International News ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT FOR RUBBERS AND BLADES RING OR WRITE By The Editor Rose Bank Sports koop in the Dutch team as I feel Y. lost to B. Parietti -17. -15; C. RIsch bt N. Oaviaud 18. -17. 1 7; also for other T.T. equipment! there will be in 's-Gravendeel. clothing at Discount Prices ; Hartmar.n/Maas bt Campagnolle/ Parietti 18. Scores:­ Maas/Risch lost to i ~tti/Oav i aud -17. -15; 119 WITTON STREET R. Potton lost to J. Pansky - 17. - 18; Stebens lost Parietti -19. · 12; H.v. Spanje bt V. Broda 22. 13; Ma as lost to Campagnolle -14. -19. NORTHWICH. CHESHIRE ; Kloppenburg lost to M. Hrac hova -10. 17. Meantime in Aalesund, Italy Telephone: 0606-48989 (day) ~ ~je/ A . v . Spanje lost to Broda/Pansky 16. 0978-760249 (after hours) achieved a like result away to H.v. Spanje/Kloppenburg lost to Pansky/ Hrachova \lorway, who, following the tragic · 11 . ' 15, Potton lost to Broda -23. -19; oad accident which cost the life H.v. Spanje to Pansky 18. -18. · 11 . )f Tone and severe POOR In Rzeszow, the once proud injuries Erik Rasmussen, intro­ Hungarians were given a 7-0 Geirr Gustavsen and Kristin RELATIONS thrashing by a full strength Hagen. But it was Tom Johansen The lure of the Deutschmark as Polish team not one of the seven who figured in the two home proffered by Bad Hamm of the sets needing a deciding game. successes, beating Massimo Federal German Bundesliga Scores:­ Costantini in singles and part­ looks likely to tempt Carl Prean L Kucharski bt Z. Harczi 17. 4; nering Miss Hagen to a mixed in the footsteps of Desmond Grubba bt Z. Kriston 18. 15; success over Silvio Pero and J . Szatko bt E. Urban 20. 19; Douglas although with the Grubba/Kucharski bt Kriston/J. Takacs 15 13' Marina Cergol. Giovanni Bisi was same proviso that England's Kucharski/Szatko bt Takacs/Urban 8. 17;' . unbeaten for the Italian side Kucharski bt Kriston 12. 8; claim on his services will take Grubba bt Harczi 19. 14. winning both his singles and the . priority. men's doubles with Costantini. INCONCLUSIVE Sweden maintained their top In the opposite direction. Scores:­ position with a 6-1 home win Douglas would appear all set to England's 5-2 win at the expense T. Johansen lost to G. Bi si -15. · 16; against Yugoslavia in Visby where sever his connections with of Federal Germany at the Mount­ G. Gustavsen lost to M. Costantini·l a -17' the one to escape them was the K. Hagen lost to A. Busnardo 14. -16. ', 4; . Borussia Dusseldorf thus giving batten Centre, Portsmouth on mixed doubles won by Zoran lost to Bisi/Costantlni -11 English supporters more Feb. 20 was in no way conclusive Kalinic and Branka Batinic Johansen/Hagen bt S. Pero/M. Cergol 17. 16; ings of the Birmingham Ieft­ as to a retention of status in the Johansen bt Costantini 17 21 ' against Ulf Carlsson and Marie hander than hitherto. Super Division of the European Gustavsen lost to Bisi . Svenson. Scores:­ But it would have been good ' League. Granted they now have Belgium, who brought about a one point advantage over the J · O. Waldner bt Z. Kalinic 1, . 3; for 3 and 2·Star open organisers M. Appelgren bt B. Mesaros 12. 11 ; that shock defeat of Italy in to have had the pair of them in Netherlands, but should the Dutch M. Svensson bt B. Satinic 18. ·11 . 17; , brought off their ;pe lgren/ U . contention affording the pro­ team pull off another shock win Carlsson bt Kalinic/Mesaros 16. fourth win of the season in beating bability of better sponsorship at home England in the final Ca rlsson/ Svensson lost to Kalinic/ Batinic ·16 Denmark4-3 on Feb. 6 . Faltering series of 'matches, as they did · 16; . and spectator appeal. Waldner bt Mesaros 20. 18; only in the men' s doubles they Why. in the Federal Republic against Poland, then it will be Appelgren bt Kalinic 19. 19. raced to a 4 - 1 lead in which of Germany. there should be so England for the drop. Such are now the rules for if TABLE much money on offer is difficult ' P W two teams finish equal on points L F A Pts. to comprehend when. in this Sweden 6 5 1 28 14 5 country. so little is in evidence - as the Netherlands and England Czechoslovakia 6 5 1 26 16 5 and so hard to obtain. It is not would if the Dutch were to win­ Poland 6 3 3 24 18 3 that the Deutscher Tisch-Tennis then it is the result between the Hungary 6 3 3 21 21 3 Bund puts any money into the two teams that count. So s'­ Federal Germany 6 3 3 21 21 3 . 4 Bundesliga - it does not - but Gravendeel on March 6 will pro­ Yugoslavia 6 2 19 23 2 England 6 2 4 20 22 2 these multi-sports clubs. the vide the answer and may the best Netherlands 6 1 5 9 33 1 like of which we do not have team win. It was a sterling performance here. seem to have the knack of Final Fixtures generating finance of the highest on England' s part at Portsmouth Feb. 28 Federal Germany v Sweden (Lampertheim) order. with Desmond Douglas- happily Granted we do have backers now restored to Birmingham and Mar. 6 Netherlands v England ('s- Gravendeel) for certain of our Halex National England for next season- featur­ Yugoslavia v Hungary League clubs but sponsorship in ing in four of the home successes. Czechoslovakia v Po lan d (Havlickuv Brod) this respect amounts to peanuts . In single combat he accounted FIRST DIVISION Remo De Prophetic and the when compared with that for Ralf Wosik and Georg European cadet champion, Jean­ . The match France versus Italy. evidenced in the Bundesliga. and shared in doubles Michel Saive, won their opening Nlmes on March 6, will be the And so it is in Sweden with the successes with Prean and Karen Bogaerts one to settle the promotion issue likes of Appelgren. Bengtsson. Alison Gordon the latter giving accounted for Charlotte Polk and from Division 1 of the European England a winning 4-1 lead. the De Prophetis/Bogaerts com­ Carlsson. Lindh and. Waldner League for that will be the prize But in the first two sets the bination beat Claus Pedersen who have all been tempted away awaitirig the winners. victories had' to be well earned and Polk. Scores:­ as is the Polish ace. Andrzej France, unbeaten in their six Grubba. next season. It seems particularly Prean' s defeat of which must certainly count matches to date, had a com­ A. De Prophetis bt C. Pedersen 14. -14. 19; we are the poor relations. paratively weak team out against J-M. Saive bt L Hauth 13; a.s a feather in the Isle of Wight K. Bogaerts bt C. Po lk 17. 16; Luxembourg yet maintained their De Prophetis/M. Lambot lost to Pedersen/Sandbje ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS cap. Scores:­ winning ways with a 5-2 victory 11 . · 18. , 20, ASSOCIATION D. Douglas bt R. ik -20. 12. 18; ; Prophetic/Bogaerts bt Pedersen/ Polk 18.-18. C. Prean bl G. ohm 10. -18. 19: on Feb. 9. Both Bruno Parietti Patron: Her Majesty The Queen. A Gardonlast to A. Olschewski '9. -'8: and Pierre Campagnolle rolled De Prophetis lost to Hauth -20. · 16; Dougtas/Prean bt Biihm/ Wosik 20, 12; Saive lost to Pedersen · 13. 17. · 19. President: M . Goldstein. O.B.E. Douglas/Gordon bt Bohm/ Olschewsk 20. 13­ up the four men's singles to T. Blunn. Douglas bt ~ O, -15. 15; . Presn lost to asik 15. · 16. -15. which Parietti and Nadine Deputy Chairman: G. R. Yates. Daviaud added the mixed, the Spain, still seeking their first Meantime the Netherlands, at Hon. Treasurer: A. Drapkin. home wins, in Petange, coming win, went down to their sixth home to Czechoslovakia in General Secretary: A. W . Shipley. from Carine Risch, in the women's loss in Priego on Feb. 9 when Nijkerk, were being seen off 6-1 Management Committee: singles, and from Guy Stebens beaten 5-2 by Austria whose first Henk van Spanje claiming the (Vice Chairmen) and Yves Maas in the men' s success this was, thanks to two only home success in the second P. Charters, C. J. Clemett, doubles. Scores:­ wins for Erich Amplatz; one each A. E. Ransome, N. K. Reeve, set when he beat Vladislav Broda. from Dietmar Palmi and Barbara ' 9 :S t ebens lost to P. Campagnolle 19. -1 1. D. I. Whiteside But there was no Bettine Vriese- Wiltsche and the mixed won by 3 ,.,

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Peter Eckel and Wiltsche. 11 . Sonja Grefberg IFIN) 65 Men's Doubles: Mazunov/ Aozenberg Association Inc. now located Gabriella Szabo (HUN) 65 Women's Doubles: Khasanova/Vetcherok Scores:- 13. Nadine Daviaud (FRA) 60 Mixed Doubles: Mazunov/Antonian on the 4th floor, The Dominion J . M. Pales bt D. Pa lmi 15. 10; Marie Lindblad (SWEI 60 Sports House, Mercer Street, I. Caymellost to E. Amplatz 18. -15. -17; 15. Elena Kovtun (URS) 50 GREEK SECRETARY A. M. a; lost to B. Wiltsche -11 . -6; 16. Alice Pelikanova (TCH) 45 Wellington. Correspondence and CaymeVPales bt Amplatz/P. Eckel 16. 17; Susanne Wenzel (FAG) 45 Emmanuel Kolibadis has taken letters should still be addressed Pales/Godes lost to EckeVWiltsche -14. 15. ·12; The 8 players heading the over from John Loucas as the to P.O. Box867. Wellington. The Pa les lost to Amplatz -14. 17. -17; Hon. General Secretary of Greek· new telephone No. is (Welling­ Caymel lost to Palmi -, 7. -13. points list plus 2 ' wild cards' (from the ETTU and one from the Table Tennis Federation. ton) 731-146. Late February results to hand Dutch host association) will con­ SWISS PRESIDENT SUSPENSIONS . confirm the all-important meeting test the final tournament in Mr. Vonaesch has taken The Australian TTA has sus­ between France and Italy in Breda on May 19 when · the over the Presidency of the Swiss pended the following players: Nimes on March 6 for in the minimum prize money will be:­ penultimate series France, away Association in succession to Mr. Steve Cowley (until 31 .12.85), 1st DM 8,000 to Finland, won 4-3 whilst Italy Urs Wymann. Mr. Vonaesch's Nikki Cowley (until 30.6.85) and in Castellana Grotte (Bari) 'white­ 2nd DM 5,000 address is Herrengrabenweg 48, Laurie Skeates (until 30.6.85). washed' Spain 7-0. No matter 3/4 DM 3,500 CH-4054 Basle, Switzerland. The Austrian Assn. has sus­ 5/8 DM 2,000 now what the result between 'Phones(0)061 5401 26(h)061 pended indefinitely from all Luxembourg and Spain on March I.T.T.F. 384085. Telegrams: Swistabten national and international play 9 both countries face the drop WORLD GRAND PRIX Bern, Telex: Basle 62 689. the following: Mrs. Evelyn Eckel having regard to Austria'S 6-1 FOR MEN The office and Headquarters and Mr. Manfred Gsodam of the N.Z. Table Tennis (senior). victory. Results:­ Leading positions as at Feb. Austria 6 luxembourg 1 19/85. Finland 3 France 4 Italy 7 Spain 0 Pta Norway 2 Denmark 5 1 leszek Kucharski (POll 2400 TABLE P W L F A Pts. France 7 7 0 37 12 7 Italy 7 6 1 34 15 6 Denmark 8 5 3 31 25 5 Finland 7 4 3 32 17 4 Norway 7 4 3 26 23 4 Belgium 7 4 3 23 26 4 Austria 7 2 5 21 28 2 Luxembourg 7 0 7 11 38 0 Spain 7 0 7 9 40 0

Concluding Fixtures March 6 France v Italy (Nimes) March 9 Austria v Belgium (Amstetten) Finland v Norway (Turku) Luxembourg v Spain

DIVISION 2 Bulgaria's 7-0 defeat of Scot­ land on Feb. 24 assures them of promotion to Division 1 no matter what the result of the two re­ maining matches which are: Scotland v Wales and Greece v Bulgaria. Jacques Secretin of France takes Russia's Valentina Popova to TABLE himself in the mixed doubles in Ostrava. P W L F A Pts. Photo by courtesy of Leonid Makarov, Moscow. Bulgaria 3 3 0 18 3 3 Wales 3 2 1 12 9 2 Greece 3 1 2 10 11 1 Scotland 3 1 2 7 14 1 Switzerland 4 1 3 9 19 1

2 Jorgen Persson (SWE) 2350 3 Jiang ia liang (CHN) 1800 Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE) 1800 5 Andrzej Grubba (POl) 1800 He Zhiwen (CHN) 1600 7 Bengtsson (SWE) 1500 Jacques Sec retin (FRA) 1500, 9 Patrick Birocheau (FRA) ' Desmond Douglas (ENG) 1300 Andrei (URS) 1300 GRAIID 12 Georg (FRG) 1200, Erik Lindh (SWE) 1200 '4 Wang Huiyuan (CHN) 1100 15 Kristan (HUN) 1050 16 Fan Changmao (CHN) 1000 17 Jonny Akesson (SWEI 900 Mikael Appelgren (SWE) 9do Hui Jun (CHN) 900 20 Milan Grman ITCH) 850 21 UI1 Carlsson (SWEI 800 Tibor Klampar 80d WOMEN'S GRAND PRIX Oragutin Surbek IYUGj 800 24 Tong Vi (CHN) 750 Following the Czech Open in 25 Ulf Bengtsson (SWE) 700 Jonas Berner (SWE) 700 Ostrava the points table now Chen Longcan (CHN) 700 ' reads:- lIie Lupulescu (YUGj 700 Rosskopf (FAG) 700 1. Bettine Vriesekoop (HOl) 425 30 Patrick Aenverse (FAA) 650 2. Maria Hrachova (TCH) 300 3. Zsuzsa Dlah (HUN) 275 SOVIET CHAMPIONSHIPS 1985 4 . Olga Neme. (FRG) 230 5. Valentina Papaya (URS) 175 Mon Women 6. Drunks Batinic (YUG) 155 1 Dvorak 1 Oulatoya 7. Fliura Bulatova (URS) 130 2 Solopov 2 Vetcherok . 8. Gardana Perkucin (YUG) 90 3 Aozenberg 3 Popova Alice Pelikanova the Czech girl making her way up the ladder. Edit Urben (HUN) gO 4 Mazunov 4 Javorovskaja 10. Narine Antonian (URS) 80 5 Sheytchenko 5 Zacharian Photo by Brian Webster, Dundee. 4 International News

Desmond Douglas IN ACTION AT POMPEY Carl Prean Photos by Stephen Line, Shoreham-by-Sea.

Poland's Andrzej Grubba, a non-entrant in the Czech Open but very much in evidence against Hungary in the Super Division of the European League. Photo by Ladislav Perenyi, Dusseldorf. 5 World Ratings/World Championship Team Draws

REVISED WORLD CLASSIFICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CLUB

China's Jiang Jialiang takes 52 -Moroslav Broda (TCH) (50) 21 Narine Antonian (URS) (29) HARD BAT OPEN 53 Wang Baojung (CHN) (40) 22 An Hae Sok (KOR) (16) over as the No. 1 man 54 Carl Prean (ENG) (48) 23 Chen Lili (CHN) (39) from his compatriot Cai Zhenhua 55 Hiroyuki Abe (JPN) (43) 24 Yoon Kyung Mi (KOR) (23) 56 Jonny Akesson (SWE) (-) 25 Xu Jing (CHN) (-) HENRY WINS FOR in the revised classification lists 57 Bela Mesaros (YUG) (-) 26 Gordana Perkucin (YUG) (30) issued by the ITTF on Feb. 10/85 58 Istvan Jonyer (HUN) (33) 27 Edit Urban (HUN) (26) THIRD TIME 59 Stefan Dryszel (POL) (-) 28 Yoshiko Shimauchi (JPN) (32) but Cao Yanhua, the defending 60 Norio Takashima (JPN) (46) 29 Emiko Kanda (18) world title holder, retains her No. 61 Stellan Bengtsson (SWE) (-) 30 Kayoko Kawahigashi (JPN) (31) 62 Henk van Spanje (HOL) (-) 31 Li Bun Hui (PRK) (-) In a very exciting and enjoyable 1 position over four other 63 An Hae Jung (KOR) (-) 32 Tian Jing (CHN) (19) Chinese in the women's list. 64 TakehiroWatanabe (JPN) (-) 33 Hui So Hung (HKG) (24) day of table tennis at Barnet, on 65 Masao Shimizu (JPN) 34 Shen Jianping (CHN) (22) Feb. 3, Henry Buist was too If there were to be a World 66 Danny Seemiler (USA) (-) 35 Qi Baohua (CHN) (-) Top 12 no less than 8 men and 8 67 Igor Podnosov (URS) (-) 36 Mika Hoshino (JPN) (33) powerful on the backhand side 68 Milan Grman (TCH) (-) 37 Kirsten Kruger (FRG) (27) for Laurie Landry in a fast moving women from the People's 69 Arif Khan (PAK) (-) 38 Pang Chun Dok (PRK) (40) Republic of China would line up 70 Wilfried Lieck (FRG) (-) 39 Cho Yong Hui (PRK) (46) final. Landry had got the better of 40 Marie Alboiu (ROM) (45) holder for two years, Stuart with Europe's Andrzej Grubba, 41 Shin Duek Hwa (KOR) (34) Jan-Ove Waldner, Mikael 42 Rie Wada (JPN) (28) Gibbs, in a splendid semi which 43 Li Huifeng (CHN) (25) was reminiscent of some of the Appelgren and Kiyoshi Saito of Women 44 Susanne Wenzel (FRG) (37) . Japan for the 'men and Yang 1 Cao Yanhua (CHN) (1) 45 Anita Zacharian (L1RS) (41) top class games played 25 years 2 Dai Lili (CHN) (2) 46 Lee Soo Ja (KOR) (-I ago. Young Ja of the Republic of 3 Geng Lijuan (CHN) (11) 47 Mok Ka Sha (HKG) (38) Korea together with Bettine 4 Qi Baoxiang (CHN) (6) 48 Chang Yong Ok (PRK) (36) 5 Tong Ling (CHN) (3) 49 Pak Song Hyang (PRK) (-) One of the favourites, \ Derek Vriesekoop, Marie 'Hrachova 6 Yang YoungJa (KOR) (4) 50 Han Hye Song (PRK) (-) Schofield, found the changing of and Valentina Popova rep­ 7 Bettine Vriesekoop (HOL) (13) 51 Mirjam Kloppenburg (HOl) (44) 8 Marie Hrachova (TCH) (9) 52 Brigitte Thiriet (FRA) (48) bats rather too awkward as he resenting Europe's women! 9 Ni Xialian (CHN) (7) 53 Sonja Grefberg (FIN) (47) was well beaten by John Burle­ Newcomers to the extended' 10 He Zhili (CHN) (35) 54 Kim Sook Hee (KOR) (50) 11 Jiao Zhimin (CHN) (5) 55 Dana Guergueltcheva (BUL) (-) ton, a former finalist. In fact all lists are (men), Teng Yi (CHN) ­ 12 Valentina Popova (URS) (8) 56 Inna Kovalenko (URS) (42) four semi-finalists had appeared making a comeback - Jorgen 13 Zsuzsa Olah (HUN) (15) 57 Tomoko Tamura (JPN) (43) 14 Fliura Bulatova (URA) (12) 58 Alison Gordon (ENG) (-) in finals of the singles before. Persson (SWE) and Lie Gun Sang 15 Branka Batinic (YUG) (21) 59 Karen Witt (ENG) (49) (PRK) in the Top 40 and Olga 16 Fumiko Shinpo (JPN) (10) 60 Jolanta Szatko (POL) (-) 17 Kim Gyong Sun (PRK) (14) 61 Alice Pelikanova (TCH) (-) Mary Symes retained her Nemes (FRG), Xu Jing (CHN), Li 18 Gabriella Szabo (HUN) (17) 62· Lee Mi Woo (KOR) (-) women's singles title from a Bun Hui (PRK) and Oi Baohua 19 Marie Lindblad (SWE) (20) 63 Nadine Daviaud (FRA) (-) Olga Nemes (FRG) (-) 64 Park Mal Yun (KOR) (-) fairly low entry. It really would be (CHN) (women). nice to see more entries' Buist England's Desmond Douglas got the doubles title too and retains his 18th position but Carl DRAW Schofield'went back north with Prean is dropped from No. 48 to 38th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - TEAM EVENTS the mixed title which he won No. 54. On the distaff side Alison SWAYTHLING CUP MEN with Paula Rogers. Gordon comes in, at No. 58 one Category 1 Category 2 place in front of Karen Witt who A B C D Thanks to a sponsorship has been demoted from No. 49 China Sweden FR Germany USSR arrangement with the Barnet TT to No. 59. The revised classifica­ Hungary England Norway Nigeria Centre, where the tournament tions (previous position in DPR Korea Japan Finland Indonesia took place, the winners of the brackets) are:-. Korea R France Netherlands Australia men's singles and women's Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Scotland Israel singles were able to give £75 Poland Italy Pakistan Austria and £25 respectively upwards USA Denmark Switzerland Wales expenses of juniors to take part Men in the English Junior Open event. 1 Jiang Jialiang (CHN) (2) Hong Kong India Belgium Brazil 2 Xie Saike (CHN) (3) Chinese Taipei Romania 3 Wang Huiyuan (CHN) (5) 4 Andrzej Grubba (POL) (7) Category 3 5 Cai Zhenhua (CHN) (1) Results:­ 6 Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE) (4) E F G H 7 Mikael Appelgren (SWE) (6) Luxembourg Malaysia Egypt Singapore 8 Fan Changmao (CHN) (10) MS: q-rs: 9 Kiyoshi Saito (JPN) (8) Yemen AR New Zealand Canada Spain S. (E) bt D. Finlayson IE) 13. 15; 10 He Zhiwen (CHN) (14) Malta Saudi Arabia Guatemala Venezuela L landry (Mi) bt R. Bhalla (Sy) 17. 14; 11 Hui Jun (CHN) (16) H. Buist (K) bt J. Kennedy (K) -22, 10, 12; 12 Chen Longcan (CHN (30) Libya Iceland Colombia Lebanon J. Burleton (K) bt D. Schofield (Ch) 14, 13. 13 Jacques Secretin (FRA) (12) Bulgaria Zimbabwe Chile Bermuda 14 Erik Lindh (SWE) (11) s-fs: 15 Ulf Bengtsson (SWE) (9) Curacao Ecuador Costa Rica Cyprus Landry bt Gibbs 14,20; 16 Teng Yi {CHN) (-) Ireland Jersey Greece Faroe Islands Buist bt Burleton 16, 10; 17 Dragutin Surbek (YUG) (17) Final: BU1ST bt Landry 12, 11. 18 Desmond Douglas (ENG) (18) Papua New Palestine Peru Portugal 19 Chen Zinhua (CHN) (13) Guinea Sri Lanka 20 Jindrich Pansky (TCH) (21) WS: 21 Kim Wan (KOR) (36) Turkey s-fs: 22 Cho Yong Ho (PRK) (23) M. Symes (Mi) bt G. Squier (E) 12, 13; 23 Tibor Klampar (HUN) (22) CORBILLON CUP Women G. Larking (E) bt L Moscrop (Mi) 12, 17. 24 Andrei Mazunov (URS) (26) Final: SYMES bt Larking 11. 19. 25 Kim Ki Taek (PRK) (19) Category 1 Category 2 26 Leszek Kucharski (POL) (31) A B C D 27 Zoran Kalinic (YUG) (15) MD: 28 Eric Boggan (USA) (20) Japan China Austria Finland s-fs: 29 Seiji Ono (JPN) (27) DPR Korea USSR USA . Poland Buist/A. Lush (Ha) bt Gibbs/F. Lockwood (E) 10. 30 Zsolt Kriston (HUN) (29) -20,8; , 31 Patrick Birocheau (FRA) (25) Czechoslovakia Korea R Indonesia Canada Burleton/Kennedy bt J. Payne (Mi)/D. Somers 32 Jorgen Persson (SWE) (-) , Netherlands England New Zealand Denmark (He) -19,13,17. 33 Ulf Carlsson (SWE) (24) FR Germany Hungary India Singapore Final: BUIST/LUSH bt Burleton/Kennedy 17, 34 Hong Chol (PRK) (37) -15. 35 Cho Jong Chol (PRK) (41) Romania Sweden Australia Luxembourg WD: Final: 36 Vladislav Broda (TCH) (35) 37 Chiu Man Kuen (HKG) (34) France Yugoslavia Switzerland Malaysia 38 Georg Bohm (FRG) (44) Hong Kong Belgium Chinese Taipei MOSCROP/SYMES bt Rogers (E) 18, 39 Li Gun Sang (PRK) 10. 40 Park Lee Hee (KOR) (28) Category 3 XD: s-fs: 41 Josef Dvoracek (TCH) (39) Kennedy/A. Willis (E) bt 42 Wu Wen-Chia (TPE) E F G H 18: 43 Jia Ning (CHN) (47) Norway Ireland Spain Italy Schofield/Rogers bt Gibbs/Squier 17. -7, 16. 44 Patrick Renverse (FRA) (45) Final: SCHOFIELD/ROGERS bt Kennedy/Willis 45 Gabor Gergely (HUN) (42) Lebanon Colombia Israel Scatland -13,13.17. 46 Igor Solopov (URS) (-) Zimbabwe Venezuela Bulgaria Brazil 47 Milan Orlowski (TCH) (32) 48 Kim Young HYlln (KOR) (-) Malta Greece Iceland Jersey MS Consolation: 49 Cheng Yinghua (CHN) (38) Nigeria Portugal Peru Sri Lanka bt S. Willis (E) 14, 17. Ju-zo Nukazuka (JPN) (49) Consolation 51 Atanda Musa (NIG) (-) Turkey Wales Rogers bt P. Lauder (E) 17, 19. 6 Queen of Europe

Round 4 Batinic bt Szabo 16, -18, 17; Olah bt Hrachova 19, 17; IIQUEEN OF Kruger bt Antonian 15, 16; Vriesekoop bt Popova 15, 16; Nemes bt Bulatova 17, -18,21; Perkucin bt Urban -11, 19, 22.

•• Round 5 .. EUR·OPE" Bulatova bt Kruger 10, 13; ------... Popova bt Nemes -13, 16, 18; By George Yates Hrachova bt Urban 14, 15; Szabo bt Perkucin 16, -14, 18; also the reason for the Leszek Waldner bt Kalinic 16, -19, 16, 11; Olah bt Batinic 11, 4; Grubba bt Mazunov 15, 18, 16; Vriesekoop bt Antonian 18, 17. Kucharski of Poland taking the Surbek Appelgren -14, 20, 15, 19; Lindh bt Kucharski -13, 16, 16, 11. TENNIS DE TAULA place of Hungary's Tibor Round 6 Klampar. Round 9 Vriesekoop bt Urban 21, 16; Nemes bt Perkucin 11, 14; Kalinic bt Mazunov 19, 19, -20, 19; Betttine Vriesekoop of the Nobody could deny the, Kruger bt Batinic 18, 21; Grubba bt Douglas 6, 14, -15, -20, 18; Bulatova bt Szabo -23, 5. 13; Netherlands, last a winner in success of the tournament which Surbek bt Bengtsson 12, 11, -18, 11; Hrachova bt Popova -11, 9. 12; Appelgren bt Kucharski 12, -14, 15, 17; 1982, in Nantes, laid claim to had the blessing of Juan Antonio Antonian bt Olah 11, -14, 10; Lindh bt Pansky 9, 18, 20; being crowned "Queen of Samaranch, President of the Waldner bt Secretin 12, 12, -19, 17. Europe" by topping the women's International Olympic Committee Round 7 Round 10 Olah bt Kruger 14, -13. 16; selection of the Europe Top 12 - Barcelona being his home city KaJinic bt Bengtsson 11, -12, 13, 18; Nemes bt Szabo 12, 16; tournament, played in the Palau - and Pasqual Maragall i Mira, Surbek bt Lindh 24, 18, 17; Batinic bt Popova 20, 22; Grubba bt Waldner 16, -15, 13, 6; Hrachova bt Antonian 12, 12; Municipal d'Esports, Barcelona the Lord Mayor. Secretin bt Appelgren 19, 14, -15, 20; Urban bt Bulatova 18, 16; over the period Feb 1/3, 1985, All made us more than wel­ Douglas bt Kucharski 19, -12, 8, 9; Vriesekoop bt Perkucin 14. 15. Pansky bt Mazunov -18, -17, 12, 10, 17. without the loss of a single set. come including Javier Quintano And, in keeping with his Manoz, President of the Spanish Round 11 Round 8 Waldner bt Kucharski 17, 18, -19, -14, 15; Hrachova bt Kruger 14. 19; recent run of impressive results, Federation and Joan Maria Pansky bt Bengtsson 18, -9, -17, 21, 20; Perkucin bt Bulatova -16. 19.16; Poland's Andrzej Grubba, de­ Tarruella i Manazanares, Presi­ Lindh bt Kalinic 13, -17, 20; Nemes bt Urban 13, 13; Grubba bt Appelgren 14. 16, 6; Olah bt Popova 18, 12; spite losses to Jindrich Pansky dent of the Catalana Federation, Douglas bt Secretin 19, 20. -19, 11; Vriesekoop bt Szabo 20; of Czechoslovakia and Erik Lindh the two bodies charged with the Mazunov bt Surbek -10,14, -17, 9.15. Antonian bt Batinic 20. 19. of Sweden, topped the men's undertaking of the tournament, section. not forgetting L1uis Furnells i No less than five players Abaunz, the General Secretary of FINAL PLACINGS Games Points completed the course with a the event. PW L F A F A 1 Andrzej Grubba (POL) 11 return of 7 wins against 4 losses L1uis even organised the 9 2 29 14 857 739 *2 Jindrich Pansky (TCH) 11 7 4 25 20 860 828 in the men's section with weather which reached 20C as *3 Mikael Appelgren (SWE) 11 7 4 24 15 749 698 England's Desmond Douglas against the -20 left behind by *4 Jacques Secretin (FRA) 11 7 4 23 23 855 826 losing out on the countback of some of the players. *5 Jan-ave Waldner (SWE) 11 7 4 26 21 885 861 sets won to sets lost. But it *6 Desmond Douglas (ENG) 11 7 4 26 14 758 695 would have been No.2 spot for Men 7 Dragutin Surbek (YUG) 5 6 21 23 815 829 Round 1 8 Erik Lindh (SWE) Des had he but won one more set J. Secretin (FA) bt J. Pansky (TCH) -19, 20, 16, 11 5 6 22 22 821 822 arid it could have been against -18,11; 9 Andrei Mazunov (URS) 11 4 7 18 27 792 854 A. Mazunov (URS) bt J-O. Waldner (SWE) -18,16, 10 Zoran Kalinic (YUG) 11 3 8 15 27 746 837 Grubba after the Birmingham -15,14,17; , 11 Leszek Kucharski (POL) 11 3 8 17 26 766 817 left-hander had come back from U. Bengtsson (SWE) bt E. Lindh (SWE) 3, 22, -11, 20; 12 Ulf Bengtsson (SWE) 11 2 9 14 28 733 831 a 2-game deficit to level only to M. Appelgren (SWE) bt D. Douglas (ENG) 7, 19, lose -18 in the fifth. 16; A. Grubba (POL) bt L. Kucharski (POL) 19,18, -17, But it was Pansky who 17; Sets Games claimed the runner-up position D. Surbek (YUG) bt Z. Kalinic (YUG) -15, -21,15, Pansky 3-1 Applegren 4-3 20,10. and with wins over Grubba, Applegren 2-2 4-4 Zoran Kalinic, Jan-Ove Waldner, Secretin 2-2 Waldner 3-4 Waldner 2-2 Mikael Appelgren, Douglas, Round 2 Waldner bt Lindh -21, -12, 19, 21, 15; Douglas 1-3 Andrei Mazunov and reigning Applegren bt Bengtsson 22, 14, 14; Kalinic bt Kucharski 19, 22, -19, 18; world champion, Ulf Bengtsson Secretin bt Surbek 16, 18, -15, -19, 15; he deserved it. Bengtss6n, the Douglas bt Mazunov 13, 13, 12; Women Round 9 hero in Moscow, could only Pansky bt Grubba 17, 20, 17. Round 1 Urban bt Popova 13. 19; Z. Olah (HUN) bt Urban (HUN) 20, -17, 17; Olah bt Bulatova -15, 18, 9; account for his compatriot, Lindh, Round 3 M. Hrachova (TCH) bt G. Szabo (HUN) 22, 14; Kruger bt Szabo 15, 18; and Leszek Kucharski of Grubba bt Kalinic 17, 10 19; B. Batinic (YUG) bt G. Perkucin (YUG) 18, 13; Vriesekoop bt Batin ic -14, 9. 21; Douglas bt Lindh 16, 18, 14; B. Vriesekoop (HOl) bt F. Bulatova (URS) -15,16, Antonian bt Perkucin 15, 18; to finish twelfth and last. What a Appelgren bt Mazunov 13. 18, 14; 14; Hrachova bt Nemes 21, 19. reversal of fortune! Waldner bt Bengtsson 18, 10, -18, 17; V. Popova (URS) bt N. Antonian (URS) -18,15,12; Surbek bt Pansky 19. 18, -1 6. 11; O. Nemes (FRG) bt K. Kruger (FRG) 21, -19,20. On the distaff side Bettine Secretin bt Kucharski 14, 19, -20, 6. Round 10 Round 2 Urban bt Kruger 18. 16; Vrieskoop shed but two games­ Round 4 Popova bt Kruger 20, -16, 17; Antonian bt Szabo 13, 8; Flirua Bulatova of the Soviet Appelgren bt Lindh 11, -20, 15, -18. 14; Olah bt Perkucin 14, 7; Nemes bt Olah -19. 16. 12; Kucharski bt Pansky 17, -11, 20. 13; Bulatova bt Antonian -17, 13, 18; Vriesekoop bt Hrachova 12, 12; Union and Branka Batinic of Waldner bt Douglas 19, -16. -16, 16, 14; Hrachova bt Batinic 13, 13; Bulatova bt Batinic 12m 20; Yugoslavia - but her set against Grubba bt Surbek -16, -26, 15, 15, 20; Vriesekoop bt Nemes 16, 14; Popova bt Perkucin 7. 16. Secretin bt Kalinic -14. -21. 8, 9, 10; Szabo bt Urban 20, 12. Batinic was a joy to behold, the Mazunov bt Bengtsson 13, 25, 14. Yugoslav's final eighth position Round 3 Round 11 hardly doing her justice. Round 5 Nemes bt Antonian 14, -16, 19; Nemes bt Batinic 11, 6; Douglas bt Bengtsson 10, 18, 18; Vriesekoop bt Kruger 19, 18; Perkucin bt Kruger 20, -16, 19; European champion, Valentina Appelgren bt Waldner 21, 17. 16; Hrachova bt Perkucin 23, 14; Antonian bt Urban 16, 16; Popova, failed to find her Grubba bt Secretin 14, 14, 10; Olah bt Szabo 12, 13; Vriesekoop bt Olah 5, 17; Mazunov bt Lindh 23, -9, -17. 16, 8; Batinic bt Urban 18, 20; Bulatova bt Hrachova -19. 19. 16; Moscow form whilst Olga Pansky bt Kalinic 19, 17,20; Bulatova bt Popova 15, -16. 11. Popova bt Szabo 18. 17. Nemes, now of the Federal Kucharski bt Surbek 15, 14, 14. Repubulic of Germany, equated Round 6 Appelgren bt Kalinic 19, 19. 17; FINAL PLACINGS Games Points with Zsuzsa Olah of Hungary and Pansky bt Waldner 11, 21, -19, -17, 15; p W l F A F A Marie Hrachova of Czechos­ Bengtsson bt Kucharski 19, 20, 15; 1 Bettine Vriesekoop (HOl) 11 11 22 2 496 381 Douglas bt Surbek 18. 15, 16; o lovakia with 8 wins against 3 Secretin bt Mazunov -17, 17, 13. -14, 13; 2 Zsuzsa Olah (HUN) 11 8 3 18 9 495 443 losses but finished fourth on Lindh bt Grubba 19, -21, -18, 17. 16. 3 Marie Hrachova (TCH) 11 8 3 17 7 468 416 4 Olga Nemes (FRG) 11 8 3 17 10 542 457 countback. Olga's hardest set Round 7 was against her new compatriot, Grubba bt Bengtsson -19., 22, 16, -16, 23; 5 Fliura Bulatova (U RS) 11 6 5 16 14 576 529 Kirsten Kruger, in the very first Waldner bt Surbek 17, 16, 14; 6 Valentina Popova' 11 5 6 12 15 482 502 Kucharski bt Mazunov 17, 14, -1 7, 15; 7 Narine Antonian (URS) 11 5 6 13 13 469 470 round, winning 20-20 in the Lindh bt Secretin 19, 17, 15; Douglas bt Kalinic 20, 19, 18; 8 Branka Batinic (YUG) 11 4 7 9 15 410 479 third. Pansky bt Appelgren -21, 16, 19, 8. 9 Gordana Perkucin 11 3 8 7 19 427 532 Miss Kruger came in following 10 Edit Urban (HUN) 11 3 8 8 16 440 472 Round 8 the of injured Marie Secretin bt Bengtsson -18, 11, 13, 19; 11 Kirsten Kruger (FRG) 11 3 8 10 16 486 508 Linblad of Sweden which was Pansky bt Douglas 14, 14, -17,22; 12 Gabriella Szabo (HUN) 11 2 9 6 19 408 510 7 Czechoslovak Open

Yugoslavia 3 German D. R. 0 Hrachova bt Lindblad -15, 9, 5. Federal Germany 3 Greece 0 Soviet Union 3 Yugoslavia 2 CZECHOSLOVAK OPEN Soviet Union 3 Austria 0 Bulatova lost to Perkucin -14, -12; Larina lost to Batinic -1 5, -16; Round 2 Larina/Popova bt Batinic/Perkucin 19, 20; ENCORE FOR BETTINE AND LESZEK Sweden 3 Czechoslovakia' 2 Bulatova bt Batinic 11, 14; United States 3 Netherlands 1 Larina bt Perkucin 12, -9, 18. By George R. Yates R. of Kore'a 3 Canada 0 Yugoslavia 3 England 0 Lupulescu bt Sandley 13, -17, 13; Final: Kalinic bt Andrew 19, 16; SOVIET UNION 3 Czechoslovakia 'A' 1 Kalinic/Surbek bt Andrew/Sandley 19, 10. Bulatova bt Pelikanova 16, 19; Just as in Rotterdam in the Phiiips with a win over Jan Harkamp of Federal Germany w.o. D.P.R. Korea (scr) Popova lost to Hrachova -14, -14; Dutch Open Leszek Kucharski Denmark (15, 19, 16) but was Czechoslovakia 'A' 3 Poland 2 Larina/Popova bt Hrachova/Pelikanova 15, 18; Denmark 3 France 2 Bulatova bt Hrachova 17, 22. and Bettine Vriesekoop landed then beaten by the host nation's Soviet Union 3 Hungary 2 the two singles titles in Ostrava Jindrich Pansky (19, -15, -14, Quarter-finals Men's Singles: in the Czech Open played over -16). Sweden 3 United States 0 Yugoslavia 3 R. of Korea 0 J-O. Waldner(SWE) btJ. Secretin (FRA) -13, -24, the period Feb. 14/1 7, 1985 Both Joy and Karen had first Czechoslovakia 'A' 3 Federal Germany 0 9,11.15; , Soviet Union 3 Denmark 2 with final victories over Jan-Ove round successes in beating, J. Persson (SWE) bt Anjao Hyung (KOR) 15, Waldner and Marie Hrachova respectively, Zatkova (TCH) (-12, Semi-finals: -20, 18.20. Sweden 3 Yugoslavia 0 Bengtsson (SWE) bt P. Birocheau (FRA) 18. respectively. 16, 12, 17) and Urbanovici Waldner bt Lupulescu -20, 17, 12; 20, -18,12; And, in yet another repeat per­ (RO-M) (17,-9,11 ).Subsequently Appelgren bt Kovac 19, 11; L Kucharski (POL) bt J. Akesson (SWE) -14. 16, -15,20,15. formance, Erik Lindh and Marie Joy went on to beat the Hun­ Lindh/Waldner bt Kalinic/Surbek 16, 17. Soviet Union 2 Semi-finals: Lindblad took the mixed title in garian junior Krisztina Nagy (-14, Pansky bt Dvorak 13, 18; Waldner bt Persson 19, 12, -12, 15; Orlowski lost to Rozenberg -1 2, -18; Kucharski bt Bengtsson 19, 15, 22. finally beating Jindrich Pansky 19, 15, 17) but Karen was taken Orlowski/Pansky bt Rozenberg/Shevtchenko 13, and Hrachova. out by Hungary's Csilla Batorii 19; Final: KUCHARSKI bt Waldner 13, 19, -19, 21. who won 16, 13, -7, Pansky lost to Rozenberg ·15, 22, -8; But in the two other doubles Orlowski bt Dvorak 14, -14, 19. events it was the Republic of Joy, at the last 16 stage, put Final: Korea's Kim Ki. Taek and Kim up a brave fight but fell to SWEDEN 3 Czechoslovakia'A' 0 . Women's Singles: Wan who beat Patrick Birocheau Hrachova, beaten 13, 16 and 20. Appelgren bt Pansky 15, 18; Waldner bt Orlowski 20, 19; Yang Young Ja (KOR) bt Z, Olah (HUN) 18, 16, 18; and Jacques Secretin in the In the men's doubles Cooke and Lindh/Waldner bt Orlowski/Pansky 15, 15. B. Vriesekoop (HOl) bt F. Bulatova (URS) 18, 18, men's and the Republic's Yang Sandley had a win over the -17,16; M. Hrachova (TCH) bt Lee SooJa (KOR) 16, 14, 12; Young Ja and Yoon Hyung Mi Federal Germans, Klein and Yoon Kying Mi (KOR) bt N. Daviaud (FRA) 17, 15, who beat Hrachova/Vriesekoop Rosskopf but then fell to Milan Women's Team 12. in the women's. Orlowski and Pansky. Andrew, Round 1 Semi-finals: Sweden 3 Denmark 0 Vriesekoop bt Yang Young Ja 17, 19, 19; In the team events Sweden paired with Lee Jung Hak Federal Germany 3 Norway 0 Hrachova bt Yoon Kying Mi -9,14, -10,14,16. beat Czechoslovakia 'A' 3-0 in failed to qualify when beaten by England 3 Poland 0 Final: VRIESEKOOP bt Hrachova 12, 16, -18, 17. the men's final and the Soviet the Canadians Ng and Nguyen. 16, 16; Union accounted for Czecho­ Joy and Karen in the women's Grundy/Witt bt Calinska/Stelmach 18, -16, 19. Czechoslovakia 'B' 3 Finland 0 slovakia 'A' by a 3-1 margin in doubles had wins over Austria's Men's Doubles: France 3 German D. R. 0 Semi-finals: the women's final. Gropper/Wiltsche and the host Round 2 Birocheau/Secretin bt U. Bengtsson (SWE)/ Graham Sandley and Skylet nation's Kocova/Pelikanova Sweden w.o. D.P.R. of Korea (scr) Kucharski -11, 17, 18; Romania 3 Greece 0 Kim Ki Taek/Kim Wan (KOR) bt S. Bengtsson/ Andrew carried England's flag in before losing out to the Russians Federal Germany 3 Bulgaria 2 Berner (SWE) 13, 14; the men's team event but, after a Larina/Popova in the quarter­ Czechoslovakia 'A' 3 England 1 Final: KIM KI TAEK/KIM WAN bt Birocheau/ Hrachova bt Witt -15,21, 9; Secretin 18, -16, 12. first round bye, succumbed to finals. Pelikanova bt Grundy 21, 10; Yugoslavia 3-0 in the second For the record, Andrzej Grubba Kocova/Pelikanova lost to Grundy/Witt -16, 9, -13; round. Our women, Joy Grundy sat this one Hrachova bt Grundy 18, 15. Women's Doubles: and Karen Witt began with a 3-0 Poland's Stefan Dryszel and R. of Korea 3 Czechoslovakia 'B' 2 Semi-finals: Yugoslavia 3 Netherlands 2 Yang Young Ja/Yoon Kyung Mi bt Larina/V. win over Poland but were sub­ Calinska put paid to Graham and Hungary 3 Austria 0 Popova (URS) -14, 16, 16; Soviet Union 3 France 1 Hrachova/Vriesekoop bt B. Batinic/G. Perkucin sequently beaten 3-1 by Czecho Joy in the mixed with their com­ (YUG) 13, 10. 'A'. patriots Piotr Molanda and Quarter-finals: Final: YANG YOUNG JA/YOON KYUNG MI bt Sweden 3 Romania 0 Hrachova/Vriesekoop -18, 18, 16, Both Sandley and Andrew fell Stelmach performing likewise to Czechoslovakia 'A' 3 Federal Germany 0 in the first round of the men's eliminate Alan and Karen. Not a Yugoslavia 3 R. of Korea 1 Soviet Union 3 Hungary 1 singles, the former beaten by trip to shout about from England's Semi-finals: E. Lingh/M. Lindblad (SWE) bt Secretin/Popova Eric Boggan (9, 13, 12) and the point of view. Results:­ Czechoslovakia 'A' 3 Sweden 1 -17,19,16; latter by MikaeJ Appelgren (-19, Men's Team: Hrachova bt Svensson 22, 11, 13; J. Pansky (TCH)/Hrachova bt I. lupulescu (YUG)/ Pelikanova lost to Lindblad -22, Perkucin -19, 10, 17, 15, 18). Alan Cooke, our Round 1 -15; Czechoslovakia' B' 3 Bulgaria 0 Hrachova/Pelikanova bt Lindblad/Svensson 10. Final: bt Pansky/Hrachova ­ other male representative, began R. of Korea 3 Romania 0 -14,17; 9,20,17.

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COVER PICTURE Desmond Douglas, England's ace exponent, who has severed his connection with Borussia Dusseldorf in the Federal German Bundesliga by contracting himself to the English Association for the next three seasons subject to review at the end of the 1985/86 season. Welcome home! 8 The Chairman writes ...

