Good response to table tennis

Press, 14 September 1976, Page 38

Good response to table tennis

An excellent response has been received to the first Christchurch Business Houses table tennis tournament, which will start next week. Forty teams have entered and they will be divided into four pools for the preliminary rounds.

Many firms .have.at least one prominent inter-club player in their teams, but the likely winner of the trophy is General Foods, which has the South Island champion, Wayne Adamson, and a former A grade player, Peter Baken, in its ranks. Addington Workshops has the tenth-ranked Canterbury player, Mike Warren, and two other players who compete in inter-club competition, Crawford Liddell and Frank Le Roi.

Bert Thompson and Tom Fraser give New Zealand Electricity a strong hand, and the former national representative, Ling Nan Ming, heads a team from the Statistics Department. lan Urquhart and Neil Vallance, from the National Bank, should give their team security in its pool, and John Armstrong, the Canterbury No. 3, and Pam Shadbolt (M.E.D.), should set alight their section. The Canterbury represent-

atives, Bill Scott, Christine Kehoe, Richard Dixon, Michael Hamel and Ray Mercer, lead their firms’ entries.

After the preliminary rounds, the top 20 teams will be split into three sections of eight, six and six. After a round-robin in their sections, the first two teams from the section of eight and the winning teams from the other sections will play in a roundrobin grand final. The proposed date for the final is October 20.