WISDEN CUP

Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 15

WISDEN CUP

Canterbury Not Hopeful Canterbury faces an unenviable task against the national provincial champion team, Wellington, in the southern zone final of the Wisden Cup senior badminton competition at Wellington on Saturday. “We have retained the team which played at Dunedin (beating Otago, 10-6, and Southland, 11-5) and can only hope to do as well as last year, when we lost, 5-11,” the chairman of the Canterbury inter-provincial committee (Mr J. Patton) said last evening. Mr Patton described the Wellington team as having “strength and depth right down the line.” Even though J. Compton is in Edinburgh with the Commonwealth Games team, Wellington has still been able to call on another Thomas Cup representative, M. Stossel, as well as three nationally ranked women, Misses J. Tompkins, G. Steele and C. Compton. “If Geoff Miller (a member of the Thomas Cup • squad) was fit, it would be - a boost in both the singles ; and doubles, but he is not 100 ■ per cent yet,” Mr Patton said. “We have worked on the doubles combinations and they should be much improved from the form shown i at Dunedin. ; “Against three of the best i girls in the country, our women will be really struggling and we cannot expect ito win many games there."