POWER TO THE MEMBERS says . .. TOM BLUNN, ETTA Chairman

power to over-rule any demo­ which I said earlier, have been a ference of opinion and what cratic decision of the counil. or great teacher. action is taken by the ETTA will any committee, or any official. I The administration of the not be my decision. A poll is have powers of persuasion and ETTA is spread over a wide area being taken at present of all hope that by now most people bringing in both professional national councillors who no will respect my views even if and voluntary people, each well doubt will consult with their they do not agree with them. I versed in a particular area of leagues and county hope most people will accept activity and prepared to learn before coming to any decision, that when I make a statement it something new as every year of and the majority view will pre­ First let me thank the members is the truth so far as I it in experience goes by. Some vail. That too is my version of on behalf of George Yates (Deputy accordance with the information workers are specialists in their democracy but I have no doubt Chairman) and Aubrey Drapkin at my disposal. I cannot attend job and as such some respect that the final will be (Hon. Treasurer) for the con­ every committee meeting and should be given to their views. contested by those with strong fidence you have placed in us by must of necessity accept the The constitution requires the views on the matter. appointment each year of five returning us once more to office. information given to me by the It must be remembered that at vice-chairmen, each responsible It is a great confidence booster chairman of the committee or by the world congress, the ETTA for a particular area of activity and helps to keep up the reading the minutes. has only one vote and there will over which they have specialist enthusiasm for our respective I have been asked, indeed be around 90 associations vot­ knowledge. jobs. told, I should interfere with cer­ ing. Our views will be put by our As chairman I must rely on the It may be opportune on this tain decisions and over-rule delegates and , am convinced what been -decided. The vice-chairmen to see that the occasion to elaborate a little on they will gain respect from many chairman of the ETTA is not a organisation and administration my own particular job a's your others present. It has been said dictator. I understand we fought under their jurisdiction is main­ chairman. I will be embarking on that the rubber manufacturers a war to eliminate dictators. The tained to a high standard and my eighth year, and this follows from the Far East have a commer­ chairman has to work within the within the policies ·and terms of a period of twenty years as hon­ cial interest in leaving things as constitution probably more than reference laid down by the orary treasurer. Twenty-six of they are and are only interested anyone else who may consider national council. They have those years were during a period in selling their·products. when I had to a living to bending the rules to be an been appointed to do the job and support my family and spend expedient. , have to answer to I have every confidence that in I have no knowledge of their many weeks away from home the members. In fact, there is a all matters, the interests of the motives but I do know that many because of the nature of my job. rule (34.1.3) which allows any ETTA, as a whole, are uppermost experiments have taken place in So I can sympathise with all member who is aggrieved by a in their minds. Japan with higher net, amended those voluntary workers who decision of mine (amongst On a matter of great interest at service, less effective rubber, devote their spare time to or­ others) to appeal to the board of the moment I can say that I have and in other ways, and some of ganising the game at all levels. appeal for the decision to be been under pressure recently to the propositions for congress are Also the amateur players who reviewed. take a stance on the question of the result of these experiments. enjoy their weekly match and I hope that never happens and the use of the various rubber The decisions which will have occasional weekend venture to prevent it I try to make my coverings and to get the ETTA to been taken at congress will be into higher spheres. points by reasoned argument in various actions at the world put to our own membership at Experience is a great teacher moderate language and rely on congress, next month. Needless the AG M in July of this year. That but it does not give the power the respect I hope members to say, I have been asked to take is where our own attitude will be and authority that is sometimes have for me and acknowledge actions which conflict with each decided so far as our domestic ascribed to me. I do not have my many years of experience, other. Obviously there is a dif­ programme is concerned.

JILL HAMMERSLEY-PARKER helping in what I hope you think PARKER T.T. FOUNDATION") to: TABLE TENNIS is a worthy cause please do not The Barn, Common Bank, FOUNDATION hesitate to contact me and I can Dolphinholme, LANCASTER LA2 send tickets on. Just to remind 9AN. those who are unsure as to what This year we are in the process Unfortunately with two babies I the Foundation is about, it relies of arranging a training in am now finding it difficult to put on its members who pay £1 0 per Norway followed by the Scan­ in the same amount of time year which quite simply is spent dinavian Junior Open and have the Foundation asl did last year. on promising junior or cadet applied for teams in the English As a result, the membership has players. Not players who are Junior Open. We have now declined slightly and the raffle is playing for England, but players formed a selection committee of not going as well as it did last who are just missing out on which Barry Johnson is the year. I am very indebted to Roy selection to give them the Chairman. Any members who Pugh for his generosity and Clive experience that may help them would like any players to be con­ Oakman for his time and assis­ break through to become top sidered by the committee please tance in the raffle but unfor­ International players. Should you put in writing and send to the tunately I need helpers to sell the wish to support such a scheme, above address. tickets in what is left of the simply send a cheque for £10.00 season. Anyone interested in (payable to " J. HAMMERSLEY- Jill Hammersley-Parker

9 Counties Round-up

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS ROUND-UP ">. r By MURRAY CORBIN

Since the February result sheets have been the stretching to thr'ee good win. Bravo Wendy! The are not yet to hand, I will take the of Brad Billington, by the pro­ Umpire was the very steady JIM opportunity to review only those mising Edmonds. CARTWRIGHT of Esher, Trea­ matches in January, where the SENIORS 3B: surer of Surrey ITA. Thank you Top Teams were involved. I there­ SOMERSET 1 st 9 Cornwall 1. very much BRIAN GARROWAY fore hope that this meets with Referee JOHN REAKES for looking after Surrey for me on your admired approval. Here we witnessed a sterling perfor­ this occasion. go! mance from his SOMERSET JUNIORS 2A: course, this particular instance SENIORS 2A: warriors when CORNWALL' S YORKSHIRE 2nd 9 Warwick­ may have been exceptional. but Lancashire 0 WARWICKSHIRE Allison Clemens, Esme Steven­ shire 1. only the brave survive, JOH N 10. son, John Bassett, Jeremy Table-toppers Yorkshire, on TAYLOR was the Referee at Group Leaders WARWICK­ Williams and Ian James travelled their home ground in Bradford, Natland, Kendal. David Holmes, SHIRE. with KAREN GROVES, up to TAUNTON, to oppose the met fourth placed Warwickshire. Karen Backhouse and Karen SANDRA PEAKMAN, CARL mighty BECKY RUSSE, JUDY under the supervision of Inter­ Griffiths also performed for MORGAN, BARRY JOHNSON CRAIG, BRIAN REEVES, DAVID national Umpire ALEC HEAD. CUMBRIA, while Kay Mayall, and PHIL GUNN, travelled to LEE and LEE SADLER. After From the scoresheet, it appears Claire Oldman and Robert Fearn, Preston to take on Amanda David Lee had given Somerset a that RUTH BRAY. CAROLINE made up the Notts squad. Notts Goodwin, Carey Whitehead, Phil good start in the first set against DADA, CHRIS OLDFIELD, ALARIC will have to pull on their reserves Aspinall, Phil Blake and Graham Bassett, IAN JAMES for Corn­ BASSANOand MILLER when they meet LINCOLNSHIRE Clarke of LANCASHIRE. Five wall levelled to 1-1 immediately hardly put a foot wrong. MARK in February to keep in the hunt sets went to three, but in spite of by defeating Sadler in the third at RANDLE for Warwickshire, took for the title: this, The Midlanders were still 19. After this, SOMERSET did the opening set off Bassano, but able to keep the upper hand and not look back and soon cleared from here on it was 'the pits' for JUNIORS 3B: Warwickshire therefore avoid the Lancastrians up the remaining eight sets Dawn Bromley, Tracey Green, 2nd 2 GLAMORGAN 8, from having a single success. without much trouble. Well Veranda Chauhan and Steve Leaders GLAMORGAN held PHIL ASPINALL played well Somerset! The umpiring staff Swallow. Yorkshire may have to on to the two points lead over and took both Carl and Barry to were MEL JONES, COLIN keep an eye over their shoulders, Bedfordshire when they stopped three; so did Amanda when she ALLSOPP and JOHN CRABTREE. because Northumberland are the progress of Warwickshire in confronted Karen. The match knocking on their door. this meeting at REDHILL TTC, official was B. A. LEESON. SENIORS 3C: Birmingham. I must point out WORCESTERSHIRE 9 Berk­ JUNIORS 2B: SENIORS 2B: Essex 3rd 3 WILTSHIRE 7. that, in spite of the final score, shire 2nd 1. this was not a demolition job by . Hampshire 1 SUSSEX 9. The Umpiring squad of JOHN RAY GEORGE'S ESSEX of Promotion hunters SUSSEX­ Helen Platt, Catherine Thomp­ the Welsh visitors, Five sets went and PEGGY MYTTON and Referee to three, therefore, SALLY WESTON, TERESA, - the dapper DOUG MOSS, son, Jason Clarke, Gary Killington ADRIAN and STEVEN MOORE, and Bao Ma, suffered another tense and exciting battle. found their Worcestershire team WARWICKSHIRE were ably re­ plus PHIL SMITH, gave HAMP­ to be in great form at Bengeworth defeat, this time at the hands of SHIRE a going-over at Hamble­ JENNY NEALE, JULIE MILLS, presented by Lisa Spilsbury, Church Hall, Evesham, against Alison Ledwitch, Darren Smith, don, Hampshire's sole success Berkshire. The home team of PAUL TUCK, RAY POWELL and Richard Todd and DavidThomas. derived from the experienced LOUISE DAVIS, SANDRA IAN NEATE of WILTSHIRE. The winners consisted of the and amaZing RAMISH BHALLA RODEN, the skilled MURRAY Essex's three results came from keeping his nose just .ahead of CLARKE over Ray Powell, the talented JOANNE LEE, THERESA JUKES, SIMON CLAXTON and PEITY, KEVIN ROBERTS, Smith, particularly in the third. the likely lad TREVOR WASH­ Girls' Doubles and also in the last ANTHONY JONES and RICHARD However, from this point, Kathy INGTON, met little resistance singles wh.en BAO MA inflicted a HARRY. The home team's two 'Waistline' Ridgard, Jill Green, from Taryn Napier-Vallis, Simon second defeat on Powell. The results came from SMITH'S GrahamToole and the fiery Derek ~ Richard Kozlowski and Umpire was the amiable ROY over .Jones and in the Boys' Holman slid down stream, after Wally Allanson, but with the FRANKLIN. Doubles when SMITH/TODD the second set. Keir Donaldson exception of the very competitive JUNIORS 3A: crept home in the third against - the Hampshire Captain, will JENNIFER COLLINS, who CUMBRIA 5 NOTTINGHAM­ Roberts/Jones. The Referee was have to motivate his team to a SHIRE 5. pipped Louise to the at 21 in DOT SHERWOOD, GLAMORGAN better performance in the next The match report suggests the third, to stop the Worcester­ have beaten next- in-line Bed­ few matches, if they are to avoid shire clean-up. Well done Jenny! this to be an excellent perfor­ fordshire already and should go relegation. BRIAN LAMERTON Are you still on the combination mance by both teams, and I on to win this division if they was the Referee. believe it that the 'draw' was a bat? keep their noses clean. . SENIORS 3A: fair result. I understand that DERBYSHIRE 10 Northampton­ SENIORS 3D: , STEPHEN HOLLAND and JOHN JUNIORS 3C: shire 2nd O. SURREY 2nd 9 Norfolk 1st BACKHOUSE played well to Wiltshire 2nd 1 SOMERSET 9, DERBYSHIRE HOTSHOTS ­ Leaders Middlesex did not play beat the Notts No. 1 Adrian SOMERSET did a good job the bubbling KERRY HALL and on this date. Second placed Bolton in lhe singles and that . here on bottom team Wiltshire, JULIE BILLINGTON they Surrey is therefore looked at. they were unlucky in the Doubles in a very low scoring match. humour me by laughing at my Playing Captain WENDY against Bolton/ Holland, because MARK COLYER got Wiltshire off along with the combined HOGG brought down her team they led 19-16 in the third and to a start in the third set by skills of ALAN COOKE, young of Joy Dixon, Richard and Martin never saw another point due to defeating Murray Barter. Murray BRADLEY 'Freckles' BIlliNGTON Stevenson and David to Bolton/Holland moving into over­ seems to be becoming a common and MARliN KINSELLA, gave Tweeddale School. Carshalton, drive. I think the winners may name. Unfortunately, after this, bottom team Northamptonshire to face MICHELE HAMS, DEBBIE have been braver than the losers. Lorraine Cox, Sue Vowles, Mark a good spanking at the Activity SIMMONDS, STEPHEN HOL­ I have noticed that in this Coun­ Powell and C. Smith found the Centre, Chesterfield, where C. LOWAY, MICHAEL 'The Mouth' try, too many players can not win talents of F. STUART, L. McLEAN was in charge of the HAMMOND and DAVID from 19; you see, they stop play­ WITHYMAN, PHILLIP PAYNE . NORTHAMPTON­ lNG, who were found in good ing and depend on the opposition and DAVID WOODRIDGE of SHIRE was represented by fettle. As it turned out, only making two mistakes. In other SOMERSET, too over-powering. Glennis Hooper, Dorothy Marsh, Wendy had any success for the words, many of the so-called top ' 1 could not understand the Steve Lyon, Chris Handshaw and visitors, and she must have been players cannot finish, they simply signatures of the two umpires, so ' Andrew Edmonds. The success pleased with herself ;/ beating " bottle", due to the lack of con­ their secret remains in tact. of this match for the visitors may Michele Hams, which is a very fidence and mostly - bravery. Of Perhaps I should explain for theii 10 Counties Round-up

benefit that the Iine provided for VETERANS 2B: SENIORS the Referee's Name should be SUSSEX 6 Hampshire 3. Premier Division - Final Tables utilised with, writing, for This SUSSEX foursome is a P W L F A Pts. very good reasons. I would not very good unit indeed, with real Middlesex 7 6 1 49 14 12 be offended if more Referees down-to-earth characters. For Lancashire 7 6 1 38 25 12 would show their Christian names instance, there is VALERIE Yorkshire 7 5 2 39 24 10 clearly plus the Umpiring Staff. GILLAM, ROBIN STACE, JERRY Staffordshire 347 28 35 8 After all, they are the real BATT-RAWDEN and ALAN Surrey 7 4 3 27 36 8 workers. ROWDEN. What a Team! They Berkshire 7 2 5 30 33 4 are riding the crest of the wave Essex 7 1 6 23 40 2 and they so much deserve to. Cambridgeshire 707 18 45 o JUNIORS 3D: SUFFOLK 10 HAMPSHIRE, with Ivy and Fred Carrlbridgeshire 2nd O. Kershaw, Ray Lush and Roland Division 2A When Cambridgeshire visited Bennett, came over to the B.A.C.S P W 0 L F A Pts. The BRITTANIA DO,ME in CLUB at Hove, and gave a good Warwicksh ire 541 o 39 11 9 Ipswich, their team of Denise performance by taking three sets Leicestersh ire 541 o 35 15 9 Hinks, Melonie Canham, Chris off the highfliers. Fred beat Jerry, Yorkshire 2nd 530 2 27 23 6 Dexter, Robin Tewksbury and the Kershaws took the mixed Buckinghamshire 522 1 24 26 6 Matthew Laughlin found KAREN against Alan and Valerie, and Cheshire 520 3 26 24 4 PERKINS, CLAIRE NICHOLLS, Ivy levelled match score, Lancashire 2nd 512 2 20 30 4 the talented PAUL GOODING, in the sixth when she outplayed Suffolk 015 4 21 29 2 DARREN JONES and RICHARD Valerie 8, 12. After this, SUSSEX Staffordshire' 2 nd 5 0, 0 5 8 42 o HUTCHINSON in great form for pulled up their britches and Jerry, SUFFOLK. The home side was so Alan and Robin took the last fantastic on the day, that the only three sets in straight games. Division 2B peak of success the visitors International Umpire BERT Sussex 541 o 37 13 9 could claim, would be that of FRETWELL was the governor at 540 1 36 14 8 Tewksbury stretching Hutchinson this meeting. Kent 540 1 34 16 8 to three, in the last set of the Dorset 531 1 30 20 7 match. The Referee was JOYCE Essex 2nd 520 3 17 33 4 LOVE, who writes so beauti"fu Ily Wiltshire 510 4 21 29 2 VETERANS 3A: that it is always a great treat for Hampshire 015 4 16 34 2 Northamptonshire 3 ESSEX me to pick up a scoresheet that Gloucestershire 500 5 9 41 o she has laid her artisti'c hands 3RD 6. upon. She was supported here A fine performance here by by the well thought of COLIN ANN GILIHAN, LAURIE FOUN­ KERRY. TAIN, DAVID FINLAYSON and Division 3A JOHN LEITH, keep ESSEX ahead Derbyshire 541 ,0 39 11 ' 9 of Yorkshire and Cheshire 3'rd. In Clwyd 422 o 24 16 6 this match the scores were rather Lincolnshire 421 1 23 17 5 VETERANS PREMIER: low and one could assume that Durham 521 2 30 20 5 Middlesex 1 CHESHIRE 8. there was not much difference in .Nottinghamshire 520 3 23 27 4 CH ESH IRE are hanging on to skills on the day between the Northumberland 3 1 1 1 13 17 3 first place due to a better games teams. Joyce Porter, Keith Jones, Cheshire 2nd 410 3 13 27 2 average over ESSEX and LIN­ Geoff Atkinson and Dennis Northants 2nd 400 4 5 35 o COLNSHIRE, who are all on 8 Millman of Northamptonshire, points. On this outing to Middle­ on losing this match are position­ sex, Bill Brookman was the only ed second from the bottom ofthe playerto record a victory overthe tabre. I see JOYCE PORTER is visitors. He did so by handing out Division 3B still blazing away and remains 15 and 16 to Eddie Griffiths in Somerset 1st 541 o 34 16 9 unbeaten so far. The Referee the seventh set. Bill's partners­ Avon 531 1 34 16 7 was A. PALMER at Welling­ Kathy Nunn, Babs Adedayo and Glamorgan 531 1 31 19 7 borough. Norman Slifkin, fell surprisingly Dorset' 2nd 521 2 22 28 5 411 easily to DOREEN and DEREK Cornwall 2 17 23 3 SCHOFIELD and PETER D'ARCY. Isle of Wight 503 2 19 31 3 4' 0 2 Wow! Doreen beat Kathy 9 and SomeJset2nd 2 17 23 2 7. What a performance! The Wiltshire 2nd 502 3 16 34 2 umpire was D. Howes. VETERANS 3B: BERKSHIRE 2nd 5 Sussex 2nd VETERANS 2A: 4. Division 3C Essex 2nd 4 BUCKINGHAM­ Referee ROBIN LOCKWOOD Worcestershire 7 6 1 53 1,3 5. and Umpire HUGH MURRAY o 17 Huntingdonshire 541 Third from bottom Essex were lucky to preside over this o 33 17 9 530 28 stretched the leaders and pressed sizzler at the PEPPARD Berkshire 2nd 2 22 6 them very hard for some time but MEMORIAL HALL to decide the Hertfordshire 630 3 29 31 6 it was not until the eighth set king of the division. Four sets Oxfordshire 5 2 1 2 26 24 5 when the very good ALEC went to three and full credit must Bedfordsh ire 520 3 19 31 4 WATSON easily contained Ray be given to SYLVIA BRUTON, Avon 2nd 5 1 1 3 25 25 3 Murray before Bucks cpuld breath DAVE JONES, BOB HOLIDAY Northants 501 4 15 35 1 freely. Alec had good support and PETER BRADLEY of Berk­ Worcestershire 2nd 105 4 12 38 1 from SYLVIA COOMBES, FRANK shire, who kept the pressure on EARlS and LEN PRATT. The PAT PEARCE, MIKE WATTS, determined ESSEX was made BOB PITTARD and TED CRAMER, Division 3D of ,SHIRLEY CARROLL - who up to the 8th set when JONES Surrey 2nd 650 1 41 19 10 pulled off a good result over found the to the pugna­ Kent 2nd 641 1 41 19 9 Sylvia, BRIAN PARRISH and city of Watts, to create the fifth Essex 3rd 530 2 25 25 6 FRED LOCKWOOD. Bucks needed and winning set. PITTARD, for Cambridgeshire 2nd 521 2 2 28 5 this result to stay two points Sussex, fought off the advances Sussex 2nd 520 3 27 23 4 clear of Cheshire 2nd, in second of Bradley in the last set to Norfolk 015 4 20 30 2 place. The Umpire at Chadwell climax the action on the battle Norfolk 2nd 400 4 11 29 o Heath was J. ANKER. field. Hello Hilda Watts! Suffolk 2nd 500 5 5 45 o 11 Counties Round-up

From the top -left to right: TONY PENNY and DES CHARLERY _x_ tried their best to fight off relegation: MANDY SAINSBURY. CRAIG BAKEWELL and FIONA ELLIOTT. Second Row: Fancy dressed SHAUN BROWNE. the burly ANDY WELLMAN. and KEVIN BEADSLEY. Third Row: DAVE WELLS and SARAHSANDLEY and back to back with Umpires DI WINMILL and JACK RANDALL. Last Row: JACK and BERYL CHERRINGTON of Great Barr. Birmingham. who travel yearly to all the Premier Weekends and are obviously connoisseurs of good table-tennis. and lastly. LEN PILDITCH - Team Manager of the winning MIDDLESEX outfit. receiving the 'Big from GUNTER L. STOHR. General Manager of THE WOODFORD MOAT HOUSE HOTEL. the sponsor of the final weekend play-off at WANSTEAD SPORTS CENTRE. Photos by: Murray Corbin of Wimbledon. 12

County Notes

Mary Williams reports from... creditable performance- and can championships. Seeded only at title at the expense of Moss. look upon this as valuable ex­ No.7 in the Maidenhead Closed Bracknell and S.S.V. clubs are BEDFORDSHIRE perience for the future. he put out higher-rated players both poised to take advanatage FINE WIN Having won their first round Frank Earis and Dave Jones but of slip by the leaders. The senior County team having match in the Wilmott Cup the failed at the final hurdle to the There is an intriguing situation lost twice recently, to Oxford (3­ men's team of Geoff Giles, Andy reigning champion Steve Everard. developing in Div. 1 of the 7) and Worcester I (4-6), had a Conquest and Alan Chandler Everard seems to save his very Newbury League. It was antici­ win over Avon II by 6-4. entertained Dunstable. The best for local tournaments and pated . that. the championship Scores:­ match, despite some excellent his recent league form did 'not would once again develop into a . David Sharpe bt Chris Holley 16. 19; play by Leighton ended with a 5­ suggest that he would carry off two horse race between the David Cartwrjght bt Clive Ellison 17. 17; 2 win for Dunstable. the title again; still he con-' Thatcham 'A' squad of Richard Andy Conquest lost to Paul Lewis -23. -15; Another local player, Ian Julie DimmockiDawn Campbell bt Pam Graham/ founded his critics with another Kozlowski, Clive Payne, Dave Mary Hefferman 15. 23; Doughty, who plays also for powerhouse display of all-out Wise, Derek Basden and Duncan Sharpe/CartWright bt Lewis/Holley 20. 19; Milton Keynes, helped his team Cartwright lost to Holley -18. -17; attack. Campbell and the Woolton Hill Campbell lost to Hefferman -11. -9; in the Wilmott Cup to a 9-0 The luckless Hayes then went quartet of Dave Reeves, Malcolm Sharpe bt Lewis 17. 19; victory against Hatfield. Dimmock bt Graham 14. 12; to Bracknell the following week, Cummins, Caroline Steven's and Conquest lost to Ellison 15. -13. -17. Ian has been out of action for played very well to lift the men's Colin Wilkes. However as The juniors two satisfying several weeks following a serious doubles with Terry Richards and Thatcham remain unbeaten wins, the first 7-3 over Glouces­ accident to his hand. All in the the Divisional Singleswith awin Woolton Hill have dropped four tershire, the second with the County wish him well. Cheers over Bob Sym. Then came a points and Thatcham' ,B' have A. R.A. Social Club, Bedford being Ian. major surprise when Sym re­ emerged as serious challengers. used by the juniors as a venue for LUTON LEAGUE versed his earlier defeat to be­ Perhaps this is not too surprising come Bracknell Men's Singles as their squad which includes the first time saw them winning The Senior and Divisions 2, 3 Champion for the first time. Mandy Sainsbury and Janet 6-4 against Worcestershire. and 4 tournaments were held in Parker, has now been strength­ Peter Edwards, No.1, sur­ January at Bedford Trucks, Dun­ The women's titles in the ened by the signing of Dave Barr. prisingly lost both his sets did stable. Several were played up to Maidenhead and Bracknell The confrontation of the two Martin Sharpe., but they were the final and these coupled with tournaments went predictably to Thatcham teams could well de­ saved by Gavin Black, Joyce some of the junior and 5, 6 and 7 Sue Collier and Taryn Napier­ cide the championship. Mitchell and Lisa Robins taking finals (this tournament on the Vallis respectively. Sue lost out their singles. Edwards partnered 17th February at Bedford Trucks) in the 'mixed' at Maidenhead but In the Reading 1st Division the by Black beat Mark Roden and will be fought out on finals night Taryn made it a treble Bracknell title race has remained wide Tim Holder in the boys' doubles, (date .to be arranged). triumph when partnering Linda open all season. Several clubs and Lisa and Joyce beat Jenny Those played to a finish were Green in the doubles and then seeing the possibility of cashing Burgess and Lisa Hunt in the as follows:­ carrying your notewriter through in on an indifferent season by the girls' doubles. Scores:­ Women's Doubles: to win the mixed. Both tourna­ Omega Club took advantage of Black bt Roden -10. 16. 15; Dawn Campbell/Julie Dimmock bt Lisa Robins/ ments were well supported and the January Sales by going out Sharpe lost to Dean Kloos -17. -21; Mary Jarrett 14. 19. Edwards lost to Holder 21. -17. -18; Div, 2, 3, 4 Doubles: well organised by dedicated and signing star players to boost Edwards/Black bt Roden/Holder 13. 16; Mike and Mary Jarrett bt R. Bowler/T. Winter committees. The Maidenhead championship aspirations. Lead­ Robins/Mitchell Burgess/Hunt 14. 16; -19.16.18. Black bt Kloos 16. 5; Mixed Doubles: Closed once again kept up its ing the way were Y.M.C.A. who Mitchell bt Burgess -21. 12; N. Jarvis/Dawn Campbell bt D. Sharpe/Ruth enviable reputation of first class signed Jimmy Stokes and will Edwards lost to Roden ,-14. 12; Forrester -14. 19. 15. Robins bt Hunt 10. 8. 10; Veterans': . organisation, good facilities and now almost certainly win the Sharpe lost to Holder -10. -7. G. Sharpe bt L. Jones 16. 15.' finals Bouquets to title. His partnership with Simon . 'LEIGHTON BUZZARD Our youngster Caroline Buckley all concerned. Rowland should just give them the edge over their rivals. St. Earlier this season the Lei.ghton again showed fine form in It is allover barthe shouting in league were invited to enter winning the Under-12's in the the Maidenhead Premier Divis­ George's seem to have had every teams an inter- league com­ South of England 2-Star Junior ion title race as Cippenham justification for their sign ing of Sue Collier as they lost the petition which runs every season Open and also reached the semi­ cruise to the championship. The services of ex- Reading men's in Buckinghamshire. A veterans' final of the U-14's. Well done devotees of the one point per set singles champion Michael team of Gordon Pepper, Dave Caroline. system should look again at this Childs who went off to Bristol to Gilbert Graham Fenn played outdated and unpopular way of study. Sonning signed East their first match just before determining league . results. London player Dave Solman on Christmas. League table tennis should be Omega's recommendation and The team travelled to High based on the results of the team Dave has made an immediate Wycombe and were rewarded Brian Halliday reports from.... and not on an individual's per­ , impact on the Berkshire .with a five-all draw, with Pepper formance. The Maidenhead Finally the Polish club persuaded winning two, Gilbert one, Fenn BERKSHIRE championship race would still be Dave Reeves to play for them ­ one and Gilbert and Pepper taking open now if the 2 points for a and then he promptly broke his the doubles. IIPLAYER OFTHE MONTH" win, 1 for a draw system was in arm. Their very strong line up In the Carter Cup Leighton operation. In all other respects never quite breaks through to the were drawn at home to Birming­ The player of the month in, the Maidenhead set-up usually top level and it is tough luck on ham. Peter Edwards, Berkshire circles must be excels, but in th is area they them that they were deprived of Beaumont and John Masters Malcolm Hayes. His standard of should think again. Dave's services at such a crucial faced stiff opposition but were play has improved considerably In Bracknell the dreaded 1 time. beaten 7-3. Edwards by far the this season and with long point per set system operates most experienced proved practice and hard work he has but in fairness here the title race The latest county results have this by winning all his 3 sets. produced impressive results in is wide open. Woodley look to produced a fair number of shocks. Beaumont and Masters put up a the first two local closed have a good chance of lifting the The 1st team retained their 14 Notes

Premier status. Congratulations recent match when one defender failed to arrive on time' the ABENG WARRIORS 0 CIPPENHAM 8 (Cippenham names first) to all concerned especially Andy, dived rather too athletically to players record­ Richard Beckham bt David Dewsbury 9. 17 Wellman, Dave Barr, and Mandy his right to deliver a forehand ed another splendid if rather Ray Tilling bt Neville Miller 8, 14; Clive Young bt Lionel Faure 17, 18; Sainsbury who performed so chop, and promptly jammed his unexpected victory. Sylvia Alec Watson bt Robert Campbell 6, 9; well at Walthamstow. Paul bat right between two radiator Coombs was the heroine of the Tilling bt Dewsbury 9. 19; Watson bt Miller 11, 8; Savins, drafted in at - the last sections. day combining well with Len Beckham bt Faure 9, 19; minute also played exceptionally In a lighter vein I was sur­ Pratt to record another good Young bt Campbell 12. -18, 16; well in this his first taste of prised to see some rather quaint Mixed win and then playing her Less successfuI were A. H. W. county table tennis at this level. blue rubber on private sale at the heart out to win an all-important Pioneers when they made the The 2nd team's bright run of Maidenhead Championships, at Singles victory from 11-1 6 down 'long snow-strewn journey to success came toan abrupt halt at a rock bottom price. On en­ in the vital 1st leg. Sylvia had Gillingham but went down 3-5 the hands of Worcs. and the quiring where it had originated I suffered a very serious fa II 2 days to the division leaders. Although Selectors must surely be tempted was told that it had been pur­ before the match and looked like he failed to recor,p a victory Ken to try out some new blood in the chased in bulk from a second­ the victim of a mugging. It was A Muhr's suggested remaining matches. With a safe hand antique-type shop where VERY GUTSY PERFORMANCE that he will soon the jump mid way position assured per­ the owner thought they were from someone who should not to National League standard. haps they could experiment with table mats. have played. Malcolm Hayes, Bob Davis, or The Omega Club have pro­ Len played very well recording LANSDOWN MEDWAY5A.H.W. PIONEERS3 (Pioneers names first) Bob Sym, who all deserve their gressed to the next stage in a victory over Lockwood but Jon Bradbury lost to Andy Mitchell -10, -11; chance on this season's the men's and women's club 'Frank Earis could not adapt to Les Wooding lost to Paul Amos -17. -16; Ken Muhr lost to Bobby Brown -18, 13-, 14; The veterans' 1st team have championship of England. The the conditions nor electric atmos­ Colin Luscombe bt Tony Spain 19, 16; phere and allowed them to affect Wooding bt Mitchell 18, 14; been very disappointing. There men disposed of Springfield Luscombe lost to Amos·-21, -20; were high pre season hopes for Kestrels from Maidenhead and his performance. Bradbury bt Brown 20. -11, 22; the squad but indifferent results the ladies ran out comfortable Characteristically, Alec, one of Muhr lost to Spain 15, -13, -18; have seen them plummet into winners over E. M.1. Ellenborough. the first gentlemen of our sport the relegation area. Only Wally It is difficult to see any team makes no mention of his own Allanson and Gil Knightley have stopping the club from complet­ performance. However, I can set retained their places in a team ing the double for the second that record straight by paying COUNTY RANKING LIST shake up to face Middlesex. year running. tribute to his tremendous un­ Men all gloom from the All members of the Reading beaten leadership this season 1. (1) Philip Bradbury (Ayl) and his straight games victories 2. (3) Les Wooding (MK) veterans' front as the 2 nd team League were stunned recently by 3. (2) Jon Bradbury (MK) look set to win their division. A the news of the tragic death of Ray Murray and Brian Parrish 4. (4) Karl Bushell (HW) underline what a tremendous 5. Alec Watson (HW) good team spirit from a settled Brian Collins. Brian, who died 6. (5) Coiin Luscombe (MK) side brought success to whilst playing a match for the player he is. 7. (6) Ken Muhr Dave Jones and his very capable Tidmarsh Club, was a very 8. (7) Robert Harman (MK) ESSEX II 4 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 5 9. (8) Mark Curtis (HW) team. popular player who was loved (Bucks names first) 10. (-) Frank Earis (SL) and respected by all who knew A. Watson bt B. Parrish 13. 10 11. (9) Richard Lines (MK) It has been a fairly quiet period L Pratt bt F. Lockwood 18, 16; for our local National League him. He was one of the founder F. Earis lost to R. Murray -1 9, -11; members of the Kidmore End Pratt/S Coombs bt Lockwood/Shirley Carroll -1 5. Women sides; however the Omega Club 14,18; 1. Julie Richards (MK) still have chances of major Club which did so much for Earis/Watson bt Murray/Parrish 14. 20; 2. (2) Sylvia Coombs (MK) youngsters and helped in a very Coombs bt Carroll 19. 15; 3. (4) Jacquie Farwell (SI) league honours. Pratt lost to Parrish -15. -12; positive way to put Berkshire 4. (3) Linda' Phelps (HW) If we are to attract any Watson bt Murray 16. 16; 5. (5) Dawn Robbins (HW) table tennis on the map.' We Earis lost to Lockwood -9. -11; 6. (6) Jackie Thomas (SI) spectators at all to our sport then shall all miss him terribly and to 7. (-) A. Shaw surely the image ,of the game The senior side also recorded 8. (-) Jan Curtis (HW) Colleen, Jenny, and Martin we 9. (7) C. Hasberry an excellent victory at the must be improved. It has been all extend our deepest sympathy. expense of Yorkshire Philip whispered that even those sport­ FinaHy my promise to keep ing manufacturers committed to Bradbury really turned on an ,readers advised as to develop­ COUNTY COMPUTER RATING our game would welcome equip­ international class performance ments regarding our Chinese The first County com'puterised ment standardisation using the giving David Illingsworth and table tennis champion lying rating list based on the quantity understandable argum'ent that if Derek Munt no chance. Julie dormant in Berkshire, is still and quality of victories recorded, everyone were play with the Richards proved far too good for receiving attention. I have tracked in the local Leagues and County same rubber face on their bats Melanie Seaton. Uncharacteris­ the lady down and all should be competitions has been publish­ then out would go the dreaded tically, Jon Bradbury was not his revealed next month. ed. Obviously, it will take time to third ball ba'ngers, and grace, normal extrovert self and this settle down into its correct order skill, strokes and associated flair seriously affected his perfor­ but it has given a fresh competi­ return. Hoo-ray to that. mance. tive outlook to over 200 players However perhaps we could all BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 6 YORKSHIRE II 4 to beat players above them in the' start putting our own houses in J. Bradbury lost to D. III ingsworth -13. -10; table. order. Playing conditions at local Les Wooding reports from.... L Wooding bt Paul Longstone 12, 17; P. Bradbury bt D. Munt 8. 10; All players who entered in the level are in the main atrocious. J. Richards/Linda Phelps lost to M. Seaton/Lesley County Closed on February 23 As far as I know only the Reading Broomhead -18. -1 5; BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P. & J. Bradbury bt Munt/lllingsworth 14, -11. 13; would have had the opportunity League in Berkshire have a J. Bradbury lost to Longstone -19. -19; of seeing the complete up-to­ committee to inspect club UNEXPECTED VICTORY Phelps lost to Broomhead -10. 20. -11; P. Bradbury bt IIlngsworth 8. 11; date allocation of points. premises, and generally club Richards bt Seaton 17. 14; premises in this league ,are The of the month was Wooding bt Munt -19. 17. 15; reasonable. The same cannot be without doubt the Veteran team's NATIONAL LEAGUE WILMOTT CUP. said for Maidenhead or Bracknell victory over Essex II. I make no 8-0! This was Cippenham's WATFORD 2 MILTON KEYNES 6 where, in this aspect, apathy apology for repeating captain emphatic response to the dis­ Jon Bradbury turned on a 1st reigns supreme. There really is Alec Watson's report: appointment of two pre-Christmas Class performance on the day no excuse whatsoever. The Essex paid Buckinghamshire defeats, when they completely after his disappointing match Sports Council has money avail­ the compliment of turning out demoralised Abeng Warriors. As against Yorkshire winning all his able to improve conditions, floor, their strongest side this season if smarting from their recent sets. lighting, etc., so why isn't some­ with even their No. 3 Fred drubbings all the Cippenham thing done? See your own Club Lockwood being No. 53 in the (Milton Keynes names first) players rose to the challenge and Wooding bt Seaholme 12. 16; Secretary now and dem,and Veterans' National Ranking List. produced a throughly profession­ Bradbury bt Geoff Bax 11. 5; action. Alternatively write to your They were led by'1 st team player Harman lost to Stuart Seaholme -11 . al performance in Brixton. This Bradbury bt D. Seaholme -19. 5. 15; League Secretary and ask his and County Veteran Champion was Cippenham's first ever 8-0 Wooding lost to S. Seaholme -17. -9; advice how your club could Ray Murray. Harman bt Bax 13. 20 win in their 45 matches in three Wooding bt Bax 10. -21. 17; ben.efit from money and exper­ After sportingly refusing the and a half seasons in the Halex tise available. Perhaps then we right to claim the opening sets Harman bt Sax -17. 15. 11; National League but it was Bradbury bt S. Seaholme 13. 20; can avoid an instance when in a when 2 of the Essex players thoroughly deserved. Wooding bt Sax 10, -21. 17; 15 County Notes

NATIONAL CLUB Hutchinson, who took the holder Having lost their first three in was their biggest win since they COMPETITION to three. The boys' final was a Stone last November, they were beat Beds. II 10-0 back in the A.H.W. of Milton Keynes were repeat of the Cadets of two looking for at least two wins from 1980-81 season. Julian Wheel far too strong for Banbury side seasons ago when Nicky met their four at Wanstead. scored his first double at senior Bodicote Nick·Ashman, from Stretham. On They lost their opening match level, while Hilary Finch, absent that occasion Ashman won, but against Staffs. 6-3. Keith in Sussex, her 100% record Luscombe bt Paul Barnett -20, 7. 14; this time the boy from Wisbech Richardson gave them a boost by with her fifth singles win. Wooding bt Colin Mortimer 5,9; Harman bt Tony Bradley 7, 20; turned the table. winning the opening set against The juniors completed their Wooding bt Barnett 12, 14; However, the Ashman Adrian Dixon -1 7, 18,10, but season playing off their last Luscombe bt Bradley 11, 17; Harman bt Mortimer 11. 18; did take home one trophy as then they went 3-1 down. Keith matches in one day at Ipswich. Wooding bt Bradley 15, 5; father John again won the and M ick Harper, who were The first team beat Norfolk I 8-2 Harman bt Barnett 17, 15; Luscombe bt Colin Mortimer 20. 21; veterans' final, beating Nether­ unbeaten in the doubles at Stone and Norfolk II 10-0. Helen Gipp hall's Brian Odell. continued the good work in capped a splendid season with There were new winners in this match. two single wins to give her a the Cadet events. In the boys' They broughtthe score to 3-2 100% record, thus passing out of final Robin Tewkesbury, (Wis­ with a splendid victory over' the junior ranks in a blaze of bech) beat Darren Rayner, Dixon and Andrew Bellingham. glory. Nicky Rayner, Nick Ash­ Geoff Waters reports from.... (March). There was, however, However, Staffs. again took man and Jonathan Collins did CAMBRIDGESHIRE consolation for the March three on the run before Harper well; all three winning ten of League with Melanie Canham. beat Andrew Rich in the final their 14 singles in the season. At DAY OF SHOCKS getting the better of Wisbech's set. the moment this team are It was a day of shocks at the Sara Peukhert in the girls' final. They had their worst result to second to Suffolk, but look likely Cambridgeshire Closed at Soham For the second successive date when they went down 7-2 to finish third or fourth when Sports Hall, with Geoff Davies season the Restricted singles, to Berkshire in the next match. Essex III and Kent II complete and Mandy Mills (formerly Judd) open to players who have not Paul Savins proved Berkshire's their fixtures. winning the top two titles. played for the county at senior hero with wins over Harper 20 in The second team were beaten Geoff, who plays for March in level, went to Cambridge Univer­ the third and Withers 19 in 7-3 by Norfolk I and 10-0 by the Halex National League, sity. Tuan Chew followed in Paul the third. Richardson had an champions Suffolk and will finally emerged from the Dilger's footsteps by beating excellent win over Andy Well­ finish next to bottom unless shadows of the county's big two, Wesley's Tim Vine. man and Mick and Keith made it Herts. II lose their last match Keith Richardson and Mick Har­ Brian Richardson, with a han­ five in a row in the doubles by 10-0. per, who had won n'ine of the dicap of seven, beat NCt's Clive beating the Wellman/Savins In Div. 2 North of the Halex previous men's singles titles. Allison (21) in a three game combination. National League, March have He had reached two previous marathon up to 41 points in the Relegation was then a cer­ continued their early season pro­ but had been beaten in 'final of the Handicap singles. tainty but there was no sign of mise and are firmly fixed in both, by Keith in 1976 and Mick The tournament ran very despondency as they met joint second place. Fine all-round in 1981. smoothly and credit must go to leaders Lancashire. Richardson team efforts have put March in a It was, therefore, fitting that County Chairman Brian Judd. He won a classic match against position to think in terms of the March player should beat had some able support from Steve Scowcroft 19, -20, 21. finishing in the prize money for both men the way to his title. Derek Stacey, Peter Davies and Then Withers put them two up the first time. In the semis, fourth-seeded his daughter Cathy Richardson. with a straight games win over The March team spearheaded Davies beat second seed Harper Thanks are also due to former Shaun Browne. The northerners by Stuart Palmer and ably backed 13 in the third to earn a final county player Paul Chisnall, who hit back to draw level, but the by Withers, Swift and Davies clash with holder Richardson, organised the Cadet girls' doubles was again won to put were the first team to take a who had comfortably beaten event. Cambs. 3-2 up. point off divisional leaders Andy Withers. Finally we have to thank our The Cambs. pair this time beat Salford. In front of a crowd close In exciting final, Geoff five sponsors: Cambridge Bat­ Browne and Steve Turner. This to 300 (awaiting a Jacques showed plenty of confidence tery Service; Autocolours Cam­ was to bethe county's last win as Secretin/Vincent Puckart exhibi­ and attacking skill. He held his bridge; Pye Telecommunications; they lost the next four to go tion) Robert Swift clinched a nerve in the first game when Gray & Holmes and Michael down 6-3. draw with a 'deuce' in the third after leading 20-1 5, he lost four Manni Photographic, without Although they had lost all six victory. points in a row but won narrowly. whom the Championships pro­ matches to date, at no stage had If this form can be maintained In the second game, he showed bably would not be held. they been outclassed, but in the March rnust certainly be con­ his fighting qualities by pulling Results: final match they proved no sidered favourites for the back from 19-1 5 doyvn to win a Cambridge Battery Service Men's Singles: match for Yorkshire who won runners-up spot. In Div. 3 East 'deuce' game. Semi-finals: K. Richardson bt A. Withers 16, 9-0. Soham completed a double over The women's title to 17; G. Davies bt M. Harper 18. -18, 13; For the first time Richardson MBS St Neots with a 5-3 win. Mandy Mills, who has been out Final: DAVIES bt Richardson 19, 20. failed to win a singles and finally Peter Holliday and Julian of the game whilst having a Autocolours, Cambridge Women's Singles: A. MILLS bt J. Palmer 18, 15. the men's doubles bubble Wheel both had doubles, while baby, but she played with all her Pye Telecommunications Men's Doubles: burst. Martyn Livermore chipped in old skill in beating holder RICHARDSON/HARPER bt Davies/Withers 17, 17. Despite our lack of success with one. Joanne Palmer. The two have Pye Telecommunications Women's Doubles: the weekends were enjoyed by dominated this event in the '80's MILLS/PALMER bt H. Gipp/A. Edge 13, 11. Mixed Doubles: all and we went down in very with Mandy having won three to PALMER/HARPER bt Mills/Richardson 19, good company as Essex drop to two, but any hopes the -17,21. Boys' Singles: Div. 2 for, I believe, only the Newmarket girl may have had of N. RAYNER bt N. Ashman 15, -8, 14. second time. Brian M. Hudson provides..... equalling Mandy soon faded as Cadet Boys' Singles: R. TEWKESBURY bt D. Rayner 4. 13. The second team had their the champion won in Girls' Singles: biggest defeat and biggest win CHESHIRE CHAT great style. GIPP bt R. Hutchinson 14, -20, 16. of the season during' the last Pye Telecommunications Cadet Girls' Singles: STOCKPORT CLOSED Mandy almost completed a M. CANHAM bt S. Peukhert 15, 19. hat-trick of wins as she won the Veterans' Singles: In January, they travelled to First of all apologies for this J. ASHMAN bt B. Odell 18, 12. women's doubles, with Joanne, Gray & Holmes Restricted Singles: Bexhill-on-Sea to meet Sussex II report's absence from the Feb­ but lost in the mixed with Keith T. CHEW bt T. Vine 19, 16. and went down 9-1. They won ruary edition - a combination of a Michael Manni Photographic Handicap Richardson only by -21 in the Singles: opening set when Peter quiet month and no other con­ B. RICHARDSON (7) bt C. Allison (21) 33-41; Holliday beat Paul Rowden but tributions! third. 41-33; 41-31. In the junior events, Helen this was to be their only January saw the Stock­ Gipp, from Aldreth, retained her The county·seniors, who were success. League Closed, ably run as girls' title, while Nicky Rayner, promoted to the Premier Divi­ Next month against Norfolk II ever by Barbara Ware and Colin from Wisbech won the boys' for sion . of the County Cham­ at March, it was Holliday who Cooke. A large entry in the Men's the first time.. pionships for the first time last lost.the only set against David Singles ended with ROGER Helen won an exciting girls' season, were relegated without Honor as Cambs. crushed the HAMPSON beating TONY final against Wisbech's Ruth winning a match. Anglian county 9-1. This WORTHINGTON in a close final 16 l. County Notes of a very high standard. The entry Incidentally Derek's win over' However, most of Cornwall's in a mean mood and their star for the Women's Singles reflects Peter was a repeat of the Vets' domestic issues are still in the was once young Michael the low number of ladies playing final at Essex the previous balance with much of the interest Kent whose two wins over both at the moment - where are they weekend, with, happily, the at the moment focusing on the Andy and Steven Hunt earned all? - but the final, was, nonethe­ same result! continuing battle in the Cornish the two points for S1. Ives. One less, very exciting, with Lynne A convincing win against Kent Inter-Town League, which is win each from Rodney Smith and Harrison saving match points to in their last match should ensure now building up to a dramatic Bill Symes plus another two from beat Anne Williamson 26-24 in the Vets' title remaining in finish. John Bassett who completed a the 3rd! Cheshire. CORNISH INTER-TOWN trio of hard bat players for St. The 2nd had a convinc­ Other results: LEAGUE Ives. MD: Keith Deaville/Phil Mayman bt Roger ing 9-0 over Alan SERIES 4: Bude 4. Falmouth 5 Are Redruth strong enough to HampsonNinny Mole -8. 17. 15; Timewell struggling against SERIES 5: St. Ives 6. Launceston 2 XD: Keith Weatherby/L. Harrison bt Ron Bude 1. Redruth 7 win first major honour is a Weatherby/A. Williamson. Geoff Aldwinckle in the closest Falmouth 7. Truro 1 question many people are asking CONS.S. Phil Mayman bt Tony Slinger. set of the match. in Cornwall. Well, no-one VS: Terry Taylor bt Derek Hendry 14. 13. Scores: Some excellent victories for YS: K. Weatherby bt Steve Lypnickyj 17, 16. the three leading teams in this fault their performance in a 7-1 CS: Jonathan Taylor bt Mike Parker 20. 18. Alan Timewell bt John Iliffe 15. 15; bt Geoff win at Bude where Robert Pren­ JS: Taylor bt Tom Parker 13. 10. Aldwinckle -21. 16. 20. season's Inter-Town League has Keith Powell bt lIiffe 18. 19; bt Truman dergast, Melvin Starkie and Jonathan Taylor enjoyed a enabled Redruth, St. Ives and 18,15. Steven Lobb were all in fine particularly successful weekend, Terry Donlon bt Aldwinckle 17. 11. 11; bt Tru­ Falmouth to forge ahead, and man 20. 18. and relatively untroubled. Austin for the previous day he had break free from the remaining Timewell/Powell bt Aldwinckle/Truman .13. 19. "grind 'em down" Chapman, attended the England Cadets' Myra Lypnickyj bt Glenys Odhams 14, 15. bunch. Only two teams qualify Donlon/Lypnickyj bt Iliffe/Odhams -10. 19. 14. however, could not liveup to his Ranking Trials, along with Mike for the final and everything now name on this occasion and be­ Parker, and had done very well to The Vets' 3rd had a comfort­ hinges on series 6 when Redruth came another casualty of young achieve 19th place on the list, able 6-3 win over previously entertain Falmouth and Series 7 Bevan at 18 in the third. It would with Parker 43rd. unbeaten Essex 3rd. Ron Buc­ when S1. Ives visit Redruth. be interesting to see the pro­ On the County scene, success kley was called into the 2nds One re-arranged fixture played gress of both Bevan and Kent at seems to come more readily to (whose result is not to hand) to recently saw Bude go down to the moment if the County rank­ our Vets' teams than to the replace Keith whose Falmouth in front of around 30 ings were computerised. Seniors or Juniors. Our Seniors luggage was touring Finland spectators. The home team gave went to Leics. and came away on while he was on his way home, the league champions a fright Any doubts that Falmouth the wrong end of a 7-3 scoreline, so Roger Moss came in as when 11-years-old Neil Bevan were losing their way domesti­ with a win each for Mark Hankey reserve and enjoyed a vital suc­ defeated highly rated players cally were dashed when they and Wayne Percival plus the cess against Dave Findlayson. Malcolm Peters and Neville Reed demolished a strong Truro team mixed. The 2nds fared only Scores: in straight games. One win from in a rather surprisingly one-sided Terry Taylor bt Laurie Fountain 15. 17; bt Dave Peters plus two each from Graham local derby. New signing Martin slightly better, going down 4-6 Findlayson 17. 14. to Clwyd, with a each for Derek Hendry bt Fountain 15. 18; lost to John Reed and Jeremy Williams White could not make any head­ Leith 17. -13.-11. .. clinched the points for Falmouth. way for Truro who lost the first Steve Green, Rob Bevan, Ron Roger Moss bt Findlayson 18. -14, 12; lost to Vose and Lynne Harrison. Leath 19. -19. -11. Launceston must have been seven sets in straight games Although the results have gone Hendry/Moss lost to Fountain/Findlayson -13, disappointed to lose 6-2 at S1. before Roy Newberry narrowly -18. against them, it is very encourag­ Eileen Edwards bt Anne Gilliham 11. 15. Ives but last year's finalists were overcame Neville Reed. ing to see such an improved Taylor/Handy bt Leith/Gilliham 7, 15. team in the 2nds. We welcome to the ranks of LEAGUE TABLE: The Juniors report one defeat County Umpires, three new p w 0 L F A Pt. Redruth 5 5 0 0 31 9 10 and two draws. The 1st went to names - Campbell Eaton, AJan St. Ive. 5 4 1 0 30 10 9 Cleveland and lost 4-6, with a Timewell and Falmouth 5 4 0 1 29 11 8 Bude 5 2 0 3 17 23 4 win each for Simon Jones, Ber­ Long may they be able to Launceston 5 2 0 3 16 24 4 nie Wentworth, Alison Jones officiate! Although our numbers Truro 4 0 1 3 10 22 1 Camborne 3 0 0 3 8 16 and the Boys' Doubles, and are increasing, we are still look­ Helston 4 0 0 4 3 29 0 followed this with a draw against ing for new Umpires, so volun­ AVERAGES: M. James (Camborne) 100.00%; J. Staffs 2nd. Two wins for Simon teers are still to be greeted with Bassett (St. Ives) 90.00%; G. Reed (Falmouth) Jones, one each for Andrew open arms! 90.00%; J. Williams (Falmouth) 87.50%; M. Peters (Falmouth) 83.33%; N. Bevan (Bude) 80.00%; M. Taylor and Wentworth were bac­ We look forward now to Kent (St. Ives) 80.00%; R. Prendergast (Redruth) ked up by Alison Hall's first win March 30, and the Northern 70.00%; M. Starkie (Redruth) 70.00%. for the County. The 2nds also Vets' event at Macclesfield. We travelled to Cleveland and went welcome all our friends to that, one better than the 1st by shar­ hope the weekend is a CORNWALL SCHOOLS' woman Alison Clemens (Cam­ ing the points. Mark Danaher success. CHAMPIONSHIPS borne) in another tight and enter­ was unfit so Steve Rushton East Cornwall certainly got the taining final. made an encouragi-ng, if unsuc­ better of West Cornwall as far as The younger age groups were cessful debut. Two wins each trophies were concerned in totally dominated by players from Martin Thompson and 'Cornish Schools' at Launceston from the Launceston and Bude Steve Terry plus the Boys' Dou­ College on Jan. 27. There was areas. No.1, Bevan was the bles ensured the draw. another mammoth entry in a Jeremy Williams reports from... unexpected winner of the U-16 The Veterans bounced back in tournament that saw plenty of boys' event at 11 years of age, fine style after their reverse CORNWALL upsets. but then went on to lose the U­ against Lines. by travelling down Winner of the main event, the ADVERSE WEATHER 13 final to Launceston's Mark to Middlesex and back boys' U-19 singles, was Malcolm Bawden in the best final of the with an 8-1 victory, only Eddie The adverse weather conditions Peters of Redruth School. His day. Griffiths losing. They then enter­ of late have taken their toll on narrow victory over Launceston's tained Essex, and after losing the Cornwall's table tennis interests Andrew Hunt brought about first two'" sets ran out 7-2 both internally and externally West Cornwall's only title. winners. with important fixtures being The elimination of top seed Results:­ postponed. The fate of Cornwall's and holder Mark James (Cam­ BU-19: M. Peters (Red) bt A. Hunt(Laun) 20, -18. teams competing externally now borne) by Hunt in one semi was 19; Scores: seems to be decided; the Junior the biggest surprise of the day GU-19: E. Stevenson (Bude) bt A. Clemens (Cam) Derek Scholfield bt Peter Radford 19, 18; bt Stan 13; Battrick 6. 10. 'A' team now loo.k set to clinch while in the other semi, Peters BU-16: N. Bevan (Bude) bt M. Stanley(Bude) 14. Peter D'Arcy lost to Radford 12, -18, -6; bt Ray Division 3C while the Seniors, had to work hard to overcome 20; Murray 14. 15. GU-16: K. Broczek(Laun) btS. Hunt(Laun) 14.17; Eddie Griffiths bt Battrick -8, 17, 15; lost to Junior I B' and the Launceston Bude's Neil Bevan. BU-13: M. Bawden (Laun) bt Bevan -18, 17. 19; Murray 21, -20. -18. Kernow National League team In the corresponding girls' GU-13: T. Logg(Laun) bt R. Plummer(St Ives) 19, Schofield/Griffiths bt Battrick/Murray -20, 18, 12; 19. will all have to content them­ event, Esme Stevenson (Bude) BU-11: S. 6arrett (Bude) bt S. Baverstock (Laun) Doreen Schofield bt Shelagh Hession -19, 13. selves with Div. 3 table tennis recorded a notable victory. With 14,16; 13. GU-11: V. Rea (Bude) btT. Rowe (Cam) -12.14. D'Arcy/Schofield bt Radford/Hession 17, 20. again next season. a final win over Cornwall No.1 11. 17 County Notes

