Selwyn overwhelmed in table tennis

Press, 11 June 1977, Page 19

Selwyn overwhelmed in table tennis

The surpi isingiy heavy defeat ( of £>ei\vyn ana the narrow win of the University team against Dallington were the main ingh-i lights of the latest round of; the a grade winter table tennis competition on Wednesday even-! aeiwyn was decisively beaten by Kiccarton 11, ii-1, losing dll its i-ugies matches in the pro--cess. Michael Hamel was in good! touch and although taken to three games by Barbara Taylut,; had a satisfying win over the veteran. .Neville Brightwell. i Stuart Armstrong struggled at; times in all his matches before 1 coming out on top. Graham Lamb will be particularly proud of his} win over Brightwell, after having lost the first game, 8-21. The very last game of the Uni-! versity-Dallington ciash decided} the result. Had Dennis Kalin and! Graham Condliffe won the third game against Yee Chow Boi and Tai Teik Yaw, they would have! won, 7-5. In the event, they were! easily overcome, 10-21. which J meant matches were levelled at* 6-6 but University won on ai count-back of games. 16-14. For Dallinffton. Fred Fisher I

ihad his best night of the cumi petition. He won two of his singles matches, one against Tai, I the player who is the omy one i to beat the Canterbury So. 1, j \v ayne Adamson, this winter. He I also forced Yee to produce some oi his best table tennis bet ore going down, 18-21, 24-26. Avdnside 1 had its usual com fortabie win, this time over : Avonsde 11 to the tune ot IM. Ail thiee of its players produced powerful table tennis and only one match went beyond itv. o games, when Bert Tiionipi sun took the first game off Les 1 Stewart. Stewart, omitted from the Canterbury team to meet Australia tomorrow night, hinted that his : recent run of relatively poor form I might, be ending, showing a full i command of the table. Mike Warren and Barry Radford won Avonside If its only ; point with a three-game win lexer Stewart and Harn Redi mo nd. 1 Riccarton 1 beat Avonside IV. ; 9-3, to remain in first equal i place on the points table-. Wayne I Adamson lost a game to Glen IHaszard. but otherwise was

seldom troubled. : stephen Adamson, after an • early loss to Richard Dixon, reI covered to account for John | Yang and Haszard while John Armstrong, as unflappable as lever, won all his singles. ; Dixon and Haszard beat Arm- | strong and Stephen Adamson in' | two games and later Dixon com- | bined with Yang to beat Armwrong and Wayne Adamson in | three games. Points after eight rounds are: Avonside I and Riccarton I 14. 1 Avonside 111 10. Riccarton H 8, University and Selwyn 6, Avon-! side 11 4, Dallington 2. Avonside TV 0. Riccarton II 11, Selwyn 1 : M Hamel beat Miss B. Taylor, ; 21-12, 19-21, 21-13: beat C. Waines, 21-11, 21-19; heat V. .X. Bright-! well. 21-18, 2119. G. G. Arm-; strong beat Brightwell. 21-23. 21-14, 21-16; beat Miss Tavloi ■ 16-21. 2H17. 23-21; heat WMn--

[2l-23, 2M2, 21-14. G. Lamb beat tiWames. 21-19. 21-18; beat Bright--jwell, 8-21, 21-14. 21-19; beat Miss i j Taylor , 21-18, 21-16. il Armstrong and Hamel beat s.W’aines and Miss Taylor, 21-16. ,21-14: Hamel and Lamb lost to -. Brightwell and Miss Taylor, 19-21, i 1.5-21: Hamel and Armstrong beat -[Brightwell and Waines. 21-19. -H7-2L 21-16. 1 Avonside I 11, Avonside II » . i AL Burrowes beat N. B. Rad- • ford. 21-5. 21-13; beat M. Warren, •j 21-16, 21-7; beat B. Thompson, ’ 121-9. 21-11. L. Stewart beat /Thompson. 11-21, 21-10, 2.1-17; beat 1 Radford, 21-19, 21-4; heat Warren. ;21-4. 21-13. H. Redmond beat Warren, 21-13. 21-12: heat Thomp- , son, 21-12, 21-14; heat. Radford. ,121-14. 21-10 -| Stewart and Redmond lost to ■ Warren and Radford. 18 21. 21-14 P -wes evH ‘<T 22 20, 23-21; Burrowes and

it I Stewart beat Thompson and t- Warren, 21-15. 23-21. is Riccarton I 9, Avonside IV 3 I W. Adamson beat G. Haszard, I it l 19-21, 21-5, 21-10: beat R. Dixon, ),;21-!4. 21-13; heal J. \ ang. 21-13, 0,21-16. S. Adamson lost to Dixon., 1,113-21, 21-17, 18-21: beat Yang, .I’2l-15, 21-18: beat Has/ard, 21-7, I. Xrms’ > up;.; Yang. .21-17. 21-18: beat Has/ard. 21-14. [2l-19: beat Dixon. 21-16. 21-18. . i Adamson and Adamson beat i *’i Yang and Has/ard. 22 20. 21-19: i L : Armstrong and S. Adamson lost I l ’to Dixon and Haszard. 16-21,’ Hl9-21; Armstrong and W. Adam--1 son to Yang and Dixon.. 22-20, 18-21, 18-21. • j Dallington 14, :.i University 16 games ‘ D. Kalin beat R. Halama, 22-20,i 3 21-5: lost to Yee Chou Boi, 18-21,' j 1.7-2 ; beat Tai Teik Yaw, ’J24-26, 21 14 F Fisher lost to v ee, 18-21. 24-26; beat Tai, 21-16, ! I ’ ’ T ’-*'ama. 8-21. 21-lnJ

21-12. G. Condliffe locf to Ta . 13-21, 15-21; beat Halama, 21-19, l“-2l, 21-18; lost to Yee. 15-21, 17-21 Kalin and Fisher beat lai and Halama, 27 29 21-16 2 Cond liffe and Fishei lost to 'S ce and Halama. 1.5-21, 21-18, 21-23; Kahn and Condlifle lost to \ee and Tai, 17-21. 22-20. 10-21.

Boxing.—Western boxers have [gore home from the European amateur championships at Haile. West Get many. brutalh reminded Inf the gulf between standards in East and West With seven bronzes and one silver among the 44 medals won at ’he week-long contest, boxers from the West fared even worse than in Poland two years aeo when at least Finland's Kalevi Mar.ianiaa took a gold in the welter-weight.