Strong Canty contingent in table tennis team

Press, 14 August 1980, Page 21

Strong Canty contingent in table tennis team

Canterbury players dominate the South Island table tennis team to contest the inter-island match at the national championships in Hutt Valley later this month. Only two of the eight players are from outside Canterbury, Debbie Looms, of Marlborough, and Yvonne Eyre, of Otago. The men’s team. is ..fairly predictable, although Simeon Cairns could feel a little unlucky at not geting the fourth place. Jan Morris and Miss Looms provide -a strong top order in the women’s event, but it will take a good effort to repeat the South Island’s 8-4 win in the women’s contest last year. That win was the South’s third in the 25 years of the

inter-island match, the others coming in 1958 and 1971. The South Island men’s team has won the contest twice in 30 years. Those successes came in 1971 and 1974. The teams are.— • South Island.—Men: Stuart Armstrong, Michael Hamel, Maurice Burrowes, John Richards. Reserve: Simeon - Cairns. /Women: Jan Morris, Debbie Looms, Yvonne Eyre, Pam Shadbolt. Reserve: Barbara Fogarty (Otago). North Island.—Men: Richard Lee, Malcolm Temperley, Graeme Lassen, James Morris. Reserve: Barry Griffiths. Women: Christine Lee, Shelley Palmer, Mary Cannon, Kadia Rice. Reserve: Linda Dyer.