COUNTY MATCHES 19,-8,l5. Results: O'Hara (St. Patricks) had got the County Championships with a Barrow "A" 8 Carlisle 1 better of Smith. Andrew Murphy convincing 10-0 win over Somerset 9 Cornwall 1 Barrow "A" 8 Westmorland 1 Cornwall Jun. " 2, Hampshire 8. Westmorland 1 Barrow"B" 8 was best for Vickers 1st team Northamptonshire. Carlisle 2 Barrow "B" 7 with two wins. Alan Fay had an Despite fielding 3 juniors, the The recent trimming inflicted The Junior matches proved to unusual match in losing all his Derbyshire team led by England by our Juniors on Somerset in be a lot closer and no player singles. International Alan Cooke and that vintage performance before emerged unbeaten. Best of all Irish International Martin Kinsella, Christmas was avenged by the were Steve Watt (Barro'w "A") g'ained their most convincing Somerset Sen iors recently; they and Mark Tadross (Westmor­ victory with ease. made Cornwall pay dearly and land) who both won 5 out of 6. In the 9-1 defeat was the heaviest their personal contest Watt beat Malcolm Allsop reports from.... Scores: Cooke bt Handshaw 6, 11, bt Steve Lyon 13.8; suffered for three years. Tadross 11,24. Stewart Sayer Kinsella bt Lyon 10. 14; bt Andrew Edmonds 13. Once David Lee had beaten (Carlisle) was the only player to 14; DERBYSHIRE Bradley Billington bt Edmonds -17, 14. 12; bt Bassett in the opening set, beat Watt, with 'a confident Handshaw 13. 14; Somerset never, really looked scoreline of 9 and 17. Sayer RALLIES ABOUND Billington/Cooke bt Edmonds/Lyon 11, 13; Kerry Hall bt Glennis Hooper 7. 16; back. Ian James pulled one back together with Gavin Boyd Julie Billington bt Dorothy Marsh 15, 10; with a fine win over Lee Sadler (Barrow "A"), Jonathan Lowes Readers of Table Tennis News Billington/Hall bt Hooper/Marsh 9. 11; and Ali,son Clemens played well (Barrow "B") and Derek Irving could be forgiven for thinking Julie Forster was outstanding extend Rebecca Russe in what (Westmorland) all won 4 out of 6 that rallies no longer exist - but player for Derbyshire Junior 2nd was otherwise a lacklustre per­ sets. Westmorland lead after they do, albeit in the' lower team when they were narrowly formance by Cornwall at Taunton. beating both Barrow teams. The division of the local leagues. beaten 6-4 by Cleveland at The only other county action 5-4 win over Barrow "A" had 8 This month I turned up to play Chestefield ,Activity Centre. of late saw the Junior seconds sets that went to a decider and in a match to find out it had been Julie beat the Cleveland No 1 go down 8-2 at home to Hamp­ the match score could easily cancelled. Scanning through my girl, Angela Wattis, and com­ shire at Launceston with Corn­ have been 7 -1 to either side. handbook I saw YMCA 4th were , bined with Penny Corden to win wall's two sets coming from Andy In the final set Irving gave playing Belper Sports Centre the girls' doubles. Derbyshire's Hunt and Andrew Bevan. Westmorland the points with a 2nd in Division Four of the Derby other successes came from comeback against Boyd winning League and decided to go along HALEX NATIONAL LEAGUE Robert ScottBirchall and Paul -1 9,12,1 9. Gavin, however, gave and watch, and it proved the Knowles. Derbyshire's No.3 boy, Launceston Kernow 0 his side the points against most entertaining match I have John Davis almost got Derby­ 01 ivers Hinckley 8. Carlisle with a final set win over seen this season. shire a draw in the final set only Launceston suffered theirfirst David Taylor 18,14. Taylor, in In the Belper team I was im­ to be beaten by an edge ball. 'whitewash' of the season at the turn, scored a final set win over pressed by the attacking skills of After a spell of bad weather, hands of a very strong Hinckley Peter Brockbank 19,1 5 to enable Paul Harrison; the industry of Jeff Cleveland had left home early Carlisle to beat Barrow "B" 5-4. Critchlow; and the enthusiasm of side in an otherwise entertaining and arrived two and a half hours Scores:- . Ken Lewis. YMCA's Derek match. Hinckley's team of Smith, before the scheduled starting Pickles, Newman and Hall were Westmorland 7 Barrow"B" 2 Banton played stylishly; John Westmorland 5 Barrow "A" 4 time. Unfortunately Derbyshire Carlisle 4 Barrow "A" 5 Wayne was aggressive; and too consistent the day but were not so prompt. Cleveland's Launceston will now look for­ Carlisle 5 Barrow "B" 4 Edwin Clarke showed fine tactic­ enthusiasm gained them a de­ In their latest County Cham­ al appreciation. ward to easierfixtures in an effort served victory. to get off the bottom of Div. 3 pionships match the Juniors Long long games (33­ West. scored a well-earned draw 31 in the doubles, which I against Notts who had not Scores: umpired brilliantly), sportsman­ Scott-Birchall bt Andrew McKeown 14. -15. 14; dropped a point previously. John ship and appreciation of oppo­ lost to James -13; Backhouse (Barrow) and Knowles lost to Nicholson -17. -15; bt David nents' play were all in evidence. Pashley 16, 12; Stephen Holland (Westmorland) All six players were prepared to John Davis lost to Pashley -14, -14; lost to both produced outstanding per­ McKeown 21, -18. -19; Colin Taylor reports from ... attack or defend, with no stere­ Scott-Birchall/Knowles lost to Nicholson/ formances in beating Notts No. type play and the final result was McKeown -19. ·18; 1, Adrian Bolton, ranked No. 55 Julie Forster bt Angela Wattis -19. 10.11; CUMBRIA a 5-5 Penny Corden lost to Suzanne Lawton 19. -19. Junior in England. Karen So if you want entertainment, -19; Forster/Cordon bt Lawton/Wattis 19, -14. 18;' STRENGTH PROVED Griffiths (Barrow) also kept her the answer seems to be to watch After the 1st round of matches in 100% singles record intact with the lower divisions of the local In the Dunlop Derbyshire the Cumbria Inter-League com­ her 5th straight games win. It league. Top players could learn a Schools' Individual Champion­ petition, played at S1. Katherine was only a slip up in. the boys' lot by studying the play and ships, Scott-Birchall beat William School, Kendal, the two Barrow doubles that cost Cumbria a win, enthusiasm of these players who Hollingworth in the Boys' Under­ teams head the Senior Men's Backhouse and Holland led 19­ play for their own enjoyment, 16 Final, and To Thuy Dung won division while Westmorland 16 in the third only to lose -19. and yet can provide so much' the Girls' Under-19 Singles. head the boys'. The Barrow Scores:­ enjoyment for others. The back­ Recent comment in TT News J. Backhouse bt A. Bolton -19,18,20; bt R. Fearn senior teams, proved their 17,-18,19. bone of the ETTA membership regarding the standard of dress strength in depth with, relatively S. Holland lost to J. Holland -18,-13; bt Bolton are the players outSide the top has been noted by Charlie Kyles 1a-15.16. easy wins, both "A" and "B" David Holmes lost to Fearn -18, 17; lost divisions, and table tennis is all who has started to wear shorts. teams winning all their matches. J. Holland -10, -15. the richer for their membership. Charlie's legs, which should Karen Backhouse lost to K. Mayall 20,-17,-13. Neil Smith and Tim Pachul Karen Griffiths bt C. Oldman 18,14. So can we have less moaning carry a Government Health Warn­ remained unbeaten for the "A" J. Backhouse/S. Holland lost to Bolton/ in Table Tennis News, and more ing, are believed to be respons­ J. Holland -12,12,-19. team, while Alan Fay performed K. Backhouse/Griffiths bt Mayali/Oldman encouragement for the lesser ible for the resultant lack of likewise for the "B". Neil Yardley 7,-12,16. players. spectator interest in table tennis. (Barrow "B") lost only to Paul Congratulations are due I wrote in the Granville's Nigel Adams has Watson (Carlisle) in his two John Backhouse on attaining News of my concern if two­ had his hair permed. I have not matches. Alan Manson and No. 52 place in the Cadet Boys' colour rubbers were forced upon seen the result yet as Nigel Andrew Murphy for the "A" and ranking list. lower players that they may pack promptly left for Switzerland "B" teams respectively both won It looks as if Vickers "A" are up the Sport. However those to under the pretext of going ski­ two out of three in each match. well on the way to the Barrow whom I have spoken regarding a ing. For Carlisle, Watson excelled League 1st Division cham­ change feel the change is Derbyshire Inter-Town League: against Barrow "B" to beat both pionship after completing the inevitable and are making Stuart Brooks and Paul Harvey Murphy 13,-18,16 and Yardley double against Vickers 1st team. arrangements to change their won 3 singles each and com­ 14,-11,20. Against Barrow "A" Neil Smith" Alan Manson and rubbers accordingly - some have bined to win the doubles in a 7-3 Roger Stewart beat Manson Stan Halesworth won two already done so. Their attitude is win for Burton 1st over Derby 22,21 and also took Smith to the singles each in their 7-3 win. a welcome change to some of 1st, only requiring a third game decider, losing -19,16,-14. Smith lost only his second the moanings of the so-called in the doubles. . Westmorland's only successful singles of the season, Neil leading players. In Div. 2 Paul Chambers and player was David who Yardley beating him -9,19 and Derbyshire maintained their Stephen Taylor won for beat Murphy 13,19 and Manson 13. Priortothis match only Eddie promotion challenge in the Eastwood 2nd in an 8-2 victory 18 County Notes

over Chesterfield 1st; whilst sity players and there is a very and Alvin Robson (1) whilst "Finals Nights", and for many Alfreton were beating Buxton by good chance that next season Peter McQueen (3), Tom Robson players a time when table tennis 7-3 despite 3 wins from Buxton's they will again participate. (2), Cliff Olsson and Dave Corbett abruptly ends and more summer­ David Hall. One major problem is that of (1 each) got Northumbria's sets. like sports tend to take over. But In the Junior Division, Buxton's attracting teams of young Any chance West 'A' had of for the ardent Administrator, T. T. M. Bradbury continues to gain players. Most are in the 30-plus catching Northumbria 'A' was NEVER ENDS, and work con­ impressive results, but his 3 wins bracket although this does have dashed as they could only tinues. Next season's bookings were not enough to prevent the advantage that they tend to manage the same result against for special events have to be Eastwood gaining a 7-3 win be more reliable. Belmont 'A' St. Gabriels 'A' and, to add insult done now, or at least ensure they through G. Farnsworth, M. Starr appear to be the dominant force to injury, only Tony Gelder and are booked in time. I often won­ and S. Robinson. in the league having a large Paul Smith turned up against the der how many league players Ian Ford had 3 singles wins for squad of players including Tony Post Office but they still man­ appreciate just what is done for Burton with Richard Smith win­ Gelder, Jimmy Laing, Geoff aged a draw. them! ning 2 against Matlock, who Fisher, Keith Henry and Brian Latest positions in Div. 1 Gloucestershire, despite hav­ forced a 5-5 draw thanks Bateman. computer rankings are:­ ing only three leagues, has much wins from Mark Beck; and The league is fortunate in hav­ 1. T. Gelder (West 'A') 180 pts to offer. But having said that ­ 2. C. Olsson (North 'A') 171 Warren Slaney and Robert ing David Blackburne playing 3. P. McQueen (North 'A') 171 few indeed are really prepared to and to-date he has missed very 4. S. George (St Gabs 'B') 162 do much, at least outside actually Blackburn winning 1 each and 5. R. Reed (Silks 'A') 161 combining to win the doubles. few matches for Community 6. P. Stafford (St Gabs 'B') 157 playing. Unfortunately this is Burton beat the reigning Centre 'A'. He is the player to 7. D. Bissett (PO) 156 commonplace and goes on all 8. D. Godbold (North 155 Champions Derby in the beat and only Gelder has done so 9. M. Polkinghorn (West 'A') 154 over the country. Veterans' Division 3 wins this season in a close· 3-ender. It 10. T. Robson (North 'A') 150 ' The future, as this Scribe sees from Dave Smedley; Rose just goes to demonstrate the DURHAM COUNTY LEAGUE it, will remain the same as Haggar and Pete Bentley won 2 make-up of the league in that Sunderland 'A'. who remain long as "TH E FEW" are still each and combined to win the David's team-mates are John the favourites to gain the Senior available and prepared to do the doubles with Alan Haynes add­ Morgan who, at 50 years of age, Division title, Iie' in second place spade work, but should the few ing the nail in Derby's coffin. and George Dentwho is now 60 behind Sunderland 'B' just 2 pts "OPT OUT" and not be replaced Chesterfield have all the top still participate! in arrears with a match in hand. - What then? Some other alter­ veterans in Derbyshire, yet the The Handicap Cup is now The crunch comes later this native would have to be Chesterfield veterans'team is underway and the first round month when the two sides meet. established, perhaps some still searching for its first win ­ brought the dismissal of last Philadelphia 'A' could finish counties might have to pay hard going down 3-7 to a Brian season's winners Aycliffe Hospi­ runners-up but they would have cash as an incentive (if volunteers Ashfield-inspired Buxton per­ tal - Gary Webstall included - by to gain maximum points are not available). Where's it formance. 2nd Division Mullards. But their final matches. In the Boys' coming from if indeed matters Derby continued their success­ Bishop Barrington, last season's section the title rests between should reach that stage? The ful run in the East Midlands runners-up, are still there with Philadelphia 'A' and Peterlee. answer, Readers, IS YOU! - and Cadet League, and the 1st team Phil Scott and Trevor Di-Martino Leading positions:­ maybe a hefty additional increase look potential champions. at the helm. Senior Division P W D L Pts in your affiliation fee. There is Sunderland 'B' 6 5 1 0 22 Derby 1st team of Scott­ Leading positions in the Sunderland 'A' 5 5 0 0 20 always considerable uproar at Birchall, Knowles and Matthew league are:­ Peterlee 5 3 1 1 13 Gloucester City meetings when Division A P W D L Pts Boys Widdall beat Nottingham 2nd by Belmont 'A' 10 10 0 o 95 Philadelphia 'A' 0 1 9 it is suggested that fees may 10-0, and Grantham by 9-1. Gilesgate 9 6 1 2 61 Peterlee 0 0 6 have to go up. Few people take Community 'A' 10 5 3 2 57 Philadelphia 'B' 0 1 4 Penny Cordenwas the out­ Bishop Barrington 10 5 2 3 56 into consideration the 65,000 standing player for the Derby Division B ROSE BOWL Dollar question, WHY THEY Mullards 6 0 62 Sunderland travelled down to 2nd team gaining 9 victories in 3 Savings 7 0 53 HAVE TO. matches. The squad of Penny Norscot 7 5 1 46 Warrington for their 3rd round tie Corden, Darreh Owen, Richard PETERLEE on Feb. 3 but were well beaten The Beneficial Trust Cotswold Patrick and Chris Baldwin lost 3­ The final of the Team Handi­ 8-1. Scores (Sunderland names Junior Grand Prix came to Glou­ 7 to Coventry; drew 5-5' with cap Cup was played recently first):­ cester Leisure Centre last month. Shirley Gelder lost to Janet Deakin -9,-16; lost to This indeed has been the 7th Grantham; and then won 9-1 when Whitbread 'A' and Whit­ Susan Lisle -10,-8; bt Caroline Hemming 17,16. against Mansfield. bread 'B' met at a neutral venue. Linda Spensley lost to Lisle -12,-19; lost to consecutive tournament to be Hemming -14,-15; lost to Deakin 13,-7,-18. staged in the City. In the Premier Division of the 'A' team had to concede 90 Lynne Yarnell lost to Hemming -18,-9; lost to Derby League, Mechanics 1st points and it was not until the Lisle -7,-15; lost to Deakin -15,-14. As Fiona Brown is reporting it this year I obviously do not wish are extending their lead over the seventh set that this deficit was CARTER CUP wiped out. But from then on the to tread on her toes. Nevertheless Champions St Andrews 1st. Sunderland are through to the 'A' team forged ahead to win by I feel it only appropriate to men­ Mechanics 1st are getting con­ Zone final after York conceded , tion that for the past three years vincing victories, whereas St 66 pts. Scores:­ with Northumberland their next N. Hunt bt D. Carney 50-40, bt R. Douglas 50-18, we have had the excellent ser­ Andrews 1st are dropping silly bt G. Park 50-16. opponents. points despite, maintaining an A. Jenkins bt 50-28, bt Douglas 48-45, bt vices of Doug Young of Wor­ Park 50-15..,.... cester as Hon- Referee. On behalf unbeaten record. H. Williams lost to Carney 37-50, bt Douglas 50­ of the Glo'shire T.T. Committee, 35, bt Park 50-32. DURHAM 2-STAR OPEN Results: Whitbread 'A' (+60) - 495; many thanks for your help to us VVhitbread 'B' (+150) - 429. It is with regret that I have Doug. PHILADELPHIA AND to announce that the Several other stalwarts, NOT Harry Black reports from ... DISTRICT Durham 2-Star Open, ON THE COUNTY COMMITTEE, Latest positions in the scheduled for March 31, also did sterling work. For ex­ DURHAM Philadelphia League are:­ has had to be cancelled ample- Jaques sent us 14 tables Division 1 P W D L Pts due to lack of sponsorship. instead of 15, and Colin Bruton AROUND THE LEAGUES Great Lumley 11 9 2 0 37 Hetton Meths 11 7 2 2 34 I sincerely hope that it can of the Gloucester League and a Washington 'A' 7 6 1 0 26 be held next year. merrlber of the Rudford Club Within the last six years the Northumbria 'A' 8 6 1 1 26 number of teams in the Durham Division 2 which is 5 miles from Gloucester Washington 'c' 11 11 0 0 44 immediately drove out and and District League has fallen Shiney Row CA 12 10 0 2 38 from 35 to 20 but still it has been Biddick CA 10 5 3 2 27 brought the Rudford Jaques good to welcome four new SUNDERLAND AND DISTRICT table in and returned it for a teams this season and hopefully Northumbria Centre 'A' of the match on the following Monday. they will remain in membersbip. 1st division dropped their Alf Pepperd reports from... Stan Johnston of Cheltenham It is the first season point of the season when they GLOUCESTERSHIRE turned up both days uITlpire, "years in which the University has travelled to meet Silksworth 'A' and several others helped out in not been represented and they and could only win 7-5 after win­ BUT FOR THE FEWI many ways. Gladys Pepperd normally have' up to four teams in ning 12-0 in their first For most leagues the tail end of (a very close relative) saw both membership. But the League still Silksworth's set were won by March usually signifies the end days out from start to finish has close links with the Univer­ Robert Reed (2), Chris Blake (2) of the season, a series of ­ helping to assist Doug Young 19 County Notes

and Andy Seward with Control. each other and with so much at COUNTY MATCHES haps MOST important above all, Sylvia Giles and Ray Westbury of stake, both fought for every point. On Jan. 26, at Barn­ a speedy recovery to normal Stroud, Ann and Terry Smith and Adrian Vale No.3 of the Savages, wood, the County senior side health. Bernard Mowbray, all of became the first player this took on Dorset in Div. 2 B but, Gloucester, did sterling work. season to take a game off Neil despite playing hard and fighting And there were many others who Taylor; the latter would have well failed yet again to win a at the risk of repeating myself­ been even more hard pressed, match in going under 8-2. The David Cosway reports from NOT ON THE COUNTY COM­ had Adrian been able to cope truth, it is often said, is hard to MITTEE who turned up to help better with Neil's service. face up to. But, at present, the out - where and when required, When the No.1's came to the County do not have players of HAMPSHIRE including John Cooper, a great table the score stood at 4-4 but 2 nd Division standard and it will NOT A GOOD HABIT worker, who always turns up. I Neil clinched victory for his side be a hard job to escape relega­ could go on but I'm merely trying by beating Graham Slack - 22­ tion. Scores:­ to point out that almost in­ 20, 26-24! Hampshire Senior team's favour­ Neil Taylor lost to Tony Clayton -18, -18; evitably without the help given The two other fixtures ended Andre Golding lost to Rodney Thomas -16, 18, ite score in recent matches by these enthusi'asts there just with 5-4 scorelines. Again the -15; seems to be 1-9. Not a good Darren Griffin bt Martin Abbott 19. 19; would not be any tournaments at score stood at 4-4 before Darren Cathy Robb/Heather Colwill lost to Leanne habjt to get into with four such all. Finally I have not mentioned Griffin's attacking play overcame Harman/Samantha Scott-Pawson -13. -11; results in succession. Against Golding/Taylor lost to Abbott/Clayton -19. 19, the sterling work done by the Richard Russell's defence, and -16; Wiltshire, Graham Toole gained in the other match a fine maximum Taylor bt Thomas 18, -19.9; the 'county's only success al­ Committee - I shall mention no Colwill lost to Scott-Pawson -11. -12; names, they after all accept the by No. 2 - Sylvester Callum, Griffin lost to Clayton 17. -16. -4; though I believe this 1-9 score Robb lost to Harman -19. -12; line on the table may have been work as part and parcel of their which included a win over Steve Golding lost to Abbott -19, -16. functions. Moreman, saw his team to vic­ amended to '2-8! The match was Our Juniors travelled to Ban­ notable for the county debut of RADIO - SEVERN-SOUND tory. Steve recovered, however, to beat the County's No.3 Andrew bury to play Oxon and came away 'non playing' captain Keir Regularweekly4-5 minutes of Golding 21 in the third. with a fine 6-4 win under their Donaldson when Derek Holman's broadcasting still goes out and belts. Our team was weakened car broke down and he failed to The 6th Round saw the clash to date this year the following as the top five ranked girls were arrive. This did not appear to of Slack's Savages Griffin's have honoured me with inter­ just not available. However, affect the Wiltshire team too Tornado's, and a very close con­ views - Les Smith our Gen/Sec Jenny Egan (Cheltenham), the much, and despite this distrac­ test followed. Perhaps the crucial and National Councillor, Alan No.6, and Cheryl Fannin tion they ran out comfortable result was Adrian Vale's win over Haines - Gloucester's Chairman, (G loucester), the No.7, put up a winners. Only two more appear­ Guy Greening 22 in the third, Jack Reeves - County Vice­ good show but the former could ances now Keir for your county after Adrian had led 20-15. Griffin Chairman, Fiona Brown - Press hardly be expected to make any badge! scored a maximum and Slack got and Development Officer impression on Amanda Shuffle­ More problems for Keir two, but by only 20 and 19 over fE.T.T.A.) and Doug Young, Inter­ botham who figures at N'o. 33 in against Sussex with the re-rank­ Guy Greening and by 19 the national Referee. the latest Lentec computer rank­ ing, after the Hampshire Closed, third at the expense of Martyn ings. Howard Williams (Stroud) not being received by the ETfA THE PROVIDENCE CAPITOL Lane. and Tony Wilson (Gloucester) in time and Kathy Ridgard, the COUNTY PREMIER LEAGUE Actually Griffin's team scored won both their singles with new Hampshire champion's sets The last two rounds have seen 35 more points, but Slack's team Lawrence winning one and going by default to Sussex. some of the closest and most won 5-4. combining with Williams to win Rhamish Bhalla recalled to the exciting matches in the history of In the other matches Taylor's the boys' doubles. Scores (Oxon team, gained the only win. He the cOrTlpetition. One reason for Pommies just scraped through names first):­ also scored the only success in this is that the lower-ranked to a 5-4 win versus Moreman's David Bottomley lost to Symonds -12, -17; the following debacle against players are now offering a real Muppets and Golding's Gold­ Steven Evans lost to Williams -8, -8; Kent, with an excellent win over challenge to players ranked diggers took full advantage of Dominic O'Flynn lost to Wilson 7. -20. -17; Amanda Shufflebotham/Neil Brett bt Eagan/ Andy Dodd. But the rest! Kathy above them. No longer do the Richard Russell's absence to Fannin 13. 4; close in her singles but lost No.1's beat the No.2'sand 3's record a 7-2 victory v Russell's Bottomley/O'Flynn lost to Symonds/Williams 20. -14. -15; disastrously in the doubles with easily and indeed it not unusual Razzle- Dazzlers. Despite the Bottomley lost to Williams -19. -17; Cheryl Buttery, and Cheryl losing for most sets to require a third final score, it was a closely­ Brett bt Fannin 8, 9; O'Flynn bt Symonds 18. 15; to Juliet Houghton -11 and -10­ deciding game. fought fixture. Paul Gleed beat Shufflebotham bt Egan 6. 7; well! In the first of these rounds the Rob Stroud, the score was Evans lost to Wilson -1 6. -9. A brighter note on the junior two top teams, Taylor's Porrlmies 22, -1 9, 22 and they don't come ODDS AND ENDS scene with a good 8-2 win over and Slack's Savages, played much closer than that. I understand, somewhat sadly, Cornwall. Paul Hudless won two, that County Chairman, John Sean Picken, Paul Lawrence, Bunn, will not be seeking re­ LEAG\UE TABLE Sarah Hammond and Laura election. Also declining re­ P W L Pts Savaka each won a singles while election is Mrs. Jean Golding Taylor's Pommies ' 6 6 0 33 both the boys' and girls' doubles Slack's Savages 6 4 2 30 who for many years has held the went our way. An even betterwin Golding's Golddiggers 6 3 3 28 position of Team Selection for the veteran 'A' team 6-3 over Griffin's Tornados 6 3 3 27 Officer. Both will be missed and Dorset. Ray Lush and Fred Moreman's Muppets 6 1 5 23 indeed perhaps hard to replace. Kershaw each won two singles, Russell's Razzle-Dazzlers 6 1 5 19 We can but only thank them for both beating Cyril Bush, while past services rendered to the Fred and Ivy Kershaw won the County Association and table mixed and Ray with Tony Nixon It may look as though un­ Leading Individual Scores:­ tennis in general. the men's doubles. The Veterans'

beaten II Pomm ies" have the title (out of 18 sets). I understand that Nina 'B' team lost 3-6 to Berkshire ALL SEWN UP, but they have to Tsakarisianos has recently been with Ken Giles and Maurie Shave play Tornados twice and Griffin No.1's Neil Taylor - 18. re-admitted to Hospital for an each winning a singles and must fancy his chances of depriv­ Graham Slack, Andrew Golding operation to repair her fractured combining to win the doubles. ing Taylor of his hitherto unbeaten and Steve Moreman - 14. vertebrae. The Hampshire Junior Closed singles record, while Lane and No. 2's Sylvester Callum - 11, Nina, as I have mentioned attracted a very good entry and Greening look a stronger pairing David Smith - 10, Martyn Lane before, has had back trouble for certainly showed the potential in than Alan Giles and Craig and Peter Wood - 9. some considerable time, and the county. In the Under-12 girls' Saunders. Nevertheless Junior No. 3's Saunders - 9, indeed had to return from Ger­ event, Claire Woodham (Alder­ Cra ig Saunders has responded Adrian Vale - 6. many last Autumn as a direct shot) beat Sarah Jackson of splendidly to the challenge of result of it. She has not played Wallampton School 14, 19. In playing C. P. L. and by As usual my grateful thanks to since her return. the corresponding boys' event, winning half of his sets so far has John Boyd of Cheltenham, Chair­ I feel sure her friends and table Joe Healey, son of the Winchester made a vital contribution to his man of The County Premier tennis acquaintances will join Association's Treasurer, beat Carl team's top position. League for this report. me in wishing her well and per­ Hutchinson of Aldershot 11 , 10. 20 County Notes

At Cadet level Lisa Rice form since her move to Samantha Scott-Pawson. Sarah is wide open. (Portsmouth) beat Aldershot's Southampton but this set proved Hammond also had a poor match In the Hampshire Schools' Elizabeth Shubrook 10, 18 in the what she is ca'pable of. Now she losing two-straight in the open­ Individual Championships there girls' while Graeme Connelly has settled in her new job and ing set against Samantha and were a few upsets. In the U-19 (Aldershot) beat Edward has just got married I hope this is a 13-7 lead in the third boys' Christos Hannides of Westmacott in his last year at a taste of her future form. The evaporate to 14-all against Richard Tauntons, Southampton Wallhampton School, 17, 17. In final score against Ivy was 14,8. Leanne Harman. This is the first beat Andrew Davies of Salesian the Cadet doubles the Aldershot Once again Sarah Hammond time I have seen Leanne play and College, Farnborough 19,-12, 18. pairing of Connelly and Bryant was absent on the junior circuit was most impressed. Against Andrew has now left Hampshire Gonsalves beat the Basingstoke/ and it is disappointing that our the experienced Christine Davies to play for Surrey in the junior Southampton scratch partner­ first junior international in years she fought well to win at 18 in premier division. Sarah Hammond ship of Robert Kinison and Mark has yet to win a Southampton the third and never gave up of Richard Taunton beat Laura Thorne 13 -19 12. In the girls', title and gives her local tourna­ against Sarah. The attitude and Savaka of Bayhouse School, 14-year-old Lisa Rice caused an ment so little priority. The men's temperament of the Bournemouth Gosport in the girls' event. At U­ upset with the defeat of No. 2 doubles saw No. 1 seeds Bruce trio was an example I wish was 16 level, 13-year-old Marke seed Laura Savaka in the groups. and Moulding into the final with more prevalent in the county! Thorne of Hardley School, In the final however she was no a 19, 19 semi final victory over There your are Harold Pearce ­ Fawley beat County No.1 Paul match for No. 1 seed Sarah Shave (Snows-) and Nixon (Four who said I was anti Bourne­ Hudless -14,18,18 and went on Hammond.ln the boys' two good T's). Their opponents Alan mouth! By the way I hope the to win the final against Richard semis with the top seeds emerg­ Charles and Shetler of Alpha Editor of Bournemouth's '21 up' Mandair of Deanery SchOOl, ing. Hudless beat his Aldershot disposed of No. 2 seeds Jeff magazine is now fully recovered Southampton -1 9, 16, 17. In the team mate Lawrence -1 7, 18, 13. Mitchell and Ken Giles (Snows) from what he called his 'plumb­ girls', Lisa Rice of Horndean Picken of Basingstoke beat before beating Graham Pointer ing job'. School beat Rachael Chaffey of Southampton's Richard Mandair and Dave Allan (Wadhams) -21 , In the Four T's national club Wildern School, Hedge End. 17, 19. I cannot understand why 16,14 in the semi. The final a 16, knock-out match against North Michael Aucterlonie, overwhelm­ Richard is not even listed in the 12 win forthe No.1 seeds to give Bournemouth, it was sadly the ing favourite to win the U-13 county rankings but hopefully Terry and Bill their first doubles same story. The same South­ boys' was a little lucky to win his this will now change! The final title in city since 1972/3. ampton team as in the Rose group, only beating Graeme saw No. 1 seed Hudless just No women's doubles event in Bowl, but for North Bournemouth Connelly of Salesian College, getting the better of No.2 Picken view of lack of entries but in the Elsie Carrington and Rose Jeal Farnborough -20, 16, 21. In the 16, 14. Hudless and Lawrence mixed top seeds Gary and Anne joined Leanne Harman. On paper girls', two Wallhampton School dropped the first to the scratch Longland (Snows) were knocked this looked a formality for girls contested the final with pairings of Picken and Thorne out by Donaldson and Cheryl Four T's - but no! North Sarah Sperringwinning against but wonthe next two -1 7 7 17 . Buttery of Four T's 17,-15,20 in Bournemouth were never led. It Philipa Pirie. Mark Shutler of the semis. In the final however was left for Leanne to win the School, Fareham, Southampton Closed another husband and wife last set at 4-all against Christine playing in his first tournament Once again a poor entry for the combination, Fred and Ivy which she duly did 19, 22. The won the U -11 boys with Noel men's singles with only 37 Kershaw had no trouble in star of the show however was Mansell of Cove School the players. Early matches on a winning 10 and 16. The veterans' without doubt veteran Elsie runner-up. Catherine Hutchins of group system had been hoped event proved a bad day for the Three wins in a match at this Wallhampton School won the U­ would encourage the poorer top seeds. Nixon reached the level is, a good performance by 11 girls' event. players to enter. No real surprises final by disposing of No.3 seed any standard but so shortly after with the top four seeds reaching and holder Shave -17,17,19 the sad death of her husband, the semis and the top two the and then the No. 1 seed Fred Jack, rnust have given her a great final. Two straight forward semi­ Kershaw 21-,16, 16 in the semi. deal of pleasure and encourage­ final victories for Chris Shetler In the other half Ken Giles ment for the future. Harry Stevens reports from.... (Alpha) 17 and 10 against his disposed of No. 2 seed Rowe Then into the inter-town team mate Andy Ely and Terry Bennett (Wadhams) 8,-18 24. league with Southampton versus HERTFORDSHJRE Bruce (Snows) by 10 and 10 The final saw Nixon eventually , Bournemouth virtually the decid­ DETERMINED TRACY against his team mate Bill run out of steam to give No.4 ing match in the mixed division. Moulding. This could have been seed Giles his first title 20,-17, There were rumours that The Junior first team were at the final ten years ago for both 15. No problems of this nature Bournemouth were having diffi­ home to Devon 1st and were have been around for some time for the top two seeds in the culty in fielding a team and wished represented by Peter Harris (2), now! Where are the new comers? junior singles with the only early to cry off at one stage, but on the Leonard Rosso (1), Derek Rogers The final, as one would expect, a shock, the elimination of No.3 day only one team in it with (1), Alison \\Boxall (-) and Tracy hard-hitting affair, was always seed Mark Thorne by his FourT's Bournemouth 9-3 winners. Tony Baines (1). Alison/Tracy and going to go to who thereby club mate Martin Johnson in the Clayton and John Robinson each Harris/Rogers won their doubles. picked up his second Southamp­ first round. The two finalists also won two for Bournemouth, M. A number close games, the ton singles titles - his last was in from the Four T's club with Hughes and Joyce Coop won two doubles wins gave Herts a the 1973/4 season! The final Michael Aucterlonie having a one singles each, while Clayton confident lead and a determined score 19, 16. The thing that comfortable win' over the Combined with Joyce Coop to fight back by Tracy, after losing surprised - and disappointed ­ Vietnamese Luong La 10, 15. win a mixed and with Hughes to the first game, ensured Herts me about the final was Shetler's The handicap singles was won win the men's doubles. For took both points, with a 7-3 temperament, not a matter I can by Gary Longland with a 19, 18 Soutbampton Ely and Ivy victory. ever remember having to criti­ win in the final against Alan Kershaw won a singles a piece Senior team were at home to cise in past. Charles. and the other mixed also went Northants. Herts were repre­ The women's singles attract­ It has been very much their way. sented by John Taylor, Barry ed only five entries, so everyone Southampton versus Bourne­ In the men's division Bourne­ White, John McCance, Karen played in a group with the top mouth in recent matches. In the mouth have only played one Morton and Sally Bax. Excellent two going into the final. The Rose Bowl, for once, South­ match which they drew, while win with the result in doubt right outcome never looked in doubt ampton looked in with a chance Aldershot and Portsmouth head up to the last point. Two wins with Cheryl Buttery (Four T's) but even the most ardent the table level on points. each for Taylor, White and winning all her four sets and Ivy Bournemouth fan could not have Bournemouth 'A' and Southamp­ McCance. Kershaw (Esso) only losing to expected the 5-0 "whitewash". ton 'A' are both unbeaten at the Veterans' first team v Hunts 1. her - 19 in the third! The repeat Bournemouth were excellent, top of the Veteran Div. 1, while Derek Somers (2), Dave Seaholme of this match in the final was a full of fight and will to win, two Aldershot head Div. 2. I will (1), Alan LampreU (1), Margaret different kettle of fish with elements sadly' lacking in the report more fully on junior Harris (1) and the Mixed to Cheryl pulling out all the stops Southampton team. Cheryl division after the second set of Margaret and David to give a 6-3 and showing the form at last Buttery had no idea how to deal block matches, but after the first win. Veterans' second team which earned her high comput­ with Joyce Coop's chop and let set with Bournemouth 'A' losing were at home to Beds. and ing ranking. I have to admit good leads go in both the first to Aldershot 'A' and Southampton achieved a 9-0 win. A dis­ expressing doubts about her and final against still to play both, the first division appointing match to both teams, 21 County Notes

although for different reasons, as way, were put off by the singu­ fended to the death, although local officials. I can only report Bedford were let down on the larly inept pre-match publicity they now stand discredited and that, as I travel the country, I day and could only field two that Desmond Douglas might not deserted. His defence mechan­ have found more enthusiasm, men. make it. As it happened, he did­ ism the movements devotion .and efficiency at local Veterans' third team were arriving, so I read, 15 minutes of a chicken with a severed head. level than I have found at the top. away to Wiltshire 2 and suffered before his first match. He lost 3 The twitches continued after the I am not sure therefore WHO will a 4-5 defeat. Keith Hartridge (-), out of4 in an event which he had poor chicken was dead. train WHOM, but when the time Dave Wilson (1), Brian Gale (1), won the previous 4 years. He Dr Pangloss comes, I shall report for training Pat Gale (-). The doubles were reached the Final in the last 10. He reminded me more and more with an open Still, I can won by Hartridge/Wilson and "A typical ETTA schedule," re­ of Voltaire's stout philosopher Dr count only £4,000 or 10% of the Pat and Brian Gale. A very hard, marked a friend, "At last I see Pangloss who staunchly main­ new money. I look for further but friendly, match with seven of what you mean". Since without tained that all was for the best in news - about the remaining the sets going to three. Douglas the event would never the best of possible worlds, as 90%. Hardly a day passes Diary dates - Barnet Table Tennis have got on the box, one would everything around him, indeed without one of my members Centre have thought that they might he himself, was falling to bits. asking ME that question. March 2 Junior Training have managed to find a date Icebergs approaching County Team hammered March 9 Senior 1 - Oxford when Douglas did not have (Apologies to Dick Hopkins) Sad news from our County March 17 Barnet League 2­ Bundesliga commitments the If he had stood on the Titanic, he Team. We were thrashed 8-2 by a-side previous night. All that rush and March 30 Junior Training would have admired the ice­ Glamorgan. Regina Stevens was 5 hours' sleep, I take my hat off to April 6 County Cham­ bergs for their natural beauty and called back to Germany which pionships him for playing as well as hedid. reproached the dastardly Prean made tough in the ladies' sets, April 14-20th Barnet Closed A dangerous revolutionary? for seeing any danger in them. although J ill Fothergill played Championships It has been a lot of fun writing Once they had struck the ship, he well, losing 18 in the 3 rd to pionships this column, but the fact has to would have said it was a nic.e day Carolyn Jones. C. P. won two, April 27 Junior Training. be faced that the forces of censor­ for a swim. If the awful Prean had which must have been a change ship are massing and that it may suggested looking for a life-boat, after playing Surbeck 3 days. Senior Inter League be nearing its end. You may be he would have accused him of earlier before more than a Division 1 thousand people. We too had an Winners - North Herts. forgiven for thinking after read­ destructive pessimism. As the Watford II 2 Barnet 5 ing the Jan. issue that I was a waves finally closed in on him, excellent crowd, though not N. Herts 7 Watford II 0 fanatical madman sent by Fidel he would have declared that all quite of those proportions! Watford I 7 Hemel 0 N.Herts 7 Hemel 0 Castro to blow up our beloved would be well, if only Prean Having played several super Barnets 2 N. Herts 5 ETTA. The truth is less dramatic. would stop complaining. If he matches before thin numbers, it Watford II 3 Watford I 4 N. Herts 5 Watford I 2 I am a middle-aged businessman, did not stop, the players might was a tragedy that we played Watford II 5 Hemel 2 an enthusiastic local official, a start making excuses. The fact poorly when we were so well Barnets 3 Watford 4 Barnets 7 Hemel 0 former county player of a very that the tables under water supported. We worked really small county, a club coach who was no reason for them not to hard on the pre-match publicity. I has been largely forgotten. I have give of their best. Under no was impressed with Glamorgan. been married to the same circumstances must officials be Andrew Jones, Warwick . woman for 32 years and in the blamed because the ship was Armstrong, David Chan, Carolyn same job for 31. As Managing sinking. Then, being unable to Jones and Jayne Sully played John Prean looks beyond the Director of my Company I made swim together, they would have' with admirable motivation. ISLE OF WIGHT both my main shareholders sunk together. United at last. Our own Other less leaky ships, symbolis­ At last we got some terrific BANNED! dollar millionaires, unfortunately not myself, though I always ing better-conducted sports, matches in the Peach Cup continued to sail into calmer donated by our late Treasurer I have been inundated with earned enough to be comfort­ able and enable my 'talented' waters - to tranquility and Frank Peach. We are getting requests for copies of the 3 success. close matches, because no team paragraphs that were banned son to play this very expensive may field 3 players with a com­ from my January Notes. I feel a sport in which few weekends What are we getting for our bined average .of more than bit of a fraud, because they are of leave any change from a money? 160% in our 1st division, quite monumental harmlessness, hundred pounds. None of this is I must again ask this question, Newport Vics, with an all dealing with the neglect and very much and I relate it to show since the membership voted the Division 2 line-up (Graham treatment of our own players in that I am a respectable 'Square'. I ETTA vastly increased funds. So Copp, Mark Buckell and the all­ the Charles Church Invitation grew rebellious only as I looked far I am not impressed and I conquering Richard Jackson) Event (and generally) and opened at the Sport as a businessman speak for my members. My have reached the semi-finals, with a warm tribute to the and saw many signs of failure calculations showed a sum of piling sensation upon sensation. Sponsor. That, readers, is all and decay and began to wonder £40,000. If membership figures With excellent new premises there was to it. It takes an whether the Sport had any future continued to decline, then that about which I wrote recently I am English International half a year at all. sum is less. Nevertheless what hoping that Newport will of being at the ETIA's beck and Sunny Platitudes we have heard so far is derisory. become a Table Tennis hotbed, call to earn less than the travel Whenever I voiced these fore­ There is a fund of £2,000 for wh ich Ryde has been for so long. costs of Jindrich Panskv and in bodings, Selector Charters was needy juniors. Many parents tell More sensations one year of similar service he or never far behind assuring us that me that it takes close to that to Columbia too have a team in the she could not earn what Andrzej I was being 'flamboyant', keep one junior playing on the Semis. This is C. P. and Maurice Grubba earned in one day in this 'immoderate,' ,extreme' an national circuit for one year. A and Christopher Fenn. The latter, English TTA Tournament. 'indiscriminate knocker' and so committee has been appointed a Division 2 player, brought off Not even good business. forth. Thereafter he assured us to administer this tiny fund. the sensation of the round when You will have read about a that he himself was a man of Presumably there will be means he defeated David Tolfrey, a similar event in Denmark (Jan. moderation. Then he embarked tests. May I suggest that the member of Ryde's championship issue, page 11). Two local Danish on a lame defence of such things whole sum - a very small one in winning side. 16-19 down in the players included and, as the Moscow Fiasco (' not a relation to what we all contri­ third, he won the next 5 points although Copenhagen is a much humiliation' - had I imagined it bute is given to the and Columbia won 5-4. smaller city than London, the all?), his strange ranking-lists Hammersley Parker Foundation gate was very much bigger than (which bear as much relation to where they have experience of ours. The TV viewing figures too reality as Hitler did to a freedom making a little go a long way and were very high. So, leaving our fighter) and plastic ball (which a proven record of getting Terry Bown reports from.... players out was not even good even the makers 'were endeav­ excellent value for what at this business in the end. Next time let ing to change whilst Selector time are private contributors? LEICESTERSHIRE us do better. Charters was lauding it to the The ETIA has sat on its hands. SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE Will he... won't he? sky). The famous travel sche­ There is more I saw it on lyon the box. Qu ite a dules (some worse than that More goodies are prom ised: A Six titles were successfully de­ few of us, having to travel a long endured by Des) too were de­ Fund of a further £2,000 to train fended when the Leicestershire 22 County Notes

