13th EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS YOUNG PRETENDER DENIED by George R. Yates

ROLL OF HONOUR YOUTH AT THE HELM Men's Singles Women's Singles With Stellan Bengtsson, a former MIKAEL APPELGREN BETTINE VRIES,EKOOP world champion, struggling to keep his (Sweden) ( Netherlands) place and finally dropped against Yugo­ slavia in the men's team event in Buda­ Men's Doubles Women's Doubles pest stock must be taken of Sweden's ZORAN KALINIC and FLURA BULATOVA and depth of young talent now emerging as DRAGUTIN SURBEK INNA KOVALENKO world class players. (Yugoslavia) (Soviet Uni'on) Jan-Ove Waldner, the youngest by far of the five players used by Sweden in Mixed Doubles the team competition, is the latest of the newcomers 1'0 emerge as a senior con­ ANDRZEJ GRUBBA and BETTINE VRIESEKOOP tender although promise was there i,n (Poland) (Netherlands) abundance when, in August of la'st year, i'n Topolcany, he won the boys' singles Men's Team Women's Team and doubles, with Jonny Akesson, and HUN,GARY HUNGARY shared with Akesson and Erik Lindh the boys' team title in the European Youth Championships. Sweden had it all to themselves in the Zoran Kalinic, the giant Yugoslavian final of th,~ men's singles event in the 13th penholder; Stellan Bengtsson, Sweden's Have no doubts the Swedes have aces European Championships, in Budapest, on former world champion, and, in the semis, up their sleeves and, although they came April 25, 19182, with Mikael Aplt,~lgren, aged Tibor Klampar, of Hungary. but fourth in the men's team event in 20, beating his compatriot, Jan-Ove Both Istvan Jonyer and Gabor Gergely, Waldner, the 16-years-old wonder boy -17, Hungary's other title contenders, were Hungary, two of their players, namely -17, 18, 20, 19 in a truly gripping final. beaten by Appelgren and this after the Mikael Appelgren, the Top 12 winner in Appelgren, a left-hander, fought back Hunga,rians had claimed the gold medals in Nantes, and the i'ce cool Waldner had it from a two-game deficit to take the next the men's team event with a final victory all to themselves in the blue riband event three and the title from his younger over Czechoslovakia winning 5-3 after being· in Budapest. opponent who, en route to the final, had 1-3 down! Jonyer was Hungary's star with disposed of such notables as England's a treble. Come two years hence and Sweden Desmond Douglas (-17, -9, 11, 20 and 11); Again it was a triumph for the Top 12 will start hot favourites for the men's team title in Moscow as Hungary's age,ing players, just like Yugoslavia's and, to a lesser degr'ee, those of Czecho­ slovakia wi'll be that much older. B,ut what of England's prospects. For to,o rong we have 'relied on just one player, Desmond Douglas, and should he fail then so does the team. Where is the back-up coming from as it has with the decline of Bengtsson. Is the time not now ripe to concentrate on the younger element. Should we not lavish more attention on the likes of Graham Sandley, by no means a faUure in Budapest, on Carl Prean and, if con­ trollable, Bi.lly Gleave?

ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION Patron: Her Majesty The Queen. President: M. Goldstein, O.B.E. Life Vice-Pre~ident: Hon. rvor Montagu. Chairman: T. Blunn. Deputy Chairman: G. R. Yates. Hon. Treasurer: A. Drapkin. General Secretary: A. W. Shipley. Management Committee: (Vice-Chairmen) Victor and vanquished. Mikael Ap,pelgren about to put his bat away as Jan-Ove C. J. Clemett, R. J. Crayden, Waldner reflects on his loss. A. E. Ransome, N. K. Reeve. Photo by Lars Sandlin, Stockholm, Sweden. Page 3 Still it was something to fight for and fight we did when Douglas, Hilton and Day took on France who had come in fourth in Group B. T'hree wins for Douglas, over 'C'hristian Martin, Patrick Biroch,eau and Jacques Secretin, plus a splendid victory for Day over the latter took England into a 4-3 win but in losing to Birocheau in th,e eighth. s,et Day set Hilton the task oJ beating Martin for overall victory. DESULTORY Having twice lost in desultory fas,hion not much chanc\a was given of the Flixton man - so successful in Berne - of beating the French defender. But we were wron,g as John, buckling down to the task at lon:g last, b'~at his man 19 and 18 for a well­ earned win. O'n then to the final engagement with Federal Germany represented by Peter E·ngel, bespectacled and bearded, Engelbert Huging, even more bearded, and Jurg·en Rebel. Sandley took th:e place of Hilton in E,ngland's side and he is was who ac'counted for Huging in the second set after Day had beaten Engel in the opener. " Douglas made it 3-0 in disposing of Rebel then came a setback when Day lost to Huging but a subsequent win for Douglas over Engel took us into a. 4-1 lead countered by Rebel beating Sandley. But it w'as all over in the seventh set w'hen Douglas, com­ pleted his hattrick polishing off Hug'ing 7 and 8(!). In the top echelon Hungary, after going down to a surprising 3-5 defeat at the hands of Federal Germany (Peter Stellwag (2), E:ngel (2) and Ralf Wosik (1)) did not falter aga.in in topping Group B despite Gergely being beaten t,hrice in the Federal German encounter. Subsequent wins over Sweden (5-3) and Czechoslovakia (5-·3) got them the gold medals. with the Czechs taking second position on the rostrum. Both unsmiling on the rostrum. Appelgren on the No.1 spot and Waldner at No.2. In the counterpart women's event Photo by Lars Sandlin, Stockholm, Sweden. England's Jill Hammersley did a, 'Douglas Duisburg' by going through without sus­ taining a single loss. winner in Nantes, Bettin,e Vriesekoop of the Lacking practis,e against 'toreign' opposi­ Netherlands" who won th·e women's singles t.ion, because of the internal troubles, per­ Her victims included Vriesekoop, Ann­ t,itle with a final victory over England's Jill haps it was that the Poles, were caught Christ.in Hellman (Sweden), Kirsten Kruger Hammersley, the latt,er having played cold. and Ursula Kamizuru (GFR) , Valentina exceptionally well in claiming victories over But it was England's turn to s·eek excuses the defending champion, Valentina Popova in their next match against Czechoslovakia, of the Soviet Union, and the host country's played the same day, in th·e evening, with Judit Magos. the Cz·echs 5-1 victors after Desmond Miss Vriesekoop, aged 20 from Hazers­ Douglas h,ad put his country into the lead woude, struck gold again when, with with a first set win over Jindri,ch Pansky. Poland's Andrzej Grubba, the mixed title was won in a final encounter with Dragutin It was in this encounter that Douglas lost Surbek and Branka Batinic of Yugoslavia. his one and only set in the team event when But Surbek was not to be denied in the beaten 14 and 19 by Milan Orlowski. Neither men's doubles which also afforded Kalinic a Douggie Johnson nor Hilton could make any gold in disposing of Gergely and Jonyer. impre,ssion on the Czech trio otherwise comprising Joslef Dvoracek. Owing to a foot injury, worsened by her encount·er with Jill Hamm,ersley, Miss Changes were made for the following Vriesekoop pulled out of the women's morning's match against Denmark - pro­ doubles final possibly denying Sandra de motees to the Super Division of th,e Euro­ Kruiff a gold medal the same being claimed pean League - with Paul Day and Graham by Flura Bulatova and In,na Kovalkenko of Sandley replacing Hilton and Johnson. the Soviet Union who had taken out Mrs. Both newcomers revelled in their selection Hammersley and Linda Jarvis in the s,emis. with Day beating Kim Kartholm and Claus Making it a double celebration in the Pedersen, the latter also losing to Sandley. team events, Hungary's Gabriella Szabo and Douglas, of cours,e, .~on his two. Edit Urban took the women's title for In the evening of th·e same day, an Hungary beating F,ederal Germany's Ursula identIcal English trio took on Sweden. But, Kamizuru and Kirsten Kruger 3-1 in the despite Douglas claiming the scalps of final. Stellan Bengtsson, Appelgren (14 and 11) CAUGHT COLD and Erik Lindh not another set cam'e our way with Sandley thrice beaten and Day Matters got under 'way on the morning twice. of ApI. 17 when, at 10.30 a.m., E.ngland's men went into a'ction against Poland in The last match in the first stage was their opening 1st stage Group A match. But against Austria and w'ith Johnson affording who would have predicted the 5-0 scoreline Douglas a rest it was a 5-0 result in that ensued with John Hilton, having England's favour. But thos·e two losses to scraped home 2l3-21 in the first game the Czechs and the Swedes· made it that Desmond Douglas - success in the team against Grubba, throwing away a 20-12 lead 5th position was th·e highest we could event. in the second, giving the most palpitations? attain. Photo by Jose Ransome, Ormesby, Cleveland.

Page 4 all fell in the first round and all three to Swedes in the persons of Menni Weizades, Hellman, and Marie Lindblad respectively. And, in the women's consolation singles, Carole was beaten by her namesake, Dalrymple, of Scotland! Oh calamity! FIRST SUCCESS The young Scot lost in the final to Hungary's Ildiko Bolvari whilst Hafen brought off the first success for Switzerland in the final of the men's consolation in beating Jukka Ikonen of Finland. No final session is complete wit,hout Surbek being involved and, true to form, the all-action Yugoslav, in partnership with the giant Kalinic, took on the host nation's G,ergely and Jonyer who lost in straight games to bring an earlier end to the pro­ ceedings than had been anticipat,ed. On the previous night in the mixed doubl1es Bettine Vriesekoop had claimed Holla,nd's first ever gold medal in sharing the title with Poland's Grubba. and to this she might have added, but for injury, the women's doubles, to complete a rar'e treble with her win in the women's singles which h,ad the Dutch contingent tossmg their heroine around the arena. Apart from Jill and Linda reaching the semi of the women's doubles Carole and Karen failed miserably in losing -17, -14, -18 Bronze med.alists for England. to Dolores Fetter and Barbara Wiltsche of Photo by Jose Ransome, Ormesby, Cleveland. Austria in Rd. 1, whilst a similar fate befell Hilton and Bruna Pat,ietti of France who Popova and Nadine Antonyan (UI88) , Edit Bengtsson - how the former World cham­ took a first round exit to Johansen and Urban and Ga1briella Szabo (HUN) and pion had struggled to keep his place in the Gustavsen of Norway. Rumania's young prospect, Olga Nemes, as men's team - ousted the Middles'ex player Douglas and Day, fell to Karakasevlc and well as E,va Feren,czi. in straight games. Jurcic of Yugoslavia in Rd. 2, after a first Regrettably her teammates did not Johnson had an opening win over Martin round bye, whilst Johnson and Sandley pro­ measure up to Jill's high standard although Hafen of Switzerland but then fell to Engel gressed to the quarters before falling to C'arole Knight did her stuff against Yugo­ w'hose compatriot, Rebel disposed of Day. ,Surbek and Kalinic after beating Swier/ slavia in beating Dubravka Fabri and Surbek, the top seed, was taken out in Rd. van Spanje (NET), Cabrera/Leroy (BEL) against the Netherlands: when taking the 4 by Gergely whilst Grubba ,fell to Jonyer, and, commendably, th,e arch defenders fifth and final set against Sandra de Kruiff. and Orlowski to Huging. But all credit to Martin (FRA) and Huging (GF'R). Our only loss was to Hungary, the the young Swedes who s'et Budapest alight Des and L,inda, our main hopes in the eventual,champions, when Miss. Knight gave with their stirring deeds. mixed, fell to Kalinic and Feren,czi whilst second best to both Szabo and Urban and Jill's fellow representatives in the Hilton and Carole shamed themselves. in Jill and Linda Jarvis dropped their second women's singles, Carole, Karen and Linda, losing, in Rd. 1, to Marc. Birel and Carine doubles set. Ris,ch of Luxembourg and this after win­ Twice Karen Witt replaced C'arole but ning the first two games, 17 and 13. They without success against both Sweden and were subsequently defeated 14, 13 and 18. th,e Soviet Union, losing to Hellman and Jill and Johnson progressed to the Popova. Predictable I suppose but not, t,he manner of the defeats - both, 2-straight. Having finis-hed ninth in Berne the Federal Germans are to be congratulated on achieving the runners-up spot in Budapes:t . . . truly a remarkable upsurge in their fortunes as indeed was their m,en's victory over Hungary. INDIVIDUALS After their successes in th,e team events Hungary's appetite had been truly wh,etted and with both Gergely and Klampar suc­ cessful up to the semis of the men's singles crowd reaction was rea'ching crescendo proportions. But at that stage the din was stiffled with G·ergely falling to Appelgren and Klampar, regarded as the favourite, falling to young Waldner, conqueror of Douglas, in a memor­ able third round match in which the War­ wickshire left-hander ran out of st,eam after taking th,e first two games. ' Lancashire's Hilton, the defendin,g title holder, was beaten 15, 10 a.nd '6 (!) by the French a.ce Secretin, this after the Man,­ cunian ha,d disposed of Tibor Kreis~, of Hungary, a,nd Igor Podnosov ot t,h,e Soviet Union. " John, like a bull at a gate, discarded his usual pains'taking tactics, w'hich, had paid su'ch good dividends in Berne, and that was his undoing. But, in reality, he did not appear to have the heart to win and, sladly, this must be written. iSandley did well to progress through two The serve that 'baffle'd more th,an a fe'w rounds, in beating Dietmar Palmi of Austria in Budapest ... delivered by Waldn,er. Jonyer - in super form for Hungary. and Thomas Busin of Switzerland, but Photo by Lars Sandlin, Stockholm, Sweden. Photo by Jose Ransome, Ormesby, Cleveland. Page, 5 quarters losing to Surbek and Batinic whilst Day and Karen failed to distinguish them­ selves in losing to Tom Johans,en and Tone Folkeson of Norway in Rd. 1. Yugoslavia's Milivoj Karakasevic was, the recipient of the Victor Barna "Fair Play Award" presented by the Swaythling Club whose members turned up in force in Budapest with the host nation's Ferenc Sido ever on hand to assist as required. The newly constructed stadium was a sight to behold dwarfing anything we have in this country and wit.h the weather on its best behaviour the waters of the Danube which splits Buda from Pest truly sparkled in the spring sunshine. No doubt the Hungarians ,have the knQIW­ how when it comes to organising a major tournament and the opening ceremony in­ volving gymnastic and folk dancing dis­ plays was well up to standard. Granted one had to be a lover of salami to favour the numerous snack bars within the stadium but food, otherwIse, was not to be grumbled at, taken, as it was, in the hotels. 'Iwo years hence the 14th European Championships will take place in Mos,cow. See you there, --~------­ I.O.C. PRESIDENT AT EURO CHAMPIONSHIPS A good combination - Jill Hammersley with her capt.a.in Nicky Jarvis. The President of the Inte'rnational Photo by Jose Ransome, Ormesby, Cleveland. Olympic Committe,e, Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch, visiting Hungary accepted an Round 4: Gergely/ Jonyer bt Birocheau/Secretin 15, 16, 21. invitation to assist the 13th European Table Gergely bt Surbek 20, 18, 12; Final: Tennis Championships, taking pla,ce in Secretin bt Lindh 18, -20. 16, -17, 13; KALINIC/SURBEK bt Gergely/Jonyer 15. 17, 15. Budapest from April 17-25, 1982. Jonyer bt Grubba 14, 19, 21; Wlomen's Doubles Quarter-finals: Appelgren bt Dvoracek 12, 15, 13; Magos/Szabo bt Antonyan/Popova 16, 10. 16; At a reception on ApI. 24 in honour of Waldner bt Kalinic 21, 8, 18; S. de Kruiff (NET)/Vriesekoop bt B. BatinicjD. Fabri Mr. Bengtsson bt Kucharski -15, 18, 21, -20, 15; (YUG) 18, 17, 13; Samaranch, the opportunity was taken Huging bt Carlsson -16, 17, 20, 15; Bulatova/I. Kovalenko (USS) bt FerenczijO. Nemes (RUM) by Mr. H. Roy Eva,ns, P1'2sident of the Inter­ Klampar bt Karakasevic 14, 7, 16. 15, 17, 16; national Table Tennis Fe:deration to con­ Quarter-finals: Hammersley/L. Jarvis (ENG) bt Olah/Urban Gergely; bt Secretill -17. 20, 20, 18; 16. 13, -15, -17, 20. firm the I.T.T.F. proposals to the I.O.C. for Appelgren bt Jonyer 18, 13, -12, -15, 18; Semi-finals: the table tennis events in the Olymp,ic Waldner bt Bengtsson 19, 17, -12. 15; de Kruiff/Vriesekoop bt Magos/Szabo 17, 19, 19; Games, in the p,resence of Dr. Arpad Klampar bt Huging 13, 14, 15. Bulatova/Kovalenko bt Hammersle,y/ Jarvis Semi-finals: -15, -14, 12, 16, 13. Csanadi - Honorary Sports Director of the Appelgren bt Gergely 16, -13, 18. 6; Final: I.O.C., and senior officers of the I.T.T.F. Waldner bt Klampar -19, 22, 18, 13. BULATOVA/KOVALENKO walk-over de Kruiff/ Final: Vriesekoop scratched, and E.T.T.U. APPELGREN bt Waldner -17, -17. 18, 20. 19. Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals;'" Mr. Samaranch express2d his pleasure at "Tomen's Singles, Round 3: I. Podnosov (USS/Popova bt Pansky/Hrachova in B. Vriesekoop (NET) bt M. Lindblad (SWE) -13, -11, 18, 21, 19; the inclusion of Table Tennis the -19, 17, 13, -19, 11; Olympic Games programme from 1988 and Grubba/Vriese~oop bt Kalinic/Ferenczi -13. 12, -16, 13, 17; N. Antonyan (USS) bt Z. Olah (HUN) -13. 6, 13, -17, 16; Dvoracek/B. Sllhanova bt SecretinjBergeret 17, 19 10; ,mentioned th,a,t in his personal view the U. Kamizuru (GFR) bt G. Szabo (HUN) ~:urbek/Batinic bt Johnson/Hammersley 20. -16, 19, 13: wish of tb2 I.T.T.F. to include men's and -17, 11, -19, 21, 15; Semi-finals: F. Bulatova (USS) bt M. Hrachova (CZE) Grubba/Vr~es.ekoop women's doubles in the Progra,mme was .16, 19, -20, 19. 18; bt Podnosov/Popova 17. 19. 12; fully justified, and this. question will be V. Popova (USS) bt E. Ferenczi (RUM) 17. -20, 15, -15, 19; Surbek/Batlnlc bt Dvoracek/Silhanova -17. 10, 20, 18. E. Urban (HUN) bt S. Grefberg (FIN) 18. 24, 19; Final: given co.nsideration by the I.O.C. Executive J. Magos (HUN) bt K. Kruger (GFR) 19, 16,20; GRUBBA/VRIESEKOOP bt Surbek/Batinic 17,20, 16. Board beforl2 the final decision is taken at J. Hammersley (ENG) bt C. Bergeret (FRA) 12, 12, -18, 12. Men's Consolation Singles Quarter-finals: the Session of the I.O.C. in Rome at the Quarter.finals: D. Hannah (SCO) bt B. Meszaros (YUG) 12. 16; Vriesekoop bt Antonyan 13, 16. -19. 19; J. Ikonen (FIN) bt T. Cabrera (BEL) 18, 18; end of May. Mr. Evans state,d that it would Kamizuru bt Bulatova 17, 17, 18; M. Hafen (SWI) bt B. Cabrera (BEL) 15, 9; probably be the intention of the I.T.T.F. to Popova bt Urban 14, 19, 12; G. Bisi (ITA) bt Katahanas (ORE) 8, 14. limit participation to not more than two Hammersley bt Magos 19, 16, 19. Semi-finals: Semi-finals: Ikonen bt Hannah 17, 8; players from anyone N.O.C. Mr. Samaranch Vriesekoop bt Kamizuru 13, -14. 7, 20; Hafen bt Bisi 14. -13, 16. expressed his. approval of such an arrange­ Hammersley bt Popova 10, 17, 19. Final: ment. Thl2re was also an exchange of views Final: HAFEN bt Ikonen 19, -19, 18. regarding the problems of eligibility, and VRIESEKOOlP bt Hammersley 16, -8, 18, -21. 16. .Women's Consolation Singles Quarter-finals: Men's Doubles Quarter.finals: N. Alboiu (RUM) bt K. Witt (ENG) -16. 19. 19' protection of the Olympic movement. Kalinic/Surbek bt D. Johnson (ENG)/Sandley 12, 20. 19; E. Maier (AUT) bt B. Witte (SWI) 7, 10; , Mr. Samaranch presented an Olympic U. Bengtsson/Lindh bt Grubba/Kucharski C. Dalrymple (SCO) bt K. Bogaerts (BEL) 19 11' 18, -20, 17, -17. 19; I. Bolvari (HUN) bt E. Bakker (NET) 11. 5. ' , gold pin to Mr. Evans and mementoes of Gergely/Jonyer bt M. Broda (CZE)/Broda 20, 12, -15, 13; Semi-finals: the occasion to Mr. and Mrs. Evans and P. Birocheau (FRA)/Secretin bt S. Bengtsson/Carlsson Bolvari bt Alboiu 19. 19; to Dr. G. Lakatos, Pres,ident of the E.T.T.U. -21, 7, 18, -19. 15. Dalrymple bt Maier 18, 14. Semi-finals: Final: Mr. Evans pres.ented a memento to Mr. Kalinic/Surbek bt U. Bengtsson/Lindh 19. 18, 14; BOLVARI bt Dalrymple 17, -19, 19. Samaranch, who then stayed to watch some of the play, and accepted an invitation to TEAM EVENTS attend the Finals of Apt 2'5. MEN Stage 1 INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Category 1 - GI'lOUP A Men's Singles Round 3: 2 3 4 5 6 W Sets Place D. Surbek (YUG) bt U. Bengtsson (SWE) -19, 16, -19, 13, 14; 1 Sweden x 5-3 1-5 5-3 5-1 5-0 4 21-12 2 G. Gergely! (HUN) bt M. Lukov (BUL) 15. 9, 12; 2 England 3-5 x 1-5 5-0 5-0 5-1 3 19-11 3 E. Lindh (SWE) bt J. Pansky (CZE) 15, 11. 19; 3 Czechoslovakia 5-1 5-1 x 5-4 5-0 5-1 5 25-7 1 J. Secretin (FRA}. bt J. Hilton (ENG) 15, 10, 6; 4 Poland 3-5 0-5 4-5 x 5-2 5-0 2 17-17 4 A. Grubba (POL) bt rp. Engel (GFR) 19, 8. 14; 0-5 0-5 2-5 x 5-2 8-22 I. Jonyer (HUN) bt I. Solopov (USS) 13, 13. -19, 15; 5 Denmark 1-5 1 5 J. Dvoracek (CZE) bt G. Bohm (GFR) -19. 19, 21, -21, 15; 6 Austria 0-5 1-5 1-5 0-5 2-5 x 0 4-25 6 M. Appelgren (SWE) bt D. Hassanov (BUL) 16, 9, -17, 12; J-O. Waldner (SWE) bt D. Douglas (ENG) Category 1 .. Group B -17, -9, 11, 20, 11; 2 3 4 5 6 W Sets Place Z. Kalinic (YUG) bt V. Broda (CZE) 19. -17, 15, -16, 15; L. Kucharski (POL) b~ I. Stojanov (BUL) 18. -8, 9, 14; 1 Federal Germany x 5-3 5-3 5-3 2-5 5-1 4 22-15 3 S. Bengtsson (SWE) bt G. Sandley (ENG) 12, 18, 18; 2 Hungary 3-5 x 5-3 5-0 5-2 5-0 4 23-10 1 E. Huging (GFR) bt M. Thomas (WAL) 5. 17, 18; 3 France 3-5 3-5 x 5-1 2-5 5-1 2 18-17 4 U. Carlsson (SWE) bt M. Costantini (ITA) 4 Soviet Union 3-5 0-5 1-5 x 1-5 5-4 1 10-24 5 17, 8, -10, -17, 19; M. Karakasevic (YUG) bt V. Dvorak (USS) -17, 14, 19, 15; 5 Yugoslavia 5-2 2-5 5-2 5-1 x 5-1 4 22-11 2 T. Klampar (HUN) bt J. Rebel (GFR) 17. 16) 12. 6 Bulgaria 1-5 0-5 1-5 4-5 1-5 x 0 7-25 6

