 -14 -8; Sarkhojan -18 -14, -8; ,Dr. G. Lak,atos ('Hungary) e4 ,This season's' Top 12 comp,etit'ion was Surbek t9 -12 -1'4 -9''M. Kapetani'c (Yugoslavia) 12:3 organised by 'the !D.T.lT.B., in 'Lubeck, over the IKunz "1!82 ~17, \16, -16; , S. 'Danet (,Rumania) 19 ,weekend olf April 28-2:5. YugoslaivIa's Dragutin Secretin -14, -18, -16; L. Hamm'e1rlund (iSweden) 119 Surbek rand Ann-Christin Hellman" of Sweden, Leiss -9, 22, -18, 13, -18; [Po Kohysev (U.S.S.R.) ,18 'were the respeotiv:e winners.

IG. ,Ducrlos' (France) 1.7 ,Orlows'ki -117, 15, -19, -16; iEng'liand's Jill Hammers,ley had to 'withdrawIG. ,R. Yates (England) 17 IbtBorzsei 18, "\17, -123, 1/2, 19.becaus,e OIf il,lness, and her one result dis~

E.T.'T.U. CALiE:NrDA..R, 1976-1977 counted. Denis Nea]e, our other invite's, who took the place of Hungary's Gabor ,Gergely,Oct. 8-110 Spanish Open (Sevil,le). finished in 11th position, his soJe sUCrce;s being World Championships22-24 rPolishOp'en (ICracow). against Janos Borzsei.30

Nov. 1 lBelgilan ,Open ('Char'lreroi). Fina!l placilllgs:­ . Ticket Sales12-14 Italian Open. Men 18-120 Yugosl.a1v ,Open (iNovi Sad). W L Plaice HU1~RY! HUR,RY! HURRY! The advance2'5-28 Scandinavian 'Open D. 'Surhek (Yu) . 9 2 1st bookin,g office of the 1977 World Champion­('Kristiansl1:ad ) . K. Johansson (Sv) . 9 2 2nd ships is open!Drec. 3- 5 Fr;ench Open (IParis) . S. Bengtsson (S'V) . 8 3 3rd

8 Quarter-fina1s o:f Europe Club You can nnw send in your requests forM. OrlO'wski (lOs) . 8 3 4th tickets for the World IChampionships andCup of [Champions. S. Sarkihojan (ISU) . 7 -4 5th Sport,acus 77 (Sport .and Leisur? (Exhibition)19177 A. Stro'katolv (SU) . 6 5 6th

Jan. 6-. 8 English Op,en (provisional). 5 7th and despit'e the very hi'gh costs of staging th~A. Sitipancic (Yu) . 6 1'5 Semi-finalls of 'Europe \Oluib J. Leiss \(IF'D) . 4 7 8th event-in the past a frequent happening but

(Cup of IOhamplions. now'a once .in a ilife'time oocasion,--'we haveJ. Secretin (Fr) 4 7 9th 28-30 :Czechoslovak rOpen (,Bratisllava). (Cs) . 3 8 10th managed to keep ,ad'mission pric?s at 'whatJ. Kunz

Frelb. 4- 6 Stiga Welsh 'Open (Cardiff). we 'consider will be acceptah:l,e leve,lls for thisD. Ne'a~e (En) . 1 10 11th 18-19 Irish Open ('Dublin). J. ,Bo!rzsei (IHu) 1 10 12th showpiec,e of our sport.

16 F[!NALIS of (Europe Club Wom,en There ,wiill be ,approximately 6,000 seats for (CUP of Cha-mlpions. A.-C. Helll:m'an (Sv) 7 2 1SIt salle daily in the arena hnus:ng four tables.

25-27 ,Europe Top 12 (Yugos!lav.ia). E. iPallartinus (Yu) 6 3 2nd Prices alre: ­Mar. '1.1-13 :Benealglles Scottish Open I. Uhlikova (Cs) 6 3 31rd iMarch 26 (Oipeningceremony(IE dinibuflgh ) . M. Alex;andru (Ru) 6 3 4th and team events) £2 & £3Mlar. 26- E. Antonian (ISU) 6 3 5th

Z. Rudnova (SU) 5, 4 6th 'M,arch 27 & ;28 (tea'm events). . £2 & £3 Apr. 5 34th W'ORLD CH'AMPIONISDlP1S (Birmin.gham) . W. Hendriksen (FD) .. 4 5 7th 'March 29 & 30 (closing stages

B. ,Silihanova (SU) ~ 7 8th and finals-team eVrent~) .. £4 & £5AplI. 9-\10 Federal 'G,erman Youth C. ,Bergeret (Fr) ~ 7 9th ICha;mpionships.. Aprill 1, 2 & 3 (indiv.idualJ. Magos (IHu) 1 8 10th

M,ay ,14-;1(5 Worthing :Engllish Youth ,events) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. £2 & £3 !Hungary's Henriette Lota~Jsr, through!Ohampionships. April 4 & 5 (closing stag~:s and finalsinjury was also w:ithdrawn.June 2- 4 TTIrainers' Meeting (IBratisl:av,a). ~indiividuall events) £4 & £5

'9-1\2 Austrian Youth ChampIonships. IScores in respect of 'England's representa­Season 'Tickets £20 & £28

Ju~y 21-31 EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAM- tives we!I"ie:­PIO'NSHllPIS (Vichy, France). Please make your ,cheque and/or IP.O. pay­Jill Halmmersley

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l:9?6 v H. Lotal1er 16, -18 retired). The two prices leach day and for season Oct. \1\8-12QJ Swedish Invitation T'ournament. Denis Neale' tickets rell,ate to s·e'ait positions.

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AVON AFFAIRS

by M. Hawkins

CHAMPIONSHIP TIME In this, the fin;t !Season of ,the newly-fo'l"med

C'Ounty Association of Avon, it has been oham­pionship time with the llhree member leagues, Bristol, tB<lJth 'and Mendjp all holdiJng theilr annua,l closed '\1ournamenlts.. it'he result'S of wthich were:­Bristol

The Bristol Closed, iheld at W~lls Reoreation Hall, Bedminster, was dominated tby three ,p:I'ayers. Doreen Henderson, of Weston Y'MIOA. won three senioil" l'itles and Chris Sewelrr, tihe 16-year-old 110,ntocdown YMOA (pla)"err, who won two senior and a junior title.

Wendy Simmolns, of Fromeslide, Itook two junior and oneSenioT tiotile, the results beinlg:­M.S.: C. SeweH Ibt Brian Reeves (Failand)

10,20. M.n.: Gordon Milldred (Tot1er>down YM)/

Sewell bt: Colin Felrham/BrialJ1 Reev~ (:F>ailland) 14, 119.

W.S.: D. Hendel['son bt Pat Rowe (,P,age) 14,14. W.D.: Henderson/iW. Simmonds bt Mociel

/Lewis/Junl;! WaHs (tBdston Club) -20, 17, ,17.

X.D.: R. Phi'lpo:tt (We<5!ton YiM)/Henderson ot John iHa,rtry (WeSit'On YiM) / Susan Vovell I(Kingswood YM) 11·, 20.

V.S.: Mildred 'bt Peter nominey (.Frys) Hi. 14. B.s.: Sewell bot R!obert Wolfe (Fromeside) 9,

12. G.S.: Simmons bt iDonna V(}wles (K & B) 17,8. B.D.: Clhris Mayow/NigeJ Stopher (Fromeside)

Ibt Sewell/Steve Wilkin!> (,Foromeside) 10, 1'S.

G.D.: Simmons/GilHan Sperdng (Robinsons) bt Cera Rowe (Pa.ge)/Vowles -19, 15, 15.

B.S. U.~15: Wolfe bt Ma'l'tY'n Smil'h (Kingswood YM') -21, 10, 18.

G.S. U-t5: Rowe 'bt Anlison KneH (Fi'lton YiC) tIO, 18.

B.D.: U-IS: Nkk Ba1dJw.in (IBristol GS) /Geoff (fotte,rdelJ (Robinson~) bot Kim Morris ,('FI['YS) /Smith 2a., 15.

B.S. U-13: Neil Walker (Cald!bury Health) bt iDavid Boyes ('Fitlton YC) 18, 14.

G.S. U-13: (Group) 1, Rowe; 2, Diana Mogg '(Avon Pdmal['y).

B.n. U-l'3: Martin Simmons (IBristol GiS) / iW,a,likel1' bt Arclherr/Marym, WeJbb (Avon IPdmal'Y) 15, 1:7.

G.n. U-13: Christine Drew (!FUton Y1C)/Jose­phine Knell (Fdlton YC) bit: MOgJg/Janice Pa,rke'l' (Avon Pdmary) 1,5, -15, 1.7.

B.s. U,l'l: Boyes Ib.t Ma'I'k Archer (AV'on IPrima'!"Y) 17, 15.

G.S. U~H: (Group) 1, Parke'l'; 2, Mogg. Bath

At the finaJs 'night of ·t'he 'Bath aiIld District CIO'Sed, aftel[' a lo-ng but enjoyable week of pi!ay, Tony CI'aytton, !the Yorkishireman who has stiH to lose a game in Ithis p;artOif tihe country-tte was feart:ured in the Batih everulJ1lg paperr in their "SpotligJht" ser.ies~took !the men's singles (-Wllld,ams Cwp) and the men's doubles (Russell Cup) with cJ.u:bmate Mike Baker. Results: ­M.S.: L. A. Clayton (Frys)bt R. Mur,my

(Bradtfurd-on-Avon) 10, 11. W.S.: A. Seager (Cop,enac,re) ot P. Smith

(Copenac'l'e) 14, 11. M.n.: M. Bakerr (.F,rys)/IClaytonbt Murray/ J.

Musse,lwhHe (Mayfield) 1'8, 17. x.n.: D. Sea,ger (ICopenacre) /Se.ager lbil: V.

IStoniham (Copenac,re)/Smitlh 17, -18, l.1.

].5.: Musselwhite bt J. Cih,andler (Studley)112, 17.

J.n.: ChandJIer/D. Clevet1and (Studley) bit K. Mayes, (Bradford) /Musselwhite 13, 20.

V.S.: J. MQrris (Fil"Ys) bt R. House (Swains­wick) 16, 9.

Mendip Held at Wdthlington Schow, R'a'dstock, near

Ba'11h, wiith a separate finaJ~ evening, tihere were many good youngsters for the future talcing part Resuilts: ­M.S.; M. Baker (Milldsomer-Norton) bt J. Higgs

(Bath). W.s.: L. Baker (Midsomer-NorttO'IlI) bt A. Rose

(Frome). S.'D.: Bakerr/Baker bt G. Hill/A. Ma,rquiss

(Bath) . x.n.: Ba,ker/.Baker bt HilI/Rose. ].IS.: D. Ger'ris'h (Midsomer-Noirton) bt J.

Cruverrs' (Midsomer..Nol['ton). ]..0.: Chiven/Gerrislh bt J. Uiidler/iD. Peretit

(Midsomer-No.rtoll1'). AVON SOHOOLS' TOURNAMENT

Alt Monks Pa'rk Schoo'!, Bristol, on March 18, there werre, over 100 eilitries, the resuJtt,s being: U-'1.1 G.S.: Diane MOlgg (AV'on Primary) bt

Janice Parker (Awn Prima·ry). U-13 G.IS.: Ca,ra Rowe (Monks Pail"k) bt Tracy

/Lee (Portway). U-16 G:S.: Donn'a V'owles (St. Urshul'a) bt

iWendy Simmons (Fairfield). U-l11 B.S.: Mat'k Archerr (Avon Primary) bt

David Boyes (Filton Hiill). UJ18 .B.S.: Steven Cox (Portway) bt David

Harris (Speedwenl). U-16 !B.S.: Douglas Lewis (St. Ma'ry's, Red­

cliffe) bit Douglas Ger'rish (S(j;merrva,le). U-19 B.S.: Jeremy Musseilwhite' ('Beecham

ICliffe) bt Poaul Elliison (Fuwn Hj,gh). it is im(po;rftant .to note that thi:s was a !t,riple

success fol[' Ca'ra Rowe, Donna Vowles and Paul Lewis for taking l'heir titles three yea'l'S in succession.

On tlhe County Ohampionship f,roIllt, Avo'n Seniors rounded 'off their Div. 3 (West) pro­gralffi'ffie losdn.g, disappoiintingly, 3-7 a,w.ay to WMcester 11, at M'alvern. Avon swpporterrs were unhappy wil'h the reswlt bm it dlid not stop the new !Avon Oounty ,team gaililing pl['0­mOl1:ion to Div. 2 (West) next season.

At a I['eoentt executive meeting of TIhe County Association, .ill: was reported tihat Avon may rUin a seco'nd 5eni'or tealm next se.<lJson, so I would s,oulJ1d a warning-watch out for Avon, as we are bubbling with en.thusiasm at the moment!

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE SCENE

by Leslie Constable SECOND TlME OF ASKING

For the second time r'unning C,ambs Senior team w~re able to chall'lenge for a'dmission to the P,remier Division of the County Champion­ships. nespite having a particularly good season in their own division, ·they 'were unable to em1.1nate tJheir peTfol['mances of last ~eas,on

and, in mct, did no,t do s'o weH a'S ,anticipated. Althoug'h Paul Day was s'uccessful in 'aill his sin.g~e'S, the t,eam as a who:le could not quite rn:attcih tihe oPlPOsition and ill: was dis<IJPpointing to see them !os,ing to Berkshire, who were considel['ed t'he weakest of the counties,.

As Cambs will ,again have aliI th~'Se players available next season, I wou~d an,ticipaote anotherr successful run-up. In 'l'heir Ilast two matohes Cambs easily disposed of Hefts (8-2) and Beds (ge1), which re've.als the H'rengtlh of the te'am. Recently Geoff Davies won the singnes title in the S.E.M. Le.ague Tournament and he sh'ould be we·ll in the ,running for a fi,rst team p:lace next season. The remainder of the team-Keith Riohardson. Mick Ha,r.per, S'ldily Hirst a.nd Valerie Scripps, must be con­grat'Uilated on -this season's ,performances.

Cambs' second team fai'led in <their promo­tion bid from Div. 3 (Ea~it) when ,they lost 3-7 to Hunts at St. ,Neo,:s. At the half-way stage Cambs ,led 3.;2, but Hunts fought baC'k

and took tihe next five Sets. For Cambs, Davies beart: Tim SpeHe'r ,and Brian Jones beat Len Saywell, wthiile Davies ·and Brian Richa'rdson took the Men's Doubles. Both Junio'r teams finished bottom of Jttheir ,respective divisions despite the firsll: team ,bea,ting Kent' 6-4. In thi; match Keith R!ichardson and Andy Witne'l's bot'h beart: Ian Collins 'and Geoff Davies ladded a th:ird Boys' Singles in a ma,r,atilion win over Joe' Kennedy -3i1, 211, 19! The second Junior team being beaten 10.{) by Norfo:lk at Norwich. ,tfuis being It!heir second consecutive match by that margin.

Cambridge women faHed to re,ach the semi­finan of the Rose BOwl when they were defeated in a quarter-final me against Newbury at Cambridge YMCA. NeW/bury pr,oved too good for Cambridge who, al'though fighting hard, were not in t'he same cllas'S. I am of the OiPinio'n that ,t!his Newbury team have a goo,d chance of winning the competition. It wouLd seem that Cambridge wi'll have t,o supply more youtihfwl players in the futu'l'e and not ,rely on the "odd guard" of Mesdames Hint, Scripps and Rodgers!

In the S.IE.M. League, ICambrid·ge tea·!ThS had varied success during l'he season and the teams wtho were, less successfuJl-nameoly J unio·rs and Seniors-are tlhe ones wthich will have .to be complleil:ely re-built if they are t,o reach the first division in their particular sections. Both te,ams finisthed bottom-but-one and it willl be a long hard climb to the higher iSphere. The Veterans won ithe.ir division without 'los<ing a matclh and in their last game {If tthe season decisively beM Northampton, who were their ne'a,re&t rivals. The Women finished half-way up the'i'!" division, despite a· very promising start and here again new material must be for,rhcomin,g. Wisibech headed the Men's 2nd Division and so gaine'd promotion, which is a very creditabile perform,ance and they, toge;t>her wli,th Ely, should do weill in Div. 1 next 'S'eason. Wisibech also did !WeB in the Junior 2nd Divi­sion, finishing level ,wirh Mi1ton Keynes in second position. Ely, for ,them, had rather a diisGppointing sea's'on in Junior Div. 1 and finished fourth wivh 34 points.

iWiJ1:h the exception of a few re-a.r,range,d m<IJtdles, the Camibridge League season has now en·ded and moM of vhoe honours have ,been dedded. Soham 1 are again champions {If Div. 1 w~tJh New Chesltenton IJ::h~titute runne'rs-up. Y,MOA -II 'and To-rchbearers I will be relegated to the 2nd DiMision. Here are the othel[' promo­tions and reilegatioolls:­Division 2

P,rOlffioted: Tenephones II and Fisons 1. Releg'a1ted: University II, Y,'M,C,A, Ill! and

G.O.R.D. 1. Division 3a

'P'romo.ted: Haverhill n. Re;legated: Torchlbearers IiI 'and G.O.R.D. II.

Division 3b PromOl1:ed: Torcihbeare,rs II. Rele,gated Soham V 'and St. Geo,rge's IItI.

Division 4a lP,romQted Saff,ron Waillden I and Press IV 0'1:

Grant S.IC. Relegated: Tocohibeaa-et's IV and Police II.

Division 4b IPromoted: iPye I and Weglley Parkside 1. lRelelgated: Ida Dal['win I and Saffron Walden

liD. Division Sa

IPromote,d: NOI IU 'and Wesley Parkside II. 'Foil' tJhe firslt .time since its inception, the

finail of itthe Knockout Handicap Trophy is bevween a Di'V. 1 and a Div. 5 side, namely Soham 1 and Wes1ey Parrkside II. As .the latter te1am receive 22 points ill' a game of 31 points it may be a ve'ry dlose thing, deslPite the Soham team havin.g the s'ervices of Day and Keith Rioh'ardson. It haIS bee.n a memorable se'as'on for the WeSiley club as both vhek teams ob't,ained p'l'omo.tion des!pite only being formed at tihe beginning of the seasun.

Soham playe·rs dominated the 11:0P posi~ions in the Cambri<dge League averages for the season JUSt ended. In Div. 1, Mick PaImer and Keith RichardslQn, of Soh'am [?s championship-

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winning team, head the tlist with 96 % and 93 % ret>peotively, wlMle in Div. 2, John Ashman, of S(Jham IV hlas w(Jn every set in the 15 matches in whioh he has played, obtaining 100 %. Here are the lea·ding players' averages in the other divisi(Jns:­

Division 3a-A. Withers-90 % DiV'ision 3b-S. DunSter-98 % Divis-ion 4a-B. Bean-93 % nivislon 4b-B. Nidho-l:ls-92 % 'Divisi(Jn 5a-J. Puddick-96 % Division 5b-C. BenSlO,n-96 %

It rema.ins someth~ng (Jf a mystery why KeitJh Richardson is not in t'he England Jun'lor Rank­ing Li~t. For f(Jur years Richardson, Cam­bridge's No. 2 boy has been beating many of the top tweIllty junio·rs a,t open tournamel1ts and in the P.remier Division of the County Championships, but for rome inexplicable reason .he has not made t1he rankings. In the Middle~ex Junior Seilect Richardson made a mockery Qf the list when he beat Stephen Hazelwood (Yorkshire), ranked 8, David New­man (Essex), ranked 16, and Michael Ha'rrison (Y{)rkshire) ranked 19.

This waf no "flHsh-in-the-pan" pe,rformance as the Soham boy has beaten the latter two on moce than one occasion this season. In the tournament, which was ·run on a group basis R:chardson won ·atll his matches in one group and finished thkd of six in anoithe'r with a final pos:tio-n of nth against the cream of England's boys. Maybe this latest success againsit his rivaJs willI bring him the recog­!litio~ he th<>roughly ~eserves, notwitlhstandling oJt bemg the end of hlS la~it season as a juniorplayer. .

Congratulations 't(J tthe Cambridge team for again winning the East Angli.an League-the second time in thre~ years. l1he mixed team which conskted ma:nly of Harper, John Thurs­ton, Albert l'aC'1<s<Jn, Sandra Harding and SaUy Hirst, did extremely weB and dropped only one point. It wiH be a pity if this team does nOlt: participa'te next season, as I hear that Thurs,ton, who is the "king"pin" of the team, may decide too retire.

I must congratulate a1'1 tlll:ose people who ha;ve acted in an adllllinistrative oapadty for tJhe weH"being of the League and County. There a're many who do these ardu(Jus tasks which have to be performed, th'Ough there'~ never m'clny volunteers. Thanks mu'St also be extended 00 Geoff Wate,rs (umpiring and trans­port), P,M O'Bryne (umpi.ring and .tronsport) Tony B'rotchie (Lea,gue Secretary), Ruth Pud: dick (County Secretary) and, last but oot least, Mike Jacks~lD for his umpi,ring efforts.

LINCOLNSHIRE NOTES by Joan Robinson

100% GIRLS Anoth& season comes Ito a close, with the

Cl;Junty Junior Te;am winding up their season WIth a fine 9-1 VlCtory over Nottinghamshire. A c:Iose match was expected. but it'he Lincs Jl!D1o-l'S ,rose to the oc.casion magnificentlyWith Stephen Barr (Gnmsby) in his first CouIllty Matdh, 'leading the way with III fine doubles. Mark Newboult (Grlmsby) and Sitephen CuthhemQn (Scunthorpe) cotllected tw<> and one Irubber il'e5peCitively in ,this itheir final game as juniocs. Mark and Stephen ailongw~th Che;ryl Bu:ttery (Linco-In) w&e pr~ented With theIr JUDlo-r Counity Badg€6 prior to the matdb tby the County Chairman, Mr. J. J. Robertson. The gids, Suzanne Hunlt (\:;rnntham) and ,Cheryl, won I\:1he singles and doublet> to maintain the 100 % record in rgirls' sIngles 'and dQubles this season.

The Senior Team in the 2nd Duvision North were thwar,ted in their ,aittempit to go for the challenge matches, with It!he Yorkshire 1st team being relegated, tlhe WihLte Rose County on ,the strength of theri,r second team, took up Ithek Qiption. NeveI1tiheless, it was a fine season's table tennis with every match being 6-4 or 5-5 which brings foc greater spectaitor VIlIlue. RO'll on neXII: season.

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.on '!:Ihe home front, the only outstanding competition, the Butcher Cup, was duly won by Grantham, who accouIllted for ,Mablethorpe 9-1 in !their final maltch. Their closest -rivals, Boston, beat Gainshorough 10-0, ,but this s.till left them 1 p().int .behind Grantham, who thus won <thek first ever trop'hy since joining the !Lincolnshire fold. [n !this cOOlliPeitrlJtiQn the County Junior No.1, NewboulJt, has Ithe bes'l: av&age, with 23 wins out of 24, his only defeart: coming in the first match of ithe season.

Wyberto-n have won ltIhe Haigh Cup for the second successive season, winning all t!heir 8 matches, and for .the Joss of only 7 sets. Brian Hili (Wyberlton) p[ayed In all The matches and has 100% il'eoor,d in Ithe Had·gill Cup again !this season. The County No.3, Siteve Morley (GrimSlby) also has a 100% record, but only pLayed in ithree matches. Grimsby called on a clJ.Qice .of 8 players to finish runners-up.

The Butlin Cup has been retained iby Spald­ing, who alsQ finished wdth maximum points. Miss Jean White won all her games two sil:Taight to give her ,a 1100% record 'this ISJearon. GI1ums,by have finished second, wiJth Mil'S. Connie Moran winning ,all her 9 selts.

The Lincotln ,Closed Singles CfttampiQ1Ilship proouced III surprise, wi/tlh Newboullt rbeaJti.ng the holde,r, iC'leve Judson, in three 'games. Cle've, aJlong with Roy Norton, won the Men's DouJbles from !Peter Taylm and John' R,adley. As ex;pected, Suzanne Hunt won the Women's a'nd Girls' Singles, both times over Cheryl Buttery, who put up a great fight against h& national-rankecl opponent.

T.he Gainsoorough Closed Singles a~n went to Brian' ,EdLingto'n, who accounted ,for Tony Patrick in a three"game .fina,l, whilst in Boston, the Robinson ,family completed a dOltbtle with County Secreil:ary Joan, winning me Women's SingJes from her teammate Jean Cammack, and husoo'nd A!lan winning the Men's Singles at ihJs first attemPil: from Nev Blackiborne.

So ends anothe,r enjoyable season and all in !LinwlllShire look fOll"War·d ,to renewing old battles and acquaintances next season and hope ltihat everyone has an excellenlt summer break

HAIGH, BUTLIN AND BUTCHER .CUPS Final League Tables - 1975·76

HAifGH ,p W D L F A !Pts Wyberton . . . . . . .. 8 8 0 0 73 7 16 Grimslby 8 7 0 1 67 13 14 Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . 8 6 0 2 53 27 12 'Gainstborough 8 4 11 3 147 33 9 Boston . . . . . . . . .. 8 g 1 4 ,32 48 7 Scuntihorpe 8 2 1 5 3,1 49 5 Grantih'clm . . . . . . .. 8 IZ 0 6 128 52 4 Mablethorpe 8 ;1 il 6 120 60 3 Stamford . . . . . . . . 8 '1 0 7 9 71 2 Records (ail: tleastt: 3 matches played)

Played Won Avg.B. Hill (Wyberton) 24 24 .100% S. MoI1ley (Gdmsby) 9 9 100% M. East (WybeI"ton) 21 120 95.2% P. Taylor (Grimsby) 112 l.1 91.6% C. B(Jyd (Scunthorpe) 18 16 88.8% M. Sheader (GrillllSuy) .. 1,5 113 86.6% B. Edllington (G'n.S'bro) .. 24 ,1<8 75% G. King (WY'berton) 24 18 75% J. Radley (Lincoln) 15 11 73.3% B. Allison (Grimsby) .. 1'8 19 72.2% BUTLIN P W D L F A Pts Spa.hling . . . . . . .. 4 4 0 0 32 8 8 Grimsby 4 3 0 '1 27 13 6 Linc{Jln . . . . . . . . .. 4 i2 0 2 \19 e.l 4 \:;rant'ham . . . . . . . . 4 1 0 3 12 28 2 Bosoon . . . . . . . . .. i4 0 0 4 10 30 0 Records (Alt 1e,ast 3 matches playe,d)

PI'ayed Won Avg.J. Whllite (Spalding) 112 12 100% C. Moran (Grimshy) 9 9 100% M. Green (Spalding) .. 112 9 66.6% J. Hackford (Grimsby) .. 9 6 66.6% M. Burgess (Spalding) .. 12 7 58.3% BU'I1CHlER P W D L F A 'Pts GI'lantiham . . . . . . .. 10 9 1 0 78 '22 19 Boston . . . . . . . . .. 10 9 0 1 80 20 18 Grimsby . . . . . . .. 10 7 a. rz 64 36 15

Stamford ........ 10 6 0 4 59 41 12 Linwln 0 ••••••••• 10 6 0 4 54 46 12 Ma'blethorpe ...... 10 Scunthorpe 10 Spa.lding ........ '10

4 14 2

1 0 12

5 6 6

40 50 45

60 50 55

9 8 6

Gainsboroug1h 10 Skegness ........ 10 Wybertt:on ........ ,10

r2 12 1

1 0 0

7 8 9

35 17 28

65 83 72

5 4 2

Records (~ least '5 matches played) PJayed Won

M. Newbou'lt (Grimsby) .. 24 23 Mrs. B. Voss (WY'berton) Q1 20 Miss S. Hunt (Grant'ham) 15 :1.4 P. Cater (Bos-ton) ...... 127 24 N. Fossd.'tt (Boston) .... 24 12-1 S. flaffurn (Bos<oon) 27 22 K. EIl'dred (Grantham) 30 23 M. Leveratt (Grantham) 27 18 S. Cuthibertt:S()u (Sc'tlhwe) 24 16 S. Barr (Grims'by) 18 12 N. Par·r (Gains'borough) .. 15 10

Avg. 98.5% 95.2% 93.3% 88.8% 87.5% 81.4% 76.6% 66.6% 66.6% 66.6% 66.6%

HUNTINGDONSHIRE NOTES

by David Deller

MARATHON AT FOCUS After 'cllmost 14 hours' piliay ltthe ,County

Closed tournament produced i'ts finalisitS at Focus Youth dlub, Petenbo'1'ough, 'With Jean Allinson, Di'clne Buslhby and Allan Lamprelll aliI reaching th!l'ee finails.

The Peterborough League's Olosed gave Jean AlIinson and Collin D'clle a feast, each taking mree titles. iResults:-MiS.: .c. Dale bt S. Greenwood. W.S.: J. AUinson bt S. Holland. B.S.: C. Randailll bit S. Smith. G.S.: M. Cocker bt J. Daft. V.S.: C. Dale bt D. Megginson. M.D.: MegginsonfR. Fisher. W.D.: iE. & J. Allllinson. X.D.: Daile fAllinson.

,panet! 3 !l'eg,ionall heat of the nat,ional U-13 competition ~ helM at LO'ngsands School, St. Neot-s. Our girls turned in good performancet> with Melanie Ringrose winning for ilJhe 2nd year running. In the final she !beat her St. ;Yves colleague, Julie CundelI. Our iboys found the opposition too sltrong with onlly the youngest competitor in ,this ,area's competi.t,ion, 9-years­()lId Richard Ba~lard, gaining any type of success.

The boys' winne,r was Ked.th NichoaI (Corby) who just be'at JuHan HaU (Bury St. !Edmunds). Melanie went ,forw.ard .to ithe nationa~ finals at Reading ·on M,ay 2'2. Hunts, Centrall's junior boys, Steven Fisher, Mark Fisher and Leno Coppola'ro, made ithei'r e:l<lit from the Carter Cup at Ithe Zone Final snage. They went do-wn 2-7 to Nor,rh Hents,. The brothers took a set apiece but ootlh ,lost to Gavin BOOoth by two poinlts in .the decider.

'Dhe St. Neots League held a successful Disco/Dinner HIt Liotrle Pia,}()ton in late March, when 'tJhe trop:h~es fQ;f the past season were P!!'esented.

N.C.!. again lead the premier division of the Hunts' Centl al League ,with the all,impoI"tant maltoh against second-placed St. Ives "A" stilll to be played.

Lit'tlle Pax;ton ended the AchiHet> domination of the St. Neots League over -the past few seaosons· by winning Div. 1. St. Neots women lo&t narrowly, 4-6, to North Hents in a S.E.M. League encounter, with Diane Bushby st,arring for the ,local league wilvh t,riple succet>ses.

The Counlty Veiter,ans' team suffered a "whitewash" against Hants in double-quick time. At the Bedford ,League tournament A'lan Lamprell (St. Neots) finished on the wrong s,ide in all lJhree fin'cl'ls he contested. In tlhe men's sing1les he tlost ito Dave RaWlinson.

An exihibittion match was perf.ormed recently by {Jur Junior No.2, Mark Fis-her, and Barry Norman during a variety show held at St. Ivo Recreation Centre. I am told that a,round 500 people watched, but, as yet, no contracts have been signed f.or the Palladium.

SCOTTISH NEWS by DENIS GEORGE

2,nd SCOifTIS,H INITE(R,N,ArrIOiNAt

OIPIEN C'HAMIP'IO'N~SHI~PS

Meado,w'balnk Sports Ce1ntre, Edinburgh 21-23 Ap,ril, 1976

JI'MIMY'WAlK,ER I'N ISPA:RKLIN;G IF'OIRIM 'Tlhalnks to generous sponsorship by B,en­

ealglles Whisky, of Perth, land the "!Edinlbur,gh Eveninlg jN,ews", this yealr',s ,Scottish Inter­national ,Open Iw'as ,a 'gre:at succes,s, desipit,e the lack of 'continentall /prl1ayers. Team Event

'The B,eneag1les' ,Internationall 'Team Event, which is played Europe,an League style, was won by ,EIngland, iwho defeated 'Scotland I 4-2 in the finall after sha1ring th?, first four sets, Riohard Yu~,e beating Andy Barden 2-1 and, p,ar:tne,red by john McNee and Nicky Jar1vis resp,ect'ively, the Scottish pair won the doubles 2:1-10 in the thi,rd. In Round 1 Scotland 1,1 ,had a good win over Ilreland with Allan Matth'erw belating Alister Cairns ,and Kiernan Leonard. History twas m1ade when B.B.IC. T'.V. teile:vised a Scottish T.T. event for the filrst tinle~the honour Igoing to the Scot'land I v Wailes selmi­final ,mlatcn whi'ch the home s'ide won 4-12.

iThe Iwi!nners----";England--4became' the r,ecip'i­ents of the ne,w Bene,argll,es 'Trophy.. a spe1cia:lrly­designed abstract tr,ophy repr,esenrting .a T.\T. hat, ball 'and flat hand in service.