Closed Championships took place tance from Pat Pickles (Public semi-final is between Mencap son. at the Granby Halls Leisure Centre Address), Mike Smith and Alan Casuals 'A' and Croft 'A'. In the Mathew Ryan of Horncastle in early Feb. Philpott. league, Three Crowns 'A' rule the also impressed winning the Shock results were only DETAILS: roost in Div. 1 with Barley Sheaf mixed class singles reaching the noticeable by their absence as M.S: C. Rogers bt D. Gannon 20. 14. tucked in second place. Div. 2 is semi-final of the boys' U 15 and the eight seeded players in the W.S: K. Smith bt J. Revill 9, 17. headed by Three Crowns 'c' and quarter-final of the boys' U17 but V.S: C. Truman bt J. lIiffe 19. 19. Men's Singles secured their C.S: A. Clark bt G. Imlay 15. -19. 18. Croft'B' occupy second. Mencap the player who won the best per­ allotted place in the quarters. In G.S: J. Murray bt G. Chapman 18. 18. Casuals 'A' are top of the tree in formance of the tournament (a I.S: M. Pickles bt David Grundy 11. 17. fact, the only problems came in B.S: I. Brown bt P. Bumpus -11. 18. 20. three closely followed by those new trophy awarded for the first the second round when, Martin H.B.S: M. Newman bt T. Kinsey 14. 16. 'B's of Earl Shilton Albion. Mira time this year) was M. D: Newman/Hall bt Fellows/Standen 9. 15. Pickles had to come back from X.D: Rogers/Smith bt Hall/Revill 14. 7. look set to take the Div. 4 trophy Scott Allison who reached the behind to beat the unorthodox J.D: Brown/Laywood bt Bumpus/Chapman 15. 9. unless 'the Mencap Casuals 'c' semi-final of the boys' U11 and skills of Mike James. From the W.D: Smith/Revill bt Y & SHall 12. -21. 7. can do anything about it. The played well in his group in the

I quarters onwards, the closing Of the two resu Its that I have Hinckley Closed Championships U13 event. His enthusiasm, stages had that air of 'pre­ received concerning County will be held at the Hinckley boundless energy and his dictability' about them with all Championships matches, I have Leisure Centre on Sunday, 17th attitude made him the un­ sets being won two-straight. The only the details of one. By way of March. Can the County's nUrTlber animous choice of the commit­ final saw No. 1 seed, Chris an explanation, apparently, the one veteran, John lIiffe retain his tee and his obvious joy in Rogers triUrTlph over Dave Veterans' team captain was so Men's Singles title? winning the trophy earned him a Gannon (2) 20, 14. disgusted with the performance I understand that the Lough­ tremendous round of applause The women's singles was of his team, when they went 9-0 borough League's General Secre­ when he went up to receive it. again a success story for Karen down to Cheshire II in Div. 2A, tary, Reg Billson, is ill in hospital. (On aside - Scott must get his Smith who added yet another that he ripped up the copy score­ Although I ha've never met Reg, energy from his mother. He sur­ title to her impressive list when sheet!! Shame on you, John. we have corresponded a number ely couldn't move around the she beat Julie Revill 9, 17, in the Despite a 9-1, Div. 2A, reversal of over the years and I court that quick from his dad's final. Joanne Murray upset the at Lancashire, captain Harry think that that entitles me and side. Perhaps that is why Brian is seedings applecart by brilliantly Ward reckons that this was the others to Reg a very full, so casual looking. Scott has outplaying the fourth favourite, most encouraging display by the and very speedy recovery. inherited all his speed and Brian Joanne Heath in the quarters to Leicestershire Juniors so far this has none left. Only joking!!). win in three. season. Bumpus suffered a narrow Another new item on the Chris and Karen combined to two-game defeat to Sean Gibson schedule this year was the Elite take the Mixed title with a' com­ and won Leicester's singles Class Event, open to those Kath Fisher reports from..... fortable win over Graham Hall rubber with a two-straight win ,players only eligible for the and Julie Revill whilst Maurice over Andrew Eden. Brown lost an LINCOLNSHIRE U17's and doubles. This was Newman was busy hanging on to exciting match to Eden which played on a group basis with JUNIOR CLOSED' his Hard Bat Singles crown with saw Ian a mile behind in the first, rubber the best of 1 game, a final win of 14, 16 over Tony yet he won, and a mile in front in The Lincolnshire Junior Closed no deuces. May won this event Kinsey. Joanne Murray's form the third, yet he lost!! held at Clee Sports Hall, only losing to Allison but with continued to impress when she DETAILS: Grimsby, again proved to be very three players winni'ng 2 out of 4, popular. 76 competitors played a took the Girls' Singles title for Leicestershire Veterans 0 Cheshire 119 the referee, Pete Taylor, had to the second year running with a Lancashire Juniors 9 Leicestershire Juniors 1 total of 283 matches in just over use his mathematical skills to 18, 18 win over Gail Chapman in {Leics. names first). nine hours. All singles were Bumpus lost to Gibson -20. -19; add the -points up to see who the final. Karen Smith and Michael Gillett lost to Lee Brown -9. -10; played in groups of four or five came second. It proved very the beaten finalist in the Ian Brown lost to Eden 19. -13. -17; except the mixed class and this Gail Chapman/Lucie Grundy lost to Lynn close. Arnold 67-75, Linda Women's Singles, paired up to Harnden/Nicola McGrath -9. -17; was played in groups of three. Thompson 72-77 and Martin take the Women's Doubles when Bumpus/Brown lost to Gibson/Brown -9, -16; Umpiring proved no problem at Gillett lost to Gibson -9, -7; Burwell but Martin took it they triumphed over and Grundy lost to McGrath -15, -13; the knock-out stage as 20p was by 1 point. Sandra Hall, thus giving Karen Bumpus bt Eden 15. 16; the reward for each set so some Results: Chapman lost to Harnden -10, -1 5; her third title to become the I. Brown lost to L Brown -12, -14. players went home with quite a Boys' U17 s/f: M. Arnold bt D. Allison 9.14; most successful player of the bit of pocket C. May bt W. Noon 8, F: MAY bt Arnold 17, 20, 11. day. On the local league scene, the As for results, Chris May won Girls' U17 s/f: L.Thompson bt H. Stephens 7. 6; In the other events, a com­ Leicester Committee have been the boys' singles, beating No.1 J. Mole bt R. Bemrose 11. 18. F: THOM PSON bt Mole 10, 9. plete reversal of last year's forced to expel two clubs from seed Mark Arnold in the final. Boys; U15 s/f: Noon bt M. Ryan 11,14; J. What­ Veterans' Singles Final saw within its league, which is always Martin Williams of Boston had a tam bt J. Watson 18. 20. F: NOON bt Whattam 15. 12. Colin Truman overcome the a distasteful course of action. good win in the groups over No. Girls' U15 s/f: Stephens bt S. Johnson 7, 15; of John lIiffe by 19, 19 After a string of repeated rule 3 seed Martin Burwell but lost in Mole bt J. Duggan 16. 6. F: MOLE bt Stephens 1 7, 10. and in the most exciting final of violations, non-payment of fines, the first round to Dale Allison. Boys' U13 s/f: M. Warren bt P. Weston 10,14; N. the day, Knighton Park's Ian defaults etc, etc, Secretary Mike Martin qualified by finishing Smith bt M. Jackson 16, 17. F: WARREN bt Smith 20, 16. Brown came back from behind to Smith and his colleagues felt second in his group and went on Girls' U13 Winner: S. JOHNSON snatch the Boys' Singles title that there was no other choice to beat Pete Wilkinson before 2nd C. May 3rd M. Jackson from a strangely jaded Paul than to take this action, regretful losing to 13-years-old Wayne 4th R. Orr. Bumpus. The Cadets Singles though it was. Noone, in the quarters. ­ Boys' U11 s/f: T. Pexton bt S. Allison 11.13; M. King bt I. O'Malley 4, 8. final saw Andrew Clark beating The Hinckley and District Boston's juniors are beginning F: KING bt Pexton 16, 10. Graham Imlay in three and Pickles League is currently in the grip of to make an impact on the scene Girls' U11 Winner: R. ORR 2nd S. Howe regained the Intermediate title in 'Cup Fever'. In the final of the and with Jimmy Brewster spear­ 3rd C. Baxter his last year of qualification for 'Holt Trophy', Croft 'A' wHI enter­ heading their challenge as coach 4th E. Barber. Mixed Class s/f: M. Ryan bt P. Hunter 19, 13; the event. Newman's second 'A' whereas in and mentor they could be a force P. Wilkinson bt S. Dowsett 19, 14. win of the day came in unison the 'Inter Divisional' final we'll to be reckoned with in a few F: RYAN bt Wilkinson 17.24. Elite Class Winner: C. MAY (3/4) with club-mate Hall when they find Westfield taking on Mencap years' time. Mark Williams in the 2nd M. Burwell (2/4) took the Men's Doubles with a 9, 'A'. Ferry Pickering will be taking boys', James Watson and J. 3rd L. Thompson (2/4) 4th M. Arnold (2/4) 15 win over Keith Fellows and on Stoney Stanton WMC or William in the boys' U15 all 5th D. Allison (1/4) Nick Standen. The Junior Doubles Market Bosworth in the 'Bob impressed but possibly the best Boys' Doubles: F: ARNOLD/NOON bt Burwell/Wilkinson 11. 16. was a triumph for Brown and King Under-17' final, and the performance was that of Girls' Doubles: F: T,HOMPSON/BEMROSE bt Mark Laywood over Bumpus and 'Mark Wormleighton' final will Stephen and Freeston in the Stephem/Mole 17, 10. be contested between John Gail Chapman. boys' doubles. Neither got As a result of the Lincs. Junior Cleveland'A' and Stoney Stanton All in all then, a successful through in their singles group closed, the ranking list for WMC. Ferry Pickering 'A' and Championships. Organiser Geoff and yet together they made a for­ county matches has been re­ Th'ree Crowns have yet to Aldwinckle must have well 'c' midable team in the doubles vised as follows: battle it out to see who will be beating Dowsett and Carthew pleased with the 230 odd en­ Boys trants, as he would have with the playing Ashby Parva 'c' in the the No. 3 seeds to reach the 1. C. May (Gra) semi-final of the Albion Trophy semis and even then, only losing 2. M. Arnold (Sp) control desk which was admirably 3. W. Noon (Gy) run by Ian McKelvey with assis­ (Handicapped) whilst the other narrowly to Burwell and Wilkin­ 4. M. Burwell (Li) 23 County

5. D. Allison (Lo) the way he played in the face of blizzard conditions prior to the matches. Most recently the draw 6. M. Ryan (Ho) 7. P. Wilkinson (Lil adversity - no walk-abouts or County Closed three years ago ­ against Essex was achieved with 8. S. Dowsett (Gra) ranting and raving as is the way and once again winter reserved the aid of a solid team perfor­ 9. P. Hunter (Sc) 10. M. Williams (Bo) of many players. I have been a its worst weather for the Friday mance from Trott, Jacobs, Girls critic of Stephen's attitude in the and the worst road conditions for Maxine Shears and Joanna 1. L. Thompson (Gy) past but today I hope to have the day of 'the event, the main. Abbott, while the earlier share of 2. J. Mole (Gra) 3. R. Bemrose (GYI seen him graduate from a boy to outcome of which was the non­ the spoils with Middlesex 4. H. Stephens (Gra) a man. arrival of triple title holder Seconds, in the absence of Trott, 5. J. Duggan (Gy) S. Johnson (Li) COUNTY JUNIOR Margaret Maltby. was due to a consistent 7. L. Baker (Gy) This should have left the way unbeaten display from Jacobs 8. C. May (Gra) CHAMPS 9. C. Oldman (Oa) clear for a comparable perlor­ and Elliott and the absence of a 10. R. Orr (Gra) mance from highly-ranked Middlesex player. 75 of them came from all parts On Feb. 10 Mablethorpe and veteran Joyce Porter, but her dis­ Although the County Seconds of the County in very inclement Sutton League held their annual like of tournament play was were unfortunate enough to weather and about 72 of them tournament at Alford Grammar again in evidence, and in the meet a Derbyshire side of high seemed to have a very good day School Hall. Forty-two players Women's Singles she was potential, with five highly­ despite not being in the final took part and a draw was made beaten in the final by newcomer ranked players topped by stages. The other three seemed for partners, each pair consisting Sue Whitehall. However Mrs. England No. 2 Alan Cooke, the to be of the impression that they of one first and one second Porter's equable temperament, Firsts should have improved on shouldn't be included in the sion player. The pairs allied with her doubles exper­ their defeats at the hands of groups as there was no opposi­ divided into three leagues, the tise, enabled her to finish on the Herts and Hunts. Margaret tion to speak of and nothing winning side in two doubles Maltby and Mandy Brown winners from each league and annoys me more than players events, the Women's with her excelled against Herts, but the best runners-up going for­ who try to show up their oppo­ singles conqueror, and the Mixed received little backing from a full ward to the semi-finals. nents' shortcomings. This tour­ in partnership with D'Hooghe, a strength men's line-up, while it A very exciting final resulted in nament saw the end of win which denied Sue her was significant that the best per­ M. Cox & N. Campling beating T. Steward, Stephen Fox and Paul personal hat-trick of titles. formance against Hunts came Dalton & D. Burton. Rich and there 'seems to be a big Keith Jones was inevitably from Edmonds, a late replace­ It was interesting to note that gap developing unless some of among the honours, retaining ment for the again unavailable the winners only just managed to the up-and-coming juniors the Veterans' Singles comfort­ McKim. qualify for the last place as improve rapidly. ably against Tony Fowkes, and The County Veterans too have runners-up in the gro,ups but Results: came good to win the title. demonstrating by winning the their problems, with only Keith U.17 Boys' Winner Simon Steward; I was hoping to include the RI up Stephen Fox. hard-bat singles, that if we were Jones and Joyce Porter currently U.15 Boys' Winner Neil Pickard; all) still using 'proper bats', that capable of holding their own final tables in the inter-town R/up Lee Diggins. competitions but unfortunately, U,13 Boys' Winner Ricky Diggins; would still be in the forefront against formidable opposition, R/up Stephen White. of modern day players. with a division reduced to five some matches are outstanding U.17 Girls' Winner Sue Jenkinson; because of the weather but full R/up Rachel Wilson. Richard Elliott continues to sides by late withdrawals con­ details should be available next U.15 Girls' Winner Sue Everitt; improve, and took the Boys' taining some exceptionally R/up Alison Taylor. month. U.13 Girls' Winner Nicky Savage; Singles comfortably in the third strong sides with Yorkshire mak­ Players are reminded that the R/up Rachel Hodson. after a close battle with County ing their first sally into veteran East of England 2-Star Open colleague Raymond Jacobs, ranks. Essex III, like their Championships are to be heldon after the pair of them had earlier Cheshire have Sunday, March 17 at Grantham had no difficulty in taking the strength in depth, and although Sports Centre. Anyone wishing Junior Doubles. Jones won twice and Mrs. Porter to help will be very welcome. Millman reports from .. Results: once, to retain unbeaten singles M.S.: G. McKi.m bt A. Edmonds 10,13. records, even the Mixed was lost 9.15 a.m. start. W.S.: S. Whitehall bt J. Porter 19,18. . NORTHANTS M.D.: McKim/Edmonds bt K. Jones/B. D'Hooghe as the visitors won 6-3. -19,11,19. Kettering Town 'A' and DOMINANCE MAINTAINED W.D,: Porter/Whitehall bt Kath Walsh/Clem Little 11,17. Wellingborough Town have now Graeme McKim maintained his X.D.: Porter/D'Hooghe bt R. Elliott/Whitehall 17.11. drawn clear at the top of Ketter­ Ray Hogg reports from.... dominance of the local tourna­ V.S.: K. Jones bt A. Fowkes 11.12. ing's Premier Division, and with ment circuit, when he outclassed B.S.: R. Elliott bt R. Jacobs 20.-17.7. G.S.: Sarah Young bt Eleanor Williams 15,19. both sides having similar NORFOLK all opposition at Northampton, J.D.: Elliott/Jacobs bt Garry Weston/Scott remaining programmes, includ­ Congratulations to the Norwich to retain his Men's Singles title, Crawson 9,12. C.S.: Weston bt David Evans 15,12. ing matches against third-placed League who on March 29th without dropping a single end. H.B.S.: Jones bt Glen Robertson 12,10. Rothborough 'A' the Kettering celebrate 50 years' continuous The culmination of his efforts Div. I & II H'Cap: Fowkes bt Dave Birch 14,18. outfit should maintain a narrow T.T. in and around the City of coming in a one-sided final Div. 3 & 4 H'C ap: Dave Ewing bt Reg Dick lead to the end. Norwich. In that time only three which saw him despatch his -14,12,19. Latest Positions: Div. 5, 6 & 7 H'Cap: Don Crowson bt Alex P W 0 L Pts secretaries have held office most likely future rival for the Duncan 13,13. Kettering Town 'A' 14 13 1 0 117 namely Harold Betts (32 years), No. 1 status, Andy Edmonds. Two further series of County Wellingborough Town 14 11 1 2 111 Len Miller (10), and the current Earlier the second and third Team Electric 'A' 14 10 1 3' 98 Championships matches has Rothborough 'A' 13 9 4 0 97 Ken Edwards so far 5 years. seeds, Keith Jones and David done nothing to improve county Leading Averages: National League. Norwich Ga 110, had' bowed out at the fortunes - if anything, a gloomy 1. McKim (Corby 'A') 30-30 = 100% Foxwood v Witham turned out to hands of Adrian Roper and John 2. Keith Nicoll (Roth 'A') 37-39 = 94.9% picture has been painted, with 3. Ian Hawes (Wellingborough) 39-42 = 92.9% be the most enjoyable match of Sanders respectively, but in the enthusiasm in the senior sides 4. Chris Handshaw (Town 'A') 36·42 = 85.7% the season mainly because of semis Roper and Sanders proved Andy Edmonds (Town 'A') 36-42 = 85.7% currently at a low ebb. Hopefully Steve West (Electric 'A') 36-42 = 85.7% the attitude of the players from no match for the eventual the imminent emergence of 7. Andy Trott (Town 'A) 34-42 = 81.0% both sides. They all played as finalists. 8. Steve Kendall (Welling'h) 31-39 = 79.5% Edmonds and Andy Trott will 9. Ken Nicoll (Roth 'A') 27-36 = 75% though winning was not all that McKim also kept his name on help to remedy the malaise 10. Graham Ball (Electric 'A') 28-42 = 66.7% mattered and we even had the Men's Doubles trophy, when 11. Alan Hawes (Wellingb'h) 26-42 =61.9% sooner rather than later. 12. Mark Cole (Electric 'A') 22·39 =56.4% flashes humour. My thanks to playing with Edmonds for the Witham for being such a side first time in a tournament, the The juniors have always been and fully deserving of a 4-4 draw younger came back from a perpetual silver lining with a The Kettering League recently after being 4-1 down. The 13-17 down in the third to beat promise that never seems to be took the unprecedented step of crunch set came right at the end Jones and Brian D'Hooghe in a fulfilled, so it is not surprising publishing its own ranking list with Norwich 4-3 up and classic attack versus defence that despite playing at a higher and this subsequently amended is as follows:­ Stephen Fox a game up encounter - still the best table level than the other Northants 1. McKim; 2. Keith Nicoll; 3. Ian Hawes; 4. West; and cruising to victory at 17-8 tenn'is to attract and entertain sides it is the present junior 5. Edmonds; 6. Handshaw; 7. Trott; 8. Kendall; 9. Ken Nicholl; 10. Ball; 11. Alan Hawes; 12. Mark then suddenly Robin Lang put it the spectators. squad which is enjoying a Nannery; 13. Terry Cardwell; 14. Geoff Atkinson; all together and took that and the Heavy snowfalls seem to be a successful season, remaining 15. Mark Cole; 16. David Steele; 17. Alan Ashberry; 18. Steve Brown; 19. Gerald Finney; third game. Sympathies to feature of tournaments held at unbeaten to date, although only 20. Allun Thomas; 21. Mick Deacon; 22. Bill Stephen but all credit to him for Lings Forum - one recalls the winning one of their four Broome; 23. Ian Baldock; 24. John Hunt. 24 County Notes

Pauline Long reports from.... mum. Neil McMaster and Stephen John Russell both won two sets It was most encouraging to George backed him up 'by winn­ for Revac, with Jim Jackson get­ see so many players from the NORTHUMBERLAND ing one set each. The juniors ing the vital fifth set. Andrew Banbury and District league take beat the Tyneside Summer Clark's maximum and Dave part in the tournament. In total IMPRESSIVE FORM League 6-0 as expected, with Armstrong's lone set were unfor­ about 15 made the trip and Blackman, Patterson and Curry tunately not quite enough for although they did not do too well The Northumberland junior team each winning two sets, but Electrics. Ian Robertson also in the main events, they did have continued their impressive form Michael Roughley put up spirited won three sets' in vain for North one finalist. Mike Spencer with a 9-1 win over Cleveland on resistance for the losers by Shields, whose only other victory reached the final of the Inter­ January 26 at Byker Community extending Curry to 21, -7, -22. came from Malcolm Lusk. mediate singles after defeating Centre. They lost the first boys' Stockton, however gained their McMaster (2), Smith (2) and the Banbury No.3 Steve Joyner, singles of the afternoon when revenge in the Rose Bowl Hammett (1) safely saw Byker but .unfortunately faced the Patterson was beaten by Competition when they beat the through to the next round. ,Player of the tournament', Neil Fewsdale, but after that never Summer League 5-1, Harris in the final. However, it looked back, even though despite with Joan Leslie gaining the only was excellent experience for the the scoreline, four sets needed a While on the subject of Banbury lads and should their third game to decide them. this competition, I must apolo­ Brian Hamilton reports from... enthusiasm continue, I feel that RESULTS: (Northumberland names first): gise for an error made in my last this could be where the players Thomas Blackman beat David Fewsdale -19, 17. 17; bt Stuart Miller 9, 11. report when I said that the OXFORDSHIRE of Oxfordshire's future ITlight Keith Patterson lostto Fewsdale -1 O. -13; btJabal Northumberland League lost well come from, as they are a Hoque 16. 14. NEW CHAMPIONS Peter Curry bt Miller 10.19; bt Hoque -20. 20.15. their Rose Bowl match 1-5 to very well organised Association. Neil Harris and Amanda Shuffle­ Blackman/Curry bt Fewsdale/Miller 15, -15. 9. Sunderland in fact, the The Oxford City Veterans' 'B' Clare Mouzon bt Ann Pashley 17. 17. botham are the new Men's and Denise Wilkinson bt Susan Richmond 19. 17. victorious team was Stockton, team have won Div. 2 of the Women's singles County cham­ Mouzon/Wilkinson bt Pashley/Richmond 13. who as previously mentioned, Midland League. Their last three -15,15. pions, following their very im­ went on to beat the Tyneside fixtures ended in, 10-0, 8-2, and pressive performances in the The team was due to travel to Summer League in the next 7-3 victories over Kidderminster, Oxfordshire closed champion­ Cheshire for their next fixture on round. Coventry 'A' and Stratford on ships, at Redefield Sports Hall. February 16 with the seniors I was extremely sorr.y to learn Avon and the team of Len Pratt, The men's final was terrific joining them on the same day for of the tragedy involving the John Paul, and Brian Allen should set, which brought together Neil, their match away to Cheshire II. Norwegian national team as do well in the highersection next the young Vikings No. 1 and These results will in all proba­ reported in the last issue of this year. Clive Morris, the No.3 seed from bility have missed the deadline magazine. Newcastle represent­ The senior team's defeat at the Kidlington Forum club. The for the March issue, so to be on ative teams have enjoyed many Worcester. was a big dis­ final would have graced any the safe side be left until North Sea Cup matches and appointment and it almost cer­ open tournament and the spec­ April. Also included will be the tournaments with Bergen tainly ruined our chance of pro­ tators were treated to a display of Crow's Transport Northumberland representative sides both in motion this year. Worcester high quality attacking play from Junior Closed, due to be played England and Norway, and I am were a good side, but Oxon had both players and a considerable at Blaydon Youth Club the follow­ sure officials and players who their chances to get at least a amount of 15-20 ball rallies. ing weekend, on February 23. have been involved will wish to draw, but did not capitalise on With the game going point­ Following his recent excellent· extend their sympathies to their early leads. The retirement of for-point up to 9-9, Neil had an performance in the Beneficial relatives and the Norwegian Mary Denbow will no doubt amazing run and strung together Trust English Junior Closed, Table Tennis Association. make considerable difference to several winning shots to take it Blackman has been rewarded by Tyne Dock's unbeaten run in our female strength, but we do 21 -1 2. The second game saw being placed at No. 1Oin the the Premier Division of the still have several county-standard Clive take control in the early England boys' ranking list - a Northumberland League at last women who can help to fill the stages and go into a 11-6 lead jump of 21 places from his pre­ came to an end when they were gap left by Mary who has carried and appeared to have the answer vious position at No. 31. He beaten 7-3 by BykerC.C. 'A'. Tom Oxfordshire's flag well during her to anything that Neil sent across could have been higher but for a Trewhitt won twice for Tyne fairly short career the county the net. How wrong all were, disappointing performance in Dock, Fred Short surprisingly wish her well for the future. as the match took a dramatic the national ranking trials. Peter only managed one victory. Neil The county veterans' season is turn, with Neil pulling back to Curry is also in the rankings at McMaster (3), Eddie Smith (2), crumbling around them, following 13-13 and from then to 18-18, it No. 48, while Darren Shaw, our Andy Hammett (1) and the another defeat, this time at the went point for point. Clive then leading U 14 boys, appears for doubles saw Byker safely through hands of Worcs. 6-3, but Brian got his nose in front again at 20­ the first time at No. 37 in the to victory. A second interesting Varnham did offer some resis­ 18, but again Neil clawed his Cadet boys list. Clare Mouzon is match involved Newton 'A' in tance and won both his singles way back and go on to win 24­ in the girls' list at No.7, which is Div. 2A when they sprang a with relative ease. Dave Harse 22, in wh.at was one of the best a drop of two places from her surprise on Ouston C.C. 'A' by picked up Oxon's other singles, County finals for several years. previous position. including England inter­ when he beat Brett Davies 17 in The new women's champion, In the Halex National League, national and Northumberland the third. is fifteen-year-old Amanda Byker Newcastle's first team County Champion Maureen game with G.K.N. Steelstock Robson Heppell), who re­ Shufflebotham from the Radiators Wolverhampton II on January 20 turned to the club where she first club, who defeated a very exper­ was postponed, as the Midland started her career as a teenager ienced opponent in Eleanor Harrison, from Kidlington Forum. contingent were unable to travel 20 years ago. Gerald Green reports from ... because of adverse weather Maureen, married to former Amanda had great difficulty in conditions. The second team Newcastle United footballer winning the first game, mainly as SHROPSHIRE made the journey to meet Unity Bryan "Pop" Robson and now a result of being too quick to NATIONAL LEAGUE Leeds but were beaten 2-6 and the mother of three children, has finish the point, but it did not still looking for their first not played table tennis for take too long for her to overcome Grove won the first and last sets the problem, winning the first 18 point. Andy Hammett and Peter several years, but showed that of the day when Ormesby were and the second 12. Curry, with victories over Keith she still has the ability to win their visitors in a National Harris went on to complete his M'Kandla and P. Sanderson matches in the local league League premier division clash. hat-trick of victories, when he respectively, scored the side's when she defeated two of her But that was the sum total of won the Intermediate singles on Iy successes. opponents. Andy Murphy was the Drayton side's successes as The Northumberland League unbeaten and Dennis Sparke and combined with Amanda to the North won 6-2. representative) sides made gained one set as Newton take the Results:­ Steve Turner gave Grove a triumphed 7-3. . M.S: Neil Harris bt Clive 12. 22; progress in both the W.S: Amanda Shufflebotham bt Eleanor Harrison superb start by beating Nigel Wilmott and Carter Cups. The Two 5-4 results in the Knock­ 18.12; Eckersley. Out Cup involved Revac, winners M. 0: Morris/Abbott bt Bushell/Swift 19. 13; 'seniors were involved in a thrill­ W.D: Harrison/Woodward bt Shuff/Brett 13. -15. But victories from Alan Cooke ing'duel with the Stockton league, over Electrics, and Byker C.C., 16. over Alan Fletcher, and David who were victorious over North X.D: Harris/Shuff bt Morris/Woodward 17. 19. and Just edged home by 5-4, V.S: Brian Varnham bt John Paul 18. -10. 16. Mcilroy over Malcolm Green saw thanks to Peter McQueen's maxi­ Shields Y.M.C.A. Pat Tindale and I.S: Harris bt Spencer 15. 8. Grove trailing 2-1. 25 County Notes

The experience of Richard Shrewsbury Hospitals and School provided an excellent U­ . Fiona Stuart, and for Launceston Yule in beating both Fletcher and Ticklerton are locked together 11 years competition ,as Esme Stevenson, Karen Broczek Anwar Majid combined with on points with the sets differ­ Jonathan Day gained victory and Sandra Hunt, Esme beat superb displays from Cooke and ence favouring the hospital over Matthew Alexander in the Fiona. This was the first match I Eckersley saw Grove losing 6-1 . team. final. have seen played in a hotel, the Majid faced Mcilroy in the last Brian Morris was in superb GRADED SINGLES White Hart in the town centre. set. The two Scottish inter­ form to remain unbeaten as he In the Grove School graded Perhaps other hotels throughout nationals gave a fine display. But and Colin Sayce beat Telford 13­ singles Potteries-talented Paul the country could take note and Grove's Majid was the con­ 1, Oswestry II 4-0 and Grove Myatt ended Keith Sillitoe's run open their unused ballrooms to sistent and 'was the well deser­ Junior II 4-0. of victories in the R. and R. Roof­ table tennis on the same lines as ved victor. The Ticklerton pair, Tony ing Grade A competition. Boxing Clubs used to run. This Thorn EMI of Ellenborough Madeley and Ian Pennington, cou ld have a two-fold effect, the The January competitions also proved too strong for were held 2-2 by Telford II. were played at Grove School first being to provide better Market Drayton's team the Concorde Trophi'es Div. 3 sees with Myatt's win against Sillitoe facilities than some of the old Londoners winning 7-1. Grove Girls in the lead and look­ the climax of the A contest. wooden halls in present use, and Nevertheless, Grove gave a ing favourites to clinch the title. the second being a chance for Shrewsbury's Russell Davies spirited display against a team Pontesbury III are in second the hotels to provide good enter­ gave a fine performance in the full of internalionals. place. tainment for their guests than IMC sponsored Grade B event. Grove's Turner gave his usual the little box in their rooms. TELFORD RESTRICTED He reached the final where he determined performances to Perhaps also to generate some TOURNAMENT was beaten by Potteries player extend both David Wells and spectator enthusiasm for the Young Tim McGill emerged Michael West. Graham Sandley to three, while players to respond to. That said, victorious from a close final Nigel Power, of Oswestry, was Fletcher and Green both thanks Peter for your excellent against Steve Tanner to win the victorious in the Roofrite Grade C extended Wells and Nigel Tyler hospitality, the refreshments final of Telford League's event" beating Grove's Audrey to the third. certainly helped to sustain us on C. R. Jones and Associates Barnett in the final. Success for Grove came from restricted tournament at Lille­ our journey home. Majid who used his hard hitting In the Salop Roofing Grade D shall Sports Centre. competition, . the winner was Next big event for Somerset forehand drives to beat Tyler. players was the Bath' 2-Star McGill took the final 12, Potteries junior player, Stephen Open on Jan. 13. As in previous MIDLAND LEAGUE -1 8,1 8 after disposing of Richard Teomans, who beat Grove's years this event was run very Telford went down 9-2 when Fettes 22,14 in his semi, Tanner Louise Townsend in the final. well with excellent conditions. they entertained Nottingham 'A', had Tony Horobin 16, The Wylie and Holland Grade All events had some good class the probable winners of the divi­ -13,13. E competition was won by players which provided enter­ sion in the Veterans Div. 1. Mike Total entry was 40 and group Grove's Ottolini, who achieved a taining matches and the inevit­ Beaman won two for the hosts. winners who reached the narrow victory over Sarah Pigram able upsets to seedings. The star In Div. 3 the Telford senior second round were K. Pritchard, who also represents Grove. side of M. Langford, D. Russell R. Holding, A. Horobin, of the tournament was Bath's and W. Herbert travelled to R. Farnsworth, R. Williams, COUNTY COACHING adopted son from the Isle of The county association have Derby in their rearranged match D. Levinson, M. Jones, D. Owen Wight, England's No. 1 Junior organised a series of coaching but lost 7-3. and R. Fettes. and No.3 Senior, Carl Prean. His With only one more match to courses at the Grove School, all-action play and total commit­ SHROPSHIRE SCHOOLS' go against a strong team from Market Drayton, when Malcolm ment to winning shone brightly CHAMPIONSHIPS Green will be taking charge. Nuneaton - it doesn't look as on this stage in front of, I was Paul Fisher, of Charlton' though Telford will improve on Course 3 starts on Saturday, glad to see, a fair number of School, Wellington, and Louise their league position. March 9, and course four on spectators other than the Davis, of Oldbury Wells School, March 10. All run from 10am­ players. Even the sounds of SHROPSHIRE LEAGUE Bridgnorth, both gained two 4pm. Organiser is Ian Marshall, Bushido in the adjoining hall Grove Junior I and Grove I are titles at the Shropshire Schools' 9 Glendon Close, Market could not disturb Carl's concen­ locked together in a close fight individual championships. Drayton. tration as he proceeded to win at the top of the Shropshire Star And in each of the competi­ NEW CLUB the Junior and Senior titles, in division one of the Shropshire tions, under-1 6 and under-1 9, in Leading Shropshire player the first against No.2 seed Paul two-a-side league. which Fisher and Davis took part, Malcolm' Green is running a table Savins and in the second against Both sides are unbeaten and the runners-up were Mary Webb, tennis club at Telford Racquet No.2 seed Andy Creed. Thanks the sets difference just give the Pontesbury, player David Morris, and Fitness Centre on Thursdays for the demonstration Carl and I juniors the lead. and Shrewsbury High School (7.00-8.30). hope some of these fine touches Both teams were in fine form representative Victoria Boyd. and spin attacks will stay in the with Telford III, Dyno rod I and However, there was be con­ minds of those who wish to Oswestry I all beaten 4-0 by the solation for Mary Webb School improve their game. in-form duo of Claire Potts and as Neil Thomas gained the The majority ,of our men's David Morris who carry the' verdict in the U-1 3 boys' singles Tony Carey reports from ... squad were in action and juniors' banner. They seem bent with a semi-final success over although they did not create any on retaining the title they won Grove's Edward Knighton and SOMERSET great upsets they still played in November. Grove's unseeded finalist Paul well and gave positive indica­ THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER Keith Sillitoe provided the Ainsworth, who had ousted the tions that they are still progress­ HAS BEEN LIT backbone for Grove's triumphs. rapidly improved Chris Day a ing at a steady rate. Those His immaculate display of attack round earlier. Before I begin my report on present were David Lee, Lee left him unbeaten as Dyno Rod There were no seeding current events I must apologise Sadler, Tony Murrell, John and Video Train fell 3-1 and surprises in the U-11 and U-13 to the Bridgwater League who Crabtree and Mark Bryant. In the Grove II were defeated 4-0. girls' events. Claire Marshall recorded two fine wins against Boys' event we had Philip Payne, Sillitoe's partner was Anthony marched to the final of the U-11 strong opposition in the Wilmott Murray Barter and David Harrison. girls' event to meet Claire Hand, and Carter Cup competitions Wooldridge with the best perfor­ In the relegation zone, who had ousted the seeded Gail over Swindon 6-3 and mance by Philip who reached the Oswestry I struggled without the Ottolini (Longlands School) in Cippenham, Slough 5-3 respec­ semis before bowing to the services of Allan Roberts as Gary the quarter-finals. tively. Their next opponents will superior play of Prean. In the Owen fought valiantly to enable In the final, Marshall defeated be Poole in the Wilmott and women's event we were rep­ a 3-3 draw with Telford III to be her fellow Market Drayton Junior Springfield Kestrels Berks in the resented by our Juniors Melonie salvaged. But Belle Vue and School player Anne-Marie Carter. Well played lads. In addi­ Carey, Sarah Webb and Kirsty Grove Junior I were in no mood Williamson.. tion Bridgwater girls started their Withyman. All had successes in for charity as 3-1 and 4-0 scores In the U-13 event, Caroline Bromfield Trophy competition their groups, Sarah being unfor­ were posted. Ashcroft duly progressed to the on a high note with an 8-1 win tunate in only having one oppo­ The championship for the title final to meet Grove schoolmate away to Launceston, Cornwall, nent due to the withdrawal of in the Angrove Roofing Div. 2 Tara Hanley and win the event. winning 5-1. The' team was Diane St. Leger. But Sarah still competition is equally tight. The boys of Pontesbury Junior Melonie Carey, Sarah Webb and had a battle on her hands with 26 County Notes

