Sportsman’s Notebook TABLE TENNIS MATCH WITH SOUTH CANTERBURY

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29251, 8 July 1960, Page 15

Sportsman’s Notebook TABLE TENNIS MATCH WITH SOUTH CANTERBURY

Canterbury's table tennis representatives will face a stern test when they meet South Canterbury in the Barrow Shield contest at the Selwyn street hall tomorrow evening. Although Canterbury last year won this contest by 29 matches to 11. indications are that tomorrow evening's contest will be much closer. The top player in the South Canterbury men’s team may be B. Shewan, who last season represented West Coast. Last week Shewan beat R. L. Foster in the quadrangular tournament in Invercargill. The outstanding South Canterbury juniors, T. Underdown and P. Wood, may also feature in the men’s A team. Other leading Timaru players, G. Black, D. McKenzie. C. McFarlane and M. McFarlane, should be seen in action in either the A team or the B team. The Canterbury men’s A team will be led by D. D. M. Stewart, who is having a successful season in inter-club play. M. A. Cox. with recent wins over J. Armstrong and J. L. Catto, has earned his place in the team, and in the bottom bracket will be the experienced representative player J. A. Dowie and J. Leiliott.

In the women’s matches the presence of Miss J. Williamson should give Canterbury an advantage. Miss Williamson vPill be playing her first match for the province this season, as her playing in the international matches against the Japanese team has deprived Canterbury of her services on previous occasions.

Mrs T. May, a finalist in three events at the recent South Island championships, will fill second position in the Canterbury team. Lt the lower half will be Miss Y. Hart, aged 19, a very promising player, making her first appearance for Canterbury, and Miss J. Ward-Holmes. Miss Hart, from Malvern, played very well in the Town-Country match earlier in the season.

B. Watkins (Springs) will lead the Canterbury junior boys’ team, and he will be supported by E. Woodward, D. Kalin and D. McBride. South Canterbury has outstanding juniors, but they will probably be playing in the senior sides in this contest. The Canterbury girls for this contest will be Misses J. Rich and S. Hancock. and the men’s B team will be H. P. Holt, G. W. Makinson, K. Cassidy and G. M. Leech. » «s • Boxing Tournament Bouts between Canterbury and Otago boxers will be the main attraction at the Canterbury Boxing Association’s tournament at the Addington Show Grounds on Saturday evening. Close contests are expected from L. Hunter, the Otago fly-weight champion, who is now a bantam-weight and K. Newsome was runner-up at the as a rugged forceful fighter; B. Scully, of Otago and J. Nuwell (Canterbury) in a welter-weight contest; and C. Emmery (Otago), and A. Newsome, of Canterbury,

in a second welter-weight contest Both Emmery and A. Newsome are provincial champions. Newsome was runnerup at the New Zealand titles at Timaru last year. Supporting bouts will be fought by local boxers. « * • Hockey Record An outstanding record of having scored 100 goals and had only 10 scored against it has been set up by the Christchurch West High School first hockey eleven this season. The one hundredth goal was scored against Christ's College on Wednesday in a game which was the closest for the team this season when it won, 4-2. The team has played 14 matches this season. In the Saturday competition it has won matches. 12-0 twice, and in three other games has scored 10 goals in each. * * « Squash Points Points after four rounds in the Christchurch inter-dub squash rackets competition are:—A grade: Christchurch A 8, Wigram 6, Officers’ Club 6, University 2. Christchurch B 2. Junior Chamber 0. B Grade: Junior Chamber 8, Christ’s College 6, Officers’ Club 6, University 4, Christchurch A 4. Lincoln College 4, Wigram 0, Christchurch B 0. * • * League Tour Rugby League officials in Sydney are reported to be out of favour with the proposal for an Australian Rugby League team to tour New Zealand in the middle of next season. This decision, which was made by the Australian Board of Control, suggests that the team should leave Sydney on the first Saturday after the Queen’s Birthday holiday. Sydney officials say that the tour would deprive the Sydney interclub competition of its top players and cause a drop in public interest. * « * Table Tennis Tour The touring Australian tabic tennis players. G. Jennings and M. Wilcox, will open their tour of New Zealand when they play Canterbury at the Selwyn street hall on July 18. The contest will be played under the rules for the international Swaythling. Cup competition, which provides for matches of three advantage games. 21 up. The programme will be of four singles matches and one doubles match, and Canterbury will be represented by four players in the singles, and one doubles pair. 9 « » Snow And Ice Report In spite of warm north-westerly winds earlier this week, the outlook for outdoor ice skating and ski-ing this week-end is good. Skiing is under way at all Canterbury’s major ski fields, and tows are operating. At Lake Ida. the northwest winds reduced the ice thickness to only three inches and a half on the main lake and four inches on the enclosure, but with a 12 degree frost on Thursday and the prospect of further heavy frosts, skating should be possible over the week-end. There is no snow lying on the roads. At Coronet Peak, Queenstown, there has been a 6in fall of powder snow and conditions for ski-ing are excellent. AU four tows are operating there.