REISUL'T!S Round 1

rScotl:and I 7, rScotla!nid IN 0 ScotJland 1[1 2, Walles 5 Scotland I[ 4, r~eland 3

Semi-finals Scotland I 4, W,ales 2 En~land 4!l Scotlland I[ 0

Final IEllIgllalud 4, Scotland I 2

Individual Events Tlhe initilal sta'ges of ailil events, ,e~cept the

Mixed 'were pl}.ayed in groups. In th,e Men's Singl,es the only home play.er to emerg;e from the groups to ,contest the quairter-filnalS' w,as Yu~le, who then de:fe'ated Alan Gr1iffiths over 5. PaulD1ay, who had 'beaten Andy ,Barden 3-1 in the quarter4inal~s, :had ,a very halrd semi­finall with Yule. nn the first g,alm,e it was rreve'I­pe:~ging lalll the way with the Scot winning 2r2:.QiQ!l but Day levelHed \2\1..1\6; Y;ule took an ear'ly Il,ead in the 3rd, and with Day decidedly rattled, he won 21-11\6 to 'go 2-1 up. 'T1he 4th was high rdria,ma,from 9-\11 Yule nose-dived to '10-19 and then by 'continuous 'a:g~r,ession, 'ola1wed his way Ibalck to 20-alll on~ly [0' lose 20~22. Tihe 5th gam,e w;a1s anti~cl:i~m,ax and ;Day ran out a conl­fortable winne'r.

In the other s'emi-finall ,Ji,m1my Wlalke,r wals in 'slP'avk,ling form, taking th'e 'baliI so ea~II~ that Nicky j:a,rvis ,could not ,get his own atta'cK going and w,as overlwhe!lm'ed in strailg'ht gaime'S. Piaull took theJirst .game: in the Final, bUi! then jimlmy 'struck top 'form ,again to win the next three and so regain the tit!Ie he won ,in 19i74.

'Carole Knight 'retained her 'Women's Singles title but she rwa~taken to fi've games by Karen Senior in tlhe semi-;final and by Linda Horward in the iFinatElaine Smith's challenge ended when she conceded her 'selmi-fina'l to Linda Howard due to' a puliled (leg ImuSic~·e.

Day was hard~ressled to 'beat To.m Devers

22..20, 1214~2 in the Junior (Sin-gIles, groups, hut then 'went on to beat iBarden 2-0 in the (Final!.

DetaHed resul1ts: ­TEAM EVIENTS

Round 1 Scotland I 7, Scotland IV 0 R.. Yule bt ~. Majid 12 13; J. Mcl\lee bt K. Rodger 8, 14. MISS E. Smith bt Miss C. Dalrymple 6, 14. McNee/Yule bt Majid/Rodger 16, -19, 10. Yule/Smith bt Majid/Dalrymple 10, 12. Yule bt Rodger 6, 12; McNee bt Majid 12, 19. Scotland III 2, Wales 5 J. Wilson lost to G. Davies -9, -16. T. Devers lost to A. Griffiths -16 -16. Miss P. Fleming bt Miss J. Ralphs 17, 18. Devers/Wi,lson lost to Davies/Griffiths -12, -17. Wi Ison/ Fleming bt Davies/Ralphs 17, 20. Wi Ison lost to Griffiths -II, -12. Devers lost to Davies -14, 19, -14. Scotland II 4, Ireland 3 A. Matthew bt K. Leonard -14, IS, 17. R. Brown lost to A. Cairns -IS, -19. Miss G. McKay lost to Miss K. Senior -IS, -13. Brown/Matthew bt Cairns/Leonard 8, -22, 16. Brown/McKay lost to Cairns/Senior -12, -17. Matthew bt Cairns -18, II, 15. Brown bt Leonard 16, 18. Semi-finals England 4, Scotland II 0 N. Jarvis bt Brown 14, 11; A. Barden bt Matthew 6 13. Miss C. Knight bt Miss McKay 13 14. ' Barden/Jarvis bt Brown/Matthew 17, 10. Wales 2, Scotland I 4 Gr.iffiths bt McNee 9, 15; Davies lost to Yule -IS, -17. MISS Ralphs lost to Miss Smith -13, -14. Davies/Griffiths bt McNee/Yule 19, -20, 15. Davies/Ralphs lost to Yule/Smith -10, -18. Griffiths lost to Yule -14, -4. Final ENGLAND 4. Scotland I 2 Jarvis bt McNee 14, -19, 17; Barden lost to YI'le -11 19 -18 Miss Knight bt Miss Smith 14, 12. ' , . Barden/Jarvis lost to McNee/Yule -10 12 -10. Jarvis/Knight bt Yule/ /Smith IS, 14.' , Jarvis bt Yule 17, -17, 14. INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

Men's Sing les-Quarter-finals N. Jarvis (EN) bt A. Cairns OR) 15 14, 12. J. Walker (Cleve) bt G. Davies (WA) 19, 16, -19, 13. P. Day (Cambs) bt A. Barden (EN) 11,21, -16, 14. R. Yule (SC) bt A. Griffiths (WA) -13, 12, -19, 16, II. Semi-finals ~alker bt Jarvis II, 20, 18; Day bt Yule -20, 16, -16, 20, 13. Fmal WALKER bt Day -20, 19, 18, 12. Women's Singles--'Semi-finals C. Knight (EN) bt K. Senior OR) IS, -20. 19, 15, 11. L. Howard (EN) w.o. E. Smith (SC) scr. Final KNIGHT bt Howard 17, -10, 12, -15, 18. Men's Doubles-Semi-finals Day/Jarvis bt Davies/Griffiths 16, 17, -18, 14. Barden/Walker bt J. McNee (SC) /Yule 16, 9, 9. Final DAY /JARVIS bt Barden/Walker 14, -14, 8, 15.

Women's Doubles-Final HOWARD/KNIGHT bt P. Fleming (SC) /Smith 10 11 25 Mixed Doubles-Final ' , . DAY / HOWARD bt Jarvis/ Knight 14, 18, 15. LANARKSHIRE OPEN-eOATBRIDGE--4tb APRIL

RESUJ.TS Men's Singles-Semi-finals R. Brown bt J. Hawkins 18, 21. J. Graham bt R. Bhalla 17/ 20. Final RUSSELL BROWN bt Jim Graham IS, -12, 16. Women's Singles-Final GRACE McKAY bt Margaret Cuthbertson 12 12. Boys' Singles-Final ' TOM DEVERS bt Kenny McLean 13 5. Girls' Singles-Final / F. RAE bt Lynn Davi~son -14/ 19, 13. BENEAGLES WHISKY OPEN-PERTH-25th APRIL

R'ESULTS Men's Singles-Semi-finals R. Yule bt J. Wilson 5, 15. N. Eckersley ht T. Devers 11/ 15. Final ECKERSLEY bt Yule 10/ 20. Women's Singles-Final P. FLEMING bt G. McKay 14 -16 14. Junior Singles-Final / / A. MATTHEW 'bt T. Devers 15/ 17. Men's Doubles-Final R. BROWN/MATTHEW bt J. McNee/Yule 19 13. Mixed Doubles-Final / BROWN/McKAY bt Eckersley/S. Adamson II, 9. Women's Doubles-Final C. DALRYMPLE/McKAY bt Fleming/A. Simpson 14, 9.

European Toutl. Champion~hips

M,e~ting in L,~ndon on M,ay 17, the National Sele'ctlon IComlmlttee chose the fOlllnwing te,a-ms to rparti,cl.pate in th,e European Youth Cham­pionships, to ibe played in Modling near Vienna, from july 110-118, 1977. ' BO'Y\S.-Martin Shuttle (Surrey), ,Chris Sewe~ll

(A~von), DOUiggie johnson (Warwiickshire) a.nd Ian K,enyon (IKent).

G[IR!LJS.--Ka1ren 'Witt CBerks:hire), Melody LLiidi (Yorkshire) ,and Angela IMitichelll (IMidd'liesex) .

*IC~\D!E(T' IBIOYS.---lColin Wilson (HaJmpsrhire ) and Gr,aha-m Sandley {Middlesex).

* Subject: to sponsorship. N.P.IC's.-Brian Burn and Bryan Merrett. Neither Paul Day nor Andrew Barden w,ere

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Re.a:ding's ,gi,r,ls and GuHdJford ,boys we~e triumiphalllt in the ~'Go[d ,Cup" Under...12 Tea:m ComlPetitions ~targed at Meadlway Sports ICentrre in Reading 'on 124th 'April!. A,I!1 the best lte:ams in the 'counltrry we'r,e invited to play in thils ne'w tYlpe 'of comlPet,irtiQln devis·ed land organised Iby \I.M.!P.A.'C.'T. (,Institute of M,at,ch !P'la~ ,and Coaching Te'chnics) and sponsored hy ActiJf Sports Li,mi1ted" the U.K. agents for 'Ch,inese "IGold CUIP" e,quipmenlt. The,re !Wer,e separate events for boys and ,girls which wer,e prlayed with a syst,e,m of groups. T,e,ams cO\ll'~,i'Sted of 4 ,pl'ayers with Ithe first ,and se'cond pai,rls p,lay­'inrg ela,clh olther for ,a total of 8 singles in e,ach tea,m mlatch.

iflhe clhalmpion Reading Igi1r!ls' Iteam of (Lesley Taylorr, Sally Purslow, Taryn Val~is and Jenni­fer rCoillinsl were ,convincing winners. They WQin a,lll olf their mlat1c'he1s, he,ating Bristol 8-0, GU'ildford '6-2, B,arrikilllg 5-3 and Swindon 6-2. Barking's 'girll'S took cs~e'cond pl]:ace land their team of D. ICo'lkel1:, D. TaY1lor, K. Turner and G. Tr,cuv,e,rs dropped just one match ClIgainst Reading and beart ,BristOiI '6-2, Swindon 5-3 'and Gui1drford 6-1. Third \place 'went to' the Swindon girlls P. 'Townsend, 'T. Watkinss ,G. Ho,rsin,gjton, K. Scu{Irrey ,and M. 'Cook.

The 'c,ha,mrpion t;uildford boys' tela.m of Mark ·Oakley, 'Glraham Russell, Tim1m1Y Vine and Stephen Gosling were wor1thy winne1rs and they lbeat their Imain 'cont,enders.. WOllverh,anlp­ton, in the ,finall 'maltch. Guild.ford won a,U seven of their matic'hes, ,beat~ng ICoventry 8-0, E:ly 8-0, Reading 8-0, Maidenhead 8-0, A'cton 7~1, Barking 7-1 and Wo~lverhamplton 5-3. The Wolv~rhampton boys A. ,Dixon, A. Dei\dtrt, P. D'alwes and M. Devi.tt, finished se1cond and 'beat Swindon 7..1, Ma1idenhead 7-11 'R,eading "B" 8-0",

Ely 6':,2, Barking 5-3 and A'cton 5-3. 'T;hird (pllac,e was secured for Ba,rkillig by S. ;.gdwards, I. Attridge, T. P:ascaI, J. Sp,a,rks and M. B,luelt.

The main finarl positions we,re ,as folllowlS:­

Boys Girls 1. 'Gui!ldford 1. Reading 2. Wolverhampton 2. IBarking 3. Ba1rkling 3 iSwindon 4. ,Ely 4. Guildford 5. IMaidenhelad 5. IBristo;1 6. tAclton 6. R,e'ading "B" 7. INew'bury 8. ,Swindon 9. ICoventry

\The ,generous sponsorship provided eqtuip­m,ent prizes :and \badges for ,the Itop Ite1a,ms, bart covers for alll players, and lPennant~ for alll tpl,aye,rs Ia.nd offi'ci'al~. This, rfO'llowed' tby a reception~ set the selal on a sUrccesSlfuil ,and rew'arding day's Itla'ble tennis. Presentlations we,re Imlade iby Actif Sports Di,re'ctor, Arthur Sim'cox, and ~'veter,an" lRe.ading jun.ior, Allison Gordon, th~ 'current 'En~lish Under-1S ,and 114 rCha,mp'ion. 'Th'e ICompeltitdon Or,ganiser was ,A..'1:a.n Dinels and !the Ref,e'ree was J onn \Free,man.

Tlhis compertition extentds the range of com­petitions heinlg orrlganilS(ed 'by I.,M.,P.A.lC.T. and compliments their mass'ive Readillig-lbas·ed Ico.a,ching deve,loiplm'ent lp'rogr·amme. The ,main o'bde:ctive olf lthis new "Golld Cup" Tealm ,Compe­tition is to encour1a;ge the in depth development of players under the ,alge' of 112.

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BOYS' WINN'EIRS GUILD'FORD Stephen 'Gosling Ti,mmy Vin,e M,ark Oakley Graham Russell

GIRLIS' WINNERS - READINIG Jennifer Collins Sally Purslow Taryn Vallis Lesley 'Taylor

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At Ith,e 13tth A.JG.M. O'f the Internationall T.T.IC., the meeting 'confirmed Iboth Jail Ham­mersley ,and Linda Howard las Vice~,Presidents foHowillig their suocesses in the 10th ,European C'ha'mpion'~,hips. Ilvor Montagu was re-etle'cted as IPlrelS!ident.

Following ,a de1ci'Sion made at the A.t;.,M., the

Club willI have a sub-comimittee" elected by ~he me,mbersthip, called the "Geoff Harrower Trophy" ICom,miltltee. JH,1 Hammers1ley w,as the recipient this se'asO'n and 'w,e were ,alll delighted to see her receive ilt at Luton 'from our Presi­dent.

IThe :last event of the season was the Ju:bi:lee m,atcn with 'Clorl1lWa~l1 at 'Helston. An ex-oellent evening ,and a win for the Club by 8-1., but a great p.erfo~'mance by John Bass,ett, of Corn­wall.

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The first National ICadet Cham,pionships­sponsored lby ~lfredReadeir-Cor Du iBuy­proved ,a trelmendous success. With 126 entries in the ,Boys' Sinigles and 55 in the Girlls' it needed slick 'orgail1lisation tocompllete the progir,aimlme in one day, pa,rl1:i'cul'ar1ly ,as the Group iSystem was used""---'but the trio of Jim HOIbday~ IGeoff Daniel,s land Tony 'Chatiwin wor:ked without fuss but with ,gre,at eHiciency wi,tib the result that the whol,e thing was ovelr beforre9-0 p.m.!!

IThere 'were" howe'v?r, p,lenty of shocks-in neither the Cadet Boys' nor the 'Cadet GirlS" ev,ent did the No. ,1 sle,ed in 'the s~ingles r,each the finall. Only in one event-theBoys' Doubles -did the a'crtual "favourites" win.

In till,e' is,e,cond round of the Boys' Sing/les five of the 1.6 s,ets w'ent to threre 'and 'all1 of them involved "sleeds", !Who triumphed, though in two cases by the narrowest o:f 'mlar,gins. Srtaffordshi're's A. B,e~llliDighalm put up ,a greatfight a,gainst No. 6 seed Ri,clharrd Ber,ge1m,ann, befor'e losing -20 in t!he third, whillst iCum[bria's Ian Reed, seeded five~ only just 'got the hett,er OIf De1von's P'aul Whitling. A,dalm Proffitt re'covered !from losing rthe fi,rst Igalme to win fairly co'mJfortia!bly against Mark Oakley (Surrey).

The thi'rd round saw tlheexit of the No.6 and 8 seeds. [Sam H,arnleir---1Who allre.ady seems to have been around for ye1ars!--hard tlWO close g,ames with 'Costa:s Papantoniou" hut the ,latter pl)ayed very w,e'U in the l'atter~tag;es OIf both gaIme'S to ,win. Ha!mpshire's bouncing Berge­m,ann found J. Hodges (Devon) a rar,e handfu~ and Ilost his two gam,es by thec,lose,sit possi1blei

m:argin. U'he quarter-fina!ls provided some ,ex1citing

ga1mes (none ,mOire so than \Proffitt's nai~l.Jbiting finish ,algainst P,apantoniou) brut at the end of it the top fourr sleed'S were in the se,mi-finaJI. In the main IGlr,ahlam Sandlley" se'eded one, had ,moved fairly JeisiUrel~ rto the last four, burt at this st,aige ,he encountered Live,rpool's Tony O':Connof, s,eederd three.

'O~Connor saHed into the att!a1ok ,al~ainst th'e Middlesex left-hander and 'be/sides halvin:gp1lenty of shots and rpow,er, his teimp,era,ment was ,good, too. The S'e1cond game looked Hike going the same way las the' first [burt lSandley haS' not g:ained iNo. l' spot for nothing. Hitti;fiig w'e'lll, even when under p1ressure, he /r,eico\Tered from 117-19 in the second to win 22-120. In the third O'IConnor t1railed 1-3 but Claim,e, back to take the ,},ead at 5-4 and was never in re'aa trou1bl:e again.

He lPound,ed 'aw1ay and refused to be draiwn alway fro'm the rtab~le. 10'0 ,the rlare occasions he was, SandJ,ey ,s,cored with shots of !both accur1acy and power. Th'e gam:e itse'llf ,was a credit to both players who ha'v;e promise, ability, det;ermination and powelr. Both Icould well be on the, :E,Dlglfand ranking list at the highest :level} tn the not too distianrt future. Colin Wilson. ('Hants)-wiho had 'won .alll his previous ,mat'ches two st!rai,ght.. found [Proffitt a ,different crfld difficul:t--propos'ition. Threie g,ames Oif ,exciting hitting finaHy ended with Wilson, winning at 19 in rthe' third.

'The seeding'S in t'he Gir\lIs' Singles fOiH,owed expect,artio'ns. '0:£ the eight seeds, only ,one\­Ni,co,l,a Pine (ID'evon)-f:a1iled to take her appoint,ed Ipl,a,oe in t~le,quarteT-finat:Her victor was 'Dorset's Sarah 'Gilbson, who nearly went one step further when sh'e pLayed No. 4 seed Mandy Reeves. Miss Gibson hit we~ll-partiicu-

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larly in the: last t,wo games---tbut it w:as MislS Reeves who ,eVielntua,1'Iy triumphed.

,H,ellen Rolbinson~ ,me,aDiwihile, was in lalH sorts of trouhl'e against J'ill\l Purslow, but she: finally extrilcated iherse'l'f ,from ,a diffi:cult position to reach the selmi-fi:Dial. N·either of the' tiWO topBerkshir:e represJentativ~s, M,andy -ISmith and Alison Gordon, had any such pro!b~ems. 'Both had reiached that stage without the ,loss of 'as nl'Uch as a ~am;e. At this stage Miss Gordon had la really spllendid 'galme ~ith Misls Reeves, with the ,Berkshire !player having all her work cut out to get the barll ip,aslt the sound defence of Miss R'eeves.

In the first a ICllose 'game (went to Miss R'e'e1ves (but the No.2 seed Cia,me hack ItO win tlWO very C'Iose Iga1m'es in one of the Ibest sets of the ohaJmpionships. 'The're 'was, how,eve1r, no su'ch excite,ment in the rtop hal,f, whe,re M,andy Smith sUJm:marily disposled of the No. 1 Iseed with E,C oreSI of 11 land 8.

First se,eds to go in the Boys' Doubles .were the 'No. .2 p.air, W.i:Ison andO'iConnor, who 110st to PalP,antoniou 'and SOUiter tn,e: first tiime they went to the tahle. This Ip,air then progressed to th,e 'llaslt eight helfore losing to the very promising De!von p;air of Whiting and Hodges. B,er:g,eimann and Olwens were ,anortlhe,r s"eeded p,air to faB to a:"'eac:h the last ,four, :Moore and GHlletlt Ibeating thelm in Ithe quartter4ina~s.

Yet another seeded plair, 'Gray and Reed, ~w,ent e~a.r~yt--to Johnson land 1H1alJmer----rwho sulbse,quent'ly .lost out to Woodgate and O'aklle~. One plair, however, ,who had looked quite invinciible Iw:ere the top seeds, iSandley and Adam IProffitt. They sUimm'ari,ly dismissed all opposItion on thei'r w,ay to the finall in t'wo sltr1ai!ght Iwith !both p,layers hitting w·all lalnd consist,ently.

'One evenrt went entir'e'ly to iform--l1:he Girls' Dou1bles----..where ,aliI four seeded p,airs reached the sJelmi-finatJ. Alison Gordon and Jill Pursilorw had looked complletely !at home in the top half and although the IChesihirefiCornw'a~11 p,airing of Mis,s Jaimes ,and Miss De'akin h'ad taken t!hem close in the quarter-lfina!l, they had no sillch trouble in the se'mi-finals" 'whelre their pOlw,er 'was too ,much for the WiH\alms.jR,eeves p!artnership. Itn the salme rwlay Midglley/Ro'bin­son be,at 'Garbett/'T'ownsend to reach the finat In rtlhe fina~, tthe ,N,o. 2 s'eeds----lHe'len Robinson and Sal'l~ ,Midgley---lp'layed weB a1ud .a1lthough the IB'erkslhire pair had the- power they w'e-re perhaps not quitie as 'consistent alS thei.r Northern counterparts.

[t was, hnweve,r, ,a very hi,gh standard of play firom, such young ,comlP,etitors. Th'e Boys' Doulbles was the only e'vent whi!ch w'ent true to IforUl't ,with Sandley ,and IProffitt ,continui,ng to p~lay in the final ,as they had done in e1very previous round-with great confidence land conlsistency. 'The first ,gaime was fairly close but with this unde'r t,heir be'ltlS th'e' Middlesex p'air realBy welnt Ito town in the next ,game and m1iss,ed !hardly a thi,ng.

'O'OIly one of the finalls went to three---ttlhis being the Girl/s' 'Singles. 'M~andy Smith and AHson IGordon hay?, I i,m,agine't played ,e,acn otll'e{f so often !that they know exactly what to expect before they go on. IEven so, it pro­duced ,a final!' o\f attractive, 'arttacking t:a!ble tennis with no quarter /being asked for or given. ,Miss S,mith, however, rpllayed SIO IwerlI in th'e first ,that victory look,ed to Ibe hers for the takiDlg,. ',But it was not tiO be. Mliss Gordon, showing carrll the determination of a ,champion, Cianle Iba'ck to t'ake the next tlWO and with it the title.

The Boys~ Singles finall', las one would expe!ct, produced a fina:l of hi.gh quality. Willson has a!ll the attributes of a chalIl1(pion--confidence, ability, Iclass and fi:ght. Not far behind [h,inl was O"'Connoif, a rela!l'ly Ibril~t 'P,rospe1ct ilf I ,ever slaw one. The ralli,es were of the cl:asfs usuaJI,ly onl~ t: een in senior e'vents and :for the crowd, the oDll~ disaprpointlment was that it didn't ,~o t'O t!hre'e, Wi~]son winning 16 land 18.

All in a:1l1 a good tourna;ment-and one which I imagine wB,1 certainily oper1ate next se'ason.

RES'ULTS

Cadet Boys' Single,s-Round One LJ. Gray bt J. We'atherley 18, 13; P. Hindle bt M. Pugh -8, II,

23; G. Pugh bt 1. Weatherley 12, 15; S. Holloway bt J. Clifford 17, -21, 12; K. Satchell bt ,Po Russam -19. 17, 16; M. Oakley bt J. Duffield -20, 116, 17; N. Harris bt M. Lowe 20, -13, 12; P. Whiting bt N. Edgecock 10, 1; P. Rainford bt P. Docherty 16, 18.

Round Two G. Sandley bt D. Gray 15, 17; P. Makinson bt D. Hogg 11, 5;

S. Moore bt P. Hindle 14, -22, 17; M. Laird bt G. Wilson 6, 17; R. Bergemann bt A. Bellingham 18, -19, 20; J. Hodges bt G. Pugh 12, 8; G. Gilliett bt S. Holloway 17, 10; A. O'Connor bt K. Satchell 9, 18; A. Proffitt bt M. Oakley -19, II, 15; R. Albutt bt C. Ol:iver 13, 16; Papantoniou bt P. Stratton 12, 8; S. Harmer bt N. Harris 16, 19; I. Reed bt P. 'Whiting 21, -12, 19; A. Withers bt C. Cooper 14, 16 P. Dubbins bt D. Johnson 16, -11, 17; C. Wi Ison bt

(P. Rainford 15, 6. HOLimi lhree ~andley bt Makinson 8, 14; Laird bt Moore -18, 5, 11; Hodges

In tsergemann 21, 21; U'(;onnor bt lililiett 1l, 14; Protntt bt Albutt lU, 1;,; Papantomou bt Harmer 20, 1~; Reed bt Withers 16. 10; Wilson bt Dubbins 9, 15.

liound four ~andley bt Laird 18, -18, 13; O'Connor bt Hodges 9, -22, 15;

Proftltt bt Papantoniou 13, -IS, 21; Wi Ison bt Reed 14, 8. Semi -finals u'Connor bt Sandley 12, -20, 12; Wilson bt Proffitt 20, -18, 19. fmal \llJlLSON (Hants) bt O'Connor (Lancs) 16, 18. l,;adet Girls' Singles-Round One l,;. l,olegate bt J. Ueal<in 20, 19; S. James bt P. Townsend 14, 18. l10und Two H. kOlbinson bt C. Colegate 12, 17; J. Purslow bt M. RlI1grose

19, -14, 17; G. Galloway bt L. Barwick 1:;, 9; NI. J. Smith bt G. ~mith IS, 14; IVI. Reeves bt E. Gall,agher 5, 14; s. Gilson bt N. J. Pine 15, -12, 13; L. Garbett bt S. Midgley 19, -18, 19; A. Gordon bt S. James 20, 14.

Round Three H. Robinson bt J. Purslow -12, 21, 16; M. Smith bt G. Galloway

15, 14; M. Reeves bt S. Gilson 12, -20, 19; A. Gordon bt L. Garbett 11, 19.

Semi -'finals M. Smith bt H. Robinson II, 8; A. Gordon bt M. Reeves

-20, 17. 17. Final A. GORDON (Berks) bt M. Smith -14, 17, 19. Cadet Boys' Doubles-Quarter-finals Sandley/ Proffitt bt Bellingham/ Patel 12, 13. Vvoodgate/Oakley bt Johnson/Harmer 19, 11. Moore/Gillette bt Bergemann/Owens 15, 14. Whiting/Hodges bt Papantoniou/Souter -14, 20, 17. Semi -finals Sand ley/ Proffitt bt Woodgate/Oakley 10, 9. Whiting/Hodges bt Moore/Gillette 16, -16, 19. Final SANDLEY /PROFFITT (Middx) bt Whiting/Hodges (D,evon) 17, 5. Cadet Girls' Doubles-Quarter-finals Gordon/ Purslow bt James/ Deakin 21, 20. Williams/Reeves bt Lindl:ey/Cameron 14, II. Garbett/Townsend bt Smith/Mathie 8, -20, 13. Midgley/Robinson bt Cottier/Robinson 13, 19. Semi -finals Gordon/Purslow bt Williams/Reeves 14, 13. Midgley/Robinson bt Garbett/Townsend 13, 14. Final MIDGLEY/ROBINSON (Yorks) bt Gordon/Purslow (Berkshire)

18. 26.

Family Sports Holiday In co-operation with the Sports Council (Eastern

Region) the University of Essex are offering a sports holiday for the family on their ca:mpus at Ooloheste:r during the week 25th-31st July 1976.

Sports offered on the holiday are Arche,ry, Canoeing, Golf, Judo, Squash, Tennis and Table Tennis. Applicants must select one of these as their main activity for morning sessions but will have the opportunity to try other sports during the afternoons.

For the really active there is also a programme of entertainments and social activities planned for the evenings. Mr. Alan Rustage, the Dire,ctor of Physical Recreation a,t the University is hopeful that people will also ,see this as an opportunity to visit a modern University set in the oldest recorded town in Britain. By using the residential accom­modation normally occupied by students he, is able to offer a holiday which should appeal to families throughoUit the region, and indeed the Country.

Leaflets giving full details of the holiday, together with applioation forms. are available from Mlr. Rustage or from the Sports Council (Eastern Region), 26/28 Bromham Road, Bedford MK40 2QP.

KEI'TH WAilTS Sussex 'T.'T.A. IOhairman 'and ,N,ationa'l ICoun­

cilllor, ,Keith WarttlS!, !had an opelration in M'arch at the Royall E,ast Sussex ,Hospit:al, ,Hastings.

R.eiCove'r~ from this Ope IcoU\ld ,be a long job and he 'witll not be back to fulil-time t:ablle tennis acrtilvities .for perhaps sever;a,l ,months. ,Mean­ti'me~, every wish for 'a speedy re.cove:ry is hereby Iconveyed. IGet IweIII soon.

'PR,IZEGIVIN:G Knighton Park T.T.C., one of Leices'tershire's top table tennis clubs, held its

~annual prizegiving on May 6 at a local hote:l, wtith the top awards going to Chris Rogers and Mrs. Glenys Odams. The awards were presented by Leicestershire wicket-keeper, Roger Tolchard.

Glenys, besides being tops lin the Leicestershire table tennis world, is g,aining som,e notoriety as the first woman member of the Leicestershire County Cricket Club.

Photo hy Geoff Schofield, Oadby.

WIESTERN LEAGU,E P10ST,SCRIPT TITL.E:S RE:TAI,NE'O

Both N,ew!bUiry's men and Bournemouth's wom,en sUCoceeded in retaining their titles, the for,me1r by virtue o:f a superior sets aver1age to Ex,mouth, :both teams having aC'cumulated 14 points each with one Joss.

West Wilts, the other chal\leng,ers, Iwere sur­prisingly beaten 6-3 by 'Bourne:mouth, whose Tr,evor Smith recoTded a m,aximum w1itih two supporting slets flrom ISteve Wilson, who accounted for Roy Smith arnd Bob Murray, the l'atter also falling to CyriJ ,Bush. Kevin Edw,ards (2) and Smith s,co.red· for the losers.

N ew'bury, in their penultimlate fixturle away to Ne'wport, won 7-2, with S,i,mon Heaps and David Reeves unbeaten.. D,avid Wise losing to John Biloomer ·and IMi'chael'Nocive~li.

In their final Imiatcih at home to Plymouth on tihe fo\1Jlowing ·day, Newport clinched the title 8-1 when Heaps 'and IR~,erves wea:-e again in the "untoucha1ble" claiSE and Keith James, for the visitors, saved the "whitewash" by beat­ing Wisle.

IP1y,m,outh's introduction of the young Hodges brothers, IGe'rry and Mi'chae'l, eased the task 0.£ the: 'C'harl11pions.

Bournemoutih, following their 8-1 hnme win ove,r 'Swindon, finaJly took on Newbury, the other unbeaten side, in the women's section. A Iclose result was ,expected !bUlt did not m'ate,r­ialise as, .for the winners, Janet New scored a t:re1ble" with Joyce ICO'OP and Juilie Reading sharing the other four sUCocesses" both losing to IC,aroline Reeves.

At: th'e top of the taibles:­Men

P W D L F A Pts Newbury ........ 8 7 0 1 51: J2!1 ,14 Exmouth ........ 8 '17 0 l' 48 124 14 West Wilts ........ 8 6 0 2 44 ~8 112 Poolle ............ 8 4 0 4 '34 38 8 Women

PWDL F APts Bournemouth 5 5 0 0 38 7 10 Newbury"A" 4 3 0 11 2'7 9 6 Swindon . . . . . . . . 5 3 0 ,2 122:23 6 Newbury "B" 4 l2 0 2 117 19 4

WESTERN LEAGUE NO~ES

by Grove Motlow

N'OT YET RESOLVED, There is sti~tl a. hard tussle in the Men's

secltion 'with Ne'W'bury, W·est Wil,ts and Exmouth 'all having lost once. West Wilts have BoUtrnemouJtlh a,eflt to play, ,a,w1ay, Exmouth having ·complleted their fixtures. Ne1w·bury h:ave stiall trwo m,attlches Ito pllay, a.w:ay to Weston and PllYlmouth Jalt hom·e.

West Wilts, coming back into the le,ague after a lapse of four ye-a,rs" :hl3ve done relm,ark­a:bly weIll and ,c,eTtainly have a lot to thank 116-ye1ars-old K'evin Edwa.rds, who has h'aid a fant,ast'i1c se'ason----tbut he must be ready to admit ilt has 'alIso been a tealm effoa:-t as 'weIH.

Exmouth t.asted their first ,defeat when they wer,e beaten '5-4 at Trorw:bridge. 'TIheir defelat was llargely due to E.dwards" Iwho 'aocounted for Milke R,attue (1:7, :19), P,aul Stone (1\1, 17) and P,addy Shephard (-17, 17, .12). Bob Murr1ay arrso p\layed we,!a to rbeat Stone (16, -11, 12) and Roy S,milth challked up la suc,cess aga,inslt Shephard (16, -11, 1.9).

N,ewporlt had a good home win ov,er PIIY1mouth, 6-3, wilth Allan Harri~:.on in fine form, betating I<eith James~ M,~,ck Sih,nr,t ,and Paul Whiting. John J3loO'me,r won two of his SetlS against Short and Whitling, losing to Ja,mes, while Mi'chael INocivc'lli ,alIso .a,c,counted fo~ Whiting.

y,oung Whiting, only albout 4' 5" and 13 yelars of age, is 'cerlt,ainly a "find" for 'P'lly:mouth. He has no fear and hits h'ard.. Ibeing a very aglressiv,e playe,r ,and one wiltih a grela~ future.

West Wlilts, arw,ay to Swindon, won 7-2, thanks to maxilmUims by EdJWlards and Smith

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over P,r,ank B,ailley, Ken H,airrison and Mark BUisihe,lll~ the 1},a;tter 'two be,ating MUlr,ray. Weston put up a h'ard fight ag,ainst thei.r visitors, EourneiD:outth, but Wlith the s'core art 4-aJlI Gr1aham Green went down to ,Cyril! Bush to g,ive tlhe visitors the ,points.

