Badminton titles

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32970, 17 July 1972, Page 14

Badminton titles

Last year’s B grade men’s singles champion, D. Le Page (Railway), won the A grade reserve singles title with ease in the Canterbury Badminton Association’s new A reserve and B trade championship finals at kellerup Hall on Saturday evening.

Le Page beat an out of form T. C. Llew (University), 15-4, 15-6, and the women’s champion, Mrs M. Miller (Railway) won comfortably, 11-3. 11-3, against Mrs S. Goddard (Christchurch). The B grade men’s singles final betwen the usually reliable R. Stanton (University) and a 15-year-old Canadian, J. Anderson (Canterbury), gave promise of being the hardest-fought final. But Stanton, after leading In both games, was unable to control his errors, and Anderson won In two straight games, 15-7 and 15-11.

In the B grade women’s singles. Mrs N. Power survived a strong challenge by Mrs J. Germon to win in three games, 2-11, 11-7, 11-2. Results were: — A reserve Men’s singles.—Final: D. Le Page beat T. C. Liew, 15-4, 15-6. Men’s doubles. —Semi-finals: J. Patton and J. Anderson beat J. Goddard and N. Hobson, 15-4, 15-8: D. Hall and A. Lake beat D. Le Page and D. Bell, 15-10, 15-13. Final: J. Patton and J. Anderson beat D. Hall and A. Lake, 15-4. 15-9. , „ Women’s singles.—Final: Mrs M. Miller beat Mrs S. Goddard, 11-3, 11-3. „ , „ , Women’s doubles. —Semi-finals: Mrs S. Goddard and Mrs M. Miller beat Mrs N. Sintes and Mrs J. Ling. 15-9, 15-1; Miss R. Smith and Mrs B. Fisher beat Mrs L. Cotton and Mrs N. Johnson, 15-8, 8-15, 15-4. Final: Mrs S. Goddard and Mrs M. Miller beat Miss R. Smith and Mrs B. Fisher, 15-11. 15-7. , „ „ Mixed doubles.—Final: Le Page and Mrs Miller beat J. Patton and Mrs N. Sintes, 15-9, 17-15. B grade

Men’s singles.—Final: J. Anderson beat R. Stanton, 15-7, Men’s doubles. —Semi-finals: P. Watts and A. Jamieson beat A. Jackson and A. Turner, 16-18, 15-11. 15-7; T. Ralfe and J. Anderson beat M. Earle and R. Stanton, 15-4, 15-7. Final: T. Ralfe and J. Anderson beat P. Watts and A. Jamieson, 15-2, 15-13.

Women’s singles.—Final: Mrs N. Power beat Mrs J. Germon, 2-11, 11-7. 11-2. Women's doubles.—Semi-finals: Mrs N. Power and Mrs V. Hampton beat Mrs S. Delhanty and Miss N. Harris, 10-15, 18-17, 18-15; Miss M. Ewart and Miss C. Austin beat Mrs J. Germon and Miss W. Thomas, 15-10. 15-12. Final: Mrs N. Power and Mrs V. Hampton best Miss M. Ewart and Miss C. Austin, 15-12, 15-7. Mixed doubles. —Final: P. Watts and Miss C. Austin beat T. Ralfe and Mrs S. Phillips, by default. Men’s plate.—Final: A. Jackson beat M. Hutton. 15-2, 14-17. 15-8. Women’s plate.—Final: Mrs B. Fisher beat Miss W. Thomas, 11-4, 11-2.