3. Dec 1982 - The English Table Tennis Association

FOR GOOD SERVICERING OR WRITERosebunk Sportsfor TT equipment/clothingat discount prices1 BOOTH BED LANEGOOSTREY, CHESHIRETelephone: 0477 37257• • •T •'I'. SpecialistsFROM THESUBSTITUTES' BENCHAfter one hund,red and thirtyissues of Table Tennis News, thiseditorial is the first that has notcome direct from the pe'n of GeorgeYates. For most of November theEditor has been confined to' hospital,a check-up having revealed the' needfor a duodenal operation. All re'aderswill surely join in wishing George aspeedy recovery.It is when such emergenci,esoccur that one realises how fewthere are on the substitutes' benchready to step into the shoes of thoseholding key positions in our sport.To rely upon the adage IIComeththe hour, cometh the man" is surelyto bury one's head in the sand, butwhen substitutes are put on trial,they so rarely turn out to be as goodas the original.What is needed is a larger pool ofsubstitutes, watching, listening andlearning in preparation for the daywhen they will be required to takeover.Can you name the person who isgoing to take over that key positionin your club, league or county? Ifnot, it is suggested that you givesome thought to identifying thesubstitutes ,now.ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATIONPatron: Her Majesty The Queen.President: M. Goldstein, O.B.E.Life Vice-President: Hon. Ivor Montagu.Ch~,irman: T. Blunn.Deputy Chairman: G. R. Yates.Han. Tr.surer: A. Drapkin.General Secretary: A. W. Shipley.Manage,ment CommUtee:(Vice-Chairmen)C. J. Clemett, R. J. Crayden,A. E. Ransome, N. K. Reeve,E. G. White.On theInternationalFrontEUROPEAN LEAGUEAt home to Poland in the magnificentSpectrum Arena in Warrington on 10thNovember in the Supe'r Division of theEuro,pean League, England achieved a 4-3win due largely to the contribution by JohnHilton on his return to the internationalscene. After a shock opening game defeatof Desmond Douglas by Andrzej Grubba,England fought back to a 3-3 situation, atwhich point Hilton became the hero bybeating Grubba over three games.Scores:D. Douglas lost to A. Grubba -23, -17.J. Hilton bt S. Dryszel 15, 18.J. Parker bt J. Szatko 10, 12.Johnson/Sandley lost to Grubba/Dryszel-14, -19.Johnson/Parker lost to Grubba/Szatko18, -19, -18.D. Douglas bt S. Dryszel -18, 18, 16.J. Hilton bt A. Grubba 18, -19, 11.After their 7-0 defeat at the hands ofCzechoslovakia, the Hungarians sent someof their second string players to Swedenwhere they met what must surely be theyoungest team in the League and againsuffered the ignominy of a whitewash.Scores:E. Lindh bt J. Molnar -22, 10, 14.J-D. Waldner bt z. Kriston 21, 16.M. Lindblad bt Z. Olah 14, 15.Lindh/Waldner bt Molnar/Kristan -17,11,21.Lindh/Lindblad bt Molnar/Urban -13,12,16.E. Lindh bt Z. Kriston -12, 3, 18.J-O. Waldner bt J. Molnar 15, 14.Denmark are finding the going tough atthe top and in their home match withFederal Germany in Solrod only the experiencedClaus Pedersen prevented aclean sweep with a narrow 22-20 third gamewin over Georg Bohm.Scores:C. Pedersen lost to J. Wosik -2, -12.J. Hansen lost to G. Bohm 14, -10, -9.S. Pedersen lost to K. Kruger -10, -13.Pedersen/Hauth lost to Bohm/Stellwag-11, -8.Pedersen/Pedersen lost to Wenzel/Wosik-16, -19.C. Pedersen bt G. Bohm -9, 18, 20.J. Hansen lost to J. Wasik -12, -15.The Czechoslovakia v Yugoslavia matchwas a titanic struggle, with four of the setsneeding a deciding game. Yugoslavia's winby 4-3 was based on wins in both doubles,the men's being a marathon affair of 126points ending 22-20 in the third game andthe mixed by 24-22, also in the third game.Scores:M. Orlowski bt D. Surbek 13, 15.J. Pansky lost to Z. Kalinic -19,20, -15.M. Hrachova lost to B. Batinic -19, -21.Pansky/Broda lost to Surbek/Kalinic17, -22, -20.Pansky/Hrachova lost to Surbek/Batinic17, -15, -22.M. Orlowski bt Z. Kalinic 12, -21, 16.J. Pansky bt D. Surbek 15, 18.SUPER DIVISION TABLEP W L F A PSweden ............. .. 