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Best Bonuses For your best Annuities possible Quotation Rates contact Returns Your House BARRY MEISEL TableTennis'News Motor Parkside Endowment Insurance Agency Official Journal of the English Table Tellis Association Investments 32 Parkside Ave. Sickness Estates Bickley • Kent Life Phone 01·464·2963 THE ENGLISH OPEN by JOHN WOODFORD Roll of Honour Men's Singles Women's Singles STEfAN KOLLAROVITS MARIA ALEXANDRU (Czechoslovakia) (Rumania) Men's Doubles Women's Doubles ISTVAN JONYER and KARENZA MATHEWS and TIBOR KLAMPAR MARY WRIGHT ( Hungary) (England) Mixed Doubles STEFAN DENIS NEALE and MARY WRIGHT KOLLAROVITS ( England) (Czechoslovakia) Veteran Men's Singles Veteran Women's Singles Photo by JACK CLAYTON JEAN WILLIAMS (Lancashire) (Buckinghamshire) Tony Ross Team Champicnshir>s Men Women ENGLAND RUMANIA After the tremendous victory by Jill Shirley in the early morning over Mar'ia's Web Ensnares Jill European champion Ilona Vostova, the England supporters were hoping Bergmann Moved that Jill could do the "impossible" ONLY one Czechoslovak player has -breaking through the renowned won the English Open men's singles defensive web spun the world over in the last two decades-Jaroslav by Rumania's MARIA ALEXANDRU. Slanek in 1967-but a 24-year-old But the 27-year-old Maria, the married student from Bratislava, "Scholer" of the women's game and STEFAN KOLLAROVITS who is ranked ranked No. 2 in the world was not 16 in Europe and 23 in the world, moved onc iota by Jill's bid for snatched the 1970 English title before expeditt: which came in when Maria a 900 crowd in the final at Crystal led 18-13 ;n the first game, Palace National Sports Centre. Many forget that Maria can pro­ Stefan, highly-rated as a "pin-up duce a very strong attack when it is boy" by the ladies, possesses a very essential. On this occasion it was slrong backhand not unlike that of and the Rumanian ace sped her way Chesler Barnes at times. This shot to her third English Open title 15, is sprayed liberally and continuously la, 13. until his opponent is forced to put one high enough to kill. Istvan The shortest match of the finals, Jonyer fought in true tradition as a which spread themselves over three­ man from Budapest. Standing and-a-half tedious hours, was the slighlly back he used a lifting pro­ men's doubles in which JONYER and cess with heavy topspin throughout TlBOR KLAMPAR overcame the Yugo­ but the advantage was with the slav challenge of Zlatko Cordas and Still gravely ill, Richard Bergmann Melevoy Karakasevic. The atmos­ speedy Czech who went on to win the has recently been transferred from £100 top prize at 21-17 in the fifth. l-'here of the finals session never apl-'foached that of Brighton's Dome Southport General Infirmary to There was four-minute hold-up in and, at times, the screams from the Birchland Jewish Hospital, Birch­ hundreds of young swimmers on the the men's final when umpire Les land Avenue, London, S.W.12, which Dewing justifiably stopped Jonyer other side of the stadium provided from serving from the side of his morc irritating distraction. is located near Wandsworth Com- body on the umpire's "blind" side. continued on page 10 Page 1 T~~LE TENNI§ NEWS Published on the 1st of each month, October to May inclusive. ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Postal Subscriptions 15/- for eight issues post free. Advertisements: Derek R. Tremayne, ners were Sarkis Sarkhoyan {Batumi) twenties of the century coinciding "Veryan," 46, Perry Street, Wen­ and Miss Pogosova. with the great post World War I dover, Aylesbury, Bucks. 'Phone: In the men's singles, second place revival in England. Wendover 2421. was taken by three-times national Not much is known of the players Circulation: E.T.T.A. Secretariat, champion Gomozkov, with Sark­ of that era, but the late D. R. Rut­ Room 323, 26/29 Park Crescent, hoyan third. nam, better known for his prowess London, W.1 N 4HA. 'Phone: 01-580. Zoya Rudnova, who with Miss in lawn tennis, is mentioned as an 6312. Grinberg won the women's doubles outstanding player in the Cambridge Editorial: George R. Yates, 43, title at the Munich world champion­ University team in the 1920's. It was Knowsley Road, Smithills, Bolton, ships, was placed third behind Aldona a team led by none other than that Lanes. 