On th.e next day Weston ententlained s:tcong titt:le contende,rs in Ne:W)bulfY without the services of jri,mlmy AndrefWs, for whom J. Crrah­tree dep'utised. Ne1wbury w·on 8-1, the only hOim,e success being register,ed by the "ever­green" Ray IPhiJpott. 'D.avid Reeves land Simon Heaps had tlrefblles. Leading p'os,itions:­

P W L F A Pts Exm,o'Uth 8 7 1 48 24 14 West Wilts 7 6 1 41 22 12 Newbury -............ 6 5 1 36 18 '10 Poole . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 3 4 27 316 6

In the W om2n's Section, N€'wbury "B" be.at De'vizes' 6-3 rw,ith Mlandy ,Smith again playing wen, eSiP,etcially in her set wi,th Allison Boyce, winning 19 and 20. Joy,ce T1aylor belat Hellen Rusby and Kenwyn Hazellil but lostt to Allllison, wihille ICn/ris ROigelrs 10sl1: to Allison and Kenwyn burt: dLid w,e~J to beat Helen 2;3-.21, 22-,201

I t would appear that the rwinnelrs of this sec/tion will become known when Ne.wbury "A" play Bourne,mouth tin H,ants. IncideDlta;1'Iy, the're are quite H Dumher of mlatches outstanding in this selct'ion whi'ch require spe:ci,al lalttentinn. Positions': ­

P WL F A Pts Nelwbury "A" ........ 3 .3 ° 25 !2 6 BournelmOUlth ........ 3 3 0 23 4 6 Swindon ............ 3 l2 1 13 114 4 Newhury "B" ........ 4 2 2 17 119 4

~Dervizes . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1 4 17 2>8 '2 Newport ............ 4 0 4 4 32 0

Any nerw ,league conte,miplaiting affiliation next season should make im,mediat.e ,contact with t/he Hon. Se,c., lGrov,e Motlow, IEsq., 29 Caris:brooke Road, Ne'w.port, Mon., NFT 8NX ('!Phone: N'erwport 711964).

(Entry forms and detai:Is of the A.G.M., to be he,ld eitheT late June or ear'ly July, wi.U shortly be ~Ient to aliI melmlber leagues.

Maccabiah Games - Israel by Frank Phillips

The 10th Maocabi,ah Ga.mes will take pllaere in Isr,aerl during July, 19'77. Thzse games are des'crilbed as the "Jewish Olymrpics" ,and are held every four years a.IfWlays in Israet

iIn .addition to me e1vents that m-ake up th·e norlmal O,lympic sports .. 'T,able Tennis is one of the major competitions, with near~y every country sending a team for this event. In 1973 ne1aray 2,000 'compethors from 28 countries participated in 21 different sports. ,Nerw cOimpe­titions fOlr 1977 include Squash and Badminton. It is expected that an ever ,larger numher of entries wil:l be .relceived next year.

Over the year'S this country h 3S all,w1ays pro­vided one of the strongest te,alms. In 1973 our men's team reached the final pOOlI ,but just faiUed .1'0 win a medal!, In the single'S competi­tion two of our te1alm reached the quarter-finaa stalges. Unfortunately no women's tea'm was sent in 1973 :but it is hoped to send two or three women neXlt titD'le.

Trila]s win be held lat,err thiS' year in London and are open to any peirson of the Jewish faith. Arp,pEcaltion forms for the Trials can be loblt!ained ftrom the Macoa'bialh Or,glaniS'ation Comlmittee, 1 Manch·ester Square, London W.l.

County Supplement continued

NORTHANTS NOTES by Dennis Millman

KEVIN THE STAR Yet another season comes to an end with

. the 'Daventry League and 'the R01tih'boroug,h Club making rhe headlines with their annuad tournaments.

A!IJrllough .the size of the entry was down from last year, most of Daverutry's leading players competed in ,t>heir championships, held at .the Community Centre.

S'ta,r of .vhe show was INOI'tlhants No.2 Junior, Kelvin MclPartlan, who· went th~ough !the day undefea.ted, tJaking home the Men's SingJes anld IDoulJles f1:~ophies in addition to the Boys' SingJes and Doubles. Susan Edwards re.tained her ISingles and Doubles t~t;les, but overaUI, the reall winner was me 'game ·of taJble '1:elnnis,with many of the finals 'being of the highest caHlbre in terms of skiH and excitement with three events being decided at 21-19 in >the !third.

Detaill!s: ­Men's Singles-Semi-finals G. Tsow (Kils'by) bt J. Bishop '(S'baverton)

19, "19, 16. K. McPartlan ('Stavenon) bt A. Print (BBlC)

8,U. Final MdPARTILAN ot Tsow 12, '17. Men's Doubles-Final MoP:kRiI'LAN/N. IOHAPLIrN (Long Buckby bt

R. CaSt'le/R. Tanton (KHs'by) .19, 15. Women's Singles-Final S. ;EIDWAIRDS (Long Buc~by) bt F. TsOlW

(Kiolsby) 17, 6. Women's Doubles-Final BDJWiAR,DS/S. SANDERS (Ki,l'Slby) ot J. Tom­

ilinson (Kilsby)/G. Munday (Centre) 11J2, 11G.

Mixed Doubles-Final TSOW /TSOW b't P. Edwards/BdJWIards -18, 120,

19. Veterans' Singles-Final R. CASfIVE bt "Thnton 10, -.18, 19. Junior Singles-Final MoPARTLAiN bt Chaplin 18, -1'8. 19.

As antidpaf1:ed, <pride of place in the Da-ventry League went to B..B.C. "A", who won both ,the Cup and rhe Div. 1 title, wihille Daventry Boys' Olub performed a simillar feat )n IDiv. 2, ,as di'd F()II'd "B" in Div. 4. lIn Div. B, Ford "A" took tlhe ,League ,but the ,Cup went to Ki'lsby "D", wlhoHe t!he Handicap Tournament was won ,by West HaddOOl "D".

The Rothborough !Club a.mbitiou~ly added a -County Open Junior Tournament to its repertoi.re this year, and was so embarrassed at f1:he en'try of 60 that the venue had to be SlWitohed to t>he Lodge lP.ark Sportts Centre. at COI"by. With almost ali !the top County juniors in action it is not surpris,ing tha't fl:he quality of play augured well for the future of tab'le tennis in t!he area.

Ele·ven-years·old Richard Malhifl:, and 13­yea·rs-old Nei.l Knatt sho1Jle .brighuly among the younger players and show ,that the efforts of the Nor.thampton League are beginning to bear fruit. Keith NicoJ:l kept .tJhe Kettering flag flying, but aaas, despite an exceHem ootry £,rom Wellingborough, tJhere was 'l'ittle apparent progre'Ss, except, o.f course, f.rom f1:he incom­pa·r·aible Gary Alden. It would appear tha't il:'he W,elJingborough production mac'hine is begin­ning 'to 'Seize up, with no one to foHow the pres·ent crOop O'f talented phyers now approach­ing ,the end of their junior careers.

tAfter more .than eight hours' play the resuUts' were as folilo,ws:­U-13 Sin~les: Richard Ma>lfait (N) ht \Neill

Knatt (N) 11, ·9, 8. U-15 Singles: Tim Chamberlain (N) bt Ma'llfait

'(N) 118, 10. U415 DoubJes: Keith Nicoll (K) /Tim Fo~ster

(N) bt Mark Wrioght (N) /Malfah (N) 17, -21', 10.

U-17 'Girls' ,SIngles: Julie Robinson (N) bt H-elen Cottier (N) -19, 25, 20.

U-17 Doubles: David Gallo (N)/Lan Morris (rN) bt Nico}.1/Forster -17, 15, 17.

U-17 Boys' Singles: Gary Alden (W) ht Nicoll (K) 11, 6.

'.(Representative players were barred from D-l3 and D·1S Singles').

lin addirion to we Junior Tournamoot, Ro'uh­borough held <the Annuall Baster Handdcap Tournament, when, for once, the better players were unable to defy ,their handicaps. Gary Ailiden, Graham 'Feakin, John Horne and Dennis Mi:1lman brought their eXiperience to bear in il:'he qualifying stages ,but on Finalls night tlhis was of no avail and aU fOllr were eliminated 4n the first round, Jeaving the field olea~ for ,lesser known expOOlents to dominate the Singlel) event.

ResuIts: ­Semi-finals Dave Pipe (+3) ,bt Ohris tMi'lll.man (+8) 117,

19. John Chennells (+9) bt Terry Walkilaf1:e (+4)

116, -1>7, 9. Final C!HJENNiELLS bt Pipe 19, 2,1. Doubles-Semi·finals Che,nnellas/Horne (4) bt Mark Raven/Graham

'Fealkin (Scr) 8, 17. D. Mil1'1man/C. MHlman (12) ot Keith Nicoll/

Wal~late (2) -.14, ,21, 21. Final Millilman/MiJlman (2) bt ChenneUs/Hoene (4)

-16, 20, 19. Ifhe Daventry League and ItJhe Rothborough

Table Tennis Club have also prospered in -other ways, wit!h Daventry likely to be t,he only side to take a South East Midlands League title, for in the Reserve Division the Daventry side finished clear winners, winning a'1l their eight matches. Wellingborough's women coldd emudaf1:e this feat, but not onlly will >tJhey need to beat PeteI"borough conV1incingly, .they will aa50 have 010 depend on near .neighbours Northampton putting up a good fight against DlliIlStiable.

Rothborough, on t,he other hand, have again clinched ,the WeUing,borough Div. 1 Champion­ship, after last year proving that the best team can sometimes finis.h second. But after reach­ing the fionall o·f the Handicap Cup they won last season, some astute handicapping by David By,rom just prevented them from taking ,the trophy for the second tne, for despite a treble f.rom IAlden, nhe seven points received by Compton Nomads "B" enabled douhles from Mick Edwards and Ian Morris and a :.olitary success from Tom Gee to give Compton a narrow win.

.success, too, for Wellingborough, for in the S:E.M.Tournament, they took the Team Bvent for the second year in succession, represented by Anne and Mandy WaBis, Alden and Rod Marchant. Anne and Mandy went on to take four fur,ther titles ·as they again demo,ns,tratoo their superiority with some devastating displays.

in the Northampton League, D.T.C. "A" sur­vived a shaky mid-season spell to again take the Northampton League top division. Repre­sented by CQilin Hogg, John Goodall, John iAs.pinal and John oPallmer, they again hope ·to be in the hunt next year.

JO'hn Palmer again had a busy season, but once again a hat.trick o·f 'League rtitles e,luded him, for ahhough his· other team, Ke.ttering Town "A", had no difficu:lty in rtaking the Kettering Premier Division. Rothborough's 4ConsiJsitency .in the WeHing,borough League relegated Kettering Town "A" into second place. However, he and hisl two coilleagues, Terry Sutton and Dennis Millman, camp00­sated for this set-back by playing a Ileading p'art in the Iwinning of the Norrthampto,nshir,e County League, although it is anticipated that a strengthened field may weill make retent,ion difficuilt neXit season. Sutton and yours truly had the personall added saf1:isd'action of appear­ing in every match in ·allJ. thr,ee competitions,.

Fina\llly, at the close of the season in which performance at County level took on a rosy hue, a word of thanks to some dediat'ted

County officia'ls, who deserve some success to cO'mpensate for <the disappointments of the fai11ly recent past. The names of Tom Tye, Peter Edwards, Ken Marchant, Frank Clowes a1Jld O'ur new Secretary, Barbara Husk, spring readily to mind. Let us hope they spring just as readily to mind next season, pr.eferably willi the addition of some of a new, and as yet, untried brigade of youthful enthusi·as.ts.

SURREY NOTES

by Ted Simpkin

THREA,T BANISHED By calling both Sue Henderson and "Connie"

W,arren out of retirement for the vital laSlt matcih ag,ainst Wa'rwickshire the Senior team 'Were a·ble to banish tohe threat of relegation, and, in fact, to achieve a ,respectable position in the County Championship. The second team completed a f.aidy reasonable soeaso1Jl, and, although the junio·rs did not consoIidate upon a. very promising beginning, the omens are 'excellent for next year.

rrhe 1976-77 season will start early, wi-vh ,thoe pOSIDpone.d Sen~o,r ·Closed planned for the week­end of September 25.26, at Surrey Un.iversity Guihliord, and it is the fond wish -of th~ County Committee that the coming season wHI see ,the reintroduction of the tnter·League competitions in some form or other.

Having organised the Junior Closed Cham. piO'nshiips a month earlier.• Guild.ford was aWe to concent!rate its main tournament over a two-day period alt Broadwater School, GodaI­ming, and through a prodigious effort by its Committee, wipe out the memory of a s.ome­what unsuccessful organisation of the earlier eveIllt. There were 496 entries, spread over 12 evenlts.

.rrhe caI?ture of the Open title by 17-yea,rs-old SImon V~ne, who beat fellow junior, David HaIl!Ilah, III the final, points to a watershed in ,the history of this tournament, and it now looks likely tih.ateither Simon or a further product of the Junior Coaching Scheme will monopo'1ise the event for some years to come. The shock of the fina'l day was the defeat of No. 1 seed, and hot favourite, Jimmy MO'Ore, by 13-ye·ars-old Sitephen Woodgate.

Although thi,s was a popular win, there was a lot of sympathy fo~ Jimmy in this. his yeaor olf retirement, and a heartfelt round of applause greeted his unaided walk to the presenta,titon table to receive the Veterans' Singlles t·rophy. I:t was Jayne Mitchell's turn ·00 beat Suzalnne Roebuck, and this she did to ta'ke the Women's title, and John Oakley borrowed a bat to sail rt!hrough against fancied opposition 'to take Guildfo'rd's fi·rst "hard bat" tifl:le.

1N0 menltion o·f Surrey would be complete without a reference to Linda Howard and her wOOl,der,ful performances in the European Ohattnpionships and again in the Engliish Closed. Well done, Linda.

BEDFORDSHIRE NOTES

by O. A. Reeves

NEW COUNTY ClIAMPION

'Dhe Annual County Closed tournament held o,n Sunday, Februa~y 20. was an 'outstanding success ,with .a -gianlt entry o·f 183 players. For the fi,rst dme tlhe .t·ournament was extended to cover vadous juniors' 'age groups and la total

. Of 116 tlitles we,re at stake. rrihoe first noticeable achievement ,and the

best per,formance olf ,the .day was David Raw­lins'on winning the men's Isingles title. The Ivery t,alen'ted David, ranked iNo. 3 in ,the .County, had rto o·vercome the higher ranked IOharlie MaioI', and the County No. .1, Ferz INiUam, Ito take the title and must surely be ~n Hne rfor ilJhe 'County No.1 spot ,nem year!! 'IBaT'ba,ra Hammond 'achieved the "triple

orown" by winning !the Women's Siilgles,

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Women's Doubles (JWiIth J oyc-e Reeves) aalJd the Mixed (wi1Jh Ferz Nil1ann).

The juniO'I" tiJ1:J-es <Were enthusilastically f.ought lout land IWtth ithe t,remeIl!dous amount of talent in the younger age ,groups trhe County lWiiH surely lbe a fO'I'c,e ito rockon 1Wi1Jh m ~he years faillead. The fuU rrelSU1Jts were: M.S.: n. Ra'W'liI15'On ibt ,F. Nillam. W.S.: B. Hammond Ibt J. Reeves. M.n.: A. IOhandler/oM. Harltow Ibt K. McCon­

'nen/P. Gutitinlg. W.D.: B. Hammond/J. Reeves Ibt 10. CI<M'ke/S.

'ShaIW. X.D.: F. iNi'!J'am/D. HiamJmtond Ibt D. iRawlilll's<on/

D.Oarke. Bo'S. U-17: .I. Goswell ,bt M. iHarilow. G.S. U-17: L. CLarke Ibt J. iW~on. B.D. U-17: 1. GosiWeH/K. McConneN Ibt D.

IBeddaU/G. White, G.D. U·17: J. P,adcins/:L. IClat"ke Ibn: A. Ro~e/S.

Thompson. X.D. U~17: M. Hall:iIow/lL. iC'lal'1ke Iht: 1. Goswe1J1/

Co 'Cutting. B.S.: U-!15: G. Wh'dte Ibt IS. Bady. G.S. U-15: j. BeIlinger ibit lL. CI1arke'. B.D. U-15: D. Bedda:1ll/G. White ht S. Barly/

P. Pyburn, G.D. U-15: J. Parkins/C. CLarke Ibt T. ASiton/

J. Bellinger. B.S. U-13: D. ShaiI'Pe ibt C. Yates. G,S. U-13: J. BeI.Iinger Ibt S. IShtaIW.

With Ithe atW>ointiIIleIl!t of Gan-y SihiWPe as our County Coaching Secretall'y, the firslt County ses('Cjon was h'eld 'at Luton on [Saturday, Ma'rch 20, under tlhe guidance of Peil:er Hir5lt. Some 60 juniors atte'Il!ded th'e sesSlion and it is' hoped .to h,ave regular ,get-rogetlhers ;th,rough the dOlSed season.

GWENT OPEN by Grove Motlow

Cwmbran Sports Centre again provided the venue for anothe'r successful Gwenil: Open, despi,te the unavoidaWe absooce of our three We:lsh stars, Alan Griffiths, Graham Davies and Mike Owen, who were aLI p,articipating in the European Championships in P:ralgue.

The standard o!f play was quite higjh and the spectators on 1:lheir tiered seating were not s,loiW to show their appreciation. especially of the finals, which we:re, concluded by 9 p.m.

In ,the girls' singles Mandy Smith (Newbury) bea't JIll] 'Purslo,w (Reading) -13, 15, 16 but in the counterpart boys' event the top seed, Dacid Reeves (Readilllg) was sUl'IP'l'isinWlY beaten in his Round 2 match agaoinst Mike Shearman (Plymouvh). But in fairness to him he was suffe,ring from a heavy cold and wenlt home immediately after his match. The tide was won by Andy Wellman (Reading), who beait A. Cotdthard (ICartdiff) 14 and .l3.

Joyce Liloyd (Worcester), the holder of the women's singles title, went 'out to Linda Barrow (Southend) in the qu:arters '(-13, -13), :the Ess,ex Igdrl going on to win tJhe ticle with a

Smith and Caroline Reeves, who bealt MarjO'I"ie

fi'na:l victory o'ver Caroline Reeyes (Reading) 19 and 1'5.

The women's do'wbles title wenil: to Mandy

Waaker (Middlesex) ,and Mrs. Barrow -22, 12 and J8.

In m,e men's singiles the ho~der, Tony Clay­ton (Yorkshire) met Nigel Eckersley (Cheshire) in a gi-and final which iEckersftey won 114, -17, 17. In the semis CUayton beat Alan Filetche,r (Yorkshke) 13 allld 14 while Eck?rs'ley beat his Gheshdre coilleague, John Hilton, 14 land 8!

'Ex-Welsh international Geor,ge IEvans, .pLay­ing welol, went down illl ,the quarters' Ito Hi(JJton -15, -15. At the same Sil:age Simon Heaps (Berks) lost to Ecke,rs1ey ,(-8. -18), Wailter Hussey (,W'ales) 'llost in Round 4 to Phi[ Bowen (Lanes) -19, 20, -14 as ,did MichaeJ NociveHi to Olayton -11, ~16. .

The men's doubles went to Clayton ,and Fletcher, who beat 'Eckersley and Hilton 212,

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-1'2, 1'8. Eckersley and MarjOl'ie Walker won the mixed, beating 01ayton and Mrs. L. Baker (iBabh) 11, ·22, 17.

DURHAM NOTES

by Edgar Reay DOUBLE FOR PAXTON

oDU!l"ham County cOlmplleted their County Championships PiI'0gramme ,o,n SatUll'day, AiprU 3, when they met Cumbria l'uMors at Shiney Raw CA. The home Iteam were mucih too strong

. for the young Cumlbrians and won 9-1. IMr. Bob Willey is now Coach-in~Charge at

MonklWearmoUoth Schooll. Sundedand, Coaching Centre. which Oip,erates one night each week and wiilll continue ,to run unltil trhe eIl!d o!f June.

,The. Aycliffe Lea,gue Olosed was heild ,on Ma,rch 19. R~ults:-M.S.: N. Stark bt S. Hauglmey. WJS.: J. BTOIWn bt S. AippJegaI'ltih. J.S.: Sta,I'k bt M. Darkes. H.S.: Stark bt M. SOIWer,by.

In Itlhe Sundemand and Ddsltrict League Closed, Keith Paxil:on 'beat Tony Gelder in both bhe Junior anld Senior singles. Miss J. CihaII"les­worth beat Mrs,. L. B'ainbridige in the ,women's s,ingles final.

rr. Ro'bson beat M. Inglis in the handicap sing/les 100-93. "I'his event has been played on 100 points up since 1914. l'hk season the hi,ghest 'and Uowest handicaps' were'--180 points and pJus 75 and 131 entdes were Te\:'eived.

The County JuniOil" team ,of P,aJCt:on, GelJ.de:r, Peter oMaste,rs\ ]oulie Inch and JuJIie Smith are to be congratulated on l\:Iheir ,good season in Div. 2 (NorlUh) of the County Champdonships and allthough th~-ee members of the ,te,am will not be awi'Laible next season, iJ1: is horped that some 'Of tihe ~'aI'lge numbers of young players who are n()w cOlllling through our coaching oentres wiN adequately fill the.it' places.

ASCOT/MILLOM SCHOOL JUNIOR ONE-STAR OPEN

I

"Barrow Evening Maj}"­"MiIIom School's Tournament an undoubted

success." MiJolom SchooJ's A~'cot l-Star Junior Cham­

pionships got off to a good start, attracting 10.7 from m,r afield.

A min'Or disapPo,intment was tlhe late with· idralWal of Keiith PaiKton, and No. ,t seed in the Under-17 (boys' events, IbUlt ,the sltrong con­tingent of C~eve,Jand Igirlls ,turned up in force, fboasting four ,pl,ay;ers on the cur,rent England ralllkoing list, ,and including Angella Tierney and HeJen Robinson. At cadet leve,l a strong fiead' was headed lby Tony O'Connor, Ian Reed and Michaed Laird.

Starting at 10 a.m. and playilllg on ei,ght talbles, the tournament in the hands of naJtionall reiferee Bob Edon (Sitockton), .produced few early shocks. Only !Peter Graililger and June WHliams, of Cleveland, came unseeded to Igain· a pl'ace in the fina:l of the D-17 Mixed.

!Local girls Gaill Smith ,and E'laine Mathie contested the first final against IDehbie IMcQui,re and Lyn Fennah (Cheshire). The MiMom girls let a :long lead sUp in the firslt, took the second easiily, bUJt eventua'1ly went down in the third. The Under-114 boys,' douil>les brought 1:IW'O "mixed" p'airs together in Reed and O',Conlllor against Laird and Paul Radnfond, with tihe formel[" pair winning comfortably. It w.as much the s,ame ta'le in the cadet girls' 'singles wiItih HeIelll Robinson showing why she is ourrenrtl1~ seeded at No. 1 for England, defeating Gail Smith.

Lai.rd and O'Connor then faced each other in rtihe cadet boys' final], O'Connor raced home in the first, ,and looked to be playing wel1ll

enough to win easoily. tEut Laird reversed' the score in tihe socond :leaving the Liverpool lad to sq-ueeze home game"19 in tlhe third. clinch­inlg ltJhe ti'Ne with a brill-Hant display o!f counter­hitting to take the last pod,nr.

[n the Under"17 boys dou!l)les Chris Reed and Neill Smitrh finaHy 'gave trhe locals some­!thing :to sn-oUlta,bout lWihen l\:Iheyeme'l'lged wctorious: against Ian iReed and O~'onlilor.

The fin-a:! of t,he ,girUs' sin<~es produced ,the one major upset of the' clmmpionshiJps, when the 1000er-r,a,nked June Williams, havi,ng under­gone a drul)bing in the fir&t, hung on dn rtihe socond and dtirJd to' win agaionst a despondent AngeJa Tierney. iLocaI pl,aye.r IChris iReed, was moSil: tpe()ple's .favoul1"ite for Ithe Unde:r·17 boys' t:iItlle', ha'Ving tlWice beaten O'ConnO'I" in matches this season, but Chris' reserved one of his lea:s:t impressive rperf.ol'1ffiances for the hOlllle specta­tors. as O~onnor, rplIaying cared',UlUy and intell­legently, deseI"Ved'ly overeJame the' No. 1 seed. The LiveI'lPodI starlet completed a '~eat aIM­rounJd rper!fwmaalJCe to tJak-e tlWo titles and a half mare illl a tihird.

StaJged by MiJJom &h'Ool T.T. ClUlb, and sponsored by Ascot lSports, the first Cham­pionshiiP'S' were an undoubted success'. and the trOlphies were presented thy' the headmaster and dulb president, 'Mr. R. Eo 'F~j;ar.

ResuMs:­Under·17 Events B.S.: A. O~COII1nO'I" (,Lancs) bt C. Reed (Cumb)

14, 18. G.S.: J. Williams (,Cleve) bt A. Tierney

I(Ole,ve) ·18, 18, 18. B.D.: C. Reed/N. Smith (Cumb) bt O'C'OnnO'I'/

II. Reed (Cumb) ~13, 1:1, 114. G.D.: H. Rolbinson (Oleve) /Tierney bt N.

Carne (OIeve)/WiHiams -19, 8, 13. x.n.: is. Holden (Cleve)/Tiemey bt P. Grainger

(101eve) /WilliaJIllSi 13, 43, 15. Under~14 Events B.S.: O~onn'Or bt M.Lail'1d (Cleve) 112, ·12. 19. G.S.: Robinson bt G. SmIth (Cum'b) 13, 11. B '0-: O'Connor/'T. Reed bt Laird/P. Rainford

I(Lancs) 17, ,10. ~.IO.: L. FennahlD. McGuir-e (Ohes') bt

IE. Matlhie (iCwmb) /Smith -121, 112, ,16.

SUSSEX NOTES by John Woodford

SI1RA.NGE TURN AROUND At the 'be~inning o.f AJpril Sussex selectors

and, slJIPIPOirters ,were eLated with ,the perform­ances o.f the senIor team and the juniors in qu~l'1i!fying fOIl" Itlhe Premie:r Divisiolll oolaI:Ienge matches at S<henftey.

The seniOil" stde had tlhrough :the firture list in.

whipped Divi5ion 12

smartly (South)

wtiJthout JOS'ing a malteh. The four pLayers invoJiVed tht'ougbout w-ere Roger Ohandle:r, J ahn :Clarke, Gerald Pugh aoo Diane Card. At ShooJey, hOlWe,ver, mings did not go according to p:I'an.-deifeat'S <by BeI1"'kshill"e, Leicestersihire, OamIbriJdgeshire and Yorl<19hire-"slow" tables d~d nOlt iPleas'e OUT attacldn,g team.

Only 24 hours OOfor-etihe Shenley crashes, Ohandler ,and .c1a:rke !fought OUlt an intell'esting batttiIe illl it'he' final of the Brighoon champion­ships with OhandJer winll1ing 14, 19, 16. BoJth men eosrta,blislhed rlIemselves as easily l\:Ihe ,best Itwo men in the County. It was therefore, a 'St:range tUll'n, mound in the next 48 hours a's 'both men suffered sever,aU defeats against a'LmQSt "unknown" pliayers. However, t'he succe~f.ul sides at ShenJey face a very difficult Itask nexil: season in trying to hold rheir premier dilv.is:i,onl places.

/Sussex juniors I1iared a lot belt1te:r at SihenJey trh.e folilowin,g weekend, 'beating Lanoo51hire, dJra.w1n'g wilth Hampshire and just 10Sling 4-6 1:10 both Cleveland and Hertfor'dshire. The junior official'S were deHghrted witlh these results. These cl1aI:Ienge weekendis provide financia'1 headacihes fur County treasW"e'l's. In SUS6ex, tlhe CoU!l1Jty fiIl!all1ces htalVe had ,00 with­stand two !bIlOiWS, each o.f £100 in Ithe last few weeks, which means, of course, the fees have to go up ,again next season.

Sedgefield District 2-star Open

by John Masson

SURP!R1'SE, SUm.>RISE The second Sedgefield Distdot Open was

he'ld on Aprill 24, once more in the excellent venue at Newton AycIiffe Recrea,tion Centre.

The tOUirnaJIllent was fuLl' of surpll'dses, not least of which was the uneXJPected appearanceof .England's Linda Howard and Karen Senior, O'f !reiland, returning fnm1 the &ottisih Open and hoping to make ,late entries. Unforftunately the on:ly vacancy was for one .player in the WOOllen's doubles>. This was claimed 'by Miss Senior after tfhe t'wo girls had tossed a cain ~I!nd s>he made the most of her luck to partner Judith Walker to an unex.pected final 'Win over Carole Kni,~t and Angela Tierney.

'The top Clevei},and men a'lso found 'ldfe was nOlt alill roses- in the men's singles. AfIter top seeds Nicky Jarvi6 and Jimmy W,alker had comforna:bI1y reaclhed their allilotted places in 1Jhe semis against Ni'geJ IEcke.rs'ley and John HUlton, it looked as if they mi~t not get fur,ther.

Against Jarvis, Ecke'rsley (aU rippling muscJes and sa:rtoma'l e'legance). set off aike an express train to itJake the firSt: .g-aJIlle with Jarvis often left snoonded by his skilful~'Y­placed returns. .Eckersley coUJ1dn't keep this up, however, aned me power and consiSitency O'f the ·Englla.nd No.2 eventuaHy wore down the Ches>hire man and Jarvis went mrough.

In ,1lhe other semi.finail John Hilton aJso Itook the firSt: gamfl off W-alker, Wlho then got his pOiWerlul'oo:ckhand working!

After aH vhis excitement the finail was rather an anJtic-climax 'With Jarns much too good for Wallker, easily reversing their &ot­tish Open ,resuillt ito take the £40 .prize.

Jarvis and Wailker suffered further indignity in the men's doubles when, after 'beating Trevor Burro,ws/Tony Isaac in ilJhe quarters, tfhey !were hustled out !by Stephen Souter anJd Peter McQueen. Second seeds Brian Kean and HHton WeTe the other fina1i'S'ts and they looked to be in for Ithe same rough ,t,reatment Wlhen they quickly wenlt -12 d'OlWn in ilJhe first. The ollder pair were gr·aduall,},y ,ahle to sJlow the game' dOiWn and wenlt on to ,win.

ICarole Knig'ht was, 'as expected, a comfort­able winner of the 'Women's singles dh fina!! victory over club-mate An'ge'la Tierney to retrain her title. ICarO'le then combined with Jarvis to take me mixed, beating Souter/ Tierney, eardier conquerors of second-seeded Wallker and June Williams. iCarooe's efforts to achie;Yf;l a tri,ple success were thwarted in me women's doubles finaij. Paired wirth Ange'la Tierney 'She ·reached the finlrl easily enougih, but once rhere, could make little impression' on Karen Senior and Judi1Jh Wa'lker.

After two finail defeats it was !t1hird time lucky for Ange'1a Tierney in the ,girls' singles which she won wiuh-out d-roprpi'ng a gaJIlle. The defeated finalist waS June Wiililiams, who had survived a titanic struggle in the s'e'Illis with Joane Skipp but went out like a cramlb -in the final.

Surprise winner of the boys' sangles was' 15-years·old Ian iPlUiIDmer who', after knockin~ nut: Souter fr(}m rhe men's event, real!ly went 't·o town t3mongsit the juniors. I'n ibis trip to the final he left 'behind him ·B. Clark (Northum· berland), D. Robson ([)urham), Keith Paxton, the tOl[J seed, and Brian MetcaM. His> fina~ owonent was Tony Gelder, the second seed, who had defeated' PITummer in the men's singl~. IBut the young Olevetl-ander was nOit !to Ibe denied this time, and he turned it'he tables to win. Certainly a very mralt-ure disrpilay from a !boy to watcih next season.

iP'rize Money totalling over £175 was pre­sented by Coundllors D. Vi'ckers and J. Gon­lIon, of '8ed-gooe'1d Dis'trict 'Council. and Mr. K. Asbeck, IPresident of !the Ayoliffe League. who

organised the evetnt. Much effort by Bab Edon, the Referee, and /the Aydliffe Comm1ttee enS1lred that the Itournament finished by 9-30 p.m.-quite a change from the eady days of the Aycliffe Open when midnidtt was once passed !Witlh fin. stil:l in progress!

RESULTS Men's Slngles-Quarte,•••ls N. Jarvis (Cleve) bt A. Gelder (Oumam) 10. 13. N. Eckersley (Ches) bt T. Isaac (Staffs) 21, 19. J. Hilton (Ches) bt M. Harrison (Vorles) 10, 13. J. Walker (Cleve) bt P. McQueen (Oumam) 18. -18, 10. Seml·linals Jarvis bt Eckersley ·15, 13, 15. Walker bt Hilton ·22, 10, 12. Final JARVIS bt Walker 13, 17. Men's Doubles-Seml·Iln.ls S. Souter (Cleve) / P. McQueen bt Jarvis/Walker 17, 22. B. Kean (Ches)/J. Hilton bt Eckersley/P. O'Arcy (Ches) 11,14.Final KEAN/HILTON bt Souter/McQueen ·18, 15, 17. Ladies' Slngl5-Semi·llnalsC. Knight (Cleve) bt J. Williams (Cleve) 6, 7. 1\. Tierney bt J. Skipp (Cleve) 9, 10. Final KNIGHT bt Tierney 16, ·15. 9. Ladles' Doubles-Seml.IIn.ls Knight/Tierney bt Skipp/Williams 13, 12. K. Senior <IrelandllJ. Walker (Vorl<s) bt C. Mason/B. Murtagh

(Durham) 9, ·11, 12. Final SENIOR/WALKER bt Knight/Tierney 16, 14. Mixed Doubles-Seml.lln.ls Jarvis/Knight bt Eckersley/Walker 12, 12. Souter/Tierney bt Walker/Williams 19, 14. Final JARVIS/KNIGHT bt Souter/Tierney 6, ·19, 16. h.lior Bon' Slngles-Quartef·llnalsI. Plummer (Cleve) bt K. Paxton (Oumam) ·17, 23, 18. B. Metcalfe (Vorl<s) bt A. Clarle (Northumberland) 17, 9. M. Harrison Vorles) bt A. Metcalfe (Vorl<s) 14, -20, 18. ~~~~J:.~s(OUrham) bt M. Laird (Cleve) 17, ·17 18.