Dana Karachovilla producing the two-straight. Dorset who was in devastating lifted us well away from the first 'Expedite' of the day, which This set both captains think­ form as all who saw his epic relegation zone· to fourth position Sarah won. She then had ing, Tony of a possible upset in battle with Andy Cunningham behind Middlesex, Lancashire another close contest before our favour if this euphoria spread from Kent in the final will and Yorkshire. Our one defeat going out to Carol Butler of through the team and Mike using confirm. was by Lancashire (9-1) Devon in the semi, the eventual all his experience of captaincy to Melonie seemed to have a were unbeaten over the week­ winner, over another fine player motivate Richard in the next mountain to climb when we saw end. from Devon, Elaine Short. match against Mark, and it the draw but she set about her Our selectors took the step of In the girls' event things star­ worked with Richard playing his task admirably winning her including junior Adrian Dixon in ted to happen to the fortunes of best. Mark also played well, the group comfortably, then beating the squad wHich went down to the Somerset trio. The first upset greater experience of Richard Kirsty in the first round followed Essex and this was the key to our was that of Sarah, the No. 1 providing the trump card. The by a fine win against Alison success. He won both his singles seed, when she lost in the next set became the perfect Boxall before meeting a player against Surrey and also had second round to Kirsty who kept stage for the enactment of skills who I cannot remember her play­ singles wins in each of the other her cool go through to meet onto which strolled a young man ing before, Lesley Popkiewicz of three matches. Andrew Belling­ No. 3 seed Susan Butler in the who has been admired by all for Surrey, Melonie winning in ham, our No.1, did well to take sem i, who proved too strong for his conduct both on the table three. This took her to the semi both his singles against Cambs. her. Melonie, as No.4 seed, beat and off, providing 'inspiration ahd to meet her friend and rival of the and one each against Surrey and Jennie Neale of Wilts and then encouragement at all times to previous day, Helen Perrott. This Berks. and Fiona Elliot continued the big clash in the semi against his team or whoever he has been was not a classic match as both her winning ways with victories No. 2 seed Helen Perrott of asked to help. I refer of course to girls were nervous with a place in against Cambs., Surrey and Berks. Avon, and another win' for Andy Creed, and this day his the final at the end of it. Victory but failed to complete an un­ Melonie to take her into the final. skill, power and perfection of eventually went to Melonie in beaten championship year, losing .A fine match was to be expected strokes lit up the room both as the third when the memory bank to Lancs! Jean Parker. Andy Rich between these close rivals, with entertainment for spectators and into gear. This brought and Craig Bakewell, playing two Melonie rising to the occasion a guiding light for his team her to the final against a new matches apiece, each contributed when 16-19 down in the 'first to mates. Unfortunately for English Junior star, Juliet a singles win (against Cambs, take the match two straight. Somerset at the other end of the Houghton of Kent, who had put and Berks. respectively). We Three Somerset teams were in table was one of our, we hope, out Sarah in the quarters. gained three mixed wins, losing action on Jan. 26, the 'first team future stars, Steve Palmer, who Both girls then put on a dis­ only to Lancs. and we actually at Taunton YMCA against fought hard and I am sure learnt play worthy of such an event, won a men's doubles - our only Cornwall. This was another from it. The inspiration of this with classic strokes flowing one of the championships ­ crunch match we had to win to win certainly set the Avon team both bats. Melonie took the first when Bellingham and Dixon keep our promotion prospects alight as we started to fall further 21-14 but Juliet hit back to level took the Surrey set. Perhaps we alive, and I am proud to say that behind, our ladies losing the in the second 22-20. Then it was can look forward to a few more they did just that with an doubles as did Bryant and heart flutter time in the third wins in the future by cultivating excellent 9-1 win. All rose to the Murrell against Creed and before Juliet clinched the match this partnership! occasion with notable wins by Hooper. 21 -1 8. Well earned applause for Looking back over the cham­ Lee over John Bassett and Ian We then suffered another both girls at the end. Helen also pionship we can consider James and Sadler over Jeremy Andy demonstration when he had some consolation from the ourselves a trifle unlucky in not Williams, the usual anchor two beat Murrell. The battle of the day with a runners-up prize in the winning third place. The 5-4 from captain Brian Reeves, and two second string ladies pro­ doubles with Lyn Trussell, losing defeat by Yorkshire could so Rebecca Russe and Judy Craig duced a fine display by Michelle final to Rachael Knight and easily have gone the other way. gaining maximums. Cornwall's Cohen to beat Sarah Webb, but Atison Boxall, a pairing I have not All-in-all, it augurs well for the success was by Ian James over we evened score between seen before. But as is known future, and who knows, if we can Sadler 19 in the third. Weli the ladies when good players soon learn to adapt win the odd men's doubles or played you Somerset heroes and beat Helen Perrott. and knit together. two, we may yet finish in the top I am pleased to see that by com­ We did gain another win to A word about Murray Barter three. peting in Senior tournaments, make the score slightly better before I end. He was playing well David and Lee, is starting pay when Palmer played to his at times and perhaps could have Staffs Junior brought back a dividends, following that potential in beating Richard scraped a good win but he point from Cheshire. Although successful trail set by our Senior Russell. So we eventually lost seemed to forget that table we went into a 4-1 lead with lady Becky, a point which 7-3. Congratulations to Avon tennis is played with a bat and wins from Stephen Slater and readers of this column will notice and a special mention to ball across a net placed across Adrian Thorpe and two doubles I have advocated quite'frequen­ Mrs. Holley and helpers who the centre of the table with an wins, we allowed the lead to slip tly as the apprenticeship route to provided an excellent spread of opponent armed with a bat as away and although Angela be taken by all aspiring refreshments. I hope Ian Sanders gave us the lead again at champions. recovers from his injury to play 5-4, Nigel Tongue was unable to On the day our Senior again soon. gain us the extra point, losing 16 second team travelled to Bath Also on this' day another in the third in the last set of the Garraway Boys' Club to do battle Somerset team was in action, day. Louise Sherratt was the fifth with Avon first. A formidable task this being the Juniors away to Jack Chalkley reports from... member of our team. Our senior faced our team of Steve Palmer, Wilts Seconds, and they recor­ STAFFORDSHIRE seconds, still without a point, Murrell, Bryant, Melonie Carey ded another good win of 9-1 , the went down 8-2 against Suffolk, and Sarah Webb. Lined up team being Payne, Barter, HIGHEST EVER Jill Harris Bqb Murray against them were Andy Creed, Wooldridge, Fiona Stuart and A splendid all-round performance gaining our only successes. - Paul Hooper, Richard Russell, Kirsty Withyman. by our senior team at the second As reported a couple of months Heten Perrott and Michelle All in all not a bad day for Premier Division weekend en­ ago, the Woodfield club at Cohen, the captains being Tony Somerset's future considering abled them to finish in the top Wolverhampton will be staging Russe and Mike Lewis. Friends that there are other promising half of the table, the highest the Malcolm Scott Restricted all are off the table but there players waiting in the wings. position ever reached by Staffs. Tournament, and the date has Were no mixing of supporters in The next day off again in the In the County Championships- a now been fixed for April 14. this hall with each team having ice, snow and rain to Croydon for tremendous achievement and Hopefully, there will be a better their own area. The air tempera­ the South of England 2-Star great credit to the whole of the response than last year when it ture was below what I would Junior Open, the Somerset flag team and to Paul Chester, our had to be cancelled - this year it term as shorts and shirt weather, being carried by Melonie Carey, team captain.. has the adva ntage that entry but the action produced on the Payne, Barter, Sarah Webb and You will recall that at the first forms and details will be available table made us all forget that. The Kirsty Withyman. Philip won his weekend we finished second at the County Closed on March first set between Murrell and group and had a fine win over from bottom one win from 24. We must express our thanks Hooper gave us a wonderful start Paul Amos and progressed to the three matches, but victories to Mike Leach and his colleagues with Tony playing some of his semi where he met the eventual against Cambridgeshire (6-3), for making the effort to run this magical strokes and winning winner Rodney Thomas from Surrey (6-3) and Berkshire (5-4) event again, after recent dis­ 27 • County appointments. Incidentally, Mark Hankey. Caraccio, Paul .Gooding and, Please note that Suffolk another date for your diary from Thereafter despite a men's Richard Hutchinson in the Carter Schools' ITA, in conjunction the Woodfield club is the date of doubles loss, Suffolk went into a Cup, reached the Zone final by with the Stowmarket League, the Woodfield Tournament next 4-3 lead following wins by Sue beating Central London 6-0 the have purchased 16 second- hand year, 2/3 November. Welham and Julie Dowsett in scores being:- Butterfly surrounds. They are the women's doubles and Caraccio bt S. Emmanuel 14. 13; bt K. King 17. 7; being stored in the Games Room The Committee were Gooding bt T. Noakes 10. 15; bt Emmanuel 12. pleased to welcome to their singles successes for John and 16; at ICI, Stowmarket and can be meeting last month Dot and Alan Sue. However, all hopes of a Hutchinson bt King 12. 22; bt Noakes 11. 10; collected between 9 a. m. and 5 Deeley, and to markAlan's retire­ victory were when Sylvia Kenyon, Olaire Nicholls p. m.. Outside these hours please contact Mr. B. Robinson. Phone: ment the committee the Cheshire finished with three and Karen Perkins represented Stowmarket 613338. County President, Don Pritchard, convincing singles wins to make Ipswich in the Bromfield Trophy As an area promoter of the presented them with a tea ser­ the score 6-4 in Cheshire's but lost against Chelmsford.' new Dunlop Skills Awards vice. An extra note of interest favour. Scores:­ Scores: was that the teaset was produced S. Kenyon lost to H. Platt -15. 19. -16; Scheme I shall be' pleased to by the family business of Tom J. Kitchener bt B. Johns 16. -15. 11; bt S. Vanezis -21.8.10; bt K. Gower-18. 17.10. distribute attractive clear and M. Palmet lost to W. Percival 19. -14. -17; K. Perkins lost to Gower -13. -20; bt Platt 18. -12. Finney, who was, of course, S. Palmer lost to W. Hankey 18. -19. -19; 18; bt Vanezis 18. 18. concise publicity material to president of the County for many J. Dowsett/S. Welham btJ. Deakin/A. Williamson C. Nicholls lost to Vanezis -17. 15. -9; clubs, schools and community 14.20; lost to Gower 25. -1 9. -19; years. Kitchener/S. Palmer lost to Johns/Percival -19. lost to Platt 14. -17. -17; centres in the Ipswich area, and 16. -17; also to deal with enquiries by We were beginning, to think Kitchener bt Percival 19. 11; that the worst of the weather had Welham bt Williamson -18. 20. 19; NATIONALSTIGACLUB EVENT encouraging young people to S. Palmer lost to Johns -14. -13; pursue their interest either at passed by, with Staffordshire Dowsett lost to Deakin -15. -12; The Brittania Club, representing being largely unaffected. Unfor­ M. Palmer lost to Hankey -10. -14. Ipswich, to the zone coaching sessions or by direct­ tunately, at the time of writing, final defeating Chelmsford and ing to a suitable club or the Midlands were badly -hit by , At the same venue, the Senior centre where coaching is known seconds entertained Sussex 'II King's Lynn en route. They have snow. A county junior II match now beaten Norwich to reach to take place. Contact me.at 91 with the expectation of a hard versus Warwickshire had to be the final 8. The Brittania Club's Larchcroft Rd." Ipswich (Phone: struggle. Clive Woollard won postponed, and probably several Annual Dinner/Dance is due to Ips. 49118). both his singles but Charlie county league matches suffered take place at the Ipswich Moat Fulcher despite going to three the same fate. House Hotel, Copdock, on Friday, twice deserved better than to It's always nice to hear from May 3. As the club has been in those who read Table Tennis lose. Richard Hutchinson, still a junior, must have learned a great existence for 30 years, the News and, in particular, the Committee have arranged .enter­ Michael Green reports from.... deal 'from more experienced Staffs. column. I was down in tainment and also a guest opponents and the same could SURREY Gloucester among my old- well, speaker. It is hoped that members be said forthe Suffolk ladies who not so old, really - friends the and friends will support this event CLOSED CHAMPIONSHIPS fought hard but needed steadier other weekend, a.nd several of and tickets can be obtained from Super scintillating spheres -of finishing power. The final score them are regular readers. I was spinning celluloid seen in Sur­ 8-2 to Sussex II. Scores:­ all committee members. pleased to find that most ofthem C. Woollard bt R. Venner 13. 18; rey' They were most noticeable are still playing albeit division R. Hutchinson lost to P. Bartram 21. -9. -18; during 'finals night of the Senior C. Fulcher lost to D. Jemmett -22. 16. -16; ortwo lower. So may I send them S. Butcher/D. Harvey lost to S. Heffenden/S. King NATIONAL LEAGUE Closed tournament and par­ my good wishes, particularly to -19. -14; Britannia Deepsure, after a ticularly during the Men's and Fulcher/Woollard lost to Jemmett/Venner -15. Alan Haines, Bernard Mowbray -16; hesitant start, are now beginning Women's finals. and Norman Saunders, it was Woollard bt Bartram 18. 16; to fulfil their true potential with a The finals were held in a Harvey lost to Heffenden -12. 20. -8; great to see you all again. Fulcher lost to venner -12. 19. -14; creditable 4-4 draw against nival atmosphere. The spec­ Mike Cross, who still repre­ Butcher lost to King -15. -15; Norwich Foxwood and a more tatorswere vociferous in their Hutchinson lost to Jemmett -13. -16. sents Tamworth on the county recent 5-3 success aga inst St support, and although partisan, committee now lives in Following the matches a large Neots. Alan Shewan's departure were generally very sporting in Stafford, tells me that he has crowd gathered to witness the to -New Zealand undoubtedly their acknowledgement of good obtained a £250 sponsorship presentation of a silver rose bowl contributed to Britannia's rever­ shots, whoever played them. At from Mr. Andrew Millward of to Dennis Barrett who recently sal over MBS St Neots. times their enthusiasm over­ Millward Formwork Ltd., Stone retired as County Chairman. flowed and Mike Hammond, to contribute towards the Dennis had completed 24 years SCHOOLS being distracted by a noisy spec­ peripheral expenses 'of running of service and Mrs. Doris Fox, the In the area finals, Beds. tator, told her to "shut up", his the junior county teams. This is President, in making the pre­ schools proved to be too strong best sergeant major voice, - it very good news and I would like sentation, expressed the appre­ winning 5 out of the 8 events the was as' if Arthur Scargill was to express our grateful thanks to ciation of all present. Dennis, Suffolk placings being:­ shouting at Maggie Thatcher. Mr. Millward for his generosity although somewhat overcome B. U-19: 2 Ipswich School From that moment the level of and to Mike cross for his efforts by the. occasion, mentioned G. U-19: 1 Ipswich High their participation, although on behalf of the County. We have the undaunting support he had B. U-16: 4 East Bergholt diminished, was just about right, not had a great deal of success in received from his wife, Edna who G. U16: 2 Thurleston High but the atmosphere remained obtaining sponsorship at county had been the match and selection B. U-13: 2 Old Buckenham Hall splendid throughout the level, and Mike is keen to con­ board Secretary for many years. G. U-1 3: 3 Gisleham evening. B. U-11: 1 Old Buckenham Hall tinue looking for other sources of Edna received a bouquet of MEN'S SINGLES support for table tennis in flowers. We sincerely hope that G. U-11: 2 Eye Primary Hammond began by showing Staffordshire. Dennis and Edna will be happy in us that his rise to No. 40 on the the"ir retirement and Dennis'S Ipswich High and Old Lentec Computer is no fluke by health will improve so that they Buckenham Hall progress to the taking the 'first game off Gl'en can -both continue to enjoy the Ian Bullock reports from.... Regional Finals at Orpington. Baker. His hitting on both wings game for many years to come. The Dunlop Individual Champion­ proved too consistent for Glen to The new year has begun well ships are well under way and the handle. During the second game, SUFFOLK for Suffolk Juniors. County Finals are scheduled, as however, Glen's magnificent DOWN AT THE DOME The boys in particular, were always to take place on the first left-handed counter hitting pro­ convincing winners in the Carter Sunday in March at Orwell Park ved to be the decisive weapon in In their most recent match, the Cup and the combined team School. Is there a chance that his armour. And he now began to first Senior team entertained swept aside all,opposition to win the ETTA will avoid this date next consistently hit it on. Time and Cheshire at the Britannia Dome, the Div. 3D title of the County year when arranging a Regional again he rocked Mike back on Ipswich. The home side began Championships. Their conclud­ Squad Coaching weekend at Lea his heels. well with a win for John ing fixtures both resulted in 10-0 Green? We are in the unfortunate It was exciting to see genuine Kitchener against Brian Johns. victories against Norfolk II and position, as last year, of having counter hit winners rather than But Mick Palmer fell Wayne Cambs II. - players win through and not the block type hits that Percival, as did Stuart Palmer to Ipswich, represented by Shaun being able to take part. common today. Whatever Mike 30 County Notes did he found the ball returned so beating the holder, Jane Barella, ning with points to spare. PREMIER WEEKEND fast it was difficult, at times, to in three. Michele, who missed In the semis Jane had beaten Our first match over this keep track of it - as quick as fast last year's tournament through Linda Clemett who had in turn weekend was against Yorkshire; forward on a video recording injury, began determinedly and beaten Debbie Simmonds. In an their team was Fletcher, Bead­ machine. This pattern continued gained an early lead, but Jane, earlier round Jane had quite a sley, Mills and Melody Hill. Nicky throughout the third game and who appeared nervous at first, struggle with Hazel Lowe - this Mason, Mark Oakley, Glen Baker all Mike could do was to spor­ fought back well and by the end game going to 3. Michele's main and Jane Barella played for Sur­ tingly acknowledge his oppo­ of the first game, appeared in obstacle to the final was Lesley rey. We lost 1-8 with Nicky beat­ winners. Unfortunately, control. Her deceptive style of Popkiewitcz who she beat in 3, ing Fletcher. Team captain, Mike from his point of view, he had too taking the ball late and looping it Lesley looking good in the 1st Kercher, was most disappointed many to count and ended up in high with consistent top spin game but losing it in the 2nd and with the result. The second the red. Glen's position as No. had caused all sorts of problems. 3rd -13, -7. match against Staffs also ended 22 in England seems justified. In It is a style that has elevated her VETERANS' SINGLES in defeat, 3-6. Their team was the semis Glen completely outhit to the top 20 in England. Both Warren Holed Bellingham, Bakewell, Dixon and Steve Holloway and Mike beat girls, however, know each others Fiona Elliot. Our team was Jerome Jonah. Jerome had an style and in the 2nd game it was Gordon Chapman taking ad­ unchanged with Nicky (2), and excellent tournament beating Michele's turn to take and keep vantage of being seeded No. 2 Glen (1), the only winners. The Gordon Chapman, David the initiative with her usual mix­ won the veterans' singles by next match on Sunday, against Dewsbury and Rue Bole all 2­ ture of looping and flat topspin beating "Connie" Warren deuce Essex, now took on a new straight. For these achievements drives to keep her opponent in the 3rd. Connie had beaten significance - we had to win or in particular, and for reaching the stretched from to side. Both Frank Hams - seeded 3 in spite face the prospect of relegation. Restricted Final, he was presen­ girls were keenly supported, but of being the holder for the past 2 But our opponents also had to ted with the Fred Joyce if it seemed that more were years - in the semis, Frank hav­ win for the same reason. Their Memorial Trophy by Ron shouting for Michele, it was ing earlier beaten. Brian Sim­ team was Andrew, Newman, Craydon, Chairman and Presi­ . because a large proportion were monds his Surrey team mate. Charlery and Lisa Hayden. Mike dent of the Surrey TT Associa­ members of sLuJ~ where Gordon took revenge on Ron Kercher now brought Steve tion. Ron presented all the practises. In the 3rd game Wilde who beat him last year, Holloway and Michele Hams trophies throughout the even­ Michele took a decisive early and then beat John (I hate pim­ into his squad which gave him ing. lead and her back hand loop was ples) Garland in the semis. more options than a digital proving difficult for Jane to con­ WOMEN'S SINGLES afraid I can't describe the watch. His first option was to trol effectively. This enabled final because I was involved in play Steve and Michele in the Michele Hams appropriately Michele to dictate the pattern of the restricted singles, although mixed which was his only brought home the bacon by play and she ended up by win­ those who did see it said it was change from the previous an excellent match. Alii saw was matches. Mike's nerves were both players towelling them­ eased by the team's marvellous selves down and looking spirit. That they won the first 2 shattered. sets also helped. Although we MEN'S DOUBLES lost the next 2 we managed to win the Men's doubles - halfway Hammond/Holloway beat through and the match 3-2 in our Baker/Chapman 2-straight. favour. WOMEN'S DOUBLES Essex had surprised Mike with Jane Barella/Linda Clemett their selection of Lisa for the beat Michele Hams/Debbie Sim­ Women's singles because their monds 2 straight. reserve had beaten Jane in the past. Anyway both girls were MIXED DOUBLES naturally nervous - but it was Hammond/Simmonds beat Jane, who after losing the 1st, Baker/Barella 2-straight. fought back from a big deficit in RESTRICTED SINGLES the '2nd to eventually win 19 in the 3rd. If this wasn't enough, Most people seemed sur­ Glen then beat Newman also 19 prised to find Frank Hams in the 3rd. It was left to Mark to Michele Hams, the singles winner in the Surrey Closed, seeded No. 1, particularly as the complete the 6-3 victory which receiving her trophy from Ron Craydon (left) and (right) Jerome holder Lionel Faure, was also in meant that Essex were rele- · Jonah with the Fred Joyce Memorial Trophy, as winner of the the draw and unseeded! Frank gated. Restricted singles. eventually lost to a former In our final match against Nigerian international, from the Berkshire, who played Barr, Abeng Club, who reputedly had Wellman, Savins and Mandy taken a game off Des Douglas. Sainsbury - we won 6-3, Mason Ironically this was after he had (2) Baker (2) Holloway (1) and beaten Lionel in the previous Michele and Steve winning the round . mixed. Overall Surrey finished The impressive Nigerian went 5th. on to win the event by beating an ESSEX OPEN in-form Jonah. Pride of place for the men goes to Oakley who beat John I wonder what the seeding Souter 2-straight. Hammond committee would have done if could have shared the position they had realised a former inter­ but just failed to beat Dave Han­ national had entered the tourna­ nah -19 in the third after looking ment? Although according to the a winner throughout. Mason also rules he was eligible I imagine had opportunity to occupy it the spirit of the rule was when he led Carl Prean 18-14 in broken. the 3rd. Then he stopped hitting S.T.T.A. would like to thank and lost -19. Hannah also suf­ Gordon Chapman (veterans' winner), Glen Baker (men's winner), Cornileau for the use of their fered the same fate against Carl. Ron Craydon, President, with Steve Holloway and Mike Hammond excellent tables and for Playrite The outcome of this set again (men's doubles winners). Sports for the balls that boun­ rested on Dave's reluctance to ced on them during the tour­ remain positive when in a win­ Photos by Murray Corbin. nament. ning position late in the 3rd. 31 County Notes

Credit, of course, must be given winning the mixed must be high. 9 A. Pilgrim (Cov) JUNIOR 'B' to Carl for wrestling the initiative It only remains now for Teresa 10 R. Tanner 11 P. Demetrius The Junior 'B' side (All Cadets) away from Dave. Moore with her unorthodox game 12 D. Parmar have one point only from their 3 Pride of place for Surrey in the to break the stranglehold applied 13 M. Randle (Rugby) 14 S. Bertie matches - a draw in the opening women's event goes to Michele for the past four yea'rs by Rachel 15 A. Cockerill fixture against Gloucs. The team Hams who reached the quarters Mackriell, who has now settled WOMEN of Darren Smith, Richard Todd, albeit with the aid of a scratching in Sussex. 1 K. Groves 2 S. Peakman Dave Thomas, Lisa Spilsbury and in the 2nd round. She was even­ On paper, and looking at the 3 D. St. Ledger Alison Ledwitchare all 15 or tually beaten by Jackie Bellinger.. age groups, Teresa (18), Rachel 4 S. Culbertson 5 J. Harden under and are competing against Jane Barella her group but (23), the younger girl should 6 D. Bromley opponents a few years older and then narrowly failed to beat Lisa achieve a breakthrough Miss 7 F. Sutton 8 L. Sibley (Learn) with more experience, but I'm Hayden whom she· beat in the Mackriell has provided many 9 T. Brown sure this will benefit the Essex County Match, after hav­ 10 D. Robinson shocking performances whilst in youngsters in the future. ing 3 match points. GIRLS Sussex and in contrast has at 1 D. Bromley Murray Corbin has taken me times played quite brilliantly, 2 T. Green (Learn) WARWICKSHIRE CUP to task for not confirming with 3 L Spilsbury raising her game with the 4 A. Ledwitch· COMPETITION (B. MACKIE him the facts of the Norfolk theoretical top-40 in England at 5 L Fitzpatrick· . Match which I reported on in the 6 C. Morgan least. 7 C. King The first round matches have Janu-ary issue. I'm sorry if I upset I cannot see any other player 8 S. Hoolihan (Nun) now been played, results:­ him. In defence, however, I 9 L. Poole capable of beating Moore or 10 R. Ledwitch· British Telecom M/R 361 must refer him to his advice to Mackriell. Wait though, there is 11 M. Lowe· Birmingham Housing W.O. 12 K. Nicklin· NALGO (Nun) . rec 45 394 team captains in Surrey Notes one, the slim brunette from Newman Hall 'A' 365 Dec. '80, Nov. '81 and Jan. '82. BOYS G.E.C. (Cov) 378 Horsham - Sally Weston. Watch­ 1 Randle Coton Meth (Nun) 378 I'm afraid I published and was, ing her come from behind to beat 2 N. Mayo Newman Hall 'B' rec 162 367 damned! 3 V. Chauhan Redhill 'A' Yvette Brown of Essex in the 4 S. Swallow (Stratford) Lucas (York Road) rec 81 380 Another matter that has been County . Championships last 5 D. Smith· Nat Westminster Bank (Cov) SCR cleared up is the, matter of choice 6 S. Simon Shirley Institute 312 month, I quite impressed 7, R. Todd (Coventry)· Fircoop rec 99 386 of reserves when a selected with her top-spin and her 8 D. Thomas (Rugby)· North Solihull rec 117 341 player drops out. The team cap­ strategy. 9 R. St. Ledger Four Oaks B.C. rec 180341 10 G. Woodcock (Cov) Redhill 'B' 381 tain has the choice from all the Keith Horton, the player­ 11 G. Cunnington (Learn)· 12 L. Jeffries· \ reserves nominated, who are not 2nd Round matches manager of Dolphins is the 13 R. Miller· Lucas (York) Road listed in any particular order. The 14 P. Atkins (Rugby) 375 champion of West Sussex. In an Fircoop 15 C. Fisher (Rugby) rec 198 361 choice depends on the cir­ embarrassingly low entry minus Redhill 'B' rec 36 353 cumstances at the time. • denotes Cadet Coton Meth (Nun) 378 Phil Smith, Ritchie Venner and B'ham Housing rec 108 377 Richard Jones got to the last Sally Weston who chose the COUNTY RESULTS G.E.C. (Coventry) 378 eight of the Cotswold 2-Star NALGO (Nuneaton) 325 Essex Open instead - computer The three County teams still Redhill 'A' rec 144327 Select. Matthew Pernett was points at stake - stopped have hopes of some success. Semi-Finals Draw beaten by A. Houghton in an David Jemmett in the final. B'ham Housing v G.E.C. (Coventry) DIVISION 2A - SENIOR earlier round. There was some embarrass­ Redhill'B'v Coton Meth (Nun) In the next issue I will give ment however for Phil Richard­ The" senior side have a good Matches to be played by Monday, 4th March, details of the Dulwich Tourna­ son the top seed from Crawley. chance of finishing top although 1985. ment sent to me by Janice Sea­ After some strong performances they lost ground in dropping a It is always a difficult task to brook. Meanwhile the Dulwich in his opening matches in the valuable point to Bucks. follow­ handicap a competition of this League to thank the care­ National League for Mike Watts's ing the withdrawal of our No.1 kind, but as can be seen by the taker of Oliver Goldsmith Erreys Print, he fell, to -Paul Carl Morgan. Fortunately Karen results above our handicapping' team have done very well most School for the help he Elphick, the Sussex junior cham­ Groves and Di St. Ledger came to provided during and before the pion. the rescue, each winning their cases, although possibly the los­ ing teams would have a few tournament. One of the biggest changes in singles and together the dou­ comments to make. Forthcoming events in Dul­ English table tennis this season bles. Barry Johnson and Phil· wich are:-Junior and Cadet divi­ - it was starting to happen last Gunn took the Men's doubles, LEAGUE sions' top 8's at Oliver Gold­ 'deuce' in the third but in the season - is the huge increases in The second session matches srnith's School, Thursday, 28th men's singles only Johnson won the number of players ,appearing of this popular competition was March at 6.30 p.m. against Jon Bradbury. in large tournaments. Cardiff held at the West Warwickshire Senior divisions' top-8's at Irv­ The match to decide the was slightly embarrassed by the Club on Jan. 27. Championship could be against ing Sports Club 1st April at 7.30 heaving ranks of men in the The North League side playing Leicestershire at Nuneaton on p.m. qualifying rounds from England, their first matches in the com­ 16 Feb. At the moment Warwick­ Finally, and sadly, Janice tells and at Bletchley there is a similar 'petition fora number of years shire have a one set advantage. me she has to retire from the picture. could prove to be this season's Our chances rest on the game due to an injured back. This would appear to be a dark horses, their first surprise availability of the top men ­ triumph for the computer points was when they turned up with Morgan, Phil Gunn and the system, but I suspectJohn Prean Warwickshire's No. 2 Woman Johnsons, Barry and Douggie. will have other thousand-word Sandra Peakman in the squad .theories! and secondly taking on the John Woodford reports from.... might of last year's winners JUNIOR DIV. 2A Rugby beating them 5-4. North's SUSSEX The Junior 'A' team have won Colin Greene was the main WORTHING TARGET two and lost two. They beat reason for their success beating Mary Rose reports from..... Cheshire at home and in an both Mark and Ian Randle, wei.! Something of a record will be played Colin. A. Johal and P. created at the 1985 all-Sussex WARWICKSHIRE epic week-end up North, lost to Northumberland 4-6 in the after­ Waite made up for the rest of the championships at the plush NEW RANKINGS North side. Worthing Sports Centre on March noon then travelled down to beat Revised County Rankings (as at Cleveland 8-2, only to lose to Stratford after having rather a 24 if the Moorefamilycan liftfive lean spell, victory just eluding titles. 1st February 1985) and mon­ Lancashire at Coventry 7-3 in a opolised by players from Bir­ disappointing display. them on several occasions, beat Stephen and Adrian Moore Leamington 5-4 which must will, it is expected, be the top mingham are:­ MEN have been very satisfying for the seeds in the men's singles and 1 D. Douglas It is hoped that in the remain­ Stratford side of ,Mike Lanston, . meet once again in the final as 2 C. Morgan ing programme Mark Randle, V. 3 D. Johnson Nicky Mytton,. Mandy Mytton they did last year. The chances of 4 B. Johnson Chauhan, S. Swallow, Dawn and Simon Upson. the star Bexhill men losing the 5 P. Gunn Bromley and Tina Brown can 6 I. Gunn men's doubles seem remote and salvage some pride and 'finish as Second session results:­ 7 L Bertie Leamington 4 Nuneaton 5 the chances of one of them 8 M. Browne runners-up. Stratford 1 North B'ham 8 32 County Notes

Coventry 3 Rugby 6 breathed again, and there his eight sets so far. Jeremy Leamington 4 Stratford 5 Nuneaton 4 Coventry 5 seemed Iittle doubt that he Hobbs is (also waiting for his Rugby 4 North a'ham 5 would beat Priftis. But he did chance. North a'ham 8 Leamington 1 give us some frights,. with COMMONWEALTH AND The Final Session will be held patches of looseness in both WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS at the Phoenex Club, Coventry on games. But he won two-straight, Sunday, 10th March in a com-· and we were home. The same sides will represent petition which is now very open. Which was just as well, be­ Wales in both these events. They open. cause Nigel Tyler, up against are - Alan Griffiths, Nigel Tyler, the No.2 Zikos, proceeded to Nigel Thomas and Mark Thomas, with Lesley Tyler and Shirley COACHING SEMINAR play poorly again, and will want to forget the whole evening, Cain-Williams constituting the The Coaching Committee of ending as it did with another women's team. Brian Everson the Birmingham Association defeat. will be the non-playing captain. held a one day Serrlinar on Sun­ 'The match was splendidly day, 27th January at the Bir­ By H. Roy Evans arranged by the Swansea mingham Athletic Institute HOME SUCCESS League, and a good crowd was which was open to all coaches ever ready to applaud some good and participants in table Another home success in the Laurie Selby reports from... table tennis. tennis. European League, this time Scores: Jim Peakman, Chairman of the Greece, gives Wales its WILTSHIRE A. Griffiths bt D. Zikos 8. 13; Birmingham Coaching Commit­ best record for some years. N. Tyler lost to C. Priftis 11.-18. -18; SILVER LINING IN GLOOMY tee was in charge. Ironically, whereas in the past, L Tyler bt M. Louka 5. 19; Tyler/Thomas lost to Priftis/Zikos -9. -14; SKIES Donald Parker the ETTA too many matches have been Tyler/Tyler bt Zikos/Louka 19. 19; Three tears but only one National Trainer/Coach was to lost because of no success in the Griffiths bt Priftis 19. 17; Tyler lost to Zikos -16. -16. that was the outcome of Wilt­ have given a couple of talks but women's singles or mixed dou­ shire's latest matches in the due to bad weather conditions bles, this time had not Lesley NATIONAL LEAGUE County Championships. and an accident on the motor:.. Tyler played her best ever table The still weak Butterfly Cardiff The cheer came from the way he was unable to attend. Bir­ tennis, we would surely have team continues its downward junior's first team who kept up mingham University had pro­ lost. slide, and relegation is now a their promotion challenge with a mised that a lecturer would be Alan Griffiths, looking as real threat. 7-3 victory over Essex seconds. present to give a talk on skill sharp as ever, got us off to a good On Dec. 30, the team went to But the first senior team, des­ training but unfortunately did not start with a fine two-straight win Dagenham, the only team beaten perate for points to avoid rele­ arrive. The seminar was still very over Greek No.2 Dimitris Zikos. by us so far in the league. But gation, were pipped 6-4 by Kent worthwhile and informative with Then Nigel Tyler went to the there was no repeat of that at Devizes and the senior seconds lectures and general discussion table against the No.1 Costan­ success, and ironically, it was slumped 7-3 away to Dorset on the future of the Coaching tinos Priftis, and won the first Nigel Thomas who must bear the seconds. programme. game easily. Too easily, maybe, blame for this 5-3 defeat. There was more bad news Phil Burwell a 3-Star Coach because in the second game Nigel lost to both Penny and from the junior seconds who gave a very interesting talk Priftis took charge, and won 21, Newman, and were thumped 9-1 by Somerset the new Dunlop Skill tests. 18. Nigel looked as if he would Manning beat and Penny, in Swindon. One of the aims of the seminar now get down to the job of win­ and Tony Healan beat Newman, The top junior side again was an attempt to revitalise an ning, which recent form sugges­ Bryn Tyl'er was unable to make provided the only silver lining in interest in table tennis which ted he would, but he lost touch any contribution. the gloomy Wiltshire skies pulling seems to be waning both at local completely, and with unforced The home match against Bath off their third win to keep pro­ and national level. errors and bad shots flowing from his bat, he lost, again at Toyota was played the day after motion prospects high.. 18. the thrilling Welsh Open Finals, The Wiltshire girls, Jenny Now it wasn't looking so good and proved to bea terrible anti­ Neale and Julie Mills, ended JUNIOR LEAGUE climax. Carl Prean was, of course, the match undeteated and Paul (BIRMINGHAM) for us because the next set was the women's singles, and we head and shoulders above the Tuck and Ian Neate each chipped An idea to combat the malaise have had very little success in others, and although Nigel in with two singles wins. of dropping interest and to give a this department in recent years. Thomas did beat Creed in Butter­ Bitter disappointment came competitive element that seems But Lesley, who has been prac­ fly's only success, the other sets from the failure of the top senior to be missing is the formation of tising hard, on that practice form provided dismal defeats. side to salvage at least one point a Junior League. and crushed Maria Louka in the Against St. Neots, Brian Ever­ from their home match. They got The idea is to in,terest thirty first game. son came into the team in the back into the chase only to fall at youngsters and form them into Louka certainly came back in hope of picking up at least one the final hurdle. ten teams of three. the second and held Lesley to win at No.4. But it was a vain Claire Maisey was Wiltshire's The Scheme was announced level pegging. But it was Lesley ploy, and St. Neots won 5-3. This only unbeaten player with Kevin at the recent Birmingham who pulled out the good shots in time Nigel Thomas did win his Satchell backing up with two Schools' Individual Champion­ the end to win 21, 19. two, and Manning took one, but good singles wins. ships and received a favourable The doubles surely ought to it was a match best forgotten. But with no wins coming from reception. have brought us a win. Nigel The options are running out the other singles, the pressure is If it is success it couId be the Thomas and Nigel Tyler paired for Butterfly, and their remaining really on for Wiltshire's next saving of the game in the Bir­ up' for this, and regrettably Tyler matches promise only one match. mingham Area. still couldn't get into touch, and possible win. This is a relegation battle Thomas played equally poorly. Cranfield Colours are certainly against Gloucestershire who are Neither helped the other to get doing' better and following holding up the league. NATIONAL CLUB RESULTS into form, and a two-straight splendid wins against Omega There were only out­ Reading (7-1), Gunnersby standing features in the senior In the 1st Round of the defeat was the disappointing result. Triangle (8-0), and TSP Larkhall, second team's match. The first Women's National Club Com­ they rose to third position. was the fine form of Tracy petition Birmingham representa­ So now it was two-all, with the But joy was shortlived, because Watkins and Brenda Lee who tives Redhill, entertained mixed to follow, and no great Jaques Fareham Irs brought an clinched all the Wiltshire vic­ Maccabi (London) winning im­ prospect that Nigel would unwelcome Christmas Eve gift in .,tories. pressively 6-0. recover to help sister Lesley to the shape of a 5-3 defeat, and The second came when Steve In the Men's Competition Bir­ victory. But Lesley rose to the this meant a drop to fourth place. Davies 'of Wiltshire opp'osed 'mingham's representatives occasion again, and was not only George Evans has withdrawn Steve Davies of Dorset. The latter B'ham Phones beat Moseley the dominant factor in the Welsh from the Cranfield side for pocketed victory. Park (Wolves) 5-4. pair, but to quote a wag - "was business reasons, but Warwick Mark Colyer chalked up the the best man on viewl" Armstrong has filled his place only victory the junior seconds With Alan to go on, we with distinction, winning 6 out of - but it was a fine win against 33 County Notes

England-ranked junior Murray family affair between sisters League. County I team pairing of Louise Barter. Julie and Tina Mills of Caine. They beat Cheltenham 'A' 8-2 and Sandra opposing current Senior results: Julie ran out winner 11, 19. away with Claire Hunter and champions Lynda Reid and Wiltshire I v Kent: Kevin Edwards lost to Dave Dodd -13. -11; Mark Colyer beat Clive Sims Brenda Lee each scoring three Mandy Mytton. This time Louise Andrew Oxley lost to John Burleton -14. -16; 15, 18 to take the boys' singles and Debbie Aldridge two. and Sandra were in dominant Kevin Satchell bt Andy Dodd 13. 8. title. Claire Maisey/Janet Parker bt Janet Smith/Juliet Playing in Swindon, they de­ form to win 13. Houghton -19. 15. 18; Graham Oxley won the feated Leamington 'A' 6-4. Brenda, One title which would have Edwards/Satchell lost to D. Dodd/Burleton 13. -15. -19. handicap singles when he beat Jenny Neale and Sylvia Morse been expected to be retained Edwards lost to Burleton -20. -1 3; Alison Boyce 15, 16 in the final. each scored twice. was the Mixed with Jukes and Parker lost to Houghton 15. -12. -17; Satchell bt D. Dodd 13. -18. 21; 'The handicap doubles went to Swindon's third win came Louise Davis defending their title, Maisey bt Smith 7. -13. 16; Ronald Muskiet and Jamie Smith against Gloucester who they but with N·icky Mytton snowboun'd Oxley lost to A. Dodd -7. -9. Wiltshire II v Dorset II: who won the final 14, -12, 16 beat 7-3. Brenda won three sets, sister Mandy was joined by Colin Martin Hughes bt Brian Powell 20. 18; against Graham Oxley and Terry Claire two and Jenny 1. Greene (Dudley) and they excelled Steve Davies bt Steve Davies 12. -18. 18; John Robinson bt Ray Hughes 12. 8; Flowers. After a day of marathon themselves to win 15, -10, 17. Joyce Coops/Hazel Feltham lost to Tracy Watkins! The tournament was held at o matches Raymond Powell ran Ray Dixon (Dudley) in his first Brenda Lee -13. -18; Robinson/M. Hughes bt R. Hughes/Davies 16. the Southbroom Centre for the out winner in the Ferndale club's season with Worcestershire -18.13; time. handicap championships. dominated the Veterans' events. Hughes bt Davies -16. 12. 18; Feltham lost to Lee -21. -1 8; SWINDON But he had his work cut out Brian Belcher had to withdraw Robinson bt Powell 19. 14; before beating John Kennerly in because of a neck injury but Coop lost to Watkins -13. 17. -16; A new name appears at the top the final. Dixon beat the holder Mervyn Davies bt R. Hughes 18. 13. of the men's list in the latest John, playing off plus three, Wood in the semi and Brett Davis Juniors Swindon ran kings. Wiltshire I v Essex II: took the opening game 21-14 10, 17 in the final. Dixon and Gary Killington lost to Paul Tuck 20. -11. -20; that of Neil Taylor who has but Raymond, with a handicap of Davis teamed up in the doubles Bao Ma lost to Ian Neate -15. -19; come from Down Under to go up Jason Clark bt Ray Powell 16. -17. 14; minus five, hit back to take the and, with Belcher not available, Helen Platt/Catherine Thompson btJenny Neale/ top of the mid-season ratings. next two 18, 15. Wood partnered Ron Butterton. Julie Mills 17. -14. 15; Neil, who lives in Cirencester Clark/Killington lost to Tuck/Powell-14. 12. -11; Raymond had a tough time in It was a hard fought contest with Killington lost to Neate 16. -20. -17; and is playing for Gloucester­ the semi before scraping home Dixon and Davis getting home Thompson lost to Mills 18. -19. -19; shire, hasn't lost a set in the Clark lost to Tuck -18. -18; against Cotin Worgan 21, 20. 10 in the third. Platt lost to Neale 13. -19. -15; Swindon league. But John had an even harder The Veterans' Women's Bao Ma bt Powell 17. 14. He is ahead of Bryan Wiltshire II v Somerset: scrap against Leo Godbold before Singles final inevitably brought Mark Powell lost to Philip Payne -9. -10; the former England closed singles­ , inching out 19, -20, 23. Janet Hunt, title holder for the CI ive Simms lost David Woodridge -1 8. -10; champion. Mark Colyer bt Murray Barter 11. 18; past few seasons, and Lynda Lorraine Cox/Sue lost to F. Stuart/K. Another new name at the top Reid together. They have met in Withyman -8. -5; of the Boys' list is Paul Tuck. Powell/Colyer lost to Payne/Barter -23. -13; many finals and Lynda showed Powell lost to Woodridge -25. 19. Maisey keeps her again that she often has the edge Vowles lost to Withyman -15. -19; stranglehold on the women's Doug Moss reports from.... Colyer lost to Payne -12. -17; on Janet by winning 15, 19. Cox lost to Stuart 19. -20. -17; section but Janet Parker's depar­ The weather and road conditions Simms lost to Barter -4. -8. ture .for Reading gives Tracy WORCESTERSHIRE had the effect that many of the Watkins second place. COUNTY CLOSED players from the Evesham area, DEVIZES Full lists are: The Closed Championships were John Mytton (the The queen lost her crown and Men: 1 Neil Taylor. 2 Bryan Merrett. 3 Steve played at Perdiswell Sports Referee) and family, were unable a remarkable reign came to an McBean. 4 Brian Powell. 5 AndrawOxley. 6 Andrew Oxley. 7 Ernie Howell. 8 Ray Hughes. 9 Centre with 12 tables in use. All to get to the Championships. end at the Devizes champion­ Basil Thompson. 1o (joint) Steve Davies. Brian but one of the titles changed This was a disappointment as ships. Freeman. Raymond Powell and Paul Tuck. Women: 1 Claire Maisey. 2 Tracy Watkins. 3 hands. Louise Davis showed her there has always been good Alison Boyce was dethroned Brenda Lee. 4 Helen Wilson. 5 Claire Hunter. 6 by holding support from Evesham League as the women's singles cham­ Jenny Neale. 7 Debbie Aldridge. 8 Sylvia Morse. Veterans: 1 Merrett. 2 Howell. 3 Thompson. 4 on to the Women's Singles title players. pion - the first time in at least 15 Freeman. 5 Brian Hey. 6 Michael Oxley. 7 John without dropping a game beating Bright. years that she has been beaten in Boys: 1 Tuck. 2 Ray Powell. 3 Ian Neate. 4 Martin Helen Pogmore 12, 7; Vera Royal County players had some the tournament. Edwards. 5 Mark Powell. 6 Steven Ely. 7 Lee 10, 14; Janet Hunt 4, 16; and in success in the Cotswold Junior Godbold. 8 Jazvinder Singh. 9 Paul Timmis. 10 Alison did not give up her title Martin Page. 11 Mark Nelson. 12 Colin Worgan. the final Lynda Reid 14. Select at Gloucester. Jukes again without a fight and won the Girls: 1 Neale. 2 Lorraine Cox. 3 Sue Vowles. 7 Lynda had a goodwin over County emphasised his success in Rachel Watkins. opening game against Brenda Cadet Boys: 1 Timmis. 2 Nelson. 3 Worgan. 4 team player Sandra Roden in the doubles events. With Adrian Lee but then the Swindon Nathan Pickett. 5 Michael Willis. 6 Peter Fry. 7 semi-final. Dixon not available he partnered David Bellamy. 8 Alex Collar. 9 Andrew Willis. 10 teenager got on top and clinched Matthew Prior. 11 Keith Quick and Keith Pointer. Murray Jukes regained the CliveGuest (Sheffield). They did the match -16, 13, 19. Men's Singles after a nail-biting exceptionally well to win the Swindon's Jenny Neale has Alison had the consolation of third game in the semi. Steve Junior Doubles title. 13-year-old made it into the England ranking winning the women's doubles Dunning was leading 19-12 in Nicola Jones (Worcester) played lists- the only Wiltshire juniorto partnering Brenda to victory the decisive gamef Jukes made a in the national cadet trials to gain do so. -18, 15 in the final. courageous fight back overhaul­ a No. 21 ranking. She followed Jenny has crept in at No. 48 in Brenda chalked up her hat­ ing Dunning point by point and this by reaching the quarters of the Giris' section but her form in trick when she teamed with hitting a tremendous shot to the cadet girls' singles event, the the ranking tournament at Brian Powell of Swindon to draw level at 20-all. The score remaining places occupied by Coventry could put her higher in victory in the then went to 21-all and Murray the girls nationally ranked at the next list. They beat the Devizes partner­ finally clinched it at 23-21 having Nos. 1-7. By virtue of this she has Jenny, who plays for Ferndale, ship of John Webb and Alison won 11 of the last 13 points! This advanced to be ranked No. 13. beat Amanda Shufflebotham Boyce -1 6, 19, 6 in the was followed by a scintillating Janet Hunt also did very well who is ranked 33 and Caroline Powell, playing in the cham­ final with Simon Claxton defend­ in the national Veterans' Cham­ Dada ranked 38. for the first time, also ing his title. Things were even pionships. She reached the The Swindon girl picked up 15 notched up a hat-trick of titles. when Murray won the first game semi-final of the Singles losing ranking points from the tour­ He won the men's singles in a at 12 and Claxton repl ied 'by to Doreen' Schofield, the eventual nament. tough battle against Graham winning 13. Jukes got away to a winner, and teamed up with Raymond Powell of Swindon Oxley of Cherhill 16, -13, 19. 5-0 lead in the final game which; Joyce Coop to reach the final of picked up 10 points with wins Powell snapped up his third despite every effort, Claxton was the Women's Doubles cham­ over Jonathan Huckle, Robert title beating John Bright of unable to overhaul. Murray took pionship. Etheridge and Lee Brown. -19, 11, in the the title by winning 15 in the From the Worcester School of veterans' singles final. Another Wiltshire player, decider. Sport I have arranged for 4 girls, Graham Oxley partnered his Michael Auchterlonie, picked up Simon and Murray linked up in aged 12 and 13, to playa return father Michael to victory in the eight points and finished 54th the men's doubles' meeting Steve Cadet girls' match with Leaming­ men's doubles. They beat Powell on the Cadet list. Dunning and Mervyn Wood in ton. The Worcester team is Nicola and Alan Duke (Swindon) 16 and Swindon women's 'A' team the final and taking the title with Jones, Kerry James, Michelle 19. have chalked up a hat-trick of scores of 14, -20, 12. The McDbrnell and Sarah Stone. This The girls' singles was also a wins in the Cotswold Ladies' Women's Doubles final had the is to be played in school half­ 34 County Notes term at Perdiswell Sports Centre. the Scheme could be our last Halifax men's singles title 40 Wakefield was not a true reflec­ The County I team looks well chance to develop table tennis years ago defeated Edmund tion' of the match which was set to win the championship of through the grass roots into.a Hindle in the vets. finals closely contested with most of Division 3C. The team has a 4 major sport again. Hope all con­ 12,11. the games won by the narrowest points and 20 games lead on cerned take up the challenge. Other winners:- Handicap: of margins. nearest rivals E.S.T.T.A. Chairman John Arnold D. Bottomley. Cadets: Jason who have two matches in hand. and Regional Coach Rowden Mitchell. Junior: Julian Taliku. The I team visits Avon" team for Fullen, demonstrated coaching Youths: Garry Power. HULL the last match and a win will and different aspects of the ROTHERHAM almost certainly result in taking Scheme to a large and recep­ 14-year-old Hazel Kavanagh the title. The success has resulted tive audience. Graham Coe the progressive showed much promise when from a good team effort this One of bonuses of the team manager and organiser of winning the Pontefract Open's season as the ladies, Louise Davis evening at Sandal was the the Rotherham-based South girls' singles by defeating and Sandra Roden, have gained opportunity it gave to meet Yorkshire National League Club Sheffield's Joanne Ward in the considerably in experience and friends from all over the County. was not too happy about unflat­ final. In the veterans' event Ron confidence which the selectors Coach and international umpire, tering press comments regard­ Jackson lost in the final to Brian expected when it was decided to George Turton, enthused about ing his talented 1st Team squad Edlington after defeating Mick persevere with the girls as a pair grand-daughter Emma Preece whom he is confident will gain Farnill in the semi. last season. Jukes and Claxton ,who at three years and ten promotion into the Premier Divi­ In the Premier Division of the Yorkshire League, Hull's draw have each lost only one singles months must be one of the sion at the .end of this season. with Doncaster puts them realis­ and have a 100% doubles record. youngest ever to attend - and "Our Premier Division Team next tically out of contention for the Likewise Louise and Sandra have play - at a coaching school. season wiII be spearheaded by a title, which they so narrowly lost lost only one singles each and Emma uses' a full size table but prominent coloured player," last season. Ironically it was have won 5 of their 7 doubles. stands on a large box to bring her 'commented Graham. With stars Humberside player who put paid The Juniors recently lost 4-6 to playing arm above. table height. like Que Van Que, Chris Rogers, to their hopes. Dave Skerratt, the Bedfordshire and title hopes Photo shows Emma ready for Steve Mills and Dave Gannon on Lincolnshire No.1 who plays in have unfortunately receded and action. George has also had a the books the only coloured the Humberside League, also the outcome rests upon the great deal to do with the coach­ player who could demand top appears in the Doncaster possibility of other teams taking ing and progress of one of the place in that team must be the League. He inflicted only the points off Bedfordshire and rapidly rising stars of Pontefract "Des" himself. Opinion has it Glamorgan. The juniors last match and Yorkshire, Karen Burrows. that Des will be spending a second defeat of the season on is against GI,amorgan. Tony Trigg, Pontefract/ season in England next time Derek Munt and then went on to Finances are rather strained Castleford League reports that round so who knows- unless the complete a maximum as he this season, the lack of sponsor­ Karen is having a marvellous ambitious Graham has a contact edged out Mike Harrison 19 in ship being a factor. For the first season after being out of the in China - I'll settle for Des. The the third to give his side a time in its history the Association game for two years resulting in mind boggles! point. has made an appeal to Vice­ an England ranking and a place Presidents from which a sum of in the Yorkshire Senior 2nd LEEDS £80 has so far materialised. The Team. She is also unbeaten at Joanne Roberts, a pupil of COUNTY JUNIORS Association has also asked inter-league and top local levels. Archbishop Cranmer School Congratulations to the County Leagues to help with sale of Karen's problem is the expense coached by Richard Hudson the Junior 2nds: Alaric Bassano, Draw Tickets, encouraging them of travelling round the tourna­ School's Coach and Rowden Tony Miller, Chris Oldfield, Ruth by allowing them to retain 50% ment circuit to collect ranking Futlen has made meteoric pro­ Bray and Caroline Dada who of the cash from sales. points. Karen, who lives at gress in recent months. Her most retain their 100% record after a Laburnum Court, Castleford, W. recent· success being to defeat 9-1 win against Warwickshire Yorks is keen to hear of a pros­ Helen Potts, England No. 16 and look set to challenge pective sponsor. Cadet in the final of the U-12's at strongly for the National. All the Pontefract/Castleford, the Cotswold Select after defeat­ Les D' Arcy reports from.... Yorkshire League sides are ing Tracy Hooker, No. 26 in the doing exceptionally well this semi. Keep up the good work YORKSHIRE season. The veterans:- R. Fullen, Joanne. A. Hanson, D. Kelly and INNER GLOW D. Wright and the cadets:­ SHEFFIELD News, like the weather, fluc­ Cook, V. Carr, T. Pike, D. tuates from near zero to quite Toole, J. Roberts and I. Starks Veteran Sheffield inter-league prorrlising. This month an influx have both 100% records in their player Tony Hunt, twice came of information from two the respective Yorkshire League within one point of registering smaller Leagues has given an divisions with seniors K. emphatic wins when playing for BADGES inner glow which helps to coun­ Burrows, N. Carr and C. White Sheffield 2nds against Wake­ ter the severe wintry conditions challenging for the Yorkshire field 1st Men's team. Tony led Quality Sew-On outside. It is reassuring to know Div. 3 title. 20-15 against Phil Tomlinson, of the enthusiasm and endeavour the Wakefield No. 1 in the 1st Minimum 20 shown by some of the workers HALIFAX game lost -20, won the 2nd 18 for table tennis throughout the Top seeds, Alan Dickinson and led the decided 10-4 before county. Others could do to follow and Tracey Robertshaw retained losing the set 21-23. At one their example, but why? their singles titles in the Hoechst game-all and 20-1 5 up in the For efficient Geoff Mortimer, one of the sponsored Halifax and Dist. decider against county junior Dunlop Sports leading officials, Championships. Dickinson who Alaric Bassano, Tony must have service contact: gave the answer at the very defeated Barry Snowden 15,1 6 felt that he' would not be going successful Yorkshire and in the men's final and with Mark home empty handed. Alas, it was Humberside launching of the McGorlick also took the men's not to be. Alaric decided he may A. CORY & CO. Dunlop Skills Awards at Sandal doubles title, defeating David as well hit out and go down in s. Magna Middle School in Bottomley and Snowden 19, 19 style. Unfortunate for Tony every LTD. Wakefield. Thousanas of pounds in the final. It was third time shot went on to give his oppo­ Glengarriff, are channelled annually into lucky for Snowden in the mixed nent the game and set at 22-20. Co. Cork, Eire. table tennis from beginner to when with Barbara Gee he defeat­ One thing Tony did teach every­ international level. The Award ed defending charrlpions, Paul one present was how to lose Scheme is but another example Stansfield and Tracey gracefully and with a smile, of this sports 'Firm's tremendous Robertshaw 13,1 6 to become which must have been very Telephone: effort to keep table tennis afloat. the new champions. difficult under the circum­ 010 35327 Unfortunately, according to the Howard Birch, an ex-Canadian stances. speech made by Mr. Mortimer, Open Champion who won the The final score of 9-1 to 35 Halex League NATIONAL LEAGUE By Fiona Brown

