Youths to get squash chance

Press, 6 May 1978, Page 56

Youths to get squash chance

' The presence of a number' ’ of young players is the main feature of the preliminary Canterbury representative; training squad for the nat-j ional squash championships I ■at Timaru in August. 1 Missing from the team' ■ which finished third in the I 1977 inter-district championships held at Auckland are ■ three very capable players 1 who have since moved from 1 Christchurch. Barry McNeil ■ left this week for Queens-; land's Gold Coast and earlier departures were Lyn Sparks j (Auckland) and John RedIpath (Palmerston North). The selectors (Messrs Les :Milne and Doug Lawrie and Mrs Pat Leopold) emphasise j that it was a senior and 11 under-23 training squad. ’ A notable absentee is the fast-developing 15-year-old, Stuart Davenport, who upset;: the Canterbury No. 3, Law-!]

(rence Skurr, this week. ! Davenport’s parents are shifting to the North Island shortly but there is a icchance the Burnside young-; ; ster may stay on so his Uni-1 Iversity Entrance year is not interrupted. | “We will certainly be adding Davenport to the squad i if he stays in Christchurch,” said Mr Milne. Six players were named in > the women’s squad but there • |is a possibility that this I could be enlarged, said Mr i Milne. ' The full squad (in al- t phabetical order) is:— ' Men — Rod Hayes, Craig] Hibbert, Paul McFadzien, L ! Barrie Matthews, Neil Rush, i (Lawrence Skurr, Lindsay ‘ [Walton, Chris Wasley. s ! Women. — Lyn Chamber- r I lain, Kathy Graham, Merle r I Holland, Bette King, Phillipa f [Lush, Lorraine Sutherland. f