Plummer bt Metcalfe -19, 17, 14. Gelder bt Harrison 10, 21. Final PLUMMER bt Gelder 19, 17. IlIIi,r 6lrls' Slngles-5eml.IIn.ls 1\. TIerney bt H. Robinson (Cle.... ) 6, 8. ~in~"liams bt J. Skipp ·6, 20, 20.

TIERNEY bt Williams 13, 8.

Cambs. Closed Champs by Leslie Cotistable -

'1.6~years-o~d Keith. Rid1ll1~on, of Sobam, r.etamed ill1S Oambndgesh'llI'e men's singles QtJe whetn he beaJt off Geoff Davies, of Wisbem, at the' County's closed champions-hips at Oam. bnidge COTni Exchange.

. The t!Wo p:Ilayers had m~t earlier In me boys' smgles fin'al, Wlhetn the Wlsbech boy had taken RiicharidSlOn 00 three, but in the men's final the cham.pion !Was aJlways in oommand and won comJfortably in 2-sltraight.

There wras coonsol,ation f.or Dawes in the men's doubles wheIlt Ihe partnered Rioha,rds<>n to victory a'gainSit Mick Harper and Brian Jones. Rkhardson was ,foiled in his attempt to repeat last season's penorma,nce--he had claim .to 4 .title5'-Wlhen he and .partner Rum Newman lo£t It'he mixed final to Harper and Sailly Hirst.

This was one of 'three successas for Mrs. !Ili,rst, who IlIJ,so won the women's singles a~'nslt last season's chaJIlliJ!ion, Valerie Scr.ip.p&' t!hen combined witlh her ,defeated finalist to win the 'Women's doubles against W·i'Sbeoh pair Vavienne ROiWell and Pat Tingey.

T,wo unseeded' players reached the fi,n'3J. of cl1e girls' singles, wdlich saw the Sobam cluib score a furtiher success', Joanne Palmer beaJting Susan EIlllis. John Thurston again proved too steady for Ron Nunn in the veterans' final. Results: ­Men's Singles-Semi·finals K. Richanlson bt S. iPalhner 14, ·17, 13. G. oDavies ht M. HIlI'11Per 15, ·16~ li2. Final RiIOHIAJRiDSON bot DavIes 1'4, 10. Men's Doubles-Final DAWIES/RIOHiAiR!DiSON bot Harper/B. Jones

19, 13. Women's Singles-Final 'S. HIRST bt V. SooiI[Jps 5. 19. Women's ,Doubles-Final HIRST/SORI'PIP'S bt V. Rowell/P. Tingey 10,

20.

Mixed Doubles-Final HARPiER/iHlRST lJt: Riohardson/R. Newman

,116, 16. lBoys' Singles-Final R'IlCiHARDSON bI Davies -12, l.3, 18.B.s. U·l4---l"inaI A. HU£.B.LiE bt S. Oailvelit 25, 13. Girls' Singles-Final J. PA!LIMEIR <bt S. ElIlis 16, 15. Veterans' Singles-Final J. muRiSTON bt R Nunn 3, 18.

MIDDLESEX NOTES

by Laurie Landry

WELL-SET Once again this summer Middlesex wiH be

organising U-i14 squads for boys and /1;irls. We have been running these for a few years no,w and <tJhe fact ·tlhat :the senior County side has an average of 17t COnfi'NtllSl the success of the sysl1e111.

IWirth young p~l(Iyeis coming through from Miclhael 'Cil-ose in W'emh:Iey and Harrow and Tony Pac-i't1:o' at Aylestone Schoo'l, as wen as reguloil[' talent from tlhe North Middlesex set-up, the County wou'ld appear- to be well·set.

/What is really needed, however, is some sort of centralisation on a reguJ'ar ,basis and like everytthing else, someone is needed t-o org,anis-e this. The U-14 County team ihas been success>­full so far in the Eastern Region maltches, which have been overy useful experience for all the young players.

In ilhe County IIltter-league competiti-on6 tlhere 'Was a triple tie between Norvh Middlesex I, NO'l'ItJh Middlesex II and Willesden in the 3-l3.-side (Vicltor Barna) compert,ition.

The Counlty te~ ha.ve completed a fairly slKcessfu'l season. PriJde of place must go to the Junior 2nd team, who won all rtlheir matclhes. The Juni-01'' iPremier side were runners-UfP, on~y drowing points in matches with Anme,w Barden -or Angela Mitchell absent. The Senior s~cond 'Side were ¢aced clear of relegation and an ,tlhis ,team David Jemmett and Robert Ald.ricih !Were unbeaten in doubles.

lfI.he Senior Premier team fini5hed in third place, tiherelby remaining the only County to halVe allWa~s kept its Premier place. In fact in the 29 seas'ons of the Premielf Division, Middle. sex have won on 16 occasions and finished filfth (lowest positdon) only ,twice!

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WESSEX RESTRICTED UNDER-11

TOURNAMENT by Paddy Shepherd

The first Wf;.Ssex Restricted Under-ll tournament wras held in P:lymouth on March 13 with six C-ounty teams from Devon, Corn· waH and Avon competing.

In the ,boys' final Gary Lambert (Devon "A") emer,ged tfhe vkltor over Mark Ellett (Devon "A") after a dosely fought second Jeg. Alith'OU'gh only 9 years old these two Exmouth juniors dis>played a degree of skiJIl and maturity 'beyond their years.

!In ,thi- gids' competition, run totaijly on a round robin Ibasis, Tracey Drummond (Devon ''B'') was o,verall winner, with Carolline Tor,ainer ('Devon "A") in second S>POlt.

In me Team Competition, Devon "A" won by a substantial margin Iwith Devon "B" and Avon '~B" sharing second place. Devon "A's" winning team comprised Lambert 'and Ellett (IExmoUith) and Michaerr Oarey and CaroHne Trainer (IPllymouth).

HopefuHy il)his tournament wioll become an annual fixture with a greater number of Counties entering teams in future years.

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ESSEX NOTES

by Geoff Newman

REIlEGA,TlON AVERTED With relegation aven:ed for our Senior and

Junior Premier teams we can look forwaI1d to neXit season with renewed h.ope and vig<lur In the C<lunty Championships. Our congratu­lations go to the Senior Thiro team. who duly won Div. 3 ('E.aSlt), while our Veterans' FlI"St team became .overa:ll1 champions with a storm­ing 8·1 win in the play-off wiil:'h Notts. A special mention t<l V4c LreJand, :who has had a particu­larly good seasolll in ·the latteor category.

Major honours in the Essex League pro­gramme spotlights: ­Senior Div. l-SoUluhend "A"; run.-up: RQmiOifld "A" Div. 2-Bililerkay "iA"; Romif<liI'd "B" Junior Div. l~Dagenham "A"; Soutlhend "A" Div. 2-Hadow; Billilericay Veterans Div. l--Romford "A"; Billllerkay "A" Diiv. 2-Barking "A"; HarlOfW "A"

On /the Inter-Lea-g.ue scene a number ()f <lUI' leagues have done weIll in the National Com­petitions. Both Chel1msfOTd (D. NeWiman, S. Whiitely and D. Bowles) and East Lond<ln (I. Horsiham, D. Brown alll·d R. Pott<ln) have reached ~he semi-final stage Oof the Willmott Cup.

In the Rose Bowl, Southend (L. Budd, L. Barrow and M. Nash) read1red the qU'3.I'lter­finals, as did Chelms.f.or.d in the Carter Cup (Newman, K. Owers and T. Dowseltt). The FeItlows Cranlei,gh Olub (same team as .Mst London League) are '3.nSO doing weN in the Club K.O., a fine 5-2 win over Tennyson (Barden, Mitohell, Lam;ky) being the high­light to date.

Most of our leagues have been deciding tlheir OWiO individua[ champions and irom aill accounts< there ill'as been some exceLlent crowds for "Finals Nigh'ts". Some champions noted are:­Barking

M.S.: K. Caldon bit L. Fountain. W.S.: E. ISayer bt P. Latchford. B.S.: Caldon bt S. Kimm. rG.S.: Sayer lbit iL. Chambea1lain. V.S.: R. Herber bt Fount·ain.

Bra'ntree M ..: D. Wood bt T. V:ncent. W.s.: J. Plampin bt S. Smith. B.S.: D. Huboord bt K. Ho·ward. V.S.: R. Foster bt D. Tl.IlI'ner.

BUiI"n am M.S.: D. Newman ,bt M. Speighlt. W.S.: J. Crozier bt A. Boddy. B,S.: J. Wright bt J. Cross'. V.S.: B. Pacrtridge bit P. Cross.

Chelmsford M.S.: D. Newman bt D. Wood. W.,s.: L. Barrow bt K. Owers. G.S.: J. Do,wsetlt bt L. Jennings. V.S.: J. Lewing.ton bt B. Lummis.

Colchester M.S.: A. Schoaler l>o't M. Buckiley. iW.'S-: F. BiI'beck b't J. Dyer. . B.S.: A. Jarvis bt S. Goodbourne. IG.S.: A. Moss bt L. BiI'lbeck. V.S.: M. Bucklley bt P. Kirk'land.

East London M.lS.: D. WelUs bt G. Blomfield. IW.S.: E. Sayer bt T. Pickard. IB.S.: ~ elNs b't S. Kimm.

Harlow MiS,: D. Iszat't bt G. B,asset-t. ,W.'S.: J. Wright ot V. Worth. B.S.: J. IszalJt Ibt B. Downes. G.S.: J. Smith bt C. Smirth. V.S.: D. Fuller bt \E. Todd.

Romford IM.S.: K. CaMon bt B. Pardsh. L.S.: C. Mowbr,ay (nee Stonell) Ibt: J. Livesey. V.S.: K. Vea,le btt S. Norton.

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Waltbamstow M.S.: M. Weil:ls bt J. AlIldrews. W.S.: T. Pickard ,bt A. Hall. of·iS.: C. Angus bt J. Sheridon. VJS.: P. Curtis bt R. Her·ber.

ESSEX CLOSED Il'h~s season's Essex Closed Championships

were Sitaged 3t· Ilford Ltd., Bas-lidon, whose Sitaff rendered yeoman service in conjunction with the County officials.

mhe seniOT events were weN supported and the men's singles semis ,were quite entertain­ing yet entirely different in style. David Bl'oWitl and David IS7Ja,tt, bOfh witlh big forehand kills,

- were a:1Jways out itO get /the big one in and iii: was County s,kipper DaIVe Brown, who got rhe most. The other semi between Ian Horsham and David New.man had longer lI'alliesand more vari'3.tion'S, wilth Horsham the winner.

Fortunes fluctuated in the final with Brown having the best of tlhe opening exchanges and winnin:g the first game but af,ter leading in the second Horsham ca,me back to Ilevel matters. In the 'tlhird it was point for point until a,t 16-a1'1 Horsham !forged ahead to reverse IIast season's resuilt.

Linda Budd', the fast-improving Southend girl wit'h /tlhe ·big forehand, neanly caused an upset in the women's singJes when she fu1'ly extended tlle ES'sex No.1 and Eng:land No.5, Lesley Radford. After ilo~img the first ,game Lesley had to pull out every ounce of her experience to keep the yQunger player out. Mter getting an eady third game lead, Lesley had matters in contTol. bUit: Linda fought to the end.

The Junior Championships were highly com­petitive and ovhere were some outstanding per­fOI'mances. One of the mos'!: deteI'mined came fnom ]oulie Dowsert in the U'N event'S. Mter etlim1nating /top seed Maxilne Albbott, she came back s.trQngly in ,vhe finail aga1nst an equally detel'ffi'ined Kay Tilllyer. Trailing one game and 6-12, it looked all over for Julie, bUll: she dug her heels in and came back to leve'1 and repeated the peI'formance illl' the decider in a last gasp effoI'lt to win 22-20.

[)esnnond Charlery, an outstanding prospect from SiJl!ver'town, dully won ,the ,boys' U-14 event but not without a few moments of anxiety. Algains't Stephen -Edwar·ds in the final he reaUy ihacd to work hard for his ,win.

Th'e U-17 events were dominated by Da,vidi Newman and Helen Gore. Helen had a faiT'ly

Helen Gore. winner of the girls singles in the Essex Closed.

Photo by Geoff Newman.

comfortable passage in winning the G.S. title and was partnered by Clacton's Susan C~ark to success in the G.D. Newman was in unbeat­able form in the B.S., pulverising ail opposi­tiOiIl to win from his arch rival, Kevin Caldon, in the final. Resu~ts:-

Men's Singles-Semi-finals D. Brown bt D. Iszatlt 16, 16. I. Horsham bt D. Newman 16, 18. Final HORSHAM bt Brown -18, 13, 16. Women's Siogles--'Semi.finals L. Rl8dlford ibt J. Livesey 18, 18. iL..Budd ht E. Sayer 19, 13. Final RADFORD bt B'udd -18, 111, 14. Men's 'Doubles-Final K. CA!L.DON/NEWMAN bt Brown/Ho·rsham

'17,5. Women's Doubles----Final H. GORE/ RADFORD bot G. Donaldson/ E.

rIarlten 8, -18, 21. Mixed Doubles-Final HORSHiAlM/RA'DFORiD bt M. WalJts/Budd 13,

17. Veterans' Singles-Final V. lREiLANU bt L. Fountain -14, 19, 15. Boys' Singles-Final N1E1WMAN b't Coaidon 1,5, 5. Girls Singles--JFinal GORE bt P. Ahbott 20, 16. Boys' Doubles-Final CALDON/NEW'MAN bt K. Jacks·on/S. Kimm

15, 8. Girls' Doubles-Final S. Ol.lA!RK/GOR'E bt Y. Bro.wn/J. Dowsetit 16,

113. Junior Mixed Doubles-Final CAoUDON/'P. ABBOTT bt Newman/V. Joel 13,

16. U-14 Boys' Singles-Final D. ,OHARLERY bt S. Edwaoos -8, 114, 17. U-14 Girls Singles-Final DOWSETT bt K. Tmyer -13, 19, 20.

SOUTH YARDLEY SPORTS CLUB

The First Restricted Hard Rubber Bait Cham­pionships, salnc,tioned ,by ithe Birmingham and District T.T.A., and confined to members or ex-mem1be,rs of the B. & D.T.T.A., is to be held at South Yardley Sports C~ub, RedhHl Road SChOOll, Hay Mills, Birmingham 25.

Women's events will be on Thur&day, June 17 and men's events on Wednesday and Thurs· day, June 123 and 24. Form6 can 'be had from Mr. B. K. Johnson, 101' Pelham Roa'd, A,lum Rock, ,Birmingham, B8 2PB (021-326 731'1) the dosing date being 'Saturday, June 12.

One of the mailn aim1i of the tournament is for everyone invoIved to have an enjoyable evening's talWe tennis, using original hard rubber bats. If you know anyone who has "retired" from the game, please "persuade" them to Play-these are tlhe peop'le -we would love Ito meet again. Play Birminghams top players when they cannot use tricky spin serves and vicious 1000p ·drives. STOP ,PRES'S.-'Be warned, Maurice GOIldstein

is coming out of retirement!!

DOING THEIR BIT 'Birmilll'gham clubs conitinue to do Itheir bit

for "The ,Worlds". Hand'~lwor,th V.ictoria raised a S<IJllendid £4.'2 at a recent "disco". R.A.F.A. Sheldon, with considerable support f.rom South Yardley, r.aised £21 durin.g a soci.al evening and an idea lIt the Social pro'ved greaJt fun.

,Barry and Douggie JOohnson played one game of singles and ·people were asked to guess hGW long the goame would last, gambling lOp for blocks of 10 seconds between 4 and 1,2 minutes. 11he itwo players provided s'ome good table tennis- mixeq wiltih p'lenty of olo'Wlning a~,dthe correct forecaster won £1 with £3.60 gomg to the cause_

CUM·B.RIA COMMENT

by John Taylor

SUOC[EIS'SFUL DIE,FIE'N'CE Pride of plac'e in this ,month's if·e[Jort goes

to Millom Sc(hool Boys' U-16 rte:alm of Clhr,is Reed, (Neil SmiJt[h, Ian Reed and iDiceo'll Gr1ay, who successfulily d'elfended their ES~rrA 1Je~am clh,ampionship titJe' ,at Lela Gr,een.

(Wins IOd: 6-2 and 5-3 'made :them 'c~e.a~ winne1f's of tiheir groU(p and the srtlar'S' of ,t(he side were Chriis Reed and Smith, Itlbe .two survivors of }taslt' year's rwin·ntin.lg te,am, wh,o both reJm:ained unhe1aten" and Gr.ay, who only 'lolSt onc'e. Ian Reed did not !haive a htaiPPY d:a,y ,and rather surlP,risinglly f'ailled to w;in 'anyone of his four sets.

T'wo def'eats for the Giir~ls' U-16 t1e:aim ,me-ant Ithat tihe,y finish'ed third in /their group. Mir.anda Gtr1ay was tlile' pick of .the team ,and took three 01£ the,ia:- four wins with IG,aH ISmith Igaining ~he o/tlher. The Iwe'a'lth 'Of t:allent lat the- Millom club, cOU(pled with the rapid Irate of i,mpro~e.. m,ent sholWn by tlhe youD.g1Ster'S" enS!Uif'es a brigh;t future in these annual championshirps for m.any y,ea~s .t'o ICOlne.

'The' final round o(~ rCounlty Cha1mrpionship matches brought ChrIS Reed's fine unlbe1aten run for tfhe Junior first tle'alm to ,an end las the sid·e ,crashed to rtheir Iheavlest defeat of the season 'agaiinst Durham. ,No disgrace :for ,Chris howeve~, after llo/sing in the decide'r to both Keith [Paxton and Ton~ Gelderr, and tthe ICounty N'o. 1 clan look !balck upon 1jh:e County pro­gr1alWlIr e as one o\f his' many per'sonal sucoesses of tibe sealson. The one win. for .the visiting CUmlbri!ans was ,a mixed doubles for Mirand1a Gray (a1nd Ian Reed.

\T!he Junior 2nd tea\m went down 4-6 in their finaJ ma1t1ch (against Cl1wyd and Diccon Gray land Ian .H1arrisoill' aga!in proved Itihe Ibac1kb 0 ne of the side iby taking the four wins between them. Ian cont,inued hi!s good JCounty form ,and gave his lthitrd successive unbeaten pe,rfOrm.laill'Ce for the side..Dic,con., however, WHS denied ,one of h.is s,ingles' and ulttim'atelly la tpoint fOT his ;team with ,an. 18, -is, -211 defeat hy the !holme No.2, G·. Jones, in. th'e first se't of rtihe (match. Per­form:alnces from both p\llayers throughout the seaslon have certainily ,e:arned the te,alm !t'he r,esp,ec;t of the' oth1elr sides in thei'r division and itt: ,is unlfortun:ate that the seals,on Iwh1ch sla~ tbe .forrm,altion of the tea·m a'llsio se1es Ian playing hilS last s·elason as ,a junioll'.

'The tSenfior te:alm e'Dlded thei·r se1ason on a good notel with a clLose 6-4 win over Niorthum­berland II.TMro wins each for Brian Tow'e11­his first ,County sUiClceSSlesl of tlhe se.as·on-and

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tMiUom School's U-16 team (l .to r): ,Chris Re.ed" Ian Reed, Dicc'on Gray and Neil Smith, who retained their title at 'Matlock in April.

John 'Willis" fO:f\med .the basis ,of the win wh:ch wtalS' compJ,eted wilth one win ea,ch for Alan F,ay and Jennife'r PlacihUll. :Defeat in alB three doubles, H[parit fr'oim p'roducing a tighte1r malt,ch, meant the first de'feat of the s€'ason for Jennilf?r and 'C'lari!ce Rose in the wOlluen'ls dnuibU'es.

'Two locaf itournalments have proved bene­fi,cial to sing:le players in re1cent weeks and (Chris IR'eed Imade a clean sweep in the ,B'arrow C.!,o,sed tour:n~y 'by lt~akinig Ithe men's land junior sllllg!les, an? douibles with INe.it \S!m,it[h, his fin,al opponent In /the fOr':mer two e'veDits. Jennif1err Pachultook the women'Sl tittle.

Jimimy ICulmlmingis folllo'wed suit in tJhe West Cumibria ,Closed land won th'e m'en's land handi­oap sing1les, land doublles with Stephen C,rosby who, as rbetfo·re, 'also ·cout1elsted Ithe m1en',s fi/nat

IMirU1olm's ,Car1ter Cup hope,s oame to an end in tlhe,iT fourth ,round mlartlch away to a Sunder­land side w!h'irch conrt:a,ined three IEnglland­:flank'ed juniors in Pax/ton, Ge!lder and Andrew C1lark. The Cum.lbri'ans' tlWO wins 'calme' wirth excellenrt victoriies for ;N·elil ·Sm'ith and Ian Re,ed over G·e'Iider.

L,ateltJt Dnter.Je.ague resuilits and table:­Whitehaven 5, MiUom 7 Whiteha:V'en 8, BlarlfofW 4

PWnL F A Prt'S Millom . 550 0 43 17 10 Carlisle . '421 1 29 19 5 Westmor:land 4 i2 1 1 29 il9 5 White(h:avien S 2 1 2 314 26 5 B'arrow . 401 3 1'7 311 1 W o:rkington 400 4 4 44 0

IN THE COACHING FIELD

with JOHN O'SULLIVAN

Difficulties often alrise iwhen s:chools' 1eague matches require travelling :long dist,ances to the various venues land obtaining staff for sup,ervision during play.

During a ,coiDvers'ation with Mrs. Phil Clark at a County Match lin Northumbe,rJand, she eXlpllained the system operating s·uooessfuBy in that area.

ffhe total number of s'choo'ls in anyone divisiOtn ,meet at one venue on the sa.me night. If ther,e are 10 teams to the division, fiv,e matches take place art: the sa.me ti,m'e, which can he contro/Bed by a minimum number of stlaff.

The advant'ages of the sys.te1m S?e!ID ;to be far more than tihe few disadviantages that may ari[,e. ,Only one tea'Ciher need be present. AJll results' are i1m!mediately in th? hand's of offi'cialls -none !forgotten to be p,o'S'tedI

~here Imlay he diffi.iculty in som·e a'reas in findin.g a venue 'with sufficient tables, !but in most cases this prohle1m can be ov,e'fcome. Upon ,mentioning this s~stenl to other potential s,chool lea.gues, they have express1ed 'great intereslt and Imay start a lea1gue of their own on this !basis.

'Ov?r thew:eeke1nid of April 9-11 a 'Coaches' Refresher Course w.as held at Carnegie IColilelge, Leeds. 'Tih1is is ,nne OIf the courses whioh usualily attriaots entrants from far and wide, and this year 28 coa,c:hes, fronl the Midlands up to CalrHsle" attended.

'St'andard varied from !Cllub ,Coach to Dip,lom,a 2-Star, !but the !level of ,quali.ficat.ion did not stand in tihle 'way during the practicall s·ession!s and seminars. IOrlgani,s·ed 'by ,Peter Si,mpson, he used the various coalches to set up their own tflaining s,essions, and under the guidanc,e of the more ·experie,nced 'coaches, five groups were !formed comprising 'all standards.

In:forlmation was' not only gained from the course rprolgra~m,m'e hut al~o from the inte,r­change OIf ideas b?t'we,en t1he 'coaches. Physical t,rainin,g was adm'inisltered {by Bob Wiley and maDlY an aching limb groaned to his expertise in this fielld. It is good rto have a 'coach who has taken th·e trouble and tilme to study the correct approa'ch to this very im:portant laspect

.of coachillig. I hav,e attended 'aliI th,e courses he~d at

Carlnelgie and have yet 1:0 be di'Sappointed. I wi~l1cert,ainily keep the date f,ree for next year, if only to get at whlat must he the best food offered on any ,coursle l[ h,ave been to.

(Going :furthe~ Nortih, ICar\1i~le and District T.'T.A. are holding coa1ching sessions for juniors of various standards, divided into three s'essinns - ,Be,ginners, Internlediat,es and Advanced, su:pervi~s'ed Iby three ,coach·es.

(Up to 20 pUipi,ls attend each siess ion land after 9 months in ope1ration, i'miProve,m,ent in purpi,ls is now becoming apparent. CarIi'sle Sports Council h,av,e started a School o:f Sport and during a 5-day course for s,c:hooJchildren, 10 sports 'willI he catered for, one of 'which wiH be 'T'a/bile Tennis, to !be run :by National ICoach Pete,r 'Si'm:pson.

!In W,akefielld a s·chool for Itafb:le tennis coa:ch­ing 'was started in 19171 with the 'co-operation of the IWake,fi,eld Youth S'ervice. Premises, were alcquired through the Youth Se1rvice 'and 'were avaHalble e'v:ery thilrd Sunday from 10 to 4.

'Tables had to Ibe transported from Cilubs and S'ChOOllis hut because of the success of rthe ventur'e', the Youth Servi,ce pur'cthased ta1bles and stored th'em at the venue. As the sessions oontinued, further equ'ipment was acquired, m'ainly through the Youth Service, but also through the· rw,akefi·eld 'T.T.L, and fund-r'aising sch.em,e,s by the Imelmhe:rs.

Oive1r 100 chi~dlr·e,n, aged from 9 to 117, are now on the relgister! and are issued with for,m,s which have to be 'compJeted and r,eturned to reser1ve ,a .pll'a!ce on th'e next session. A. further se,ssion, 'ea'ch Monday night, has :been obtained. and ,coa-chinlg for advanced juniors ~akeS' place ealch week.

iWith the approa,cn of t[he Assess1m,ent C,a·mps, Pane/Is alre arranging inte'r-panel tri,a~s rto heilp with the s'e.}?'ction of the top quality juniors to attend each 'Clamp. Tibree :camps in aJI willI be ,arr,ang;ed, all to be a!ttelnded ,by INatiollia'l Cna.ch Bryan Me,rrett, from ,whi'ch the juniors to attend the finall tria,IIS will be selle1cted.

What with the U-113, U-14 and the Junior Challenge tm!atches, some juniors are having an ·ex,ceedi1ngily busy ti1m,e.

As It ha'v,e now s·e:en snme :fresh faces at coaches' relfresher courses. som~ who have not 'be'en on a course for six years or more, I trust the necessity :for such courses is now getting home. I hope to ,see a Jot mor,e of new and oild coaches at future Imeettiln:gs.

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CORNWA,LL SILVER JUBILEE TOURNAMENT

by TOM HOlf4 1EY \This season th'e Cornw'a:11 ICounty T.T. Asso­

ci.ation is ce,leibr1at.illlg its 25th anniversary and 72 players ,from ,six Countiesl met lin a Silver Jubi,lee tournam,ent at St. Auste,ll. Events inc:ludeid ,m,en's, women's, boys' ,and girils? singlles, which incorporated separ'ate Senior and Junior team comp,etitions, and two ,m1ag­nificent perpetual trophies welre donated by Mrs. ,M. T. R. Pearce, th,e County Associ,ation President~ ,and 'by Mlr. H. Tempest, the tourna­ment sponsor.

The tourna.ment 'was, p,la:yed at the Po,lkyth R,e,creation Cent,re, w:hi'ch provided first 'class facilities and p'laying conditions~ and the rpro­gra.mme 'kept labr,east of ,a well-tinled schedule.

The finals ,were started on ti,me, which m,e.ant that the pJay was finished by 9 o',elock, Ileaving ample' ti1me I,for players and offi..cials to .asse,m1bJe in the ,Bar for drinks land buffet refreshrnents, a f.elature' which was enj oyed by ,alIt

\1 t was e~tpe,cia(}lly pleasting to see Mrs. Frances Ja.rvis, IPresident O'f the iD,evon Association. We re,me,mbe[" her Iltate husband, Roy, p·laying against us ,for Plymouth land fOir Devon in 1952. ,Many ,other old friends were taking an a.ctive part in the proceedings, including the men's winner~ Barry Davis, 'who' has been either pJlayin,g. against or for us for th'e ,past 15 years. Ray Philpott is another who first appea["ed a,gainst us in 196:1. It hardly see'ms 113 yea1rs ago since ,we first met John HartrY!l and in the sa.me ye'ar, 19163, Adri,an 'Wright 'ca/me down to St. Aust,e:~l, as the ,De'von Junior champion, to

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conlJpete in the ''West of EngI·and Open". Mike Rattue hlas :beetn :a f~g~ar opponent

since 1967, and in 1970 we first met P,au! Stone, B'rian Reeves, Sue IBeazer and R,e'be'coa Bryant, and yet 'anothe[" Som,erset player, Jimmy Andrews, first played a:g,ainst us in 1969.

IOn the six tables Devon were .the most sue­cess,ful 'County, winnLiDig thre,e of the four individual titles and ,both Senior and Junior te,am trophies'. The D?von pQayers dominated the senior events, ~aining 35 points out of a m'axilmum of 36 in the team competition.

However, the Junior .team comp,etition w,as a much rClloser affair. With only the ,Boys' Final} to pllay, Devon "A" were just one point :ahe'ad of Cornw:all "A" and victory £0[" CornwaH's la'll James would have gained the honle team three points ,and the IC)Up, \bwt [)e'von's :Micihae1 Shearman proved just too good ill ·a 'very close match.

In the ,Men's Singl~s sev,en of the eight seeded pl1ayers ca1me through their groups successfully. The ,exception 'was Brian Reeves, the lfancied Som,erset lP,layer, who felll1 to Mik,e Sykes, of W orcestershire. Sykes 'won ,an excit ­ing ,encounter by -:14, 18, 20. ,Mike w'as himself etliminated in the quarters by D·evon's Keith Jaimes in anoth'er e~ceililent :match.

'Cornwia,lll's ,main hope, John \Bassett, played we111 in his 'group and then disIPos'ed of Devon­i,an P,aul Stone easily enough in th'e quarters, but he w'as no m,aft1ch for the D,evon 'chaJ1npioJ1, Mike R,attue.. in the se,mi-finals.

Devoln's [N,umlber 1, Batrtry [lavis, pl1.ayle'd exceptionally weill in the tlQlw'er naJf of the dr,aw. He be,at Roge'r Morris, of Somerset, in double-quick tim,e in the quarters, and al.1owe d his te,am-mate, James, only 114 points ove[" two galm,es in the' semis.

'The al1[-Devon final [had flashes of brillliant

table tennis fro'm ,both pla,yersl, 'bm with. Da:vis a'lways in control and looking alII over a winner. His ,matcih..winning point, a running smash pllayed from yards behind the talble, re,celived proIlOng:ed applause alnd und,erlined his confi­dence a.nd supe["iority on the day and was a mlagnifi.ce'Dt end to a very success,fU'l and ,enjoy­ablle tournalm,elnt.

The trophies wer,e p.resented by 'Mr. II. Te,mpest land by M'rs. M. T. R. Pe'arce.

RESULTS Men's Singles-Quarter-finalsJ. ,B,as,sett (iCO) ibrt P. Stone (De) 1,1. il'l. M. Ratrtue (ID,e) bt J. iHartry (So) la, 17. J. }almes (iDe) ,bt iM. Sykes r(Wo) 15, -1\5, 16. B. Da1vis (IDe) bt R. ,Morris (So) 1'4, 8. ,Semi-finals Rattue bt B,ass,ett '1\4, 9. Davis ibt J,anles 6, 8. Final D'A,VIS bt R,attue' 14, 12. Wouten.'s Sill&les-Semi-finals EII'aine L,amib ([[)e) bt JHIl Willson (So) -17~

rl, 14. ~ ,Kathy IRowe (De) bt June Far:m,er (D,e) 1,1, 9. Final LA:MIB ,brt Row'e ~19, 1:8~ 21. Boys' Singles-Semi-:finals Mi'chael She,arman (De) ,bt Ba,rry IGornelius

(Co) 14, 16. ~lan James (ICO) 'btT,erry 'F,ai~hank,s (De) -13.

1(7, ~O.

Final SH\E(L\IRMlA,N bit Ian Janl,es 1'4, -115, 23. Girls' Singles-Final JAN!E,T ,NEiW (IDo) bit Susan Ti:llley ('D,e) 11, 3. Team Conlpetitions-Leading IScores Senior--Devon "~" 3!5, SOimers'et ''lA'' 14, ICorn-

w,aJI "A" 1'1, Devon ~'B" 1'1, W or'cesteTshire 10.

Junior~Devon "A" 14, Cornwalll "A" 10, Dors,et 10.. Avon 4.

Coa1chin:g Scheme were staged overE'aste,r art

INEWS OF THE WORLD' NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS

COACHING SCHEME FINALS

-Smiles all round as I.T.T.F. President, Roy Evans, \presents the boys' trophy to Sam Harmer who, with Linda Hrysko, links up with E.'T.T.A. Cha!irman, Charles Wyles.

