STRONG KOREAN SIDE’S JULY TOUR

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 19

STRONG KOREAN SIDE’S JULY TOUR

The Commercial Bank of Korea’s women’s indoor basketball team, ranked eighth in the fourth world championship tournament in Peru, will play 10 matches in New Zealand in July.

It will play three tests against the New Zealand representative team, the last one in Christchurch on July 30. The first test will be at Tau ranga on July 16 and the second only two days later at Wanganui. The Korean team of 14 players will arrive in New Zealand on July 11 and play its first game against Auckland on July 12. It will leave the day after the last test The tourists are: Lee Chang Ja, Whang Sun Ae, Kim Chu

Ja, In Eun Yee, Kim Myung Ja, Kim Kyung Ja, Shin Hang Dae, Pore Shin Ja, Kim Kim Mi, Kim Ok Wha, Chae Hyun Ae, Seo Young Sook. Park Young Sook, Youn Joung Sook.

The New Zealand selectorcoach (Mrs I. Brough, of Nelson), together with Messrs B. Marsh (Rotorua) and L. McLoughlin (Hutt Valley), will select the New Zealand training squad after trial games during Queen's Birthday week-end. It will then train at Hamilton from July

10 to 15, after which the team for the first test will be selected.

Four Christchurch women have been nominated for the trials. They are last season’s New Zealand captain. Miss J. Taylor, Miss P. Millar and Mesdames B. Ross and J. Baker.

Mrs Z. Gay (Nelson) has been appointed manager of the New Zealand team. The South Island liaison officer will be Mr R. Dyce (Nelson) and the North Island liaison officer Mrs B. Marsh (Rotorua).

The Korean side is extremely strong and likely to complete the tour unbeaten. It has won the annual Korean championship six times in the last seven years after being farmed in 1958. The only time it did not win the championship wa« when it competed for the world title outside Korea in 1964.

Including its world championship performances, the side has played 150 matches and lost only 10 of them. Since 1963 the team has been unbeaten in the annual South-east Asian women’s basketball tournament. In 1964 it toured Argentine, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay, losing ooly two of 10 matches. In 1962 it visited Formosa, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Hong Kong, being unbeaten in 23 matches. The previous year it played and won nine matches in Japan.

Its New Zealand itinerary is:— July 12, v. Auckland, at Auckland; July 14, v. North Taranaki, at Stratford; July 16, v. N.Z. (first test), at Tauranga: July 18, v. N.Z. (second test), at Wanganui; July 20, v. Wellington. at Wellington: July 21. v. Waiararapa, at Masterton; July 23, v. Nelson, at Nelson; July 26, v. Southland, at Invercargill; July 27, v. Otago, at Dunedin; July 30, v. N.Z. (third test), at Christchurch.