3 3 0 18 3 3Yugoslavia 3 3 0 16 5 3Czechoslovakia 3 2 1 14 7 2Federal Germany 2 1 1 9 5 1England 3 1 2 8 13 1Hungary 3 1 2 5 16 1Denmark 3 0 3 3 18 0Poland 2 0 2 4 10 0Fixtures for December 15 are:Hungary v DenmarkPoland v SwedenFederal Germany v YugoslaviaEngland v Czechoslovakia (HarrogateCentre)FIRST DIVISIONThe two previously unbeaten teams ofFrance and the Soviet Union met in thefamous motor racing town of Le Mansresulting in a 4-3 win for the visitors withIgor Solopov winning both his singles. So,unless the Soviets get careless, this resultcould well mean yet another season out ofthe Super Division for the attractive towatch French.Scores:P. Birocheau lost to I: Solopov 16, -15, -17.C. Martin bt V. Dvorak 19, 18.B. Thiriet lost to F. Bulatova 14, -10, -15.Birocheau/Martin bt Dvorak/Podnosov16, 13.Martin/Thiriet lost to Podnosov/Popova-8, -17.P. Birocheau bt"V. Dvorak -14, 14, 13.C. Martin lost to I. Solopov -19, -11.Austria found themselves trailing 1-3 intheir home match against the Netherlandsbefore the revival started in the mixeddoubles, when they brought in GunterMuller for this one set, ~g produce a final4-3 scoreline.Scores:D. Palmi bt H. van Spanje 14, 13.E. Amplatz lost to R. Hijne -19, -19.D. Fetter lost to S. van Gennip -18, -13.Amplatz/Muller lost to van Spanje/Vlieg9, -16, -16.Muller/Fetter bt van Spanje/Kloppenburg-18, 18, 17.D. Palmi bt R. Hijne 25, 18.E. Amplatz bt H. van Spanje -20, 18, 12. "Belgium achieved their first win in thisdivision by a narrow 4-3 win over Italy wlthBarbara Lippens winning her singles cornfortablyand then pairing with Didier Leroyfor a totally defensive doubles cC)mbinationthat paved the way for success.Scores:T. Cabrera lost to G. Bisi 21, -17, -8.R. de Prophetis bt M. Costantini 11, -14,19.B. Lippens bt L. Vignola 15, 14.Cabrera/de Prophetis lost to Bisi/Costantini-18, -9.Leroy/Lippens bt Bisi/Vignola 19, 12.T. Cabrera bt M. Costantini -15, 20, 16.R. de Prophetis lost to G. Bisi -25, -14.Yet another 4-3 result occurred in Oslofor the all-Scandinavian clash betweenNorway and Finland, won by the visitors forwhom Jarmo Jokinen contributed thrice bytwo singles wins and the mixed doubles.Scores:G. Gustavsen lost to J. Jokinen -20, 15, -16.T. Johansen bt J. Ikonen 19, 12.T. Folkesson lost to S. Grefberg -10, -17.Gustavsen/Johansen bt Jokinen/lkonen19, 17.Pa~e 3

Folkesson/Johansen lost to Grefberg/Jokinen -20, -17.G. Gustavsen lost to J. Ikonen 18, -13, -18.T. Johansen bt J. Jokinen 19, 20.DIVISION 1 TABLEP W L F A PUSSR .................. 3 3 0 14 7 3France .... .... ... .... 3 2 1 14 7 2Finland 3 2 1 13 8 2Austria 3 2 1 9 12 2Italy ................ .. 3 1 2 9 12 1Netherlands 3 1 2 7 14 1Belgium 3 1 2 9 12 1Norway 3 0 3 9 12 0SECOND DIVISIONTurkey continued on their winning waywith a 5-2 victory over Ireland in Dublin, thehome side's only successes coming fromAnne Leonard in the women's singles andagain by her combination with ColumSleven in the mixed doubles.Scores:C. Slevin lost to O. Cimen -19, -15.K., Keane lost to G. Yaldiz -18, -9.A. Leonard bt K. Poybazoglu -19, 19, 18.Slevin/Keane lost to Cimen/Yaldiz -18, -18.SJevin/Leonard bt Cimen/Poybazoglu. -16, 12, 1O.C. Slevin lost to G. Yaldiz -19, -10.K.,,~eane lost to O. Cimen -13, -11.'Scotland's title hopes suffered a set-backin Luxembourg when David Hannah lost aten'se battle with Yves