,Fiftee!n-ye,ars-oa:d Linda Hlrysko, ,a ta:lil, sllilm bruneltte, 'f,rom B'radlford, Yorkshire, and litttle Salm Hair1mer, aged 14, from !Leilghton Buzzard, are the "!New'S of the World" ('Girl and Boy of the Yea1r".

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ITlhis w,as the verdict o[ a star-,~tudded panel olf judges-l,ed by former World Chaimpion, Johnny Lea!ch, and includ~ng the our,r=nt No.1 player of IEurope, England, Scottand and Walles ----when the ":;rand Finals of the 1975 National

But~in's Biall"ry ICalmp. No cOlmpetitive ga:m,es were played in this competition, but marks were alwarded during spe'cialcoaching sessions. The finallistlS we,re the survivors fronl som,e 40,000 entrants who took part at" ei,~hit BU1:'lin HOlliday ,Ca,mlps last Summer.

Tihe trophies ~wer,e presented by Roy iE:vans, President of tlhe I.T.T.IF., Nancy Evans, ISecre­tary o:f the ,Europe.an T.T.D., and ICiba,rtles Wyles, iChair'm,an of the E.'T.'T.A., before 'a larg'e and ent:husiasti'c audience in Barry's Gaiety The'at1r,e.

Linda ,H,rysko, an 'all-rounder who has greatly implroved her ga1me since ,being selected for the finals by Denis Neale ,alt ,Butlin'si Skegness Camp last August, was the unanilmous ,choice of ,a(ll firve judges.

Ji:Il Hamimersley" herself a forlmer "N,ews of the W orld" ":GirI olf the Year", and nnw reign­ing IEuropean ,and English 'Cihalmlpion, thinks Linda has alill the haill/marks of an :England internationa·l star of the future. JilH allso had a speciall p:at on the hack ,for 15-years-old Mandy Wallis, ,from WeilEngborough, Nolrthants, Iwho fini\flhed runne,r..up for the se'cond year in succession. M,andy, too, Icould go far.

IFor Sam Harmer" however, lit proved fi'flth time Ilucky. Sam, who ,had a1lready contested four fina'ls unsuccessfuUy since filrst entering the scheme ,at the ,a!ge of nine, this time narro1wly edged out t1wo strong c'haIHengers· in 13-year-olld Graham :Sandley" of Pottelrs Bar, Herts, and 12-year-01ld John Souter, of INeasden, LoudonN.W.

Sam's \~Iuc.cess should nnw gi1ve hilm that eX/tra confidence he will need if he is to e!mulate such triumphant "News of the 'WQ,r~ld" former chalmp,2ons as Chestelr Barnes, T'revnr 'Taylor, A:1an 'Hyde'S ,and Paul Day.

'The t!WO new champions opposed each other in the final of the thrillling IPuplirl ChaiU'enge Cup Douhles 'competition, Linda partnering G,rahaiID iSandl,ey and ,repres'enting IButJin's Skegness ICa:mlp, while Sa:m-a melmibc[' of lIast year's winning team, paired up with Ni!colla HaY1ward to represent Mineihead. In the event, the SkegneSif pair ,were in linvincilble 'forim and gained victory ,by 211-14, 211-16.

Ap,ril 24th saw the start OIf the 197'6 .coach­ing Schenl,e at Butlin's Bognor C'a,mp.

H!8RrJiFOIRDSH1RE J U,N l'OIR C,LOSED

Results in the Herts Junior Closed at Hat­field, on Aprill 4th, w,ere:- ' Under-17 Events: B.IS.: t;iavin Booth ht Paul IMason 14, 19. G.S.: ,L,:ndsey Booth hit ,Frances Stephens 21, 19. B.D.: John ICarpenter j'T'er;ry P,leasanee bt

:Booth/Mason ..16" 13, 20. G.D.: Janice Gilazebrook/Gi'llian ,Smith !bt

Lindsey BOQith/Jani'ce 'Harding 19, -,15, '15. X.D.: Keith Heaseman/F,rances Steph,ens brt

tGavlin and Lindsey Booth 11, 12. Under-14 Events B.S.: Andrew Smith bt 'M,ark lves -1,8, 14, 11. G.S.: M,aryon ,Cox bt Janice Harding 21, -20, 17. Und'er-12 Events B.S.: Peter BrO'wnlorw bt Keith B,ardlwell -15,

11,122. G.S.: Helen Bardwell bt Anita Jermyn 1,6, -1!4,

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IThe general line-up at B,arryCamp with Johnny Leach (centre, back row) flanked by Richard Yule and Nicky Jarvis on one side and tGraham D/avies and ILinda Howard

on the other. Jill Hammersley is located in the 'centre of the front row.

The Bairstow Eves Essex Open BIG SHQICKS AT 8,ARKIN:GI,SID,E

by Geoff Newman

The (Bailrsto'w :Eves Essex Open, played over the weekend of M:ay 8-9~ at Red/bridge Sports Centre, iBa,rkiUlgside, lIford, was a ihuge' success being ,far and ,alw:ay one of the 'best Open tournaments that ,E\~1Sex has ever h'ad. Play w,as' fast and furlioU's throughout the weekend, with a nUlmiber of rea~lly outstanding games punctuated by ·a number of shock results. T:he nrganisation ;was first c[ass and the County AssOrciiation were indebted to the magnific,ent sponsorship flrom the Bairstow E,ve,~' Co., and to the tHatlex Co., who supp,lied the equipnlent. Men's Singles

7fhe ,big shocks in this event centred round the e,liminatlio'll of the trwo top see:ds~ Andy Barden andPlaul Day. B'arden was surp,rising~ly put out Iby the veter'an Wellsh "choppe,r", George Evans. The Middlesex boy, usua!l!ly so good alg;ain\~Jt defensiv~ players, appeared to lose his appetite in this s'et and Ev;ans for~ged ahead in the decider to win -116, 13 and 115. Bolb Potton took :advanta'ge of B'arden's demise by putting an end to the rwels~l>man's hopes and then 19oillig to score a first-elVetr win overr J onn Hitlton.

,Paul D,ay also came unstuck ,algainst the W:elsih, Alan Gr1iffiths, in sp,ar~ling form, romping away to win in the third by 21-14. Griffiths 'ca,rrie!d on the good /Work by winning welll over Ma,rk MitlcheJfl in la oliff-hanger. Lanc:ashire's Dona,ld Parker surprised John Kit,chener hut found the home county's Ian Horsha,m far too hot to handle. Scottlish No.1, Richard Yule, 'm'ade- his way to' the iliaslt four but holth Ni1gel Eck'ersley and David Brown fUiHy extended hiul.

Both se:mi-finalls were fast and furious, Horsha:m out-angling Potton, that Jittle extra exp,ertise showing throUi~h and ensuring HOirSiha~m's appe:alrance in the final. In the other selmi, Grifiiiths was in \sru.per'b :form ,and he gav'e Yu'le no ,chaiTI1ce to settle at his glaime at aliI. In f.act it ,w1as really alU one-'w'ay tr,affi..c, partlicu­Hartly in the second game, when GriffithS' churned out winner after winner.

In the fin,ail there was just no stopping the WeiI:shlman. Although Horsham tOOik :the second game it always ,looked odds-on G,riffithis win..

ning. Fulll of tena,city, he just wasn't going to lose t1hi:~ one, and his quick-fire bursts o:f piliay finally shot down th'e IEssex player's hopes. Women's Singles

Tina Pickard was the surp,rise packet in this event, taking out Essex's Linda Budd and Elaine Tarten~ and then .a malgnHicent !Win over Ire~land's Karen Senior. Lesley Radford Ibrought her down to earth.. howev,er, Ibut no one coulld take alway whcut had happened pr:eviousJy. Linda Howard cruised to the finall la1lthougih She,la\~h ,H,es1stion, as ever.. .fought to th~: end.

1\11 the finall Linda made feiw mistakes and Lesley was neve~ aiHowed .to settle down ,at a~ll. The Surrey girll's forehand was ,alw'ays- pro,mi­nent ,and the points huilt up in her f,a'vour. Women's Doubles

A very good win in the fina!l for the- Essex pairing of Lesley Radford ,and Shelagh Hession ov;er Linda Howard :and Kla-ren Senior~ the Ess,ex duo retrieving a 16--19 deficit in the third g,aime. Interm'ediate Boys' Singles

[)ay and Barden didn)t make any mistakes in this e1venlt hut Blarden had to go ,allil out to keep out Horsham, who was only repulsed in the thi,rd. Potton hlad a use'fUillookinlg !Win over Mitchell hut he Icouldn't k,eep Day at bay in the selmis.

The final produced the usual high cllass encounter hetiw,een IEngtland's top two juniors. On this occasion it was Barden ,wiho c,aime, out on top in the ~hird g:ame lafter so,me early pressure. Intermediate Girls' Singles

Linda Howard dropped a game to Elaine. Tar'ten tbefore ire'covelrillig to glide serenely into the fi'nal ,against Ange~,a ,MitcheJil, who had s'cored a nice win Qiver IKaren Senior. In the finaJ Linda ,app,eared to have the first ,game won 'With an 8 points le'ad but ;a llapse in con­centr,ation let Ange!la back in Ith,e ,ga,me and from then on Linda rea'lly had to struggle to win this title. Veteran Singles

A tlreulendo'Us win for Laurie Fountain~ ret,aining the Jt:itl},e he won last season. Shock for Perter D'Arcy, going out to Ronnie H'erber. George 'Evans looked allover 'a winner of this event but Fount,ain's tenacity once ,atgain won the day.

Men's Doubles Day and Barden won this event without too

much ado. Their stiff,estt test ,came in ,the semis when they were- 7 points 'adrift talt one stage against rHorsham and ,Dave Brown lin the third. A 19ir,e.at fig:ht~back ended the hopes of the Essex paiir. 'Hilton and ,Phill Bo!wen fought va,liant1ly in tlb =, final, but the younger pair wer,e al}.waysin the driving ~lea:t.

Mixed Doubles A brHli,ant finall fbe.t:ween Barden and Angela

Mitchell against D,ay and Linda Howard with the ,Middlesex p:alir winning by ,a very narrow margin. Results: ­Men's Singles-Quarter-finals R. Potton (Ex) ht J. Hilton (IChes). -,17, 18, 1'8. I. Hnrsham (lEx) bt 'Po BOtwen (Lancs) 14, 9, R. Yule (Sc) bt D. ,BirQiWn (Ex) 16, ..16, 17. A. G,riffiths (Wa) bt M.. Mitch~ll (Mx) 1'5 -13,

19. ' Semi-finals Horshalm bt Potton 15, 19. G,riffitihs bt Y,ule 17, 9. Final G,RIFIFTT'HS bt Horshaim 7, -17, lB. Women's. .Singles-Semi-finals L. Howiard (Surrey) bt IS. ,H,esision (Ex) 8, 12. L.IRadford (Ex) bt T. Piokard (Ex) 7, 3. Final HIOIWlARD Ibt Ra,dJford 10, lt5. Women's Doubles---Semi-finals HO'warldjKr Senior (ilir) !bt A. \M.):tchetlljl\l.

(W'atlker ('Mx) 15~ 17. HessionjiRadford ht 'S. IDove/M. Sangster (!Mx)

12, 10. Final HlEI8IS[IOrN /IRAD!FOR:D bt :HoiWard/Senior 14,.

-1'1, 19. Intermediate Boys' Singles-JSemi-finals A. B,arden (,Mx) bt Horsham -19, 111, 18. P. 'Day (ICla1m'bs) bt Potton 18, 16. Final BA\R',DIE,N 'bt Day 118, -16, 13. Intermediate Girls' Singles-Semi-finals Hnward bt E. T'arten .(lEx) '10, -15, 4. Mitchel!l bt Senior 1.9, 18. Final HOIWA.RID bt Mitichellil ~23~ 20, 16. Mixed Doubles--Semi-finals DayjJH'Oward ht Yul,e/Senior 12, 19. Barden/Mirtchell btHorsham/Radfo~d 16, -19,

18. Final BAJRl>IEINjMtliTICIHEIL,L bt Day/How,arrd 22, -15\

18. Men's Doubles--Semi-finals BardenJiDay 'bit D. B,rown (:Ex)/Horsh,a,m l7~

-18, 18. Bowen/lHilton bt Potton/II:' Rorbertsnn «(Nth;:Ld)

-16, 19, 18. Final B!~R[DlEINj:DAY'bt Bowen/'Hilton t9, 18. Veteran Singles-Final L. FIOUlNTAIIN (Ex) bt G. E.vans (IWa) -14,

'18~ 19. :B!airstolW Eves, .the Essex-!based group agency

of IEstlate Alg,ents', Auctioners, Surveyors and V,a,luers, we're de1igbted to have the oppor­tunity of spoOisnring ithe 1976 Essex Open Championships. ''TIhrough the' prQlgramlme media Colin J. Finch~ F .:R.I.IC.:S., the Managing Director, piassed on the good wishes of his, dire,ctors and staff to both ,competitors and Sipe,ctators.----Edi:t'Or.

SiPOrrLIGHiT QrN CQ'LEB:RIDGE. (Coll,eibrid!ge have achieved !more this se'ason

than po:ss,iibly any other !club in Warwi'ckshi:re­eve,r have in anyone season. Th,e honours whi!cn they have added to theilr cr?dit are: ­3-a-lSide :Div. 1 winners ,( second year running); Bir'minghaim League Div. 1 winners ,at the fi'rslt attempt; South Binmingha,m Div. l' winners, and alIso the War;wi'cksihi~e L·eiague (the South Blir'mingha:m team consists mainly of Co'leibridlge pllayers .and friends). The '~ighlighrt o\~ the season was undoubte'dly re.achIng th,e s,e:nlI-nnal of the National ,Clu'b ,Competition, l\\nhi'ch makes COileibridge one of the top four clubs in the country.

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HAMIPSHIRE NO~ES

by David Cosway

MIXED ISEAlSON A v1e1ry :m'ixed Slelason for Ithe ICounty teiaimiS

in the County IClha,mipionlShipls. '~'he first lte,am, after three ,disiatppoi,nti'fiIg defe'ats which put them in dange1r of ife:},elg;altion, c:aime back ito for,m wrilth 'a good 6-4 win over Essex IiI. Trevor Smith, a sta,l,wlaTt for so long, ,as:ked to be' d.ropped for this\ Imlat,ch ,and was \l"epaaced by Stieve !Wilson. I :flee~l 'Tr'eIVor, with his person.. ,ali.lty and IknOlwaedge of the :gaime, could well prove 'an ex,cellle'llt 'C1apt1alin of this team .in the future\.

Tlhe' junior filrst ,te,am, who s!tlarlted !the season with ch,a.lmpio:nslhip [hop'es, did not real1ilsle tlheh' pot'e'nti,al and dIe Ite,alm p,erl£olrlm,ance' did not H've 'Up to Ithe1ir individuall :albillity, and: on~~ two 01£ the ISlixmlat,ches rwere won. 'CoHIll, WiilslQrn and 'RlilclhaTd ,Berrlgmlann have for;m:ed the ha!ck­'~one of ~'~ihis Itelalm ,and rwilth Julie Rleadin~,

Qive,r-,alge 'fi'ext se.ason, ithey Imust ag,aln slhou!lder the !m:ajority of the ,burden. Whalt olthe~ jUlliLolrs ,are cOiming thvoruglh the rr/anks' ito fi-H the iQlthe,r (boYls' p~laiCe and the gilf!ls' No. '1 spot in this teaim?

The lielast said ,albourt !the second junior t:eam the Ibertlter, hurt I feel that ,Rladio Solent I"'eporter Brian L,a'me'rrton, sumlmed iit upwlhen he descriibed the O~10 :deiha,c~e lagainSit Willtslhi:rie by ls,ayinlg, 'QThe telalm weUlt: Ido'Wifi, without r:ais­illig a head of Is,wea:t belt,ween the Ilot of them and the ,COUillty must ,consid,er whetherr it is wlQiftlh the exp,ense of runUlin\g rthis te:am ,again". I 'fee'! this, Iway orf (culttifilg ICounty ,m,atcih out­goings would be ,bette1r th,aill !the 'mor'e geneiral VlielW ltIhat rth,e veter:ans' tea/m. Ish:ouild be axed. The vetelrlans hav1e had ,a Igood season and cert;a:illlly h:ave shorwn !more effort than' any of the other tela'mlS. Tlhe~ h,aiVIe only 110st one match and fhaveincluded lin t(heir five vi,cltories' an eXlce'llent win ove:r ,Kenlt, who' welre fa:nc.ie,d to take the tit1le [rom IElslS,ex.

ITlhe glrouiP fixltlUrelS ,at \Porltlslmouth Icould we~ll have Iconv,iUlced Ithe ICounty that this .is not the way to run inltelr-town :mlat,ches. [n rt:h'e middJe 01£ the 'flu eplidemi!c !no town h.,ad out a fuU rtealm land whHe the eventual ~restUllts 'm:ay weall h,ave belen repeated witlh the 'Dor1m,al p,laye:rs', it takes allot olf interelslt aw'ay iif reserves ,are lP~layed\. IP,e1rtbaps BaSiingsltioke werre the hlardest hrilt la,nd in (ta,c! :had ito turn oult 'V,ir'tuaJ/ly a fuli 'Second stirling in, th'e,ir m,a~Clbels and ,as a re1su'1t onlly jusltavoided reile!gratlion on seltls ,aivel",a'ge, insltead of being invo~rved lat the other end of the table. How­ev,er, the ICounty A.IG.JM. ion the 2411:h June, will decide the Im'ethod olf play for next se,ason. Tille decirding lmlaltdh in the mixed fi1rslt: di'vilsion resullted lin ,an 8-4 wjn rfor Bourne,mouth "A" over Southamplton"A" in a maJt'ch ,c,omlPletely de~O'id of artlmosph,ere,. ISur:elly a m.atlclh of this inlipoTt!anc·e deserves, Ian ,audielfilCie ,and presen­taltion 'wihilch is not poss:ilble ,ail: 'a venue with five other ,m,atichels in pr,oiglreSIS on adjoining tlaiblles. [Cle.arly ,Bourne/mouth ,were the bertte,r team on the day land 'Trervor iSmilth, John Robins'On~ Nevjill~e 'Thorley, JuH'e Reading .and Janet INerw were' nelV'elr i:n serioulS .dalliger olf losing. IClhristineD,avies Imadle' up l.for heir firlst def.eat by Ju!lie (Rle:adinrg in. Ithe County c'1osed 'by iWlinning ,a caose slet.

In ,the othe,r I~roup d:ivis1ion, Bournelfiloulth "A", ;as eXipelctedl, rretained their junio~r tiitle, on:ly dro!pping' thre:e sets, t'wo of ItIhelm in the deciding ,m,atclh ,agJainstt runne,rs-u(p B1asing­sto1ke "'A". Balsi:n~sltoke "'B" win the lS'econd mix,ed divilslion and It.a'k,e the plaice of relegated POIrltlsrmouth "~B", Wlhile unlbelaiten Aldershot "A" in the junior is'e:cond di~is;ion will t!ake tihe p\lace of Southaimpton "B". B,asingsitok'e a;lso win the :m,en's Id'ivision wilth ,an unlbeaten relcorld wirth Aldershot runners-up'. A,Iso unbe1aten 'we,r,e Port1:'SllDoutlh, tlhe veterlan di~­sion ,cn,a1mlpi·ons.

In rthe N.ationaIT ,Co'm.lPeit1iti,on:s IIoc.al1teamis !had SOim,e suocesiS. Southampton's W1:IimOitt Cup tieaim, 'a.lfter disposing, of B,a!Slingstoke and Portslmouth, h,ad :a 'gre,alt m,artch with Bristo~ belforegoing dorwn 4-5. Keith Sum:merfieilid

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gained ,an ex,ce'11~eifi1: tnr,ee selts land Chlris Shetl'1e,r one. !PhU IB'rorWn had the rn,isfortune of pu:Bling lba1ck ironl \114-i20 Ito 19~20 in dl,e f1:hilr:d ,against the BristlQllNo. 3, IC. ,Lloyd, /before losling the ne'xr1: point to a desperat,ion hack­ihand fl:ilclk! and t.his in the finaligaillle wi,tn the s,corie :at 4-41 :Bournemouth, in the Rose Bowl, beat IPllymourtlh to relalch Itihe quarte,r-fiI1la;1 where they :a,r'e to 'me,eit SOUlt\hend.

Agai1n BournelmlQuth ,em'erge f,rom locall teamls in th,e IC/arterr CUiP and .after vtcltories ovelr Ply/moutlh ,and IP:ool'e are atw,ay to 'Che\l:ms", ford lin Itihe qualrter-:fina:1. IOnce lagain Bourne... mourth ,are a m:ajor for,ce in the IBromn,e1d ~riQIpihy and W1itih ISar,ah Gillson playing Ito weill, added ito Julie [Re,ad,ing land Janet New, per~ hap,s ,this wiTI he :th,eirr Iseason lafitelr so 'llIarlr'Owly los.ing l:aslt season's final. In tlhe s'elmii.Jfiillal they have a ho-me 'tie against ,Re1ading.

Iwilm enid w'ith a 'r1o'llnd-uiP 'of the loc,al ~e.algues firom lwhom, r~ Ihave had Ifesullv.s..

In IBournelmouth the lpre,m:ier Division was ,a very ltilght aff.ailr IWli~h \M'e1rl1:on '~A" and Bourne,mouth YlMCA. "A" neck and ne'Cik for most of th'e s,eason and the M,e:rton ,teanl of ~revor ',Sm,itih, Steve' ,Wilson.. ICo:lin Wliason ,anld Jo~,ce ICOOrp fill1-al'ly 'be,ating: tihe,irr ri,va[s 7-3 in the 'deciidiing m·atcih. IColl'in Wiillson Clarlried off the Men's Sin,gle,s., ;H'andi,c,ap, UndeT-13 land U nder-15 tildes ,at the Bournetmouth ,Closed, burt lost oult to Rli!charrd B1eifg:mann in the U'l1Ide,r-17. Ne1vilJ.e Thorley was the Pre'mier IDi:vis,ion challllpi,on. JOYlce ICOOIP wnn the Women's Sinlgles and cormibined with Sar:ah Gil!Ejon to win tihe Wom:en's rDoufblles, ,but ,went out w'iith T:r,evor iSmiitth, to John Rolbinson .and Janet N,ew in the M~ix,ed. ;RtOn F,airhaU belat Cyri~ Bush for t!he Veterrans' ti:t:le.

The Po:rtlSlmoultih first division Itlittle Igoes to Wyeth with ,CoTintihi'ans in Isercond pla,ce. In the ICllosed numerous srurpr,ises in the ear'ly rounds, wtth (Champion Srt,ev:e Kitclher.'l 'making an ,e,arJy exit. I'll the se1mis Allan W,iillcocks' re1cover1ed tfriOm i12-20 in ltlhe third to ibe\alt Glyn Hydes, !but tlhen lost rthe fina'! t,o Mike Douglas. In :the wio1m,en's, Siheila Foste,r disposed of Chr,istine ,Davies in the seimilS, but was no match 'for (Dlaphne Gray in the final. ,Dougllas and Hydes\ stopp,ed Pete Scott and ICUff J acoibs, ciha;lking up ,a re'colrd ,fouTth 'win in /the <men's doulbQes. lChris;t,ine Davies took ItwO dou'blles tilttles, winning Ithe (women's with Ange,line 'Gillbe,rrt :and th,e mixe,d wi/th Bill IMiartin. G,ed Ho'}ll.ey was ,the surprise winner of tih,e veter,aills' with an ex,cerr:lent win ove'r R,ay Lush, land Kevin B,att won the juniors.

Four 'T"lS Iwin the ISouthamplton Plf1e'mier Divislion title for the firslt tlilm,e in six ye,ars, a:fteT ,a close battle ,with two tea:ms from each of tit,e Snows' ,and A'lph,a CIUlbs land champion­ship medals go for ,the fi~t tim'e to' Garry Lon.g­j,and, Steve Ki~clh,er ,and John Lewis. The Southalmpton Cilosed w'as a iEttle too pr'edict­alblle .in it'S finall Ifesuats, although there ,were so'me good ea1rly mat,ches,. K2ilth SUimlmerfleld ,retained his fmen'ls singles wiith ,a final/win ov,eif the unse:eded John vihbles, ,who had knocked out the INos. 2 and 3 seeds on his way to ithe final. Christine Davies, las eXJp,ected, retained her women's sin~les 'with a win over junior J1ane Whiltcn,er, wh·o took the fi,rstt: game of the final very c.lose.

Christine also t100k t~he women's doubles parltne,red by Julie Hudson, and the mixed wlith IPhil Brorwn. Keith Sumlmerfield 'and Chris Shet\ler won tlhe Imen's doubles, Don ,C:art1ridge the veterans' and Steve ,White th'e juniorsl'.

Although one becomes acclimatised to dis­interest in giving assistance at tournaments I must say I was disgusted with the table teMis fraternity who, after this tournament, despite re'peated requests for assis1ta.nce, left the four members of the tournament committee, who a.re, with resp,ect, not youngsters" to clear away the tables and screens and taking them from the hall to the balcony. 'This ,after a 13..hour day art the' tournament is just not on! The players seem very an~ious to keep this tourna­ment as a oue-day event, ratber than ease the burden on the committee by having a separate finals ni&ht. What a pity they cannolt therefol"e give some assistance when it is needed.

The Winc!heslt,er Cllos·ed Tournalment do 'hav,e a seplarate F:inalSlINlight. In Itn'ese finals, George Philpot,t be'alt rH,ariry Spraggs ,and these two also be.at ,Bob Doe :and John ,L,ew;is to win the men's douJb'les. Once la1g,ai,n Jane Whift,cihercon­tes/ted th're,~ finals and while her Southa:mpiton ,a;p/pearlauceSI did nOIt il"esult in a win, she won all} tthr1ee of /the 'Winchesrt1er e,vetllts. In the wom'en's sin,gles 'she belat HiJ,da EfWlles, com­bined Wiit:!h. Nigell Lodde,rs to heat Ron Willshire and H,i~Lda E w~les in the mixed.. and then beat D'avid H'alll1 iln the junior singles. Doug Bal'chin had a very Igood win over Spraggs in the vetlerlans' event, while Jilm Malcolm be.at Doe in th,eo handicap singles. The Winchesterr 1st DirviSiion title, ,after a cl'os'e hatrtle, went to holders' Sit. ICross,. Winna,l "B" led amI se:ason and Irelmlained unibe,alteu, but 3 points dropped in two of ,thei'r last mlaltfcnes Clost thelm the champlionship.

'G'OSiporrt alnd Farelha1m IClosed winnerrs w,ere Steve 'Kirtc!h.'er in the Imen's~ K,ail"en Sayw'eI11, in th,e wOlmen's (!by -21, 1119, 20 oveT Linda CIl'e:m­m'ertt)"Kevin Biatt the junioriS, and G,e1rry Shaw the vetelr.ans'. Steve Kilt,ciheT and Andrew Foe,rs won ,the open doubletS, 'whi:1e Steve Ki~tcherr Jo,ined IKaren is!ayw:eU for the 'mixed.

II will finish ,my notes lfor the season 'wiith a plug fnr ,my clulb tournament. The Four T's 1-iSta!l" Open will be he!ld ,alt ISoutha,mprton Uni­ve:rs,ity on 'Sunday, iSeprtie!mhelr 19th. En!t,ry forlms! [,rom .Rorwll,and Benneltt at 54 B;roo:kwood Road, IMi1'llbrook, SOUithalmpton.

KAY WATERS

I have just he,ard the sad news of the death of Kay (Kathy) Waters. Although Kay has lived in Salisbury, she has Sip,ent a great dea' of her life both working and playing table tennis in Southamlp,fon. During the p,ast season she has represented Southarmpton Veterans in the Hampsbire L,ealgue and bas also played for the Four T's Club. Her main forte, however, has been in administration. She has been one of those p,eople in the background who did a great deal of the work, 'but gets very little credit or public'ity. In particular, apart from being ,an inlterna,tionally known umpire who has oflicialted in a number of English Open Finals she had turned her talent in rec'ent years to tournament refereeing. Much of her hard work was put in in the preliminary m,atters before the tournament to ensure that on the day everything went smoothly.

She will be very hard to replace.

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County Supplement continued

·BERKSHIRE NOTES

by Reg Hart

SUMMARY OF ~VENTS

S.ince we are now C'lose to the end of t1he 1975-76 season these notes are a summary of some {)f t'he imp(}rttant events.

County Teams Our Juni'or first team maintained its P,remier

Division Sltatus by 'wins over Kent and Cleve­Land and draws with iEssex and Middlesex. Since we w~ll lose Andy Weillman .and Simon Dougl,as intot'he seniors next season ill: may well be difficult to remain in tihe Junior Premier.

rrhe Senior first team won the 2nd Division (West) and narro'wly missed a PiTemier Divi­sion place at the oha'llengepllay-offs. Our second JunJo-r sa'de a'lso won Juni{)if Div. 3 (South), Robert Johnson being the star of the side wLths-o-me go-o-d WLnS, including Kevin Edwaifds. County Activities

The Junior squad members melt f{)f ,a number of tra,inting s'essions run iby Peter Charters. Peter 'also organised a very useful training eamp with ,the Federal German WTrV region'<ll team, which i,ndluded .tlhe top two boys and ,girls in t'he German .ranking.

Teams from rEssex and Surrey came t{) per­form against the visit{)rs, Martin Shuttlle rbeing rhe m{)sIt successful, winning 'all hJs matches. County Players

Our top Junior ,boy, David Reeves, has made good progress ·this season, including ·wins {)ver Dmlia'ld ;P·arker and John Kitchener. Karen Wirllt has achieved many mi~estones th'is season de5/Pite adversLty. Her recent selections to play for England in tlhe Junior team against Federal Germany and in the Worthing Junior Inter­nationa~ have :been well earned.

The Middlesex Junior Open. played on a group ·basis, showed that Karen was the best all-round }unior girtl on the day and rhas now achieved consecutive wins oveif Angela Tierney and Melody rLiidi. Mandy Smith and Alijlon Gordon have ,laJd 'Claim to rthe 1 and 12 rCadet ranking places ,by winning aJj} the cadet sroect events, deStpite being ranked 3 and 2 respec­tively.

Although not selected for the Wm-thing International, Arlison completed her halt·trick of select wins ,by becoming England Cadet champion. Mandy hl3lS made her position dear recentJIy by soundly defeating, ,twice, <the selectors' N{). 1 Cadet.

Our most improved player is Andy WeHman, wlho has' include.d wins over ·Bob Potiton and Kevin :CaMon. 'Simon Dougilas has a<bily sup· ported our County telams.Hryon Johnson did weJI to come 6th in ~he M-~dlIDesex Cadet evenits with wins over Sam HM"mer and Mark Oakley, having also defeated Richard Bergmann on the previous day. County Finances

At our recent County A.G.M., despite fears to the contrary, ,we found ourselves with a sma]} surplus, ,which woU'ld nO't have occurifed if t'he 'Committee hrad not cancclled the County SeniQr Olosed Championships which was very poorly subsCiflibed.

A fwrtther il"egrettable feature ,w.as that the Junio-r Fund, which lis ilar,gely 'built up by the fund;raising activities of those interested in devroopmenit, 'las 'dissO'lved into the genera·l finances and kept the finances in .the black. The Junior Fund has enabled Berkshire ..to organise and ifun adventurous events whnch have contributed significantly to our present re,aslonably satisfaetory Junioil" standard.

A minority o·f lea'gues, on a proportional voting basis, 'legislated ag'<linst incre,ases in affilliation fees, which are recommended to combat the re,:ent and future inflationary incTeases.

Teams' Activities Around ~he County vadous leagues and club

teams have d{)ne quite wellil. Reading's U-1!l Girls won .the I·MlPACT·organised girls' U·12 team event. The Reading B.romfield side have PiI'QgreS\Sed weU and an~ now at the dosing st,ages. The team is made up from K,aren Witt, AHson Gordon, Janet Thorpe and Jill PurslQw. Newbury's women's team of CM"oline Reeves, Ca'rol Houghton, Joyce Taylm- and Mandy Smith have ·done 'Well in the Rose Rowl com· petition, ,re'aClhing 'tlhe semi·finalls.

In the national 101'u1b 'Championships, compe­tition {)nce again -a women's clwb side has Ibeen our rbest perfoifmer, also winning through to the semi-final to pl-ay the FelJows Cranilei:gh team of t'he Southend ,Le,ague. The club is Omega, and its 'women's tea'm consists of K<l'ren, Cawline, Adison and JiJIJI. World ChampionshiJps

Regrettably ilt is possible that one c·f our member leagues wi'll ibecome disaffilirated fro-m both E.-T.T.A. and C{)unty, ,due to the Worild Championships Levy. The Bracknell League's A.!G.M. may see a majority vote ag'<linsil: paying rhe Ilevy and thus not sUPPoTting IJhe W,o'rld ChlampionsMps next yea·r. HopefuilJy other counties" leagues win not foU{)·w their lead and take such a tragic step.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NOTES

by Colin Hammond

VETERANS' TRIUMPH Pride of place must ,go to the County

Veterans' side, who clinched the Veterans' Midll'and L'eague title w1th a superb 5-4 victory over ·hot favouri,tes, C:h-e~hiTe. John BUTifaston take a lolt of l1he credit, winning both his singles, includfuIg a bri.lli'ant vietOTY over De·rek Schofield. The match could hardly have been closer, Ron BQlt'on gaining the decisive win at 22-20 in ,the thir·d. Ron and John again being we,ll supported ,by John Ems and PaIt: Hammond. Nonts now face Essex in the play· off for the National title.

