Indoor Basketball WOMEN’S INDOOR BASKETBALL

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29315, 21 September 1960, Page 8

Indoor Basketball WOMEN’S INDOOR BASKETBALL

Australian Team’s Fine Record

The Australian women’s Indoor I basketball team will fly home from Christchurch today after completing a short but successful tour of New I Zealand. The team has had an out* 1 standing record on the tour of 17 wins and one loss. It won the test series 2-1, losing the second test by any standard. The team played the other two decisively. b The tour was a very intensive one I by any standards. The team played I 18 matches in 22 days and spent I almost all the rest of its time I travelling. I The team’s coach, Mr M. Johnson, I said he was very pleased with reI suits of the tour and especially with I the very effective combination which I the team had developed on it. I He praised some of the courts on I which they played, especially those I at Dunedin and Mastertoh. "By AusI tralian standards the courts in New f Zealand were very good." Mr Johnson said he felt that Ausr tralia had the edge on New Zealand in the test series because the Australians had had the advantages of playing together in a touring party and working up a combination whereas New Zealand did not get, that chance. Apart from that the test teams were fairly evenly matched. When the New Zealand team toured Australia in 1958, New Zealand won all three tests and lost only one game. Although the long hours of travel in New Zealand had proved tiring the team had benefited greatly from the large number of games played in such a short time, said Mr Johnson. The game in Australia should improve as a result of the tour.