Page 6 Stage 2 Douglas bt Birocheau 19, 12; v Federal Germany (won 5-2) A6 Austria 2 B5 Soviet Union 5 Hilton lost Jo Secretin -16, -12; Day bt :P. Engel 18, 14; A5 Denmark 1 B6 Bulgaria 5 San~ley bt E. Huging 19, 14; A4 Poland 4 B3 Federal Germany 5 Day lost to Martin -11. -16; Douglas bt J. Rebel 15, 10; A3 England 5 B4 France 4 Douglas bt Secretin 13. 15; Day lost to Huging -22, 11, -19; A2 Sweden 3 B 1 Hungary 5 Day lost to Birocheau -17, 17. -14; Douglas bt Engel 17, -18, 11; Al Czechoslovakia 5 B2: Yugoslavia 3 Sandley lost to Rebel -16, 17, -21; Hilton bt Martin 19, 18. Stage 3 Douglas bt Huging 7, 8. For Positions 11 and 12 Stage 1 Denmark 5 Austria 2 Category 2 - Group A For Positions 9 and 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 W Sets Place Soviet Union 5 Bulgaria 4 1 Italy x 4-5 5-1 5-3 5-0 5-4 5-0 5 29-13 2 For Positions 7 and 8 2 Netherlands 5-4 x 5-0 5-4 5-1 3-5 5-0 5 28-14 1 Poland 5 France 1 3 Luxembourg 1-5 0-5 x 1-5 5-3 1-5 5-1 2 13-24 5 For Positions 5 and 6 4 Switzerland 3-5 4-5 5-1 x 5-3 5-3 5-2 4 27-19 3 England 5 Federal Germany 2 5 Spain 0-5 1-5 3-5 3-5 x 2-5 5-1 1 14-26 6 For Positions 3 and 4 6 Turkey 4-5 5-3 5-1 3-5 5-2 x 5-0 4 27-16 4 Yugoslavia 5 Sweden 3 7 Portugal 0-5 0-5 1-5 2-5 1-5 0-5 x 0 4-30 7 For Positions 1 and 2 Category 2 - Group B HUNGARY 5 Czechoslovakia 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 W Sets Place G. Gergely lost to J. Pansky -19, 19, -20; 1 Finland x 5-4 5-0 5-2 5-1 5-3 5 25-10 1 T. Klampar lost to J. Dvoracek -18, 12, -14; 2 Norway 4-5 x 5-0 3-5 5-2 5-3 3 22-15 2 I. Jonyer bt M. Orlowski 18, -20. 18; 3 Greece 0-5 0-5 x 0-5 0-5 0-5 0 0-25 6 Klampar lost to Pansky -17, -16; 4 SC/otland 2-5 5-3 5-0 x 2-5 2-5 2 16-18 5 Gergely bt Orlowski -13~ 12, 19; 5 Belgium 1-5 2-5 5-0 5-2 x 5-3 3 18-15 3 Jonyer bt Dvoracek 21,\ -15, 16; 6 Wales 3-5 3-5 5-0 5-2 3-5 x 2 19-17 4 Klampar bt Orlowski -14, 16, 13; Jonyer bt Pansky 15, 18. Stage 2 For Positions 21 and 22 A6 Spain 5 B5 Scotland 4 Luxembourg 5 Spain 3 ENGLISH RESULTS A5 Luxembourg 5 B6 Greece 0 A4 Turkey 5 B3 Belgium 1 For Positions 19 and 20 v Poland (won 5-0) Wales 5 Belgium 4 J. Hilton bt S. Dryszel 17, 18; A~ Switzerland 5 B4 Wales 4 D. Johnson bt A. Grubba -16, 17, 16; A2 Italy 5 B 1 Finland 2 For Positions 17 and 18 D. Douglas bt L. Kucharski 16, 16; Al Netherlands 1 B2 Norway 5 Switzerland 5 Turkey 3 Hilton bt Grubba 21, -20, 18; Stage 3 For Positions 15 and 16 Douglas bt Dryszel 6, 16. Position 25 Netherlands 5 Finland 4 Portugal v Czechoslovakia (lost 1-5) For P1ositions 23 and 24 For Positions 13 and 14 Douglas ht J. Pansky 16. 11; Sicotland 5 Greece 0 Norway 5 Italy 0 Johnson lost to M. Orlowski -6, -12; Hilton lost to J. Dvoracek -19, -13; FINISHING POSITIONS 15 Netherlands (16) Douglas lost to Orlowski -14, -19; (Previous position in brackets) 16 Finland (15) Hilton lost to Pansky -12, -19; 17 Switzerland (21) Johnson lost to Dvoracek -12, -12. MEN 18 Turkey (24) 1 HUNGARY (4) 19 Wale,9 (26) v Denmark (won 5-0) 2 Czechoslovakia (6) 20 Belgium (23) P. Day bt K. Kartholm -12, 13, 16; 3 Yugoslavia (9) 21 Luxembourg (18) Douglas bt J. Hansen 15, 16; 4 Sweden (1) 22 Spain (22) G. Sandley bt C. Pedersen 16, 18; 5 England (3) 23 Scotland (20) Douglas bt Kartholm 19, 15; 6 Federal Germany (2) 24 Greece (19) Day bt Pedersen 17, 17. 7 rPoland (7) 25 Portugal (27) 8 France (5) v Sweden (lost 3-5) * Demoted to Category 2 Day lost to S. Bengtsson -15, 18, -9; 9 Soviet Union (8) b~ 10 Bulgaria (11) t Promoted to Category 1 Douglas E. Lindh -16, 17, 13; 11* Denmark (13) Sandley lost to M. Appelgren -13. -14; 12* Austria (14) Rumania (10), Ireland (25), Guernsey (28), Jersey (29), Douglas bt Bengtsson 19. 13 ; 13t Norway (17) Malta (30) and Iceland (31) who all competed in Berne Day lost to Appelgren 11, -13, -16; did not compete in Budapest. Sandley lost to Lindh -15, -21; 14t Italy (12) Douglas bt Appelgren 14, 11; TEAM EVENTS Sandley lost to Bengtsson -22, -13. WOMEN v Austria (won 5-0) Stage 1 Sandley bt E. Amplatz 16, 18; Category 1 - Gl'.loup A Day bt D. Palmi 19, -18, 15; 1 2 3 4 5 6 W Sets Place Johnson bt G. Bar 15. 9; 1 Soviet Union x 1-3 3-1 3-0 1-3 3-0 3 11-7 3 Day bt Amplatz 11, -14, 21; 2 England 3-1 x 3-0 3-1 3-1 3-2 5 15-5 1 Johnson bt Palmi 16, 15. 3 Yugoslavia 1-3 0-3 x 1-3 0-3 1-3 0 3-15 6 4 Sweden 0-3 1-3 3-1 x 2-3 3-1 2 9-11 4 v France (won 5-4) 5 Federal Germany 3-1 1-3 3-0 3-2 x 3-1 -,,·4 13-7 2 Hilton lost to P. Birocheau -IS, -12; 6 Netherlands 0-3 2-3 3-1 1-3 1-3 x 1 7-13 5 Dougas bt C. Martin 10, 9; Day bt J. Secretin 19, 19; Category 1 - Group B 1 2 3 4 5 6 W Sets Place 1 Hungary x 1-3 3-0 3-2 3-0 3-1 4 13-6 2 2 Rumania 3-1 x 3-0 3-2 3-0 3-2 5 15-5 1 3 France 0-3 0-3 x 3-2 3-1 0-3 2 6-12 5 4 Czechoslovakia 2-3 2-3 2-3 x 3-1 3-2 2 12-12 4 5 Bullaria 0-3 0-3 1-3 1-3 x 1-3 0 3-15 6 6 Finland 1-3 2-3 3-0 2-3 3-1 x 2 11-10 3 Stage 2 Knight lost to B. Vriesekoop -9, -10; A6 Yugoslavia 3 B5 France 2 Hammersley/Jarvis lost to de Kruiff/Vriesekoop 18, -20, -10; AS Netherlands 3 B6 Bulgaria Hammersley bt Vriesekoop -11, 6, 17; A4 Sweden 3 B3 Finland 1 Knight bt de Kruiff 17, 17. A3 Soviet Union 3 B4 Czechoslovakia 0 v Sweden (won 3-1) A2 Federal Germany 3 B 1 Rumani~ 2 Hammersley bt M. Lindblad 12, 18; A 1 England 2 B2 Hungary 3 K. Witt lost tp A-C. Hellman -10. -18; Stage 3 Hammersley/Jarvis bt Hellman/Lindblad 16, 21; For Positions 11 and 12 Hammersley bt Hellman 11, 12. Bulgaria 3 France 1 v Federal Germany (won 3-1) For Positions 9 and 10 Hammersley bt K. Kruger 16, 11; Yugoslavia 31 Netherlands Knight lost to U. Kamizuru -16, -13; For Posit'ons 7 and 8 Hammersley/Jarvis bt Kamizuru/Kruger 12, -17. 16; Czechoslovakia 3 Finland 0 Hammersley bt Kamizuru 16. 17. For Positions 5 and 6 Soviet Union 3 Sweden 0 v Soviet Unlon (won 3-1) For Positions 3 and 4 Witt lost to V. Popova -12, -16; England 3 Rumania 1 Hammersley bt N. Antonyan 14, 9; For Positions 1 and 2 Hammersley/ Jarvis bt Antonyan/Popova 16. 11; HUNGARY 3 Federal Germany 1 Hammersley bt Popova 12, -18, 19. G. Szabo bt U. Kamizuru 18, 17; v Hungary (lost 2-3) E. Urban bt K. Kruger 19, 9; Hammersley bt E. Urban 13, 19; Szabo/Urban lost to Kamizuru/Kruger -25. 12, -18; Knight lost to G. Szabo 18. -14, -16; Urban bt Kamizuru 19, -10, 15. Hammersley/Jarvis lost to Szabo/Urban -19. 15. -17; ENGLISH RESULTS H_ammersley bt Szabo 8, 10; v Yugoslavia (won 3-0)1 Knight lost to Urban -14, -11. C. Knight bt D. Fabri 12, 20; v Rumania (won 3-1) J. Hammersley bt B. Batinic 12, 8; Hammersley bt E. Ferenczi 15, -13, 10; Hammersley/L. Jarvis bt Batinic/Fabri 18. 13. Knight lost to O. Nemes -16. -19; v Netherlands (won 3-2) ._, HammersleyJarvis bt Ferenczi/Nemes 10, 16; Hammersley bt S. de Kruiff 12, 11; Hammersley bt Nemes 11, -18. 16. Stage 1 Category 2 - Group A 1 2 3 4 5 6 W Sets Place 1 Polane! x 3-1 3-0 3-1 3-0 3-0 5 15-2 1 2 Denmark 1-3 x 3-0 3-2 3-0 3-0 4 13-5 2 3 Greece 0-3 0-3 x 1-3 3-2 3-0 2 7-11 4 4 Norway 1-3 2-3 3-1 x 3-2 3-0 3 12-9 3 5 Turkey 0-3 0=3 2-3 2-3 x 3-1 1 7-13 5 6 Spain 0~3 0-3 0-3 0-3 1-3 x 0 1-15 6 Category 2 - Group B 1 2 3 4 S 6 W Sets Place The all-action lass from Holland, the 1 Luxembourg x 3-1 2-3 3-0 3-1 3-0 4 14-5 1 2 Switzerland 1-3 x 0-3 3-2 0-3 2-3 1 6-14 5 women's singles champion Bettine 3 Austria 3-2 3-0 x 3-1 1-3 3-1 4 13-7 3 Vriesekoop. 4 Scotland 0-3 2-3 1-3 x 1-3 3-0 1 7-12 4 5 Belgium 1-3 3-0 3-1 3-1 x 3-1 4 13-6 2 Photo by Barnabas Honeczy, Hungary. 6 Italy 0-3 3-2 1-3 0-3 1-3 x 1 5-14 6

Page 7 Stage 2 For Positions 21 and 22 FINISHING POSITIONS A6 Spain 3 B5 Switzerland 2 Turkey 3 Spain 1 (Previous position in brackets) A5 Turkey 3 B6 Italy 0 For Positions 19 and 20 WOMEN A4 Greece 0 B3 Austria 3 Scotland 3 Greece 2 A3 Norway 3 B4 Scotland 1 For Posit~ons 17 and 18 1 HUNGARY (2) A2 Denmark 3 Bl Luxembourg 1 Norwav 3, Austria 2 2 Federal Germany (9) A 1 Poland 3 B2 Belgium 2 For Positions 15 and 16 3 England (4) Stage 3 Belgium 3 Luxembourg 4 Rumania (3) For Positions 23 and 24 For Positions 13 and 14 5 Soviet Union (1) Switzerland 3 Italy 1 Poland 3 Denmark 0 6 Sweden (7) 7 Czechoslovakia (8) INDIVIDUAL R.ESULTS 8 Finland (13) MEN 9 Yugoslavia (5) 10 Netherlands (14) ENGLAND 11 * Bulgaria (10) Douglas Hilton Day Johnson Sandley F A Opponents 12* France (6) 2-0 2-0 1-0 5 0 'Poland 13t 'Poland (15) 1-1 0-2 0-2 1 5 Czechoslovakia 14t Denmark (17) 2-0 2-0 1-0 5 0 Denmark 15 Belgium (23) 3-0 0-2 0-3 3 5 Sweden 16 Luxembourg (11) 2-0 2-0 1-1 5 1 Austria 17 Norway (20) 3-0 1-2 1-2 5 4 France 18 Austria (18) 3-0 I-I 1-1 5 2 Fed. Germany 19 Scotland (21) 20 Greece (19) 14-1 3-4 6-5 3-2 3-5 29 17 21 Turkey (22) 22 Spain (24) SCOTLAND 23 Switzerland (16) Hannah Rodger Majid Broe F A Opponents 24 Italy (25) 2-1 0-2 0-2 2 5 Wales * Demoted to Category 2 2-1 3-0 0-2 5 3 Norway t Promoted to Category 1 2-1 0-2 0-2 2 5 Finland Ireland (12) Wales (26), Guernsey (27). Jersey (28) and 1-2 1-1 0-2 2 5 Belgium Malta (29) ~ho all competed in Berne did not compete in 2-0 2-0 1-0 5 0 Greece 2-1 2-1 0-3 4 5 Spain Budapest. 2-0 2-0 1-0 5 0 Greece

13-6 10-6 1-5 1-6 25 23 PATHS OF GOLD MeRi's Singles: Mickael Appelgren (Sweden) \VALES Rd. 1 Bye; Griffiths N. Thomas M. Thomas Wilkins F A Opponents Rd. 2 bt A. Griffiths (Wal) 6. 16, 8; 3-0 1-1 1-1 5 2 Scotland Rd. 3 bt D. Hassanov (Bul) 16. 9, -17. 12; 2-0 2-0 1-0 5 0 Greece Rd. 4 bt J. Dvoracek (Cze) 12, 15. 13; 1-2 0-3 2-0 3 5 Norway Q.F. bt I .Jonyer (Hun) 18, 13, -12, -15, 18; 1-2 2-1 0-2 3 5 Finland S.F. bt G. Gergely (Hun) 16, -13. 18, 6; 2-1 0-2 1-2 3 5 Belgium Final: bt J-O. Waldner (Swe) -17, -17. 18. 20, 19. 3-0 0-3 1-2 4 5 Switzerland Women's Singles: Bettine Vriesekoop (Netherlands) 2-1 2-1 1-2 5 4 Belgium Rd. 1 bt B. Abgrall (Fra) 8, -15, 13, 10; Rd. 2 bt E: Forbes (Sco) 6. 12, 8; 14-6 3-9 9-7 2-4 28 26 Rd. 3 bt M. Lindblad (Swe) -19, 17, 13, -19. 11; Q.F. bt N. Antonyan (USS) 13, 16, -19, 19; S.F. bt U. Kamizuru (GFR) 13, -14, 7. 20; INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Final: bt J. Hammersley (Eng) 16, -8, 18. -21, 16. WOMEN MEDALS TABLE ENGLAND Gold Silver Bronze Tlotal Hammersley Knight Witt Jarvis Hammersley/ Jarvis F A Opponents Hungary 2 1 3 6 1-0 1-0 1-0 3 0 Yugoslavia Netherlands 2 1 0 3 2-0 1-1 0-1 3 2 Netherlands Sweden 1 1 2 4 2-0 0-1 1-0 3 1 Sweden Yugoslavia 1 1 1 3 2-0 0-1 1-0 3 1 Fed. Germany Soviet Union 1 0 2 3 2-0 0-1 1-0 3 1 Soviet Union Poland 1 0 0 1 2-0 0-2 0-1 2 3 Hungary 2-0 England 0 1 2 3 0-1 1-0 3 1 Rumania Czechoslovakia 0 1 1 2 Federal Germany 0 1 1 2 13-0 2-5 0-2 5-2 20 9 Rumania 0 0 1 1 SCOTLAND 8 14 29 Forbes Dalrymple Thomas Dalrynlple/Forbes Dalrymple/Thoms,~n F A Opponents 1-0' 1-0 1-0 3 0 Italy 0-1 0-1 0-1 0 3 Luxembourg 1-1 1-1 0-1 2 3 Switzerland 1-1 0-1 0-1 1 3 Belgium EUROPEAN YOUTH 1-0 0-2 0-1 1 3 Austria 0-1 1-1 0-1 1 3 Norway 1-] 2-0 0-1 3 2 Greece CHAMPIONSHIPS

4-4 6-6 0-1 1-5 0-1 11 17 TEAM SELECTIONS The National Selection Committee have chosen the following players to represent England in the 25th European Champion­ ships s,cheduled to take place in Hollabrun, Austria over the period July 16-25, 1982: Boys Carl Prean 1(IOW) Adrian Moore (Sx) Nicky Hoare (By) Billy Gleave (C'h) Reserves Alan Cooke (Dy) Lindsay Taylor (Cv) Girls Lisa Bellinger (Bd) Ja'ckie Bellinger (Bd) J,ean Parker (La) Reserves Susan [Collier (Bk) Helen Bardwell (He) Cadet Boys Martin Firth (Y) Andrew Cunningham (K) Reserves Jimmy Stokes (Bk) Andrew Syed (Bk) Cadet Girls Joanne Shaw (Y) Lesley Popkiewicz (Sy) Reserves Jill Powis CSt) Alison Barker (Sp) Visitors to Budapest. Left to right: Diane Rowe-Scholer, Frarlk O'Gorman, Alan Morpeth, Zenko Uzorinac and Ron Crayden. Donald Parker and Jill Hammersley have been chosen as captains with a third Photo by Jose Ransome, Ormesby, Cleveland. captain to be announced. Page 8 EUROPEAN TABLE TENNIS UNION February October 9 Yugoslavia v Hungary 13 Wales v Ireland PROVISIONAL CALENDAR Denmark v England Turkey v Luxembourg EUROPEAN LEAGUE FIXTURES Federal Germany v Sweden Scotland v Portugal SEASON 1982/83 Czechoslovakia v Poland Spain v Switzerland March November 1982 9 Poland v Hungary 10 Ireland v Turkey June Denmark v Czechoslovakia Switzerland v Portugal 4/6 French Junior Open (Amiens). Sweden v Yugoslavia Luxembourg v Scotland 11/13 Czechoslovak Open (Dunajska England v Federal Germany Spain v Wales St,reda). DIVISION 1 December 25/27 Italian Junior Open (Verona). 15 Scotland v Ireland July 1982 Portugal v Luxembourg 16/25 EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAMPION­ September Turkey v Spain SHIPS (Ho·llabrun, Austria). 15 Belgium v Netherlands Wales v Switzerland August Soviet Union v Italy 1/8 ETTU Coaching & Training Course France v Finland 1983 (Heidelberg) . Norway v Austria January 27/28 Turkish Junior Open. October 12 'Switzerland v Luxembourg September 13 Netherlands v France Ireland v Portugal 15 European L·eague. Soviet Union v Belgium ,Spain v Scotland 24/26 Europe 'Club Cup - 1st Round. Finland v Austria Wales v Turkey Fairs Cities, Cup - Preliminary Italy v Norway February Round. November 9 Luxembourg v Ireland 29 ­ 10 Austria v Netherlands Scotla,nd v Wales October France v Soviet Union Portugal v Spain 2 Balkan Championships. Belgium v Italy Turkey v Switzerland 13 European League. NOIWay v Finland March 22/24 Europe Club Cub - 2nd Round. December 9 Switzerland v Ireland Fair Cities Cup - 1st Round. 15 Netherlands v Norway Spain v Luxembourg 30 - Soviet Union v Austria Wales v Portuga,l NoveIuber France v Belgium Turkey v Scotland 1 Italian Open (Como). Italy v Finland 10 European League. 19,83 NB Matches in Division 2 can be played at 11/13 Scottish Open (Edinburgh). January the weekend prior to the fixtured date. 18/21 Yugoslav Open (Split). 12 Finland v Netherlands 26/28 Europe Club Cup - 3rd Round. Norway v Soviet Union Fairs Cities Cup - 2nd Round. Austria v Belgium December Italy v France ETTA TABLE 15 European League. February 17/19 French Open (Strasbourg). 9 Net,herlands v Italy HIRE SCHEME 1983 Soviet Union v Finland The tables that have for many years been Belgium v Norway January available under this scheme may now be France v Austria obtained at an outright purchase price, 12 European League. March 19/22 Welsh Open (Cardiff). instead of the current four annual pay­ 9 Netherlands v Soviet Union ments of £50. 28/30 Europe Club Cup - Semi-finals. Finland v Belgium Fairs Cities Cup - 3rd Round. Norway v France For the sum of £150 plus VAT we can February Austria v Italy arrange to deliver, free of charge, a top 4/6 EUROPE TOP 12 (Thornaby quality table from leading manufacturers. DIVISION '2 Pavilion, Cleveland). 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Page 9 great performance to beat Ikonen 21, -12, the Scot, Majid, in a long and close set 22. Gary was again a little out of it to -16, -117, 7, -11, 19. This brought him up lose to Ikonen -1.5, -23, but did well to get against the West German defender Huging, to 20-all in the second. Mark then crushed and although Mark was at sea against th,e Soderberg 3, 6, and it was left to Alan to heavy chop in the firslt game, he fought square the match at 4-all. But he· wasn't at hard and played every shot carefully in the his best, and lost to Jokinen -12, -13, and next tf\VO. The scores of -8, -17, -18, was again the 5-4 "might hav,e been" didn't good against a man who reac.hed the materialise, alt,hough it had to be faced quarter-finals. that Gary would have to beat Ikonen. In the doulbles Alan and Nigel lost -9, -13, Th·e last match in the first stage was 17 to Finland's Jokinen and Ikon,en, and against Belgium., to whom we lost badly in Mark and Gary lost to Stellwag of Germany the European League. But this was anoth·er and Molnar of Hungary -11, -10, -'13, also in great fight. Mark gave us a great sit,art by the first round. Nigel lost to Moles of Sp,ain beating L,eroy -16, 13, 14, but Nigel lost to -13, -19, and Gary lost -15, -11 to the FInn Die Prophetis -18, -17. Alan beat Cabrera to Ikonen in the Consolation. We'." CO'lIe, restore our lead, 'but Mark lost narrowly in The Welsh party inclUded International by H. ROY EVANS the third to De Prophetis -18, 16, -19. Alan Umpires Jean B·eer, Les Jones, and Harry then beat Leroy 15, 12, but Nigel, alt,hough Maddison, C'hairman Eddie Thomas., and V')~~~~~~~~~~~~~Novi Sad, we didn't expect to improve met Switzerland in the second stage play­ N·eedless to say such a situation sp,ells great our position to 19th. Which is what we did off. Th·e Swiss team was anoth·er we should problems for Len and his, next of kin, but by virtue of t,he encouragement of Alan have beaten in the European L,eague, and everything possible is being done, and we Griffiths, mostly playing well at No.1, and it looked as i.f we could turn the tables. all look for a happy out,come. the quite astonishing improvement in Mark Alan beat Miller 13, 1'2 in the op,e,ning set" Thomas who frankly hasn't had a very but Nigel went down to Busin -18, -19. good season otherwise. Gary Wilkins, very Mark followed w'ith a loss to Hafen 10, raw. looked lost at first, but came in with -16, -15, but Alan pulled us back with a NATIONAL FINALS OF one tremendously important win. Nigel fine Ill, 116 win over Busin. Then Mark beat SEALINK YOUTH CUP 'I'homas, after a season of obvious i·mprove­ Miller -9, 16, 19, and we were leading 3-2. m·ent, rarely seemed to get the adrenalin But Nigel couldn't get hold of HaJen, los1ng TO BE HELD IN LONDON flowing, and failed to reproduce anything -11'6, 18, -13, and Mark found Busin too good like his best. Probably our most important for him, losIng -9, 17, -12. Alan squared 'Ihe National Finals of the Sealink Youth match was the opening one against th·e tally with a good win over Hafen, al­ Cup, the United Kingdom's largest table Scotland. who had beaten us in our last though he only won 25-23 in the third, aft,er t,ennis tournament at under 13 and 15 ages European League e,ncounter, coming back winning the first at 8, and los.ing the second for boys and girls, w'ill be held at the strongly when we seemed to h·ave got it in at 20-22! So Nigel, as too often tor him, had Britannia Leisure Centre, Shoreditch, the bag. to play the deciding last set, and although London N1, on Saturday, 19th June, 1982. In Budapest it· was different. Nigel got us he only lost the first 21-2'3 to, Miller, he Th,e finalists, which include some of off to a good start with a convincing win lost the second rather disappointingly, and Britain's best young players, have won over Keith Rodger 17, and 17. Then Alan Switzerland scraped home 5-4. through from six regiqnal finals held at beat Majid 16 and 5. Mark faced the For our second play-off matc'h w·e faced Grangemouth, C'ardiff, Bradford, Market strongest Scot, Dave Hannah, and gave Belgium again, for 19,th or 20th position, Drayton, St. Neots· and London, during notice of things to come by taking D1ave and this time we turned the tables on them. December and January. to the third -19, 16, -14. Then Alan beat. Rodger 20, -18, 15, but Nigel went down to Alan beat C'abrera -17, 19, 11 in th·e open­ They will be battling to win prizes va'lued Hannah -14, -19. Now Mark faced Majid in ing set, but Gary looked out of touch in at £5,000 - all made possible through the the crunch s,et, and he won 14, -13, 2'2, a losing to De Prophe,tis -13, -19. Mark lost to sponsorship provided by Sealink U.K. very crucial win for us. Alan ,beat Hannah Leroy -13, -15, but Alan levelled the s,cores Limited, Europe's largest car ferry operator. 21, 18 to give us a 5-2 win, and instil great with a fine win over De' Prophetis 20, 10. The Finals commence at 13.00 hours. confidence. Mark put our nOB,e in front with a con­ Further information is available by vin,cin,g win 12, 20 agains:t Cabrera, but 'phoning 0'1-388 5351. We next "whitewas·hed" Greece 5-0 ­ Gary was again a loser although, he took Alan beating Karitsas 13. 10 and Vouts.inas Cabrera t,o -10, 16, -14. Mark then played 11, 7. Gary made a success,ful debut, beat­ very well indeed to beat De Prophetis 17, ******************************** ing Voutsinas '15, 15. whils,t Nigel accounted -14, 12, leaving Alan with the t,as:k of en­ The for Katahanas 16. 17, and Karitsas 13. 8. suring a W,elsh victory. But he looked jaded Then came Norway, always bogeymen for against Leroy, and lost -10, -19. DIAMOND JUBILEE DINNER us, and indeed we went down 3-5, but this This meant that th·e ninth set was in the was much nearer than the final score hands of Gary, and we were hardly entitled to celebrate 60 years existence of suggests. Alan beat Gustavse'n 10. 15, but to hope inasmuch, as he had not played all lost to Tom Johansen -16, -13, and in a rare that well in th.e at.her two s,ets,. He losit the the national Association moment of lost concentration, lost to first to C'abrera -14, but th,en started to get Rasmussen -13, -15, when a win would hav,e his game together, w'inning th,e second in will be held at put, us in with more than a chance becaus:e good style at 15. But he trailed str'aight Mark was getting better every time, in­ aw'ay in t,he deeider, and with Cabrera THE REGENT CENTRE HOTEL flicting an unlikely defeat on th,e tall leading 20-17, it looked like anoth,er win for Carburton Street, London W1 Johansen 17, 11, who only lost one set in Belgium. But Gary pulled out some fine the season's European League, and then shots at this moment, levelled at 20-all, and on SATURDAY, 10th JULY, 1982 beating Rasmussen 15, 12. If Mark had been to our great delight won 22-20! able to play the ninth set against So ended a team ,event in wh.ic.h we did at 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m. Gustavsen, a win for Wales over Norway, well to gain a 19th position., and even in t·he firsit for a long time, would have given Ti·ckets: price £1 10 each us a great boost. Nigel lost to Rasmuss·en th.e matches we lost we were often in with -13, 23, -14; Jost to Gusitavsen -9, 18, -13, a real chance. from: and to Johansen -(13, -16. In the singles., Alan beat Troile of Italy Finland were the next, and we never 11, 16, -20, 18, but then found Appelgren, the Mrs. D. M. Stannard, fancy our chances. But again the 5-3 defeat eventual winner, far too strong, los.in.g -6, 11 Brougham Road, had its moments when victory was not far -16, and 8. NIgel took a game from Ovcarov of Russia, but lost -10, -17, 19, -1'5. Gary Acton, London W3 6JD. from us We were three behind very quickly, 1 Alan losing to Ikonen -20, -4; Gary taking just .failed to qualify, losing 12, -11 5, -17, 13, t,he first from Soderberg, lost 21, -18, -14, -1'6 tO,Soderberg of Finland. Come and rub shoulders with and Mark to Jokinen -15,12, -17. Then came But Mark continued his winning way. He the names from the. pastl a turn in the tide, with Alan beatin.g had a good first round win agaInst the Soderberg 15, 16, and Mark turning on a Austrian Gockner -118, 18, 19, 19, then beat ******************************** Page 10 Or perhaps the lack of coverag,e is due to Dr. Vito P,enna (Italy) 17 failure of reports in reaching the League's Mr. Jerzy Dachowski (Poland) 17 Press Officer. The regulations of the League Mr. George Yates (England) 15 require each club to appoint a pUblicity Not elected HARDLV BIZARRE! officer who could be made responsible for Mr. Werner Schnyder (Switzerland) 13 sending 'a brief match report to the ETTIA Dr. Karl Smekal (Austria) 12 There has been a lot of controversy over Mr. Louis van Gelder (Belgium) 10 the clothing that I wore at the English office. The League is well organised at both Mr. Denis G'eorge (Scotland) 8 Closed. Following this event, I received an Mr. Jean Devys (France) 6 official complaint from the ETTA Manage­ nationall and local level and far too im­ ment Committee, National Council and the portant a competition to th,e sport, players Nominees for election to the I.T.T.F. English Tournament Committee. I would and officials alike to be allow,ed to falter Coun,cil in Tokyo, 19'813 (16 nominees) are: like to make it very clear that the last in any way. S. O. Hammerlund, M. Kapetanic, H. van thing I wanted was to cause any problems, FRANK EARlS, GRAHAM TRIMMING, DUst, E. Ellonen, Dr. V. Palacek (Czeehoslo­ in fact quite the contrary, I was hoping to Chairman. Secretary. vakia) and Hans Gieslecke (Federal help the game. 61 Salt Hill Way, Germany). As most people 'are now aware, the game Slough, Future options for staging the European in all aspects is at a low ebb and like our SL13TS. Championships w'ere afforded: Chairman who in a r,ecent article in this 1984---Soviet Union (Mos'cow) magazine gave his ideas how the game 1986----Czechoslovakia needed brightening up. The s,hirt, in 1988-France question was hardly biz'arr,e, a pink colour EUROPEAN 1.1. UNION 1990~Finland with contrasting maroon collar and sleeve BIENNIAL CONFERENCE edging which no opponent would object to. Future options for stagin:g the Euvopean IN BUDAPEST Youth C'hampionships were afforded: I felt this shirt (a) not too colourful, (b) 1982-Hollavbrun, Austria (July 16-2,5) would not distract an opponent, (c) would By 16 vot,es to 14 Dr. Gyorgy Lakatos, of 1983-Malmo, Sweden (July 22-31) be pleasing to the eye and would be good Hungary was elect,ed as the new President for th,e game. It appears I was in t,he wrong of the E.T.T.U. in succession to Herr Jupp Future options for staging the E·urop,ean and I apologise to anyone who felt I dis­ Schlaf of the Federal Republic of Germany Top 12 were afforded: appoiIited them. - Herr Schlaf was not available for re­ 19H3-E,ngland (Thornaby Pavilion, As regards to my words and actions in election --- the defeated candidate being Cleveland) (Feb. 4/6) creating the situation, I simply pointed Mihovil Kapetanic of Yugoslavia. 1984-----..lCzechoslovakia out that the clothing I wore was my n,ew The position of Vi,ce-President vacated by 198i5-Spain sponsors and I had no other to replace it Dr. Lakatos was taken over by Sven-Olaf 198,6-Srweden ot,her than a sImilar shirt. As anyone under Hammarlund of Sweden who polled 17 votes 1987-Stwitzerland contract knows, you cannot change to an as against t,he 9 votes obtained by Urs ETTU COMMIT'TEE CHAIRMEN alternative manufactur,ers shirt, especially Wymann of Switzerland, and the 4 vot,es during a televised event. With so many afforded Louis van Gelder of Belgium. SEASONS 198'2/4 rules now being interpret,ed with a wide Classification - Ella Cionstantinescu range of subjectivity, i.e. Stamping, bat Both Nancy Roy Evans, the Hon. General (Rumania) rubbers" ,clothing, I left the decision to th,e 8ecretary, and Henk van Dilst, the Hon. PUblicity - George Yates (England) referee. Had h,e have withdralwn me, I would Treasurer, from Wales and the Netherlands Referees - Vito Penna (It,aly) obviously have been disappointed, but respectively, were returned unopposed. Technical - Mihovil Kapetanic nevertheless would have had to withdraw. Voting in respect of the Management (Yugoslavia) It was interesting to note at the recent Committee (7 members) resulted as follows: Teaching & T'raining - Esa E.Jlonen European Championships, one country Elect,ed Votes (Finland) played with a similar shirt and met wit,h no Mr. M. Kapetanic (Yugoslavia) 24 Youth - Peter von Pierier (Federal problems. I would have liked to have seen Mrs. Ella Constantinescu (Rumania) 2'2 Germany) England as a forerunner in brightening Dr. Peter von Pierer (Federal Germany) 20 Health & Fitness - Jerzy Dachorwski up the clothing scen,e, but this appears to Mr. Esa Ellonen (Fin1and) 19 (Poland) be unlikely despite the fact th'at w,e are able to run our own domestic tournaments und,er E.T.T.A. regulations as opposed to I.T.T.F. regulatIons. In finishing, I would again like to apologise to anyone I may llave offended as like everyone, I only want to see the game prosper. JILL HAMMERSLEY, The Barn, Common Bank, Dolphinholme, Nr. Lancaster, Lanes.

NOVELTV DIMI'NISHED "The ETTA took pleasure in announcing on July 18 the introduction of the NatIonal Club League. 'Ihis competition is, intended to be the most prestigious and ent,ertaining competition that has ever taken place in English table tennis" - Table Tennis News October 1979. We at, Cippenham Table Tennis Club shared George Yates' excitement and sought election for the League's third season in 19'8,1. Twelve months. lat,er we look up from our position at the foot of Division 3 South with, the S3Jme sense of excit,ement and expectation, after a most, enjoyable first season, hopeful of r,e-election. Does the ETTA still share those feelings evident amongst National League clubs or is the new toy losing some of its nov,elty? We refer to the recent trend of diminishing cov,erage in the Association's official RARE COLLECTION journal. Does not, the most prestigious com­ Mr. Gerald Gurney of Great Bromley, Essex, has a rare collection of old-fashioned petition in E'nglis,h table tennis justify more sports racquets and bats. The collection which contains over a hundred specimens, than the fraction of a page at present some dating from the last century has taken 35 years to acquire. Pictured here with afforded? Do the ETTA not ow,e it to clubs his collection, thought to be the largest in existence, of early table tennis bats, w'ho depend upon sponsorship for their Mr. Gurney demonst,rates the grip used when playing with a hollow vellum ping existence? pong bat circa 1900.