The o!nly other recent County match resulted in an unexpeoted and ve·ry hea;yy defeat for the Junior team. Even without Glen Stredder, and taking into acc{)unt the s<trength o-f the opposing gkls, a 1·9 defeat at the handjl of Uncolnshire was ra,th·er a poor showing. This result was even mor·e surprising considering thalt it was Norllts fi'rst "on the table" defealt of the season.

.The County Championships were again held at Blingham Sports Centre, on April Jllth. The entry Was very poor, with a cOlllsiderable num'ber of top players absent, including Alan Cr{)ome, Cle;ve Judson and Ron iBolton. Martin Kimse'Ha was top seed in the Men's Singles and was expected to win cQmf()lftably. How· ever in the fin~ he found hirruself ·traming by a g,a:me and 1'6-19 Ito second seed Nicky Ki-l'k· ~and only puIlanrg tlhe m'atch out of the fire with' s.ome inspi.re'd dOJor-die hitting. Nicky, play,ing above himself, again sto-rmed into a lead in the decider with astounding hLtting, only ro ·ru,n out of steam, Martin clinc'himg the till:le in a memorable final.

Tohe W'omen's singles final was equal'ly tense, wi,th G'lori'a Stocks just re1lain~ng her -title against Pat Hammond at 21,19 in th'e third after t:railling for the maj()lf-ity of the final game.

Kinsella picked up two m{)re ,tiltles, tihe Inter· mediates', as expected, and the Men's Doubles

'1V1ith Stredder, a minor surprise. Glen himself had a fine tQurnament, retaining his Junior Boys' title, reaching the final of the Intevme­Idi,altes, and o,nly falling to Kinsella in the semi­[mall of ,the Men's Singles. Unseeded, Glen had idispose·d of Bob Nelson and Phil Spencer on lhe walY.

The Mixed was won by Phil Spencer and Gloria Stocks. and pa,r,tnered by Ann W'ass, rnor1a was denied a hat-trick of titles, being defeated by Pat Hammond a,nd Mi(\'ry Saunders ~n the Women's D{)ubles finat Elaine Hand­

'ford reta,ined her Girls' Singles title, and JBerooTd Br-own won the Veterans' f()lf th·e first time, defeating Dave 'Pearson in the final.

Congratulations to Alan CToome o-n winning the Chesterfield CI{)sed, overcoming some lJIf 'Deflbyshi-re's top players. Alan, who didn't 'defend his Notts titIe, has been the only c'On. lsistent success at Oounty level this season, and has exceUed in the Midland League, losinghnly three times.

S.E. MIDLANDS LEAGUE CHATTER

By Leslie Constable

.North Herts have h'Rd a most successful serason, winning Itlhe Men's: Div. 1, Junior Divs. 1 and 2 and are poro-bCllble runners·up in the Women's Division. Mil-ton Keynes did very wellcr in 1ihe Men's Division, finishin.g third, wthile Ely-d'ast se,ason's crhampi-ons-finishedrunners"up.

iWlisbech headed /the Men's Div. 2 and SO gain promotion to it'he 1st Division. Hunts Cenlt,rall finished ifunner;s·up in Junior Div. 1 and Millton Keynes again did weN, being runners·up in Jun-io,r Div. 2. Dunstable Qook like <winning 'tIhe Women's Div., while Cam­bridge .won ran excilting season in the Veterans' Div., being un,defeated and infHeting the only def~at on Northampton. Congratulations offiust be extended ,r<> Henry Fox, tthe Secretary, for his untiring work. He has n()w been Secretary fOT ,tihe past 15 yeaTS. A~ he ifemarked to me recently, it is ahout time he !thought of re'tir· inlg, but I reassuifed him ,t<hat we need [him fOif the next 20 years·!

,Once again Marg.aret ICornwell must be con­gratulated on runni.ng the S.!E.M. Tournament ~o efficiently. The finals were c{)IDipleted at a very ·reasona,bile rhour-a wrocome change on~y

brought about by true efficiency.

S.E. MIDLANDS TABLE TENNIS LEAGUE (Leading positions as at 17th April, 1976)

Men's 1 P W D L Pts

N()Ifth Mil1tlOn

Herts Keynes

.

. 7 6 0 7 5 0

1 2

50 42

E~y . 6 4 0 2 40

'Vomen NOif·~h Herts. . . 7 4 1 2 44 Dunstable . 6 5 0 il 41 Welilingborough . 6 5 1 0 38 Juniors 1 North Herits . 7 7 0 0 60 Hunl:$ Centra'1 . 6 5 0 1 43 Bedford . 6 4 0 2 41 Veterans Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Northampton .. .. .. . . .. . . R.A.F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

9 9 0 9 8 0 9 6 0

0 1 3

75 66 60

S.E.M. CLOSED Geoff Davies, of Wis'becih, won the lIDen's

s·ingJl~s Itide at this eason's tournament, pI-ayed at Camhr·idge Cern rExchange, -beating Dave R>arwlinson, of Bedford, in the final.

Both .players were hard pressed in <lJhe semis, Rawlinson being taken to three ·by Mick Palmer, of E'ly, ,as was Davi~ Iby Tony Clark, of MHton Keynes.

,Ann Wa.IHs, of Wellinghorough, w.as success­full in tihe wcmen's :-ingles final againlit Jean AJl>linson, of Pet,er-borough, whilst her siste'l", Mandy, won the girls' s·ingles, the defeated finalli.st being Belindra Chamberlain (Hunts Cent,ral) .but only by a score of 13-21 in .tJhe dedder!

Richard Jermyn, of North Hens, 'Won the boys' singles by beating Gavry AJlden, o-f Wel­lingbo·rough in the final. Results: ­Men's Singles--Scmi·finals D. Rawlinson bt M.Pallmer -18, 20, 9. G. Davies bt T. Olark ·2.1, 20, 19. Final DAVIES bt Rawllinson 18, -14. Women's Singles-Final A. WALUS bt J. Allinson 13, 17.

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Boys' Singles-Final R. JERMYN bt G. Alden 18, 2,l. Girls' Singles-Final WtAlJUS 'bt B. Chamberlain 17, -18, 2l. Men's Doubles-Final B. JONES/M. P~M1ER (EJy) bt Allden/R.

Marchant (WeU) ,13, 15. Women's Doubles-Final A. WALLIS/1M. WlA,LLIS bit S. Harding/K.

Morton ( . Herts) 14, 1.2. Mixed Doubles-Final JERMYN/MORTON ibt Ma:rc<hant/A. W~Uii8

20, 19. Boys' Doubles-Final G. HARDING (N. Herts)IJEiRMYN tbt T.

Pleasance/R. Wimam~ (Nor<tlllampton) 18, '17. Girls' Doubles-Final L. BOOTH (Well)/M. WAlJLIS ,btCdlamber­

,lain/iM. Ringrose (Hunts Centr'al) -13, >11, 17. Junior Mixed Doubles-Final S. FISHER/CHAM!BiERLAliN Ibt Davies/R.

iNoif·rJs (Wi~bech) 17, -21, 1·5. Div. 2 Men's Singles---<Final A. LMv1lPRiELL (St. N) bt M. Byrd (Cam)

12, 114. Dlv. 2 Junior Singles-Final PlJEASIAN·CE bt T. ,C!hamJberlain 19, 1'5. Team Championships---o Final WiELUINGBOROUGH bt North Herts.

NORFOLK NOTES by J. S. Penny UNIQUE RECORD

Norfolk J uni'OIl' Clos·ed C'hama,Jion~hips were held at Wall RQ·ad Schoo'J, Nonwoh, on Sundaly, ApriJ 1.lith. As -eXa,Jectted, Doug'las Bennelt!t took the Boy~' ,title and Wendy HQgg 'tlhe Girls'. Douggie thus has the unique .record of beoom­ing tJh-e NorfQ1k s-end'oll' and jumor, and ,tJhe Norwich senio-r and junJior clhampJ..on in the same season. Not too bad alt 15 years old! ReswItIS:­Boys U,13: Andrew Wi1J,'lon (Y) bt Ian Smith 10, 13. U-1'5: Douglas Bennett (N) bt MHre Archoc

(Y) 16, 16. U-17: D. Be,nnett bt Martin EccleSitone (Y)

10, 10. GirIs: ­U'1,3: Zoe Nkho'1Il5 (D) bt Su<san Browne (N)

l1i5, -18, 16. U-15: Ruth HaITowve.Il (iN) bt Anne Bowers

(Y) 1'2. 7. U"l:7: Wendy Hogg (iN) bt Health-oc Pe,arce

(N) 18, 1'5. B.D.: M. Archell'/IM. Eccles,oone bt D. Bennett/

D. Sm:iith (N) -12, 15, 19. G.oD.: W. Hogg (N)/IPaula Ri'bbans (Y) bt: R.

HarrolWVen/H. Pearce 13, -14, 11. XD.: D. Benne,tt/P. Rihbans bt David Smj,th/

H. Pea,rce 13, 15. Key: N--lNorwic'h; Y~YaTmoutJh; D~oce­

ham. ,In t'he laSit County Oh3!lltpi'OOlSihii> matclhes of

the ~eaSQn, Norf<l'lk beat Buckingh'lmooire 6-4 in Div. 2 E·ast, Norfo~k II lost 2-8 to Suffolk, at Ipswich, in Div. 3 East, and Norfolk Junj(>-rs "whitewaEihed" CalJllbridgesihJi,re II, alt No-flWich, J.2 Midland. The Bucks rna,teb was ably sttaged by Fa'ken~am League, with over 50 spectatOil'S present.

At tJhe N<l'rwioh Closed Championships, hel·d at: die University of 'Easit AngI.ia, on March 21st, NQrfolk's two 15-yooiI"-ol:ds, Douglas Ben" nett and Wendy Hogg, wer·e too g-ood for their senio·rs. Wendy's vicoory over Norfolk velteran, Eidna FJetc!her, was espeda:lJly notewoc<tll1y, and ~ihe also won me W,omen's and Mixed DOlJjbJ~,

Resu,},tls:- ., M.S.: iD. iB'e'nn.et't bt N. GlI'aver 20, 16. W.S.: Miss W. Hogg bt Mrs. ~. Fletchelf 14, la. M.D.: M.Broughton/C. Bens1ey Ibt R. Thorn-

t-on/R. Annison 1'5, 17. W.D.: Miss W. Ho·gg/Mrs. V. Gr,aver ht Mil'S.

L. K,ow:aJskd/Ml1S. J. Moore '15, -2Q, 112. X.D.: R. rrh·orntoon/1Mis·s W. Hogg 'bt [Po Dur­

rant/Mrs. R. Hogg 15, 19. V.,S.: L. Holdom ht W. P·roOtheroe 11, 18. B.S.: ID. iBenneitt bt R. King 8, 1.1.

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G.S.: Miss W. Hogg -bt Miss R. Hano-wV"eu 14, -17, 1'6.

H'caa,J S.: J. Harris bt P. Pegg 51-33. The Nori'oilk SchooJs' League was won by

Atdeborough, and ItIhe Norwich Schools' League by Spr<lwston High, who also beat Thorpe Grammar 6-2 for me Harry Levine Shield. H1ipiPos "A" a,re champions I3It DerE~ham, C.B.Y.M.S. a.t iNorwich, Sainlts "A" at Wymond­h;(!Jl11 :and lrun Duke "A" at YaTm'Outh.

NORTHUMBERLAND NOTES by Pauline Jackson

IfNDIFFERENT SEASON Norcl1umbemland ended an indifferent season

bn a low note wihen boitih the second team and Junior Iteam ilo&t ltiheir final County matches !of the season. The second team went do.wn by '4-6 in a close ba.title away to Cumbria witlh !Bob Dodds winning a singles' on his d-ebut and Northumberland eSJtablisihing s'Ome sorlt o-f trecord by taking all three doubles sets in one !match ito make the score 4-4 at one sota'g!e. Tih-is !means that the team have once ag,ain finished ~t the bo.ttom of Div. 3 (Nontih), but there h!av-e been one or two good perd'olI'IDances, ~Sipeciao}Jy in the doubles evel1lts, which have Shown a mail'ked impr·ovemenlt from pr'evioUiS seasons. Nevertheless, the s'enior team ·resulJts have been very disappointing, withoI1!l.y t'he one 'win gained by the fi,rst team over Nottingham­!sIhke in itlheir final ma,tch of the season.

The juIllior team were weB beaten 2-8 away Ito Der:byslhi're juniors in their last maJt:oo, Andrew C~ark Itaking both his s!ingjles It<l record Nor~humlber1.a'lld's only wins. The,ir succ~es OVelI' 'Ciheshit-e and Cleveland II, h()IWever, ensured ·that they ended the season in a Il'€!3sonable position in Junio·r NOi"tJh. The Del"lbyshi.re match ma'rked the 1'3&t aPiPea,rances 0If Andrew Clark, Glen MC'Oardle aoo Va1erie Simit!h as juniors; nextt season they wiJl ali be ovoc age.

lit had been hoped to sho,w the Noot:hurrnber­land League DiVlis,ion winners and runnero-up in tlhese notes as the season officially en:ded on Friday, Ap'l"·i'1 2, but I understankl f,rom the Leaogue Secretm"y that owdng tfj various cilI'­cumsrtances severa,I teams have still ·to fulfil some of tiheir fixtturelS. However, the winners ail: leralst of each Division we,re eXipeclted to be confirmed iby the time the Ohampj,onshia,J t,rophdes becam,e due for presenlta'tlion to the aa,Jp'!"IOIPil'llate clu'bs at tJhe annual County AsS'O­clation ddnner-damce on May 7.

LEICESTERSHIRE NOTES by Phil Reid

WONDERFUL NEWS lLeicestershlire in the P.remier Ddvision! That

is ,the wonderful news foB-owing the Second Division 'Promotion Cha.lJenge at ShenJey. For tlhree of it'he last f<lur years Leicestershire Ihave reaclhed itJhis sIl:age (the exception was .Last sellS()n foil' reasons a'keady known to most people). iHa,mg been close -to success 'On <UOIt'h previous occasions, it was a case of ''W'Ould it be Ithird time luc!ky?".

A 7-2 \Wn '1gain<5t Oambradgeshire was followed by one of the same SCOi"e against Swsex. Y'Orkshi,re, f.avourites to finish first, beat Leicest(!r\Shire '5-4, so a win agaj,nst Berk­shire lWas vitaJ. It looked easy, ·bUlt j,t di'dn't turn OUit tlhat way. At: 4-4 Oh'ris Roge.rs werut on agai~ WeI-Im·an, ,tre:iled 0-5, came back ,to win We fiil'Sit <and it'hen won ,tlhe seC()nd at 1'3.

Whdllst it was a team effort all the way, special mention must be made of P-aul Randen. After o}osing to IPaul Day he went through .the remainder of the weeke,nd unbeaten, including a fine 15, [10 win ovoc Tony rClayton. The whole of ltihe team made Il:heir contdbuti-on thou~h. Per!haps ,greatest credit o,f all sl:ouId g,o to County <$:kipper, Colin Truman. He has lived for the team for lohe .past four years and n'Ow at .last has gOit ·the success he -has so ,richly earned! Leicestershire, of c-ourse, have never been in :tIhe Pil'emier Division before 'and

already arrangements are iIi hand oW focm a commit,tee to look a,iter the interests of the team.

The,re a,re high rhopes our sponsor for this s.eason, "The Town and Count,ry Building Society", wiU again Ibe in a position to help us nexll: season.

1L0ughborough have been prominent in County circles this season. Loughhorough topped ,me Lcicesteil" League 1st Divis·ion for the firSlt time in 'their history and incidentany, ma'de it four different winners in the laSit four years. Theil' team of DonaId Parker, Anita Stevenson and Bryan Mayfield, 'proved quill:e in incible, and tlhey won the title 'oosiJy.

The Rose Jool11son Bowl-the Leice&tershire Team Handicap Trophy-also werut: to Lough­borough when tlley theat Jones & Shipman in tlhe final.

The 'Leicesil:-ershi'l"e Dan.ce--<O'rganised on ·ou'!' 'behald' by WaHy Ctl.arke (Rolls Royce)­broughit quilte a sum into OUIf ooffers' l3.nd was aJso a very successifu~ socia!l occasion, It is ·an evenit we would certainly Hke ,to repeat next season! There are a record number oif 'amend­mentis- to the rules fur the 'Leicester League A.G.M., altJhough tlhe IDIajOi"Lty 'of t'hese are siln}a,J1y "tidying up" ruJes. As tthi-s will lbe my firSit tA.G.<M. as Ohailfman of the LeiceSiter Lea'gue, I am a 'b1t apprehenlS'ive!

It has tihen been an excill:ing, excellent season fOIl' Leicestocslhi,re--we look forward to our fi.slt (rbut not, we hOlPe, last) season in the Premier Division witih 'FiI"eat interest.

NEW GLOUCESTER GEN

by John Cooper

GOOD AND IBAD FlirSit the bad news. We lost 2-8 ·to Stafford­

shire, the Itwo "successes" coming from W. Dawe and D. HaII'vey.

For tJhe better news, Gloucesters!hire Leagues !have a Ig.ood tlocaJ entlfY in we Regional U-13's E.T.T.A. competition, which was held in the County at Stroud Leisure Centre. Graham Slack (Cheatenham) and Andrew Golding (Stroud) did very we-lil, wihilst Daren Griffin (Gloucester) sihOlWoo his promise.

Cheltenham "B" beat SltroU'd "B" 8-2. This was a senior match and young Goading played and showed his mettle. Gloucester Vets lost their promotion chances wihen they wenll: down 2-8 to Nottingham,

Vanessa Cruwys, Ad-am Beny, Andrew Galding, Derek tMorgan and John Turne,r all had a good day out in tlhe Midd'lesex U-15's. V'Inessa was runner-u,p in the consolation singJes.

League chaJllpionships have now been decided as f01lllows:­Gloucester Open: D. Ber·ry. Wo-men: Mrs. J. Towie. Veterans: A. WitlJiams. Open Doubles': W..Dawe/S. Griffin. U-17: D. Morg.an. U-1'5, U-13 and BrY'Cln MerretJt Cup: D. ';riffin

(raged 10). Cooper Cup: Ju!l.ie PhHlips. Cheltenham Open: D. Harvey. Open Doubles: D. Sweeney/Cain. Women: C. 1l3copi. Women's <Doubles: J. Towie/V. Cruwys. Vets.: A. WiUiams. Boys' V-11l: G. Greenilng. Boys' U-15: A. Berry. Boys' U-ll3: J. Turner. Giil'Js: V. Cifuwys, Stroud Men's: G. Spencer. Women: Mrs. J. Golding. Men's Dou'bles: S. Spencer/Wise. Mixed: A. GO'lding/Mrs. Golding. Boys' U-17, U-15 ·and U-13: A. Goldi,ng. Boys' DOUibles': K. Ward/W8Jtkins. Girls: S. Giles..

Cornish ereaHl Taken on the occasion of the Cornwall County T.T.A. Silver Jubilee Dinner and

J)ance at the Penventon Hotel, Redrurth, ,P. E. IC. Smith, of St. Ives, captures the top table dignitaries (I to r): David Blackford (County IChair'm:an), Mrs. Marion Pearce (County 'President), 'Charles M. Wyles, O'.R.E. (Chairnlan E.T.'T'.A) and Tom Honey(County 'Secretary) .

On ,the following evening, at H'elston, ,a match was lplay.ed ag,aiinst the Inter­national ICilub, who \beat the Cornishm'en 8-1, the scores being:­\K,eith ICrheese1wrigiht lost to ,Ma1rk Mitchell -1:1', -9; lost to L,aurie iLandry -13, -10; lost

to 'Tony C~layton -9, -15. ,.Ray.mond Bunt Ilost to Landry -120, .J19; llost to Clayton -15, -1'5; lJOst to Mitchell

1'7, ...14, -12. John ,B,assertt lost to C,layton 13, -1\5, -17; bt \Mitlcheoll 15, 15; Jost to L,andry -~15, -16.

CONTROVERSY by

JOHN WOODFORD Deputy Table Tennis Correspondent

'The Daily Telegraph'

R:O'W BlEST F'O\RiGIOTliE!N FJeet iSt,reet sports sub-'ediltors land copy

tiaslt1e1rs Iw?re !looking in vlain on the niight of F'riiday, April 9th, for a "story" f~lQm tihe Norwii,ch Union Eng'1ish Cih,aimpi()inship,s at Lulton untlil 10 p.lm. Wi~th moslt of tthe seeded players in /the singles ,evenrts through rto the qua,rt,er-finalls, it looked 'a very or;dilnary even.. ing for talble tennils land thereforr'e' 'a v~ry li,rn,ited OQiVeTage in the Sa:tu:r1day ,molf,nlng p1ap,e1rs.

''Iihen it hapP'ened. K,ent umpire Jack WiHllialms tlhoughlt he h'e-arid the halH hit the floor in the J:ClIr\Tris-Neal1e se,mi..final. Most people, p'restent thoughlt Nicky's Ibat clilPped :the floor and therefore the return 'wlas good. Tbe next ten iminutes w'eire las embarr,ass'ing las any I Cia'll reca,l.l in t,aible tennis tou~naments for some ti\m,e.

tAt Itihe pe1rpetuaa r,ilsk 'Of losing frliends ll this is holW I SlafW' it: ;I( bel\ielVe the umpire was the filrst: person to..m,a!ke ,a miistlaike by c:allin:g "not up". ,pulbU,c op,inion s'ays tlhalt few people agirered wlitih the umpire. ,But lapp/laud Jack Wi,l\li'a:m!s foa:- s~!i,okin:g to his deCiision in the tir~ad:iltlion 01£ fooltlbaJll refe~ees. I'f the bos'S ~aYlS ''Jbil.ack is white" fe'w e.mp'loyees Iwould argue UlllIllelsls /they are looking for jobs elseiwneir'e!

Rerfelr.ee Len Piilld:i,tch might have leapt over the ha!l!cony tiD assert hilS aUlthol.fi~y a bit qu!i,ck,&, 'hut wihen he did rg,et there he puzzled

m,any for ,appalfentJy asking the ,opinions' of rdhe Qlther offici1a.1s Le.!! ti;mekeep,er and ":t'wiiddlerrls". I w'Ould 'halve t!houghlt tlhat in the Wi'mlbledon~si1:yle of C'apl1:ai'll' Mike iGilbson, ilt WlaiS merre,ly a quesltiiol11 oif ''Ip.}lay..on'' in accOird~ alnce wiitlh the- IflUlLe that pllay must be con­1:iinuous. And any pJ1ayer rwlho did not obey th,alt corn1mand w'Ourrd ha,ve be'en disqUla:lified.

By tihis trume, of cours'e, F:leet Streett had been lale1rit'ed th:alt a "row" story was on .the way and more spacre was mlade aV1ai:IabJe in s,everlal !'8Jter editions.

'Many spelctators ,must h,ave [orlmed the opinion malt Ne'ale's accrepit,ance of the' poinlt WlalS a bit mUlc!h"dtesper:ate though tlhe sitUiation waD for him. How,e'ver, j UiSl1:-ic'e wlas swifltliY drone as ,When pil:ay did resume Jarvis w:ent thtrough to victory.

It's ,a pity for the sporlt itn,at it ne1ediS such unts,avoUlry inci:delnts to have' to h.aplpen It'D attif'act dl.le alttent.ion of the ,national press', bUlt there is nothing Ithiat anYione can do to alt,elf t1hat. A;ugry ·cl!ashelS of tlhis nature will ,always pinch th,e headl!in·e!s.

Let us hope tlhait tlhils row he,t'ween Denis Ne1alle and Nj,c1ky J1a'rv;i,s is by now for'goittern. UD;Hke IChina and oth'ex nations, our be,ad­COUllit OIf wOlfild..C'}ass pilayers ,or even EU1ropea'n~ Cil1ClJSS Icontender's is' so S'lnaU that te:am slt'rirfe is unthinklabl,e.

UMPIRING CORNER iTt is hoped that t,his s,eries of shorrt artic1les,

i,ncOirporating a test of knowledge of the Laws of the Game, has' p,rOiV'oked pl,ayers or sup­porters of th~ ga1m,e to argum,ent ,and ultilm,altelly a reference- to the rule hook. Dare' the writer hope that it has stinlulated sufficiently to encourage ]oVlers of the ,game, ,maYlbe play,ers who are ,considering ,retiring, to "put halck" som;ething. into tlhe ig;a,me by pursuing ,an umpiring quallificat'ion. You will '~e.caIB' the initi'al artiole in t'he series ,made ,clear the pr'Ooess of quaHIfi.cation. IMay I appeal to alII who show Ian interest in th.is facet of the gam!e, to mlake contact 'with their County Associ,ation's U'mpires" ,Se.cr:etairy. If you don't knoiW the pierson or address, the iHastings offi'ce willl be ollily too willing to pirovide the information. Alth?ugh the .'ga,m,e .is about players, t'h'e umpIre iha~ fa vl,taJ part to pllay in control and presentation.

IPI,ease give the matte.r som,e serious thought. A,iP,

INTERNATIONAL RUBBER BAT TOURNAMENT

by Diavid Luddy

:rib-ere was a doulble MIddlesex triumph lat the fifth Inte,rnational Cllufb rulbber hat tourna­nlent at tlhe Barnet T.a:bl~' 'T'ennis ICentr,e on Sunday, Apri[ 111.

,Forlm,er E,llIgland internationa'I,Laurie Landry cruised to the'men's singles-.Richard IBerig~ m,ann trophy-title, winning. alil :fi'Ve of his sets in strai.ght glam·es 'and be'ating Derek SchlQ:fie,Id CChe's:hire) 21J18, 21-17 in rthe final.

M,a,rjolfie iWalke'r took the 'women's-Vi'ctor Barna~contest, defeating top seed Jean WH'l'ialnls (IBuckinghamsihire) 212-20, 2i1~19 in her final encounte'r.

Landry added the ,men's doubles title for the' third successive ye1ar, again /plartnered by S.cthofierld, but Miss Wa,lker completed a trefbrre winning with Beryl IC.l,ayton (Middlesex) i~ the' women's douhles ,and Schofield in the mixed.

!Results: ­Meoi's Slingles-Semi-finals . Landry Ibt 'Gordon ,Holmes CMiddl,esex) 10, 12.

'Schofield bt former :England No. 12, Derek [Burridge (Middlesex) lS, i13.

Final LAN;DIRY ht Schofi1e1ld 18, 1'7. Women's Singles~Semi-fin,als Marjorie' Wa~iker rbt Margaret Cherry (Middle­

sex) -16, 1,5, 18. Jean 'WHrliams ht :BerylIC,layton (20, 15.

Final WA,L,K1E,R 'bt Willlialll1s 20, 19. M,e:n's Doubles-Final L,andry/ISchofi,e,ld bt Vernon Adams/IColin

Fe.lrtham (both Som,erset) 5, 21. Women's D'oubles-Final W,a'lke,r /Clayton bt IWH,Halms/Sylv.ia T'ylerr

(IMiddlles·ex) 17, 118. Mixed iDoubles--\Final Schofie,ld/W.a1lke,r bt La.ndry/Gillian Pirson

(IMiddles·ex) 115, -1'9. 14. Men's Singles Consolation---.Fin,al Adams Ibt Joe Briandez (Essex) 8, 19. Women's Singles Consolation-Final Tyler ibrt M,arilyn Nash (lEss-ex) 10, 12.

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Letter to the Editor

FAIC'T'S AND FIGURES The ,letters in th,e l.ast issue of 'ClT'.T.N." ,malde

initereiSting r'e'ading but p1fompt ime to write' to P'llit a few Ifa,cts and Icorrie/ct ,a Ifew' :errors.

,First for IMr. iMunidy: :Every time an incre,ase in feles or a ~!evy has helen :m,ade durinlg the past 20 yearls, the pundits h,alVe ,p:roph'esi:ed a drop in 'mem:bership and "outlla1w'" !le,a'gues springing up. In f'act 'it [has ne.ver yert hap­p,ened. Following Ithe :lar'gest incr,e'ase ,e:ve'r m;ade in the ,current se:aSOID:, the ,m,e'mibership has ~ot de'cr,e,ased---iit hlas increased by a slJllia'l'l mla~gin of 1.5%. M~r. IMundy never ,m,entions the T,eturnaible asp'e'ct 01£ t'he gUiarante,e fund; he probably does not know ,ahout iit. lE:ve'fy effort will be Imade to 'make the Wor,ldsl pay and the 'wholle of the Ifund r,eturned to [h,e ].e:agucs to do wit[h it whalt'ev'er they wish. lit is not a II,evy and has ,neve,r intended :to he; it is a relturnlahle guar1ante,e'. The ,com,ment that those 11eft wilH ha:~e Ito p,ay more shows a complete lack o\f underst.a,nding of th'e position.

T,ecomJmlend you r1e'ad: the January ,issue of "T'.:T.N.", rp,a1g,e 2.9.

lAllso, Mr. ,Mundy, if th,e ,cost of the Worlldis 1977 is only £150,-000 ther,e !Would \be no proib.. lem land a large p,rofit would he :made. The actual fiigur,e is nelairer £3\SO,OOOand !for :th,el

I.T'.'T.F. to payout of its funds would. require an annuall fe,e' of £,2,000 at ,least" from every me'mlber association! 'The ~Spor~s Council p,ays for otahl,e tennis ,ev,ery season to the extent of £i4S 000 pe!r annUlm, wlhlch is thrie,e times wlhat is padd by the mem'be;rs! It is lalso quite lik,e~y that the biggest singl,e contribution towa!rds the Wiorllds willI, in fact. com'e flro1m, Ithe Sports CQluncil.

As for 60 ,minutes on tel,evision'l ,Mr. Mundy, just s,etitile down· ,every ni'ght, snm'e" a,ft,ernoons and tlWIQ Saturday ,aft'etrnoons and you might well 'clock up hetween 3 and 4 hours on the box.

Just in ,c,ase you have forgotten, the decision to !run the Worlds in (England wias a uDla,ni:m:ous on.e taken by /the A.rG.M. Also, rt:h'e decision to! oper,at,e a retur,na~ble gua,rantee fund 'w,as an a!lmo!slt unanimous: decis~on at :the rec,ent S.IG.M. You had your ,chance then ,Mr. ,Mundy, to voilce" your doubtsl•

Why does t'he E.T.T.A. orig,a.nise a Lincoln\ Lottery? To m,ake money, olfcourse. Thealct'Ulaa protfit this yea~ is a r'ecord of about £'1;800. What raffle ;lOS1: 'money :four 'months ,argO? Th'e last Worlds raff·le, in July, 1975'1 m,ade ,a profit of £300.

The sp'ect,ac1le of th'e Worlds will have an exhi1llarating eff,e,ct on all iPI,ayers th~nU'ghout t!he country ,and e'V,ery le;a,gwe should ibenefit.

IN,ext, Mr. Prean. The Worlds in .19'54 was watic'hed by 25,000 spectators. Th,e W'e'mhley stadium had a capacity of 7,500. The imaxi,mutln ,accom:m'Odat'ion in 1.977 wiJ,I he ahout 10,000 and the tort!al number of Ispeicltlators ,expect1ed to ,att1end is SO,OOO.

lit is not ,easy to' Chaill!ge th'e lalws olf th,e galme. England ils only one of ov,er ,100 me:mibers of

tihe ~.T.T.,F. Why should :the ItOP influential associations is upport us? They h,ave good crowds helC,ause they 'have -good tela'ms. iF,rlance gle:t 5,000 lto ;wlattch la European L,eague ma:t'ch. I t is rth,e p!laycrs, .nort the rules.. that dr,afW' th,e criOwds'. 'The play,eTls have ,mor,e- prize ,money, nlore sponsors and mor,e' financi.aJ asslstian'ce flrolm the iE.T.T.A. than ever helf.or'e. I ,a:gre!e it is stilll not suffiici,ent .10' aillow our pillayers to devot'e their .full rti1me Ito /the 'gatm,e- land com­petie OD! equal te!rms with th,eir opponents in Oit[h'e,r 'counrtiries. But~ Mr. 'Pr,ean, we arie ailiways trying to do ,better and are now sp.ending all/most £20,000 pier ,annum on train,in:g.

I can assur,e (Mr. ,MoorhoUise :that the umph:·,e p.roblelm is· lbeing delallt with. It ils not ,as Ibad as he se,es it; the English umpires ,ar,e still ith,e best in th'e- w'orld, but some ne'ed more :i.IlIt,er­nationa,l,exp,erienc,e. W,e have 'made ,application for g,rant aid to assist in sending s'everal te:ams olf umJpir:els ahroad during the ,cur,renrt s,eason, to tgain more ,eXlperienc:e.

Mlr. Airey must know that 'we do Igelt /trele­vilsion coveralge; not as! ,much ,as ,we 'would ~ike bUIt still w'e are re.cognis,ed as a top oaJtegory spO'rt ,and this is re.fle1ct'ed in the ,fe'es we r,eoeive. We do know a,lll ,about ":pot black" s,e,riels and in fa/ct suc[h Ian ,event is sicheduled in the next 1:0 months, hut ful,l detai,ls cannot yet be ,announced.

We have {'riled a spe.cialeve,nt for the pll'ay,ers, it'he Super League, and this was v'ery successful Ibut re'quired sponsorship o,f ,at l,e,ast £4,000 pier ,annum to Imak'e it worthwhile.