PREMIER DIVISION his rubbers were conceded. St Neots' solitary set was provided by No. P W D L F A 3 Keith Richardson who showed little favour in trouncing Dave 1. Thorn EMI Ellenborough 8 7 0 1 50 14 14. Gannon. In his second visit to the table Richardson was unlucky to 2. I 7 1 1 39 17 11 5 finish at the wrong end of a 21-19 scoreline in the deciding game 3. Omega Reading I 7 4 1 2 32 24 9 4. G.K.N. Steelstock Wolverhampton I 7 3 2 2 29 27 8 against Chris Rogers. 5. Jaques Farehem I 7 1 3 3 23 33 5 Despite this loss St Neots rallied in their next fixture, emerging 6. Grove Market I 8 2 0 6 21 43 4 victorious from a close fought affair with Butterfly Cardiff. The score 7. Tibhar london 8 0 1 7 14 50 1 standing at 3-2 in the Welsh team's favour St Neots in the shape of Stephen Moore, Keith Richardson and Peter Taylor mounted a three Thorn EMI Ellenborough, heirs apparent to the Premier Division set purge to claim both points in an exciting 5-3 finish. crown, have emphasised the strength of their claim by inflicting two Recovery seems to be the name of the game in this division. more resounding defeats in their latest rounds of fixtures. Birmingham Optical displayed how the of hand can defeat the Against Tibhar Larkhall England No. 4 Graham Sandley was in eye bypulling everything out of the hat to fight back from a 0-3 deficit supreme form as he overcame firstly Richard Jermyn 10 and 13 and beating Dagenham FC 5-3. Ex-international Douggie Johnson stopped then David Dodd 4 and 18. Dodd' s resistance had suffered an early the rot with a two game triumph over Kevin Caldon and from that blow when in the opening set he fought valiantly before succumbing point on Dagenham were completely dazzled. to superior skills of David Wells in a hard-fought three end encounter. In fact this rubber established the precedent for a match in which the 8-0 scoreline did not reflect the strength of Larkhall's challenge. In the final rubber Larkhall No. 4 Gary Spencer came close to breaking the Londoners' duck; recovering to level the score at one game each he battled hard before bowing out 20 in the third to Ellenborough's improving young Welshman, Nigel Tyler. Against Grove the following week it was Tyler who conceded the only Ellenborough loss of the afternoon when he was overpowered in straight games by Anwar Majid, but in all fairness it must be said that Majid is currently enjoying a spell of excellent form, in fact he only narrowly missed a second victory when, after recovering from a one game deficit, he was overhauled at 18 in the third end by Ellenborough's Mark Mitchell. Majid's skills had been much in evidence the previous week when Grove entertained the northern vultures Ormesby. The visitors continued their winning run with a 6-2 victory to retain second place G.K.N. Steelstock line-up (left to right): Trevor Washington. Jean in the League and with a game in hand over the leaders they are well Parker. Adrian Dixon. Jill Harris. Steve Dunning. Jill Powis, Fiona placed to take of the slightest Ellenborough slip up. Mark Evans. Andy Rich and Karen Groves. . Although Omega Reading now seem unlikely to threaten the top two teams they have secured both points in a confident 6-2 home win SECOND DIVISION NORTH over Jaques Fareham. Only Kevin Satchell, the visitors' No. 3, had P WD L F A Pt•. cause to rejoice with two fine wins over higher ranked players. He 1. Patsun Target Gold 8 7 1 0 43 21 15 despatched David Barr in straight games to stem the Omega at 3­ 2. March 8 4 3 1 40 24 11 1 and kept Jaques in the points hunt by racing to a second good win 3. Chan Construction 8 3 3 2 39 25 9 4. Sincil Lincoln 8 2 3 3 28 36 in three over John Souter at 4 -2 but alas support was not to hand. 7 5. G.K. N. Steetstock Wolverhampton II 7 2 2 3 28 28 6 Omega's England Junior Andrew Syed proved himself to be a fair 6. South Yorkshire II 8 2 2 4 26 38 6 match for Premier division opposition in collecting his second win of 7. Byker Newcastle I 7 2 1 4 32 5 the afternoon by holding off the challenge of Glen Baker; meanwhile 8. Kingsbro' Insurance Services 8 1 1 6 20 44 3 teammate Barr finished the afternoon by conquering Mark Oakley in Postponed owing to adverse travel condition• I v Stee'stock II. straight games. Patsun Target Gold have lost their 100% record following a 4-4 FIRST DIVISION P W D L F A Pt. draw with second placed March, a surprising result as March 1. 8ath Toyota 10 7 2 1 53 27 16 2. South Yorkshire I 9 6 3 0 51 21 15 struggled to earn a point against South Yorkshire in their last outing 3. Omega Reading II 8 5 3 0 45 19 13 while the Salford side had comfortably collected two points from 4. Birmingham Optical 9 6 0 3 44 28 12 each of their fixtures. 5. M8S St Neots 9 2 2 5 46 6 Bria.n Johns and Tony Taylor needed three games to stifle the 6. Dagenham FC 9 2 ' 1 6 29 43 5 challenges of Geoff Davies and Stuart Palmer in the afternoon' s first 7. Butterfly Cardiff 10 1 2 7 25 . 55 4 two rubbers, th.en March moved off the mark in the third when Robert 8. Onnesby II 8 0 1 7 15 49 1 Swift rallied to clinch a close contest against Salford No. 3, Tony owing to travel conditiona - II v Omega Boasman. Andy Withers and Palmer added to the March tally giving ~II~.:.-.. ,__ the vis itors a 3-2 lead but two sets from Taylor and Boasman turned League leaders Bath Toyota suffered an early shock when in the the tables once more. In a nailbiting finish Swift saved a match point opening set of their away fixture with Welsh side Butterfly Cardiff No. with a 23-21 third game win over Mike Owen. The result is unlikely to 2 Andy Creed went down in straight games to Cardiffs Nigel Thomas. affect Salford's promotion hopes but it is most certainly a confidence Unperturbed they responded like true champions, taking the remain­ booster for their nearest rivals. ing seven rubbers without a hiccough to retain pole League position Chan Construction handed out a 7-1 thrashing to Stockton based by the narrowest of margins over South Yorkshire. Kingsbro Insurance Services for whom only Malcolm Corking had any South Yorkshire, holding a game in hand 'over the leaders, measure of success in beating Lester Bertie while South Yorkshire collected another two points with a similar 7-1 scoreline against crashed 7-1 to Sincil Lincoln in their third successive defeat. Neil Cambridgeshire club MBS St Neots. The visitors' spirits were Bailey collected what transpired to be the Yorkshiremen' s only dampened even before the match began as No. 4 Peter Taylor, who success in the opening rubber, No. 1 David IIlingsworth was unable to had incurred an injury during the .warm up period. was forced to maintain the consistency which he had demonstrated in earlier withdraw from the afternoon's events and in the absence of a reserve matches as he fell firstly to Trevor Kerry and then David Skerratt. 36 League

SECOND QIVISION UTH 8-0 thrashings in recent matches mean that they have little chance of P W D L F A catching Erreys Print. especially now that the Sussex side have 1. Carpets 8 8 0 0 48 16 16 strengthened their squad with the recent signing of John Green. 2. TeB Dolphins 8 6 1 1 42 22 13 Abeng' s defeats came at the hands of Cippenham who must have 3. Jaques Fareham II 8 5 1 2 37 27 11 sighed with relief having broken a spell of luck which has resulted 4. Cranfield Coloura Help 8 4 1 3 38 26 9 in their drop out of the promotion race. The Londoners were 5. Omega Reading III 8 3 0 5 26 38 6 6. Triangle 8 2 0 6 22 42 4 relentlessly crushed Medway who had earlier cruised to a 7. TSP 8 1 1 8 24 · 40 3 7-1 victory over Ashford, for whom only David Goode made any 8. Spicer New 8 0 2 6 19 45 2 impression in beating Paul Amos, but the youngster demonstrated Postponed owing to travel conditions - Cranfield v Spicar. his skills in Medway's subsequent fixture as he defeated Les Wooding and Colin Luscombe helping the leaders to a 5-3 win over The league leaders ought to be re-named Holts Magic Carpets as AHW Pioneers. they have flown to yet another victory. Their latest victims, Gunners­ Ashford suffered a 2-6 defeat when they entertained second bury Triangle salvaged two sets but Dave Constance, Tony Clayton placed DSC Rams. Despite an opening victory by David Goode over and Gary Lambert are proving to be unbeatable in this division and John Dennison, the Rams were not to be denied as they raced to a4-1 final 6-2 scoreline was comfortably achieved. lead. Jonathan Goode kept the Ashford flag flying by scraping home Second place TCB Dolphins were forced to show their true fighting 23-21 in the deciding game of the 6th set against Junior Facey but spirit when they visited TSP Larkhall. The recovered from an straight games wins for Dennison over Darryl Windsor and Tony early 2·1 deficit to lead4-2 but wins by Phil Smith over Derek Holman Briscoe over Paul Baker secured the visitors their second point. and Ritchie Venner against Dave Harding saved the day and a point Erreys Print collected a point they entertained Nittaku for the Dolphins. Ruislip. Ruislip were forced to drain their resources to recover from a Jaques Fareham left Omega Reading standing after a shaky start in mid-match score of 1-3 down but as the Erreys lead was eroded team which Omega' s Simon Rowlands beat Graham Toole in straight manager Mike Watts must have sighed with relief when No. 3 Phil games. The Hampshire team raced to a 7-1 victory which secured the Richardson emerged victorious in two straight but close games two points which keep them above Welsh team Cranfield Colours. against Dipak Topiwala to secure a point. In the final rubber of the Cranfield have recovered their winning form in great style with a afternoon Erreys veteran Alan Rowden started strongly against 7-1 win over bottom club Spicer New Malden. Michael Hammond England-ranked junior Andrew Cunningham, but the youngster took was the only New Malden player to record a win when he the final two games with relative ease to ensure that Ruislip' s journey overwhelmed Gary Wilkins in straight games; despite the fact that had been worthwhile. four sets went the full distance the Sussex side were unable to add to their tally. DIVISION DIVISION NOR H P W D L F A PWD L F APts. 1. EAE Waveney 8 7 1 0 43 21 15 1. Unity Bradford 8 8 0 0 48 18 18 2. Norwich Foxwood 8 5 2 1 40 24 12 . Unity Leeds . 8 7 0 1 46 18 14 3. Witham Town F.e. 8 4 1 3 36 28 9 . South III 8 5 0 3 38 26 10 . -M.B.S. St. II 8 3 1 4 32 32 7 4. Ormesby III 8 3 1 4 30 34 7 5. Playrite Northampton 8 2 3 3 34 30 7 5'. Vickers Barrow 8 3 1 4 27 37 7 6. Sritannia 8 2 3 3 - 30 34 7 6. Wsshlngton 8 2 2 4 28 38 6 7. Hassy Perfection Soham 8 3 0 5 26 38 6 7. Ormesby IV 0 22 42 4 8. Crusaders Lincoln 8 0 1 7 15 49 1 8. Syker Newcastle II 8 0 0 8 17 47 0 The 6-2 scoreline of title contenders Unity Leeds' win over Brian Allison was the winner of two crucial sets for bottom club basement club Byker Newcastle disguises what was in many respects Crusaders Lincoln when they met Playrite Northampton. With the a close run affair. Leeds cruised steadily to a 4-0 lead but were forced score standing at 3·0 to the Midlanders Allison eased to a straight to move up a gear in orderto capture their second point. In the fifth set games win over Ian Hawes, a result which inspired teammates Matt Andy Hammett recovered from a game down to beat Keith McKandla Sheader and Brian Hill to follow suit, levelling the match at 3-3. In the then in the sixth set Peter Curry added to the Byker tally with a 23-21 penultimate set Playrite's Keith Nicol crushed John Malone and third game win over Paul Sanderson. Here the Byker recovery came to Allison came back to outclass Andrew Edmonds in three and an end as Matthew Connell and Julian Gittens scraped home against Crusaders celebrated their first point of the season. Keith Patterson and Rob Dodds respectively to confirm the Leeds Soham moved clear of the danger zone with a 5-3 win over MBS St team's superior status. Neots. Keith Samuels claimed two sets for St Neots but maximums Despite this win Leeds remain in second place as their Yorkshire from Julian Wheel and Peter Holliday with a single from Martyn compatriots Unity Bradford's success story continues following their Holliday were sufficient to poach both points. 7-1 thrashing of Ormesby III. Bradford's Steven Sharpe retained his Soham found the going much more difficult in their latest match as 100% record by beating Mark Simon and David Fewsdale. Ormesby' s league leaders EAE Waveney raced to an unassailable 5-1 lead. consolation rubber came in the sixth set when Chris Metcalfe Holliday and saved face by lifting the remaining rubbers defeated Craig Render. bringing play to a close with a 5-3 scoreline. In the previous round Having suffered a setback at the hands of Unity Leeds in their Waveney failed to take advantage of a 4-2 lead over Witham Town FC previous fixture South Yorkshire wasted little time in recovering their as Russell King fell in straight games to Peter Hayden and Trevor winning form as Vickers Sports Barrow discovered when they Bunn, despite a spirited revival in the second game, lost narrowly to travelled to Rotherham. Maximums by Roberts and Simms and one Robin Lang in 3 . set each by Bennett and Hopkins led to a 6·2 win and the two points , Meanwhile, Norwich Foxwood struggled to hold onto a point when which this secured means that the trio of Yorkshire teams maintain they visited East Anglian neighbours, Brittania Deepsure, in a match their stranglehold on the top three places in this division. so keenly contested that the lead changed hands three times. A draw Ormesby IV float clear of the danger zone following a well deserved was by far the fairest result. 5-3 win over Washington. The Clevelanders snatched both points with a pair offine wins in the last two rubbers. Stuart Millerfought off DIVISION WEST the challenge of Tom Trewhitt to triumph in three games and Paul P W D L F A Stevenson completed the Ormesby success story by overwhelming 1. Pengelay Torbay 8 8 0 0 51 13 16 2. Olivers Shoes Hinckley 7 5 1 1 36 20 11 Doug Laurence. 3. Hereford Times 7 3 3 1 32 24 9 4. Jolliffe Poole 8 3 1 4 30 34 7 DIVISI 5. G.K.N. 5teelstock Ladies 6 i 1 3 23 25 5 P W D L F A 6. Global Sports Plymouth 7 2 0 5 19 37 4 1. Medwsy 10 9 1 0 60 20 19 7. Grove Market Drayton II 7 1 1 5 21 35 3 2. The DSC Rsms 8 6 0 2 43 21 12 8. Launceston Kernow 6 0 1 5 12 38 1 3. Cippenhsm 8 5 1 2 40 24 11 4. Ruislip 8 4 3 1 39 25 11 The weird weather conditions which have swept the South West in 8 2 1 5 27 37 5. AHW Pioneers 5 recent weeks have devastated the National League programme. The 6. Ashford 9 ' 1 3 5 25 47 S 7. Print '84 8 1 1 6 20 44 3 only fixture to be completed was in early January, when the Devon 8. Abeng Warriora 9 0 2 7 18 - 54 2 dynamos Pengeley Sports Torbay continued their incredible run of 7­ 1 victories, their latest prey being Dorset neighbours, Jolliffe Poole. Young London side Abeng Warriors seem to have lost the fighting With a massive five point lead the Pengeley squad could almost spirit which they had developed in their pre-Christmas fixtures. Two afford to hibernate until the spring! 37 Halex League/Bath 2-Star Open

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES Third Division North 24.3.85 Vickers Barrow v Ormesby IV 21 .4.85 Vickers Barrow v Byker Newcastle II Washington v Ormesby III South Yorkshire III v Unity Bradford Premier Division Ormesby IV v Unity Leeds 21.4.85 Thorn EMI Ellenborough v Ormesby Omega Reading v Grove Third Division South Tibhar Larkhall v GKN Steelstock 14.4.85 Nittaku Ruislip v Cippenham 21.4.85 AHW Pioneers v Cippenham First Division DSC Rams v Nittaku Ruislip 21.4.85 MBS St Neots v Omega Reading II Medway v Erreys Print Bath Toyota v Birmingham Optical Ashford v Abeng Warriors South Yorkshire v Dagenham FC Butterfly Cardiff v Ormesby II Third Division East 21.4.85 MBS St Neots II v Norwich Foxwood Second Division North Playrite Northampton v EAE Waveney 21.4.85 GKN Steelstock " v South Yorkshire" Hassey Perfection Soham1v Witham FC Kingsbro Insurance v March II Byker Newcastle v Patsun Target Gold Halex Lincoln v Britannia Deepsure Chan Construction v Halex Sincil Lincoln Third Division West Second Division South 24.3.85 Launceston Kernow v GKN Steelstock Ladies 21.4.85 Spicer New Malden v Omega Reading III 21.4.85 GKN Steelstock Ladies v Launceston Kernow TSB Dolphins v Holts Carpets Hereford Times v Pengeley Torbay Cranfield Colours v Gunnersbury Triangle Global Plymouth v Olivers Shoes TSP Larkhall v Jaques Fareham II Jolliffe Poole v Grove"

The Women's Doubles pro­ M.D.: Semis: P. Whiting/Po Giles (Ov) bt BATH 2-STAR OPEN P. Smith/R. Venner (Sy) 10.-18,16. duced another title for the strong G. Toole (Sx)/Creed bt C. Holley (Ha)/Tilling Plymouth contingent with Carol 13.17. CARL TAKES TO THE WATER Final: Whiti"g/Giles bt Creed/Toole -20.17,18. by George O'Brien and Susan Butler putting W.O.: Semis: C. & S. Butler (Ov) bt Oimmoek/ - together a series of positive per­ Campbell (Bd) 19,14. S. Weston/M. Cohen (Av) bt Short (Sx)/ formances and appearing to O. Whiting (Ov) 12.10. Despite a low entry and the her way through with wins over improve as the day progressed. Final: C. & S. bt Weston/Cohen 14.11. B.S.: Semis: Prean bt P. Payne (So) 9.12. threat of adverse weather condi­ Sally Weston (19,9), Sarah After dropping a game against P. Savins (Bk) bt P. Harris (He) 12,-19.21. tions the Bath Open was once Webb in the semis, and Elaine Helen Perrott and Melonie Carey Final: Prean bt Savins 21 -10. 21 -1 O. G.S: Semis: M. Carey (So) bt H. Perrott (Av) again successfully held at the Short in the final. Earlier Sarah the Butler beat Julie 12.9. Sports and Leisure Centre had won her place in the semis Dimmock and Dawn Campbell in S. Butler bt K. Withyman (So) 17.-17.8. Final: Carey bt Butler 17.15. with sponsorship from the local against Dawn Campbell winning the semis and Sally Weston and firm Bathwick Tyres Ltd. deuce in the third. Elaine had Michelle Cohen in the final. Play started promptly at achieved her place in finals The Boys' Singles was domi­ 9.30am with all entrants in the over Julie Dimmock. nated' by Prean who strolled Men's Singles being required to With many scratch pairings in through with a series of convinc­ play in the qualifying groups. the Men's Doubles the seedings ing wins to meet Paul Savins in Carl Prean, in the top half of the were somewhat of a lottery and it the ·final. Some brave strokes NORTH draw, put together a series of is of some credit to the organ is­ from Paul could not hide the gulf very convincing wins and it was ing committee that three of the that existed between Carl and BOURNEMOUTH left to those players in the seeded pairings found their ways the other competitors and this 1-STAR bottom half of the draw to con­ to the semis. In the top half of the was reflected by the final score. test who to play Carl in the draw Creed and Toole found Philip Payne and Peter Harris final. Paul Hooper of Bristol with enough rhythm to reach the were the beaten semi-"finalists. by C. B. Cashell good wins over Phil Smith semis where they met the The Girls' Singles did not run (18,18), Richard Russell (8,15) unseeded Chris Holley and true to form or at least not true to Several ranked players partici­ and Graham Toole (18,12) Tilling. In the bottom half Paul the rankings. Sarah Webb our pated in the North Bournemouth reached the semi-final where he Whiting and Paul Giles had little No.1 seed lost to young Kirsty l-Star Open on February 3 with met his Bath Toyota team-mate difficulty against the seeded Phil Withyman -14,-22 in the second Avon's Andy Creed and Cathy Andy Creed who had seen off Smith and Richard Venner. In the round whilst Helen Perrott our Ridgard of Hants winning the challenges from Paul Whiting first semi Creed and Toole dis-. No.2 seed lost to Melonie Carey major singles events. Dorset's (13,18) and Gary Wilson (13,14). posed of Holley and Tilling in the semis. The final saw Susan Hegarty and Mark Werner In the semis Carl continued his although the second semi was a Melonie pulling back a deficit in were the beaten finalists. august way of beating Ray Tilling much tighter affair with the the first game but eventually Results:­ Plymouth boys eventually win­ winning in straight games. MS: A. Creed (Av) bt M. Werner (Do) 10. 17. whilst Creed had the measure of WS: C. Ridgard (Ha) bt S. Hegarty (Ha) 19. 18. Hooper. In the final Andy tried ning 16 in the third. The final Results: MO: Creed/Po Lewis (Gs) bt S. Moreman/G. Siaek his hardest but could make no was exciting with the advantage M.S.: Semis: C. Prean (loW) bt R. Tilling (K) 9.10. (Gs) 14. 17. A. Creed (Av) bt P. Hooper (Av) 18,10. WO: L. Harman (Oo)/Hegarty bt R. Jeal (00)/ impression on Carl. moving constantly from one pair Final: Prean bt Creed 7.10. B. Clark 19, 15. In the Women's Singles the to the other before Whiting and W.S.: Semis: C. Butler (Ov) bt S. Webb (So) 19,10. Xo: J and S Hegarty (Do) bt S. Rose/L. Kaplan (Mi) E. Short (Dv) bt J. Oimmoek (Bd) 18,-11.12. 19.17. No. 1 seed Carol Butler bustled Giles got home. Final: Butler bt Short 13,11 . JS: J. Hegarty (Do) bt O. Wooldrige (So) 12. 17.

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38 Beneficial Trust - Junior Grand Prix

trophy in a closely contested .attention, as the Referee, was BENEFICIAL TRUST final. not being sought by at least five For the second time in people simultaneously! JU'NIOR GRAND PRIX successive Beneficial events, Results: Boys' Singles: Round 2: Cheshire's Claire Potts had to J. Stokes (Bk) bt C. Oldfield (V) 19, 16; satisfy herself with the runners­ R. Thomas (Do) bt T. Blackman(Nd) -19. 23,12; NORTHERN DOMINATION Cunningham (K) bt P. Gooding (Sk) 8, -18, 17; up medallion in the Cadet girls' B. Billington (0) bt J. Ellis (Cw) 16, 18; singles, as Kerry Halt brushed G. Kemp (Bk) bt M. Syed (Bk) 13.12; By Fiona Brown M. Randle (Wa) bt T. West (Ex) 16. 14; aside a one game deficit to take C. Guest (V) bt R. Hayward (St) 3, 6; the honours. However, .Miss P. Savins (Bk) bt N. (Y) 5, 17.. Of the ten titles up for grabs in defeat Miss Shaw and earn a Potts did add to her extensive Quarter- Finals: the recent Beneficial Cotswold place in the final. Stokes bt Thomas 9, -14, 12; trophy collection when, PClrtnered Cunningham bt Billington 12, 15; Junior 'Select', nine went to Here she met and succumbed by Andrea Holt she overcame the Randle bt Kemp 17, 12; northerners, the only exception to the talents of Lancashire Derbyshire duo of Hall and Julie Savins bt Guest 19. -9. 19. Semi-Finals: being the Boys' crown which t Cadet Andre-a Holt, the girl whose Billington, to lift the Cadet girls' Stokes bt Cunningham 11, 15; was captured by Berkshire's fortunes had certainly changed doubles title. Randle bt Savins 10, -16, 17. Jimmy Stokes with a repeat overnight since unexpected In the Cadet boys' doubles No.· Final: exhibition of the calculated skills defeat in the Cadet girls' semi­ 2 seeds Da'mian Holland and STOKES bt Randle -18. 12. 14. which enabled him to clinch the final. In the Junior event Miss Girls' Singles: O'Driscoll, made an early exit, Quarter- Finals: Beneficial English Closed title steady defence and deep­ allowing Yorkshire's Neil Simms J. Shaw (Y) bt A. Boxall (He) 11. 16; earlier in the season. probing returns, particularly to ,and Chris Oldfield to make a D. Soothill (Cu) bt J. Houghton (K) 16. 10; the backhand wing, unsettled Holt (La) bt T. Holland (E) 20. 9; Unfortunately the 1984 Grand rather easier than anticipated L Hayden (E) bt H. Perrott (Av) 10. 18. Prix winner Andrew Syed had Miss Soothill who appeared passage into the final where they Semi-Finals: not entered but with vital '0' nervous throughout an opening Soothill bt Shaw 20. 18; overturned the form' tables on Holt bt Havden 18. 20. levels on the horizon I am sure game in which she was always No. 1 seeds Billington and his Final: fighting an uphill struggle as HOLT bt Soothill L 19. that we can all appreciate his Norfolk partner, Neil Pickard. Boys' Doubles: -- dilemma in trying to reconcile Miss Holt pulled away to win. The outcome of the Under-12 Semi-Finals: educational and com­ In the second both girls were Guest/M. Jukes (Wo) bt P. Savins (Bk)/Thomas singlescompetitions did little to -19.18.17; mitments. In his absence the No. locked in a point for point battle reinstate the confidence of the P. Amos (K)/Cunningham bt Billington/S. Gibson (La) 16. 14. 1. seed Stokes, in supreme form, with' the. attacking Cumbrian seeding committee as the quick to utilise her. powerful Final: overcame a strong challenge favourites flopped at every turn. GUEST/JUKES bt Amos/Cunningham 20. 14. forehand smash biJt Miss Holt from Dorset's Rodney Thomas in Inthe Boys' event Brian Mileham, Girls' Doubles: the quarters and brushed aside was not to be denied the title and despatched No. 1 seed, Leigh Semi-Finals: with a consistent display of her Shaw/J. Powis (St) bt C. Moulon (Hd)/BoxaIl18. Andrew Cunningham in Jeffries en to the final, but 18; his next visit to the table, before defensive skills she proceeded Hayden/M. Cohen (Av) bt C. Potts (Ch)/Holt 15. he proved no match for the 17. facing an unexpected final to conclude the match in straight superior skills, on the day, of games. Final: opponent, Mark Randle, from Lancashire's Andrew Eden, who SHAW/POWIS bt Hayden/Cohen -18. 9. 20. Powis and Shaw gained some Warwickshire. cru ised to victory. Under-12 Boys' Singles: As Stokes raced to an early consolation for their below par Semi-Finals: The Under-12 girls' event pro­ lead in the opening game, the singles performances by winning B. Mileham (K) bt M. Auchterl!:m;e (Wi).12. 19; vided one of the biggest upsets Eden (La) bt G. Knights (St) 15, 18. small yet knowledgeable band of the Giris' doubles when they of the tournament as the un­ Final: spectators showed a little sur­ triumphed the relatively EDEN bt Mileham 14. 9. seeded J. Roberts of Yorkshire prise, but any ideas which they inexperienced partnership of Under-12 Girls' Singles toppled England No. 16 cadet entertained of witnessing a swift Avon's Michelle Cohen and Lisa Semi-Finals: Helen Potts in the final. Taking H. Potts (Ch) bt C. Buckley (Bd) -12.18.21;' victory by the Berkshire boy were Hayden of Essex. Shaw and Powis J. Roberts (V) bt T. Hooker (Bk) 17. 17. the first game by the narrowest soon dismissed, Randle rallied obviously stunned after losing Final: of margins, she raced to a 21-13 to take the first game and Stokes the opening game of this final ROBERTS bt Potts 20. 13. victory in the second providing a stared in bemused disbelief' moved up into overdrive to take Cadet Boys' Singles: result which should be an in­ Semi-Finals: towards his coach as his the second but Cohen and Hayden, M. O'Driscoll (V) bt A. Houghton (K) 15, 14; spiration to all of those young­ opponent refused to submit to a unperturbed by this temporary Billington bt Oldfield 17. 18. sters as yet unrecognised by the Fin.l: barrage of spectacular shots. lapse fought gallantly in the ha Ilowed com BILLINGTON bt 0·DriscoIl17. -9,15. Obviously surprised by this decider before succumbing to C.det Girls' Singles: resistance Stokes returned to their opponents' greater ex­ The Mayor of Gloucester, Semi-Finals: K. Hall (Oy) bt Holt 16, 10; the table to produce a less perience. Councillor Terry Wathen, and his C. Potts bt J. Billington (Dy) 22, 14. flamboyant, yet businesslike per­ In the boys' doubles event wife must surely have been Final: formance. Abandoning his high­ Murray Jukes, who for some impressed by the skills of all the HAll bt Potts -12. 20. 17. inexplicable reason has only a young players who had pro­ Cadet Boys' Doubles: thrown Showman's service, he Semi-Finals: exhibited the fleeting footwork moderate record in singles play, .gressed through a long but enjoy­ Billington/N. Pickard (Nk) bt Mileham/Eden 3, 16; proved once again that he is an able competition to contest the N. Simms (Y)/Oldfield bt Houghton/R. Jones (Sy) and dazzling speed of reaction 18, 11. . that champions are made of, to extremely talented doubles finals in sporting style. Final: level the match. competitor. In the absence, The prizes were presented by SIMMS/OLDFIELD bt Billington/Pickard 13, 14. In the deciding game Randle through injury, of his regular Mr. Mike Kitthener, the Regional Cadet Girls' Doubles: partner, Adrian Dixon of Staffs, Manager of Beneficial Trust, who Semi-Finals: was rarely in contention despite C. Potts/Holt bt J. Scott-Pawson a spirited fight to recover from he was paired with Yorkshire's was introduced to the players by (Dv/Do) 9. 13; Clive Guest. Much to everyone's Mr.' John Bunn, Chairman of the Billington/Hall bt Toole/E. Meddings (Y) 10. 10-3 down at the change of 13. consternation this scratch pairing Gloucestershire ITA. Mr. Bunn ends, he bowed out with honour Final: as Stokes celebrated yet another progressed comfortably to the took the opportunity to thank the POTTS/HOLT bt BilJington/Hall -22, 21, 19. fine achievement. final where both performed with players for their support of the Boys tournament and the Organising 1 Jimmy Stokes (Bk) 48 In the corresponding girls' composure and confidence to 2 Bradley Billington (Dy) 20 event the first surprise came overcome the challenge of No.2 Committee fortheir efforts which 3 Clive Guest (V) 16 had been rewarded by a most 4 Thomas Blackman (Nd) 14 when No.2 seed Jill Powis of seeds Paul Amos and Andrew 5 Rodney Thomas (Do) 12 Staffs failed to qualify for the Cunningham of Kent. successful event. 6 Andrew Cunningham (K) 10 It did not escape my attention Matthew Syed (Bk) 10 competition proper as Avon's In the Cadet singles events the 8 Adrian Dixon (St) 8 Helen Perrott advanced from honours went to Derbyshire's that a certain Mr. Doug Young, Mark Randle (Wa) '8 sitting alone in· the corner of the Andrew Syed (Bk) 8 that group. With her main rising stars Bradley Billington Gi;ls challenger dismissed the No. 1 and Kerry Hall. Billington came hall, almost fell asleep during the 1 Joanne Shaw (V) 38 to Gloucester" with his sights boys' singles final. I think we can 2 Andrea Holt (La) 16 seed, Joanne Shaw of Yorkshire, Juliet Houghton (K) 16 appeared to have a clear path to firmly set on this particular title excuse him forthis slight lapse in Jill Powis (St) 16 and his confidence ,was rewarded concentration as this must have 5 Lisa Hayden (E) 14 her second Beneficial title of the Claire Potts (Ch) 14 season, but Cumbria's Debbie as he resisted the challenge of been the first moment since the 7 Debbie Soothill (Cu) 12 No.1 seed, Michael O'Driscoll, tournament commenced, early 8 Louise Davis (Wo) 10 Soothill had other as she 9 Julie Billington (Dy) 8 withstood all the pressures to 'take the applause and the on Saturday morning, that his Kerry,Hall (Dy) 39 Home News

and Johnny Sommerville and JUNIOR OPENS CORNILLEAU SOUTH OF supremely refereed by Phil YORKSHIRE EVENING PRESS Goacher and Jirrlmy Anderson. SELBY JUNIOR 1-STAR ENGLAND JUNIOR OPEN The trophies were presented (9.2.85) B.S.: s-1's: by Cornilleau's David Taber. David C. Guest (Y) bt J. Bult (Y) 15,16; THE NORFOLK NIPPER mentioned the Olympics as M. O'Oriscoll (Y) bt A. Ball (Y) 14,16. Finat: 0'0RISCOLL bt Guest 19,-15,1 8. By Mike Green something to aim for for all the G.S.: s-1's: . young competitors. He tipped K. HaU (Oy) bt D. Toole (Y) 21,12; S. Hurry (SCO) bt J. Billington (Oy) 15,-18,12. Neil Pickard as a future Olympian. Final: HALL bt Hurry 15,8. There's no reason not... B.D.: 5-1'5: Neil Pickard, the Norfolk nipper, general consenSus of opinion C. Oldfield/N. Simms (Y) bt Bult/Guest 13, And note to all catapulted himself into the was that Cunningham rather threw -19,18; Umpires... Lisa Robins is dis­ Ball/O'Driscoll bt O. Fewsdale/A. McKeown limelight at the Cornilleau­ it away. (Cvj 16,20. guising herself as Lesley Souter. sponsored South of England Melonie Carey was the young Final: OLDFIELD/SIMMS bt Ball/O'Oriscoll So beware.... Those who were -19,13,14. Junior Open held at Monks Hill lady everyone noticed in the U17 G.D.: Final: there on Sunday know what I Sports Centre over weekend Girls. Although unseeded, she BIUINGTON/HALL ,bt Hurry/L. Hood (SCQ) mean.... 16,18. of Jan. 26/27. really did look a class player C.B.S.: Final: O'DRISCOLl bt Oldfield 11,-17.18. The perky youngster did East timing the ball superbly. She C.G.S.: Final: Anglia as he collected disposed of Lesley Popkiewicz, HALL bt Hurry 15,19. U-12 B.S.: Final: three titles. Seeded No.1 in the Alison Boxall, and Helen Perrott M. Stephenson (Y) bt K. Horsfield (Y) 9,11. Cadet Singles, Neil sh,owed he who were all seeded in reaching U-12 G.S.: Final: E. Medding5 (Y) bt S. Lawton (Cv) 6,12. was a cut above the rest winning the final. Summary: the event without dropping a Juliet Houghton came through U17BS: RodneyThomas (Do) btAndyCunningham game. His closest match was the the other' half without any (K) -19,13,12. TSB EXETER U17GS: Juliet Houghton (K) bt Melonie Carey JUNIOR 1-STAR final itself,' and Kent's Brian difficulty, but the top soon (So) -14,18,18. U17BD: Thomas/Neil Pickard (Nk) bt Andy Davies (9.2.85) . Mileham only managed to get 12 found M iss Carey quite a handful. (Sy)/Paul Elphick (Sx) 15, 16. B.S: R. THOMAS (Do) bt P. Payne (So) 13. 19. and 14 there. Melonie won the opener easily U17GD: Rachel Knight(Mi)/Alison Boxall(He) bt G.S: H. PERROTT (Av) bt M. Carey (So) 10, Helen Perrott (Av)/Lynne Trussell (Sx) 18, 19. -19,9. The unseeded Mileham had and was miles ahead in the U14BS: Pickard bt Brian Mileham (K) 12. 14. C.B.S.: M. AUCHTERLONIE (Wi) bt P. Smith exceptionally well in reach­ second when Juliet stopped U14GS: Julie Norman (Be) bt Tracy Scott-Pawson (So) 12,16. (DQ) 19, 19. C.G.S.: J. WRIGHT (Ov) bt R. Skinner (Mi)' ing the final. Defeating fifth seed moaning and pulled U14BD: Pickard/Matthew Pemet (Sy) bt Richard 12.10. Matthew Pernet, he went on to together. The deciding Jones (Sy)/Andrew Houghton (K) 6, -16.19. B.D.: J. HEGARTYtrHoMAS bt R. Aitken/ U14GD: Norman/Julie Brion (Bu) bt Scott­ G. Hughes 15,14. beat Surrey's Graeme Connelly had some quite Pawson/Sarah Kettle (Av) -9, 21, 16. G.D.: CAREY/PERROTT bt S. Hammond/ who had accounted for Damian rallies and cO,uld have gone U12BS: Leigh Jeffries (Wa) bt MikeAuchterlonie E. Stevenson 15,14. (Ha) 18, 13. U-11 B.S.: N. BeVAN (Co) J. Maggs 4,13. Holland, and then squeaked home either way. Miss Houghton just U12GS: Caroline Buckley (Bd) bt Amanda U-11 G.S.: H. WRIGHT (Dv) bt S. Fowler in three in his semi against second managed to scrape home, but Dewsbury (Sy) 11, 8. 9,12. seed Andrew Houghton. even she must have been im­ Pernet and Pickard paired up pressed with Melonie...... _------_....._------­ in the Cadet Doubles as top The top seeds Rachel Knight seeds. Although struggling to and Alison Boxall didn't have too HEART OF ENGLAND overcome Tom Cutlerand Joseph much trouble winning the Bitran from Middlesex, they but the beaten finalists, CADET LEAGUE reached the final to be opposed Helen Perrott and Lynne Trussell by Richard Jones and Andrew had seen off fourth seeds Souter SEVERE DiSRUPTION Houghton. A super deciding and Harrlmond and second seeds by- Brian Aston game had the crowd transfixed Shufflebotham and Holland. as fortunes fluctuated. The top The Cadet Girls' event went as The 3rd session of the Cadet Coventry gained their first win seeds just made it at 21 -1 9. expected with Julie Norman League was severely disrupted this season by beating Young Neil had not yet finished winning the singles and doubles, due to the weather. However a Leamington 'B' 7-3. Marcus his winning streak. In the Junior her partner there being Julie brave Walsall team made the Rose won 3 with Cassius John Doubles he was paired with Brion. journey together with Coventry two and brother Peter Rose one. Rodney Thomas and what a team The tournament was spon­ and the two Leamington sides. Mark Jackson replied for th,ey turned out to be. The top­ sored by table manufacturers Played at Automotive 'Pro­ Leamington with one win and Kent pair of Amos and and suppliers Cornilleau (UK) Ltd. ducts Ltd., Leamington Spa, the Richard Miles gained 2 victories. Curi'ningham had bitten the dust The Surrey TTA are deeply in­ new venue provided a warmer Leamington 'B' then took on in the semis, their conquerors, debted to Cornilleau who have climate to play in. Leamington Walsall and crashed to a 9-1 Andy Davies (Sy) and Paul Elphick involved themselves unstintingly 'A' played Walsall in the first defeat, gaining a doubles con­ (Sx) thus contesting the final. in promoting the game in Surrey. match and it proved to be a very solation win by Jackson and Thomas and Pickard, working Their I.T.T.F. approved tables close one. Leamington's Jon Miles. beautifully, were much too strong were naturally in use and Williams lost his 100% record in The 1st round of the K-O however. once again to be made av'ailable the first set against James Dufty singles then got underway with Thomas didn't have a bad to applicants from Surrey at losing -15,-14. wins for Leamington's Claire weekend either. In the U1 7 special price. The excellence Walsall's Dufty proved to be Woodward and Miles. Due to the Singles, seeded at four, he took the Cornilleau tables cannot be the 'man' form winning his 3 shortened programme there will his expected semi-final place denied and seem to be universally sets comfortably. However, be another extra session on opposed by Philip Payne of popular amongst the players. Leamington's strength in depth March 2 at, A.P. canteen. The Somerset. The unseeded Payne, The tournament committee gave them a 6-4 victory with final sessionon March 23 at the with one of the upsets of the broke new ground in using the Williams his two other sets sup­ same venue will. decide the tournament, had disposed of Monks Hill Sports Centre. Our ported by Claire Woodward and league. winners and the final of second seed Paul Amos followed thanks go to the Croydon Cor­ Kat§ Ryan with two wins each. the K-O singles competition. by Tim Holder (Wo) and Bernard" poration, the caterers who did a O'Grady (Mi). Thomas halted this quite superb job (so don't bring TABLE ru n 14 and 13. sandwiches next year....) and to P W L F A Pts The other finalist was No. 1 John Anthony and his staff who Leamington lA' 6 6 0 50 10 12 seed Andy Cunningham. He had were extremely helpful. (They B'gham Schools 5 5 0 46 4 10 disposed of Pickard earlier before were there at 2 a. m. on the Walsall 7 5 2 51 19 10 cruising home cpmfortably in his Friday....). bravery award Northants Schools 5 4 1 34 16 8 semi against Elphick. goes to Mick Strode who erected Evesham 5 3 2 30 20 6 The final wasn't all it might the lighting without taking Mike Leamington 'B' 7 2 5 27 43 4 have been which was mainly due Kercher's advice to effect Per­ Coventry 5 1 4 14 36 2 to Cunningham's hit or bust sonal Accident Insurance cover. Rugby 5 1 4 9 41 2 attitude. Thomas wasn't com­ The event was superbly organised Bromsgrove 5 0 5 9 41 0 plaining, however, but the by Norman Hooper, Don B'gham Youth Ser. 4 0 4 0 40 0 40 BP 3-Star Open