Page 12 SiC,ORES t.he deficit to two points at 8-10. Again the LE/DESTER DLDSED Men's Singles Quarter-finals: defensive skills of Barry proved supreme as P. ,Smith bt P. Cawser 11, 14. once more he widened the gap to 12-8 in by PhUip Reid Semi-finials: his favour. P. Smith bt M. Newman 13, -12, 12. Fighting for every point, Claude came Brian Mayfield created a record by four Final: back yet again, narrowed th,e deficit to two times going to 'expedite' at the Leicest,er C. Rogers bt P. a,mith 15, 15. points at 12-10, then tollowing a mammoth League 'Closed. He went to this stage on Mixed Doubles Semi-finals: 48-lball rally to take him to within one each occasion in the first game and 'three Rogers/Mrs. Smith bt Wilford/Jane Heat,h point of Barry, then, incredibly, 12-all ... of the sets went to three. In the Under 300 19, 13. 13-all ... 14-a11. Barry h'eld the lead at Grade he reached 3-2 with Graham Hughes Final: 15-14 and deserved to hold a two-point lead before expedite was called, and lost -21, -14. Rogers/Mrs. Smith bt Fellows/Joanne as he came racing in, smash,ed a great fore­ Next he turned his attention to the Men's Heath 15, 15. hand down the backhand side of the' table Singles a'gainst John Aston where the score Men's Doubles Final: but the ball h.it Claud's bat boun'ced into was '2-all when expedit,e was called, May­ Newman/Hall bt Rogers/lliffe 20, 21. play, and Claude had won th·e point to level field finally winning 20 ,-12, 19. He had Junior Doubles Final: the sicores without knowing where th,e ball another success in the Veterans' Singles Griew/Miss Hall bt Aldwinckle/Murray was. semi where the match, had reached 15-10 to 119,8. Terry Yeomanson before expedite was Barry's wife, Sheila, now totally unable called, Mayfield going on to win -16, 18, 17. to watch turned her back to the play, as 3-2 was the score in the Veterans' final at Claude took the lead for the first tim,e to which juncture expedite was enforc,ed, lead 16-15. Geoff Aldwinckle going on to beat Brian WARWICKSHIRE CLOSED Even the rustle of cigarette wrapping -15, 19, 14 ... and Mike Jackson wasn't by MARY ROSE & RAY H. BARTON sounded like thunder, causiing heads to ,even there! turn, as the two contestants set,tled down After the best singles final for many ... 16-all ... 16-18, in, favour of Barry, ,Surprise winner of the Men's Singles was 17-118. Robert Watson, who rarely plays for years; arguably 'the best ever', Barry Hay­ Swi'thand Motors in the league, but he ward retained his Warwickshire "Closed' "Hayward to serve 18-17", the shr..ill voice powered his way past Martin Pickles and Singles title against Claude Wisdom at the of Count,y Umpire, Dot Sheward "cut Maurice Newman to annexe the title. Karen spacious Rover Works on Easter Sunday. through the absolute silence of the' tiuge Smith easily took the Women's Singles Both Barry and ClaUde had won their Rover canteen . . . 18-all . . . 19-all and title. and, with Pickles. the Mixed title. way through a highly competitive fi'eld to Barry was not to be denied as he took the Pi,ckles had another success wh,en he contest a classic 'attack v defence' final next two points to win a thrilling, tense defended well against David Gannon in the with Barry taking the first game 21-~1;6. ' nail-biting, classic final, 21-19 to retain his Singles crown. intermediate singles. Stuart Wilford. fresh Clau.de. came back, high-looping and then from his victory over Philip Cole (Hunts) smashIng the return, to take the second Barry was to claim his second Champion­ took the Boys' Singles title but was helped game by the identical score, and so the ship crown as t,eamed with his National by the absence of Simon Griew, at a tour­ pattern was set for a thrilling third and League team mate, Barry Johnson, they nament in LIncolnshire. None the less final game. won the Doubles Championship, beating the D"avid Aldwinckle. who had earlier caused promising p,artnership of John Green/ havoc by beating Alan Philpott and his Honours, were even as the early score Adrian Pilgrim 16, 11. father Geoffrey, proved worthy opposition. reached 6-all, Barry took the next two points and then followed an exciting 39 ball Karen Groves reigned supreme in the SC:ORES rally, with Claude looping, smashing and Women's Singles as sihe beat Lyn Brison then teamed with Sandra Peakman to t.ake Men's Singles Semi-finals: then drop-shotting, bringing Barry into the the Doubles. M. Newman bt K. Fellows 13. -16, 13; ta~l~ anC! then with his powerful loop, R. Watson bt M. Pickles 18, 12. drIVIng hIm back to the extremities of t,he The names of Adrian Pllgrim and Julie Final: vast playing area. before Claude miss-hit Green will appear on the trop,hy of the Watson bt Newman 12, 17. the 40th ball of the rally to take the score 'Mixed' as they defeated the favourites for Women's Singles: to 9-6 in favour of Barry. the title, Lester Bertie and karen Groves '16, 18. K. Smith bt Joanne Heath 9, 16. E,nds were changed following another Junior Singles: mammoth 21-ball rally as Barry earned a 'Biz:ningham's favourite son', Ralph S. Wilford bt D. Aldwinckle 7, 17. four point lead. Gunnlon, won the Veterans 'Singles Cham­ Cadet Singles: pionship at his first attempt as he, out­ M. Laywood bt Miss J. Murray 23, 17. Back came ClaUde, took the next point classed all opposition to take the title in Vetl~rans' Singles: and then following a 19 ... ball rally reduced what 'could be'come a long, long r;eign. G. Aldwinckle bt, B. Mayfield -15, 19, 14. Unde'r 100 Gra,ded Singles: M. Steeples bt K. Herbert 10, 11. Under 200 Graded Singles: Ci;jJ Ci;jJ ~LMID~rn ~rn~)IDil~ M. Bellot bt D. Coat,es 13, 8. Under 25,0 'Graded Singles: ~ ~ ~®il~©@l]J!ro~D ~~!IDQ Wilford bt M. James 16, 18. Unde,r 300 Graded Single,s: Pickles bt S. Day 11, 17. 54 ARNDALE CENTRE, MIDDLETON Intermediate Singl,es: MANCHESTER M24 4EF. Pickles bt D. Gannon 18, -6. 18. Men's Doubles: Smith/Kenny bt Hall/Newman 14, 23. Tel. 061-643-7515 Mixed Doubles: Pickles/Mrs. Smith bt Fellows/Joanne Heath 1'1. 7. Under 150 Graded Singles: FINAL CLEARANCE OF TeTe RUBBERS Joanne Heath bt I. Highton 11. ,1'5. Chris Rogers became Leicestershire T.S.P. MAGNET T.S.P. ASTOLL T.S.P. SUPER FLASH Closed Men's Singles Champion - as,tonish­ ingly for the first, time - whe'n he beat DUNLOP PREXY Philip Smith in the final - in two s;traight games, as he had beaten all his other £5 per sheet opponents. Smith had first to overcome Philip ,Cawser and a very nervous Maurice HALEX SILVER SPOT HALEX BRONZE SPOT Newman (the holder) in the semi-final. N,ewman and Grahame Hall won an enter­ £3 per sheet taining Men's.. ·Doubles final against Ro,gers and John lliffe in which all four players T.S.P. FINAL T.S.P. SPECTOL IN T.S.P. KNUCKLE went for their hits. This was the only defeat for Rogers: who partnered h.is sister, JAQUES ALLROUND Karen ,Smi'th, to a comfortable Mix,ed win £4 per sheet over figh.tin~ losers, Keith, Fellows and Joanne Heath. The old-established pairing Please send cheque or postal order to the above add'ress plus 25,p post. of Simon Griew and Yvonne Hall c'arried too many guns for David Aldwinckle and All offers SUbject unsold, please grive alternative choice if possible. Shayne M'urray in the final of the Junior Doubles. Page 13 the third. How I don't know, bec'ause I was Dennis Millman reports from ... SOUTH YORKSHIRE 20-16 down and I served and looped! Grlmsby (G. S.harpe, C. Moran, K. Fisher, NORTHANTS P. Hale) won all eight matches to take the 2 STAR OPEN TOURNAMENT Butlin Cup, four points ahead of their PROBLEM SOLVED by John Hatfie'ld nearest rivals Spalding. In the match Another successful County League week­ between the two teams Grims1by won 6-4. end staged at the Roadmender Club, North­ Skylet Andrew rolled on the floor in 'Conni-e Moran always feels\ her Ibest chance ampton, had officials. scouring the county delight after hitting th·e winning shot, got to beat Jean White i'8 to play her first and for copies of the rules, when it app,eared up to collect his prize and went into on'e the tactic proved good for she won 13 in likely t,hat Northaimpton and Kettering of his brilliant Muhammad Ali routines at the third. However ,by the t·enth game, Jean the Concord Sports Centre on April 3. would finis,h level on points, with three was going w:ell and she completely wins each. In the event Northa.mpton pulled Not ·exactly the stuff for t'he purists, demolished this year's ladies' champion out all th,e stops in the final absorJbing maybe, but it was an amusing bonus for the Gillian

Page 14 Ian E. McKelvey reports on the ... EAST MIDLANDS CADET LEAGUE scores were Corfield available. As it was, it was le,ft to Peter! Thomas to MIDLAND LEAGUE by Philip Reid fly the Pontesbury flag, inclUding a well­ ,earned maximum against Derby. Derby had Another Midland League season is almost Cov·entry are the undisputed champions earlier beaten Lough1borough 6-4 in wha,t over. From a programme of 355 matches of the East Midlands Cadets League ­ was virtually the battle for the runner-up only two results are now awaited. Eyes now again. Led by the undefeated Mark Randle, spot. Loughborough had raced to a 2-1 lead turn forward to the Closed Championships the Warwickshire team accounted for but then lost their way, losing no less than to be held at the Rover car plant at Solihull Chesterfield, Pontesbury and Loughborough five sets in a row, amon:gst them the eclipse on Sunday, May 23. and only the latter 'were able to extend them. Derby, with Paul Harvey and Andrew of Paul Bumpus by Stills. Chesterfield's The divisional winners and runn'ers-up, Stills, prominent, finished in the runners­ young side, who Maurice Billington tells me and the teams relegated, are as follows: up position by virtue of th,eir 6-4 win over had entered purely for experlence, certainly Men's Div. 1: Pontesbury. It was a disastrous day for the got it and impressed everyone with their Champions: Chesterfield 'A' Shropshire side, who were without the in­ demeanor on the table. Runners-up: Birmingham 'A' disposed Darrell (Carfield. They had narrow The AG.M. of the E.M.C. League will be Relegat.ed: Lelcester 'A' & W'hampton 'A' defeats against Loughborough, Derby and held at Knighton Park 'I'TC, Avenue Road Men's Div. 2: Coventry and could easily have revers·ed the Extension, Leicester, on Sunday, July 18, '8,2. Champions: Potteries 'A' Runners-up: Coventry 'A' Relegated: Nottingham 'B' & Ch'ham 'A' Men's Div. 3: ·Cham'pions: OX!ford Runners-up: Rugby Relegated: Cheltenham 'B' & Ch'field 'B' Men's Div. 4: ------JOOIA .....-.-...­ Champions: Market Drayton Runners-up: Derby 'B' Junior Div. 1: Ch'ampions: Birmingham 'A' Runners-up: Glouc,ester CLUBWINS Relegated: S·hrewsbury & Oxford Junior Div. 2: Champions: L,eicester Runners-up: Coventry'B' NATIONAL LEAGUE Relegated: 'Cheltenham & Coventry 'C' Junior Div. 3: Champions: Market Drayton 'A' ELLENBOROUGH T.T.C. ENGLISH CHAMPIONS Runners-up: Birmingham ';C' Relegat,ed: Walsall 'A' 1981-82 fdi"" Junior Div. 4: Champions: Market Drayton 'B' Runners-up: Loughborough Relegated: Rugby Junior Div. 5: Champions: L,eamington Runners-up: W'alsall 'B' Women's Div.: Champions: Wolverhampton Runners-up: B'irmingham 'A' Veterans' Div. 1: Champions: Nottingham 'A' Runners.-up: Birmingham 'A' Relegat,ed: Coventry 'A' & Derby Veterans' Div. 2: Champions: Leamington Runners-up: Birmin.gham 'B'

NORTH OF ENGLAND The Colgate North of E:ngland 2-Star Open, this forthcoming season involving equipment to be supplied by Dunlop Sports Co., will again be held at Stretford Sports Centre on Saturday, .Sept. 18. Entry forms, as usual, can be obtaIned from th,e Tourna­ ment Secretary, Mr. Leslie W. Jones at 261 Mauldeth Road, Burnage, Man,ch·ester M19 lEH ('Phone: 061-21246'672). Cilosing Date: 27th August. GLEAVE SUSPENDED In accordance wit,h regulation, 14 of app·endix E to E,TTA rules, Cheshire's Billy Gleave has been suspended from ETTA membership from Septembe·r 1st to October 31st, 1982. PREAN SUPREME Carl Prean with a quarter-final win over Ian Kenyon, a semi-fin,al success: over Richard Jermyn and a final victory over David Constance, was the winner of the South of England 2-8tar Open, played at Waking over the weekend of May 8/9. Alison Gordon was the winner of the counterpart Women's event wit.h a final victory over Mandy Smith. Phil B~adbury suce-eeded in the U -21 Men's Singles beating Prean in the semis and Skylet Andrew in the final. Zetland Place, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS1 1HJ Tel: (0642) 21784415 & 249000 (24 hr. Answering Service)

Page 15 These honours are being created to com­ Of the sixteen seeds in the Men's Singles, memorate the Diamond Jubilee and the John Broe of Scotland and Nigel Thomas of first, awards wlil be nominated at the Wales failed to put in an appearance and A.G.M. in July, 198'2. Kevin Beadsley was, forced to withdraw CORRENT AIIAIRS after his doubles. Goth,ers who failed to There will be a Roll of Honour on whlch make the last sixt,een were Peter D" Arcy will appear names from the p'ast, not only who was beaten in no uncertain manner by administrators but also of players who have Ian Robertson ('21-9, 21-8), Stephen Scow­ h,ad great achievements. There is, a s,ma11 croft who succurnbed to Brian Johns, and, committee sifting through many names of course, Keith Paxton because of his trying to isolate those who it is considered accident. Ireland's Tom Heasley fell at this w'arrant inclusion on the list of nomina­ stage to Scotland's Ian McLean, who had tions. Unfortunately it will not be possible come through to take John Broe's appointed to have a complete compr·ehensive list of place, but he in turn was beaten by nominations in time for this year's A.G.M. Crimmins. The third and fourth seeds, Chu but a token few names will be nominated Van Que and Steve Mills, had tr,emendous as representatives until a fuller list can battles, in the· quarters; Chu going out 20-22 be compiled. in the third to Alan Fletcher but Mills just Following the A.G.M., on Saturday, July getting home agains:t Peter McQueen who 10th, 1982, there will be a grand Diamond actually had match point on three occa­ Jubilee Dinner and D,ance to be held in. the sions. Mills then produced the major shock same plaice as the A.GM. - the Regent by defeating Nigel E'ckersley after the Centre Hotel, Carburton 8t., London. It is C'heshire man had won the first end, but hoped to have repres,entatives of the h,e was unable to contain Crimmins in the by TOM BLUNN recipients, of the new awards in attendance final. 80 Max became the champion and along with members representing all £ 2'25 richer for his: efforts. Chairman, E.T.T.A. aspects of the game. It, is particularly hoped T'hanks are expressed to all who helped to to have a representative from each of the make the tournament possIble, inclUding of lea.gues whose history goes back to 1922 or course, the main sponsor, the Newcastle LEST WE FORGET earlier. Evening Chroni'cle and to Radio Newcastle In this our diamond jubilee year it is Full details of these celebrations will be who gave live cov,erage of the event. appropriate that we turn our thoughts back circula.ted very shortly to all leagues and RESULTS to th·e beginning and try to recapture the counties. and it is expected to cater for inspiration of those early pioneers. The about 300 people. The' event is being Men's Singles Quarter-finals: names of Montagu, Pope and Vint come supported by sports traders to whom w,e are M. Crimmins (Sy) bt I. McLean (Sco) quickly to mind but there were many others greatly indebted. Special inclus,ive dinner 10, 19; who worked with them who should be and ,accommodation pri-ces will be available. A. Fletcher (Y) bt Chu van Que (Nd) r·emembered with equal reverence. -18, 16, 20; This will be a wonderful opportunity for S. Mills (Y) bt P. McQueen (Sy) -16, 20. 22; The big three stood together in the early leagues and 'counties to pay tribut,e to those N. E'ckersley (Ch) bt A. Majid (Seo) 7, 14. years and built a solid foundation on. which people who have made our game one of the the association has grown. Regrettably Bill most popular in the world. Whilst looking Semi-fin,als: Pope passed away shortly after the war but to the past we must not forget the future. Crimmins bt, Fletcher 111 ,19; Ivor Montagu and Bill Vint still survive and Those who will have charge of the game Mills bt E,ckersley -14, 14, 13. retain an active interest in the affairs of both nationally and internationally over Final: the association. Both have completed their the next 60 years have a duty to see that C'RIMMINS bt MIlls -17, 13, 9. a'ctive service culminating in the posit.ions those of t,he early generations did not work Women's Singles Quarter-finals: of life vice-president and past president in vain. C. Knight (Cv) bt, J. R,eid (Ire) 6,6; respectively. There is no higher honour left K. Groves (Wa) bt S. Gelder (Du) 12, 15; for them to receive and they thoroughly M.. Hill (Y) bt S. Peakman (Wa) -19, 12, 11; deserve the honours they have achieved. IEvening Chronicle' A. Gordon (Bk) bt J. Smith (D'll) 10, 18. But what about the others. alf the Semi-finals: original hard core of administ.rators I would Knight bt Groves 13, 12; think that all thos·e who have survived NORTHUMBERLAND Gordon bt Hill 16, 19. have been awarded life-mem1bership, the Final: hig,hest honour available, but those un­ 2-STAR TOURNAMENT KNIGHT bt Gordon 8, 16. fortunate enough not to h'ave survived the Men's Dou,bIes Semi-final: years are in danger of being forgotten with Top Seeds triumph in North East D. McIlroy (Sco)/McLean bt P. E'. D"Arcy (Ch)IS. SCQwcroft (La) 113, -19, 16; the passage of time. by AUBREY DRAPKIN Also, what of the players whose dedica­ Fletcher/Mills bt Crimmins/Majid tIon in our formative years produced the (E.T.T.A. Treasurer) -21, 16, 19. skills that inspired future generations to Final: follow them. Th,e names of Barna, Szabados The top seeds were t.he victors at Cram­ FLETCHER/MILLS bt McIlroy/McLean and Bellak are probably the best known lington Concordia Leisure ICentre with Max 13, -16, 12. in the thirties and forties. They revived Crimmins winning the Men's Singles title Wom1an's Doubles: Semi-fin.al: an interest just at the time when it was in and Carole Knight doing likewise in the Hill/H. Shields (Y) bt L. Bainbridge (Du) / danger of falling away. But even before Women's event. The tournament was a :Smith 4, 13; thes·e three there were English-born players great success from all points of view and Knight/J. Williams (Cv) bt ,C. Burke (Nd)/ who played a great part in the promotion I am sure that George Yates must have Gordon 21, 11. of the game. found it a pleasure to referee with none of Final: the current problems of player mis­ KNIGHT/WILLIAMS bt Hill/Shields 15, 13. 'rhe world champion in 1929 was Fred behaviour or 'stamping' being pr;esent. P,erry, who is now hardly remembered for Problems there were, but, these were of an Boys' Singles Quarter-finals: his ac.hievement at talble tennis. Also, Andy unusual kind, with two of the seeds being M. Emmerson (Y) bt M. Kelly (Ire) 12, 6; Donaldson who won the first English Q;pen despatch,ed to the local hospital - Kevin S. McBean (Wi) bt, G. Sutherland (Seo) championship in 1922 and although he Beadsley was first to go having suffered a 14, 12; appears to have 'been born in Scotland he muscular spasm in his neck leaving him K. Mkandla (Y) bt D. Blackburn (Du) always regarded himself as an Enrglish unable to straighten his head. Keith Paxton 2l1, -19, 9; player based in Sunderland. S. Brow'ne (La) bt N. McMaster (Nd) 13, 11. was. the second victim after a nasty fall in Semi-finals: At the recent European Championships in which h,e hit his, head on the floor and was E,mmerson bt MeBean 11, 18; BUdapest, I had the great pleasure of meet,­ out, cold for s,everal minutes. Browne bt Mkandla 13, 18. ing the Rowe twins, Ros and Di, and was 'C1are Mouzon, 'Northumberland's Eng­ gr,eatly impressed by their knowledge and Final: land ranked cadet, took the Junior Girls' EMME:RSON bt Browne -14, 19, 17. enthusiasm fQr the game. Also there was title defeating Ireland's Jennifer Reid in Johnny Lea'ch, our only other native born the final. The Junior Boys' event was won Girls' Singles Semi-finals: ex vVorld singles champion. by Michael Emmerson of Yorkshire. the N. McEvoy (Ire) bt J. Reid (Ire) -21, 15, 15; It seems a pity that the n'am·es of past runner up being Lancashire's Shaun C. Mouzon (Nd) bt, Burke 13, 19. heroes and many others associated wit.h Browne. Carole Knight, who had not pre­ Final: them s,hould be in danger of passing out of viously won the Northumberland, was in no MOUZON bt Reid 13, 1,6. our minds and being lost forever. It was mood to miss out on this, occasion. Not an Veterans' Singles Semi-finals: w'ith this possibility in mind that the end was lost as she raced to victory (in­ D'Arcy bt G. Lynch (Dy) 9, 13; National Council has agreed to the creation cluding a demolition job on Alison Gordon R. Kerr (Sco) bt J. Nelson (Nd) 5, 5. of two new categories of honours - a Roll in the final) and pi,cked up a cheque for Final: of Honour and a Players' Merit Award. £85. D'ARCY bt Kerr 18, 17.