Anyway gentlem,en, th,ank you for your vie1ws, 'w,e wiH consider any suggestion, !butMr. Mundy ,at leaSIt can r'est in peace, the E.T.T.A. does do som,e ,funda;m,enlt,al thinking and is not shortt of idea& orente,rpl"tise. lIt ,m,ay be th,alt our ,com,munications Ic,ou1d improVie and J hop,e tlhis tletter has done just th,a:t.

ITOM BLUNN, Hon. Tlreasurer, E.T.T.A.

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NORWICH UNION ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIPS

by Richard Habgood

To say that this se,ason',s IChampionships wHI go down in histO'ry is questionabl,e. Just to stat'e- thalt new 'Europ'c,an ,Cha!mpion, Jill Ham­mersley, picked up two titles ,and D'esmond Douglas thr,ee would aliSO he unfair. What r,eally did happen is that IE,D1g1and has a ne-w triple Champion-D'ESMO'ND DOUG,LAS is the n:aim,e.

,H,a,ve you heard it before? Olf courls'e yO'll have-isn't 'he the pl,ayer th,at's just about won every !major tournatm'enit in Engl,anid this sleason? Again you'!re ri!ght. Ah! (But isn't he tlhe playerr who was so sensationally drOjpped fro'm the 'English team, lcarrying th'e' can for r,ather :inept per.for1mances ,against Yugoslavia and P011anid in IPrague.

Y,es1 hut h'e' did o/nay ~each ;the second round. losing to Kjelll Jon,ansso.n in FIVE ,ga1m,es. Stil,l that's not surprisrin,g-hasn'tt he on~y play,ed in tlWO fo'reign, "'Opens" [his' season-t'he F'edera,l Gelrm:a.n and the WeJ.sh.

Olh w,ell! then why ,and how did he win the Enlglish, only 'dropping just 'one Igam,e through­out the whol'e tournaim,ent? M,aybe be'c.ause he's ,a 'good player and ,at 20 y,e,arS OIf ,a;g;e' is E,ngland'S' 'best prOlspe!ct fOIf years. Oh, I didn't know that his first-eve'r tournamenlt ,was the Burford Junior Open in 19711. Fiv,e ye,ars to reaich Ithe top:--c.aJn't tbe Ibad. Stilil I'm Isure you g,et my point; if e'Vetr lJ)oUigl,as ne'edetd to lP'rove yet again :that he's nort nlada fair cflack of the whip with reg.a1rd to E,ng,land individuail appear,ancest, then it came ,at thi,s ye1aif's Nor1wich Union.

R:esult,s: ­Men's Singles-Round 3 D. Douglas (Wks) bt A. Hydes (Sx) 13, 17, 6. J. Walker (Cv) bt I. Kenyon (KO 17, -18, II, I. I. Horsham (Ex) bt W. Sichel (Kt> 13, 19,13. A. Barden (Mx) bt M. Newman (le) 12, 16,20. D. Neale (Cv) bt R. Potton (Ex) 15, -17, 14, 9. R. Ti Hing (KO bt IVI. Mitchell (Mx) 17, -21, 16, -16, 22. P. Day (Ca) bt I. Robertson (Nd) 10, 16, 17. N. Jarvis (Cv) bt P. Randel:1 (le) IS. 14, 14. Quarter-finals Doug,las bt Walker 18, 17, 17. Barden bt Horsham 20, 14, 8. Neale bt Tilling 14, 15, 14. Jarvis bt Day -14, 18, 14, 18. Semi -finals Douglas bt Barden 10, 15, 17. Jarvis bt Neale 17, 14, -13, 20. Final DOUGLAS bt Jarvis 18, 11, -18, 7. Women's Singles-Round 2 J. Hammersley (Bu) bt A. Mitchell (Mx) 6, 14, II. M. ludi (Vk) bt S. Hunt (li) -12, 17 18, -22, 14. S. Hession (Ex) bt E. Britton (Mx) 10, 13, 9. s. Lisle (Ch) bt B. Hammond (Be) 9, 14,8. L. Howard (Sy) bt L. Barrow (Ex) 11, 17, 9. A. Stevenson (le) bt L. Radford (Ex) 10, -8,20, 16. K. Rogers (le) bt J. McCree (He) 11,7, 12. C. Knight (Cv) bt L. Budd (Ex) 17, -14, 17, -15, 12. Quarter-finals Hammersl,ey bt ludi 12, 16, II. Hession bt Lisle 16, 18, 19. Howard bt Stevenson 13_ 11, 13. Knight bt Rogers 19, 12, 8. Semi -finals Hammersley bt Hession 13, 12, 10. Howard bt Knight -19, 14, -16, 19, 15. Final HAMMERSLEY bt Howard 19, 7, 14. Men's Doubles-Quarter-finals Douglas/Neale bt Newman/Randell 15, 6, 9. Potton/Robertson bt J. Kitchener (Sk)/D. Tan (Mx) -18, 19"

8, 19. Barden/Walker bt J. Hilton (Ch) /D. Johnson (Wk) 12, -19,

21, 15. Day/Jarvis bt D. Brown/Horsham 22, 12; 13. Semi -finals Douglas/Neale bt Potton/Robertson 16. 12, 5. Day/Jarvis bt Barden/Walker 11, -13, 17, 14. Final DOUGLAS/NEALE bt Day/Jarvis -14, -17, 11, 17, 13. Women's Doubles-Quart'e,r-finals Hammersley/Howard bt S. Sharp (Be)/W. Shaw (Ch) 10,12, 12. Lisle/Stevenson bt J. Reading (Ha)/M. Walker (Mx) 15,18,

-16, 12. A. Tierney (Cv)/K. Witt (Bks) bt ludi/'Mitchell -17,20,14,19. Rogers/Knight ,bt S. Jones (StUM. Smith (Be) 8, 13, 7. Semi -finals Hammersley/Howard bt Lisle/Stevenson -22. 11, 17, 14. Tierney/Witt 'bt Rogers/ Knight -17, 19, -12, 19, 16. Final HAMMERSLEY/HOWARD bt Tierney/Witt 19, 11, 16. Mixed Doub les-Quarter-finals Jarvis/ Hammersley bt D. Parker (la) /Stevenson 18, 15. -18, 15. Hilton/Rogers bt Neale/Knight 15,15, -17, 19. Day/ludi bt Barden/Mitchell 18, 12, -20, 20. Douglas/ Howard bt Horsham/Lisle 6, 23, 17. Semi-finals Jarvis/Hammersley bt Hilton/Rogers -16, 15, 17, 18. Douglas/Howard bt Day/ludi 17,7, 14. Final

DOUGLAS/HOWARD bt Jarvis/Hammersley 19, 20, 14.

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WORTHING JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL

by Geo. R. Yates :Only in doubles Iprlay in the individual events

did iEngland players finalUy -make their presence f,elt following !total ecilipsle in the main sing1l1es events 0'£ the Worthing Junior Inteirnational ,Cha1mpionships over the Iwe,e'kend of May 11/5-16.

Top se-?d Andy ,Barden fell to Hans Joseph P,eteirs, ,of 'Fieder,all Ger,many, in the se'mis, Paul Day, the INo. 3 seed, being sur,prising1y ,elimin­ated in the 2nd round (by IPaulo Bar'ga,gli, of Italy.

!Hans Jo,3chiim Nolten, of the P:S.V. Club, Borussi,a Dusseldor!f, was the ulti'marte 'winner, adding to his silm,iIar suc,cess in the French Junior IOpen pilayed in Vi'chy, over the p,eriod April '116-17. In the' fiirst day's tea,m event!s B,arden and Day heat the Federal 'Germans 3J.1, with Be,l.gium ,gaining ,a like success over El1'gil'and in the' ;girls' match. It was the first time that Belgium have ever won an imerna­monaJ. team title at a,ny level.

On the eve of the IChalmpionships, a!g'ain at Wort/hing ISports 'Centre, England's iboys triumphed 3-2 and the- Igirlls' 5-0 over Federal Ger:mainy in two itnternational mat'cihes play,ed side 'by side. 'Scores:­BoysIP.D'ay bt U. :Meye!rhoff 11.2, 118. M. Shuttle lost to H. J. IPete'rs -18, 112, -16. D'ay/IShuttle 'l\ost to H. J. INollten/J . Schirr­

meister 1162 -18, -212. D,ay ,bt Pete'rs 8, 14. Shuttl'e- :bt: Meyerhoff ,17, 18. Girls K. Witt (bt M. Sedlmair 13, 13. A. T:terney bt U. Lich'e'r 9, '117. Tierney/Witt bt ISedlmair/R. Seidler 14, 13. Witt ibt Licher 9, 1:5. Tierney bt Sedlllm'air 1\3, 1\5.

iCHA.MPIIONSWP RESULTS Boys' Team Final-England 3, F. Germany 1 D'ay bt !Nollt,en, '13, 18. B,ariden Ibt ISchiifr'm,eister 12, 10. Bia,rden/IDay 1o~t to Nolten/ISchirrmeister -10,

..1'2. Day ht Scihinrme.ister 112, 1.4. Girls' 'T'e-am Final---'BelgiuJIl 3, England 1 M.-IF. Ger,miat bt A. Mitch-e·lll '14, 13. V. 'Ge-rmiat lost to 1M. Liidi -1\7, -20. Germiat/Germiat btLiidi/Mitchell 114, 16. M.-F. Ger1miat Ibt iLiidi 116, 13. Boys' Singles-Quarter-finals A. 'Barden (lEn) ibt H. IGnotz'en (NL) 14, t4. H. J. \P,eters (FiD) bt M. lSihuttle' (En) 2:3, 19. D. Johnson (tWa) bt P. B.a,rgagli (J:t) 16, 13. H. J. ,Nolten (,FD) ,bt J. iL. IRoques' (Fr) 1\8, 11. Se'd-finals Peters bt Barden ~18, 9, 26. Nolten bt Johnson 19, 12. Final NIOL\11EIN (bt ,Pet,ers 16, 13. Girls' ~Singles-Quarter-finals M.-F. t;erm.iat (B'e) bt K. Witt (lEn) 17, 13. P. IDonn.e' (Fr) Ibt B. Gr,opp-er (Au) 15, 11. M.IHaderer (Au) 'bt U. Lieher (iFD) .,20, 14, 19. B. Vrieskoop(IN\L) bt N. Daviaud (Fr) 18, 9. Se'mi-finaJs G,e'rmiat bt Donne 8, 11. Vrieskoop ibt IH'aderer 8, 13. Final VRIiEStKQ'OP bt \Ger'miat 4, li5. Boys' Doubles~SeDd-finals Barden/Day bt P. R'enve,rse' (Fr)/Roques 19,

115. IC. :Se,weU (En)/Shuttle- 01. A. Pokorny/if. PrO'glhQif (tAu) -22, 2:1, 1~6. Final J'

BlA!RIDEIN/ID~:Ybt Sew'ellii/Shuttrle 15, 12. GirIs' Doubles-Semi-fiinals A. Snyders (NIL) /Vr.i,e'S'koop Ibt Ger,miat/

IGermi'at 17, .at, 19. 'Liidi/IMit'ch,e},l ,bt ICropper/Haderer 9 111.t

Final LUID[/MJ.LmC,HELL bt Sny;ders/Vl"ieskoop 20,

-18, 8. Mixed Doubles~Semi-finals DayJrLiidi ibt Renv,erse/Daviaud 1.5~ 10.

Barden/Milt'chell ibt IShuttle/Witt -1~, 16, 16. Final DAY/LUDlf 'bt 'Barden/Mirtche~I-11, 1.5, 16.

FREN:CH JUNIOR OPEN Boys' Team Final-Sweden 3, England 0 T. D,anielsson bt iDay 115, 1'5. L. Franklin bt IB-arden 1.1, 12. D'aniellsson/F,rankllin ht ,Barden/D,ay -14, 17, 19. Girls' Team Final-Hungary 3, Belgium 0 O'la:h bot V. 'G,erimiait 2-0. Bogyo Ibt M...F. -G,ermi,at 2-0. BOigyo/Olan ,bt G-ermiat/'Gerimiat 2-0. Boys Singles-Final NOIL\T~EiN ht Fr,anktlin 11.5, 112. Girls' Singles-Final BIO'GIYlO bt -M.-F. Ger1miat 18, 115. Boys' -Doubles-Final FR~NiKIL.rN/TIEGN'ER bt IBa,rden/Day 14, -illS,

118. -Girls' Doubles-Final ICmM'FiLOVA/,H,E,RMAlN-O-VA (ICS) bt Bogyo/

Ollah -115, 1,7, 22. Mix:ed Doubles~Fin.al NiOUTEIN/1UE\HIR \bt lDanie,lsson/Hernv:a1n (Sv)

-118, 20, 21.

Europe~ top players choose Halexbats.

JILL HAMMERSLEY LiNDA ·HOWARD At Prague on April the 4th Jill Hammersley won the European Championship and

partnered Linda Howard to win the doubles. Both girls played with Halex Tri-Star bats covered with Halex Midas Silver Spot rubbet We would like to congratulate both Jill and Linda on their terrific successes.

[I'] ~:!R~~~~~~~B~!~!!~~WingtonCauseway, London SE16EE.

STOP PRESS.JILL HAMMERSLEY NOW EUROPE'S NO 1.

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LANC,AS,HIRIE & C,HESHI'R!E RO'U:NID-U;P by Ge,orge R. Yates

F-or the first time in their history ,Hyde and iDistri'ct took the. 'Division 1 title in the Lanca­shri,re ,and :Cheshi~e ,Le,ague, ,coming throu.gh alL divisions to do 'So 'after lapsing rtiheir m,e,mher:. ship five seasons ago.

Nigel Hallllows ,be'ca:me the first ti:m'e ,men's sin~les ,cha,mpion of the 'Bnlton League with final victory over his Litt,le Lever C.IC. tealm­mate,- 'Graham Hoy, the defending tit,le-hoI.der. J.ennifer Dixon ret'ained her women's sing1les t.:.ttl~ and Stephen Cowley :EIU-cceeded ,Hoy as the' junior 'cha'mpion.

Blackpool's seasider pl,ayers' Inade inroads into 'the 'County and into the p~izes of the L'ancashire ICllose.d ,at Bolton B.I.T.

Roy Frankland took the men's singles title, Connie Ford (ne'e ,Moore) the 'wo-men's and the pair Icombined (for suocess in the '-mixed. And for Igood Im-easure Derek iHH1I betat Liver~ pool's George S,mith for the veter,ans' title. Preston's I,an ISmith and Ann Sweeney came into '1Jheir own in the two junior ~vents.

NEW RANKINGS SENIORS

Men 1. D. ,Doug:1as (Wa) (1.) 2. N. Jarvis -(ICV) (2) 3. ID. Nealle (Cv) (3) 4. )J. W,alk,er (ICv) (5) 5. IP. D1ay (Ca) (6) 6. A. Barden (iMx) (4) 7. A. Hydes (tSx) (-) 8. 1. Horshalm (E) (B) 9. J. Hi,lton (Ch) (Illi)

il0. 'D. P,arker (L,a) (7) 1\1. L. A. ICllayton (Y) (13) 1,2. ,R. Potton (:E) (15) 1'3. 1M. :M1it'chel'l (IMx) ((9) 114. iN. Eckers1,ey (rCh) (14) 1'5. :D. [Brown {E) (10) li6. 1. Kitch,ener (Sk) (12) 17. R.Hlalnlpson (ICh) (~) \18. 1M. Shuttle (Sy) (-) 1'9. A. Fletcher (Y) (-) 20. IC. Sewell (Av) (-)

Women 1. J. H:amlmersley (Bu) (1) 12. IL. Howlard (Sy) (3) 3. C. Kni!ght (ICV) -(2) 4. IS. Lis,l,e (Ch) (4) 5. S. He'ssion (E) (7) 6. IK. Rogers (,L,e) (6) 7. IA. Stevenson (Le) (B) B. K. Witt (\Bk) {12) 9. M. Liidi (Y) (9)

10. 'L. Radford (rE) (5) tl. A. Mitchelll (lMx) (10) 1\2. A. 'T'ierney (ICV) (11 )

JUNIORS Boys

1. P. D,ay (ICa) (2) 2. A. IBarden (Mx) (1) 3. 1M. IShuttl,e (Sy) (3) 4. IC. Se'wel,l (A,v) (4) 5. D. Johnson (Wa) (6) 6. I. K<~nyon (K) (12) 7. IC. Rogers (L,e) (7) 8. IS. H,azeliwood (Y) (8) 9. (I). Reeves (IBk) (9)

'10. K. Caldon (E) (10) il1.K. B:e:adsf1ey (Y) (14) 12. K. P,axton (Du) (5) ;18. R. IHazelwood (Y) (A) ;1:4. K. Rich,ardson (ICa) (A) 115. D. N'ewm,an (IE) (16) 16. IS. Boxaill (Sy) (A) 1'7. A. Metcalfle (Y) (!20) 118. M. Harriston (Y) (19) 1\9. J. Proffitt (He) (11) 20. A. Well1man (Bk) (-)

Girls 1. ,K. Witt (Bk) (4) 2.'M. ,L,udi (Y) (l) 3. A. Mitcherrl (Mx) (2) 4. S. Hunt (Li) (6) 5. A. Ti,erney C'Cv) (3) ,6. J. New COo) (\1,6) 7. B. Gr,een (Wa) (5) B. J. WilH,ams (,Cv) (7) 9. J. MCiLeian (Y) (li2)

10. J. Reading (IH,a) (8) ,111. IL. H'rysz'ko (Y) (19) 1112. J. Skipp (ICV) (9) 13. S. Jones (St) (A) 14. S. Roebuck) (tA) ,1.5. ,H. GOlre (E) (A)

C:ADETS Boys

1. IC. Wiilson (IHa) (2) 2. G. Sandll,ey (Mx) (11

)

3. A. O'Connor eLla) (3) 4. A. Proffitt (Mx) (4) 5. M. O,akl,ey (Sy) (-) 6. J. ~ute'r (Mx) (-) '7. R.Berge-mann (HH) (6) 8. IC. Parp,antonion (iMx) (10) 9. M. L,aird (ICV) (7)

10. S. Har1m:er ('Bd) (8) Girls

1. A. Gordon (,Bk) (2) 2. 'M. Smith (IB'k) (3) 3. 1M. Reeves (Mx) (4) 4. H. Robinson ('Cv) (1)

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5. J. ,PurSilow (Bk) (5) 6. 'E. Bolton (K) (-) 7. S. Gilson (Do) (-) 8. IC. 'CO'leigate (IK) (-) 9. S. Midg1ley ('Y) (110)

il0. L. tGarbet (Sy) (9)

Obituarr BILL SPRY

'Table Tennis followers in Exeter, and indeed 'Dtevon~ were stunned to learn of the sudd1en death of lBill Spry, on Sunday, 11th April, at the age of 66.

Bill was a,ctulally playing in a mialtch during his club's championships when, towelling down betwe'en games,! collapsed and died at once.

Bill's love for table tennis was such that he never gave up playing from the time he started and there are m1any excellent plaevers who would vouch for the fact that he was most difficult to be,at even in his advancing years.

Although being given the honour of Life Me'mbership of the Exeter L,eague many years ago, iBiIlcontinued to play an a!ctive part in committe'e work for both Exeter and ;Devon, and was ,always available when tasks had to be carried out in prep'aration for various events" setting an exam1ple to those many years his junior.

Bill was the Devon County Umpir~s' Secretary ,and always encouraged people to take the County Umpire test. He was, himself, an excellent umpire who officiated in many champ,ionship events, both locally and nationally. Com;petitors from 'Devon and els,ewhere will,! no doubt, remember him, as an understanding Referee of the v,arious cham,pionships held in Exeter.

Those of us who were fortunate to know and work with Bill have lost a real friend and colleague. H,e was a most likeable and Dlodest man who gave unselfishlev to our sport for the enjoyment of others.

No sport c,an afford to lose his like. No one gave more to table tennis and, perha.ps" it was fitting that his life came to an end in the way it did. Bill would not have wished it any other way.

CLEVELAN,D VIEW by Alan Ransome

AMBITIONS FULIFiLLEID ,Clleveland's ambitions for this scason have

been fulfi11ed in the IlaStt weeks of the season with our Senior T'e-am winning the Pre:mieT Divislion title ,and the Juniors, ,ad,mit,tedly by a ,rath,er unorthodox ,method, ,avoiding r,ele:ga­tion f'rom the Junior Premier.

IWithout D,enis ,N,eale who "was not in the m,ond for playing ta,ble tennis" alf/t,er the Norwich Union 'Championships at Luton, IC>!'eiV'e­land put up a trelm,endous d:sipll,ay to cHnch the tit'le with a 5-1 lead oV'?r IEssex. .Nicky J.arvis and JimmyW'ailker both put in ,compe­tent per1forimances, 'whilst 'CalrQlle Kni,ght turned in her Ibest 'County display of t;he s,eaSiOn to. beat L'eslley Radford.

IOn the sam,e day, at 'Cl,acton, the ICleve1and Junio.r Team 'went down narrowly to Ess'ex 4-6 aft'er putting up la good fighting display. After this g,ame we wer,e resigned to Second Division table tennis next season until Bolb Bridge,s asked us if" as 'Durham" Der1byshi,r1e, Cumbria and Northumlberland were unable, for one r,eason or another" to ch,a1'}.eng,e, we would llike to particip.ate in the pllay-offs at Shen},ey on 1st and 2nd May.

(It took a minimum of t:lm,e to' get thiis deci­sion from us to p!lay and with victoflies' of 6-4 over Sussex, Hanl:pshire and L,ancashi~e back into the P,re,mier w,e went. Our girl,s Angisl,a Tierney, June Wi,lliaims and Helen Robinson, compleitely dominated their deip1alrtments of the 'm,a1tches, whilst ,Mark 'Murphy and Ml,chael

La1ird ros,e to the' occasion. :to pull us through. lWe h,ave already decided that next selason

we wiH alg,ain run a maximum of s'enior land j unioir County t,ea,ms in the thr'e'e' divisioniS, burt: now, 'with aH of our t,eam stiU juniors next season, instead of looking to a'void relegalti,on, w,e ,ar:? aftelr 'that th1le, too.

STIGA ENGLISH SCHOOLS INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS LUITO'N-NO PLA,CE POIR "O'UITS,ID'EIR'S"

by David Lomas

'The sipia!CiOUIS LutouRegiolllia1 Sports C'entr'e was !the venue for tthe rthi'rd annual Sti)ga English Schools' Individual IChampionships on Mlay Blth, which we1re p.art of :Luton's centenary cell,ebrations progr1a'mtm,e.

Eighteen tables 'were in use to ,ca:t?r for th'e record entry of 253 players-each pl,ayer being the Ischoo1s' chalmpions of their own County in e.ach of eight ,ev,ents.

Organis,er Edidi,e IMiltchelH slaiid th,alt such was the sitre,nglth of the ,entries in some events rthat it had proved difficult Ito deter'mine the ,se,ed­illigS in som,e cases, but as it turned out no "outsiders" ca,m,e tlhrough to th'e finalls and six of the eventlS w'e.r,e Iw'On by It/he number one seeds, ,a,lthough the're 'were som,e upsets in ft'he­p ir,e1im'inary groups.

David New'man (The IPlum,e SchoOll, 'Maldo'll) ov,ercanl,e No. 1 s'e,ed 'Duggie Johnson, ranked 10 places hi,ghe,r on the 'En:gl,and Junior list, in strai,gnt games to win :the Boys' Under~lB event to ,add to the IEssex pl.ay,er's SchoolS' International Int,erm,ediat,e crown.

'The 'Gir'ls' Under-l:9 itfophy 'w,elllt to Karen Witt (Bulm,erish,e Schooll" 'Woodley) for whom speci1ail ,arrangements had heen ,m,ade for- ilea,ve of ,absence from ,a training ,caim.p. She recoV'cr,ed from a poor fi..rst ,ga1m'e to belalt Mandy M'ellor, who was runner-up in :the s,a1mle evenlt l,ast yealr.

Boys' Under-19 1. DAVIID NIEIW1MAJN (IEssex iCounty) 2. ,Doug,las Johnson .( West Mid/lands) 3. ,Andrew W,el}!man (Berk'shi!r'c') 4. Silmon ,Claxton (H,e1retford & Worces.)

Girls Under-19 1. IKlAIRlE;N ,WITTIT (IB·erkshire) 2. iMandy IM,ellor (Der:by'Shire) 3. LJ ane Skipp (IClleveland) 4. IJ u1:ie R,e'ading (,Ha1mpshire)

Boys' Under-16 ,1. iKJEIT!H PlAXT;O,N ('Tyne & Welalr) 2. :S:tephen Box,all (Sur-,rey Met.) 3. ,K'evin ;Edwa!rds (Wiltshire) 4. IDoug'l,as B,ennelt:t (Norfolk)

Girls' Unde'r...16 1. S·UZAIN'N(E ,HUNT (Lincolnsihi1re):2. A.ngeilia Tie,rney (IClevelland) .3. Linda Hryszko (.West Yorkshir,e) 4. 'Mandy Smith (B'erkshire)

Boys' Und'er-13 :1. RIOHlA,RD SEIRIGE\MAININ (,Dorset) 2. ,P,aul Whiting (Devon) 3. Jolhn Souter (!Middlesex) 4. \Mark Oakley (ISurr!ey County)

Girls' Under-13 :1. tA.iLilSlQ,N G,O,RD,O,N (B,erkishir,e) 2. ILorraine :G,arbet (ISurrey :Co'U,nty) 3. iMaxine Alb-bott (Ess,ex Met.) 4. Jul:ie Dowset1t (.Elssex ICounty)

;Boys' Under-11 '1. '}EiR:EiMY DIUIPFIiE'L1D (H~:reford & W) :2. ,G'raham Russe.ll (Surrey 'County) 3. IAndrew IDixon (West M:dllands) 4. IChris B,ryan ('Lincolnshire)

Girls' Under-1t 1. SAIR:A:H CR:ESSW1EILIL, (Surrey !County) t2. Jacki'eM'ersh (K,ent County) 3. iNicola. H,amilton (Bucks) 4. Janice ICllalrk (IEssex County)

FliNAL AVE,RAGES 1975-76 2nd WEST 3rd SOIU,TH

Qualifications: 2 matches and 60% Men P \W AVlg. % Men P m Avg. % (Premier Divisions 50%) S. Heap'S (IBerks) 110. 9 90 ·R. 'Tilling (,Kent) ........ 6 6 100

B. B,eIcher (lWorcs) .... '1:2 10 83 G. ,Giles (Herts) ........ 4 4 100PltEMIER D'IVISION J. Bil,a-orner (IGwent) :10 8 80 Men P W Avg. % D. Reeves (Berks) ...... 10 8 80 R. Jermyn (IHerrts) 4 4 100 D.Doug/las (iW.arwks) 10 10 100 S. IC,l:axton (!\Vorlcs) ...... 12 9 75 E. ,Eme,cz ('Sussex) . ..... 4 3 75 N. J arrvis (IC'I,eve ) 1:0 10 100 S. Douglas (Berks) ...... 1'2 9 75 P. Smith (Sussex) ...... 4 3 75D. N,ea1le (ICllev?) 8 8 100 K. Edwalrds (Wilts) .... 10 7 170 R. Yule (Surrey) 8 7 88 R. Brown (Worics) ..... . '.1(2 8 67 T. Far-lie (iKent) ........ 7 5 71 J. Walker (ICleve) 14 12 86 B. Reeves (Som) ........ ,1'2 8 67 P. Beck (IKent) .......... 6 4 67R. Potton (Essex) 12 9 75 B. Dav.i-es (D'evon) ...... 6 4 67M. IShu~tle (Surrey) 4 3 75 K. Horton (Suss,ex) ...... '6 4 67K. James (De\T.on) ...... 6 4 167A. IBarden. ('Middx) \112 8 67 D. 'Seahol,me (H?lrts) .... ,6, 4 167M. Nociv?'1lli (G'went) .... 8 5 63D. Munrt: (lWarwks) \1\2 8 67

B. Meisel (Kent) ........ 3 2 167J. 'Hillrton (Ches) ,1/4 9 64 Women D. 'Tan (Middx) 14 9 64 C. IReeves (,Berks) ...... 5 5 100 WomenD. :Brown CEs'sex) 10 6 60 E. Lamb ('D,evon) ........ 4 3 75 L Horsham CEssex) )114 7 50 J. ,Lloyd (lW:orcs) ....... . t6 4 67 Caro'l iR,andaJl (Sussex) .. 3 3 '100 M. 'Mitchell (!Middx) ~12 6 50 J. rwils10n (Som) ........ 5 '3 60 L. TQiwl,er (H,erts) . ..... 4, 3 75M. Johns (IChes) 6 3 50

Women S. \Lisll,e' (iChes) . . . . . . . . 7 7 100 L. How,ard (Surrey) 6 5 83 S. Hession (!Essex) 4 3 75 A. iMirtlc:heltll (M:iddx) 6 4 67 C. Knight (ICleve) 6 3 50 J. ·M!cLean (Yorks) 2 1 '50

'~nd SOUTH Men P W Avg. % R. Chandler (Suss·ex) 10 9 90 J. Dalbin (Kent) 6 5 83 J. IClla,rke (Sussex) 10 7 70 D. Jem:m,ett (lMiddx) 10 7 70 C. MOT'ris ,(Kent) ,10 7 70 L. Landrey (IMiddx) 6 4 67 C. Str,athe:arn (Surrey) .. 6 4 67

; 6'3G. Blomfield (IE,~~~'X) - R H. Buist (\Kent) 8 5 63 G. IPugh (Sussex) 10 6 60

Women E. Tarten «(Essex) 3 3 100 J. Reading (Hants) :2 12 100 M. 'Walker (Middx) 3 2 67

2nd NO\R'TH Men P 'IV A.vg. ~~ P. M,cQueen «(Durham) .. 10 10 ion R. Hazerlwood (Yorks) .. 4 4 100 S. SOUiter (Cleve) 6 5 83 M. 'Corking (Clevie) .10 7 70 B. ,Hi,H (Lines) 110 7 70 A. Metcalfe (Yorks) '10 7 70 A. CrOOm?l (Notts) 6 4 67 A. Jones l (Northumlb) 6 4 67 A. iMalrtin ('Clleve) 110 6 60 D. Svenson (Durham) .... J.O 6 60 Women J. IWhite (Lincs ) 5 5 100 H. Shields (Yorks) 2 2 :100

2nd MiIDiLAND Men P W Avg. ~{)

P. Randelil (ILeic'S) 10 9 90 C. ,Rogers (.Lei,cs) 10 9 90 A. GrIffiths ('Gla'm) 8 7 88 M. iNerw:man (,Lei1cs) 8 6 75 M. Billington (Deribys ) .. 10 7 70 J. 'Mansfield ('Glam) 6 4 67 D. Ya~llop (Deribys) 110 6 60 Women K. Rog,e'rs (ILeics) 3 3 100 A. Stevenson (Leics) 2 2 100 J. Carr (Staffs) 3 2 67

2nd EAST' Men P IW Avg. CJ~ P. D'ay (Ca:mibs ) 8 8 100 C..Pi,cka.rd (Herts) 4 4 100 K. Richarrdlson ..;(Calmhs) .. \10 9 90 J. IPlroffitt (H,erts) ,8 6 75 J. 'Fuiller (Nor!folk) 4 3 75 J. T'ur,ner (Norfolk 4 3 75 M. [Harper (ICa:mhs) :10 7 70 G. Giles (IH'~rts) 6 4 67 A. W'ats'Ollt (,Bucks) 6, 4 67 C. Benson (Norfo!lk) 8 5 63 Women A. Wallis (INorthants) 4 3 75 s. Hirst CC,am~bs) 5 3 '60

THE FIRST GREATER LONDON COUNCIL

II CLOSED" TABLE TENNIS

CHAMPIONSHIPS (in Good Standing w'ith the E.T.T.A.)

organised by

NORTH MIDDLESEX TABLE TENNIS LEAGUE

ALEXANDRA PALACE, WOOD GREEN, N.22 on

29th, 30th and 31st October, 1976 Entry forms are obta'inaible from, the G.L.C. Pa,rks Department at 233 High Ho-l'b'orn, WC1V 7D'N Tet: 01-633 170,8

o,r from L. Hoffman, 33A The Gro,ve, N.10

Tet: 01-833 5115 (H) or 01-73,9 7391 fB)

You can enter if you were born in, live 'in, w'ork in or study in the G.L.C. area (subject to certain time limits).

The events, which are' singles ,only, include under 13, 15, 17 Boys and Girls (effective date 30/6/76) and Sen'iors - Men and Ladies.

