Table Tennis Tourists

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31318, 14 March 1967, Page 19

Table Tennis Tourists

(New Zealand Preet Association) WELLINGTON. The nine-member New Zealand table .ennis team to tour Scotland and England and to compete in the world championships at Stockholm, Sweden, from April 11 to 21, will leave Auckland by air tomorrow morning.

It is the largest team sent away by New Zealand, and the first time that New Zealand has sent a mixed team to Europe. The New Zealanders will fly to Scotland, by way of the United States, arriving in Scotland next Friday, and they will open their tour by competing in the Scotland championships at Edinburgh on Saturday and Sunday. Three full weeks of tournament and representative play will follow before the team leaves England on April 10 for Sweden. The team is:— Men: A. R. Tomlinson (captain), M. L. Dunn (Auckland), T. J. O’Carroll (Northland),

B. A. Foster (Otago), H. J. Waterhouse (Wellington). Women: Mrs N. Traill (Northland, captain), Miss C. E. Johnson (Hamilton), Miss D. L. Wade (Bay of Plenty), Miss Y. M. Fogarty (Otago). At 15 yean of age Miss Fogarty is the youngest member of the team. Tomlinson, at 33, is the oldest

R.S.A. Bowls.—South Taranaki beat New Plymouth, 14-7, in the final round of the Returned Services* Association national bowling tournament which ended at Oamaru on Sunday. May Retire.—The great Welsh Rugby forward, A. Pask, is almost certain to retire at the end of the season, said Tudor Jones in the “Sunday Mirror.” Pask, who plays for Abertillery, has won more than 20 caps.