(50' s narrowly ousted Final: GORDON bt Bellinge r 16. -17. 20. '. Double.: !ESSEX 3-STAR OPEN Peter Radford of Essex (60' s ·final.: slow loop). For Peter it would A. Cooke (Dyj/Sandley b. A. Be llingham (Stl/ C. M org an (We) 12. 9; ALISON WALKS ON THE WATER have been a unique double. He Bradbury/ W ells bt Mason/ Andrew 17. -12. 8. won the Men' s Singles title at Finol: COOKE/SANOLEY bt Bradbury/Wells t 5.. 14. by John Holland this tournament in 1971/72. '. Doub"': -fin".: Results: M. Sa insbury(Bk)/ Gordon bt S. Sandley(Mi)/ W itt The 27th BP/Essex 3-Star' Open' The Men' s Singles was merci­ Men', Singl••: ·1 2. 12. 11; wasn't too much fun for the fully less disturbed by the mois­ au.n fin.I.: J an L Belli nger bt J. Gru ndy/ J . arker (La) -15. Bradbury (Bu) bt Andrew Syed (Bk) 19. 15; 20. 10. admin. team, led by organiser ture. For most of the later stages S. Andrew (EI b. G. Sandley (Mi) 17. 16; . Finol: BELLINGER/BELLINGER b. Sa insbury/ Clive Oakman and referee Mike Skylet Andrew, the form player, D. Hannah (Scol bt D. W ells ( Mil · 18. 10 . 14; Gordon 12. -18. 12. Ca rl Prean (1.0.W .) bt Nicky M ason (Sx) 11 , -14, ' CI... II Mixed Singl••: Watts. Appalling weather con­ looked the likeliest winner. He 21. Semi-finall: ditions caused inevitable delays disposed of the Middlesex pair, ·finel.: D. Tan (Mil bt D. Blackbume (Ou) 12. 12; Andrew bt Bradbury -1 7, 11, 14 ; K. Cal don (EI b. Gannon (Le) 9. 16. and scratchings in snow- and Colin Wilson (15, 15) and Gra­ Prean bt Hannah 18 , - 17,1 9. Fin..: CALOON b. Tan 18 . 17. ice-bound Harlow, Then there ham Sandley(17, 16) with some­ Finel: PREAN bt Andrew 14 . 11. V.t • ••: '. ••: l : was the water. Some said it was thing to spare, to reach the semi­ i·finel.: D. Schofield (Chi b. P. D'Arcy (Chi 14. 15; condensation, some that the roof final. It was third ball attack A. Gordon (Bkl b. K. Witt (Bk) 19. 12; P. Radford (E) b. B. Parish (E) 11 . 11. L ellinol'!r bt J . Bellinger ( Bd) 9. -12, 17. Fin..: SCHOFIELD bt Radford ·20 . 1B. 13. was leaking, all agreed that there played with panache. Against .was water on the floor. Play was Sandley he returned tight services impossible on one table and with remarkable venom. 'Serve tricky on others. It was as if'Stan short' a well-wisher urged Graham the was simultaneously per­ as he ruefully gathered the. ball forming at.both ends on all counts from another Skylet kill. ' I did', at once. Well almost. protested the No. 3 seed. Matters came to a head in the Elsewhere Andy Wellman was enthralling Women's Singles staging the big upset by beating f inal between Alison Gordon, the top seed Alan in the top seed and fourth-seeded Lisa s·econd round, pnly o fall heavily Bellinger. Alison won the first Andy Syed in the next. Philip 21-16, but trailed 8-12 as the Bradbury, the sixth seed, then result of brillrant defence from dismissed Syed to face Andrew Lisa in the second. At this point in the semi. Bellinger slipped a ' puddle', There was little sign of the and fell heavily, in making a t iger who had ousted Sandley as a languid Skylet lost th e f irst end chopped return. Alison was first Carl and John Prean, the exultant team! to protest that, mopping up easily. A pep talk from cornerman . operations notwithstanding, this Dave Tan revitalised the Essex was too much. To her credit she man and Bradbury had no answer pointed out the greater unfair­ to the combination of serve and ' ness to Lisa covering the more destructive forehand in the watered territory at the rear of second and third. " the court. Mike Watts was ca lled In the other half Carl Prean and after 'free and frank dis­ was struggling. He survived a cussion', and much purposive tough three-ender with Nigel wiping and sponging, play re­ Ec kersley in the 3rd round and sumed ten minutes later. Lisa then seemed to be sinking, at clinched the second end and 15·19 in the third, to Nicky seemed to have broken Alison' s Mason, in the last eight. The spirit as she established an 8-4 crowd was almost unanimously lead in the decider. The England behind the eighth seed to the No. 1 came back, however, extent of cheering every Prean perhaps aided by a shade too error; the No.2 seed was casting much aggression by Lisa. In a anguished looks over his thrilling finale Miss Gordon shoulder. Yet the guts and inner missed an easy kill . at match composure of the Isle of Wight point, 20-19, but squeezed home youngster did not let him down Carl Prean receives the £350 winner's prize in the men's singles (or do I mean squelched) 22-20, as he scraped home 23-21 . from. Mike Buckley, Manager of the Office Management Depart­ to take the £175 winner's prize. In the semis Carl's cause again ment, BP International Ltd. Ea·rlier dramas in this event seemed lost against defending came when unseeded Jackie champion, Dave Hannah. This Bellinger ousted second seed, time he trailed 13-18 in the third Joy Grundy, Round 2 . Then there and again seemed about to lose was a highly charged encounter to a faster and more aggressive between Karen Witt and Fiona opponent. Once more tight serv­ Elliot to decide who should face ing and a mixture of short tough Gordon in the semi. Fiona won play and aggression saw him the first at 8, provoking an assault home, at 19. The final was anti­ on defenceless barriers by her climax as Prean comfortably opponent. Although continuing dealt with Skylet's high toss to be at odds with herself, and serves and denied him forehand resembling a lioness in the openings. smallest of Miss Witt So the same players have now fought back to take the second at contested five consecutive 3­ 20. She trailed 7-10 in the third, star men's finals, and shared the at which pointshe parted com­ spoils. It was a disappointment pany with her bat, discus fashion, for the Essex fans but their man landing the projectile among had shown himself underseeded startled innocents on an adjacent at No. 7 and l ified his selection Women's singles finalists, Alison Gordon and Lisa Bellinger, court. :t let it get to you' for Gothenburg. debate the perils of the damp with umpire Doris Moors, and Fiona urged herself. Apparently Memories of previous eras Referee, Mike Watts. it did, because Miss Witt triumph­ were evoked in a captivating ed at 19. Veterans' final. Derek Photos by Murray "Hun" Corbin of Wimbledon. 41 E.S.T.T.A. Area Team Finals

English Schools' Table Tennis Association AREA TEAM FINALS by David Lomas

and Martin Thompson of Verdin, B13 Brislington. Bristol (Avon) G1 3 Chilton Trinity. Bridgwater (Somerset) W insford (Cheshire) was unde­ Bll M illfield Junior (Somerset) feat ed in B19 but the event G11 Camborne CE (Cornwall) winners w ere Hutton Grammer­ Three Girls' teams t hrough The Area Finals of the Dunlop Donald Parker' s former school. from Bridgwater but Avon' s National School Team Cham­ Bishop Rawstorne, Croston standard-bearers Brislington pionships were successfully (B13) include Andrew Eden at caught the eye w ith wo 8-0 staged on the . weekend of No. 1. in B13. Atrocious weathercondi­ January 19/20th. The winning Area 4 (Grantham) tions in the West Country teams were due to participate in B19 Derby (Derbyshire) . t hreatened to postpone these G1 9 Ca istor Grammar (Lincolnshire) one of three Regional Finals on 816 W oodlands, Derby (Derbyshire) Area Finals but a decision to go February 24th with the winners G16 Kesteven & Grantham Girls (lincolnshire) ahead with the arrangements Brampton Manor defend their 8 13 Gosforth. Dronfield W oodhouse G19 national title (Gillian Patten going through to the Grand (Derbyshire) was made and the start put back National Finals at Lea Green on G13 Gosforth. Dronfield Woodhouse to 11 a.m. Difficult journeys for at No. 1) and their B16 team look (Derbyshire) strong with Essex Junior No. 5 March 23rd. Bl1 Cronfield (Derbyshire) Budehaven (B16) and Camborne G11 Gonerby Hill Foot (Lincolnshire) Jason Clark leading their line-up. NORTH REGION (G11) but they emerged ive Derbyshire teams winners. Tanya Holland (Mayflower G16) Area 1 (Thornaby) through (including all boys' brother Damian (Mayflower 819 Royal Grammar, New castle (Tyne &Wear) Area 8 (Southampton) 8 16 Biddick. W ashington ITyne & Wear) events) with Lincolnshire doing B19 Richard Taunton College, Southampton B13) won all their matches with G16 Sidney Smith High. Hull (Humberside) (Hampshire) contemptuous ease. 8 13 Ian Ramsey, Stockton·on-Tees (C leveland) well in girls' categories. Caistor G19 80u m emout h Girl s (Dorset) G13 W old Junior High. Hull (Humbersidel Grammar step up to G19 after 8 16 Hreod Burna Parkway. Swindon Area 12 (Croydon) 8 11 Junior High. Hull (Humbersidel their appearance in G16 national (W iltshire) B 19 HaNey Grammar. Fo lkestone (Kent G 11 Wold Junior High. Hull (Humberside) G16 Talbot Heath. 80urnemouth (Dorset) County) Fina l last year. No joy for any of A good day at Thornaby 813 Walhampton. lymington (Hampshire) G19 Golkestone Girls (Kent County) the six Nottinghamshire teams. G13 Talbot Heath. Bournemouth (Dorset) B16 Ifield. Crawley (West Sussex) Pavilion for Humberside teams 8 11 Even Swindon Junior (Wiltshire) G16 Tamworth Manor, Mitcham (Surrey G11 Park North County Primary, Swindon Metropolitan) speartreaded by Wold Junior MIDLANDS & WEST REGION (Wiltshire) B13 Downside. Pu rley (Surrey Metropolitan) High who are current holders of Area 5 (Market Drayt onl Three Bournemouth girls ' G13 Hillcross Middle. Morden (Surrey the national G13 t itle and former B19 The . Market Drayton (Shropshire) Metropolitan) G19 Hanley High (Staffordshire) t eams through. Ta lbot Heath are Bll Downside. Purley (Surrey Metropolita n) G11 winners. Anthony Wattis of B16 Mary Webb. Pontesbury (Shropshire) in t he charge of former ESTIA G11 Aldryngton. Reading (Berksh ire) St. Mary's College, Middles­ G16 Hanley High (Staffordshire) Downside's successful B11 B13 The Grove. Market Drayton (Shropshire) Schools International, Julie brough, was the outstanding G13 The Grove. Market Crayton (Shropshire) Reading. Raymond Powell of team of last year step 'up to B13 player in B19 but St. Mary's went Bll Pontesbury CE Primary (Shropshire) event but they also have a B11 Gl1 Market Drayton Junior (Shropshire) Hreod Burna Parkway had two out to old campaigners, According to organiser Ia n good w ins in his team's B16 5-3 side through. A Folkestone Newcast le RGS. Marshall Market Drayton Junior success against Richard " double" in U19 events. Area 2 (Leeds) (G 11) are very strong and look Aldworth, Basingstoke whilst Aldryngton G11 are coached 8 19 Bu ry Grammar (Greater Manchester) by ETIA Selector, Peter G19 W oodkirk High. Wakefield (W est well set for their fourth national Edward Westmacott was out­ Yorkshire) . Charters, and West Sussex ma in­ 816 Kettlethorpe High. W akefield (W est tit le. He also says that The Grove st anding in Walhampton's B13 Yorkshire) are strong at G13 and there team. tain an interest in the shape of G16 Kettlethorpe High. W akefield (W est speaks a man of some exper­ Ifield, Crawley (B16). No joy for Yorkshi re) SOUTH & EAST REGION the Kent Metropolitan and B1 3 Baneyford M iddle, irtield (West ience having coached The Grove re)" Area 9 (St. Neots) Surrey County teams alttiough G13 Archbishop Cra nmer Middle. l eeds (W est to six national titles ' in 819 Bedford Modern (Bedfordshire) Wallop's No. 2 Jason Hole Yorks hire) seasons! Two Pontesbury teams G19 Ipswich High (Suffolk) Bl 1 Sandal CE Endowed Middle. W ake fi eld 8 16 Bed ford M odern (Bedfordshire) pulled off a good win over David (West Yorkshire) add to the Shropshire challenge G16 Putteridge High, Luton (8edfords hire) Fulton of Judd, Tonbridge in Gl1 St. Martin's CEo Oldham (G rea ter for honours whilst Hanley High 8 13 Bedford Modern (B edfordshircl Manchester) will do well to press the G13 Longsands, 51. Neots (Cambri dgeshire) B13. Four Wakefield teams Bl1 Old Buckenham Hall. Ipswich (S uffolk) Many County Schools Staffordshire involvement a G11 Ramridge Junior. Luton (Bedfordshire) amongst the six West Yorkshire Associations have already held stage further. Old Buckenham Hall's B11 winners which include some their Individual Championships prevented Bedford familiar names led by B13 Area 6 (Northampton) and det ermined their represen­ Modern's representation in the holders, Batteyford. Bury Gram­ B19 Lawrence Sheriff, Rugby (W arwickshire) tatives to go forward to the G19 Highfields. Wolverhampton (West Boys' events being referred to mar and newcomers Sf. Martin's, Midlands) Dunlop ESTIA Individual Cham­ the Monopolies Commission but Oldham, keep the Great er 816 Moseley Park. Wolverhampton (West pionships at Mansfield. Leisure M idlands) even so the Bedford lads have Manchester flag flying but no G16 Sir Wilfred Martineau , Birmingham Centre on Sunday, May 5th. three teams through to success for any of the South (W est Midlands) Lancashire Schools Secretary 813 Highfields. Wolverhampton Orpington. Local side Longsands Yorkshire teams. . Midlands) Geoff Ga rdiner tells me that in caused an upset in w inning the Area 3 (Fleetwood) G13 Ryelands Middle. Northampton the county's U11 events there 8 19 Hutton Grammar, Preston (Lancashire) (Northamptonshire) G13 against Stopsley High, Bl 1 Bilton Grange. Rugby (Warwickshire) are 55 boys and 32 girls. Bu t a G19 Kirkbie Kendal (Cumbria) Luton, t hanks mainly to Tracy 8 16 Parkview. 8 arrow (Cu mbria) Gl1 Wetlesbourne CE oWarwick NIL entry for Under-19 Girls! G1 6 La ncaster Girls Grammar (Lancashire) (Warwickshire) Slater who won all her matches. 8 13 8ishop Ra wstorne. Croston (lancashire) Some familiar names of Meanwhile I read in a G13 8ishop Rawstorne, Croston (La ncashire) Area 10 (Brent) Derbyshire newspaper that 8 11 Ya rlside Primary, 8arrow (Cumbria) schools and players in this Area B19 Watford Boys Grammar (Hertfordshire ) seven-year old Nicola Deaton G 11 Highfield. Chorley (lancashire) with t he st rongest challenge in G19 Goffs, Cheshunt (Hertfordsh ire) Organiser and ESTIA Hon. the senior (U19) events where B16 le. was the youngest and smallest G16 . W atford Girls' Grammar (Hertfordshire) competitor involved in the Treasurer, Bob , was dis­ Lawrence Sheriff include 8 13 Kings Langley (Hertfordshire) appointed that no less than FIVE Michael Thomas and Mark B11 Emmer Pnm ary. Reading Derbyshire Schools Table Tennis teams were missing (and none of B erkshir~) Championships which took Randle in their quartet aiming to Unprecedented Hertfordshire them because of the weather). place at Chesterfield College of reta in their national crown. successes! Kristina Cox (Rainford High, Highfields bid for their fifth title Technology on January 27th. Merseyside) (G 16) kept up her add a B13 team. Moseley Area 11 (Brent) Nicola - described as "looking remarkable record of never hav­ Park are another experienced B19 Stepney Green (I nner London) like a real star in the making" ­ G19 Brampton M anor. Newham (Essex won the Under-11 Girls' title, ing been beaten in any team Wolverhampton team (Adrian Metropolitan) event. Newcomers Lytham St. Dixon at No.1) whilst the sole B16 Brampton M anor, Newham (Essex She could well become the Metropolitan) youngest ever player to qualify Annes High (B16) should have Birmingham challengers are Sir G16 M ayflower. Billericay (Essex County) gone through 5-3 against Wilfred Martineau. B13 Mayflower. Billericay (Es'sex County) for the national Individual Cham­ G13 Woodford County High (Essex Metro- pionships. She was also des­ Parkview but could only draw Area 7 (Plymouth) politan) 4-4 only to lose the " tie-breaker" B19 Ca mbome (Cornwall) Bll Lyndhurst House, Hampstead (I nner cribed as a chip off the old G19 Bridgwater Co llege (Som erset) London) block" by writer and father doubles. John Backhouse, Park­ 8 16 Budehaven. Bude (Cornwall) Gl1 Buttsbury Junior. Billericay (Essex view No. 1, had two good wins G16 Haygrove. Bridgwater (Som'erset) Count ) Colin Deaton! 42 Midland League Report/Vetts Open Championship

Many thanks to there appears to be little or no . anxious to plug these gaps and is "Engelberg" Hooper of Northamptonshire co-ordinated schools table making efforts to identify any Badger Lane, Schools' TTA who amongst her tennis activities in East & West interested schools i.n these Woolley Moor, other activities produces a very Sussex, the Isle of Wight, counties. Please write or tele­ DERBY DE5 6FG. interesting 18-page Newsletter. Merseyside, Middlesex, Leices­ phone the ESTTA General Tel: Chesterfield (0246) 590164 I have just received No. 16. tershire, Northumberland and Secretary: It is disappointing to note that North Yorkshire. The ESTTA is L. C. Henry,

MIDLAND LEAGUE REPORT Birmingham 'A' 9 Burton 1. tage. B'ham 'B' had a closer later also fell to Oxford 'B'. Division 3 Bromsgrove 'A' 6 Coventry 'C' 4; 'from John Barber Birmingham 'B' 7 Walsall 3; match with Notts 'B' than the 8-2 According to the match report, Eastwood 6 Walsal! 'B' 4; score suggests. The home team Stroud had a very good en­ POTTERIES "A" Bromsgrove 'A' 7 Walsall 'B' 3. 5 times edged home in the third, counter with Coventry 'B', STILL UNBEATEN Division 4 Worcester 'B' 0 Leamington 10; Rugby 8 Leamington 2; and always had a hard contest. winning 6-4. MEN'S SECTION Leicester 10 Chesterfield 10 Leamington 4 Walsall 'C' 6; (conceded); Stroud 10 Walsall O. B'ham 'B' team tried hard against WOMEN'S DIVISION Division I Results:- Gloucester 10 Birmingham Division 5 Mansfield 'B' 3 Bromsgrove 'B' 7; their 'A' team but the latter, as 'A'l0 Derby 0; 'A' 0; Bromsgrove 'B' 0 Dudley 10; Nottingham 0 Wolverhampton 10; Wolves 'B' 7 Birmingham 'B' 3; W. Brom 10 Broms 'B' 0 (conceded); expected, proved too strong. Wolverhampton 7 Bristol 3; Gloucester 5 Wolves 'B' 5; Dudley 9 W. Bromwich 1, In Div. 2 Oxford 'B' have won Wolves and have very Chesterfield 3 Wolves 'B' 7; Gloucester 7 Leicester 3; Nottingham 'A' have won all all their seven matches and have strong teams. (Notts report that Potteries 8 Gloucester 2; thus won the title. West Brom Jackie Bull scored her first Birmingham 'A' 3 Wolves 'A' 7. their games in Div. 1 but were Division II Notts 'B' 3 Coventry 7; given a close call by Coventry and Stroud drew a well­ gamer) - makes a change to Stroud 9 Wolves 'C' 1; who led 4-3. Notts took the las1 contested match, but D. Preston report something differentl Potteries 'B' 5 Notts 'A' 5; for the home team injured a leg Notts 'B' 3 Potteries 'B' 7; three, John Holland beating INTERMEDIATE DIVISION Cheltenham 3 Wolves 'C' 7; Richard Hayward to edge home and had to concede one set. Rugby 8 Walsall 2; Worcester 4 Hinckley 6: Potteries 'B' 7 Stroud 3; Rugby 8 Nuneaton 2; Walsall 4 Hinckley 6, Wolves 'C' 2 Notts 'A' 8. in the third. It was Richard's firs1 Cheltenham's players' varying Division III Telford 4 Loughborough 6; styles proved too good for West Two each for leaders Rugby Loughborough 3 Nuneaton 7; defeat. T. Sheppard (Notts) and Nuneaton 9 Telford 1; . P. Harvey (Derby) have also los1 Bromwich. Stratford seemed set and second-placed Hinckley. M. Derby 7 Stafford 3; to win at Coventry 'A' when tak­ Thomas and I. Randle both of Leamington Spa 'A' 4 Nuneaton· 6; only one set Stafford 9 Burton 1; In Div. 2 Coventry 'B' and ing the doubles but the home Rugby have won all their sets. I Derby 7 Telford 3. team fought back to make it four sign off here as there are no Division IV Cheltenham 6 Leamington Spa 'B' 4; Birmingham 'A' look set for pro­ Cheltenham 6 Coventry 4; motion each having dropped. wins in a row and to inflict the match reports rendered in this Leamington 'B' 1 Notts 'C' 9; first defeat for the visitors, who sectionl Dudley 2 Glos 'B' 8; only 1 point (when they played Glos 'B' 9 Leamington 'B' 1; each other). John Lumleytook all Dudley 8 Coventry 2; Dudley 1 Eastwood 9; Cheltenham 5 Dudley 5; 3 for Pontesbury in a close match Notts 'C' 7 Dudley 3; with Walsall, Pontesbury Bath 9 Eastwood 1; winning the last three sets to win Leamington Spa 'B' 4 Coventry 'B' 6. VETIS SOUTHERN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS. 6-4. The most notable feature in In Div. 3 Bromsgrove 'A' had this section during the month IDEAL SETTING an eXQiting win over Coventry 'C', (mid J'an-mid Feb), is the large by Mike Watts winning 6-4 after being 1-4 number of sets which went to down. Tim Holder took his the third. Glos. v B'ham 'A' had for the winners. Birmingham 'B' eight and the home team edged and Stafford are the pace setters home in all of them and were in this division. Rugby won well flattered with a 10-0 victory - not against Leamington and they a one-sided match at all. have the irrlpressive record of Leamington 'B' v Coventry 'B' VETERANS ENGLISH 38-2 in 4 matches. Stroud are also had eight, each side taking TABLE TENNIS SOCIETY one better with 39-1. 4. Coventry picked up the other In Div. 5 Dudley are romping two to win 6-4 (Div. 4). Potteries home with three 10-0 victories The Exhibition Halls at the close third game. Betty Bonner 'A' have won all their matches in and a 9-1 win over West Brom­ Brighton Metropole Hotel was justified her long journey from Div. I. Nottingham 'A' are wich. Their team is P. Canavan, the ideal setting for the Veterans' Somerset to take the counterpart unbeaten in Div. 2 but have been P. Rollason and Paul Smith. Southern Open on Jan. 5/6, women's event, her final oppo­ held to a draw three times so this Kidderminster who have played 1985. The entry of 97 players nent being Dolly Harmer. opens up promotion possibilities a match less, have also dropped was also the biggest since the for Coventry 'A' and Stroud who The two Restricted singles only 1 set. Canavan and Smith inception of have each dropped two points. were again popular. In the men's are joined by R. M iszkowski and In the two m'ain events the Potteries 'B' are also well placed Warren was a clear winner over S. Scott (Kid.) in winning all their men's and women's singles with 9 points from six matches. Alan Rowden whilst Ivy sets to-date. (over-40) the husband and wife Kershaw gained'her first title in In Div. 3, Nuneaton have won all VETERANS' SECTION team of Derek and Doreen their six matches played, as have Division 1 B'ham 'B' 8 Notts 'B' 2; the women's. Her final opponent B'ham 'A' 8 Leamington 2; Schofield triumphed. "Connie" was Paula Rogers who in the Notts 'c' in Div. 4, so both must B'ham 'A' 8 B'ham 'B' 2; Warren seeded No.8 because of be favourites to win their Divi­ Walsall 3 B'ham 'A' 7; over-40 groups had an excellent Telford 2 Notts 'A' 8; a lack of results fought his win the No.2 seed Margaret sions. Martin Simpson (Derby's Notts 'A' 9 Leicester 1; through the final but was No.3) won Stafford; Telford 5 Walsall 5; Dignum. Results: Notts 'A' 9 B'ham 'B' 1. crushed by D,erek 8, and 10. M.S.: Over-40 R. Murray being one of his Division 2 West Bromwich 5 Stroud 5; Doreen beat Joyce Coop in 0, Schofield (Ch) bt C. Warren (Sy) 8,10, victims. Leamington 'A' and Coventry 'B' 4 Cheltenham 6; M.S.: Over-50 Cheltenham 9 W. Brom 1; the third in the final of the M. Sheader (Li) bt Schofield 11,7. Nuneaton were engaged in a Oxford 'B' 10 Kidderminster 0; women's singles with expedite M.S.: Over-60 tremendous match. E. Sweeney Coventry 'A' 2 Oxford 8; R, Etheridge (K) bt L. O'Arcy (Ch) -20,18,16, West Brom. 7 Coventry 'B' 3; being' called at 18-1 5 in the W.S.: Over-40 inflicted first defeat for P. Muir, Kidderminster 6 Coventry 'B' 4; decider. The final of the over-50 D. Schofield (Ch) bt J, Coop (Do) 11.-18,18. of Nuneaton who took the last 3 Coventry 'A' 6 Stratford 4; W.S.: Over-50 Stroud 6 Coventry 'B' 4; men's singles was between the P. Butcher (K) bt V. Gillam (Sx) sets to clinch it at 6-4. Stratford 3 Oxford 'B' 7. W.S.: Over-60 JUNIOR SECTION top seeds Schofield and Matt 8. Bonner (So) bt 0, Harmer (Bd) 6,9. Division I Coventry 'A' 5 Wolves 5; Nottingham 'A' and Sheader and Matt continued his M.D.: Over-40 1 Coventry 'A' 9; H. Buist (K)/D'Arcy bt Schofield/Sheadef 0 Derby 10; Birmingham 'A' each with two good form in winning. Pam -20,17,18. Wolves 4 Loughborough 4 Leicester 6; big wins are level at the top of Butcher won the Over-50 M.D.: Over-60 Coventry 'A' 4 Notts 'A' 6. O'Arcy/Etheridge bt W. French/A. Gould (La) Division 2 Notts 'B' 4 Coventry 'B' 6; Div. 1 with 11 points apiece, five women's singles with a final win 5,10. • Worcester 'A' 4 Notts 'B' 6; ahead of third placed over Valerie Gillam. W.O.: Over-40 Coventry 'B' 5 Birmingham 'A' 5; Birmingham 'B'. With only two C. Moran (Li)/Schofield bt Coop/J. Hunt (Wo) Burton 2 Worcester 'A' 8; Predictably the Over-60 men's 17,9. Walsall 'A' 4 Pontesbury 6; matches to go the title might singles featured Ron Etheridge W.O.: Over-50 Notts '8' 9 Burton 1; well'be decided on the sets ratio Butcher/Moran bt Gillam/P. Wales (Sx) 13,14. Pontesbury 4 Coventry 'A' 6; and Les D'Arcy with the verdict MRS: Warren bt A. Rawden (Sx) 17,11. Coventry'S' 8 Worcester 2; of which Notts have the advan­ going once again to Ron in a WRS: I. Kershaw (Ha) bt P. Rogers (E) 13,9. 43 Senior Rankings

STOP PRESS· LENTEC SENIOR RANKINGS SKY'S THE LIMIT Skylet Andrew moves three places nearer to achieving his ambition of becoming England's No. 1, having jumped to No.4 in the new (Feb. 27) Lentec Computer rankings. Desmond Douglas retains the No.1 spot while Carl Prean reclaims the No.2 position from Alan Cooke. Stephen Scowcroft breaks into the top 10 for the first time but Graham Sandley slips down to No.5. Alison Gordon, who was in danger of being displaced from the No. 1 women's spot when rival, Joy Grundy, scooped a massive points haul in winning the Cleveland 3-Star, maintained her slender lead by claiming an equal number of points as winner of the Essex 3-Star which was the last event to be included in the new lists. Top 20 in each category (previous position in brackets):

Men Pts Women Pts 1 Desmond Douglas (Wa) (1) 1598 1 Alison Gordon (13k) (1) 997 2 Carl Prean (lOW) (3) 1042 2 Joy Grundy (La) (2) 936 3 Alan Cooke (Dy) (2) " 3 Karen Witt (13k) (3) 646 4 Skylet Andrew (E) (7) 783 4 Lisa Bellinger (Bd) (4) 594 5 Graham Sandley (Mi) (4) 758 5 Fiona Elliot (St) 593 6 David Wells (Mi) (5) 731 6 Jackie Bellinger (Bd) (6) 515 7 Philip Bradbury (Bu) (6) 670 7 Mandy Sainsbury (13k) (7) 331 8 John Souter (Mi) (9) 651 8 Jean Parker (La) (11 ) 286 9 Nicky Mason (Sy) (8) 619 9 Jill Harris (St) (9) 285 10 Stephen Scowcroft (La) (1 6) 508 10 Sarah Sandley (Mi) (8) 266 11 Andrew Syed (13k) (11) 469 11 Karen Smith (Le) (10) 219 12 John Hilton (La) (10) 466 12 Carol Butler (Dv) (16) 199 13 Andrew Wellman (13k) (21) 440 13 Helen Williams (Mil (12) 197 14 Colin Wilson (Mi) (12) 435 14 Joanne Shaw (V) (13) 182 15 Kevin Satchell (Wi) (25) 430 15 Claire Maisey (Wi) (17) 173 16 David Dodd (K) (13) 427 16 Michelle Hams (Sy) (24) 170 17 Nigel Eckersley (Ch) (18) 425 17 Lisa Hayden (E) (22) 168 18 Steve Mills (Y) (17) 422 18 Susan Collier (13k) (14) 163 19 Steven Turner (La) (24) 419 . 19 Suzanne Hunt (Li) (19) 159 20 Carl Morgan (Wa) (20) 411 20 Helen .Bardwell (He) 149

44 Lancashire Life/Pompey Parade LANCASHIRE Pompey Parade LIFE The English Table Tennis England's No. 1 for some time to CHINESE TAIPEI FOR BOLTON Association is pleased to come and to this end he will by George Yates announce that have reached compete in a minimum of three an agreement with England's 3-Star tournaments, the English Wu Wen-Chia and Huang Huei­ p,ionships in fine style (writes No.1 player, Desmond Douglas. Senior Top 12 and both the Chieh may seem strange names Les Jones). After cruising to the Desmond will conclude his English Open and Closed Cham­ to bandy about in local table ten­ final without dropping a game, long association with German pionships during the 1985/86 nis circles! But these two he met his Cheshire County Bundesliga team, Borussia season. With the race now on to Chinese Taipei players, with teammate Derek Schofield and Dusseldorf at the end of the secure his services as a National others, will be participating in carried on his winning ways current season, returning home League player there is obviously the Dunlop Lancashire 2-Star securing victory 13 and 21. secure in the knowledge that his going to be plenty of opportunity Open to be staged at British In the semis, Hankey beat Ron immediate future can be for our leading players to put Aerospace Dynamics, Lostock, Vose (8, 14) and Schofield approached with optimism. their skills to the test, but the' Nr. Bolton on Saturday, April defeated John Hope (-14, 17, This contract will provide a man who is arguably the best 20. 11). Les Evans and Nick sound financial base and when table tennis player that England It will be for the 30th year that Mooney collected their first combined with the income which has ever produced will seeking these championships, organised Manchester title, taking the Desmond can confidently expect to maintain this reputation. by the Bolton League, have been men's doubles -14, 18, 18 to command from trade agree­ In addition to his increased staged at Lostock and to have ag'ainst Tony Worthington, and ments and personal appearances availability for senior national the influx of players from Taiwan Brian Kean. it will enable him to training camps and team selec­ coming to Bolton follow,ing the Lynn Harrison was the out­ maintain the standard of living tion Desmond will be helping to 38th World Championships in standing woman player, winning which foreign competition has promote the Association's Youth Gothenburg will be yet another three titles. After she beat afforded over recent years. policy by assisting at a number of notable first. Doreen Schofield 13, 21 in the Desmond intends to remain junior camps. Previous foreign entries to be singles, these two won dou­ hosted at Lostock have been bles with a 5, 9 victory over teams from Yugoslavia - who Margaret Jones and.Alison Row­ will forget Dragutin Surbek's Lynn's third title came final win over Denis Neale back in the mixed when she and Keith in 1970 - and the Soviet Union's Weatherby beat Peter D'Arcy national side which had their and Mrs. Schofield 18, 13. Zaya Rudnova winning the The junior singles went to the women's singles title in 1972. promising 14-year-old The Chinese Taipei Associa- Khawar who beat Adam Black , tion, not to be confused with the 21, -20, 4 and the veterans' mainland People's Republic of singles was a repeat of last year's China, are comparative new­ final as Derek Schofield again comers to membership of the took the title by beating D'Arcy ITTF but they made their pre­ 11, 12. In the men's consolation sence felt last July in the 1984 event, Mike Levene beat Peter United States Open played in Las Lord 13 and 15. Vegas. Not only did they win the COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS men's team title beating the Lancashire teams had mixed 3-1, but their No. 1 man Wu Desmond Douglas, overlooked by England Trainer/Coach Donald fortunes on Feb. 16 when, at Wen-Chia beat former European Parker, and sandwiched b'etween ETTA Chairman, Tom Blunn, and Bradford, the senior seconds champion Mikael Appelgren of Selection Committee Chairman, Peter Charters, signs himself for a were beaten 6-4 by Yorks Sweden in the final of the men's return to England. singles, and, for good measure, whilst, at Ormesby against captured the men's doubles title Cleveland the juniors triumphed as well with his compatriot 9-1. Huei-Chieh. In the Bradford encounter the Scant ,prospects then for Der­ Tykes could only boast two men, byshire's Alan Cooke to retain Steve Sharpe and Derek Munt his men's singles title at Lostock (ex Warwicks) but even conced­ in such company, and, indeed for ing two sets did not prevent Bolton champion Stephen them The only Red Scowcroft last year's runner-up. Rose casualty at Ormesby was It is also hoped to arrange a David Carse, beaten by David match between the Taiwan Fewsdale. Scores:­ visitors and a representative side from the North of England on the v Yorks II P. Aspinall W.O.; lost to D. Munt ·24 , 16. ·13; eve of the tournament. P. ake lost to S. Sharpe 14. -9; W . O.; G. lost to Munt -8. ·14; lost to Sharpe 18. Entry forms are obtainable ·18, ·19, from Mr. George Fackrell at 9 M . Goodwin lost to K. Burrows -20, · 13; C. Whitehead lost to M. 'Seaton ·10, · 12; Clive Avenue, Orford, Warring­ Aspinall/ Blake bt Munt/Sharpe 17, -17, 12; WA2 9FX 'Phone: Goodwin/ Whitehead bt Burrows/Seaton 18. ton 0925-59228 the closing 17, v Clevelend date being Saturday, April 6/ D. Carse bt S. Miller 9. 11 ; lost to D. Fewsdale 85. ·19. ·19; England's squad outside the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth S. Gibson bt 22. -20. 15; bt I. Hoque 16. 10; prior to their European League match against Federal Germany. L Brown bt Hoque . 15. 11 ; bt Miller -15. 20. MANCHESTER CLOSED ' From I to r Des Douglas, Alison Gordon, Carl Prean, Alan Cooke, L Harnden bt A. Pashley -21. 19. 20; Mike Watts, the ETTA's Deputy General Secretary and, at the Mark Hankey retained the N. McGrath bt S. Aichmorid 15. 20. wheel, n.p.c. Don Parker. men's singles title in the Brown/Carse bt Fewsdale/Miller -16. 19. 15; Harnden/ McGrath bt Pashley/Aichmond 19. Manchester Closed Cham- 19, Photos by Stephen Line, Shoreham-by-Sea. 45 Prean - The Limit /£1000 Challenge

two conditions. 1) Officials will replied that it was more important PREAN ­ THE LIMIT co-operate fully in my enquiries; than that. For once, I disagree 2) My findings will be published with the Sage of An'field. Pas­ in full in this magazine. sionately though I feel about highly critical of what is happen­ OU R sport, ",!hen people we have PREAN - THE LIMIT ing or, if you like, what is not Only SMALL men are never elected to high office, seek to happening. If you read The Daily wrong. restrict our basic freedom of E'lsewhere in this issue John Telegraph of the 14th January Big men make plenty of mis­ speech and expression, then we Prean both in his IIBeyond you will have noted the view that ll takes and are prepared to admit have sunk very low. Already three the Isle ofWight otes and in "Some ETTA Officials are not them. If I find that everything in paragraphs of mine have been his Critics and I" article doing their job". the garden is lovely, I shall say banned. National Council has sought fit to lamblast Et Tu, Desmond.... so. It wiII be a pleasure to write approval of this undemocratic both the ETTA Hon. Trea­ That opinion came from my cheque. Till then I hope to be act is being sought. ' surer, Aubrey Drapkin, and Desmond Douglas, who a year spared such generalities and Peter Charters, the Chair­ earlier was quoted in another bromides as being "determined Free Speech man of the National Selec­ National Newspaper and had attack every facet of the work­ Whether you agree with me or tion Committee. spoken about bunch of ings of the Association" (Drapkin) not is not important. My right, Both no objections clowns". HE, of course, is too and being conflict with so YOUR right to say what we are to the publishing of John's big, but I apparently may serve as 'many ETTA committees who do thinking IS important. Whether latest outpourings only a consolation prize. not hold the same opinions" as the attempt to ban me will requesting thatthey be given My terrible crimes. myself (Charters). Any conflict is succeed is, as I write this, uncer­ the opportunity to respond not on MY side.' If pressed, I tain. If it does, that will not be the within the same issue. I am not a member of any central ETTA committee. I find would say this: I would be far end of it. Those responsible will However, from an editorial happier to see our remaining be challenged via the Ballot Box standpoint, the time has the often repeated statements that "the ETTA is all of us" very televise'd event of the season in in 1986 and the issue will not arrived - and I think antici­ the hands of the Tournament merely be their competence to pated - when, like many confusing. I am not responsible for the state of the sport except COrTlmittee than the anonymous run the sport, but, more vitally, newspapers, particularly one who invites all those un­ whether this is to be a free sport provinciat on a local topic, at local level where I am active and have a little influence I have known foreigners,'1 wish too that or an authoritarian one. I cannot the Editor draws the line by the were as well organised imagine our members voting saying correspon­ no influence at Nationai level ­ indeed our rulers take great and represented as the Umpires themselves into slavery at that dence is now closed". and Referees. time. That is not to say that pleasure in doing the opposite of criticism of the establish­ what I advocate. I saw the decline Government Spokesman ment will not be tolerated, of the sport long before my It is sad to see Selector Char­ far from it. Controversy' is talented son' began to play. I ters in this role, whether he is the lifeblood of any publica­ have spent many hours on my muddling up MY facts, getting Me,antime, in response ... typewriter, so that all our children lyrical about plastic balls, de­ tion but in the case ,of John AUBREY.DRAPKIN writes ... Prean his constant carpings would inherit a better sport, in­ fending rotten travel schedules have become far too repeti­ deed so that there would still be or feeding into the computer tive to serve any further a sport when they reached our some very strange ranking data. I find it quite unbelievable that ful purpose in this publi­ of Iifa. What I have argued He, more than anyone else, such articles can be written by a cation. has been done in consistent should be standing with the member who elsewhere' des­ The Editor. and moderate way. I have broken players. ' cribes himself as 'a businessman. no bones, bunglers' have re­ In the end HE willbe judged by The inference that I have wasted mained anonymous, no one has, his success as our No. 1 Selector, the ETTA funds is quite disgust­ My Critics and I been hurt. To have two members not as an Establishment apolo­ ing and most objectionable as of the ETTA Cabinet descend in gist. He will not survive many well as casting doubts upon my John Prean issues a £ 1,000 this manner on one rank and more diasters .of the Moscow own professional integrity. Challenge member I find UnirTlpressive and variety, no matter how much Prean, of cqurse, has his own Two icy blasts contributed to a pathetic. goodwill he builds on other ideas as to where the member­ chilly January. They came from fronts. apologies to Mr. ship's money should be spent. two members of the ETTA's Inner My £1,000 Challenge Vidal Sassoon, if the players His suggestion to donate £1,000 Cabinet, the Management Com­ Yes, Aubrey Drapkin, I have don't look good, he won't look if he can find no instance where mittee. They were Selector Chair­ written endlessly to Officials good. His position is no more money has not been wasted is man Charters and Treasurer complaining of travel schedules secure than that of the player. not challenge, as every single Drapkin. which, in MY opinion, us There is a great future for member has his/her own ideas If you cannot take the Heat... match after match and equally 'government spokesmen' within of what is necessary expenditure What they complain of is less 'endlessly' nothing wasdoRe. the ETTA. There is much to and what is not - it is only. a than clear. The January edition However, in the ,end that battle explain. However, that is not the matter of opinion. In most cases of the magazine had some 56 was won and in part because I job of our principal selector. It is the expenditure, or lack of it, is pages of which perhaps 3 were refused to Iie down, but kept' his job to produce strong England the result of democratic deci­ critical. Not all of these were going. Selector Charters should teams and that means putting up sions taken by committees as a written by me. If so small a congratulate me for achieving a rather stronger fight inside the result of policies laid down by proportion brings such extreme what HE should have done. In­ ETTA than he appears to be National Council orfollowing the reactions, the recipients should stead he came out against me. doing. Victories against John wishes of the members at the consider seriously whether life in HE did not support the players. I Prean (if that is what they are) Annual General Meeting. a democracy suits them. I have did. I have made numerous con­ count for nothing in the inter­ One paragraph of my article in seen much harder stuff in structive suggestions to Trea­ n·ational arena. They will attract the January notes was also columns The Times. To quote surer Drapkin. The most con­ no sponsors. They will ach,ieve withdrawn because of the antici­ the late President Truman: "If structive of all was to look at the nothing except temporary relief pated National Council debate. you cannot stand the heat of the ETTA Books ("ChallengeAccept­ for a few officials who think they , In it I criticised Prean for attack­ kitchen...." it may be time to get edIt TT '83) to see have been under attack. The ing our Sponsors in print. At no out. whether money could not be truth is that no one is under time have I attempted to 'ban' his Am I the only critic? saved and on things we all attack from ME.l am not hard to right to speech, what I did please. I just want the Sport to It was not I who said the sport want to see done. I received no write was that I hoped'that he get better. may be dying, nor I who said it positive response. I now repeat would away his pen and was 'in the pits', nor I who said it the challenge. I shall donate More at stake now than Table paper. was stagnating, nor I who made £1 ,000 to the Sport, if, upon Tennis In the February issue Prean comparisons with the TitaniC. seeing the ETTA Books, I can The late Bill Shankly, when states that Peter Charters and I There is a substantial body of find no instance where money asked whether he regarded foot­ both seem to suffer from identity opinion within the Sport that is has not been wasted. I only as a matter of life and death, problems, and that we think we 46 Lentec Juniors/Cadets Rankings

and other officials are the sport­ you my life history, or my vital teams. Neither of course is true. I like to think of myself as a this comment was quite statistsic, nor am I going to break One last word on travel arrange­ 'Players' Administrator. unwarranted and distasteful. into deathly prose in an attempt ments; what is regarded as ideal At the shcirp end of our sport to either' inflate myself or for one player is not necessarily And are the players supported by humiliate John -I have no wish suitable for another. Some of our coaches, parents, administrators, PETER CHARTERS writes ... to do either and anyway what top players prefer to sleep' in sponsors etc. That is my In reading with some little good would that do for Table' their own beds for longer than philosophy and my actions are arTlUSement John's two offerings Tennis? I will however continue John would advocate before based on this attitude. I resent in this edition of Table Tennis to act as counter puncher to major competition - as usual a John's implications to the News, I convinced that John John's more misleading, more c6mprom,ise is called for. contrary. much prefers to dish it out rather outrageous or factuall.y incorrect As far as my'identity problem' I support Don Parker 100% in than take it. statements. is concerned I suggest to John the task set tor him, the The fact that I had the audacity For example I am reliably that he stand for the post of Selection Committee and the to contradict his statements re: informed that the secretary of national councillor for the Isle of Coaches to produce a succ.essful Moscow, the fact that I pre­ the Federal German Table Wight. This' would provide him team over the next five ferred the reports given to me by Tennis Association was written with the forum he seems to want or six years. I genuinely and people with international ex­ to in April of '84 giving him the and it would help him realise that sincerely believe that John's perience, the fact that I preferred date of the 'Charles Church' those who the affairs of constant public sniping may well the opinions and conclusions of event. This date was fixed be­ the ETTA are accountable to have a demotivating effect on ex- international players but per­ cause of the suitability for tele- others, have to accept the the people who matter most ­ haps most importantly that I pre­ ·vision. The German Bundesliga majority view even when it con­ the players. ferred reports given to me by finalise their dates in May. In all flicts their own, and stick to Unity is needed, we all these and other people who how can the ETTA be the job when they don't always the same thing - success for the were actually there, sets me up blamed for ,that when other get their own way. They also whole of the English team who­ 'for this lyrical assault. You will bodies dictate these clashes? annually put themselves up to be ever the players in that team may notice dear reader that has inconsistent as well. In shot down. That is democracy be. It is time to stop this wrangl­ not answered the points that I one paragraph he writes that he and that is not only MY identity .ing, this bitterness. Things are made in the January issue of T. T. has no 'influence at national level within the ETTA, but also the getting better, we are on the News. and in the next' John claims that position of members of the right path, there is great promise Tdo not propose to quote ex- it is he who has changed the National Council and for the future, none greater than presidents of America, to give travel schedules of the England Management Committee. Carl.