£500 TOTAL !P'RIZE MION'EY flO'R WllNINE:RS, R,U'N!N'ER:S-U,P A,NiD LOSIN,G SEMI AN!D QUARTER-FIIN1ALISrTS

PLAQUES AND MEiDALS FIOIR WINNE'RIS, RU'NNER'S-UP AND LO'S1NG SEiMI-PIINALISTS

-rHE N'O,R'TH M,IDDt,ES',EX OIPEN W:I'LL. RUIN ICOiNCUIRIR:ElNTLY O'N TH'E SA,TU'RlDAY AN'D SU'N!DAY

Entry Forms obtaina,ble, from - E.TrT.A., or L. Hoffman, or Ha'ro,ld Webb, 122 Alde'rm,ans H'ill, N13 4prr

Pa~e 33

lrd NiORTH Men B. Joihns ('C,heshire) T. ,Burrows (Cheshire) C. Heap (Lancs) G. Hoy (IL,ancs) C. Reed (ICum,bria) Women N. Ciarne (IClevie) W.IShaw (ICheslhire)

3rd MID'LAND Men D. !Marples (Derby's) B. Johnson (Warwks) M. IGriffiths (Warwks) N. Marp'les (iDerbys) C. Judson (,Not:ts) R. Liloyd {:Cllwyd) P. S:peuicer (IN'otts) M. A~klha:m (iDer'bys)J. Riley (IStaffs') Women J. Ralphs (Clwyd) E. Silmpson ([()er1bys) G. iCoopelr (Northants)

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P 8 6 8 8 4

;2 3

.p 8

10 5 8 4 9 6

\10 10

5 4 3

4 80 3 7'5 '2 67

W A~g. % 8 100 6 100 7 88 7 :88 3 75

2 100 2 67

W AV'g. % 8 100 9 90 4 80 6 75 3 75 6 67 4 67 6 60 6 60

Girls J. N,e1w (iDors~t) J. R'eading (IHants) A. Gedge (Sussex) J. Boulter (:Essex)

JUN'IOR 2nd NOR'TH Boys K. Paxton (Durha1m) A. ,C1ark (Northu:nlib ) M. Jenkins (IDerbys) .... C. :Re,ed (Cumbria) S. ,Mills (Yorkshire) A. ,Ge,ldelr ('Durham) I. ,Smith (L,ancs ) C. Stretltle (L,ancs) A. Sum'merscales eYorks) A. M ~:tiCal£e (Yorks) R. Haze,lwood (Yorks) P. ,M,alsterlS (Durham) S. ICow,ley (L,ancs)

Girls L. ,Hryzsko (Yorks).T. Bilack (!La,ncs) L. Hol'mes (Dlerby's) J. Inch (Durham)

6 6 5 4

P 10 '12

8 14­110 14 14 14 14

8 4

14­to

4­5 7 7

6 100 5 83 4 80 3 7'5

4 100 4 80 5 71 5 11

W AV'g. % 110 100 1~1 92 7 88

12 86 8 80

1~1 79 lil 79 ,11 79 \111 79

6 75 3 '7'5

10 7;1 7 70

Girls E. Sayer (Essex) B. IChanliberlain (Hunt's)

JUNIIO,R 3rd WiEST Boys T. IFairhanks (:Devon) 1. J,am,es (ICornwaU) I. Mussel'white (Avon) M. Shearm,an ('D'evon) P. L,ewis (Avon) Gi~ls S. James (CornwHlll) E. Lamb (Devon)

VE'TIE:R.AN SOU'TH Men V. IrelBnd (lEssex) M. Buckley (IEssex III) L. Fountain (IEssex 1:1) K. ,Beamish (Essex) G. Holley (Hants) F. L,Qicklwood (IEssex) R. Lu~ih (iHallits) G. H,arri,s (IKent) M. Wi1S'on (IK,ent) Women

. .

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2 4

P 6 6 6 6 6

2 '2

P 12

6 8 6 6 6

1~2 110

6

IW Avg. % 5 83 5 83 5 83 5 83 4 6:7

2 100 2 100

W AVlg. % 12 '100 6 too 7 88 5, 83 5 83 5 ,83 9 75 7 70 4 67

2 100 3 7'5

3rd EAST Men .T. Kitchener (!Suffolk) B. ,Mailey (IEssex) P. HUllit CEss'ex) S. Whiteley (IEss,ex) G. Davies (Canlbs) D. Ralw,linson (Beds) A. IL,almprell1 (Hunts) B. Jones (!C,arrlfbs) Women M. Nash (IEs'sex) L. Budd (iEssex)J. A,IIEnson ,«(Hunts) V. RQiw:eU (iCaimlbs)

3rd WESiT Men C. rSewelll (Avon) W. ,Hussey (Gla:m) C. :Rees (Glam) G. Evans (IG'Ia'm) G. ,Hilll 'C Doriset ) C. :Bush (Dorset) R. Murray (Avon) M. Sykes (Wor,cs) M. Pross'er (He1riefds) Women J. ,Nelw ([Dorset) L. Read (Wor'cs) G. Thom,asl (,Glam)

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P 10

6 4

110 8 4

10 6

3 2 5 3

.p tlO

10 10

8 4 4 6 8

10

2 5 3

W Avg. % '10 100

6 100 4 100 8 80 6 7..5 3 7'5 7 70 4 67

W Avg. % 10 100

8 80 8 80 6 rJS 3 7i5 3 7'.5 4 67 5 63 6 60

3 100 2 100 4 80 2 67

2 100 4 80 2 67

.TUNIO,R 2nd MID'LAND BoysC. ROlgierS (,L,ei,cs) D. IGannon ('Leics) C. Malrtin (IWarwks) G. A'lden (Northants) D. Johnson (War'wks) P. Mason (iHerts) G. Booth (He:rits) D. Bennett (;Norfolk).T. iProffitt ('H,erts) R. Jermyn (,Hert§) M. IE,colestone ('Norfolk) .. Girls W. !H,ogg (Nor/folk) V. F'eakin .(Northants) V. Rowell ('Camibs)

.1UN',IIOIR 3rd ,sO,UTH Boys R. Joihnson (IB?Tks)J. :Chandle1r (IWitIts) C. ILeslie (IBucks) S. ;Har'm,er (:Bucks) K. :Edwards (IWilts) R. H,alliday (Berks) K. lSaltic:he,I'l (IWHts) D. ICleveland (Wi,lts) ....

GirlsJ. Thorp,e (,Berks) W. IPalrker (Wiats)

P 8

10 10

8 8 6

r:1.0 11i2

8 10

16

6 5 3

P 8 4 8 8 4 4 4 6

2 4

;2 '100 3 75

W Avg. % 8 too 4 '100 7 88 6 7'5 3 ,715 3 75 3, 7.5 4 167

6 100 5 100 12 67

'W Avg. % 8 100 9 90 9 90 7 88 :7 88 5 83 8 80 9 75 6 7,5 7 70 4 67

PHI(JE IN(JREASE

5 83 4 80 3 ,60

5 83 5 83 4 67 4 67

rw Avg. % 7 88

10 83 to 83

8 80 9 75 6 75 6­ 715 8 67 4 67 5 63

Inflation has not abated in the printing worild nor has it in respect 01£ postall charges. Both have oul1:stripped current rates which, regrettClJbly, ,means that for next season the magazine witH :cost 25p per ,copy ,and a fuH postail subs·cription (8 issues) £2.75.

.T. ,Brenchley ('K,elllt) 6 D. tG,ray (,Hants) 6 G. Hazell (iW:i,lrts) 6 M. IKno,w (Essex) 6

VE'TE,RAN MIDILAND Men P E. ',Griffiths (Cheshire) .. 8 J. Burraston (Notts ) 112 D. ISchOlfi,eld ('Cheshire) .. '112 R. 'Bishton (,C,l'wyd) \10 R. Bolton {Notts') \1.2 P. Hancock ('Staffs) 8 M. Tew (ICheshire) 8 .T. IElllis (Notts ) 1\2 B. B,ellicher ('W'or,cs) 6 B. White {IWorcs) . . . . . . 8 Wom,en P. IH,amlmnnd (Notts) 6 M. L,eigh (!CheElhire) 5 D. G'riffiths ('War1wks) 5

.1UNIORP'R,EMIE'R Boys P A. IBalrden (IMiddx) 8 M. IShutitIe (Surrey) 1,2 1. Kenyon (,Kent) '14 K. IC,aldon (Essex) 14 M. IHarrison (Yo(fks) .... \14 K. :SeJager (Surrey) 14 M. \O~M,ahoney {lMiddx) .. 8 K. B,eads.ley (Yorks) 14 K. Richalrdson (ICa1m:bs) .. .il4 D. Reeves (Berks) 10 S.Hazellw'Ood (Yorks) /12 S. Boxalll (Surrey) ,1 14 G. Davies (Cambs) ll2 I. Kennedy (IKent) 10 J. James (Middx) 4 Girls A. 'Tierney ,('C'lev;e) 6 M. ,L.iidi (Yorks) 4 J. Mitohell (ISurr,ey) '2 A. Milt!cih?,B (IMiddx) ....5 C. Colegate (K,ent) '2

JU,NliOIR 2nd ISOUTH G. Sandley ('Middx) 10 D. iCam!miade (Sussex) .. 12 A.Leigh (IMiddx) 112 G. 'Ste1w'art (Surrey) 11~2 C. 'WHson CHants) 12 C. !Sparks (lEss-ex) 4 L. ISmitlh (iEssex) 4 S. ICritchley (Surrey) ,10 J. Kennedy (iKent) 6 M. Wralg:g (ISus!sex) 8 S. Vine CSurriey) 10

6 100 4 100 2 100 4 80 1 90

8 80 9 7'5 9 7'5 9 75 9 75, 3 7'5, 3 75 7 70 4­ 67 5 r63 6 60

IW A~g. % 8 100

'111 912 '12 816 \111 79 111 79 1:1 79' 6 715

10 71 9 63 6 60 7 58 8 57 6 90 5 50 i2 150

JUNI,O;R 3rd N'OIR'TH Boys G. ISrtredder (Notlts) D. IG~r,ay (ICumbria) 1. Halrriso.n ('Cumibria) G. Jones (IClwyd) G. (Powell 'CC,lwyd) R. Stewart (Notts) T. Bramfnrd (fNotlt~) A. ,Wi,Hiams (!Clwyd)

Girls M. Featherlstone (Lincs) L. Gal'J,agher ('CI?'ve) S. Hunt (Lincs)

JUNIOR 3rd MID'LAND BoysS. IClaxton (Wor,cs) J. Boumrford (Staffs) M. ,Pugh (Salop) P. Machin (Staffs) P. :Draisey (Staffs) N. 'Thomas (Salop) Girls L. Duffield (Worcs) S. Cain (Staffs')

JUNiIOIR 3rdEAST Boys R. King (Suffolk) K. Mc:ConnelM (Beds) M. Allen (lEss-ex) C. Sparks (IEssex) A. Stone11 ((Essex) S. ,Pall,mer (Suffolk)

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P 4 8 8 8 8 4 6 8

2 '2 2

P 8 8 4 8 8 6

4 4

P 8 8 4 4 6 8

2 100 2 100 2 100

W Avg. % 8 1100 8 100 4 100 '7 88 6 715 :4 67

4 100 3 7'5

W' Avg. % 8 100 6 7'5 3 75 3 75 4 67 5 63

W AV'g. % 4 100 6 75 6 75 6 7'5 6 7'5 3: 75 4 67 5 63

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fought hack 'well and took the- .Ie,ad 5-4 when Gillett saved Suss,ex by beating T. rBoYlle 17, .(15, 11. Hertfordshire bt Lancashire 8-2

F,air r1esullt 'but some surprisi.ng scor,es. O'rConnmr beat Ri,chard Jer1myn after losing to Booth. 4th Session Hertfordshire bt Susse'x 6-4

,Outcome never in doubt ,afte1r H,e'rts had taken the first three B.S., ,although tlWO of the'm IWient to the third. [Sussex won the three girls ;matches and IGilllett be,at ,Booth -16" 14, 22, ,Booth's only defeat of the weekend. Cleveland bt Lancashire 6-4

Another ;close one for IC:leveland and L,anca­s~hiTe see,m'zd to relgain a 'hilt of !for'm. Cleive­,land tr.ailed 3-4 hut took Mix,ed ~O, 1\1'1 20 and finall Sing1es (L,aird-Strettle) -19, l l8, '19 to s,crape home 6-4.

5th Session Lancashire and Hampshire drew 5·5

:L,ancashire's per\formiance in their pre!vious match against 'CII?veland was maintained against Ha'mp,shi,re, and with ,O"IConnor ,in good .forim ,for Lancs and Wilson and Ju\li.e Re,ading; for Hants, ,a draw was ,a ,fair result. With a }itt/l'e- m,e:re good fortune Hampshire could have quali:fied rfor promotion. H'ertf01rdshire bt Cleveland! 7·3

Herts won the se\T,en 'boys' [sets, ,Clevela.nd won the three :girlls sets and only Murphy went to three, with Booth, ,and that fi,nish,ed (22-20 in the decider.

junior Promotion 'Challenge Positions PWDL F APtis

Hertfordshir,e 4 -4 CJevell'and . . . . . . . . 4 3 Sussex . . . . . . . . .. 4 1 Ham!pshire Lanc,ashire

4 4

0 0

JUNIOR OHAL,LE,N,G,E Cleveland Hal

6~4

I. ,P1lUim:mer . 1-1 M. 'L,aird . \h·l\ M.IMurphy . ;2JO Mi~iS A. 'Tie!rney .. 1..0 Miss J. Willia(mlS .. Boys' IDou:blels 0--1 Mix1ed !D'Ouibh~~ls 0-1 GirIs' ;DoUibles 1-0

Hampshire Cv 4-6

C. Willson . 12-0 R. iBergemann . 0-\2 T. Boyle . 0-2 Miss J. Reading 0-1 Boys' DOUbles 11-0 Mixed Doubles 1-0 GirIs' 'D'oubles 0-1

He'r'tfordshire Ha 6-4

J. Proffiit,t . 1-1 R. Jer1myn . 2-0 G. Booth . 2-0 Mkls 'L. Booth . 0-1 Miss J. ,Ha,rding . Boys' Doubles . 1-0 Mixed Doubles . 041 Girls iDouble!s . 0...1

Lancashire Sx 1-9

1. Smith . 1-1 S. Corw1ey . 0-2 C. IStrettle . O-~ A. O"IConnor Mis'S J. 'Turner 0-1 Miss J. fEvans Boys' Doubles 0-1 Mixed DOUbles 0-1 Girlls' ,Doulbles 0-1

10 0 27 a3 8 0 1 21 19 6 1 2 122 18 3 2 i2 18 22 2 1 2 12 (28 1

A,NALYSIS Sx La He 6-4 '6-4 3-7

0-2 O~

1-1" 0-2 :2-0 O~

1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-11 0-1 1-0 1-0 1·0 1-0 1-0 1-0

He ISx L,a 4-,6 5..5 5-'5

1-1 2-0 2-0 0-2 ,1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2 1-0 \1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 10

L,a Sx ,Cv 8-2 6-4 7-3

2-0 il-1 2-0 1-0

1-0 1-0 0-1

He 2-,8

1-0 0-1 0.,1

e-o 2-0 1-1 0-:1

2-0 2-0 2-0

0-1 1-0 0-1 0-1

Ha 5-5

0-2 0-2

1-1

0~1 0-/1 0-1 1-0

2-0 1-1 0-2

0-1

1-0 0-.1 0-1

1-1

1-1 2-0 0-1

1-0 0-1 0-1

Sussex La !CV He 9-1 4-6 ,~6

D. Ca:m,miade 2-0 l2-0 G. Gillett . . . . . . . . 1-1 12-0 M. IWr,a:gg 2-0 0-2 Miss A. Gedge 1-0 0--1 Boys Doubles . . . . 1-0 0-1 Mixed Doubles 1-0 0-1 Girls 'Doubles 1-0 0~1

11-1 1-1 11..1 0-1\ 11-0 0-11 1-0

0-2 1-1 0-2 t-o 0-1 l~O

1-0

COU~NTY CHAMPIONSHI'PS !Fin:aI Tables

IPRE:MIER DIVIISIIO'N P'IWJ)'L F A Prts

Cle'Vielltand Cheshire Middles'ex Surrey War'wickshir~e Essex Yorkshire LancaSlhi,r,e

2nd WlEST Berks'hir,e' W'orcestershi're Wiltshire IDI~von

SOmeT!Set 'Gwenlt' Corn.waLl

3r'd N'ORTH Clheshire II Lancashire'II C:le'veilalnd I!III ,Cum,ibria

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

. Nor:thumber-land '10: •.

3rd EAJST Essex 1111 .•...... Hun:tingdonshi,re Sufforl:k . Ca.nl!bridgeshire III .. Norfolk II . Bedlfordshir'e DI .

3rd WE!ST Glamorg:an II Av'on . Wor1cestershire III .. Dorset . He:refordsthire Shropshire

JUNIOR PRE'MIER Yorkshitre . Middll,esex . Surrey . Kent . Berkshi're . Ess:ex . C,amlbridgeshire Clev,eland .

jUN,J)OIR 2nd SOUTH Middlesex IiI! 6 Surrey III . . . . . . .. 6 Sussex . . . . . . . . .. 6 HamlP!shi're (6 Dorset . . . . . . . . .. 6 Kent II 6 Es:s?x II ,6

JUNIO;R 2nd NORTH Yorkshir'e 1,1 7 Lancashire 7 Duriham 7 Der1byshirie 7 (Culmbria . . . . . . . . 7 Northum/berland .. 7 Oleveland llJ, 7 Cheshire . . . . . . . . 7

1,7 60146 t7 7 16 0 .1 35 28 74038!6 27 7 '7 7 '7 7

-4 3 12 12 II

0 0 0 0 0

3 4 5 5 6

3-1 3,1 32 24 '17

32 32 31 39 46

6 6

,6 4

0 0

0 :2

48 40

12 20

12 112 8 8 6 4 4 2

12 8

6303342,66 6 B 0 3 33 27 6 6 '3 0 3, 28 32 6 6 12 0 :4 24 36 4 6 0 0 6 3 57 0

4300128-1/26 4 !2 1 1 216 104 5 4 ~ (1 11 120 20 5 4 '2 0 2 il\7 123 4 4 0 0 4 9 31 0

5 5 0 0 41 9 10 5 2 2 Q 25 25 6 5 Z -1 ~ 2:8 22 5 5 1 1 3 Q2 28 3 5 1 1 3 19 31 3 5 1 1 3 15 35 3

5 5 0 0 37 /13 [0 5 3 0 2 32 18 6 5t302216246 5 5 5

7 7 7 7 7 /7 7 7

JUNIOR 2nd iMIDLAN'D War,wi:ckshire 16, 15 0 H,ertfordshire !6 4 ~1 L,e-icestershire \6 3 (2 Norfolk . . . . . . . . .. :6 2 \2 Northants . . . . . . .. 6 ,1 :2 G'laimorg,an C,amibridgeshire IiI ..

6 6

1 '0

:2 11

JUN'IOR 3rd NORTH

X)lw;y'il' . . . . . . . . .. Lincolnshire Nottingnanlshi,re .. Cumbria 1,1 Cle'v1eland TIll

VE,TERAN SOUTH ESlsex . H,almipshir,e Kent . Ox/fordshire . Essex I~I . Huntingdonshire Willtshire .

ViEITE,RAN MI'D,LAND Nottinghamshire Ches:hir,e Wor,c,e'Stershire C.J,wy:d Warrwickshire L,eicestershire Staffnrdshire

IPW,DL IF APts 4 4 0 0 30 )10 8 4 i2 r.t 1 24 1'6 5 4 12 0 .2 118 22 4 4 1 \1 2 17 23 3 4 0 0 4 ,1;1 29 0

16 6 0 0 43 11 12 6 5 0 t 37 l7 ~O 6 4 0 2 34 20 8 1630324306 6 16 6

\6 . \6 . 6

12 0 4 27 27 4 \1 0 ,5 8 46 2 0 to 6 1'6 38 n

6 0 0 43 \1;1 1\2 '5 0 1 38 116 to ,4 .0 12 26 128 8

. 6120426294 6 12 0 4 213 31, 4

. 6 .2 D 4 21 33 4

. 6 0 0 .G la 4)1 0

Obituari~s

JOHN CORSER It is with profound regret that we report

the sudde'n d,eath~ in late April, of john Corser, who was the 'Table Tennis Corres­pondent for "'The Observer". Working for that newsp,ape'r'l and the "Daily Telegraph" in Prague, john covered the 10th European C'bampionships and was las,t seen by the Editor of this magazine handing out choco­lates to the telephone switchboard girls in the Press Room in the 'Czechoslovakian c3jpital, for services rendered. His untimely p,assing is regretted.

KATHLEEN WATERS Also to be regretted is the death, in

hospital, of Kathle'en "Kathy" Waters, the National 'Councillor for Wiltshire.. who was to ha.ve been the Referee of the Worthing Junior Interna:tional 'Championships. Kathy was a me'mber of the Engllish Umpiring, team in Prague, [pictured here with her colleagues Tony Chatwin, 'Les Sntith and jack Melnick, in Prague, under much happier circumstances" a ,picture taken by Denis 'George, of Scotland. Her passing is deeply la,mented.

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2 t 0

7 4 4 B '2 2, \1 '1'

,6 3­B 2 2 1 0

6 6, is 4 3 2 1, .0

1 0 a

0 ~ 1 1 12 (1 11 0

0 2 2 {1 0 /1 ~

1 0 1. 0 0 0 0 0

2 4 4

0 1 2 3 3 4 5 ,6

0 1 1 3 4 4 4

0 1 1 3 4 '5 6 7

1 1 l' 2 3 3 ~5

22 15 18

53 41 45 33 '31 31 .24 2.2

42 '33 33 31 28 za 20

55 45 51 138 34 '2(6 20 11

42 3,7 .34 36 27 25 10

28 35 32

17 29 25 37 39, 39 46 48

:18 27 2i 29 32 37 40

15 il5 19 32 36 44 50 59

1.9 23 26 24 33 35 50

5 2 1

14 10 9 7 6 5 3 12

12 8 8 5 4 3 2

1.3 '1:2 ,111

8 6 4 2 0

,10 '9 8 6 4 4 '1

county Championships Round-up by BOB BRIDGES

'C'OS~LY LAlPSE Although ~o1"'kshire are stilJ in the Premier

D'i'vision ,n,ex!t se'ason, theiir 4-5 revers,e to Lan­cashir,e' on April '3rd cost theim dearr[~ (~n ter:ms of h,a,rd ,cash) since this' ·de,fe'a,t r·ellelgaiteid them from, the' top flight; Yorkshire ([I, in Ibeing runners-up in '2 North, ,gave their firslt team the ri'ght to !Challen:ge ,at IShe,nl,ey, in H'eritford­shire,- ,and this they a'ccomplished sUlc!cesslfullly.

With 'Yorkshirie' definitely doomed, ,Essex, who had [be.~n worried ,about thei,r own fatte, went into th,e' fina,l m:altch, against C}.eve,la,nd,'o.nly trying to stop tne'm from ,winning tlhe Premie'r ititle at the firSit artte,mpt. C,leve'land, without D'enis iNe:aILe, 'were in no mood for messing about and took the' tit'lewith ,a 6-3 win.

In the Junior Pr,emi,e'r ·Division Yorkshire ended the season with a 100 % reco,rd, wh,Lle Middlesex surprised t:hems'eilv,es to finish runners-up, aft,er Iboth they ,and Surrey drOlpped p'oints rt,o Berkshir·e, and C,ambridge­shire respectiv,ely.

ICambs were due ,for r,e,l,elgation anyway when Essex ,and ,Cleveland contested the selcond rele'gart:ion space; Essex won th,e ,m:atch and Cileveland were ,r1e1Ie:g:alted', although they got to the Junior ,Promotion tC1ha,Henge ,in some manner or for1m .and ,continue in the Pre:mier again next season. CiIfAjMP'I01NIS1HIPS CONiFElRENICE

IBy virtue' of Durha;m's withdrawa'l from the Promotion IChallleng'e (Junior) invitations werle extended ito the other te:ams in Junior 21Norlth untill iClevellland (s.econd from 'bottom and re'le" gaited) aocepted. Under ,a !propos.al !by Buck­ingha'mshire, to be 'consilder,ed at the Annua[ Ch,ampionships ,Confer,ence" at the 'Cla~ton Hall, London. on June 12ith(2.J0 p.,m.), 'Cha1llenge Places would only 'be open to teams finishing in the top three of .any se1cond ,divis.ion. SENII!O'R PIROMorfION OIlAL:LENIGE

Yorkshire ke:ep th'eir plac,e in the ,Premier Division als .a result of the' 'Promotion Ch,a,};lenge matches at Shenley ovelr the' ,weekend of At;)!r,ir! 2~25, thanks to their se'cond tea'm qualilfying as repr,es'ent,atiVies from Division 2 INorth. Leicestershi.re ea!rned the' ri:ght to Icompe1te' fOT the, first time ever in the IPreilllier iby finishing se,Coond in th,e :C:harHleDig;e. ISlt lS:ession Berkshire bt Sussex 5-4

All Sussex could manage from their opening nlatch 'w,ere four 'men's singles, Berkshire too sit1ro:Dlg in 'women ,and Andy' Welilman Ibeat John Cl.arke 113, 18 att 4-,alt Leicestershire bt iCambridgeshire 7-2 L,ei,c,esltershire's .al.l-round strength above that of C,a:nlhridig,es:hir'e, except, OIf ·course, \for IP,aul Day. 2nd Session Yock~~eMB~bhke6~

First match in Yo:rk~h.ire's bid to stay in the top ,flight pla,y.ed without No.2, A'l.an Flletcher. Berks' lIed 12..1 and we,re lev,ell 3-all a\frterKaren Witt had beaten ,M'e1lody 'Liidi 15, -12,- 117; Yorkshire then "reeled-off" the last three. L,eicestershire bt Sussex 7-2

INot Sussex's weel~end with Leices1tershire taking trwo 'close Iwins in rtlhe first five sert:s giving the,m a 4-1 le:ad ,and /the Worn/en's Singles (K,aren Roge'rs ';y 'DIane Gard) to come'! 3rd Session..... Cambridgeshire bt Suss,ex 6-3

!C,aimlbridgieshire raised their ,game to Ibeat a "fla,gging" Sussex side'5 lwit:h ·good wins for Keith 'Rilchardson over G:erald 'PUIgh ,a,nd John Clarke''t .and ,by IMick Har/p,er over Pugh (13, -17, 1/5) at 4-3. Yorkshire bt L,eicestershire 5-4

Flet1cher arrived a't the venue one ,minute

bef,or,e Ithe st,art of this nlat.ch and the s,i~ns of his overnight journey from YoTkshir?, via Birm,ingha:m, show'ed in the first set v P,aul R,andeH, who won 116, 18. Men's Doubles! just went to Yorkshilre 27, -lr6, 17. and Flelticher eas,ed to victory 16, 1(4, over IMaurice lNew.malll, art: 4-all after L,eicest?,rshir'e's Randelll and Chris Rogers had fought !ba.ck from 2-4 down with wins over C,layton ,and Haze1'wood res­pe:ctive~y.

4th Session Yorkshi!fe bt Carrlbridgeshire' 7-2

IO,nce a.gain it was \D,ay in a ,ol'ass of this own for 'Ca!mbs't hut Be,adsley made to go /the fUin distan,ce in both Singles against Rj,chardson and HarlP,ex. Le:icestershire bt Berkshire 5-4

All of 'a sudden it look,ed .as if Leicestershire m.ilght not glet to the lPre,mier, h,a:ving to get through a ,BeTkshire teaim in r.fUlll1 fli'ghit.B,erks snatched the mixed -:18, 19, :20 rto lievell scores 2-a'll, but Roge1rs and Nelwnlan m,ainrt:ained the status-,quo 'with an equally cllose men'IS doubles win over Healps and W:ellliman -19, 18, 20. Kar,en Roge:rs !lost 11:0 K,aren Witt ':12, -8( !); R,andeill beart ,Re,eves; ,Nelwm'an ilost to !He,aps' and the slcore stood lat 4-all ,and the ,winning tealm were in with a 'chance 01£ p,romotion. IChris Rogers did it for L,eics,winni,ng: ,17, .13 OV1er Wellman but not ,a!fter heing tied down a bit. ' 5th Session Yorkshire bt Sussex 6-3

iThe promotion issue settled and IOlayton went ,home :Ie.avitD!g the rest to ,cariry the flag; but Su~sex weren't through y1elt, ,ainld .Jed 3-2 befor,e Yorkshire Iwoke up to the fact thait Sussex :might wi-not they won t!he next three .for a 'winning 5-3 scoreline ,and fPugh conceded the last s'ert. Berkshire bt Camb~idgesbire 5-4

Cal~.ibridges:hire .Jed 3-2 and 4-3, but Welll,m,an and ISI:mon Heaps won the last two over Harper and Richardson to tak,e the ,m,altcn and place Berkshire in third position.

Seni.or IChalIenge Positions P rW L, iF A~ts

Yor'klshire . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 4 0 24 12 18 L,eiceste,rshir'e . . . . . . . . 4 3 1 123 13 6 B,erkshire . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 ~, 2 \1\7 '119 .4 Calmlbridigeshire 4 11 3 114 22, 2 Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ·4 0 4 112 24 0

(SENIOR CHA!LL,ENGE· ANALYSl1S

Berkshire Sx Y Le Ca 5-4 3-6 4-5, 5-4

D. Reev,es 0-2 0-2 S. Heaps 1-1 1-01 A. iW?ll1nlan .. . . . . 1'-1 1-1 Miss 'c. Reeves .1-0 Miss K. 'Witt . 1-0 M,en's Doulbl'es t-o 0-:1 Mixed DOUJbles 1-0 1-0

Cambridgeshire Le Y 2~7 ~-7

P. ,Day............ M. :Harper K. 'Ri,chardson

2-0 0..2 0-2

12-0 1-1 2-0

I2.JO 0-2 O~2

2~ 012 0-2

Mrs'. S.· ,Hi,rst ,0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 Men's Doubles 0-11 '1-0 0-1 1-0 Mixed DOUbles 0-1 0-1 0..'1. 1-0

Lelcestershire Ca Sx Y Bk 7-2 '7-2 4-5 5-4

P. R,andel,l 1-1 2-0 2-0 2-0 C. Rogers . . . . . . .. M. N,e1w,mlan

11-1 12-0

1-1 1-1

,1-1\ O-l2

2-0 0-2

Miss, K. Rogers Men's IDoubles

1-0 1:.0

1-0 1-0

0-1 0-1

0-1\ 1-0

M.ixed Doubles .... 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1

Le 2-7

R. Ch,andl~r J. Cilarke

1-11 l-t

1-1 1\.1

\1-1 0-2,

1-1, ()"2

G. Pugh Mi~s iD.Gard Men's! Doubles

2-0 0-,,1. 0-1

0-2 0-1­0-1

0-2 11.0 o-t

*0-1 0-1 1-0

Mixed Doubles 0-1 O~l 1-0 1-0

Yorkshire Bk L,e Ca Sx 6-8 5-4 7-2. 6-3

A. Clayton \1-1 rl-l \1-1 A. Fletlcher . (1..1 1..1J 2-0 s. Hazelwood 2~0 1-1 2-0 *0-1 K. Beads'ley 1-1 e-o Miss 1M. Liidi 0-1 11-0 \1-0 Miss J. ,MdL,ean 1-0 Men's Doubles l~O 1-0 1..0 0..11 Mixed Doubles 1.J0 O~ll 11-() 0-1

lNOITIE.-*\Pugh Iconceded to H:azeliwood. JUNI'O:R PRO,MOITIOiN C:HAlLLENGE

'For the second successive promotion chaa­lelllge, a rele'galted 'County ,e,arned the Iright to stay in the (Pre,mier Division aiflter taking parit in 'Ch,alllen,ge Matches. In tlh,e' Senior Play-offs, Yorksh.ire Imade it, and in :tJhe Junior IChaHenge OV1er the we'ekend of Ma~ 1-2, C,le,ve'land :made it.

IWith two rte-a'ms from e,ach of the thre,e Junior Second ,Divisions eligibl,e to Ch,al1lenge, Cleveland took the pla,ce- of the second te:am from Junior 2 North a,ftelr none- of the It,eams above t1he,m Iwished to take plart (even though Cleveland II are' due· to be re~elgated!!!).

The po-we'rful IHertfordshir'e- boys ~aJW their ~County sucCiesstfuHy through the IChalHenge unhelaten wi~h the young IGa'vin ,Booth ;pl,aying consisltently Ibe·vt,e'r th,an ·e,ve1r helfore. Details 1st Sess\iol1l Sussex bt 'Lanc,ashire 9-1

I,an :Smith ,beat 'Graha:m GiHett in the open­illig set 'but ["ancs unlucky not to win any further sets, ,although ,anotther five w;ent the full distance-. Cleveland bt Hampshire 6-4

A 'Cilose ,aff,air and \Cllev,eland lucky to get a1w,ay with it a·,fte:r ,M,ark Murphy just survived Richard Bergelmanll! 1\2, -,13, 119 when the' score stood at 5-4. Ha,mpshi,r,e's four success'es won in m,el de'cider. 2nd ISession Hertfordshire bt Hampshire 6-4

IH,ertf:ordshire off to a good sta,rrt and led 4-1, but ,a good fight-back by Halmpshi!r,e (irncluding CoJin :Wilson be:ating' Jonathan Proffitt 171 16) l'eve:lled th,e scores ,at 4-all. Booth and Berge­mann play,ed ,an ,ente1rt.aining crucial nirnth set, won 'by Booth ,a,fter Bergemann h'ad injured hi,mselif ,go.ing for a short halll v,ery ear,ly in the de1ci,der. Cleveland bt 'Suss'ex 6-4

lThe longest match, /la~ting oive1r 31 hours, including Ise1ven sets 'going the' distance .and Sussex rfeetling hard done' by not to Iget ,a point. Danny IC·am'miadie- and Gilllett un!be,aten in singles for Sussex. !Cleveland girl,s too strong. 3rd Sess,ion Sussex and Hampshire drew 5-5

IOnc,e again, 'H,a'mpshi,re 1-4 .in arrears but Continued on page 35

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