Page 1.6 recognition by being ranked No. 25 in person attending Finals night caught my England as a Cadet. ever wandering eye. He was Richard Coates Glos. City Team Divisional Winners: whose assets are that he was and is a member of the 4th Division cup winning Div. 1 - Gordon League 'A' (D. Griffin, team, also a member of The Albert Mann B. Merrett, W. Dawe and M. Collier). Cup winning team and this year he was Div. 2 - The RAF (R. Webb, D. Bottomley, awarded The Pat Toomer shield for con­ D. Sweeney and P. Willis). sistency, a wonderful achievement for a Div. 3 - Longford 'A' (G. Dupree, P. Singh, player who plays with artificial steel hands. Laura and John Bell). Congratulations Richard, you are indeed Alf Peppard reports from ... Div . 4 - Civil Service (Alan and Neil worthy of much admiration from this GLOUCESTERSHIRE Dowding. R. Davis). scribe. Div. 5 - Rank Xerox (S. Thomas, S. Cooper, County wise we have not disgraced PRAISE INDEED L. Barrett and 1. Knight). ourselves, yet perhaps we could have done Peering through the March edition of Div. 6 - Gordon League (G. Thomas, S. better, WHO KNOWS? How very often have Table Tennis News I found it very gratify­ Hodges and P. Merrett). we all heard the Joe Bloggs of this world ing to read A. G. Carey's report upon the Div. 7 - RudfordlHighleadon ('I'. Hilboume, saying: I should have won the third, beat way the Gloucestershire Association ran D. Sherratt, A. Cutt and C. Staite). him easy in the first, only lost at 20 in the The Cotswold 'select' in Gloucester. Praise At the end of Finals Night, Mr. Bill second and was leading 20-14 in the third indeed and from a very close neighbour it Dawe Senior, presented the cups and and lost. We all tend to play the role of the made me feel proud to have been a minute trophies. Joe Bloggs of this world sometimes and it part of the administration over the two Stroud & District Finals Night is really to no specific avail, you win or you days of its duration. While on the subject of lose. The County Seniors and Juniors like­ The Cotswold 'Select' John Prean also paid Held six nights after Gloucester's, Stroud's wise finished up in both instances third us a compliment upon a well and humanely big do was held at The Leisure Centre in from the top of their respective divisions. organised tournament. I assure both gentle­ Stroud. The 1st semi-final of the Men's The Juniors will miss the services of Jack­ men your kind thoughts are much appre­ singles was between Andrew Golding and son next season, age has overtaken him as ciated and that hopefully next year (that is Charlie Jeffries. Andrew gave his older indeed it has a habit of doing to all of us. if it again comes our way), we shall opponent little chance to settle down and Ho,wever we are not short of Juniors endeavour to maintain the same high eased himself into the final by winning 15 (Thanks to County Coach Paddy Jackson). standards. and 11. In the other semi Peter Harris beat Stuart Beattie of Cheltenham, Aarron veteran Alan Giles. But in the final Golding Beckett and David Smith of Gloucester will It came as very sad news indeed to hear beat Harris 10, 18, to take the title. In the of the death of Somerset's County secretary probably form the nucleus of next season's Girls' final, Suzanne Webley proved her Junior team led by Darren Griffin of Glou­ of last season, A. R. E. Richens. I met superiority by beating Megan Willsher 14 Arthur just after the war, he had left cester's Gordon League (A bastion of table and 7. The Boys' final was won by Ian tennis power, this club is, if there ever was Swindon and taken up residence in or near Heskins who beat Tim Dutton 18, 18. Bridgwater in Somerset and was at the time one). On the senior side with Jackson play­ playing in The Bridgwater League and In the mixed final we saw the mother and ing in the team a few of this year's might I add in those days few locals could son combination of Jean and Andrew established players will have to look to their beat him. He was to me a great friend and Golding v Harris and Sue Webley, the laurels perhaps to retain position, and if an equally great player. overall experience of the Goldings came David Harvey (last year's County Cham­ well to the fore and they ran out firm pion) should decide to avail himself to the At the time of writing, most Leagues have winners 24-22, 21-12. County well the outcome could be anybody's come to the end of their scheduled matches The veterans' singles final was one of the guess. and with the exception of Cheltenham, the Some of our younger players worthy of Gloucester & Stroud Finals Nights have closest of the entire evening, Alan Giles just taken place. Here are the detailed results pulled it off by beating John Smith 20 in mention are Craige and Dale Saunders who Gloucester City first. the third. In the open doubles final Andrew hail from Cinderford in the Forest of Dean, Golding and Harris beat Charlie Jeffries Johnathon Greenwood and Ian Heskins of The Gloucester City (closed) champion and Bob Willsher 10, 14. And finally the Stroud and Julia Evans of Cheltenham who ships were held at The C.E.G.B. sports at Women's Singles went to the very ex­ a few months back beat the County's NO.3 Barnwood. The tourney was well supported, perienced Jean Golding who beat her woman Julie Towie at Newent. in all eight events were played, the re­ younger opponent Sue Webley 18 and 13. In Gillian Smith is doing a great publicity mainder having 'been played off prior to 'conclusion, providing she keeps at the job for Cheltenham in Editing NET & Finals NLght. In the men's semi-final, the game, I am sure little Miss Webley will take EDGE. the official newsletter. Gill tells me county Champion, Paul Jackson had no this title maybe much sooner than we that following the sad loss of Bill Griffiths positive answer to St. Mark's Martin Lane. think. Lane a former champion, was in devastat­ earlier in the year the Management Com­ ing form and blasted Jackson off the table Before I leave the Stroud scene one mittee has taken the unanimous decision to to ensure a place in the final. In the other invite Mrs. Doris Griffiths to take over her semi William Dawe of The Gordon League late husband's position as President and all beat Graham Slack of St. Mark's two­ and sundry were. I'm sure. delighted to hear straight. that she accepted the post. The final saw Lane v Dawe. Dawe took The Summer League in Cheltenham will the first two games 23-21, 215-23, but Lane again be run this season by John Moss. He ran out the eventual winner by taking the will be sending out a circular letter to all next three 13, 14 and 16. Both players were clubs with full details of dates, fees, etc. geared to a fast moving game, on the night The league will be starting a little earlier however, it was Lane all the way. The this year and will finish in the middle of second Div. Singles was a great disappoint­ August. Any enQuiries please to John Moss, ment. Graham Ridler of Newent faced 2 Larch Close, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Roger Webb of The RAF, Roger had to pull In Div. 2 of The Cotswold Ladies League, out of the final owing to service commit­ Cheltenham finished up third top behind ments, thus giving Ridler a w/o. In the Bath "B" and Hereford who pipped Boys' final, Jackson beat Darren Griffin 16, Cheltenham on sets average. Leading 15 and in the miXed Jackson and Jenny averages (minimum 3 matches), Cathy Ellery beat Dawe and Heather Colwill 19, Robb played 9 won 9, 100%, Julie Bearcroft -.16, 19. Boys' under-15 Aarron Beckett beat played 12 won 8, 67%. Lawrence Symonds 14, 14 (both lads hail To date we have 41 Independent Radio from the Strollers Club). In the men's Stations scattered around the country and doubles final the holders, Dawe and Griffin 29 more locations authorised to bring the beat Jackson and Lane 10, -1'5, 13. Women's total to 69 by the mid '80's. I wonder how Singles Final: Mrs. Julie Towie of Newent, many Counties are making full use of this the holder, got off to a shaky start and lost media. We in Gloucestershire have been the first game to Jenny Ellery -20. How­ using Severn Sound for Table Tennis news ever, Julie took the next two games and media since January 1981 and on a regular the title at 17, 1'1. basis. The John Cooper Annual award this year On a B Class road in the heart of rural went to the seventh division Champion Gloucestershire is a small sign that simply Craige 'Saunders of Cinderford, this has says "Table Tennis Club". The sign refers been Crai'ge's very first season in League Gary Thomas of the Gloucester Gordon to what must be the largest Club catering table tennis. League Club. Photo taken at "The for table tennis in the county. It is situated The Bryan Merrett award went to Jenny Whitbread Cotswold Junior Select" in in the combined Parishes of Rudford & Ellery, who this season has gained much Gloucestershire. Highleadon, some four or five miles from Page 17 Gloucester City. The total population of fordshire (postponed from December Lisa and Jackie Bellinger created a piece these two villages according to the electoral because of bad weather) concluded the of table tennis history when they became poll (what better guide) is just over 200 Seniors' season and was two struggles in the first sisters to 'be ranked No. 1 and No. adults. And yet The Rudford/Highleadon one. The first was transportation to the 2 Juniors in the same list. Jackie was un­ Club which was founded in 1953 has for venue. This was the same old story of the beaten at the Ranking Trials, won the some time been able to 1'mter ten teams in person responsible for the team crying off Derby Junior, and the East Anglian the Glos. City League. This past season the before any positive travel arrangements Regional Sport in Colleges Ladies' Singles. club has sported 41 affiliated players of were made, and no-one else available to To finish, I would like to thank my fellow which several also play in the Cheltenham get to grips with the problem. It was event­ scribes who write the various County Notes. as well as Glos. Leagues. In its time R. & H. uaUy resolved by a team member (Dawn As one who avidly reads every word in T.T. have embraced players from as far afield Campbell) hiring a car and taking the team News, I have derived much enjoyment over as Ledbury (Herefordshire), Malvern to the match. the years reading the "inside info" about (Worcs) and one member now travels from The second struggle was to keep the your Counties. Ross on'Wye each week to play in the first team's undefeated record intact. (Quite division. The Club is not resting on its past Thanks to my informants. especially Mary understandable considering all the hassle Williams (Luton Secretary), Gill Bellinger successes - they are indeed expanding! that had gone 'before). Again it was the Their very latest venture is the purchase (Dunstable Secretary), Dick Teague Ladies to the rescue with Lisa Bellinger (,Schools Secretary) and Margaret Adams of a cedarwood building, a former class­ beating Margaret Newcome and Dawn beat­ room. Permission to convert it into (Typist) without whose assistance I could ing Sandra Hirst and then combining to not have produced these notes. As for the additional table tennis facilities have been win the DOUbles. A singles win for Gavin applied for and in the not too distant future Bedford and Leighton Buzzard League, from Booth over Mark Owens and the same for whom I have not received a single item ­ there is every possibility that Rudford/ Colin Luscombe over Andy Castle was all we Highleadon may have well in access of a if anyone from those Leagues read the T.T. could manage from the Men's sets, so the News, then it's your turn next Season! mere ten teams in the League. match was drawn. Stroud's suggest,ed coaching plan for The Junior Second Team ended their 1982/83 Season fixtures by entertaining our neighbours Geoff Waters reports from ... At the last Coaching Committee meeting Cambridgeshire, who got away to a good of the 1981/82 season, the view was strongly start with a win by their No. I, Julian CAMBRIDGESHIRE put forward that the present arrangement, Wheel, against our NO.2 Andrew James. Lee whereby all pupils and coaches attend a Holmes levelled it immediately in the battle DISAPPOINTING NOTE central venue, Le. Stroud was not wholly of the No. 3s with a success over Tim acceptllible. It was generally felt that more Ashman, and from then on we never looked The county season ended on a rather back. disappointing note with the Junior first pupils would receive coaching if it was done team losing their final match against on a more local basis. Andrew Conquest, so often our man of the Sussex II 3-7. After much discussion The Coaching match, was again outstanding at this level Committee's recommendations for the 1982/ of play, as he brushed aside Jamie Frost The three boys Julian Wheel, Tim 3 season are as follows: That the following and Wheel. then with James, won the Ashman and Peter Holliday, who was doubles 12 and 10. making his first team debut in place of the satellite coaching groups should be set up: indisposed Jamie Frost. each won a singles. Dursley with Roy King, Tetbury (Keith Julie Miles and Lisa Robbins gave us all This leaves them in mid-table in Junior 3D, Simmonds), Nailsworth (Trevor Golding). the Girls' sets from Helen Smith and which is something of a disappointment It is hoped that a group would be run in Samantha Wales, then James chipped in after a promising start. Stroud jointly by Nigel Ross and George with a singles to give Us a pleasing 8-2 victory. The problem of not having a settled team North. These groups would come together has not helped matters and only Wheel has on a regular basis, say perhaps once a An interesting footnote to this match was played in all seven matches. This has been month, to play inter-group matches or a that it marked the final county Junior refiected in the individual performances for tournament. This would be organised by the appearances of Conquest, Julie Miles and his 10 singles wins out of 14 is easily the Coaching Admin. Officer who would also Frost and each finished their Junior careers best. No doubt results would have been provide the necessary liaison link with The with straight-games wins. County Coaching Officer. much better if we had more use of our top The Luton League Tournament Finals girls. At the start of the season our top The Stiga Robot would be the responsi­ Night attracted quite a large crowd to three girls all had an England ranking but bility of the League Coaching Officer and Dunstable Vauxhall Canteen and turned out 'between them they only played four times. would be u.sed at each of the satellite centres to 'be a personal triumph for sixteen-years­ Mandy JUdd, of course, was playing for the such and as when required under his super­ old David Sharpe who featured in three o,f seniors and only managed one match for vision. It was suggested his new title should the six finals and was successful in each. the juniors. Tracey Fisher stopped playing be "ROBOT MAN". altogether and after three matches Ruth In the Boys' Singles David had a straight­ Hunter started working on Saturdays. I have already covered the two County ends victory over his County Junior Team­ Teams, Seniors and Juniors, the players' mate, Ian Doughty. Then with David In the event Helen Smith and Samantha averages are: Cartwright he won the Men's DoUbles from Wales have had to battle on bravely, where­ Seniors Keith Thompson and Jim Wooliscroft in as they could have done with more ex­ P W L Av. an exciting match that finished at 21-19 in perience at second team level. % the third. It is this shortage of experienced girls Andrew Golding ...... 12 8 4 66.6 To get his "hat-trick" David had to play that decided the county committee to Graham Slack ...... 12 6 6 50.0 reluctantly withdraw the county junior William Dawe ...... 10 7 3 70.0 Ian once again, but this time it was best of Richard Russell ...... 2 0 2 00.0 five, with the fortunes going backwards and second team from the County Champion­ Nina Tsakarisianos ...... 4 4 0 100.0 forwards, it was a finely balanced contest ships for next season. At National League Cathy Robb ...... 2 2 0 100.0 with David running out the narrow winner level, Hass,y Perfection Soham have finished in the fifth. third in the Premier Division. For most Julie Towle ...... 4 2 2 50.0 clubs this would have been a fairly satis­ Jean Golding ...... 1 0 1 00.0 The Ladies' final was an inter-county factory season but by Soham standards it Janet Foulser ...... 1 0 1 00.0 match 'between Julie Dimmock (Beds) and probably comes as something of a dis­ Juniors Nikki Hamilton (Bucks) which provided an appointment. Paul Jackson ...... 12 9 3 75.0 interesting and entertaining contrast of styles; with the aggressive all-out attack of In the return match with champions Darren Griffin ...... 12 9 3 75.0 Ellenborough at Soham, they held a 4-2 David Smith ...... 8 2 6 25.0 Nikki powering through to win the first end, Stuart Beattie ...... 4 0 4 00.0 then being contained by the tight counter­ lead but the visitors hit back to draw and ing that enabled Julie to gradually take end any realistic hopes of Soham retaining Nina Tsakarisianos ...... 6 6 0 100.0 their title. Then at Ormesby they led 3-1 Jenny Ellery ...... 6 0 6 00.0 control and then comfortably win the decider. but lost 3-5 and finished up losing the runners-up spot. However, considering that Julie's father, Tony, could not repeat his on several occasions since Christmas some Mick Miles reports from ... daughter's success when he played in the of their players have played when not fully Veterans final. losing two-straight to fit, perhaps they have done better than BEDFORDSHIRE County No. 1 Wooliscroft who retained his could have been expected. No doubt during title and has now won this event for three the close season, they will 'be looking to FINAL PLACINGS consecutive years. increase their squad for their one reserve In the final Notes of the Season, I am More success for Julie. though, in the Dougie Bennett has been ill for some pleased to report that the Senior Team are Mixed, where she and Doughty defeated months leaving them rather thin on the champions of Div. 3C, the Junior First Nikki Hamilton and Cartwright. ground for a championship chasing team. Team Runners-up in the Premier. with the Veterans and Junior Second Team, third in Congratulations to Bedford Modern U-U March, the other National League team Boys' Team fo~ winning the E.S.T.T.A. within the county. entertained prospective their respective divisions. Finals at Lea Green and to Ramridge Girls champions MBS St. Neots and were beaten The re-arranged away match with Here- for obtaining 3rd in the same age group. 7-1. The match. however, was far from one~

Page 18 sided with six of the eight sets going to Veteran Singles: The two are closely linked. The last time three. March finally had some reward for Gordon Bissett. our Association managed to increase its their efforts in the final set when Tony DARLINGTON Membership was after the Birmingham Holmes beat Mick Harper. Open Singles: World Championships when we got the Although St. Neots is now within the John Crawford bt Norman Chambers television coverage and audience our Sport boundaries of Cambridgeshire, they are still Open Doubles: deserved. Since then television coverage has Mike Sowerby/Norman Chambers bt been on a decreasing scale and what was under Huntingdonshire as far as table scre€:ned left a great deal to be desired in tennis is concerned. They do however have Crawford/Geoff Langley. terms of viewer appeal. Getting right down two Cambridgeshire players in their team Women's Singles: to the grass-roots, two new young members in Keith Richardson and Mick Harper and Sylvia Barraclough bt Paula Liddle. recently walked in to our Club after Carl we wish them the best of luck in the Junior Singles: promotion play-off. Gary Webstell bt Richard Pertene. had appeared on Television South during Veteran Singles: the English Closed. This may be a coinci­ Nev Proctor bt Frank Grimshaw. dence but I don't think so. It may be a sad Ray Simpson reports from ... Mixed Doubles: reflection on our civilisation that public Bill Powton/Mrs. Barraclough. taste should be so dominated by television, DURHAM Div.B: but it is a fact of life. It is hard not to Mrs. Barraclough bt Dave Fewster. feel sad when one sees so many nebulous CRUCIAL VICTORIES Div. C: "Sports" occupying our screens for hours The County's representative senior and Dave Shields. whilst we get minutes. Locally I see a darts junior sides in the County Championship match advertised, £2.000 to the winner, look likely to at least retain their places DURHAM tickets £5 per head, the opponents "Jocky" in their respective divisions next season Open Singles: Wilson and Eric Bristow. If anyone could after recording crucial victories during KeIth Henry bt Colin Bateman. have suggested a few years ago that darts March and April. Open Doubles: would outclass table tennis in spectator Henry/Bill Wyle bt Bateman/Albert appeal, that man would have been branded The senior team recorded two successive Shingler. a lunatic, but it has happened. victories on successive Saturdays at Shiney Junior Singles: Row against Lines and Leics II. Lines paid David Blackburne bt Peter Muldowney. The feeling, therefore, that we are en­ the penalty for playing without any women, Veteran Singles: gaged in an inferior Sport and that we and they found the three set handicap too Bill McMasterbt Tom Snowdon. are not getting much from our Central burdensome for them. Tony Gelder and Div. B: Body, rightly or wrongly, is widespread. The David Godbold both scored two wins but, G. Parkin bt John Middlemass. appeal that it was "time for a change" by unfortunately, no scorecard is available. the opposition candidate was therefore Div. C: equally widespread and although Tom won Durham also beat Leks II by the same G. Parkin. by a very gOOd majority in the end the score 7-3, but the match could have gone PETERLEE warning signs remain, not only are fewer either way. Open Singles: people playing Table Tennis, but Leagues RESULTS Darren McVitie bt Bill Reay. are disaffiliating from the E.T.T.A. and the D. Godbold lost to P. Smith -15, -14; Open Doubles: service we give to our members therefore bt M. Pickles -11, 18, 13. Clarkson/Norman Hunt bt Stephen Crosby/ needs to be looked at very seriously and T. Robson bt Pickles -20, 21, 13; Ron Douglas. above all much greater efforts are needed 'lost to K. Fellows -15, -16. Junior Singles: to halt the trend. It is the duty of those T. Gelder bt Fellows -12, 10, 22; McVitie bt Neil Thornley. who accept office to make this a lively, bt Smith 20, 17. Junior Doubles: vibrant sport once again. When I look at . Gelder/Godbold lost to Smith/Fellows Crosby/Paul Young bt Gordon Brown/ six pages of mostly irrelevant rule changes -1'8, 14, -22. McVitie. to be proposed at the next A.G.M. and J. Smith bt Joanne Heath 13, '14. Veteran Singles: contrast this with the lack of real effort L. Spensley bt Jane Heath 17, 15. Derek Carney bt Alan Jenkins. towards building the Sport up again I feel Spensley/Smith bt Heath/Heath 18, 14. Cadet Boys' Singles: further sorrow and wonder whether red P. Young bt Thornley. tape is now tied so firmly that our Sport The juniors, meanwhile, continued their Cadet Girls' Singles: will not escape. It gives me no pleasure to recent upsurge in form to defeat Le1cs 6-4. Julie Grant bt A. Wiffen. ask uncomfortable questions, but unless we SCORES Consolation Singles: find some answers the decline of the Sport S. Griew lost to D. McVitie -9,19, -18; Douglas bt Peter Hewitson. will continue and. accelerate. Team of Three: bt M. Gent 11, 13. Prior to the elections Tom Blunn visited G. Jones lost to McVitie -:lO, -21; McVitie/Brown/K. Robinson. the Island and met our Committee, having lost to D. Blackburne -20, 8, -11. Tony Gelder won the Philadelphia Closed, taken up the challenge contained in this S. Wilford lost to Gent 1'5, -19, -13; but no further details are to hand. lost to Blackburne -18, -:l8. column that no E.T.T.A. Official had ever Y. Hall bt L. Wilson 11,8. In the Durham Senior League, Sunder­ visited us. What has been sketched in these J. Heathbt A. Davison 9, 18. land retained their men's division title after notes is a very general feeling in our small Griew/Jones lost to McVitie/Blackburne beating Philadelphia 'A', their nearest County and although Tom went down well 18, -19, -17. challengers, by maximum points in the last in personal terms, our eventual decision was game of the season. The ladies division was to abstain as did so many others. We did Hall/Heath bt Wilson/Davison 11, 6. wrapped up as expected by Sunderland "A", have the opportunity of debating various Results of local league closed tourna­ but the junior division,at the time of points and we were impressed with Tom's ments: writing, looks like going to Bishop fiuent presentation and grasp. We con­ BISHOP AUCKLAND Auckland. gratulate him on his victory and wish him Open Singles: well. David Blackburne bt Trevor di Martino. Ranks must now be closed and every Open Doubles: John Prean reports from ... chance must be given to those elected to Blackburne/di Martino bt Martin Gent/ bring about what we all want, a livelier, Glyn Thatcher. THE ISLE OF WIGHT stronger Association and a better public Women's Singles: image for our Sport. . Lorna Wilson bt Sonia Proctor. POLITICAL TREPIDATION Junior Singles: Our County team did manage to avoid Gent bt Blackburne. In my last column of the season I relegation from Div. 3B which had to be Veteran Singles: venture with some trepidation into the un­ our target right from the start. Any other Thatcher bt Johnny Brazauskas. explored area of table tennis politics. objective would have been unrealistic. Div. B: At National level we have just gone Whilst Carl was playing for his country Bryan Mawson bt Anthony Reeve. through an election which was probably the in Portugal our County team travelled to Div. C: liveliest in our history. The question the Somerset and were soundly thrashed 9-1. Terry Davies by Paul Howe. membership had to decide was whether Obviously we could have exerted a little Tom Blunn would remain Chairman of the SUNDERLAND more pressure with him in the side, but Open Singles: E.T.T.A. or whether he would be displaced it was not a result we want to remember Nigel Jobling. by Lou Hoffman. It was, in my recollection, for too long. Open Doubles: . the only time the holder of the Office had The crunch match against Cornwall Tom Robinson/Cliff Olsson. real opposition. Many times there have been followed with our young International Junior Singles: unopposed elections. restored to us and we got the point we Darren McVitie. Our Association has undoubted problems wanted which also sent our sporting Women's Singles: and I have often high-lighted these in this opponents into the 4th Division, a poor Lynne Bainbridge. column. Two major ones are the decline in reward for a long journey and some very Women's Doubles: Membership and the quantity and quality gOOd play. They brought quite a few spec­ Bainbridge/Julie Smith. .of television coverage accorded to our Sport. tators with them, so that ours had to work Page 19 rather harder than usual. That we survived new Nation.al 2nd Division will produce years as holder of the Men's singles with was entirely due to the old firm of Daly grave financial problems for the majority of an 18, 16 win in the third round, but after and Prean who won five sets between them. clubs. One hopes that the death rate in a good 15, -9, 11 over Craig Bakewell in the Div. 1 will also decline and that all clubs quarters, he succumbed 17, 15 to Evans in With the pressure off we nearly produced will be financially viable. It is an interest­ the semis. Other quarter-finalists were a sensation in the last, re-arranged match ing project, but one in need of constant John Hancock, Paul Barnett and Greg against Avon who had narrowly missed the innovation and change, but particularly Hallam (all Potteries) and Tony Isaac and title after beating the eventual Champions much more effort on pUblicity, both locally Rich (Wolverhampton). The final between Hampshire. With two further wins from Jim and nationally. In the present climate it Rich and Evans was the closest fought for Daly. one from Carl and the women's will not be taken seriously until it attains many years, Evans coming back from 10-15 doubles (Jill Fothergill and Joy Batten) we some television coverage. This, like most down in the third to win 21-17. Many were in the driving seat, then inexplicably things, has to be earned and worked for. spectators considered Rich's change of lost the men's doubles "deuce" in the 3rd tactics late in the game ,and rather un­ and then the match when Carl lost to Andy I wish all my friends and critics a good necessary, contributed a lot to his defeat, Creed, h1s first defeat in 22 County matches summer. but it must be said that Evans' determina­ for the Island. tion and even temperament, increasingly Avon's N.P.C. Mike Lewis made a very apparent during the past season, played no nice speech after the match seeing Jack Chalkley reports from ... small part in enabling him to take advan­ similarities in our fortunes and those of his STAFFORDSHIRE tage of the opportunity presented. County, also a relatively new one. We had, However, the story was different in the in fact, done quite well. but our form in the HISTORY-MAKING FEATURE Intermediates earlier in the day. Rich beat Women's Singles and the NO.3 Men's Spot If my 'stop press' notes last month Evans easily in the semi-final but then must give cause for concern. In the other assuming the Editor was kind enough to went on to lose to Bellingham (yet again) departments we did well and now have to print them - were unintelligible, I apolo­ in the final. The men's doubles changed build on these foundations. gise. They were written during the closing hands, Bakewell and Hallam losing to Evans The predictions contained in my last stages of the County Closed Tournament, and Hancock in the final. all four coming notes nearly went wrong. I felt that and to reach the deadline I had to post the from the same Potteries clUb, James Birk. Columbia would retain their Div. 1 title, notes on the way home. However, I now The club gained a further trophy when having established a three point lead. The have the opportunity of putting together a John Riley retained his veteran's title. ink was hardly dry when they crashed 7-3 more coherent report of the events that Despite being under the weather on the day, to lowly Ryde 'B', one of the biggest local day. Jill Harris (Walsall) retained the women's sensations of all time, which added much singles title easily, and completed a satis­ 'A', But first the County Championship interest to the meeting with Ryde for results. It is now history that Staffs I visited factory day by collecting the trio of titles many years the high spot of the season. Worcestershire and achieved the 10-0 result :by adding the mixed and women's doubles. Columbia won this match 7-3, not without necessary to guarantee them promotion to Top seeds Andrew Dixon (Wolv.), Adrian anxieties and then, winning their last two the Premier Division. Another history­ Hough (Stafford) and Angela Sanders matches, held on to their one point lead making feature of the match was the (Wolv.) won their respective junior and over Sandown 'A' who replaced Ryde as appearance of husband and wife, Steve and cadet events, but the junior girls provided a runners-up. Sandown had done well to get Janet Dunning, on opposite sides, Steve number of upsets, top seed Vicki Belling­ there with Roger Hookey and Andy Cough­ having elected to transfer to Worcestershire ham losing to Stephanie Hadley and second lan winning a lot of sets whilst their No. 3 a few years ago. The match started with seed Rachel Roberts going out to Tracey Kevin Attrill did not make the most of his some nervous moments in the early stages, Spencer in the first round. Amanda Hegarty undoubted talent. Ryde were pole-axed by partly due to the importance of each set (Wolv.) took the opportunity to go through injuries and though the season was not and partly due to the fact that most of the and beat Hadley in the final. without its drama it lacked some of its players were playing regularly with each RESULTS former sparkle. other and knew each other's style and Men's Singles semi-finals: Carl's Cap against Portugal and Spain weakness. Andrew Bellingham led the way Evans bt Deakin 17, 15; aroused much local interest, indeed made with a tense 22-20, 22-20 win over Trevor Rich bt Barnett -18, '17,18. the National Press and some of his set Washington and, once again, we were at Final: with Mark Mitchell in the English Closed our weakest in the men's doubles, Belling­ Evans bt Rich -10. 19, 17. appeared on T.V. South. He won 5 out of ham and Andrew Rich recovering from an Women's Singles Final: the 7 individual matches in which he almost lost cause situation to win on 21-19 Jill Harris bt Shirley Gain 10, II. played which may be regarded as satis­ in the third. Intermadiate Final: factory as, he appears to be the youngest Bellingham bt Rich 12, 14. boy ever to play for England at Senior level. So congratulations to each and everyone Boys' Final: After a good run in the English Open, in the squad for a splendid set of perform­ Andrew Dixon bt Antony Devitt 19, -20, 16. reaching the final of the Essex 3-Star and ances during the season. Girls' Final: the last 116 of the English Closed we were RESULTS Amanda Hegarty bt Stephanie Hadley not sorry to have a few weeks without (Wares players first) IS, 18. tournaments, though the period was quite Washington lost to Bellingham -20, -20; Cadet Boys' Final: active in terms of County and National lost to Mark Evans -17, -21; Adrian Hough bt Matthew Harvey League matches. Steve Dunning lost to Evans -16, -18; ,18, -15. 17. In the latter Carl continued with Genera­ lost to Rich -16, -18. Cadet Girls' Final: tion II Gosport. but the Div. 2 South title Simon Claxton lost to Rich -18, -19; Angela Sanders bt Barbara Capper 20, 19. eluded the Club which itself was a little lost to Bellingham -13, -16. Veterans' Final: tragedy. The defeat on that foggy -afternoon Washington/Dunning lost to Bellingham/ John Riley bt John Beresford 13, '19. in Birmingham proved decisive and the Rich -13, 19, -19. Men's Doubles Final: victors became Champions at the end of Mrs. L. Reid lost to Jill Harris -17, ~16. Evans/Hancock bt Bakewell/Hallam the season. No-one could begrudge them Mrs. A. Westwood lost to Janet Dunning 19, -10, 16. that honoUl.'! as they fought hard and well. -10, -II. Women's Doubles Final: Generation II, a well managed and sup­ Reid/Westwood lost to Harris/Dunning Harris/Cain bt Janet Dunning/Joanne ported Club, were ready for Div. .1, but it -17, -17. Chubb 8,14. was not to be. Our plans for next season The demise of Cheshire in the Premier Mixed Doubles Final: remain uncertain. If present intentions Division means that Staffs II. as runners­ Harris/Bellingham bt Dunning/Hallam materialise, the 2nd Div. will be a National up to Cheshire II in the third division, gain 19, 17. one which I regard as a thoroughly bad promotion to take over the senior side's Junior Doubles Final: idea. Whilst it will cause no problems to position in Division 2. Staffs II finished A. Devitt/M Harvey bt A. Dixon/Alan clubs located near the centre of the country their season with a creditable win over Trubshaw 18. 14. it will impose great expense and travel on Derbyshire II by 8-2. The Junior 'B' side In the Beattie Trophy, a County League the rest. I have noted that in Germany, also had an 8-2 win over Oxford to finish handicap knock-out competition, the semi­ where there is more money in our Sport second in their division. finals and finals. played at the Woodfield and in the economy generally, there are And now with details of the County clUb, saw the Potteries "C" team of Denis four 2nd Divs.. the idea being to cut costs Closed. An entry of over 140 competitors Butcher, Robert Gould and Steve Rogers and travel. Why we should embark in the and 425 entries in the 12 events guaranteed run out close winners by an eight-point reverse direction of a well tried and estab­ a full and interesting day's table tennis, margin in the final over Lichfield "C" (John lished system I cannot begin to guess. and apart from the absence of four top Henson, Cyril Merryman and Brian The sad feature of the National League juniors at the England 'Select', there was a Watkins), In the semi-finals, Potteries "C" was a.gain lack of publicity. On some full turn-out of the top players in the triumphed over Lichfield "B" by 35 points Monday mornings I could not find the County. The day turned out to be a success and Lichfield "C" had the even larger results in those National Newpapers that story for Mark Evans of the Potteries, margin of 70 points over West Bromwich. generally feature them. I think the future particularly deserving after a good first Thanks are due to our President, Don is brighter in the lower divisions where season with the County first team. Stan Pritchard, for organising the event. regionalised leagues keep costs low. The Deakin (Potteries) ended Bellingham's four At the recent County Executive Meeting.

Page 20 it was determined to enter Senior 'A' and coverings 4-2 ahead. Bristol pulled the side Summer League season is due to 'B' sides and Junior 'A' and 'B' sides in score back to 4-3 when Clark went down commence, and this will continue until the next season's County Championships, sub­ to Kenyon -18, -18, before Robertson finally first week in August. As well as the senior ject only to there being non-playing made sure with that tremendous 16, -19, 23 Divisions, there will as usual be a number captains for each team, and this was victory over Smith. of cadet Divisions for teams of two, reported as close to finalisation. The Lille­ Another vital point was gained in their depending upon the entry, and also a shall weekend's training. despite clashing next match when they entertained the handicap Knock-Out Cup competition with the County Closed. had been very which should give the lower teams an equal Bradford side, Unity. Keith Paxton. on his opportunity of winning something. successful, and Coaching Secretary. return to the side, and Chu were both in Graham Povey, was able to report that an fine form and had two wins each in the The Evening Chronicle Northumberland option had been taken on another weekend 4-4 draw. Chu convincingly beat both Billy 2-Star Open Tournament at the Concordia later this year. Gleave and Skylet Andrew, while Paxton Leisure Centre, Cramlington, on 1st May, The County A.G.M. will be held on . had victories over Gleave and Stephen has to date attracted approximately 150 Wednesday, 9th June at 7.30 p.m. at the Sharpe. McQueen was beaten by both entries from all over Britain, although the Burton Manor Club, Stafford. This rep­ Andrew and Steve Turner, while Clark also current total was slightly down on last resents a departure from the normal lost to Turner and was narrowly beaten by year. England, Ireland. Scotland and Wales Sunday afternoon meeting, and it is hoped Sharpe. The best game of the night was are all represented. and three of England's that this will enable full representation of undoubtedly the set between Paxton and winning Commonwealth Championship the County to be present. Gleave. with Paxton taking the first end 17, team - Nigel Eckersley, Carole Knight and With two matches outstanding in the and narrowly losing the second -21. The Alison Gordon - have all entered, as well County League, most of the honours have decider was one of the closest and longest as a good "quality" entry from several been decided. Outright winners in Div. 1 games ever seen at Eldon Square, and Cou.nties. The prize money for the junior are Potteries "A" for the second year run­ Paxton eventually triumphed 27 in the third and veteran events has been donated by ning, and Stafford "A" have again achieved to a tremendous ovation. the Killingworth firm of Revol Ltd. the runners-up position, a very creditable However, their revival came to a halt performance for one of the smaller leagues when they visited Ellenborough, and they in the County. With a match in hand, and went down by 2-6. with Chu scoring the Philip Reid reports from ... that against bottom placed Lichfield "A", only successes over Enidand-ranked players Leek "A" are in a strong position to win Mark Mitchell and John Kitchener. They LEICESTERSHIRE Div. 2, and their "B" side have a final tie fared even worse in their encounter with PRICELESS ASSETS against Wolverhampton "D" to decide the Sealink Ormesby, although Chu lost only winners of Div. 3. Lichfield "B" take Div. 4 narrowly to both Douggie Johnson and Leicestershire juniors finished off the on sets average against Walsall "C" and Donald Par er. McQueen and Robertson season on a high note, beating a depleted Leek "C" make up what might be a trio of also played well in their matches ,but once Huntingdonshire side 8-2 in search of wins by a clear lead in Div. 5. again the Ormesby players were too good Junior Division 2A points. Highlight was Stuart Wilford's two-straight win over Division 1 for the Newcastle team. Their survival in the Premier Division now depends on them England-ranked Philip Cole in the opening Played Pts encounter. In this match, however, Cole Potteries 'A' 5 10 getting a result in the final match against Omega. showed he has sportsmanship and tempera­ Stafford 'A' 5 8 ment as two priceless assets and these will Wolverhampton 'A' 5 6 The Northumberland League team who be remembered by those present far longer Potteries 'B' 5 4 last season reached the final of the Wilmott than the result. Stone 'A' 5 2 Cup, were without the services of Chu Van Walsall 'A' 5 0 Tim Odams is the latest recruit to the Que due to a family illness when they ranks of County Umpires. He is the Division 2 visited Huddersfield, and Fred Short was youngest too but is merely keeping it 'in Played pts brought into the side. Three wins from Ian the family'. Mother (Glenys) and father Leek 'A' 4 6 Roberston and one from Andrew Clark were (Tony) have already qualified. The decision (Sets 22-14) not quite enough and the Northumberland of the Leicester League to withdraw the West Bromwich 5 6 side bowed out of this year's competition Veterans' 2nd team from the Midland (Sets 26-19) by 4-5. League will surprise nobody, least of all Wolverhampton 'R' '5 6 The junior girls. however. made further Geoffrey Aldwinckle who has struggled Wolverhampton 'C' 5 4 progress in the Bromfield Trophy at the along with a permutation of players. There Walsall 'B' 5 4 expense of Bishop Auckland. Christine will be those who will throw up their arms Lichfield 'A' 4 2 Burke and Clare Mouzon completely domi­ in horror at the withdrawal but realistic­ Division 3 nated their opponents. and Denise Campbell ally, it's the only thing to do. Played Pts won one set losing out over three ends to The Rose Johnson Memorial Trophy Leek 'B' 4 8 Elaine Blackburne, as the Northumberland provided the usual matey gathering. Wolverhampton 'D' 4 8 League side won 5-1. This put them into the 'Golden oldies' were present - Dorothy Division 4 quarter-finals. in which they were due to TUdor, Marjorie Goodman, Glenys Odams Played Pts meet Sheffield at Byker Community Centre. and Pat Kilsby. The trophy was won, how­ Lichfield 'B' ...... 6 10 The Northumberland League season ever, by Jane Heath whose modern game Walsall 'C' ...... 6 10 officially ended during the week commenc­ was too much for Pat Kilsby. The refresh­ Division 5 ing 29th March. apart from a few outstand­ ments were delicious - thanks Audrey Played Pts ing re-arranged games which extended the Watson! Anstey W.M.C. beat Bentley Engin­ Leek 'C' 6 12 season to the week ending 18th April. It is eering 5-4 in a cliff-hanger of a finish in Wolverhampton 'E' 6 8 known, however, although final League the Frith Trophy final. Phil Ledger table are not currently available. that North (Anstey) was the best player on view, so Shields Y.M.C.A. have won the Premier my contact. Tony Lapworth. tells me. The Division title. They clinched it by beating Leicester Closed, master-minded by Ian Pauline Long reports from ... New Collingwood 8-2, with Terry Wilkinson McKelvey. resulted in a win for Robert NORTHUMBERLAND remaining undefeated. Ian Robertson Watson (results elsewhere). Ted Collins accou.nted for Dave Armstrong and Peter came to our assistance gallantly moving the FIRST WIN FOR l\1AYFAIR Gorman. but suffered a shock defeat at tables and overlooking the whole operation. The Mayfair Wallcoverings National the hands of Ray Neal, who also got New Colin Jones is the new Hinckley Closed League team have at last gained their first Collingwood's second set when he beat Men's Singles winner, and deservedly so, win! They beat Bristol and West Invest­ Ronnie Scott. The runners-up in the Divi­ after beating favourite John Iliffe 15,15 in ments 5-3 in an exciting Premier Division sion are the Reyrolles 'B' team of Dave the semi-final. His final victim was John match at Eldon Square, and the match Godbold, Cliff Olsson and Larry Cartmell. Veasey but he (Colin) did not take the produced a nail-biting finish when Ian The men's Knock-Out Cup was won by Under-17 Singles. That title went to Robertson beat Martin Smith 23 in the High Pit Social Club 5-4 after a tremendous Marcus Bellot, recently moved into the area third game to win both points for the tussle with Gladstone Terrace. Six of the and a very valuable asset indeed for home side. nine sets needed a third end to decide Hinckley. In the Holt Trophy final Kings­ The first half ended all square with Chu them, and High Pit's superior all-round croft. with the twin spearhead of Philip Van Que beating Ian Kenyon 11, 18 and strength with Dave McAllister (2). Phil Smith and Iliffe proved too strong for Andrew Clark beating Martin Smith 21. 15, Stewart (2) and Glenn McCardle (1) Barwell Liberal, who were further while Peter McQueen lost to Dave eventually proved decisive. None of them, frustrated in the Inter-Divisional final by Constance -7, -13 and Robertson was beaten however, could beat Nigel Jobling, whose Brockington, who had Kevin Woodhead and by Kevin Satchell -15 ,-16. Chu then had maximum, together with Bob Dodds' lone David Grundy recording maximums. Other a tremendous 15, 13 victory over Constance, set, was not quite sufficient to give Glad­ results:- Mark Wormleighton Trophy: who is ranked No. 13 in England, and stone Terrace victory. Westfield 9 Ashby Parva O. King Under-17 McQueen followed this up by defeating League play now takes a break until the Team Trophy: Ashby Parva 7 Croft 2. Satchell -19, 12. 17 to put Mayfair Wall- week commencing 3rd May, when the Tyne- Back in the bread and butter play of the