16 Adrian Thorpe (St) (16) 135 LENTEC COMPUTER RANKINGS 17 Nicky Ryder (V) (15) 130 18 Andrew Whiteley (V) (18) 121 JUNIORS/CADETS 19 Gary Knights (Dy) (25) 118 20 Jonathan Taylor (Ch) (19) 105 21 Brian Mileham (K) (34) 104 ANDREA OVERHAULS JILL 22 Mark Ward (V) (20) 102 23 Andrew Eden (La) (24) 102 24 Matthew Pemet (Sy) (21) 97 22 Paul Elphick (Sx) (21) 167 8 Claire Mouzon (Nd) (7) No change in the 'top five 269 25 Wayne (La) (22) 94 23 Paul Gooding (Sk) (38) 165 9 Lisa Hayden (E) (10) 246 26 Jason Swain (V) (23) 91 positions in boys Lentec com­ 24 Kevin Lawrence (St) (22) 161 10 Louise Davis (Wo) (8) 224 27 Will Hollingworth (28). . 77 25 Tony West (E) (26) 156 11 Lesley Souter (Mi) (11) puterised rankings issued. in 219 28 Simon Cooper (Sp) (27) 76 26 Philip Payne (So) (30) 152 12 Alison Boxall (He) (17) 217 29 Paul Smith (So) (30) 74 February but in the girls' list 27 Philip Szekeres (Mi) (23) 151 13 Tanya Holland (E) (18) 204 30 John Collins (Ca) (28) 72 28 John Bult (V) (24) 138 14 Julie Billington (Dy) (12) Lancashire's Andrea Holt dis­ 198 31 Mark Mullet (Dv) (38) 68 29 Andrew Henry (Dy) (25) 135 15 Melonie Garey (So) (14) 172 32 Andrew McKeown (Cv) (29) 66 places Jill Powis of Staffs in the 30 Neil Pickard (Nk) (28) 135 16 Helen Perrott (Av) (21) 169 33 Michael Auchterlonie (Wi) (-) 60 31 Barnard O'Grady (K) (27) 133 17 Sarah Hammond (Ha) (13) No.2 position behind Yorkshire's 164 34 Mark Bawden (Bd) (31) 59 32 Mark Ball (K) (41) 125 18 Lesley Popkiewicz (Sy) (16) 152 35 Robert Till (St) (35) 59 Joanne Shaw. 33 Matthew Connell (V) (29) 124 19 Angela Sanders (St) (15) 145 36 Scott Greenbrook (Sx) (33) 55 34 Paul Bumpus (Le) (31) 121 20 Rachel Knight (Mi) (19) 137 Similarly in the cadet boys' list 37 James Nicholson (Cv) (32) 54 35 Matthew Pemet (Sy) (33) 116 21 Claire Brooks (Sy) (24) 130 38 Darryl Sneyd (La) (-) 51 Bradley Billington of Derby­ 36 Peter Harris (He) (56) 115 22 Helen Lower (St) (22) 127 39 Michael Parker (Ch) (43) 50 37 Andrew Taylor (Ch) (32) 113 23 Alison Evans (V) (28) shire takes over the No.2 position 118 40 Robert Yong (Ng) (36) 47 38 Martin Firth (V) (-) 108 24 Michelle Cohen (Av) (23) 108 41 Darren Shaw (Nd) (37) 47 from Yorkshire's Michael 39 Darren Smith (Wa) (40) 108 25 Ruth Bray (V) (25) 100 42 Andrew Bevan (Co) (-) 46 40 Bernard Wentworth (Ch) (42) 108 26 Helen Broomhead (V) (29) O'Driscoll behind Matthew Syed 99 43 Ian Humes (Cv) (39) 40 41 Tim Holder (Wo) (-) 107 27 Sarah Webb (So) (26) 92 44 Michael Roughley (Du) (40) 37 of Berkshire. 42 C. Pertez (Mi) (35) 104 28 Esme Stevenson (Co) (35) 86 45 Kevin Sangster (V) (41) 37 43 Lee Brown (La) (36) 101 29 Louise Forster (Le) (27) Both Carl Prean from the Isle 82 46 Robert Scott-Birchall (Dy) (42) 36 44 Andrew Davies (Sy) (62) 101 30 Caroline Dada (V) (38) 78 47 Graeme Connolly (Sy) (-) 35 of Wight and Miss Holt retain 45 David (Cy) (39) 98 31 Gillian Patten (E) (-) 71 48 Graham Cook (V) (-) 34 46 James Griffiths (E) (43) 98 32 Susan Butler (Dv) (37) their top positions in the boys' 70 49 James Mcivor (V) (44) 32 47 Barnard Lazarus (E) (37) 93 33 Katrina Baker (Mi) (32) 67 50 Wayne Noon (Li) (45) 32 and girls' lists. Moves of 48 Andrew Eden (La) (51) 92 34 Amanda Shufflebotham (Ox) (33) 64 significance otherwise involve 49 Greg Barden (K) (52) 91 35 Kristina Cox (La) (34) 63 50 Alaric Bassano (V) (45) 88 36 Nicola McGrath (La) (-) 62 Cumbria's Debbie Soothill in the 51 Stephen Slater (St) (44) 88 37 Lynne Trussell (Sx) (42) 60 girls' list, from No.9 to No.5 and 52 Simon Jones (Ch) (54) 79 38 Jane Roberts (V) (30) 59 53 Gavin West (Oy) (49) 78 39 Jenny Neale (Wi) (48) 58 CADET GIRLS Leigh Jefferies of Warwickshire 54 r Murray Barter (So) (60) 78 40 Julie Clegg (La) (39) 58 1 Andrea Holt (La) (1) 702 55 Stuart Craggs (46) 77 41 Hazel Kavanagh (V) (31) in the cadet boys' list 'from No. 57 2 Claire Potts (Ch) (2) 616 56 Andrew Ball (V) (47) 77 42 Debbie'Simmonds (Sy) (41) 54 3 Kerry Hall (Dy) (3) 577 17 to No.8. 57 Damian Holland (E) (-) 77 43 Kathryn Bray (V) (36) 52 4 Julie Billington (Dy) (4) 58 Peter Curry (Nd) (48) 76 44 Linda Thompson (Li) (40) 48 Revised rankings and points 5 Jane Wright (Dv) (5) 195 59 Andrew Houghton (K) (-) 76 45 Julie Brion (Bk) (-) 47 6 Tracy Scott-Pawson (Do) (7) 195 (Previous position in brackets):- 60 David Thomas (Wa) (50) 75 46 Helen Gipp (Ca) (43) 46 7 Debbie Toole (V) (6) 184 61 Graham Reed (Co) (67) 69 47 Susan Richmond (Cv) (45) 42 8 Julie Norman (Bk) (9) 158 62 Michael Harrison (K) (66) 66 48 Dawn Bromley (Wa) (-) BOVS 39 9 Julie Forster (Le) (8) 153 63 Michael Rutherford (K) (30) 65 49 Helen Platt (E) (-) 1 Carl Prean (lOW) (1) 1528 38 10 Cheryl Bateman (Sy) (11) 132 64 Tim McGill (Sp) (58) 65 50 Lynne Hamden (La) (-) 2 Andrew Syed (Bk) (2) 882 36 11 Nicola McGrath (La) (10) 128 65 Gavin Black (Bd) (-) 3 Jimmy Stokes (Bk) (3) 540 65 12 Julie Brion (Bk) (18) 108 66 Adrian' Bolton (Ng) (55) 4 Adrian Dixon (St) (4) 459 64 13 Nicola Jones (Wo) (21) 108 67 Mark James (Co) (65) 5 Matthew Syed (Bk) (5) 419 64 14 Caroline Buckley (Bd) (12) 102 68 Shaun Carracio (Sk) (63) 63 6 Andrew Cunningham (K) (7) 413 CADET BOYS 15 Ellen Meddings (V) (13) 94 69 Nicholas Ashman (Ca) (-) 7· Bradley BHHngton (By) (6) 385 63 1 Matthew Syed (Bk) (1) 815 16 Anne Pashley (Cv) (14) 91 70 David Carse (La) (68) 8 Mark Randle (Wa) (8) 354 62 2 Bradley Billington (Dy) (3) 625 17 Susanne Lawton (Cv) (15) 88 71 Tony Miller (V) (64) 62 9 Rodney Thomas (Do) (11) 329 3 Michael O'Driscoll (V) (2) 586 18 Helen Potts (Ch) (16) 86 72 Richard Aitken (Dv) (-) 59 10 Clive Guest (V) (9) 318 4 Chris Oldfield (V) (4) 373 19 Janine Harrison (V) (20) 80 73 Richard Jones (Sy) (57) 57 11 Thomas Blackman (Nd) (10) 292 5 284 20 Kate Gower (E) (17) 70 74 Paul Ward (La) (59) 56 12 Paul Amos (K) (12) 269 6 Andrew Houghton (K) (6) 244 21 Victoria Boyd (Sp) (19) 57 13 Michael O'Driscoll (V) (13) 261 7 Damian Holland (E) (16) 244 22 Audrey Barnett (St) (22) 44 14 Graham Kemp (Bk) (19) 248 GIRLS 8 Leigh Jefferies (Wa) (17) 204 23 Elizabeth Connell (V) (27) 41 15 Murray Jukes (Wo) (14) 243 1 Joanne Shaw (Y) (1) 585 9 Dale Saunders (Gs) (8) 197 24 Barbara Smallwood (La) (23) 36 16 Paul Savins (Bk) (20) 231 2 Andrea Holt (La) (3) 387 10 Neil Simms (V) (9) 196 25 Rachel Skinner (Mil (31) 36 17 Richard Hayward (St) (15) 214 3 Jill Powis (St) (2) 358 11 Philip Szekeres (Mi) (10) 182 26 Elizabeth Bryant (Le) (24) 33 18 Nicholas Newton(V) (17) 189 4 Juliet Houghton (K) (6) 355 12 Richard Jones (Sy) (11) 161 27 lisa Coulson (Bk) (25) 33 19 Chris Oldfield (Y) (34) 189 5 Debbie Soothill (Cu) (9) 327 13 David Morris (Sp) (12) 157 28 Joanne Roberts (V) (-) 32 20 188 6 Claire Potts (Ch) (4) 316 14 Michael Rutherford (K) (13) 152 29 Tracy Hooker (Bk) (26) 30 21 Jonathon Goode (Mi) (18) 179 7 Kerry Hall (Dy) (5) 293 15 Stuart (Cv) (14) 149 30 Judith Grant (Du) (28) 29 47 Doom and Gloom

ANOTHER MESSAGE CONCERNING DOOM AND GLOOM ,By Malcolm Brown

This month I intended to write know a lot of people who have surface you can play with! The combination to suit every mod­ about the merits of long pimpled been put off and do not play any buyer seems to be spoilt for ern style of play and each co'm­ rubber and Lentec Swing in par­ more because they were not 'choice'. This is all very well for bination will be available for ticular but in view of the I.T.T.F. asked these questions. normal production of goods, but three levels of skill, namely; proposals this will now have to A side note here; our coaching where the person has to rely on Intermediate, Advanced and the wait until after the World Cham­ system is developing junior those goods in order to use the all important Beginners stages. pionships in April. talent far too fast for the 'casual' product more constructively, To coincide with this range of To avert the risk of being player's liking. Funny how the then he must have product equipment, the LENTEC TABLE stereo-typed as just another arti­ 'serious' side of the game does accurately described otherwise TENNIS MANUAL will be avail­ cle containing gloom, not think that we have enough 'saturation' will only cause con­ able. The manual will explain I would like to say immediately depth of new talent when people fusion. Have you noticed the what each combination does in that this article contains more less 'involved' think they are mistakes in translation on the playing terms, together with the optimism than most in recent besieged! one paragraph you sometimes scientific proof and data as to issues of this magazine, all due As I took to even higher levels get on the back of the wrapper?! just how it works! respect, and I feel that we all of the game, I again see new There is a way to overcome this No 'player tests', no 'marks out could use some optimism after faces in high places, challenging and it's called'standardisation'. of ten', just plain scientific seeing so many authors of recent for a chance to represent their - Unfortunately this is what results taken from impartial test­ articles showing the less con­ town, county or even country. some I.T.T.F. affiliated countries ing machines, and impartial facts structive areas of the sport. What is wrong there? These are trying to put forward now, but taken from research scientists. It seems quite an oddity that players are young, younger and I say unfortunately because (and With this kind of information within the many good articles with better technique than this is the pessimistic part of the at the coach's fingertips (and and items in this magazine, there players of their age used to have. article) it is very frightening. indeed the player's) there will be are very few views from the peo­ Let us not get confused between Why? because they are trying to no cause for doubt or concern. ple who matter most in the sport, making progress and wanting correct faults when they do not No cause for equipment, and the players. Perhaps I see things everything at once. Alright, so know the cause. It is like banning thus scope of playing styles and in a different light after having we are not the number one table an aircraft design as unsafe control over play to be limited for 'retired' for nearly two seasons tennis nation in the world, (yet; when the test pilot was the one the wrong reasons. now, but I know that even when I let's keep this optimistic), but who caused the crash. Let us hope that other coun­ was playing just before then, I why should we complain when To standardise on the wrong tries will have the same view­ was playing better than ever and we are improving all the time, properties of the bat combina­ point when it comes to the pro­ our county was gradually making why be like impatient parents . tion will be disastrous. Who posals to restrict equipment its presence known the cost of who wait for their child to start can say that they have been even further when they vote in quite a few senior and especially walking! Isn't it better to be help­ bored watching an attacker play­ Gothenburg soon. junior national rankings; so you ing with the first steps than to sit ing a defender? With some of the It seems that the countries see, when I left the game I was back and wait?! ,proposals being made, it is who have not had research car­ involved in a lot of change and I think we are not sitting back, doubtful whether you will ever ried out on equipment are the development, most of it for the and I believe this country has a get another chance to make your proposers of the demise of the better. Now that I have recently great amount of extremely ded­ mind up. How can you defend game. Strong words perhaps, turned my attention to the play­ icated people who put time and consistently against today's but then again I think justified, ing scene again I cannot unders­ effort into the game. Why accuse attack when trying to use an because if ever there was a time tand, from what I read, why them of not producing five world attacking combination yourself. when we, as a country, can con­ everything is in such a bad champions overnight?! Perhaps Bye-bye defenders! tribute to the growth of table ten­ state..... or is it? some aspects could be better, Some of the proposals for the nis on a larger it is now. I look at the local rankings and but why complain that nothing Gothenburg meeting call for an The proof of LENTEC's good­ leagues and find fresh names constructive is happening? even tighter limit on pimple will lies in the pages of the and faces doing battle with the What of the future then? length, and some call for the manual itself. Research into the 'old hands' for premier positions What is there to look same surface rubber to be used, effects of equipment has long in ranking and league. 'Yes' but forward to? and better still, the introduction been overdue, we belong to the there are less leagues now Let us have a look at equipment of a brand new high technology only sport that will tolerate someone might add, well I think (come on, you've read this far). innovation, a wooden striking inadequate information and help there is a dividing line here bet­ Despite attempts to alter surface! Limits on pimple length from manufacturers on the sub­ ween those who play just for fun, on equipment, there seems to be would mean no more long­ ject of the equipment they pro­ and the 'serious' competitor. little help in this area. The reason pimpled rubber. duce for the sport. Who wants to be involved in a being that the wrong laws Limits on different types of LENTEC realised the fault 'where 60 or 70 per cent being changed without proper rubber surface mean not only when they set out to document of its total players are made up consultation with manufacturers lack of variation from the defen­ the effects of the equipment they from cadets and junior and people who have researched der, but also for the attacker too, wished to produce. As I said players eager for famous scalps? this area with great care and and even the beginner or inter­ before though, the proof of LEN­ All the 'casual' type of player thoroughness. mediate player who finds a dif­ TEC's concern and will to help is wants to do is socialise and The wrong attitudes prevail-in ferent type of rubber on his or her in the manual. enjoy his or her free time by this area because the majority of backhand helps with that all Not only has there been exten­ ing a sport that is comparatively the manufacturing industry for important factor which makes sive research on the LENTEC cheap to be involved in, (a bat, table /tennis is concerned with rallies longer, control! And range, but also on the popular shirt and a pair of shoes), and is profit. People are forgotten. To do you want to playa loop-drive rubbers, sponges and blades readily available to play in any try to sort through the puzzle of with a piece of wood? Have you already in use. LENTEC have reasonably sized building. I think providing a product that the cus­ tried, it's great exercise. duced a new range of combina­ the fall in numbers of players is tomer wants, the manufacturers You may have noticed that I tions and researched into the due to organisations. Perhaps have resorted to flooding the seem to have strayed from any effects of others to produce an players might be asked when market with a variety of names optimistic track! Well here is the 'owner's manual' on how to use registering themselves or a and descriptions of what their best part. LENTEC are,producing them and more importantly, team, whether they want to play products do, (the I.T.T.F. has a for the new season a new range which are suited to· a player's at a higher standard or start to list of over 300 of them), and yet of table tennis rubbers and individual needs. receive coaching, or be placed in in the analysis there are less sponges called the "21 UP" Now if all this isn't proof their own 'type' of league(s). I than 10 different types of rubber SERIES. Within this range is a enough of LENTEC's intentions 48 The Tarmac Open Championships to provide the game with ade­ mance. then what is? their own range of equipment in the ideal sport to put money quate information so that a If LENTEC were thinking about such a publication. Better still. into. player can improve his own per­ profit at the start oftheirfour year they would not have gone into formance rather than a manufac­ research program. surely they the field of table tennis at all. turer's own financial perfor­ would only have recommended From what I have heard it is not More next month!!

The Tarmac Open Championships Quarry Products From Novices to Nationals

by David R. Hall

Despite appalling weather con­ dance of skilled and competitive senting Bollington Cons. Both locally. and attracting more ditions. 60 competitors took part playas aspiring novices com­ teams play in the Premier Divis­ players to strengthen the local in the Tarmac Open Champion­ peted against league. County ion of the Macclesfield League league which at the present time ships at the Pavilion Gardens. and Nationally-ranked players in who were hard pushed to beat has only two divisions but whose Buxton on February 9 . The event a two-man team handicapped Buxton youngsters Michael players compete well in the staged by the Buxton & North competition which lasted from Bradbury and David Ashfield. Derbyshire Inter-League at junior. Derbyshire TTA and sponsored 11 am and climaxed at 8pm with At the Presentation Disco that senior and veteran level. by Tarmac Roadstone Ltd. North the finals of both the main and followed. attended by some 300 When presenting the prizes, West was being held forthe third . consolation event. people Mr. Brian Ashfield, Alan Rahilly. Regional Director year running and the blizzard In a repeat of last year's final, League Chairman. in thanking of Tarmac Roadstone Limited conditions did not prevent the main event was won by the Gardens Manage­ North West expressed his competitors travelling from the Fallinbroome 'A' when the youth ment and Tarmac Roadstone Ltd. pleasure at the Company' s in­ Midlands and North West to take of Keith Deaville and Simon North West for their support, volvement with the sport and part. Mear overcame the experience stated that the League was indicated their intention of being Spectators and competitors of Cheshire Veterans. Eddie beginning to achieve its object­ associated with the league next were rewarded with an abun­ Griffiths and Mike Tew. repre­ ive in popularising the sport year and in the forseeable future.

Mike Tew and Eddie Griffiths are seen here shaking hands with Mr. A. F. Rahilly, Regional Director of Tarrnac Roadstone Ltd.. North West alongside event winners Keith Deaville and Simon ' Photo by Rod Leach, Burbage. Buxton. 49 The 6 Months

THE FIRST The team spirit among the who will make it to the top. We are to become a leading force in players has been a fact are also trying to topspin a little Europe and the World, then in SIX MONTHS that has pleased me con­ closer to the table, not neces­ my opinion, we must be pre­ siderably. I have always stressed sarily off the bounce all the time, pared to take chances and give by Donald Parker, that while being an individual with equally strong backhands these young' players the oppor­ National Trainer/Coach. sport, team members can lift a as forehands. tunities to' gain the necessary player and help him or herto play To maximise the rate of experience. Playing safe all the to their full potential. Unfor­ improvement, my own personal time with selections will result in tunately, having stressed this feelings are that it is essential to a fairly mediocre short time With the first half of the Inter­ point, some players are now spend as many hours on the future and a comparatively poor national season now over and going on the table and as well as table practising as possible. To long term future. We must be indeed the first half in my worrying about playing they are increase the number of for prepared for some possible short capacity as National Trainer/ conscious of who is supporting players on training camps there term set backs if we are to Coach it is quite interesting to, them and who is not. On several are two possibilities. Firstly, become a force in the long term reflect on some of the happen­ occasions, I have seen a player there could be more money and future. Comments that Desmond ings. All the results have been visibly distressed because therefore more camps, but unfor­ Douglas has been dropped from reported in magazine and it certain members of the team tunately there is hot a lot of extra some European League matches is obvious that most players have have not been supporting. It money available at present. may be sensational journalism 'done reasonably well. On the could well be that they were Secondly, is the possibility but is as naive as it is inaccurate. last training camp I had a meet­ practising, eating or resting, all of more cost effective camps In fact in the two matches Des ing with the players to discuss which take priority over support­ which is what I have tried with has missed, Carl Prean beat the first half of· the season and ing, but nevertheless particular the younger players. These Europe's 1 and 3 men, while the areas that had gone well and players have allowed absen­ players are accommodated in Alan Cooke opened his indivi­ the areas could be teeism from 'the bench to affect someone's house, altogether of dual account in the European improved. With regards the their performance. It is the team course, and a hall is booked League. Hopefully these may be latter, there were several areas captain's responsibility to sort nearby. Obviously everyone has significant stepping stones to on which I would like to out the daily programme for the their own bed, a good diet, but at greater things and at the same elaborate. players and his responsibility if the same time be prepared to time give them more confidence Firstly, it is important that care someone is not supporting who help out at meal times with the for this year's Commonwealth is given to preparation for train­ should be. There are certain clearing away. Using this and World's campaigns. ing as well as preparation for abies over which a player, when system, it is possible to get twice It very pleasing to see keen competition. Some players were competing, has little i.e. as many hours on the'table for coaches visiting the training turning up for five day training the attitude of his team mates, the same cost. At senior level, camps at Lilleshall. Communica­ camps mentally and physically his opponent's luck, the non­ this is not practical; however tion has always been a problem exhausted from competition and playing captain, the umpires etc. with the juniors and cadets, the and actually visiting of the travel. Clearly players must com­ and these factors should not idea has worked successfully. camps, talking to the coaches is pete, but nevertheless a com­ therefore affect a player's con­ Critics would that the status an ideal first hand way of keep­ promise must be achieved centration. A player should con­ of camps has declined, my ing up-to-date with the National whereby a player can still prac­ centrate and worry about the answer quite simply is that the and International scene. Should tice hard so as to improve. It factors he can directly affect Le. number of hours on the table has you wish to attend a camp for a therefore requires careful plan­ playing positive, serving well, doubled. Some players actually day, please do not hesitate to ning when entering tournaments behaving in a sportsmanlike" prefer the family atmosphere in contact me on 0524-791 866 so as to make sure time is manner etc. the house although it must be and we can arrange for a visit. allocated for improvement. It is 'From a technical point of view said that a few suffer from what I The provisional dates of the most unfair on tournament we have worked very hard and would call the "Crest Hotel" camps at Lilleshall for the rest of organisers to withdraw on the will continue to do so on the area syndrome. In other words, they 1985 are below, but to be day of the event and with the of service and receipt along the now expect the comparative certain, it is best to ring first to above careful planning this lines suggested in previous arti­ luxuries that one associates with check the camp is still on. situation can be avoided. No two cles. It suprises me that some high fly hotel life. May 27-30. players are the same, some need people expect instant results but The selection committee are July 1-5. more than others like any complex skill it will take giving some of the young players September 9-13. and therefore each individual time to develop and only some an opportunity to develop by September 3D-October 4. must plan around his or her players will put in the necessary selecting them crucial October 28-November 1. needs. time. These will be the players matches and tournaments. If December 16-20.

O.c.S. SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP at the UNIVERSITY OF BATH

Applications are invited for three the holder to extend his or her evidence (e.g. from a national expert advice on a complete Sports Scholarships to be academic course in the University coach) that they are likely to conditioning programme to pre­ sponsored by Office Cleaning by one year or the equivalent as achieve international standard if pare him for international Services Ltd. Nine Scholarships well as offering financial assist­ awarded a scholarship. competition. have already been sponsored by ·ance for sports equipment, The successful scholar will For further details and an the company since 1976. A training expenses, travel etc. so receive a full technical back-up application form apply imme­ scholarship may be awarded to a that he or she will be able to to support his or her training diately Mr. W. J. Vennard, student who is qualified for devote more to achieving programme. This will include Secretary of the Sports admission to the University of excellence in sport. physiological and psychological Committee, Room 1 West 3.12, Bath in 1985, either at under­ testing and analysis, medical University of Bath, Claverton graduate or postgraduate level, Applicants must be of high and dietary screening and tech­ Down, Bath BA2 7AY. Telephone or to a student who is already academic calibre; they must also nique analysis using video. In Bath 61244 ext 210. Completed attending the University. The be of international standard in association with the specialist applications must be returned by scholarship scheme will allow their event, or able to produce coach the scholar will be given 1st May 1985. 50 Dunlop - Skills Awards Scheme

Dunlop Invest in Skills Awards Scheme

By Alan Priest, Marketing Operations Manager, Dunlop

The Dunlop Skills Awards It was Bob Oldfield who said make the awards scheme a with the many thousands of Scheme was launched in London to me that we must challenge success. volunteers throughout the on" December the 13th last year. our youth with table tennis and Printed on the literature pro­ country, without whose help this It was almost a year since Jack went on to throw in a free head­ duced for the scheme, you will scheme would not be possible". Carrington had spoken to me line for some advertising. "You find the following message. We are pleased to have the about the content and presen­ might get 5,000 on the 'Space "Dunlop acknowledge with opportunity to repeat it again tation of the awards and consider­ Invaders' - but are you fast sinere thanks the help of the here and to place on record our ably longer since he had first enough to play table English Table Tennis Associa­ commitment to help build the discussed the Awards with And so it is that challenge tion/English Schools Table future of table tennis. Dunlop Table Tennis Manager, young people to "Find out how Tennis Association, _ Alan Hydes. In the months that good you really are" with our followed, Alan and I worked with skills awards. In return we offer a Jack, Bob Oldfield, John Arnold sense of achievement recognis­ and other senior members of the ed by the award of certificates English Table Tennis Associat­ and badges. ion and English Schools Table In actual fact of course we Tennis Association to produce a know we offer much more, be­ structured award scheme that cause we all know that table would challenge the skills of tennis is exciting, healthy, those already in the game and friendly and fun and th is is our more importantly, encourage justification for seeking young some "new faces". recruits. Eleven months may sound a As a company, we justify our long time, but in retrospect it decision to support table tennis could easily have been longer. and in particular an award Fortunately, we were spurred on scheme, when we measure the by the fact the game needs such potential that the game has to a scheme if we are to lay down offer. When we look to the future Members of the ETTA/ESTTA and Dunlop face questions from the the foundations for tomorrow's however we see that little is press at the London launch of the Skills Awards Scheme. players. being done to realise that This is a theme often referrred potential. to in speeches but I wonder how In the face of a number of many are guilty of tunnel vision other sports which are growing when they set their sights on in interest, we could see it as tomorrow's players? 'hard work' but we don't think it In launching the Dunlop Skills will be, because table tennis has Awards Scheme, we have set our a rare quality not often found in sights on those who have per­ some of the other games - the haps never given table tennis a unquestionable commitment of single thought, and in doing so, the people who are in it. we must be realistic. We are Table Tennis has suffered entering a competition where more than most in the recession the prize is a young person's but the players, coaches and time and devotion. Our competi­ administrators who love their tors are many and growing. Not game have never been deflected on Iy are there other sports seek­ from their cause and always ing time and attention, there are managed - somehow. a vast number of alternative This determination is surely Senior Staff Coach David Fairholm advises youngsters from forms of entertainment. our strongest ally in the fight to Hillcross Middle School. Looking on are. from the left. Tom Blunn. Geoff Mortimer (Dunlop) and John Arnold (Chairman. ESTTA).

scheme is backed by an explanatory and comprehensive Local message: Dunlop take the on the as guests of organisers pack available from: The Awards Organiser. 21 Scandal Endowed School. Wakefield. the Yorkshire Regional Claremont. East Sussex. TN34 1 HA. Launch in January. 51 Postbag

topspin attack (2) and de­ and tennis are becoming more BRIGHT IDEA fence (2). At least then, the appealing each week, and I A word to Mr. Woodard players and public would under­ wonder how long it will be News, February 1985) and to all stand the game. before I call it a day. those club players who are a lit­ K. L. BUSHELL tle uptight about the two colour 3) County Matches. With a 30 Sunters Wood Close, bat rule and threatening to give young family and an understand­ Booker, High Wycombe, up the game which they have ing wife, I can look back on the Bucks. enjoyed for so many years. There season to date, pleased that we is no need to take such drastic played Yorkshire, Lancashire action. Many shoe stains will and Cheshire at home. A recent to a rubber surface, and the match against Staffordshire, ESSENTIAL POINT black stain is particularly effec­ meant that I was out of the house I certainly go along with Dick tive, so unless you have a black for hours and in that time bat your problem is solved. spent 30 minutes playing. Five Hopkins' views (Jan. T.T.N.) on the need to experiment with I am indebted to Gordon Mar­ hours were swallowed up in driv­ tin of the League for this ing to and from the match, ways and means of encouraging rallies. The essential point is of bright idea. Although not re­ hours watching my teammates quired in the local league, Gor­ LET'S SET A PLAN and 30 minutes for the course that these must be enter­ taining rallies, rather than going don had to do something in order after match refreshments. to play in the County League for Feeling rather down after losing Surely the time has come for the otherway and ending upwith both my sets in a County match, I long, dull, pushing encounters. Stafford Veterans, and his all county matches to be played answer is certainly practical and decided that it was about time I along similar available to Over the years the suggestion answered the question to myself of raising the' net back to successful, he assures me the Premier divisions. A Social has no affect on the playing - do I enjoy playing? The answer could also be arranged for the inches seems to have come up was yes but only in the right on a number of occasions but, as characteristics of the surface. Saturday night in order that If you have a black bat you will circumstances. To explain this I players could get to know the far as I am aware, never got any analysed the following and on a further. I would be grateful if have to experiment with some opposition better. The actual the bright coloured stains. I majority of matters agree with cost could be shared between someone could explain why. Peter Charters. Whilst I'm not so keen on would think you stand a reason­ the participating counties' or able chance with a couple of local sponsorship obtained. Dick's other proposal that the 1) Premises and Clubs. The server has to serve into the right coats of red. the Barna bat doesn't come in a time has definitely come when 4) Tournaments. Like Peter hand court of the receiver, surely black version - at least I've never each league obtain a Charters it never fails to amaze the main point is that such seen one. purpose-bunt table tennis centre me how much time is spent thoughts should at least be given Let me finish by assuring Mr. or, for the present, one must be sitting around waiting to play. serious consideration and com­ Woodard of the necessity of the available in each county. In High This is true of nearly all local mented on by the hierarchy and two colour rule as an important Wycombe there are numerous tournaments. The men are asked not merely ignored. step in taking some of the non­ squash clubs, plentiful tennis to attend early in the morning, B. J. McKenzie sense out of table tennis. The clubs and an international-stan­ play several rounds and then 45 London Road, next logical step, if we want to dard badminton centre. The stop, whilst the women, and the Thatcham, Berks. increase spectator appeal for the majority of matches are played in veterans take over. Pray for men general public, is to ban the community centres, works can­ is then recommenced at a late cornbination bat altogether. teens or in cold, out of the way, hour and the final played at the JACK CHALKLEY village halls. end of the evening when most Chumleigh, There are no facilities for people have long gone. At a Cross St., changing, no showers and, like recent tournament in 'Oxford, I MEMORIES BESTIRRED Gnosall, at many matches, everyone sits was away home for 'over 12 The account by Mike Watts of Stafford ST20 OBX. there, in utter silence, until it is hours, for 1 hours at the Midlands Veterans' Open time to go home. High Wycombe most. For one period, I waited mentions Percy Hydes playing in is not uncommon, the same can four hours, for my next call. My the over 60's event. Surely the be said of nearly all leagues in wife often asks the question name should be HYDE who I the country. Whilst my club has "Why do you bother?" played and beat in the English several teams, this is in name Open at Brighton in 1962. OPEN TO DEBATE only, the link being that we use 5) Television. If this sport OT I possess the English Open I do not know what trade, the same premises, but of course ours to succeed it be Championships programme of profession or calling Mr. Corbin on different nights. Without promoted correctly. Television' 1939-40. It took place at the belongs, but judging by his premises that generate a club has virtually ignored us and press Polytechnic Extension, Little comments concerning certain atmosphere, younger people coverage is minimal. Whilst. I Titchfield St., W1 on March 13/ events at the second premier cannot be introduced to the have been involved with county 15, 1940 there, and the finals weekend made in his article in game. If you look at the majority table tennis for 16 years, playing were' played . at Wembley on the last edition of Table Tennis of leagues there are probably in numerous counties, I know I March 16. News, he should be politician, more veterans than juniors, and would recognise' the majority of In the results for that year or a writer for one of the more as the,se players retire, leagues snooker players rather than any and Osborne were given sensational popular newspapers. reduce in member teams. leading table tennis player. as winning the mixed doubles, , He shows an adeptness to pre­ Whilst table tennis will con­ but Victor played with Dora sent selected information in a 2) Equipment. There no tinue to be played at holiday Beregi according to the pro­ somewhat emotive way which doubt in my mind that the intro­ camps, youth clubs etc., the gramme, and Miss Osborne was ranks with the,best, and of duction of 'funny' rubbers is organised matches will become not named in the list of com­ course an impression to the killing the enjoyment. Whilst I fewer and fewer, so the trend petitors. reader which is somewhat less appreciate that players must must be stopped. Many people I had a knock with Dora at my than the whole picture. Just for learn play with their now realise this, but a construct­ club, and she bet mein a hard­ the record, and/for the of combination, it is normally re­ ive plan must be agreed at all hitting game. I only played lawn readers who are unaware of ex­ quired to make up for a deficiency levels of the game. Interest is tennis with Victor. Shortly after­ actly what he was talking about, I in their own' game. Whilst it there, from junior players, but it wards I was in the Army, 'and I wonder if he would explain just would not be practicable for all must be fostered and the game was stationed in Cairo 1943-45 what the evening meal which he to play with the same rubbers, treated seriously as a sport and where I'had some games of table mentions was and how much it the available must be re­ not still considered as just Ping tennis with a sandpaper bat. would have cost to send a party duced. I would suggest that any Pong. K. WOODWARD of six to it? pimpled-out rubber be banned Personally I am giving up table 5 Birchwood Road, Everyone, including in par­ and that there be a maximum of tennis, at county level, unless Tooting, ticular the ordinary paying mem­ six rubbers to choose from Le. the format is changed. Squash London SW17 9BO. bers of associations which 52 Postbag

took part and any sponsors not keep going back to them for equipment, rather than his oppo­ Feb. 2, the day of the ETTA's whose money might have been more and more money to be nent's skill. Cotswold Junior 'Select' where thus spent could then decide for spent on the elite few. In fact this In addition to the points raised Brian had the opportunity to win themselves the merits or other­ year we did in Staffordshire ask by Peter Charters, I would offer the Under-12 title and further wise of the Staffordshire decision them for money, a move the following:­ enhance his reputation amongst not to finance their party for this which I supported, but only as 1. A bright coloured ball, say, cadet opposition. event. It really must be open to part of a package which included fluorescent orange, with perhaps a pity Brian's parents d.ebate as to whether the con­ match fees from the county a black band around it, so that had to choose between the two, siderable amount of money in­ players. We are not the only the ball can be readily seen and particularly when the Cotswold volved COLI Id not be better spent county which has such a system the band wouId show the date had long been a fixture on in direction, when and table tennis is not the only amount of spin on the ball. the tournament calendar. Dis­ ALL the facts were taken into sport which has such system. This would be very beneficial appointing too that Brian may account, particularly as it I stand by the decision. It is to counter the many dingy halls now miss the opportunity of re­ appeared to be an "extra" on top not unreasonable that in return with poor lighting that many of presenting England Schools in of what was inevitably a fairly for two all expenses paid us have to contend with in our the July triangular international expensive weekend anyway. weekends players might be asked league table tennis. In addition it tournament. As to his remarks about coun­ to pay a fairly nominal match fee would help to avoid losing sight It is such short-sighted ties who in his opinion fail ade­ by way of a small contribution. If of the ball against a background bureaucracy that certainly makes quately to fund their teams, with table tennis is in a pit, (and I do of badminton court lines that are parents, spending considerable Staffordshire being singled out not accept that it is, although often encountered at our amounts of money and time on in this respect, Mr. Corbin really there are those who appear to be venues. the junior tournament circuit, must be prepared to present digging furiously), the players as 2. The service was originally question their participation in balanced comments, rather than well as administrators must do intended to simply put the ball table tennis at county and to try to make quick Brownie their share of getting us out of it, into play, nowadays many national levels. points at someone else's ex­ and all too often that simply does players win their games because Fortunately, here in Stafford­ pense. I do not know what yard­ not happen. they mastered a good serve and shire, schools table tennis is stick he uses to measure whether Come off it, Mr. Corbin. We although this itself is applauded most efficiently and sensitively a county is properly funding its would all like to think big, but by many, it is not conducive to organised by Dave Roberts to team or not, but I would make the there are those'who realise that if long rallies a'nd exciting table whom may I convey best wishes following Staffordshire the balloon gets too big it will tennis. As the majority of "good" for a speedy recovery following a currently have both their senior burst altogether. Let us have serves are executed by the fore­ recent illness. and junior teams in the premier constructive comment by all hand of the bat would it IAN KNIGHTS divisions. It was not any of their means, but let us also have credit improve matters if we were to 10 Captains Lane, players who turned out in rather where credit is due. It is hard allow service with the backhand Barton under Needwood, scruffy or incorrectly coloured kit enough to find administrators as side only? I believe this would Burton on Trent, Staffs. at the first senior premier week­ it is; public attacks from outside, reduce the server's advantage, end. Their senior team finished particularly when they only put thereby'allowing the receiver to up nearer the' top than the across half the story, hardly return the ball at a reasonable, bottom, and positions currently height to avoid the "third ball helps. One keen, reliable and SPRINGTIME ON THE held by the whole range of our kill" and hence allow some form efficient worker is worth a lot of TITANIC players in the ranking lists sponsorship. Let. us not spend of rally to materialise. suggest that prospects for the our time discouraging them, or 3. Peter Charters mentioned I have studied the Titanic News future are encouraging. By my we will finish up with nothing to using a "doubles serve", this for February very carefully, from yardstick that looks fairly satis­ sponsor. alone would give considerable cover to cover, and can assure factory but obviously he uses a advantage to left handed relatives that there is no official GEOFF C. WILLIAMSON different one. players, . therefore it could announcement, mention, or Brownsfield Cottage, even the tiniest hint of any Sponsorship? Yes of course elaborate on this by giving the Brownsfield Lane, trouble ahead. we try as hard as most, and yes of server the choice of which side Lichfield, Staffs. Now I don't want to worry you, course we know that we might of the table he will serve, or alter­ WS138EH. but I do have to add that a lower get something from somebody natively have the server serve deck officer, namely Peter Char­ next year if we keep at it. But five consecutive times to one ters, in a "Personal Viewpoint" decisions on entering and funding corner and the next series of WIND OF CHANGE does state that "there is concern teams have to be taken this year serves to the opposite corner. I was very interested to read in about the real problems we face". and budgets prepared with this Changes have to be made if the February issue of Table Also, alas, that stowaway, John year's available money in mind. the game is to flourish in the Tennis News the article written Prean, has somehow got his Even if sponsorship is avai'lable, future; the current decline in by Peter Charters. There is no two-penn'orth in and says we are to plan and budget on the contin­ popularity of the game proves doubt that something needs to DANGER OF DROWNING OR uation of hand outs is not the that the existing rules on equip­ be done to make table tennis FREEZING TO DEATH". Really, way to sound financing as the ment and general play have not more attractive to potential new the sooner this 'stowaway is ETTA themselves' have had to been successful. players and the general public, made a castaway the sounder we learn. Rather it can be the first D. J. JONES we also need that "something" shall all sleep in our cabins. It's step along the rocky road to Small Mead, to make the game more enjoy­ bad enough as it is with those disaster. Wood Lane, able to the regular T.T. player at Sonning Common,. ice-bergs banging the sides. And . This brings us to the final point all levels of the sport. Reading, Berkshire. they seem be getting bigger of where the money does come I am in total agreement with all the time! from if it does not come from Peter Charters that the vast On to personal messages. gifts. Ultimately you then come variety of spin that can be Thank you Robbie Robinson for down to the members, orto fund obtained with the present type your "Drastic Action Needed". I raising (which all too often again and range of T.T. bat is not good respect your opinion that stan­ down to the members). for the game. In my opinion this DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW dardisation is the answer and in Now I am a member of a very is the main cause of the decline As a parent on the Junior table an ideal world it could be; but my small local league in Lichfield of the game in recent years. If we tennis circuit, I find the attitude own view is that the realities of with eighteen teams. The reduce the variety of spin by of the Kent Schools' TTA difficult life make it impractical. John majority of our players have no standardisation of equipment it to follow. Prean's article on this subject in table tennis horizons outside would improve table tennis In Brian Mileham of Margate February effectively sums up the their regular weekly match. We immensely, rallies would again they unquestionably have a ' hot case against. If though Robbie, . are however extremely supportive come to the fore, games would favourite' for the All-England you still think you have the of both our county association be won by the more skilful Under-11 title at Mansfield in answer, try it out on the first ten and the national body and will player; in the May. Apparently, however, they players you meet. My guess is continue to be so. But as is often a case of a player not chose to change the, date of their you get· ten different representative I cannot and will able to cope with his opponent's qualifying tournament to Saturday, ideas of standard" bat 53 ------

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/ ! should be. Discounting, of thedecision about the Rowdens, wHArs ON.AND WHERE { course, those who will be vehe­ this was made by a committee as March 'EVENING ment that it should not be I have already explained in my 8/ 10 ENGLISH CLOSED CHAM· earlier ·article. Both players' re­ PIONSHIPS, CHRONICLE' standardised at all. example Bletchley Princes Mr. K. Woodard, who in his letter gistrations were cancelled, they ' Way, Bletchley, Milton Kaynes, headed "Not At My Age" says he not suspended. Neither ' Bucks. 2-STAR OPEN will not even comply 'with the player at that stage wished to , 9 EUROPEAN LEAGUE-DIVISION 2 - SCOTLAND v WALES TOURNAMENT two-colour rule! Like it or not, play in the league, so why be re­ Mr. Woodard speaks for a signifi­ gistered? 10 Lancashire 2-Star Junior Open. PRIZE FUND OF cant number of players. I have since received from one Oldham Sports Centre (from 9 £1.365 of the largest clubs in the league a.m.) John Hyland suggests that the 16/ 17 Beneficial .Trust Derby Junior This tournament will once proposals I support - a higher (not my own) a letter in which Select. Derby Sports Centre. again be at Concordia net and restricted service area ­ they supported every action Moor Lane. Derby. Leisure Centre, Cramlington, would end up a real Mary Rose. I taken by the executive com­ 17 Eastof England2-Star{Grantham) 17/ 23 8th COMMONWEALTH CHAM· Northumberland. The' date is liked that analogy; very amusing. mittee, and willing to show PIONSHIPS, Palace Lido. Saturday, April 27th, 1985 But I do question John's conten­ this to John. Douglas. Isle of Man. and the top prize of £300 will tion that the serve is a great part I too remember Gordon 23 ESTTA National Team Finals (Lea go to the winner of the Men's Steggall as a member of our Green Sports Centre. Matlock. of the game. I ~ t think Mr. Joe Derbyshire. Singles. The .Women's Public would go along with that. league some years ago and whilst 24 Hoechst Yorkshire 2-Star Open. singles carries a first prize And by the way John; if you as a recognising his achievement in North 8ridge Leisure Centre. of £100. gaining a high position in our Halifax. lower Division player can 24 Cheshire Junior l-Star (8irken­ Events to be held are men's successfully screw up a First sport would ask what is it to do head). singles and doubles, Division player with your guileful with him or any other person 28 38th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS women's singles and serves - what on earth is he who is not a member of our (Gothenburg) doubles, Class 2 singles and April perpetrating on you when he (or league. The decision was taken' 5 veterans' singles. Entry forms she) serves?! As to yourfears that in accordance with league rules 30 Northem"'Region Open Veterans are available from Mr. Aubrey serves to the right hand court and the committee is answer­ Championships. Macclesfield Drapkin, 49 Beach Avenue, able only to our members. Leisure Centre. Priory Lane. would be easily blasted back, Macclesfield. Cheshire. Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. this does not happen in doubles, Our Executive Committee is ('phone: 091-251 4983). John. not in disarray, indeed this matter April closing date for entries is Finally back to Peter Charters was the only item to :the 6 County Championships (7) and Tuesday, April 9th, 1985. members together this season. Junior Premier Weekend (6/7) at who states that the proposals I St. Neots. support " have inherent weak­ 7 Edinburgh Youth and Junior 2­ nesses". What are the weak­ DEREK WILKINSON Star (Meadowbank) 13 South Yorkshire 2-Star (Rother­ nesses Peter? Let us in on the 36 Desmond Road. ham) C.D. 23.3.85. secrets because this is what we Eastbourne. East Sussex. Forms from S. Wainwright. 129 need; a serious discussion of the BN227LE. Mount View Ad. Sheffield. S8 real problems facing our sport. 8PJ. 'Phone: 0742-585260. 13/1 4 Benaficial Trust Essax Junior with a reasonable consideration Salact, Harlow Sportcentre. of the obvious, logical remedies Hammerskjold Ad.. Harlow. Essex. already put forward. I doubt if CD 16.3.85 Forms from 8. R. asking for further. more novel, Granger. 14 Galsworthy Ave.. DURHAM Chadwell Heath. Essex. RM6 4QA. IS I proposals really constructive. 14 8edford 1-Star Open. CD 23.3.85 Of co'urse you consider a Forms from K. 8eddall. 3 Spring­ table that is round or curved; a COUNTY field Ave.. Kempston. 8edford. ' Phone: 0234-851022. TABLE TENNIS NEWS ball that is like an egg or a 20 Dunlop Lancashire 2-Star Open. balloon and a bat that is hollow 2-STAR British Aerospace Dynamics, Publis.hed each month from or perforated. I am sure there are Due to lack of sponsorship the Lostock. Bolton. CD '6.4.85. Forms from G. A. Yates. 43 Knowsley October to May. Postal subscrip­ lots of other similarly daft Durham County 2-Star Open, Ad .• Bolton. BLl 6JH. ' Phone tions £6.50 for eight issues (U.K·l suggestions which could be scheduled for Sunday, March 0204·42223. Europe (including Eire) £11.00, made but surely the practical 31/85 has had to be cancelled. 20/2 1 Grieveson. GrantTunbridge Wells Overseas £13.00. realistic options available are Junior Open 2-Star• .Sandown Court School. Blackhurst Lane. strictly limited and already known Tunbridge Wells. Kent. i.e. a higher net to give a fairer CD: 19.3.85 Forms from J. Butler. balance between attacker and 1.08 Stephens Ad. . Tunbridge Wells. TN4 9QA. ' Phone: Advertisements: Mrs. Christine defender plus a restricted serve 089222288. Wilkes. English Table Tennis area to give a better chan'ce of GEOFF HARROWER 21 Halex National League (121 Association, 21 Claremont, Hast· safely returning the serve. 27 Evening Chronicle Northumber­ ings,East Sussex. TN34 1 HF. Meantime it is springtime on TROPHY land 2·Star Open. Concordia Leisure Centre. Cramlington. .Phone: Hastings (0424) 433121 . the Titanic. The chief Officers The Committee of the Inter­ Northumberland. Forms from A. smile benignly from the Bridge, national Table Tennis Club of Drapkin. 49 Beach Ave.. Whitley confident bulletins are issued, Bay. Tyne & Wear. NE26 lDZ. England have decided to ' Phone: 0912-514983. and many games are organised. award the Geoff Harrower 27/ 28 Beneficial Trust Yorkshire Junior Subscriptions: Miss B. Davies. Though few attend. Trophy for 1984/85 to Elsie Salact.. North Bridge Leisure English Table Tennis Association, DICK. HOPKINS Carrington, bearing in mind Centre. Halifax. CD 20.3.85. Forms from R. Balmford. 30 Glebe Ad.. 21 Claremont, Hastings. 12 Woodside Grove. the amount of work she has Wawne. Hull. HU7 5XA. ' Phone: Sussex. TN34 1 HF. .Phone: Henbury. Bristol BS10 7RF. done in connection with the 0482-821279. Hastings (0424) 433121 . Coaching Committee of the ETTA. The International Club Committee felt that Elsie was an appropriate winner Distribution: Mrs. E. Doreen May I to John Woodford's Yates. 43 Knowsley Road. "CLEARING UP the POINTS" in particularly as she has now Smithills. Bolton, Lancs. BL1 the February issue. retired from the ETTA func­ tion that she had devoted so 6JH. ' Phone: Bolton (0204) I do accept John's point about much time and energy to. 42223. his Editor possibly re-writing his Also the this year copy, but knowing how he likes underlines the recognition of to go for the sensational type of the many different facets that reporting I feel that he had more Editorial: Mr. George R. Yates, \ are a part of our game of of a hand in things. 43 Knowsley Road, Smithills. Table Tennis. To correct an impression given Bolton, Lancs. .Phone: Bolton by him, I did not personally make (0204) 42223. 54