Avonside has a tough task
Canterbury’s champion club table tennis team, Avonside I, faces a difficult task when it attempts to win the Rothmans national club final in Wellington tomorrow. The Avonside trio, Maurice Burrowes, Les Stewart and Harry Redmond, have been unbeaten in the winter A grade competition and were decisive winners of the South Island final in Otago. However, the Waterloo club from Hutt Valley and the Mt Albert club from Auckland appeal as the two teams most likely to meet in the final. The three teams each include one New Zealandranked player. Waterloo is led by the country’s topranked player, Gary Murphy, Mt Albert has the tenthranked Bob Lassen, and Burrowes is the No. 9.
Apart from Bob Lassen, Mt Albert has Graham Lassen, who was ranked seventh in 1974 and who had met with success in several northern tournaments this season. The third player, Mike Saunders, was a top-ranking junior four years ago and he has a good average in the strong Auckland senior interclub championship this winter.
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