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Best Bonuses For your be~t Annuities possible Quotation Rates contact Returns BARRY Your House MEISEL Table'ennis News Motor Parkside Endowment Insurance Agency Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association Investments 32 Parkside Ave. , Sickness Estates Bickley • Kent Life Phone 01-464-2963 \ . I A fortnight's hard stint at Lilles hall, broken up by the Lancs Open ENCLISHOPEN SURBEK SUPREME ON in the middle weekend, and followed by an international match and the JOHNNY LEACH, England's Kent Open was a strong diet for any Team Manager, has nominated the ENGLISH CIRCUIT athlete. But every credit to our following players to represent Eng visitors who made light of the land in the English Open Champion strenuous schedule. ships being held at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, London, S.E.19, on February 26-28. Each of the following pairs will As you were constitute a team to be entered in the International Team Competition, above, but and the opportunity has been taken to give junior players some expe~~ changes below! ence at international level. Men. The National Selection Committee I. D. Neale (Yorks) have announced the following Rank C. Barnes (Essex) Dragutin Surbek ing list for Open Tournaments. The 2. A. Hydes (Yorks) is here seen hold previous rankings are shown in brackets. T. Taylor (Herts) ing the Cussons 3. N. Jarvis (Yorks) Cup which he won Men J. Dabin (Kent) at Bolton with a 1. Denis Neale (Yorks) (I) 4. P. Taylor (Beds) S. Heaps (Ches) final victory over 2. Chester Barnes (Essex) (2) 3. Alan Hydes (Yorks (3) Women Denis Neale in the 4. Trevor Taylor (Herts) (4) men's sin g I e s I. M. Wright (Surrey) event. 'Photo by 5. Mike Johns (Cheshire) (7) K. Mathews (Mid x) 6. Brian Burn (N'thmblnd) (-) 2. J. Shirley (Bucks) Roger Price. 7. "les" Haslam (Middx) (9) P. Piddock (Kent) 8. Ron Penfold (Surrey) (12) 3. S. Howard (Surrey) 9. Tony Piddock (Kent) (8) S. Beckwith (Essex) 10. NIcky Jarvis (Yorks) (-) 4. L. Howard (Surrey) II. Peter Taylor (Beds) (-) J. Hellaby (Essex) 12. Clive Morris (Kent) (-) ON successive weekends last Women .[n the individual events, the players month, reigning European champion wIll form doubles partnerships as I. Mary Wright (Surrey (I) Dragutin Surbek, of Yugoslavia, ham above with the mixed pairings as mered his way to success in two 2. Jill Shirley (Bucks) (2) follows: English county tournaments when he 3. Karenza Mathews (Middx) (6) won the men's singles title of both 4. Pauline Piddock (Kent) (3) D. Neale/M. Wright. the Lancashire and Kent Opens. 5. linda Bashford (Yorks) (II) C. Barnes/K. Mathews 6. Judy WiHiams (Sussex) (4) A. Hydes/J. Shirley In the Lancashire Open, played at 7. Shelagh Hession (Essex) (-) T. Taylor/P. Piddock Bolton on January 17, he conquered 8. Susan Howard (Surrey) (10) N. Jarvis/S. Howard English champion Denis Neale after 9. Diane Simpson (Essex) (9) J. Dabin/S. Beckwith disposing of Alan Hydes in the semis. P. Taylor/L. Howard And, at Folkestone on January 25, The list has been compiled with S. Heaps/J. Hellaby his final victim was his compatriot the aid of the points awarded in the Istvan Korpa after the visitors had Coca-Cola Award Scheme but these The draw for the championships polished off Trevor Taylor and "Les" are still subject to scrutiny, so some will take place on Monday, February Haslam, respectively, at the penulti minor adjustments may have to be 9, 1970, at Room E91, Shell Mex mate stage. made. House, Strand, W.C.2. No such success attended the efforts The elite "A" squad has been of Yugoslavia's top women, world enlarged to include the top four ranked Mirjana Resler, who lost to women players in addition to the top BUCKS OPEN Jill Shirley at Bolton and to Mary four men. Wrongly given in last month's Wright at Folkestone, the latter Missing from the previous list are: avenging her defeat of two nights Tournament Diary were the dates of Men: "Connie" Warren (Surrey) the Bucks Open as January 31st previous in the Coca-Cola Trophy (6) David Brown (Essex) (9) and match at Bradford. February Ist. The correct dates, as Tony Clayton (Yorks) (11) in addi given in the provisional list circulated Over here on a reciprocal training tion to Brian Wright (Middx) (6) at the beginning of the season, are IS visit, the Yugoslav quartet made up who has retired from the international March 2Ist-22nd. Mr. Leo Thompson Getting down to it is Jill Shirley on by the fledgling 15-year-old Erszebet and tournament scene. is the Tournament Organiser, but her way to success over Yugoslavia's Korpa-a cousin of Istvan-were Women: Judy Heaps (Ches) (5), forms will be obtainable from Tony Mirjana Resler in the women's lead by Dusan Osmanajic whose smile Maureen Robson (Nthland) (7), Wickens at 2 Frensham Walk, Farn singles final of the Lancashire Open. was just as captivating on departure Lesley Radford (Essex) (8) and Kath ham Common, Slough. 