'Phone: Bolton 42223. Skarulena (Kondrataite). Last year's great doyen of international table national champion, Rita Pogosova tennis, the Hon. Ivor Montagu and came fourth. included the All-India Davis Cup Gomozkov and Miss Rudnova, players C. Ramaswami and S. M. Details Unknown European and national champions in Hadi. the mixed, came third in this event From their inception in 1932, the at Kurgan, losing to the defeated NO MATTER at what level, why by The Editor Ceylon championships were confined finalists Uldis Eglitis (Riga) and to one event until 1938. It was an should it be that the match card or Astea Gedrajtite (Kaunas). score sheet lalls to arrive in the era .. in which Simon Wick rematunge hands 01 the person most desirous U.S.S.R. CHAMPIONSHIPS was in his prime and dominated in 01 wanting the match details? Anatoliy Amelio and Svetlana NEW ZEALAND TOUR Ceylon as completely as did Victor Barna in the world sphere. Right down from the lofty realms Grinberg, both of Moscow, captured Sweden's Hans Alser and Kjell 01 the European League to the the major singles titles at the 20th Johansson are to make a tour of New lowest division 01 the local league, U.S.S.R. Championships which were Zealand in June. The visit will run the result of matches and the indio concluded in Kurgan on February along similar lines to that undertaken vidual scores are 01 signilicance to 17th. by Denis Neale and Stuart Gibbs in some people. 1967. And yet, this inlormation is with· Yvonne Fogarty of Dunedin held. Not deliberately so, but more (Otago) is reported as New Zealand's in consequence 01 inertia or forget· "Player of the Year" for 1969 after fulness on the part 01 the person being undefeated by other New entrusted with the postal despatch. Zealand players throughout the season and taking the 1969 national One would think that pillar boxes singles title without dropping a single were located hundreds 01 miles game-all on her 18th birthday! apart, or craftily camouflaged as were the V·bomb launching pads on This attractive young trainee school the sandy dunes of northern France teacher-she is also studying for her in darker days no longer with us. Bachelor of Arts Degree-could well lead her country's team to the 1971 But such is not the case no matter world championshiJ:s in Japan and what one may think of the new the 1973 world's in England. postal set·up. Those posting boxes are still with us, painted bright red RUNNER-UP as always, and regularly emptied lor Eberhard Scholer was voted their contents to be despatched to CAP AND GOWN the addressee. runner-up to s wi m mer· Hans Fassnacht for the title of "Sports­ Picture the match secretary, all Recently inaugurated as a full man of the Year 1969" in Federal teacher and professor of the Medical set to write his weekly column lor Germany. The awards were made in the local paper, and wanting the Faculty at fhe University of Basle, the Kurhaus of Ba.den-Baden. Ebby Switzerland, was Dr. Zarko Dolinar, result 01 a match between the lead­ polled 1400 votes against the winner's ing teams in a particular division. the former Yugoslavian Swaythling 1825. Third place was taken by horse­ Cup player. In season 1954-55, Zarko It could be his lead paragraph. man Alwin Schockemoh Ie with 531 was the beaten finalist in the men's Yet despite the match having been votes, singles event of the world champion­ played two nights previously, no ships in Utrecht, Holland, losing to card has arrived. How frustrating it Tosh Tanaka of Japan. Prior to, in is to leaf through the telephone season 1953-54, Zarko won the men's directory for the names of the doubles title in partnership with his players to have been involved and compatriot Vilim Harangozo beating fail to find a single one of them, on Victor Barna and the French ace either side, on the 'phone! Michel Haguenauer. An endorsement The same applies in higher on the photograph shown here, and spheres and It is talked 01 in Lan· sent to Victor Barna, says: "To my cashire that a particular score card, old dear partner and friend Victor­ appertaining to an inter·league fix­ book instead of penholder bat. ture, was conveyed, in person, to the Zarko". South Pacific by an emigrant entrus­ ted with the task of posting it! EUROPEAN LEAGUE Have a care then for the adminis­ Sweden's 5-2 victory over Federal trator who wants the match details. Germany countered the 4-3 success Put a stamp ,on the card before the obtained by the U.S.S.R. over match and see that It is posted ---'. directly after il. Hungary and keeps them in the lEad, Photograph depicts "Ebby" and his on sets average, in the Premier DiVI­ wife, Diane (the former Miss Rowe) sion of the European League. Still at the ceremony in Baden-Baden. without a win, Federal Germany have ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS lost to Hungary. Current positions:-.. ASSOCIATION SVETLANA GRINBERG SILVER JUBILEE (U.S.S.R.) Patron: Her Majesty the Queen.

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