Wisden Cup badminton

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32661, 17 July 1971, Page 18

Wisden Cup badminton

Upon the respective strengths of the Canterbury men and the Otago women will depend the outcome of the division I reprej sentative badminton match at the Skellerup Hall this evening. Last • season. Canterbury beat Otago, 19-6, in Dunedin, but it was the strong Otago women players who were able to win three of their singles matches and a doubles. The experienced trio of Mesdames W. Richards, J. Fraser, and M. Rennie can again be expected to trouble the Canterbury women. The presence of V. Pascoe, who was the second-ranked junior in the Dominion several

seasons ago. will also add strength to the Otago team. It • was Pascoe who beat Canter- ■ bury’s top man. P. V. Boatwood, during Canterbury’s 11-5 win over Southland last season. The winner of this match will' go into the New Zealand final-* of the Wisden Cup competition > at the Skellerup Hall on Sep- .’ tember 4. .'

Both teams will have benefited from the lessons given by the ■ touring Australian team. Can- „ terbury played the Australians*., last week-end, and Otago met*\ them on Thursday evening. Both • were beaten, 8-0. *

The Canterbury division IP team will also play its Otago counterpart, and a win in this match will mean qualification in • the R.S.L. Cup national final on** August 7. The representative division 111 J* team will play Nelson at Nel-’* son, and if it wins, will play in* the Kelvinator Cup final, played between the winners of the two South Island zones.