Page 21 divisions, Kingscroft unexpectedly slipped beating Anne Coates in the final in three became Dortmund champion at 17 and up in Div. 1 and handed the title to Barwell games. The champion had beaten Anna travelled to Westphalia playing table tennis. Liberal on a plate, although Kingscroft's Rushe in the semis with her sister Margaret Ex Yorkshre Veterans Champion, Len Il1ffe tops the divisional averages. Ferry Rushe going down in the second seml. Browning, was a former professional foot­ Pickering (2), Brockington (3), Ferry REST OF RESULTS baIler with Leeds United and Sheffield Pickering (4), Westfield (Junior) are the Juniors: United and with Tony Morgan and Andy divisional winners with Ray Greaves (Bar­ S Thomas bt P. Roberts. Hunter make up a formidable squad which well Libs) (2), Dave Grundy (Brockington) Cadets: could go on winning for as long as they can (3), Martin Hobday (Ferry Pickering) (4) A. Jones bt S. Lawrence. keep together. and Dave Ison (John Cleveland) (Junior) Doubles: Sheffield taking the individual titles. K. Williams/No Davies bt D. Hobbs/ Sheffield girls' 7-2 victory over Northum­ In the Leicester League it's congratula­ G. Hobbs. berland in Newcastle on Easter Monday put tions to Great Glen and skipper Maurice Plate: them just two victories away from the Newman for both finishing top of Div. 1. N. Carter bt M. Bryant. Sheffield League's first ever national team For Great Glen it's been a long time coming LEAGUE CHAMPIONS & RUNNERS-UP title. Josette Ryalls and Lesley Broomhead - 1949 they started in the league - but reached the same stage of the competition doubtless Johnny Aston and Co. will Winners Runners-up in 1980. Doncaster based Melanie seaton celebrate! Other winners: - 2 Barwell N.W.C.L. (Abbeydale) has joined the team and with Liberals (John Veasey), 3 Thurnby/North­ Senior-Rhyl Anglesey 30.1 three being in the top ten of the wood (John Davis (LBS», 4 Thumby/ Veteran-Wrexham Anglesey/Rhyl national girls' rankings must be in with an Northwood (Bob Davies (AEI), 5 Wadkin Junior-Wrexham Llandudno excellent chance. Josette and Melanie also (Nigel Burke (LUCA», 6 Bentley Eng. Ladies---Wrexham Llandudno/Rhyl play in the Yorkshire Clubs K.O. Final with (Vijay Sheth), 7 Wyvern (Charlie Wong Anglesey League Jean Guest against Leeds Y.M.C.A., in Leeds (University», Goodwin Barsby (Alan Chap­ Div. 1-Wylfa P.S. 'A' Sealink Holyhead on April 24th. man), 9 County Hall (Peter Cruse), 10 Div. 2-Wylfa P.S. 'B' Llangefni 'B' SHEFFIELD STAGE INTERNATIONAL Bentley Eng. (Dave Roche (Rolls Royce», Llandudno League MATCH AT CONCORD SPORTS CENTRE 11 Gunsil (Ian Barkshire), 12 Oadby URC Div. l~Colwyn Bay C.C. 'A' Lansdowne 'A' (Steve Burn), 13 Wigston Fields (Mick Div. 2-Colwyn Bay C.C. 'B' Llan. Y.C. 'A' Inspite of being tremendously dis­ Hadley (North Evington WMC», 14 Anstey Div. 3-Friendship 'A' Lansdowne 'C' appointed when the Polish Table Tennis WMC (Roger Tuck (R.&J. Hill», 15 Div. 4-Telecom 'B' Tech. College Federation cancelled their match with Epworth (Dipak Patel), 16 Leics Telephone Div. 5-Woodlands Hotpoint 'D' England at very short notice, the Sheffield Area (Peter Rudyk (Hearts of Oak», 17 and District Table Tennis League organising Oadby URC (Mick Steeples, 18 Rolls Royce RhyI League officials lead by John Hadfield and Stan (Robin Wilkinson). Div. 1-Clwyd 'A' Schooner 'A' Wainwright bounced back with commend­ Div. 2-Clwyd 'B' Rhyl Labour aJble vigour and enthusiasm to save the day. Well that's it! I've finished until next Within 24 hrs. the biggest minus mark in season. I'm off to Holyhead in July to the Sheffield League's '51 years' history was resume my ill-fated holday. Until I see you Les D'Arcy reports from ... transformed into a resounding plus. Instead next September - have a good Summer! of calling it a day - which must have YORKSHIRE been a temptation - a second international was arranged with only hours to spare. It Roy Williams reports from ... THREESOME RETIRE proved to be a winner. Six of England's Three members of the Yorkshire T.T.A. best internationals gave a dazzling display NORTH WALES Executive who have given a great deal of which will long be remembered as one of GWERSALLT CHAMPIONS voluntary service to the County retire from the finest exhibitions of table tennis one Y.T.T.A. duties at the end of the present could hope to see. Old 'uns John Hilton, Gwersallt W.M.C. (Terry Turner, Hadyn season. Owen and Sheila Atkinson who have Paul Day and Jill Hammersley made full Young and Neil James) won the North spent most of their time dealing with use of their experience to beat the young Wales team championship (G. S. Radcliffe coaching and selection matters, last season 'uns Graham Sandley, Douggie Johnson and Cup) at the Colwyn Bay Cricket Club, when became joint social secretaries and made Karen Witt 5-2. they defeated Clwyd T.T.C. (Rhyl) in a last year's annual dinner and presentation The Sheffield League, beat those who very exciting final watched by a good evening a memorable one. number of enthusiastic supporters. For the thought it couldn't be done by an even Wrexham club Terry Turner was unbeaten Evelyn Hart, the quietly efficient Execu­ ,bigger score - 500 enthusiastic spectators and John Hook beat his opponents for the tive Minute Secretary, has given freely of proved that. Hope it will not be too long Rhyl team. A pity the winning margin was her professional expertise for the past ten before we see another super:b quality event reached before these two top players could years - a tower of strength to those in at Concord. . meet. The trophies were presented by yours need. Husband Ron, one of the great en­ Sportsman Mike Boulding, managing truly. thusiastic workers for Bradford and York­ director of the Building Group of Com­ shire table tennis, also served ten years on panies' who sponsored the event, must have In the Shone Cup Llandudno's Doatra the Executive as county treasurer. A sincere been particularly pleased with the Sheffield beat sealink Holyhead in their semi-final 'Thank You' for their valuable contribution League's response to the challenge thrust and Wrexham Railway Club beat Llangefnl. and may the four of them continue their upon them - a response which must have The final of this competition is at the Rhyl good work at local level in future years. Labour Club in May. earned a top Super League fixture in the It is good to see Sally Midgley back in foreseeable future. N.W. COUNTIES LEAGUE action. Less than two years ago, Sally was Former county junior. Andrew Leather Rhyl won the North Wales Counties England's No. 12. Illness knocked her out of had a very successful day at the Sheffield League senior Division with Anglesey being the rankings, but now back at No. 21 she and District Works S.A. Championships to the surprise runners-up. John Hook (R) should soon be climbing higher - thanks to gain a hat trick of wins. He defeated John won the individual averages in this division. a £250 sponsorship from her employer, Hopkins in the men's final 13, 16; was on Wrexham dominated the Veteran. Junior Yorkshire Bank. Sally's most recent 'come the winning side with Lee Barker against and Ladies' Divisions by winning all three back' achievement was to reach the defending doubles champions Gary Turley championships. Don Hobbs (A) won the Women's Doubles final with Mandy Smith and Mick Hall - both Yorkshire merit veteran averages, Shiela Rogers (W) the at The English Championships. Silver winners 1980 and 1981 - then made it ladies and Paul Griffiths (W) the junior. medals also went to Lesley Broomhead, three in a row in the mixed with Jean Junior Girls' doubles and Martin Firth, Guest to defeat Graham Wing and Hazel WELL DONE TONY Cadet Boys' singles. Martin, England's NO.2 Undy in the final. Jean went on to win the Rhyl's Tony Smith won the North Region cadet and Joanne Shaw, now the Cadet women's final. but defeated finalist Elaine Disabled (Ambulant) Table Tennis Cham­ Girls' No.1, look very strong contenders for Rawlins had the last laugh when with Vicky pionship at Wrexham recently and hopes European honours. Johnson she beat Jean and Hazel Undy in to repeat his success in the Welsh National SPOTLIGHT ON THE LEAGUES the women's doubles final. John Hopkins finals. Tony who plays regularly in the made up for his men's final defeat by beat­ Rhyl League also went on to win five other Leeds ing Martin Anderson in the intermediates' sports to 'bring his tally to six victories. No An unusual Leeds' League team consisting event - and John Fryer proved to be a mean feat. Well done. of a German, a Welshman, a Gibraltarian and two Englishmen have smashed a Leeds little too good for Ray Bradwell to retain ANGLESEY CHAMPION League record. Playing for All Saints the veteran's title. Don Hobbs once again won the Senior College they have won twenty six matches Doncaster title beating Paul Trott 19 in the third. in succession, to beat the previous record by Young players to catch the eye at the Don also went to three in his semi-final four matches. Three of the team are former Doncaster Closed were Nicky Newton who beating Emrys Coupe who earlier in the champions. Joe Martinez represented the defeated Diane Malpass in the cadet final season had beaten Hobbs. Paul Trott beat Gibraltar under-21 team and won the open and Glen Roberts who was too powerful for Ian Ault in two games in his semi. mixed doubles championships in 1976 and Melanie Seaton in the junior event. Melanie Michelle Entwistle won the Ladies Singles '77. German team mate, Mike Schlotmann gained some consolation by beating Diane

Page 22 in the women's final. A short, but spec­ sion title. Tony Lupton (Wharfe/Aire) merit. a deserved winner. Eddie Cripps scraped tacular doubles men's final resulted in Veterans' Division 1 goes to Rotherham­ home against your jaded scribe in the Roberts and Ian Denton just able to con­ six wins out of six games. Merit to be veterans' final. Steve Everard won the tain Mel Twidale and Dave Skerrat. Ian decided. grouping tournament earlier in the season achieved the double when he proved too to prove what a very useful player he is consistent for Glen in the men's final. John Veterans' Division 2. Wakefield winners. becoming. Walton gave little away in the veterans' Les D'Arcy merit. The Maidenhead strength in depth was final and picked the right ball to kill, often Women's Division - Bradford or Hull. reflected in the inter town championships enough to be worthy winner over top seed, Both teams meet in the last match which which they won for the first time. Powerful Terry Moran. should settle championship and merit. Reading who have dominated this event for Selby Yorkshire Clubs Knock-out some years had to be content with the 16-year-old brothers Michael and Steve The three finals' will be staged at Moor runners-up position this time. Emmerson dominated the Selby Closed. Grange School, Leeds on the 24th of April. There were several excellent perfor­ Michael became the youngest ever men's mances from local league teams in the singles champion when he defeated top seed Men: National competitions. Pride of place to Mick Wilcockson 7 and 14 in the final. To Barnsley North End 'B' v Unity 'A' Maidenhead boys who had a fine run before this he added the men's doubles partnered Women: bowing out to Gloucestershire. In the Rose by brother Steve whom he went on to Abbeydale Park v Leeds Y.M.C.A. Bowl Gail Davies of Bracknell shook defeat in the Under-21 event. Steve came Junior: Reading ladies with a fine maximum. back to beat Michael in the Under-17 final. Unity v Hermits Another promising player, Alan Dobson won Omega 'A' duly retained the Reading the U-14 singles and the handicap cup. Championship just easing out the Kidmore Roger Hewitt beat Mike Hanley in the Brian Halliday reports from ... End Club. Major shock of the season here veterans' final. was an 8-2 victory over Omega by the BERKSHIRE Sonning Common Club, whose defensive Dewsbury wiles gave their ageing stars a moment or David Lamb, in an almost unbelievable REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT two of glory. fight back, wrested the men's 1st Division singles' crown from a bemused Trevor Berkshire seniors had their best ever Gillette 'A' ran away with the B'racknell Watson. After losing the first game -17 and season finishing in third place in the 1st Division with Felix Ziemba and Brian 5-15 down in the second. David clawed his Premier Division. To finish so high was a Halliday at the top of the averages. way back into contention - inspite of some remarkable achievement for a county with Castle Hill won the Maidenhead title as brilliant looping by Watson, and then took only four member leagues from which to expected with Ian Fullerton on song for the game 21-18. Watson undeterred con­ select their players. Dave Barr, recently most of the season. re-ranked at NO.1 for the county, had some tinued his all-out attack in the third to Berkshire's two National League teams lead 18-12, but Lamb was not to be denied excellent wins, as did the rest of the squad who did their county proud. have performed well. Omega finished mid as he took the next nine points in an table in the 1st Division - a gOOd start to unbelievable sequence to take the game, set The senior 2nd team had mixed fortunes the season was not maintained and they fell and championship in probably the most and with several controversial selections away at the end. Gillette-Reading belied exciting match ever seen in the history of managed to ease themselves into a mid their Division 3 position and consi.itently the event. Lamb went on to win the open table position. Simon Rowland impressed pulled in the crowds in their first season. singles against Stewart Milnes, but Watson with several good performances in his first Their young squad finished in 4th place and was able to stop the hat trick when, year as a senior. there is the promise of better things to partnered by Phil Tomlinson, they defeated The junior sides did not perform as well come next season with an important new Lamb and Stuart Dalby in the men's signing. doubles. as expected although there is tremendous promise for the future. With Jimmy Stokes, The reputation the county have gained OTHER RESULTS the Syed brothers and Sue Collier there is over the last few years for producing Divison 2: the potential to challenge the best in quality juniors is continuing. In Jimmy T. Akeroyd bt R. Brook. England. Stokes and Andy Syed we have two cracking Division 3: Competition for places in the veterans prospects. Both have excelled on the tour­ D. Page bt G. Page. teams was as intense as ever. The first team nament circuit as has the powerful Sue Division 4: finished in fourth place while the second Collier. Sue has already represented her G. Cooper bt B. Drain. team managed fifth position thanks to the country and honours for the two lads who Division 5: consistent form of Bob Holiday. are both still cadets next season, cannot T. Butler bt R. Lee. The Newbury Closed men's singles title long be delayed. Junior: went to Clive Young who beat Nick Frost There is certainly a mood for keen ex­ R. Brook bt C. Roberts. 21-5, 21-4! Tracey Watkins beat Kathy pectancy in the county at present. Brack-,·' Cadet: Conlon to take the ladies' title. The main nell and Maidenhead have progressive M. O'Driscoll bt N. Ryder. doubles events went to Brian Johnson and coaching programmes and are progressing Women's Handicap: Richard Kozlowski, and to T. Watkins and towards central clubs for table tennis. R. Brook bt M. Cooper. M. Kozlowski. Reading have announced a most ambitious Men's Handicap: building programme to house a centre to G. Cooper bt K. Sangster. The popular Maidenhead Closed was again hold 10 tables. More about this major Youth Singles: sponsored by the South of England Building project next season. T. Akeroyd bt R. Rowlands. Society and here the men's championship Cadet Handicap: was won by Martin Bartholomew who just N. Ryder bt K. Sangster. got the better of Colin Dyke. Dyke had the Junior Handicap: consolation of a men's doubles win when he Mary Rose & Ray H, Barton R. Brook bt P. Keegan. partnered Mick Dean to victory over Bar­ report from . . . Veterans' Singles: tholomew and Sid Montgomery. Sue Black­ B. Lightowler bt G. Cooper. burn won the ladies' singles and Mary WARWICKSHIRE Stafford and Gil Knightley took the ladies' Yorkshire League dOUbles. Roger Martin won the Handicap The second Sunday's play-off of the Although there is a little time still to go event. Maidenhead also ran their handicap Warwickshire League was played at the to the end of the season, several teams charity event later in the season and well West Warwickshire Club on March 14, and have gained divisional championships. over 100 players took part - the winner was with just one set of matches still to be Bradford are once again Premier Division played the League Table reads: Champions. This season the Bradford 1st Steve Brindle. team take over from the 1981 holders, 'Sixteen-year-old Michael Childs won the P W L F A P Bradford II. Steve Wathey (Doncaster) Reading TSB Closed men's singles with an South Birmingham 6 6 0 49 6 12 looks set for the merit award for most wins. unexpected victory over hot favourite Simon East Birmngham 6 5 1 47 7 10 Rowland. Rowland teamed up with Andy West Birmingham 6 5 1 31 23 10 Wakefield become 1st Division Champions Nash to win the doubles. Jenny Collins won Leamington Spa 6 3 3 23 31 6 with Alan Summerscales (Wakefield) and the triple crown of singles, mixed with B'ham Bus. H. & W. 6 2 4 22 32 4 Nicky Davies (Harrogate) sharing the Rowland and ladies' doubles with Sue Stratford-upon-Avon. 6 2 4 18 36 4 merit. Kilford. In the veterans event Dave Jones Nuneaton . 6 1 5 16 38 2 Hull, without dropping a point, win Divi­ took sweet revenge over Eddie Cripps .for a Rugby 6 06 11 43 0 sion II. Sean Madden (Hull) merit. Division Berkshire Closed final defeat. The remaining matches are: III to be decided between Selby and Don­ The Bracknell Championships were B'ham Bus. H. & W. v Leamington Spa caster. Merit to be decided. dominated by Steve Everard who won the East Birmingham v South Birmingham Wakefield III, unbeaten for two seasons, men's, under-21's, men's doubles with Steve Nuneaton v Rugby win Division IV, Les D'Arcy (Wakefield) Hodder, and mixed with Taryn Vallis. Miss Stratford-upon-Avon v West Birmingham merit. Vallis presented Gail Davies with all sorts Obviously the big game will be the one Wharfedale/Airedale take the 5th Divi­ of problems in the ladies' final and ran out between East and South Birmingham, and

Page 23 as both sides played so well in their earlier George Yates reports from .. Final placings in the fifteen divisions matches everyone was looking forward to an were: exciting encounter at the West Warwick­ LANCASHIRE Winners Runners-up shire ClUb on April 26. Men The West Birmingham team playing in DOUBLY SUCCESSFUL Div. I-Preston Stockport the competition for the first time for a number o-f seasons have proved a very The new format of the County Cham­ Div. 2N-Bolton Preston 'A' useful side and have certainly added to the pionships found Lancashire, this past Div. 2S-Bury Oldham strength of the Warwickshire League event. season, competing against teams not Div. 3N-Warrington Bolton 'A' normally encountered. In the Premier Divi­ Rugby have found the strength of the sion, played over two weekends, the venture Div. 3S-01dham 'A' Macclesfield 'A' League a Ittle strong for them. They are a can be said to have been successful both Div. 4N-Fleetwood Preston 'B' very keen side and I am sure they have from a financial aspect and result wise. Div. 4S-Farnworth 'A' Fleetwood 'A' found playing against strong opposition Our final position was fourth, and no Div. 5N-Farnworth 'B' Nelson 'A' very good experience. We will hear more of Div. 5S--Glossop Wirral 'B' this side in the future. doubt might have been higher had we not Mickey Wootton from the South Birming­ been without the services of team captain Women Donald Parker (on England duties) and Liverpool ham side is the only player left in the com­ Steve Turner (sick) for the second series of Div. I-Preston petition with a 100% record although he had matches at Batley. Great credit is due to Div. 2-Liverpool B.H. Macclesfield one or two near clashes and certainly did Juniors not have everything his own way, it will be our depleted team that managed to salvage interesting to see how he fares against the a splendid win against Essex, and to Keith Div. I-Preston Bury Williams of Liverpool who made his first Div.2A-Crewe Oldham East Birmingham team. debut that weekend. NUNEATON TOWN CHAMPIONSHIPS Div. 2B-Fleetwood Manchester Notable performances came from Joy Div 3-Ellesmere Port Fleetwood 'A' Pete Muir of the Genesis Club is the Grundy who only lost one set in the whole 1982 Nuneaton Open Singles champion. In competition, and our congratulations, must In the top flight divisons Blackburn and the final Pete convincingly defeated team go to Joy on her successes as a member of Salford become due for relegation in the mate Greg Saville 21-16, 21-10, to· complete the England squad in the Bombay Com­ men's, their places being taken by Bolton the tournament without conceding a game. monwealth Championships. We cannot be and Bury. Manchester and Stockport, for His team, Genesis 'A' also retain the over optimistic about the forthcoming so long the queens, 'became due for relega­ Nuneaton first division title following a run season particularly when we never know if tion from the women's first division whilst of nineteen consecutive victories. Pete Parker will be available. But it is nice to from Junior Div. 1 Mid Lanes and Rochdale recently registered his fiftieth league know that we do have a team capable of are due for the drop. success to underline his total superiority in beating the best in England. t.he town. Some 37 leagues entered teams in the The second team, operating in Div. 2A, league which, in total, comprised 133 teams. Mrs. Eileen Shaler successfully defended finished mid-table which was, perhaps, as The semi-finals of the Norman Cook Mem­ the women's crown, comprehensively sup­ much as we could hope for with teams such orial Trophy competition brought together pressing the challenge of Irene Burrows as Cambs and Staffs being worthy of a Stockport v Fleetwood and Bolton v Mid 21-10, 21-9 in the final. Genesis had more place in the top flight. All credit then to Lanes with Fleetwood beating Mid Lanes in success when Greg Saville and John Veasey those who took part and to Williams, the the final. Thanks gO to the Macclesfield won the open doubles, and young prospect team captain for most of the season. And a League for providing the venue . . . the Dave Waddington shaded Dean Smith to· lift special mention to newcomers Paul Leisure Centre where the England/Sweden the juniors. Hutchings and Susan Hughes, also from European League match was staged and, Arthur Cross took the veterans' following Liverpool who represented their county for possibly, the next venue for the English a gruelling three games win over former the first time, not forgetting Paul Rainford Junior Closed this season staged at champion Dick Jenkins. of Preston who only lost one set all season Hinckley. WARWICKSHIRE CLUB COMPETITION and Jean Parker, also of Preston ,who only Dates for your diary: This very popular competition is now lost twice. September approaching its final stages, the 3rd Round But what of the juniors who topped 4/5 County Senior and Junior Trials results and the draw for the 4th Round Junior Div. 3A without the loss of a point. British Aerospace Dynamics, matches are listed below: A splendid result for all concerned and I Lostock, Bolton. . . 3rd ROUND RESULTS especially Junior Team Captain, Roy Ser'ck (B'ham) 232 Garretts Green College Frankland of Fleetwood, who kept up spirit 18/19 Junior Regional Trials. (B'ham) (rec. 27) 374 and enthusiasm right up to the end. Peak Engineering (S.O.A.) 355 Genesis 'B' Obviously some of the opposition was poor, (Nuneaton) (rec. 54) 333 to put it kindly, but we cannot let that John Robinson reports from ... Camp Hill SDA (B'ham) (rec. 36) 372 detract from the fact that we had a good Birmingham City 307 side. Most were making their county debuts DORSET Erdington YMCA (B'ham) 356 Genesis 'C' so let's name them all - Philip Huggon (Nuneaton) (rec. 144) 424 (Preston), Michael Mercer (St. Helens), PREMIER STATUS ACHIEVED B'ham Municipal Sports (B'ham) 352 Talbot Philip Aspinall (Oldham), Christine Pea­ Dorset Table Tennis achieved its greatest (B'ham) (rec. 108) 403 cock (Fleetwood) and Caroline Hemming ever success on Saturday, March 27, when Redhill 'C'

