Auckland wins in table tennis

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 24

Auckland wins in table tennis

“The Press’* Special Service WANGANUI.

Auckland men and Franklin women were the winning teams in the New Zealand inter-pro-vincial table tennis championships held at Wanganui yesterday.

The Canterbury men went into the second day with a reasonable chance of winning the A grade title—all hinged on their match with Auckland. If they beat Auckland, then it seemed that a

count-back would decide, and Canterbury would then win. However, Auckland was in commanding form, and surprised everybody by winning, 9-2. Ling Nan Ming and Loke Sim Wong each beat J. Fisher—put in the Auckland side because he was likely to upset Loke —and that was Canterbury’s. Ling lost to Murphy 18-21 and 19-21, but took A. R. Tomlinson to three sets. Canterbury ended the day by beating Northland. The wily G. Frew was too steady for Ling, but Loke made amends. Canterbury thus ended with three wins and two losses, for third place. Canterbury put up a good fight against the unbeaten Auckland side in the women’s championship, losing 5-6. J. Morris had an amazing spell of hitting to lower the former New Zealand champion, D. Wade, in straight sets while T. May lost, 21-23, in the third set after the closest of struggles with Auckland’s M. Fogarty. However, the feature women’s match in this round was between Otago and Hutt Valley—the vital one for relegation. With the scores at 5-all, Y. Fogarty had to play G. Kemp, but the latter upset all predictions to win in three sets, and Otago thus seemed the logical candidate for sixth place. New world record.—The West German swimmer, H. Fassnacht, set a new world record of 2min 3.3 sec for the 200 metres butterfly at Landskrona, Sweden, on Tuesday

Canterbury beat Hutt Valley, 6-5, in the fourth round, i honours being shared among I the three. B. Taylor beat I Miss Kemp, P. Marks almost i did (two match points), and ’ Mrs May beat the experi- i enced J. Brown—the first of 1 these coming at the most opportune time of 5-all. i

The women’s championship ended when Franklin beat Canterbury even though there were still games remaining. The Fraser-Bos-well combination was again in fine form as Franklin raced to 6-1 and the A grade title. Miss Taylor gave K. Fraser a particularly good game.