Table Tennis Match Against Otago

Press, Volume C, Issue 29548, 24 June 1961, Page 5

Table Tennis Match Against Otago

r’ANTERBURY will field a ' solid table tennis team this evening in its endeavour to regain the Jarvis Rose Bowl in the annual contest with Otago. The match will I be played at the Selwyn Street Hall. I-ist season, in Dunedin. Otago beat a be-low-strength Canterbury team by 18 matches to 16. The visiting team will probably be tod by B. A. Foster and W. T. Scott, ranked third and seventh in the Dominion last season. Foster was in the New Zea-

land team which played in the world championships in Peking, and Scott was the reserve for that team.

Canterbury's top players, J. Armstrong and V. N. Brightwell, will be hard put to beat these players, although Armstrong beat both Foster and Scott in last season's contest, and Brightwell also beat Scott. Brightwell will be out to improve upon his performances in the recent matches against Wellington and Hutt Valley. In those contests he lost to some very ordinary players.

In tbe bottom half of the team Canterbury will be strong, with T. R. D. Flint and B. D. P. Wiliamaon both in good form. They are probably playing better than Brightwell at this stage of the season. Another who could have received a chance of representative play here is N. B. Radford, who has beaten Armstrong. Brightwell and Flint in recent weeks. Radford's club team was to have played that of Brightwell and Flint (Selwyn) this week, and he could have gained selection with further wins, but the Selwyn side was not available for this match. Canterbury's women’s team of Mesdames J. Shadbolt. J. Prisk, T. May and A. Williamaon is a strong one, and should do a lot better than last season, when Otago won the women's section 11-1.