Page 24 David Cosway reports from ... A round-up now of t,he leagues who have Toole was taken to a third game in the bothered to give me information! Even junior final before beating up-and-coming Bournemouth with their excellent "21 up" Robin Plunkett 5, -17, 10. Holley gained the HAMPSHIRE magazine has failed to put in an appear­ veterans' title from last season's winner TITLE WINNERS ance since the December/January 'edition. Norman Stagg 19 and 14 having beaten The Gosport and Fareham league Closed Lush in the semi 19, -20, 8. GOOd to see a Aft,er the hiccup against Avon the County new table-tennis centre open in Portsmouth first team came good against Dorset and has not, been held. In the league the Generation II team of Ni,ck Webb, Mark with the Eastney table-tennis and Snooker the 7-3 win gave them the Div. 3B title. club having ten tables in use. Derek Holman, Rhamish Bhalla and Scott and Ray Noades, with guest appear­ Graham Toole each won a singles, Derek ances from Toole, Steve Billmore and John Now on to Bout,hampton with the Snows and Rhamish won the doubles while Serina Dubber, were unbeaten but only pipped club dominating the John Jaques premier Sinanan and Kathy Conlon won their Fleetands Wasps by two points. Two of the division and making the competition com­ singles and the doubles. The junior first Wasps team Alan Long (88%) and Tony pletely lacking in interest and competition team's draw against Avon II was due to the Holt (90l}~) lead the individual averages. with eventually the "B" team winning the boys with Mark Wilding and Tony Mogg championship. With the oldest player, each winning two and Steve Snow one. Shave at 49, and the youngest, Steve Snow Richard Waters won his t,wo sIngles in at 17 added to Chris Shetler, and before his the Junior "B" team's 7-3 win over Norfolk move, Phil Brown, they topped their "A" II with 'Sarah Hammond and Hayley team to gain the championship. Four T's Barker winning their singles and the Leopards unlucky to just miss the A doubles. The Veterans' "A" team finished division gained some consolation with the With an 8-'2 win over Dorset II with Ray winning of the B division. Lush and Ged Holley winning two singles, The Southampton closed was really a bit and the dOUbles, with Avril Waters winning of a disaster. O,nly 42 entries in the men's her singles, and the mixed. Congratulations singles must typify the apathy whlch exists too for the Veterans' "B" t,eam champions in local table-tennis in the City. of Div. 3B aft,er a 5-4 win over Somerset. Two wins from Joe Harvey with Norman Toole' (Alpha) was the star of the day Stagg and George Philpott winning a becoming the first person to win bot,h the singles and the men's doubles. men's and junior singles in the same year. In the men's he disposed of the subsequent The inter-town league stuttered to the Portsmouth champion Sinanan (Four T's) end of a disappointng season with the in the semi while Gary Longland (Snows) county committee being faced with declar­ reached his second successive final with a ing many matches void. First t,he divisions win over Chris Wilshire (Snows). In the which caused least problems. In all final Graham won 15 and 16. In the veterans' matches players actually looking women's Anne Longland (Four T's) won h,er as if they enjoy playing our "game". second title in a disappointing entry of only Bournemouth "A" wrested th,e Div. 1 cham­ 4. In the final she beat cadet Sarah Ham­ pionship from Portsmouth "A" winning all mond (Alpha) 16 and 11. their match-es, with Fred and Ivy Kershaw both unbeaten. Bournemouth "B" took Toole gained his second title when he s,econd place while South East Hants are joined Sinanan to beat Shetler and Lang­ relegated. Their place will be taken by Div. land 15 and 18 in the men's final. Only two 2 champions Winchester with Eddie Milsom entries in the women's dou'bles with Ann 100% and Hilda Ewles only losing one set. Langland and Sue Golding beat.ing Sarah Hammond and Sandra Noyce in the· "Final" In the men's division Bournemouth 19 and 15. Anne gained her third title when retained t,heir title from Aldershot by one she joined husband Gary to beat Wilshere point with both teams unbeaten. Mark GRAHAM TOOLE and Sarah Hammond in the mixed final -9, Werner of Bournemouth tops the averages 16, J.5. ,"- with a 100% re'cord. Southa,mpton Closed Men's Singles and Junior Singles winner. Toole be'at Snow' 18 and 14 in the Junior The mixed division with several final while Maurie Shave beat Tony Nixon absentees this season was, won for the first In Portsmouth V.R.S. Stiga gained their 161 and 16 in the veterans,' final. This year's tim·e by Aldershot who won all their first Div. 1 championship at th,e expens,e of masters tournament (over 50's) was held matches. This was really a team effort. for De La Rue who have won ,the title for the at the Ordnance Survey and attra,cted a none of their players' appear in the leading past eight years. The regular team of Miki record entry of 19 despite being held on averages. Toole was unbeaten for Gosport as and Senna Sinanan and Bob ICOX was sup­ Easter Saturday. All players had at least. 3 were 8erina Sinanan of Portsmouth and plemented by guest appearances by Dave sets in their first groups. The groups, were Bev Nicholson of Winchester. Now for the Constance and Dave Hannah playing suffi­ won by Bill Roberts, Hugh, Riches, Colin worst aspect of the inter-town league, the cient games to qualify them for the Campbell all of Sholin,g "B" in the 2nd junior division. To quote league seeretary National Club K.O. competition. V.R.S. who division and evergreen Ken Palmer of 4 T's Di Winmill "the Junior Div. I was a had lost t.he first half encounter wit,h D,e in Div. 1. shambles! Three matches declared void as La Rue 4-'5 win the second half match 9-1 Roberts played Palmer in one, semi which the teams involved could not find enough to take the title by a single point. V.R.S. players on the days available. Too many went to the 3rd game. Ken finally got his having disposed of Sturdee M,edway 7-2 in revenge tor his def.eat by Bill at the same junior events for top players and not. the quarter-final of the Nation,al Club K.D. enough, players to fulfil all commitments! stage last year in a very close fought set. competition have a home fixture against The other semi between Campbell and Towns, entering too many teams! Lack of Ellenborough in mid-May. The Ports,mouth adult help. All thes,e factors mean a fresh Riches also went to 3 with Colin winning Closed was postponed for a week to avoid quite comfortably 21-6 in the end. The final look at the junior division must be made". the Southampton event. Why can't associa­ Bournemouth "A" won Junior Div. I despite between Ken and Colin also went to 3 when tions liase to avoid these clashes! I think youth!! on the part of Colin prevailed and one' match being void but they and Alder­ the Hampshire association should help in shot were the main culprits in postponing he ran out the winner 14, -15, 11. In the 4 this, respect. Sinanan, beaten a week earlier years this tournament has, been running w·e matches,. Other teams however were far in the semi at Southampon gained his first, from blameless and Southampton only once have had a different winner on each occa­ closed title with a 17, -9, 14 win over Toole, sion, Palmer, Stan Mahood, Roberts and fielded their strongest team, and that ranked well above him in Hampshire, after now Campbell. resulted in a draw at Bournemouth! trailing '5-13 in the third. Graham had The junior second division was closely beaten Adrian Lee in the se'mi, while Miki In the South East Rants tournament fought with slightly lesser junior players. had beaten Alan Willcocks. In the women's Adrian Lee beat Peter Woodacre 20 and 18 and therefore less commitments and all singles Serina Sinanan gained her fifth in the men's singles final. Tracy Knellor matches played. Ports'mouth "A" pipped successive title with a 4, 12 win over Tracy beat Helen Ward 9 and 15 in the women's. Winchester for the title. I. Porter of Knellor. Serina had convincingly beaten C. Andy Bugden and Mark Wilding beat Steve Basingstoke leads the boys with Naomi Bradley in the semi but Tracy had a tight Billmore and Lee in the doubles final 14 Ballard of Winchester the girls averages, "deuce" in the third, win over Alison Bill­ and 19. Mark Wilding beat A. Meyer 9 and ·each with un,beaten records. I think Di more. The singles finalists joined forces, in 16 in the juniors. Winmill sums up the inter-town league bot.h the men's and women's doubles to take In Winchester Hursley HA" comfortably when she says "t.he los,ing players deserve the titles. In the men's Toole and Sinanan retained their first division title from as mueh credit as the top. Without those beat Lush and Pete Woodacre while in the Winnall "A". The, closed tournam·ent des­ who valiantly turn out to lose each time women's, Serina and Tracy beat Billmore pite being spread over three· days attraeted there would be no champions. I often and Mandy Broughton 12 and 12. The a higher entry than Southampton with a wonder how many juniors enjoy their days mixed saw Serina gain her third title when third of their registered players! John out at table-tennis - often with mum she teamed with Bob Cox to beat Toole and Summerbell beat last season's champion and dad, brandishing fists and losing hair!" Tracy 7/17. Gary Longland in the quarters of t,he men's

Page 25 singles then George Philpott in the s·emi. U-19: virtually automatically, whilst you can John Roberts reached his second successive Russell Wilson (Brockenhurst ·College) concentrate on other thoughts. So what has final with a semi-final win over Jeff R/up: Andrew Pitts (Portsmouth Grammar) this to do with coaching table t·ennis? Well, Mitchell who had earlier beaten No. 2 seed U-I6: in the same way a highly skilled player Rowe Bennett. Richard Waters (Cranbourne Sec., B'stoke) operates very much in a similar manner In the fluctuating final Roberts (Hursley) R/up:Tony Mogg (Harriett Costelo, B'stoke) with his primary cons'cious dealing with fought back from a game down to beat, John U-I3: tactics and psychological actions whilst his Summerbell (Winnall) -17,17,17 to gain his Jason White (Richarl Allworth, B'stoke) subcons'cious is automatically operating his first men's singles title. The women's single R/up: Brian Bennis (Richard Aldworth, body to produce the necessary actions final did not reach the heights of last B'stoke) ne·eded to play the game at a competitive year's epic between the same two players. U-II: level. This year it was the tum of Christine Edward Westmacott (Walhampton, The greater the subconscious controls t.he Davies (Hursley) to gain her first victory Lymington) body, due to learnt skills, the better the over Kathy Conlon ('Castle) Christine R/up: Robert McGill (Walhampton, player sinc·e he does not need to think how managed to pin down Kathy for most of Lymington) to play a stroke or a series of strokes. the game, preventing her getting in her GIRLS As.suming the foregoing is relative then bes,t shots, but at 19-all in the second two U-19: the vital concern is how does a coach good forehand loops by Christine gave her Tracy Kneller (Portsmouth High) achieve this result to the maximum an 18, 19 victory. The men's doubles was an R/up: Helen Thompson (Fareham Tech.) efficiency. I purposely designed a system all Hursley affair with the establish·ed pair­ U-I6: around the above theory and put it effect­ ing o.f Mitchell and Roberts beating Long­ Sarah Hammond (Glen Eyre, S'ton) ively into a,ction. It is not my intention to land and Rowe Bennett 13 and 16. Two R/up: Samantha Lewis (ICrofton, F'ham) explain th·e system in. this lette·r, but to tight games· saw Harry Spraggs and U-I3: comment on the I.G. theory. Christine Davles retain their mixed title 'Caroline Jenvey (Amewood, New Milton) against Gary and Ann Longland. Similarly R/up: Tamara Khayatt (Bevois Town, There is another interesting point with Simon Jackson kept his hold on the junior S'ton) regard to the statement that it p,rovides title beating A. Barnes 12, 11. Tony Nixon U-II: non pressure practic,e. It depends on what however could not repeat last year's semi­ Lisa Ri,ce (Horndean) the coach wants to achieve by cdaching final victory over Philpott losing this time R/up: Clare Winmill (ICrofton, F'ham) players. If he wants the player to play well in the final -16, -12. at a practise level, then the I.G. te,chniqu·e should be very successful i.f used in a methodical and planned manner. However, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR at a highly competitiv,e level, I suggest that unless the learnt res'ponses have been SUb­ jugated or .grooved, mainly under competi­ BISVOND COM·P·REHENSION tive pressure, th·en at 19 all in the third It is som·e time since I picked up a bat, the I.G. player could well break down. At or penned letters to the Table Tennis News, this point, the player needs a virtual, auto­ but I read with considerable interes.t David matic response to employ his, skills to the Fairholm's article on the Inner Game, April maximum, without any of the limiting 1982 issue. factors of th·e conscious in the form of Some time past I took considerable emotional concerns. interest in coaching of table tennis to the Another consideration is in the area· of ext.ent of writing a manu·al on a different the resPOnse rate of the brian. There I system than that currently in vogue in the suggest that reaction times could well be coaching hierarchy of the E.T.T.A. However, faster if the subconscious directly controls as one sage wrote back to me, your system responses. Alternatively, decisions first will never produce any results, I realised passing through the conscious to the sub­ that probwbly my techniques were a,hove conscious, to be activated, must take longer their comprehension and, anyway, the to be effected by the body; results of using th,e techniques have long In finishing, the last comparison I draw since been proved successful in terms of to the three element theory, is to consider fa:ctual proof. the body when asleep. At this time the So having read through David's article, I s·econdary part of th·e brain is (busy' looking felt compelled to comment on the descrip­ after 'all the vital functions, such as blood tion of th,e I.G. technique and draw pressure, heartrat'e, respira.tion, etc. The parallels and differenc·es to the system used primary, apart from the occasional dream, in my own coaching activites. is seemingly non-active. I appreciate his comment that it was not Many coaches achtev·e results to their the system but a system and suggest that work, possibly not being aware of how the e·a.ch coach develops his coaching technique brain and body combine. around his capability, personality and David Fairholrn's article and I hope my general environment. There can be no fixed own views' may have given active coaches ANN LONGLAND syst.em to coach pla.yers, but more im­ so·me further room for thought with regard portant is the understanding of the basic to the coaching of table tennis. Southampton Closed Women's· Singles, comprehension of how mind and body can Women's Doub1~s and Mixed Doubles be com·bined to produce a highly skilled REG BART, winner. sportsperson. The I.G. article defines Talma.ge Patch, between self (1) and self (2). Brightwalton, The Hampshire schools individual Cham­ N,ewbury, Berks, pionships produced some good table-tennis. I would suggest a diff·erent 'approach, in RGI6 ORB. County secretary Harold Albery tells me' the that to consider three rather than two elements are tuned together: under-13 final betw·een Jason White and MAJOR DEVELOPMENT Brian Bennis was worthy of a senior final 1. The conscious mind, with Jason winning "deuce" in the third. 2 The subconscious mind, The one major development within Table A name to remember for the future was 3. The body. Tennis over the past few years has been Brian Bassell who Harold says has only The nearest parallel I can dra·w to th·e the National League, no one can deny this been playing for 18 months. Our national a,bove is to consider driving a car. An fact, though some would possibly debate councillor states "let no one tell me we have unskilled driver uses "'almost a 100% com­ whether it is for the better or worse. The no young talent in Hampshire! There is bination of conscious and body. The more one aspe·ct that distu~bs m·e is the lack plenty - the unfortunat,e thing is are we skilled driver starts to com~bine much more of coverage of the league, throughout the making the best use of it? So we come back use of the subconscious. season, indeed as the s,eason goes on it seems to get less rather than more. For a to the old prffblem coaching! If only we You may hav.e driven many miles as an could get a real coaching programme going league that makes a tremendous contribu­ experienced driver thinking all sorts of tion to the popularity of table tennis from we would no longer be a third rate complicated thoughts and y·et you are county". I could not agree more but these a spectator point of view, this is· surely to driving your car in a completely safe be remedled as soon as possible. days players seem very reluctant to put manne·r 'because as soon as something im­ anything back into t,he game and getting portant starts to happen, you switch into I write as a manager of a National assistance in coaching of youngsters is cer­ primary cons'cious to give it maximum League Team which has tried as much as tainly one main problem to be solved if our attention. By skilled learning you h,ave possible to give as much air to its activities game is to progress. subjugated into your su,bconscious a great as pos.sible and indeed have sent accounts RESULTS amount of infonnation and it combines of all matches to both this magazine and BOYS together with your body to drive the car (continued on pa.ge 28)

Page 26 (continued from page 2'6) the few open tournaments in the country. other ev,ents" surely the Civil Service has young table tennis players? the other publication as well. O'nly if more DAVID COSWAY, s'pace is given to league affairs will oth,er Hon. Secretary, 'The tall of the No. 1 seed Paul Hutchings people get to know more about it and Four T's Table Tennis Club. (DHSS, L'pool) in the 1st round of t,he perhaps the spectator appeal might also 54 Channels Farm Road, Men's singles was the first shock of the increase. I personally do not see the advent Swaythling, day, Paul went out to Dave Wright (Br. of the National League as being in conflict Southampton, Telecoms, Harlow) 17 and 1'6. If Paul was with th,e County Championships programme Hants. off form Dave was very much the reverse like so many other people within Table as he went on to beat Nat Richardson Tennis circles, I firmly believe they can (DOE London) in the semi-finals and Phil exist side by side though I think at the MEMORABLE WEE,K Cawser (DHSS Leic,ester) in the final 20, present time the latter is in need ot -9, 15. I trust Phil is not going to suffer changes, not least to cut down some of the In recent sleason'S there have been a from that awful complaint called "C'ham­ crippling costs involved, and t,hos,e that number of reports of tournaments, on the pion runner-up". might be involved once promotion and established circuit wh,ere indifferent organ­ Helen Shields. (I Rev, Bradford) made up relegation haV'e had their effect within the isation, late finishes, 'bad sportsmanship for last year's shock defeat by Sandra pyramid sys'tem. I feel as though, I can etc. were the norm rather than the exc,ep,­ Bennett (DHSS, Chester) in th,e Women's speak with a certain amount of authority tion. How pleasant there.fore, to report on singles by turning the tables and beating here also as a ,County Match Secretary who the recent table te,nnis festiv'al held over Sandra very soundly 14 and 8 'in the semi­ knows only too well what it costs to run 'the Easter week at Pontins, at Hemsby. finals, Helen won the event by an easy win five county teams. This was the third year this tournament over Linda Clemett (E. & A., London). has been run and each year seems to have The success, of th,e National League is been better than the pr,eceding one. About It was Helen's day, with Yvonne Abdellah due to no small measure of sponsorship 150 players took part and it was, not,tceable (MID Harrogate), they won the Women's which will only be got by publicity givin,g that, although there was attractive prize Doubles by beating Linda Clemett and Sally air to all aspects of Table Tennis within money at stake, there was little e,vidence of Prowen (EGGD) 18 and 6 in a most dis­ the clubs, and perhaps it's time that the the 'win at all cos1t' brigade. Perhaps this appointing final, all I can say is that I have counties got their fair share of this, as was becau8e results do not count for rank­ seen the London pair produce better TT w,ell. But sponsorship w'ithout pUblicity is ing 'purposes" and players from inter­ than that particular final. The Mixedititle like a ship without a rudder, it flounders national standard downwards really entered also went to Helen who, with her partner and mIl come to a grinding halt, sooner or into the spirit of the event to ensure every­ E. S. Worsman beat the Welsh pair Jeff later. So before the National L,eague starts one had an enjoyable w,eek. Morgan and Cathryn Jones (both DHSS) to suffer in this direction, surely the cover­ 21 and 8. The first game was quite a cliff­ age should increase to keep pac.e with the This year as well as running all events, on hanger but the change of order in the league's own development, and if Table a group basis, a team event was introduced second was disastrous for the Welsh pair. Tennis's, own magazines do not give the and thi's produced some first class match,es. While we saw many old faces, in the coverage the league deserves, is it little The weeks organisation was, under the championships there was one new one who wonder that the press do not, either. control of Trevor and Alan Openshaw looks a likely lad, Richard Tanner (Br. assisted 'by Ron McKenzie' and on behalf of PAUL HEWITT, Telecoms, B'ham) represented his region in all the host of players who took part I the Men's singles" doufbles and th'e Inter­ Sec., SIB Bath, National League Team. would like to thank them for their efforts. supe~bly mediate Boys' singles.. In the M,en's singles 42 Dorset Street, They ran the tournament quite ­ he gave Cawser a run for his money, Bath, Avon. th,e playing conditions were first class ­ Richard won the first game 20, jus,t lost th,e Tel. 313,817. the food and ,company was great - all in second 19 and was event,ually beaten 17 in all a m,emorable week. the 3rd. Wit,h his partner, L. Douglas. (also FOUR T's TAB,LE TENNIS CLUB Finally I would congratulat,e Mike Bishop Br. Telecoms, B'ham), they won the Men's and his staff at Pontins for promoting the doubles without losin,g a game. Richard Th,e 1908:2/83 diary will be anoth,er tourna­ festival and surely pointing a n,ew way fOI" knocked out Steve Milton-White in the m,ent short, w'ith the announc,ement that table tennis. Our game lends itself to Intermediate Boys' singles -19, 18, 17, one the Four T's club 'on,e star' tournament will family participation very well and this fine of the most exciting ma.tches of t.he day, not be run ne~t season. This follows the week of Slport could act as 'a model for but he was up against Hutchings, in the resignat.ion of two of the mainstays of this tournaments of the future. Th,e ETTA could final who, having lost on'e of his titles was event, the organiser, Rowland B,enn'ett and well recognis,e this: week as an official part determined not to los,e the other. Although the refere'e P,eter Thorne. The club A.G.M. of the tournament calendar as there are Paul won 18 and 16 it was really a very decided that as no replacements were avail­ many players who will be returning to close matCh, Paul waS' not playing well but able from their members who were able or Hemsby next season to meet old friends on several occasions when behind he willin'g to take over th'ese jobs it was not again. May I sugges.t you write to reserve managed to regain his concentration. In rig'ht to import outsid,ers into what has your place now as I have a fe,eling n,ext the end it was experience that counted. always 'been a club organised event. Th,e year's event could well Ibe over subscribed. lack of h,elp from club mem'bers, togeth,er The trophies were presented by Mr. with the attitude and non-eo-operation of BRIAN HALLIDAY, Ernie ,Letley, Vice-'Chairman of the Scottish players at last year's event w,ere among the 2 Rowan Close, CS ,Sports Council. Next year the West reasons given for th,e resignations;. A major Sonning Common, Midlands region has agreed to stage the factor however was the destructive'criticism ~~ading, finals, maybe at that central venue I'm received from th,e E:.T.T.A. as typified by a Berks. looking for? letter received from th'e tournament com­ mittee. No one is pel'"Jf:ect and some criticism may well have, been justified but surely h:elp rath'er than finding fault would have been CIVIL SERVICE CHAMPIONSHIPS T.S.B. DERBY 2-STAR more useful from the n,ation.al body. On~e wonders if less\ successful and less well by DORIS L. MOORS JUNIOR OPEN organised tournaments have received like The '51s.t Civil Service Sports Council criticism. This attitude horwev,er can only Champions,hips Finals were held on Friday, by Mi'chael J. Payne lead to more of th,e eve'r decreas:ing numbe'r 19 March, '8'2 at the Meadowbank Sports Sponsored by Trust'ee Savings Bank at of toumaments in the diary being scrapped. Centre, Edinburgh. Of the many Sports the Derby Sports Centre on, April 4, it was I would like to thank the many players Centres I have visited this is one of my Alan 'Cooke from Chesterfield who rep­ and umpiresl f~om all o~T'er the country who favourites. When I arrived at 8.30 a.m. the resented the 'best local hopes of victory. He have regula,rly sUipported this. tournament tables and other equipment was s,et out reached the U-17 singles and doubles finals for th,e many years, it has been run. Th:e exactly according to my plan, a cleaner was in a tournament that saw the elimination event at the start olf the season has proved busy with the vacuum cleaner and an of Lisa Bellin,ger as early as the 3rd round, a us,eful sp,ringboard to the national rank­ official was cleaning the tabes with a damp and the elimination of several ranked in.gs. It has r'egularly attracted an entry cloth to remove the dust! players. aplproaching ~OO players. Both m,en's, singles Everyone enjoyed their visit to Edinburgh Boys' Singles: finalists in th,e re'c'ent Englis,h closed, but with the ever increasing cost of travel Cooke came through the top half beating Desmond Douglas and Graham Sandley are it looks as if a central venue is going to be Lionel Faure, Shaun Browne and David past winners) of both the men's and junior the only way of cutting down the cost. Rudg'e, without loss of a game. In the singles in the Four T's event as, is th,e Once again the standard of play was very bottom half, the 3rdseed O'Leary went out curr'ent England No. 1 junior Carl Prean. good. From the 12 regions within the, OSS,C to Simon Griew (seed (15) in the 4th round. This tournament has given prestige to we had a full representation in the Men's Philip Gunn ('S2) was only troubled by Four T's and with this coming season singles and doubles but slightly les,s in the Stephen Bevan of Lancashire on his way marking the silver jubilee of one of the other ,events. The Intermediat,e Boys' to the final. largest clubs in the area it is an unfor­ Singles continues to be disappointing but at Cooke's attacking flair confidently dis­ tunate time to announce th'e end of one of least 3 of the 4 players were taking part in played in the earlier rounds faltered and

Page 28 finally failed against the steadier defence of the day was Lisa Bellnger (81) going out in Leslie Constable reports on the ... Gunn. straight-games to Mary Denbow. Denbow Quart~r-finals: also beat Josette Ryalls CS5) and Melanie ST. NEOTS WINTER LEAGUE M. Werner (Do) bt S. Griew (Le) 9,18; Seaton (S4) before going down in the final P. Gunn (Wk) bt S. Bevan (La) 12 ,10, 11; to Jackie Bellinger. Christine P,eacock (S8) A curious situation arose at the end of A. Cooke (Dy) bt S. Browne (La) 20, 11; went out in round two to Evelyn Wright the se'ason in the St. Neots Winter League. D. Rudge (Wa) bt R. Tilford (Ng) 19 ,-7, 24. from Clwyd w'ho went onto the quart,er­ In the Senior Division B,edford and North Semi-finals: final. Herts tied for first plac1e with 57 points Cooke bt Rudge 15, 9; Semi-finals: apiece being six points in front of St. Neots with 51 points. In the Veterans Gunn bt Werner 12, 12. M. D'enborw (Ox) bt M .,Seaton (Y) Final: -11, 1'7, 20; Division Bedford and North Herts again GUNN bt Cooke 20, 11. ti,ed for first place with 47 points but this J. Bellinger (Bd) bt S. Collier (Bk) 17, 18. tim!e only pipped Cambridge by one point Boys' Doubles: Final: after a most exciting last session. It has Cooke/Michael O'Leary did not meet J. B,ELLTNGE:R bt Denbow -l19, 14, 14. be-en a most interesting first sea'son of the serious opposition until the semi-final Cadet Girls' Singles: leagu,e and I am sure next season will s,ee where Werner/D'enbow took the first game even more interest in the various divisIons. from them. T'he oth,er finalist from the Michelle 'Cohen from Avon unseeded in bottom half Griew/ Aldwinckle (seed 8) the U-14 girls came through to the final In t,he Junior D1ivis,ion th,ere is still a final came through against Gunn/Browne' (s,eed beating the No. 1 seed Alison Barker before s:ession to be played on May 9 SIO that a full 3) who had struggled in previousl rounds. losing the final to Joanne' Shaw of York­ and compreh,ensive account of the league After losing the first game in the final shire. cannot be made until the firs;t issue of next Cooke/O'Leary won. Semi-finals: sleason's magazine. The fift,h seed Whitely/D:ixon were sur­ M.Cohen (Av) bt A. Barker (Sp) 17, -17, 19; Senior Tournament Final: prisingly beaten by un-seeded Richard J. Shaw (Y) bt J. Powis (St) -21, 18, 15. P. 'Cole CSt. Neots) bt K. Willett (St. N,eots) Tilford/Glen Roberts. Who themselves lost Final: 17, -1:6, 18. to ,Gunn/Browne -24, 16, 18. SHAW bt Cohen 10, 15. Vetera,ns' Tourname~n,t Fnal: S'aywell bt Albone 17, 14. Semi-finals: Girls' Doubles: Cooke/Me O'Leary (Mi) bt Werner/Denbow Doubles Final: (Ox) -20, 12, 16. In t,h,e top half of the girls' doubles Lisa A. Jackson/Thurston (ICambridge) bt Griew/Aldwinckle (Le) bt Gunn (Wa)/ and Jackie Bellinger came through as ex­ Albone/Saywell -1'9, 14, 19. Browne -17,19, 18. pected to beat Tracey Lightfoot and Josette FINAL TABLES Fin.al: Ryalls in a very excitng final. Senior Division COO'KE/O'Leary bt Griew/ Aldwinckle Semi-finals: Played Pts. -16, 13, 18. L. & J. Bellinger (Bd) bt Collier/ Bedford ...... 9 57 Cadet Boys' Singles: L. Goldsmith (Mi) 20, 21; North Herts 9 57 In the top half of th'e U-14 boys, the T. Lightfoot (C'h)/J. Ryalls (Y) bt Denbow St. N'eots 9 5'1 absence of seeds Murray Jukes and Martin (Ox) / A. Hegarty CSt) 15, 12. Cam'brIdge 'A' 9 44 Firth gave Mark C'amp,bell a place in the Finals: CambrIdge 'B' 9 44 R.A.F. 9 44 final where he lost to Martin Randle in L. & J. BELLINGER bt Lightfoot/Ryalls an all-Warwickshire match. In the bottom 17,-18,17. Kettering 9 42 half No. '2 s,eed Andrew Syed was beaten Northampton 'A' 9 34 in the semi-final by Russel Thompson of On behalf of the Derby Association I Peterborough 9 30 would like to thank the Trustee Savings Northam1pton 'B' 9 18 Yorkshire, who had battled through from 1 Bank (North West) for sponsoring the £256 Vete'rans'Division the qualifying round. priz'e money and to Mr. Burrows for North H,erts 7 47 Semi-finals: presenting the prizes. My thanks to all B,edfo,rd ...... 7 47 M. 'Campbell (Wa) bt M. Syed (Bk) 13, 14; the players for supporting the Event, to Camibridge .. .. 7 46 M. Randle (Wa) bt R. Thompson (Y) 12, 14. the Staff of the ,Sports department of the St. Neots 'A' 7 3'6 Final: Ictty Council and the Leisure Committee, Peterborough, 'A' 7 30 RANDLE bt Campbell -1:3, 16, 8. and last but certainly not least, all the Northampton ~. 7 18 Girls' Singles: helpers on the day who made the Tourna­ Peterborough 'B' 7 17 In t,he U-17 girls' singles, the surprise of ment run so smoothly. St. Neots 'B' 7 11