'Phone: -'Photo by Tony Ross. as it was on arrival. Perry (Staffs) (12). Farnham Common 3053. Page 1 TABLE TENNIS NewS • Jis~~d on the 1st .of e~ch tl~th; October to May mcluslve. International ~ :~fc1";Subscriptions 15/- for eight I~~S post free. England 4 2 2 13 15 2 (Editor of The Canadian TTA News), ..\'tl:Yeittsements: Derek R. Tremayne, by Conrad Jaschke Hungary 2 I I 6 8 I says there was an encouraging "Veryan," 46, Perry Street, Wen Czechoslovakia 3 I 2 8 13 I response to the formation of a dover, Aylesbury, Bucks. 'Phone: Chairman of the E.T.TA Fed. Germany . 2 0 2 6 8 0 Schools' League in Ontario with 24 Wendover 2421. France .. 3 0 3 6 15 0 teams entering from the Toronto area. Circulation: E.T.T.A. Secretariat, Austria continue their winning Itoom 323, 26/29 Park Crescent, ways in the Second Division, having As yet interest has only spread to lOndon, W.1 N 4HA. 'Phone: 01-580. recorded recent victories over Switzer about 30 miles north of the city ~~tQ· land and Ireland. With their remain although there are reports of activi ~forial: George R. Yates, 43, ing fixtures both in Vienna, against ties as far away as- London. The Knowsley Road, Smithills, Bolton, Luxembourg and Netherlands, Den leader in London, Ontario, is a Lanes. 'Phone: Bolton 42223. mark can but live in hope. Latest former North of England enthusiast, results and positions: Eric Shuttleworth. Austria 5 Switzerland 2 In Montreal, they are approaching Belgium 3 Netherlands 4 junior development from another Ireland I Austria 6 angle. Jacques Bobet (director of FRUSTRATION Netherlands 3 Switzerland 4 Etude en 21 Points - Denis Neale Luxemburg I Denmark 6 and Jaroslav Stanek) and Alan Miller IT was once said of Conrad have opened junior clinics in several Jaschke, when he occupied the posi P W LF A Pts areas of the city. tion of ETIA Press Officer In the Austria ..... 4 4 o 21 7 4 late 1950's, that he built a bridge SPONSORSHIP IDEA SPREADS. It Denmark 4 3 1 22 6 3 from the Association's .premlses is probably no coincidence that Netherlands 4 2 2 IS 13 2 IN SCOTLAND then in Trafalgar Square - to Fleet closely following on the E.T.T.A.'s Belgium 4 2 2 14 14 2 Street. sponsorship deal with the Coca-Cola Switzerland ...... 3 I 2 6 15 I FOLLOWING Malcolm Sugden's Bottling Companies in England, news Ireland ............ 4 I 3 8 20 I successful raids on two Scottish This may well be true, but like now comes from Nigeria that the Luxembourg .... 3 0 3 5 16 0 tournaments (writes Donald Maclean) the structure that spans the Forth, Nigerian Table Tennis Association interest has centred mainly on the constant maintenance Is a vital have concluded their own sponsor EUROPE CLUB CUP 1969/70 inter-district event. From the outset tw~ necessity less the girders erode. ship deal with a soft drinks manu England's interest in this competi it was clear that there were only facturer. real contenders for the title-Edin Since those days of a single press tion rests with Ormesby TIC, burgh & District, and West of Scot officer, the Ass 0 c I a t Ion now This particular manufacturer-an Middlesbrough who, on Thursday, land. Aberdeen, who might have possesses three and, furthermore, English company with Nigerian sales January 29 were due to meet Swedish proved a challenge to both, had no boasts a Public Relations Officer as outlets-is sponsoring a Nigerian club champions, Mariestads Bois, at team forward. well. Festival of Table Tennis which will the Eston Sports Centre in the take place either in November, 1970, quarter-finals. Edinburgh's game with West of But still the battle for publicity or JailUary, 1971. Scotland was to decide the event. The goes on, for it is only on special Charles O. Itabor, the Hon. Secre EUROPEAN FAIRS CUP 1969/70 West team included new recruits Ian days that matters of consequence in tary of the Nigerian Table Tennis Drawn in Pirmasens, Federal Ger Barclay and Ram Bhalla (ex Nor the table tennis world stand a Association, has written to invite the many on January 6, for clubs thumberland), while Edinburgh were chance of being set In type by the E.T.T.A. to send players to take part finishing runners-up in national com without their top player Eric Suther national dailies. in the Festival and to follow this petitions, the men's quarter-final draw land.