Indoor Basketball SOUTH-EAST ASIA TOUR

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29903, 17 August 1962, Page 5

Indoor Basketball SOUTH-EAST ASIA TOUR

13.100 Miles In Seven Weeks (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 16. The New Zealand indoor basketball team to tour Southeast Asia will leave Wellington by air for Sydney on September 9. When it returns five weeks later it will have played in seven countries and travelled 13.100 miles.

Toughest opposition for the team is expected to come from the Philippines and Singapore. The Philippines were ranked fifth at tiie Melbourne Olympic Gaines and Singapore won at the last Asian Games. \ The New Zealand team manager (Mr N. A Adams), releasing the itinerary today, said that the tour had three main objectives: To raise New Zealand’s standard of play; to encourage the countries visited to send their teams here; and. “by appearing in their backyard,” to earn participation in the Asian Games The 13-strong party's itinerary is:—

September 10: New South Wales (Sydney); 12: Queensland (Brisbane); 13: Toowoomba (Toowoomba); 15: Northern Territories (Darwin); 18: Tong Keng Club (Singapore); 19: Singapore-Malaya (Singapore); 22: Malaya (Kuala Lumpur); 24 a Thai team (Bangkok); 26: a Thai team (Bangkok); 27: Thailand (Bangkok); 29: B.A.A (Manila): 30: M.IC.A.A. (Manila).

October 2: Cebu City (Cebui, 4: Philippines (Manila): 6; Taipei City (Taipei): 8: Taichung City (Taichung): 10: Formosa (Taipei); 13: Hong Kong (Hong Kong): 15; Kowloon Province (Kowloon).