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Page 29 DIVISION 3C P W D L F A P Bedfordshire 6 4 2 o 36 24 10 County Championships Round-up Oxford-shire 6 4 0 2 35 25 8 Northamptonshire. 6 3 1 2 3'7 23 7 Herefordshire 6 2 3 1 31 29 7 by PHILIP REID Worces:tershire II. 6 2 \1 3 24 36 5 Huntingdonshire ... ,6 1 1 4 22 38 3 Buckinghamshire 6 1 0 5 2:5 35 2 DORSET REACH PREMIER P W L Av.% Shropshire record deleted. Dorset prov,ed 'worthy winners of Division R. Brook (Y) . 7 6 1 85.0 2B and along with Staffordshire will line up JUNIOR 3A DIVISION 3D in the Premier Division n,ext season. Devon Philip Huggon (La) . 14 13 1 92.9 Sussex II 7 5 1 1 49 21 11 Louis,e Forster (Dy) 6 6 0 100.0 . escaped relegation thanks to Mike Short 5 5 0 100.0 Middles,ex II . 7 5 1 1 42 28 11 who starred in the matches aganst Herts, Tra'cy Lightfoot ('Ch) . 6 1 83 ,Suffolk . 7 4 1 2 40 30 9 despite supremacy of Ri'chard Jermyn, and To Thy Dung (Dy) . 5 .3 Kent II . 7 4 0 3 38 32 8 Wiltshire for whom K·evin Satchell was D,ebbie Soothill (ICU) . 6 5 1 83.3 Surrey II . 7 3 1 3 34 36 7 sU'prem,e. JUNIOR 3D Hertfordshire II . 7 1 4 2 33 37 6 Devon 7 H~'rtfordshire~ 3 J. ,Spa.rks (E) . 12 11 1 9'1.0 C'arnbridgeshire II . 7 1 1 5 21 49 3 Sussex 2 Dorset 8 M. Taylor (E) . 10 9 1 90.0' Norfolk . 7 0 11 6 23 47 1 Devon 6 Wiltshire 4 A. 'Conquest (Bd) . 14 12 2 8'5.0' ~ S. COile (E) . 4 4 0 100.0 DIVISION 4A DIVISION 3A Wiltshire II 4 3 1 0 29 11 7 Durham 6 Leicestershire II 4 VETERANS PREMIER Hampshire II 4 3 0 1 28 12 6 Tony Gelder helped Durham to win. E. Griffiths (C'h) . 12 10 2 83.0 Staffordshire, III 4 1 1 2 114 2'6 3 Lincolnshire 10 Cheshire II 0 (default) D. Schofield . 12 10 '2 83.0 Somerset II . 4 1 0 3 15 25 2 DIVISION 3B P. D'Arcy (Ch) . 1~ ~ ~ l~~:g Avon II . 4 1 0 3 14 26 2 Isle of Wight 4 Avon 6 D. Schofield ('Ch) . 8hock defeat for 'Carl Prean beaten 12 VETERANS2A DIVISION 4B and 15 by Andy Creed. M. Baker (Av) 10 9 1 90.0 Suffolk II 4 4 0 0 28 12 8 Oxfordshire II 4 2 1 1 23 17 5 DIVISION 3C VETERANS2B Bucks II ...... 4 1 1 2 17 23 3 Herefordshire 5 Bedfordshire 5 H. Buist (K) . 14 14 0 100.0 Northants II 4 0 2 2 17 23 2 B,edSl still ch,amps despite dropping a J. Smith (Mi) . 10 8 2 80.0 Norfolk II 4 1 0 3 15 2'5 2 point, mainly t,hrough the undefeated P. Butcher (K) . 7 '6 1 85.0 Michael Owens. David Sharp good for Beds. V. Gillam (,Sx) . 6 50 1 83.0 JUNIORS DIVISION 4A VETERANS3B PREMIER Hampshire II 10 Staffordshire III 0 R. Holliday (Bk) 10 9 1 90.0 Surrey . 7 6 1 0 51 19 13 JUNIOR2A B. Maxted CK) 9 8 ,I 88.0 Yorkshire . 7 4 1 2 42 28 9 Leicestershire 8 Huntingdonshire 2 G. White (He) 4 4 0 100.0 Bedfordshire 7 4 1 2 42 28 9 Surprise 15, 22 win for Stuart Wilford Middlesex . 7 3 2 2 39 31 8 over the immaculate Philip 'Cole. But best FINAL TABLES 1981-82 Kent . 7 2 3 2 30 40 7 sets G.D., won by Hunts. 18, -17, 24, and S,uss,ex . 7 3 1 3 27 43 7 Yvonne Hall's all-action win over Alison SENIORS· Warwickshire 7 0 2 6, 25 45 2 Hillard -15, 17, 2'2. PREMIER Staffordshire 7 0 1 6 24 46 1 JUNIOR 3A PWDLFAP DIVISION 2A C,h,eshire 4 Cumbria 6 Middlesex 6 6 0 0 42 12 12 ,Cleveland .. 7 7 0 0 46 24 14 Ches,hire promotion hopes crushed. \rim Yorkshire 6 5 0 1 38 16 10 Yorkshire II 7 5 1 1 49 21 11 ~l Berkshire .. 6 4 0 2 29 25 8 Pachul outstanding for 'Cumbrla. Ii- Gloucestershire ... 7 3 3 1 39 31 9 Cumbria v Derbyshire (void) Lancashire . 6 3 0 3 28 2,6 6 Leicest,ershire 7 3'" 1 3 38 3:2 7 Essex ...... 6 2 0 4 18 36 4 JUNIOR 3D Lincolnshire . 7 3 0 4 32 38 6 Warwicks~ire .. 6 1 0 5 19 35 2 Durham . 7 2 1 4 29 41 5 Sussex II 7 Cam,bridgeshire 3 Northumberland 6 0 0 6 15 39 0 Graham Barnes the main differ,ence Huntingdonshire . 7 0 2 5 25 45 2 between the two sides. Cheshire record deleted. Buckinghamshire 7 0 2 5 22 48 2 VETERANS PREMIER Lincolnshire 9 Worcestershire 0 DIVISION 2A DIVISION 2B Staffordshire . 7 6 0 1 49 21 12 Devon . 7 6 1 0 52 18 13 This relegation battle resulted in a re­ Esse,x . 7 6 0 1 44 26 12 sounding win for Lincs. Worcs go down. Leicest,ershire 7 6 0 1 45 25 12 Cambridgeshire 7 5 0 2 38 32 10 Glamorgan 7 4 1 2 42 28 9 VETERANS2B Yorkshire II . 7 4 0 3 34 36 8 Hertfordshire . 7 3 1 3 39 31 7 Kent 9 Wiltshire 0 Lancashire II . 7 3 1 3 38 32 7 Berkshire . 7 1 3 3 32 38 5 Kent made sure of promotion to Premier Devbyshire 7 '1 2 4 28 42 4 Wiltshire . 7 2 0 5 26 44 4 Division by this win. Warwickshire II ... 7 1 1 5 28 42 3 D,ors,et . 7 0 3 4 27 43 3 VETERANS3B Worcestershire 7 0 0 7 20 50 0 Avon . 7 1 1 5 18 52 3 Somerset 7 Wiltshire II 2 DIVISION 3A Joe Garland and Peter Butt·erworth on DIVISION 2B Lancashire 7 7 0 0 60 10 14 form against Wilts, for whom only B. D'orset . 7 6 0 1 49 21 12 Cheshire . 7 5 0 2 39 31 10 Freeman shone. Wiltshire . 7 4 0 3 38 32 8 Northurnberland . 7 4 1 2 42 28 9 LEADING AVERAGES Sussex . 7 4 0 3 !37 33 8 'Cumibria . 7 3 1 3 28 42 7 DIVISION 2B Kent . 7 4 0 3 36 34 8 Derbyshire 7 2 2 3 31 39 6 P W L Av.% Surr,ey . 7 3 1 3 39 31 7 Nottinghamshire 7 2 1 4 32 38 5 D. Constance (Do) . 8 8 0 100.0 D,ev,on . 7 3 0 4 30 40 6 Cleveland II . 7 1 1 5 23 47 3 A. ,Clayton (Do) . 12 1(1 1 91.0 Hertfordshire . 7 2 1 4 28 42 '5 Lincolnshire II . 7 0 0 7 15 55 0 S. Gibbs (E) . 10 8 2 80.0 Essex II . 7 1 0 6 23 47 2 Julie Reading (Do) . 5 5 0 100.0 DIVISION 3B Janet. Parker (Wi) . 7 6 1 85.0 DIVISION 3A Northamrptonshire. 6 6 0 0 47 13 12 DIVISION 3A St,affords,hire II ... 6 5 0 1 39 21 10 Worcestershire 6 4 1 ,I 40 20 9 Ron Weatherby (Ch) . 10 10 0 100.0 Cheshire II ...... 6 4 1 1 35 2'5 9 Warwirckshire II 6 4 0 2 37 23 8 Tony Gelder (Du) . 12 10 2 83.3 Durham 6 4 0 2 38 2:2 8 Staffordshire II 6 3 1 2 34 26 7 De~bysihire II 6 2 2 2 25 35 6 Oxfordshire 6 2 0 4 31 29 4 DIVISION 3C Leic,estershire II 6 2 1 3 27 33 5 Buckinghamshire II 6 1 0 5 17 43 2 S. Lyon (Np) 12 9 3 75.0 Lin'colnshire 6 2 0 4 30 '30 4 Herefordshire ...... 16 0 0 6 4 56 0 M. O'wene (Hrl 12 9 3 75.0 Cumbria 6 0 0 6 16 44 0 Lisa Bellinger (Bd) 5 '5 0 100.0 ,Shropshire record deleted. JUNIOR 2A DIVISION 38 DIVISION 3C L. Taylor fCv) . 14 13 1 92.0 Hampshire 7 6 0 1 51 19 12 Middlesex II . 7 7 0 0 54 16 14 G. Skipp (Cv) . 12 11 1 91.0 Avo,n . 7 5 1 1 39 31 11 Surrey ·11 . 7 6 0 .1 53 17 12 J. Chann (Cv) . 14 12 2 86.0 Gloucest,ershire . 7 3 3 1 40 30 9 Hampshire 7 4 1 2 41 29 9 P. 'Cole (Hu) . 10 8 2 80.0 Dorset II . 7 4 0 3 35 35 8 Berkshire II 7 3 0 4 38 321 6 D. Griffin (Gs) . '14 111 3 78.0 Berkshire II . 7 2 3 2 39 31 7 Cornwall . 7 2 1 4 28 42 5 P. Jackson (Av) . 14 11 3 78.0 Som,erset . 7 2 1 4 31 39 5 Avon II .. 7 1 2 4 26 44 4 N. Tsakarisianos (Gs) . 7 7 0 100.0 Isle of Wight . 7 0 3 4 26 44 3 Som,erset . 7 1 2 4 25 45 4 Y. Hall (L,e) . 5 5 0 100.0 Cornwall . 7 0 1 6 19 51 1 Dorset II .. 7 1 0 6 15 55 2

Page 30 DIVISION 3D who we can help to get started on these P'WDLF A P Action for Table Tennis projects. This is just one of our priorities Ess,ex II 7 7 0 0 61 9 14 for the 'Concentration of Resources scheme. Kent II 7 5 0 '2 42 28 10 Another is to work with the unemployed Bedfordshire II ... 7 4 1 2 41 2~9 9 Table tennis in the West Midlands is to for whom table tennis is an ideal sport". Suss,ex II ...... 7 2 2 3 32 38 6 be given a boost by a Regional D·evelopment Seminar - to be held at the 'Cheslyn Hay The seminar, for which there is no Cambridg,eshire ... 7 3 0 4 30 40 6 charge, is to be led by Staffordshire County Hertfordshire ...... 7 2 1 4 :31 39 5 Sports Centre on Saturday, 12th June, 1982. The seminar, of five s,essions, marks the Table Tennis Association's Chairman, Jack Suffolk ...... 7 2 0 5 23 47 4 Chalkley, from Gnosall, and details can be Norfolk ...... 7 1 0 6 '20 '50 2 beginning of the sport's involvement in the Concentration of Resources s'cheme bein.g obtained from the West Midlands Sports DIVISION 4 promoted by the S'ports Council in all Council in Birmingham or from the E:l TA's Essex III ...... 5 5 0 0 44 6 10 regions of the country. Under the g·cheme, office at 21 Claremont, Hastings, East Norfolk II :5 3 0 2 24 26 6 t,hle ,Sports ICouncil encourages all thas,e in­ Sussex, TN34 1HA. Hampshire II ...... 5 3 0 2 23 2'7 6 volved with sport and recreation to focus on Further information from: Cumbria II 5 2 1 2 26 24 5 specific sports for four years. And, begin­ R. E. Oldfield (04'24) 43'3121 (b) Leicestershire II 5 0 2 3 19 31 2 ning this year, it's the turn of table tennis (0273) 834774 (h) Cambridgeshire 5 '0 1 4 14 36 1 - along with 'bowls, netball and lawn A. E. Ransome (0642) 3'22223 (h) Shropshire record delet,ed. tennis. (0642) 223333 (b) The English Table Tennis Association are J. Chalkley (0785) 822013 (h) VETERANS fully behind the West Midlands seminar West Midlands Sports Council PREMIER and, said the Association's Development (021454) 3808/9 P W L F A P Officer, Robert Oldfield, "We are confident The Seminar has been arranged for Cheshire 6 6 0 44 10 12 that the seminar will be a succ'ess. The persons responslble for or involved in the Middlesex ...... 6 4 '2 37 17 8 West Midlands Sports 'Council has already promot.ion, organisation, adn1inistration or Lincolnshire ...... 6 3 3 28 26 6 given great support to the organisation and development of table t,ennis in clubs, Essex ...... 6 3 3 '27 27 6 now it's up to all those involved with table schools, leagues or any sporting or youth Dorset ...... 6 3 3 2'1 33 6 tennis to make th·e most of the Sports association interested in the game. " Huntingdonshire 6 1 5 17 37 2 Coun'cil's initiative. We have a national It is important that applications for a Worcestershire 6 1 5 15 39 2 policy which encourages OUrl clubs and place at the 'Seminar are with The Sports leagues to improve th'eir premises, establis,h Council by Monday, 7 June, 1982, at the DIVISION 2A table tennis in local schools and run courses Nottin.gh'amshire ·6 5 1 40 14 10 for p,eople with free leisure time, and we latest, and that lunches are paid for in Hertfordshire 6 5 1 '37 17 10 are holding the s:eminar to help our mem­ advance. Oxfords'hire ...... 6 3 3 2·5 29 6 bers at the grass-roots to develop their Date: ,Saturday, 12 June, 198'2. Cheshire II 6 3 3 24 30 6 ideas for promoting the sport". Time: 9.00 a.m. Registration. Buckin.ghamshire 6 3 3 22 32 6 One of the speakers at th'e seminar is to Venue: Cheslyn Hay Sports Centre. Fare­ Avon 6 2 4 28 26 4 be the E'nglish Table Tennis Association's don Road, Cheslyn Hay, Nr. Wals.all, West Northamptonshire 6 0 6 13 41 0 Vice-C'hairman for Development, Alan Ran­ Midlands. DIVISION2B some. An ex England int,ernational, from Parking: Please follow signs to REAR CAR K,ent 7 6 1 48 15 12. ..MiddlesJ;H~ough, Ra.nsom·e is well known for PARK. Suss,ex II 7 6 1 ~5 18 12 his involvement with the Sealink Ormesb.Y Middlesex II ...... 7 4 3 37 2;6 8 club, which finls~d as runner-up in the Cost: Conferenee - No charge. Berkshire ...... 7 4 3 34 29 8 National League ""his year. He will -be Coffee available for purchase - 20p per Hampshire ...... 7 4 3 :33 30 8 addressing the seminar on his specialist cup. 8nack lunch - £1.00, which must be Essex II ...... 7 3 4 38, 25 6 subject - 'rheClub and the Community ­ booked and paid for in advance. Dorset II 7 1 6 12 51 2 and said, "We believe every town should Application: To arrive no later than Wiltshire 7 0 7 5 58 0 have a large table tennis club with its own Monday, 7 June, 1982, at The Sports premises - open all day and ex.ery day for 'Council, Met,ropolitan House, 1 Hagley DIVISION 3A the playing of table tennis. III big cities, Road, Birmingham B16 8TT. (Tel. 021­ L,etcestershire 4 4 0 28 8 8 like Birmingham, t,here should ~e1three or 4543808). Bedfordshir,e 4 2 2 18 18 4 four clubs of this size and we a e looking If acknowledgement is required, please H,ertfords.hire II ...... 4 2 2 14 22 4 for enthusiasts in the W·est Midla s region enclose stamp or SAE. Clwyd ...... 4 1 3 .15 21 2 (37-48) CUmbria 4 1 3 15 21 2 (35-47) DIVISION 3B Hampshir'e II ...... 6 5 1 34 20 .10 Irish Table Tennis Association Su·ss·e·x II ...... 64.4 2 32 2'2 8 Hertfords:hire III ...... 6 4' 2 30 24 8 (r69-57) invites applications for the post of Kent II ...... 6 4 2 30 24 8 (6'8-63) Berkshire II ...... 6 2 4 30 24 4 Somers;et II ...... 6 2 4 21 33 4 Wiltshire II ...... 6 0 6 12 41 0 National Coach FOREIGN'EXCHANGE This,will be a full time appointment Th,e E:.T.T.A. office have received sever,al commencing season 1982/83 requests from parents 'in France and Belgium asking us to arrange for their table tennis playing son/daughter to stay Under certain circumstances the Association might with an English family for the purposes of learning E:nglish. con.~ider an appointment on a part-time basis. Naturally, t'he enquiries include a wis:h for the young person to play table tennis during their time in England. For Application Forms apply to Two or three. weeks in June or July are t.he most popular times and often th:e request contains an offer of a reverse ex­ N. L. Sloan, Esq., change in August. Two such requests from Han. Sec., I.T.T.A. boys in Belgium are on our files at the moment. . 4 Fairhill Gardens, Anyone who is interested in hosting one of these boys or wishes to have details of Belfast BT15 4FZ. any future requests should contact Albert Shipley at the E.T.T.A. offi,ce, who will be very pleased to hear from you.

Pa~e 31 ESSEX SElECT THIRD SUCCESSIVE DOUBLE by RON FOSKE'R Cool, qui,et and efficient Carl Prean annexed th,e junior and cadet double for the third suC'ce8sive year at the Unigate Ess,ex Junior '8elect' held at Harlow on April 17/18. H,e has now won all t'h,e Selects he has entered at both levels this season. He also pick'ed up the boys' doubles with Billy Gleav,e but surprisingly he and Martin Firth were unable to add the c3Jdet doubles which they lost in th,e final to Andrew Syed and Jimmy Stokes. Pr,ean's destruction of Nicky Hoare in the final of the boys' singles was clinical and for Hoare totally ernbarrassing. He was completely at sea against Prean's rUbbers and manag,ed only five in the first gam'e. He went into a 3-1 lead in the second but th,en Prean took over and allowed him just five more points. Yet in the earlier rounds Hoare had looked impressiv,e. He ,di!smissled Steve S'harpe - conqueror of Gleaye in a hard and tensely fought quarter-final - in Helen Bardwell teceives heT "trophy" from Un.igate Essex aJ"Iea sales manager commanding fashion 11, 14 in the semis, Roy Meade. and overcame No.2 seed Adrian Moore even more convincingly 8, 11 in the quarters. Prean, on the other h,and, had had a hard time ov,ercoming Philip Gunn in the quarters. He was trailing in the third against Gunn's dogged derfen,ce but came through eventually at 18. The first 'half of Prean's thi~d doubles was comp.1eted with considerably more difficulty than the second. Briefly unseeded Andrew ,Cunningham - conqueror of No.2 seed Firth, No.3 Syed and No.6 Stuart Craggs ­ looked capable of a major upset as he made steady progress in th,e final of the 'cadet boys' singles. But one of Prean's great strengths is his staying power and he pulled his way back to win at 18 and then took th,e second at 13. Mark Ellett and Gary Lambert knocked out the No.2 seeds Hoare and Alan Cooke and the No. 4 pairing David Dodd and lain Fullerton befor,e succumbing in the final to Prean and Gleave. By far the most interesting event ­ certainly in its closing sta,ges - was the girls' singles. The final was cLoser and more exciting and both the top s,eeds fell in the s-emis. No. 1 Lisa Bellinger, struggling a little for confidence at the moment, fell for the s!econd tournam,ent running to sister Jackie and H,elen Bardw'ell dis!missed J'ean Parker to stag,e a rep,eat of the last 'Select' final at Multi-winner Carl Prean and Roy Meade. Cotsrwold. And the in-form Miss Bardwell made surle th,e result was a repeat too as seeds Jill Powis and Cheryl Clarke.. Earlier J. Ryalls (Y)/T. Lig'htfoot (Ch) bt she won 17, 21, coming back determinedly they put out the No. 2 seeds C1are Mouzon C. Peacock (La)/R. Russe (Av) 10, -18,18. from 13-18 in the s-econd. and Diane Malpass 13, 9. Final: There was no repeat of the Cotswold ", RESUL,TS· . BELLINGER/BELLINGER bt Ryalls/ the girls' doubles. Then Trac,ey Li.ghtfoC'~, Boys' Singles Semi-finals: Lightfoot 16, 18. and Josett,e Ryalls, playing together for the C. Prean (lOW) bt A. Cooke (Dy) 18, 17; Cadet Boys' Sin:gL~s Semi-finals: first time, slcared a shock win. N. Hoare (By) bt S. Sharpe (Y) 11, 14. Prean bt J. Stokes (Bk) 10, 13; Final: . , · A. Cunnin,gham (K) bt A. Syed (Bk) 19, 16. This time they got to th,e final again but Final: looked rather more emph·atically beaten by P'RE:AN bt Hoare 5, 8. Girls' Singles Semi-finals: PREAN bt Cunningham 18, 13. th,e Bellinger s.isters than the scores 16, 18 Cadet Girls' Sin,gles Semi-finals: suggest. .. J. Belling'er (Bd) bt L. Bellinger (Bd) 19, 18; H. Bardwell (He) bt J. Parker (La) 18, 15. J. ,Powis (St) bt L. Popkiewicz (By) 19, 19 Th,e cadet girls' final wa,g a simple loop Final: J. Shaw (Y) bt A. Boxall (He) 9,17. and chop affair. Joanne Shaw looped and BARDWEL,L bt Bellinger 17, 21. Final: Jill Powls chopped. In th,e first she chopped Boys' Doubles Semi-finals: SHAW bt Powis 19, 6. very efficiently and pulled back a long lead Prean/B. Gleave (Ch) bt N. Tyler (Mi)/ Cadet Boys' Doubles Final: to 18-18. But Miss Shaw h'eld on at the end A.' Dodd (K) 21, -10, 10; ·A. SYED/ST'Q'KE:S bt Prean/M. Firth (Y) and in the second got more on her loop, M. Enett/G. Lambert (Dv) bt Cooke/Hoare 21, 14. varied the pace and direction bett,er and 18, 13. Cadet Girls' Doubles Final: allowed her opponent only six points. Final: J. HQUGHTO'N/K. WILDE (E) bt Powis/ Outsiders Karen Wilde, and J. Houghton PREAN/GLEAVE bt Ellett/Lambert 15, 12. C. 'Clarke (Ch) 16, 20. - ,so much of an autsid,er I don't even know - Girls' Doubles Semi-finals: her first name - triumphed in the cadet Bellinger/Bellinger bt S. Collier (Bk) / Photographic coverage by girls' doubles with a final win over No. 4 L. Goldsmith (Mi) 6, 12; Rod Patient, Harlow. Page 32 minimising or partially avoiding the Table tennis has particular advantages. It damage done by some of thes'e youths. is fairly cheap in terms of facilities and Of concern to us all BENEFITS equipment, and virtually everyone c,an play it to some degree. It is also a close, intimate, by KEN MUHR In my earlier letter I mentioned some of the benefits of participating in sport, such friendly game (off the ta,ble at least!) and as ,enjoyment, greater physical and mental therefore could be in a good pos'ition to be I am pleased that Jackie Redfern (TT support'ive to anyone that needs a helping News, March) has supported my views on well-being, and a sense of achievement. hand. youth unemployment and table t,ennis, and And as Ja,ckie Redfern says "It enables an several other people have discussed the individual to develop qualities and skills So what effort is sport making to help subject wit,h me. I will come back to this which are a n,ecessary prerequis'ite for living the young unemployed? Some of the point later. Table tennis is my big sporting and coping with life generally" inclUding Regional Sports Councils are running interes,t and I trust I will be allowed to use how to get on with people from a very wide special projects such as at Hockley Point this magazine as, a vehicle to make readers cross section. Sporting activities may also in the Midlands and at Leicester. And a further sensitive and aware of the plight of give a purpose around which jobless young­ m~,jor 3-year initiative, called 'Action Sport', jobless youngsters for it is something whlch st,ers can organise or structure their lives. co-ordinated by the Sports Council in the should concern us all. Since writing my original letter, printed in the February issue, my sense of outrag,e has grown. Brought up in our selfish, competitive, materialistic society, young people fully expect to get well paid jobs that will enable th'em to purchase electronic gadgetry, latest fashions and good life that t,h,ey see so extensively advertised. They are taught little of life-coping skills and finer human values so that when the reality of un­ employment hits them they are left bewildered, sullen and dejected, and in­ sensit,ive and uncaring to th'e needs of others. Far from spending their 'leisure' hours usefully, their response, though usually one of idle w'aste, can be positively harmful both to th'emselves and the com­ munity. The Governm·ent and the DHSS, may ignore the evidence, but research indi'cates that enforced unemployment results in, in­ creased physical and mental ill health. Having no work iSi a factor that can ulti­ mately lead to suicide and there is a rise in self infllcted deaths, amongst young p,eople. Jobless adolescents may find escapism from their misery in drug abuse (mainly, but not only, in alcohol, solvents and ampheta­ mines) with all the attendant risks. Or broke and frustrated, th'ey may turn to petty crime, violence and delinquency. They may reject authority figures such as parents and the police, who they see as being unnecessarily oppressive. Their smouldering anger against a societ,y that disowns them, once involved and chan­ n'elled, can have terrible consequences indeed. Remember the riots? DISAFFECTED Play Butterfly Some of these disaffected teenagers, may form prejudic,ed and intolerant opinions Tees Sport offer the biggest about different racial/cultural groups ("the blacks are to blame") and join extremist stocks and best service of political partIes - for excitement if noth­ ing else. And they may become excessively Butterfly equipment patriotic and jingoistic ("We'll sort out the dagoes"). O'r, with nothing else to look forward to, they may try to find comfort and peer group respect in increased sexual activity, not in itself such a 'bad thing but which, com'bined with ignorance and irres­ ponsibility, can have very unfortunate results. For example, sexual potency may be the final status symbol for dead-end males while adolescent girls may seek fulfillment and something to love (and a flat?) in having a baby - the disillus:ionm,ent comes later. But most common reaction of youngsters to finding no work is helpless, hopeless resignation and a cynical attitude to life. If they can rous.e themselves from their apathy then their behaviour is often hedonistic (live now, pay later) and who can blame thelIp.? After all, their elders may blow up/dest,roy the world 'before they in­ herit it so why not ,enjoy life now? Adolescence is a difficult 'enough period anyway, when young adults are forming their ch,aracteristics and trying to find 'The full range of Butterfly equipment available from: themselves, and I fear that the repercus­ sions of the present youth unemployment te&Q~-,r Zetland Place, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS1 1HJ situation will affect our society for years -rCCccCCccte ;a)lr~lI\\ and generations to come. But sport could (S(S;a) Tel.: (0842) 21784415 or 249000 play a very important part, however, in

' Page 33 West Midlands and London, aims to intro­ mixed with Mary Symes, his former became t,he European Women's singles duce sport to people in the community who Willesden L,ea,gue teammate. champion, S'he partnered Hammersley to are not normally involved, inclUding the In the women's events, the real surprise her second title. In 1979 she was contro­ unemployed. (In fact the 90 sports leaders was Susan Kilford from Reading, who versially omitted from the World Cham­ will themselves be mainly recruited from reached two finals and though not winning, pionships squad for Pyongyang but her the unemployed). Some leisure centres have she showed what an accomplished player doubles ability w'as greatly missed as the made their facilities available at reduced she is. The singles final brought th'e best England Women's team slipped from 7th rates or for free to jobless people, and a out of former international Barbara to 12th plaee. She, was immediately recalled few professional football clubs are giving Andrews (formerly Millbank) who won the into the international squad and, at the special training sessions. event for the first time. following European C,hampionships in Berne, sh·e reached the semi-finals of the And what is table tennis doing? I under­ T"he big surprise in the men's singles w'as stand from Bob Oldfield, that the M.S.C. Women's doubles with Hammersley and the the victory of Dave Finlayson (E:ssex) over final of the Mixed doubles with Douglas. funded Community E:nterprise programme Schofield, who was the top seed. Perhaps has employed two coaches, one in Salford Dave won out in the end be,cause he us,es Llnda began playing at her home near and the other in Middlesibrough, to work the hard rubber b'at, normally, but it was a Guildford, at the age of 11 - the younger specifically with the unemployed, and match to watch. Percy 'Collins, playing with s'ister of Susan Howard, who was also to another similar coach is employed by the the hard ba.t rather than his usual awk­ become an England table tennis. inter­ local authority in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Our ward surfaces, got the better of Finlayson national. In 1979 slhe married th.e England national coaches are running sports centre but could not do much against the steady player, Nicky Jarvis, and moved to Middles­ leaders courses and part of their brief is play of Landry. brough from her home in Surrey. This to encourage these leaders to run pro­ season, representing Sealink Ormesby, she motions for people such as, the jobless who Many thanks to Bernard Chat,terly for became one of the first women to play in don't normally play t,able tennis. running the tournament so well. He has the National League. She is currently No. been made an Honorary Member of the 41 in the World and No. 4 in the Lentec INITIATIVES InternatIonal Clu1b. Also the B,arnet Centre England ranking list. The ETTA National Council apparently proved, once again, to be an ideal venue. PLAYING RECORD agrees in principle that something should RES,ULTS ENGLISH JUNIOR CLOSED be done for the unemployed but in practice Men's Sin,gles Quarter-finals: it doesn't go much further than that. No 19 169/70 doubt there are local initiatives up and P. Collins (Sy) bt D. F'inlayson (E) Girls'Doubles (+Susan Howard) down the country but clearly more could be -13, 19, 18; 1970/71 done, despite the practical difficulties,. For L. Landry (K) bt I. Kenyon (K) 18, 16; Girls'Doubles (+Janet He11aby) example, the Sports Council has designated J. Payne (,Mi) bt R. Jermyn (He) 14, 20; Girls' Singles table tennis as one of four priority sports J. Souter (Mi) bt S. Gibbs (E) -20, 9, 16. Semi-finals: 1971/72 receiving additional aid this year and some Landry bt C:allins 11, 9; Girls' Doubles (+Janet Hellaby) of these resources could be used for Souter bt Payne 9, t1. Mixed Doubles (+Ian Horsham) developing the game with the unemployed Final: 1972/73 - Leo Black (Middlesex), for one, is think­ SOUTE:R bt Landry 17, 16. Girls' Singles ing positively on these lines. Consolation Final: ENGLISH JUNIOR OPEN I would like to see the E"TTA release to D. Somers (Mi) bt C. L.an,g (Sy) 15, 14. 1971/7'2 th,e press, and to county associations and Women's, Singles Semi-finals:: Mixed Doubles (+Ian Horsham) local league secretaries, a declaration of S. Kilford (Bk) bt S. Prowen (Mi) 197'2/73 concern about the problem and an inten­ 19, -19, 2,3; Girls' Doubles (+Anita Stevenson) tion to act in order to lessen some of the B. Andrews (He) bt M. Symes (Mi) 13, 10. 16th EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS consequen:ces. ,County and leagues could be Final: (Piraeus, Greece) issued with guidelines on what they and ANDREWS bt Kilford 19, 16. their clubs can do in encouraging j oibless Consolation Final: 1973 youngsters to join and use their facilities, P. Challis (E) bt G. Larkings' (E) 19, 18. l\dl.xed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) and in setting up special practice/coaching/ Men's Doubles Semi-finals: NORWICH UNION ENGLISH CLOSED competition sessions. Getting the subject on Landry/D. Schofield (Ch) bt J. Bender/ CHAMPIONSHIPS their meeting agendas will at least make A. Lamprell (He) 16, 17; 1972/7'3 them think about it. Sports and leisure Gbbs/F. Lockwood (E) bt M. O'Leary (Mi)/ Women's Doubles (+ Karenza Matthews) centres could also be approached with a Payne 13, -20, 20. Mixed Doubles (+Alan Hydes) view to laying on facilities. Final: 1973/74 All this will not be easy, particularly as GIBBS/LOC:KWOOD bt Landry/Schofield Women's Doubles (+ Karenza Matthews) unemployed teenagers tend to give up their -16, 12, 14. 1975/76 sporting involvement rather than partici­ Women's Doubles Semi-finals: Women's Doubles (+Ji11 Hammersley) pating more. Perhaps the most important Prowen/Symes bt M. MeLean (Sy)/J. Webb Mixed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) thing we can do is show we care and are CMi) 9,6; 19'76/77 trying to do something a1bout it. S. Hickman (E) /Kilford bt Andrews/Challis Women's Doubles (+Jill Hammersley) 16, -14, 19. 1977/78 With increasing mechanisation and com­ Final: Women's Doubles (+Jill Hammersley) puterisation, even an economic upturn and PROWEN/SYMES bt Hickman/KUford 1978/79 reversal of monetarism will nev'er entirely 17, 14. Women's Doubles (+Jill Hammersley) eradicate unemployment. Our attitudes to Mixed Doubles Semi-fil1lals: Mixed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) work must change so that youngsters are Landry/Symes bt Lockwood/Challis 19HO/81 taught how to use their free time, and can 16, -10, 12; Women's Doubles (+Jill Hammersley) feel that, they are valued and useful mem­ Schofield/Andrews bt M. Waldman (Mi) / Mixed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) bers of society even if they are not Prowen 18, -19, 14. 1981/82 'employed' as in the present sense of the Final: Mixed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) word. There is so much they can do of LANDRY/SYMES bt Schofield/Andrews 10th EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS benefit to themselves and others. We en­ 20, 14. (Prague, Czechoslovakia) lightened people should help lead the way! 1976 Women's Doubles (+Jill Hammersey) LINDA JARVIS RETIRES NORWICH UNION ENGLISH OPEN 11th HARD BAT OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Linda Jarvis (nee Howard) has an­ 1976/77 SOUTER SHINES nounced her retirement from, international Women's Doubles (+Jill Hammersey) table tennis at the. age of 2,6 - after 1977/78 The annual turning back of the clock at representing England for over 13 years. Mixed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) the Barnet, TT Centre gave a number of During that time she won 2,3 national titles, 1978/79 excellent matches on Sunday, May 2 Young nearly all of them in Women's or Mixed Mixed Doubles (+Desmond Douglas) Middlesex int..ernational John Souter gave a doubles. In 1973, s,he first gained succes,s at marvellous exhibition of hitting as he European level when, with Desmond struggled in early rounds but beat former Douglas, they became European Youth winner Stuart Gibbs. in the quarters; really Mixed Doubles champions. The partnership swamped John Payne, his county colleague; matured into one of the most consistent Cover Picture and finally was a little too fast against in Europe - particularly in the European Mikael Appelgren, winner of the men's another former winner Laurie Landry. League where, in recent seasons, the Mixed singles title in the 13th European Cham­ Landry showed that he has not lost the doubles has often provided a vital set for pionships in Budapest, and the fourth knack as he reached three finals and England. Swede to take the title succeeding Hans though losing the men's doubles final, with Linda was also a specialist in Women's Alser (1962 and 1970), Kjell Johanssen (1964 Derek ,Schofield, he was suecessful in the doubles and, in 1976, whe,n Jill Hammersley and 19,66) and Stellan Bengtsson (1972).

Page 34 Stiga English Schools Individual Championships by 'DAVID LOMAS A tot,al of over 300 players - each of them county champions - were involved in the ninth annual Stiga English Schools Individual Championships which were staged at Mansfield·- Leisure Centre on Saturday, May:lst. Lisa Bellinger (B,edf:prdshire) registered her fifth successive title when she won the Under-16 Girls' event to add to successes in the other three categories.. Sister, Jackie, went out to winner Carol Butler in the Girls' Under-19 event but there was a unique boys "double" when Matthew Syed retained his Boys' U-ll title and brother Andrew won t,he Boys' Under-13 event. It was quite a day for the younger players because Claire Potts (Cheshire) re­ tained her Under-II Girls' title. It is the first time that any player has won an Under-II event twice. Mr. Bill Turner (Manlager, Mansfield Leisure Centre), congratulates Andrew Syed There were "firsts" also for Staffordshire, (Berkshire), on his Boys' U-13 victory. Greater Manchester and Surrey Metro­ polit.an entrants. Jill Powis (Staffs) won the Girls' U-13 event quite comfortably whilst Carl Prean's withdrawal from the Boys' Under-16 event left the, way open for Billy Gleave to become Greater Man­ chester's first national champion. Mark Oakley (Surrey County) went out to Mark Ellett (Devon) in t,he quarter-finals, of the Boys,' Under-19 category and Ellett also defeated lain Fullerton (Berkshire) in the semi-final before losing to Nicky Hoare (Surrey Metropolitan) in the final. Another upset came in the Girls' U-19 event when England cadet Lesley Pop­ kiewicz ousted No. 3 seed Lesley Broomhead (South Yorkshire) in the first round. Broomhead went on to win the consolation event whilst Popkiewicz went down to winner Carol Butler (Devon) in the quarters. Besides the incentive of winning national championships there was also the possibility of players catching the selectors' eyes for places in the E,nglish Schools teams involved in the Stiga Schools Inter­ national Championships which are sched­ uled for July 2/3/4 at Gloucester Leisure Centre. Although there were the usual problems of some players not arriving on time for their matches things went very much as planned. Seventeen Stiga VM expert tables County Councillor Whitelaw (Vice-Chairman, Nottinghamshire County Council), were in almost constant use. congratulates Jill Powis (Staffordshire), on her Girls' U-13 success. ESTTA officials were well pleased with the Championships' second visit to Mans­ Nicky Hoare (Surrey Met.) bt David Dodd Carol Butler (D'evon) bt Jackie Bellinger field. (Inner London) 10, -20, 17. (Beds) 18, 10. Final: Final: RESULTS HOARE bt Ellett 17, 16. BUTLER bt Peacock 13, 10. Boys' U-19 Semi-finals: Girls' U-19 Semi-finals: Boys' U-16 Semi-finals: Mark Ellett (Devon) bt lain Fullerton Christine Peacock (iLancs) bt Susan David Rook (West Yorkshire) bt Nigel (Berks) 17, 13; Blackburn (B,erks)'"'-l~, 11, 13; Tyler (Middlesex) 14, 12;

® RUBBERS FOR EVERY STYLE OF PLAY

Page 35 Nj.\--fIONj.\l lEj.\GUE by ROBERT OLDFIELD

ELLENBOROUGH'S MARCH At their third attempt, E1lenborough have won the National L,eague. W'ith a 7-1 victory against Unity, at Bradford, on 2nd May, and despite the absen,ce of their No. 1 player, Graham Sandley, the Enfield club brought the season to a close and made sure of the Alan Ransome ,Cup and the accompanying £1000 cheque. T'he win over Unity may have confirmed their supremacy but, reviewing the season, four days in March laid the path for the ultimate prize. March began, and ended, with Hassy Soham. In the first, of four successive Sundays, a rearranged fixture with the Cambridgeshire club brought a vital point from the home matc'h on 7th March. Two from Sandley, and one each from Mark Mitchell, were enough to rea,ch the s:afety All smiles from I to r: Helen Bardwell (s.f.), Lrisa Bellinger (1st), Susa,n; Collie'r of four sets and concentrate their minds , (2nd), Tracy Lightfoot (s.f.), with Nicky Jarvis. upon revenge for their only defeat, last October. Billy Gleave (Gtr. Manchester) bt Andrew And, like Bath, Liverpool and Stirling be'fore Perched on the top of the table, Sealink Sexton (Surrey Met,.) 14, 13. them the University are hoping to support looked a reasonable bet for the C,hampion­ ."inal: the chos,en students with an offer of cash s,hip but were torpedoed by the tactical GLEAVE bt Rook -16, 13, 9. and extra time away from studies to con­ move of the season, by Ellenborough's Girls' U-16 Semi-finials: . eentrate on preparing for the top events. selection committee ... In cam'e Dave Tan Lisa Bellinger (Beds) bt Helen Bardwell Newcastle have issued an appeal to com­ in place of the in-form Mitchell. "We (Herts) -19, 15, 19; merce for the financial backing of their wanted to play D'av,e at No. 3 so that h,e Susan Collier (Berkshire) bt Tracy project. could have a crack at Donald Parker", said Lightfoot (Ch,eshire) 8, -18, 10. The sports scholarship scheme - inspired the mastermind behind the, idea, E,llen­ Fin'al: by the American system y,et dtJ»rent borough's Lloyd LeWis, "And moving John BELLINGER bt Collier -15, 12, 17. because academic standards are maintained up gave him the right to play S,teve Mills Boys' U-13 Semi-finals: - began in 1976 when the Director of and Douggie Johnson because we knew that Andrew Syed (Berkshire) bt Simon Brown Physical Recreation at Bath University ­ Mark had no chance against Douggie". And (Gtr. Manchester) 5,5; former Britis'h Pentathlete, Tom Hudson ­ Adrian Dixon (W. Midlands) bt Paul Fisher it all went Ellenborough's way, even when secured a sponsor from industry for his Sealink opted to bring in".their second ~cot" (Shropshire) 15, 13. brain child. Office Cleaning Services (O:CS) Richard Yule ... Sandley beat SealInk's Fin:al: put up the money in the first year - won most successful player of the season, SYED bt Dixon 15, 17. by a canoeist - but Littlewoods (Pools) Parker; Johnson ('countered' wi.th a three­ Girls' U -13 Semi-finals: followed and, with OICS, scholarsh~ps for a game win over Kitchener, but, four sets Jill Powis (Staffs) bt Debbie Soothill golfer, archer, two judo fightersl and a men's later, Sealink were facing a 5-1 deficit, on (Cumbria) 12, 8; pentathlete have been awarded. "So far a their way to a crushing 7-1 defeat - the Lisa Hayden (Essex County) bt Rachel suitable table t,ennis player has not biggest in the club's history. Knight (Middlesex) -16, 14, 8. applied", said Bath University Registrar, Final: George O'Brien, "But there's no reason why Ellenborough were flying high. Omega POWI,S bt Hayden 14, 12. table tennis S'hould be excluded from the were next, for a 7-1 thrashing while, at the Boys' u-tt Semi-finals: scholarship scheme". ot,her end of the table and country, Mayfair Matthew Syed (Berks) bt Damian Holland Wallcoverings were gaining a 5-3 win over (Ess,ex County) 13, 5; Details of the two DCS Sports slcholar­ Bristol & West Investments in a vital rele­ Richardj Jones (Surrey Met.) bt Richard ships for 1982 can be obtained from Mr. C. gation battle. And the only hurdle likely to Francis (Derbys) 19, 19. L. S. Henderson, Secretary of the Sports provide an obstacle was, Hassy Soham, the Final: Committee, Room 4 West 3.16, Universit,y of following week. Back came Mitchell. Out SYED bt Jones 13, 17. Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY. went Colin Wilson. And in s,tayed Tan ... Girls' U-lt Semi-finals: Telephone Bath 61244 ext. 1527. But don't At 2-all, Paul Day faced Sandley. England's Claire Potts (Cheshire) bt Jane Wright forget your A-levels! rising star won the firslt '26-24 but, with (Devon) 9, -13, 116: "scores not reflecting the quality" of the Kerry Hall (Derbys) bt Tracy Scott-Pawson contest revenge was struck ... by 2,1-10, (Dorset) 9, 15. ENGLAND HOST EUROPE TOP 12 21-13! ~'It was a magnificent game", said Soham's team manager, Eric Day, "Un­ Final: Cl,eveland County Council is to stage ~he POTTS bt Hall 9, -13, 16. Europe Top 12 on behalf of the EnglIsh believable table tennis. And we thought Consolation Winners: Table Tennis Association in 1983. The we'd clinched it, as, the week before B19 Andrew Henry (Derbyshire) CouncIl is to provide the venue for t,he (against Unity), John Sout,er was King. If G19 Lesley Broomhead (South Yorkshire) year's top Europ,ean event, Thomaby John played like that all the time, nobody B16 Ivan Smith (Shropshire) Pavilion, as w'ell as vital support for the would live with him". However, on this G16 Nikki Hamilton (Buckinghamshire) local organisers, Cleveland County Table occasion, he didn't, and Tan inflicted B:l3 Jonathan Bult (Humberside) Tennis AssociatIon. ,­ Souter's second defeat of the match to G13 Melonie Carey (Somerset) snatch a point, after Ellenborough had B11 Andrew Eden (Lancashire) The 198:3 Europe Top 12 will be the tirslt trailed by 4-2. Thus, the National League time the even,t has been held in England was won . . . and lost. GIl Paula Hookem (Humberside) since it began in 1971. Europe's top twelve Photog.raphic coverage men and top twelve women will be involved BRISTOL & WEST RELEGATED by J'ohn O'Sullivan. in a round-robin toumam,ent to deltermine What then, of the bottom of the talble? their European rankings and exciting One "h'ell of a struggle" was taking place mat1ches are gua~anteed at all stages of the between the teams in danger of the drop ­ WANTED: TOP TABLE TENNIS three-day competit.ion. Larkhall, Bristol & West Investments and Engl'and is confident of at least two Mayfair Wallcoverings. Two matches to go PLAYERS WITH BRAINS players participating - Desmond Douglas, it looked like Larkha:ll, but, with a 6-2 Newcas'tle UniversIty could be joining t,he the current European No. 3 and the win over Bristol & West, and a 5-3 win hunt for top sportsmen and women who Lambert and Butler C'hampion, and Jill against a weakened Omega team on ApI. want to obtain a university degree but also Hammersley, European No. 3 and t:he 4th. they slipped the relegation noos,e..T~en have the pot,ential to be international stars. former holder of the Europ,e Top 12 title. it was Mayfair's turn to become HoudInI ­

Page 36 and again it was Omega that failed to Dagen,ham F.C. Yet, at the end of the with the club's first season in the National open the Second division trap-door when, in season, they were top of 3rd Divis[on South, League. "The National Leagu,e' has captured a re-arranged match on 2nd May, the in­ having taken advantag,e of the surprising the imagination of the area", said South evitable Chu van Que lead his team to an win by Pengeley Sports Torbay over the Yorkshire's Manager, "land the club is invaluable 5-3 win. Dagenham Motors support.ed club, early in developing from a Yery sound base. Hope­ So Bristol go down and, ironically, apart the second half. Dag,enham might have fully we will be running two teams next from the fact that they needed a fourth recovered on '21st March at Cranfield year and we have set up a ~eed·er squad player after the differences of opinion with Colours Gwent but, in the end, lost 6-2. "To of cadets for the club". Promise for the Max 'Crimmins" it was, possibly a dis­ be fair to Dagenham" S'aid the Gwe,nt boss, future and a standard for other clubs to appointing performance by their leading Step,hen Gibbs, "I think they found the follow. player, Dave 'Constance, which cost them journey rather exhausting - like we did to th,eir place. We were 3-0 up before they won NEXT YEAR? their Premier division life. In the first Expansion, Consolidat.ion, Sponsorship, or mat,ch of the season, at Omega, Constance a set!" The result virtually sealed SIB Bath's victory - only matches against Pengeley a Women's League? All four were items for lost both his sets in the 4-4 draw. O'n the discussion at the last National L,eagu,e Com­ other hand, he also gave Bristol their only Sports and Prudential Ibis, remaining, which they won with ease, leaving their two most mittee. But one thing seems. certain - that chances, which they failed to take. Both is a drive to enforce the National League against Omega in the return, and then successful players, Paul Jackson and Andrew Golding, with 730/0 and 813%. standards and to ,encourage the member­ Larkhall. Bot,h in March. ship of clubs whlch provide a full pro­ DUNLOP BEATS BUTTERFLY TO STAY Th,e season had its compensiations for gramme of table t,ennis. activit.ies, linked D~agenham, however. In Kevin Caldon and TOP Steve Dettmar they had two of the divi­ with their National League team. O,ne club After losing to Generation in the first sion's moS't consistent players, and, said Secretary told me recently, "I know that match of the season, Dunlop Birmingh:am's manager Peter Cranmer "We've enjoyed the w,e're just a team at the moment, not a chances of missing the promotion play-off social side of the league. There's a bar open club, but we're looking for a way to rested on the final match - Butterfly after every home mach and, for the last establis!h our own club pr,emises". This Cardiff on 4th April. Not surprisingly they m'atch of the season, Gillette Reading stability is, vital to preYent the structure turned out with their strong,est, team, and brought a coach load for a disco in the of the National League becoming frail and started as if they were destined to win 6-2 ,evening". In fact most of the new clUbs in brittle. . " again. But Butterfly fought back to lead 3rd Division South have made a great WHERE THEY FINISHED 3-'2 . . . before th,e defensive trio of Barry impact in the developing of a team and the PREMIER DIVISION Johnson, Barry Hayward and D'erek Munt promotion of tWble tennis, and, for the best PWDLFA'P dug in. Ellenborough 14 11 3 0 79 33 25 pr,ess coverage, congratulations to Cippen­ Sealink Ormesby 14 12 0 2 81 31 24 For Hampshire's clUb, Generation, it is, ham. Thank you, Graham Trimming for Hassy Soham 14 9 3 2 78 34 21 i Unity...... 14 6 2 6 53 59 14 therefore, anot.her season of second division your record-breaking 465' column inches! Omega 14 3 4 7 44 58 10 table tennis but, even in the National HERMITS EMERGE Mayfair Wallcoverings 14 2 3 9 37 75 7 S,econd, their team of ex-internatonals, Larkhall 14 2 2 10 38 74 6 Tony Clayton and S,imon Heaps (surely the Wharfedale Hermits, having won the 3rd Bristol & West Investments 14 2 1 11 38 74 5 Division North comfortably without defeat, 2ND DIVISION SOUTH best No.4 at t,his level?), and the England were in no mood to start losing w'hen they Dunlop Birmingham 14 12 1 1 89 23 25 Junior No.1, C'arl Prean, will do well next played SIB Bat.h in the play-offs en route Generation 14 12 0 2 79 33 24 season. The question is "Will Dolphins be Butterfly Cardiff 14 9 2 3 67 45 20 to the National 2nd Division. At the first Dolphins 14 6 3 5 59 53 ;5 up there with them?" - t,he Brighton club match, on 25th April, wins, by Dave Harveyy Graham Spicer 14 3 4 7 46 66 10 finished fourth in the table after slipping a and Jon Chandler took SIB Bath to 2-all Larkhall II 14 4 2 8 43 69 10 little in the second half, and now have' to but Kevin Beadsley and Martin Stead both Lansdown Medway 14 1 3 10 36 76 5 play Tarmac Wolverhampton to escape the won two sets in th,e 6-2 away win. Bath Gunnersbury Triangle 14 0 3 11 29 83 3 regional Third division. The play-off 2ND DIVISION NORTH made the journey north to Bvadford on MBS St. Neots 14 10 1 3 78 34 21 matches, to be played simultaneously, will 2nd May but only managed to improve the Grove 14 10 1 3 76 36 21 take place on Sunday, 23rd May at Ellen­ score by one set. Sealink Ormesby II 14 7 5 2 69 43 19 borough's neutral venue, and Dolphins are Tarmac Wolverhampton 14 8 0 6 66 46 16 hoping to give a boost, to their new sponsors Also as, exp,ected, South Yorkshire were Salford 14 5 4 5 64 48 14 for next year - TCIB (Twentieth Century the runners,-up in the divisIon. With an March 14 5 3 6 54 58 13 Bank), the current sponsors of the local average attendance of over 100 reported for ~~~~~to~esi·D~~h~~··:::::::::::: :1· g ~ 1~ 3~ 1Z~ 8 basketball team. They were helped by the each match at th,e Brian O'Malley library Salford have been awarded an 8-0 walk-over over South news that Jill Hammersley is on England in Rotherham, Graham Coe was pleas,ed West Durham. captain duty that day and cannot turn out for her third appearance for the Tarmac Wolverhampton club. MBS ... BY TWO SETS In Second Division North, after a disastrous start to the season. MBS St. Neots beat Grove for th,e title ... by just two sets. "We lost our first three mat,ches", recalled a delighted ,Cliff Olv,er of the MBS­ sponsored club. "Then we strengthened th,e team considerably by adding Paul Randall at No.3 ... It made all the difference and, since then, we've only dropped one point". And Randall has, only dropped two sets ­ vital support. for ex-Soham player, Keith R1'chardson. MB8 are to play Dunlop B,irmingham for the Premier Division place but Olver was cautious before the mat'ch. "W,e know th,at they're a very defensive team, which doesn't By cutting out all the expensive middlemen we help our chanc,es at all - particularly wh,en we play away. I shall be very pleased, and offer full E.T.T.A. specification tables: surprised, if we manage to win". The 16mm, 18mm, 2Smm and Dhampionship·X £61.60 matches were due to be played in mid-May. Mean'while, Grove's team all finish'ed the to £189.00 Whee/away options from £71.60 season with high averages, and there are UsedinPremier League Championships and suppliedto rumours of a s,econd t,eam next season, to compete alongside Tony Boas,man, Malcolm Table Tennis Associations, Local Authorities, Official Bodies, Green, Phil Bowen and Mark Hankey. Other Schools, Clubs etc., throughout the country, these consistent players in the division were 8ealink's Linda Jarvis, Lindsay Taylor and guaranteed quality, highspecification range oftables all Kevin Green. South West Durham could feature traditional solid wood constructionand the famous have don,e with one of them and may provide a space for a new team next season SwedishViiala playingtops. if they drop out of the league after one 0, Forfurtherinformation write to: season. SpeD Rouse, Spen Lane, Leecls GOOD INVESTMENT BY SIB )iI-'" LS16 5EL. Tel. (0532) 785669 Last October, Bath, sponsored by S,elect.ive Investm,ent Brokers, lost 7-1 at home to

Page 37 3RD DIVISION SOUTH Service T'T Championships were extended to PWDLFAP in,clude youngst,ers .from Sutton's five twin SIB Bath 14 11 2 1 77 35 24 THIS" THAT IN SURREY Uagenham F.C. 14 11 1 2 76 36 23 towns, who were invited to Sutton by Cranfield Colours Gwent 14 11 1 2 75 37 23 ROSEHILL TT CLUB, who also arranged a Gillette Reading 14 5 1 8 49 63 11 Prudel·tial Ibis 14 4 2 8 48 64 10 team tournament and sponsored the Pengeley Sports Torbay 14 4 1 9 44 68 9 Singles, Doubles and Mixed Championships, South Bank 14 2 2 10 40 72 6 which for the first t:ime, were h,eld in the Cippenham 14 2 2 10 39 73 6 main hall at WEST,CROFT SPORTS Prudential Ibis have been awarded an 8-0 walk-over over C'ENTRE. Altogether, about eighty players Pengeley Sports Torbay. took part in the Tournament which was 3RD DIVISION NORTH Wharfedale Hermits 12 10 2 0 72 24 22 organised by DON BEESLEY - th,e South Yorks 12 8 2 2 66 30 18 Borough's Principal Youth and Community Unity -II 12 6 3 3 53 43 15 O'fficer, toget,her with BARRIE KING ­ Tarmac Wolverhampton II 12 4 2 6 49 47 10 Ruston Bucyrus Lincoln 12 4 1 7 37 59 9 Sports Council Secr'etary and BOB LEWIS Billingham J. D. White Group 12 3 1 8 35 61 7 from Rosehill Club. The trophies and Sealink Ormesby III...... 12 1 1 10 24 72 3 medals were presented to the winners and THE LEADING PLAYERS runners-up by JOHN PRINC'E - 'Chairman Premier Division of the London Borough of Sutton Sports P W % Council. P. Day (Hassy Soham) " . 26 22 84 by MURRAY CORBIN G. Sandley (}:Jlenborough) . 24 20 83 FINAL RESULTS D. 'Parker (Sealink Ormesby) . 28 23 82 TWOSOME FOR HOLLABRUN Cadet Boys' Doubles: C. Wilson (Ellenborough) . 22 18 82 R. Hurley/S. L,ewis bt R. Jones/S. Hurley K. Rodger (Sealink 'OlI'lIlesby) . 22 17 77 With this, the last issue o~ the season, I D. Tan (Ellenborough) .. 16 12 75 14, -23, 20. K. Jackson (Hassy Soham) 28 20 71 would like to thank everyone who has con­ Cadet Boys' Singles: D. Wells (Hassy Soham) .. 28 20 71 tributed to these columns, either by sending Graham Vigor bt Stephen Lewis 14, 15. M. Mitchell (Ellenborough) .. 24 16 67 me articles concerning th,eir Leagues., or by B. Johns (Sealink Ormesby) . 22 14 63 Junior Boys' Singles: S. Mills (Sealink Ormesby) . 26 16 61 parting with inform.ation when it was M. Korsgaard of Gladsaxe, Denmark bt 2nd Division South sought by me. Perhaps I could have the F. Lamberts of Apeldoorn, Holland 15, 15. S. Heaps (Generation) . 28 26 92 results of your Closed Ch.ampionships by In the semis, Korsgaard put out Graham B. Johnson (Dunlop Birmingham) 28 26 92 the middle of August, because I want to C. Prean (Generation) . 14 13 92 Bateman and Lamberts stopped Graham B. Hayward (Dunlop Birmingham) 28 22 78 start preparing for th·e OCtober issue at that Vigor: both games going to three. D. Munt (Dunlop Birmingham) . 26 20 76 time. U-21 Boys' Singles: N. Thomas (Butterfly Cardiff) . 26 20 76 G. Evans (Butterfly Cardiff) . 16 12 75 SUCCESSFUL· PIECES Neil Sutton bt Korsgaard -18, 12, 12. A. Clayton (Generation) . 18 13 72 Nice one, Neil! S. Kathuria (Dunlop Birmingham) 28 20 71 If you have been fo'llow'in.g the exploits A. Moore (Dolphins) . 28 19 67 of the County Teams, you would have In the Girls' Events, KAREN WILDE took 2nd Divisiol1l North noticed that th,ey had a splendid season, the major titles. In the Girls' Cadets Maria P. Randall (MBS St. Neots) 20 18 90 maybe with the exception of the Senior Hitchcock was the runner-up, while in the P. Richards (MBS St. Neots) . 20 18 90 T. Bowen (Grove) .. 26 22 84 first, who did not have a settled siide . . . combined U-17 and U-21 Girls' event, it was L. Taylor (~,ealink Ormesby II) . 28 20 71 NICKY HOARE is going great guns at the the turn of Miss Amanda C,hapm.an to be A. Rich (Tarmac Wolverhampton) . 28 19 68 moment. Recently, hie won Tunbridge Wells runn'er-up to Karen, who in the Mixed, M. Hankey (Grove) . 28 19 68 M. Green (Grove) .. 26 17 65 and the "Schools" at Mansfield and now when partnered by Graham Chapman, were P. Taylor (MBS St. Neots) . 26 17 65 learns that he has been, chosen to represent beaten by the more experienced pairing of G. Davies (March) . 16 10 62 En,gland in the European Juniors in July PAUL JAMES/SUSAN TAME. S. Scowcroft (Salford Select) . 24 15 62 A. Bellingham (Tarmac W'ampton) 28 17 61 along with Prean, Moore and Gleave. They In the ROSEHILL TWIN TOWN SINGLEIS A. Boasman (Grove) . 28 17 61 will warm up in June in the French and event, which n,early everyone took part in, L. Jarvis (Sealink Ormesby) . 20 12 60 Czechoslovaki.an Opens. I am particularly J'AICOBSEN and EN'EMARK from Denmark, pleased for Nicky, because for nearly seven who had lost in the Dou'bles to their years I have coached him to play excit­ countrymen - POLiS/HOLM, faced each BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP ingly; by the end of July, he will see why. other. This time J.A!C:OBSEN barely squeezed Fantastic news too for LESLEY PO:P­ ;home with a 16, -18, 20 win. Five Closed Table Tennis Championships KIEWIICZ, who has been s,elected for the in Hampshire, Surrey and Essex have been English C'adet T:eam for the European's. It, sounds as if ,everyone had some fun. So given a welcome boost by Charles Church Before this, Lesley will attend th,e Cadet remember folks, whenever you play, do it - a group of companies specialising in Training Camp in Denmark, and also warm as if it is your last game, because you never housing developments in th,e South of up in the French Open. Great News! Well know when it will be. Adios! Katanga! England. Announcing the sponsorship of done Emil! Good LUCk, Lesley and Nicky! £850, which is to be divided between the . . . A few issues back, I may have mis­ Aldershot, Surrey, Guildford, Basingstoke TABLE TENNIS NEWS and Essex Closed Championships, a com­ int,erpreted FRANK HAM'S thoughts and pany spokesman said "Our company policy ideas regarding players having to w:ear Published each month October to May. is com'munity oriented and we are delighted numbers at Tournaments, so that s:pectators Postal subscriptions £ 5.00 for eight issues to support a community sport like table could easily identify them from the infor­ (U.K.), Europe (including Eire) £6.00, tennis". mation supplied in Programmes. These Overseas airmail £10.00. facilities would obviously be expensive to Advertisements: Mrs. Christine Wilkes, The Charles Church company began as a many organisers to put into operation and English Table Tennis Association, :~1 family concern in 1966 when Charles and Frank realises this. Howev,er, what he was Claremont, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 Suzanne Church build their first house. trying to get through my thick head, w'as 1HA. Tel. Hastings (0424) 433121. Since then, the business has grown s,teadily the fact that if Organisers and Referees to a multi million concern and the company would make sure that "flip over" score­ Subscriptions: Miss B. Davies, English are currently building at Woking, Cam­ boards were used at all tables, the Table Tennis Association, 21 Claremont, berley, Basingstoke, Guildford and BasHdon. spectator could follow the progres,s of a Hastings, East Sussex TN34 1HA. Tel. New sit,es at Bisley, Wimbledon, Crowthorn, game or games from one good vantage Hastings (0424) 433121. Camberley and Ascot are expectd shortly. point. 'Ihis is a very good idea. My fear is Distribution: Mrs. E. 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