Maas when the scorestood at th ree sets all.Scores:­A. Hartmann bt D .Hannah -23, 18, 21.Y. Haas lost to R. Yule -14, -18.C. Risch lost to C. Dalrymple 10, -17, -16.Hartmann/Maas bt Yule/Rodger 20, -20, 18.Hartmann/Risch lost to Rodger/Dalrymple-19, 13, -19.A. Hartmann bt R. Yule 20, 19.Y. Maas bt D. Hannah 15, -13, 12.Switzerland inflicted a 7-0 all two-straightwin over Portugal who are finding thestandard a bit too high for them at themoment.Scores:T. Busin bt D. Pinto 16, 19.T. Miller bt P. M. Moura 15, 13.B. Witte bt A. Fernandes 17, 15.Miller/Renold bt Pinto/Moura 17, 20.Busin/Witte bt Pinto/Fernandes 9, 17.T. Busin bt P. M. Moura 18, 12.T.. Miller bt D. Pinto 12, 11.Wales could only bring back two sets asa souvenir of their visit to sunny Spainand, like Anne Leonard of Ireland, it wasthe female touch of Lesley Tyler that had ahand in the two Welsh victories, one in thewomen's singles and one with Mark Thomasin the mixed doubles.Scores:J. M. Pales bt M. Thomas -18,18,15.I. Caymel bt N. Thomas 13, 19.M. Sanahuja lost to L. Tyler 14, -16, -14.Pales/Casares bt Thomas/Thomas 15, 18.Pales/Sanahuja lost to Thomas/Tyler-14, 8, -17.J. M. Pales bt N. Thomas 16, 17.I. Caymel bt M. Thomas 19,21.DIVISION 2 TABLEP W L F A PTurkey.. 3 3 0 16 5 3Scotland 3 2 1 14 7 2Switzerland............ 3 2 1 14 7 2Spain 3 2 1 13 8 2Luxembourg 3 2 1 12 9 2Ireland 3 1 2 8 13 1Wales ..... ............. 3 0 3 6 15 0Portugal 3 0 3 1 20 0Page 4INTERNATIONALMATCHJUNIORS REIGN SUPREMEby Mike WattsAt Grimsby Leisure Centre on Thursday,Nov. 11, local table tennis enthusiasts weretreated to a fine display from a youngEngland team and their more experiencedopponents from Poland. Twelve months previouslyGrimsby TT League had requestedan International match to celebrate their50th Golden Jubilee Anniversary and althougha match had been allocated to themthe country involved had unfortunatelypulled out 'from the additional match followingtheir European League fixture. This wasthe first opportunity of the Association torectify the situation and a crowd of wellover 600 witnessed a great match.Earlier this year problems had been encounteredwhen the Polish team failed toarrive for their scheduled European Leaguefixture with England in Sheffield and onecan imagine the huge sigh of reilef fromlocal officials in Grimsby when the newswas relayed to them that the Poles hadarrived in this country.The Grimsby TTA were indebted to PMM(Staff Agency) Ltd., the main sponsors ofthe match, to Humberside Leisure Services,co-promoters, and to Grimsby BoroughCouncil for their support. Yorkshire Televisionwere present during the match andlive interviews were conducted by RadioHumberside during the evening. All thisstemmed from the fact that this was notonly the very first table tennis Internationalmatch in the town but, as indicated by theMayor of Grimsby at the after-match reception,the very first International event in anysport staged in Grimsby.The match got off to a brisk start withPoland anxious to reverse the previousevening's 4-3 defeat in the EuropeanLeague match at Warrington, and despitesome enterprising play by Kenny Jackson,Stefan Dryszel (deputising for the injuredLeszek Kucharski) put Poland one up with atwo-straight victory. Next to the table forEngland was Graham Sandley and for along period of the set he seemed to equatethe score, winning the first and leadingAndrzej Grubba, the Polish No.1 and EuropeanNo. '12, by a street in the second.However, lack of concentration and a resotutefight-back by Grubba, saw him level at1-1 and take the third despite a furtheruseful lead by Sandley early on. FinallyEngland woke up. 15-year-old Lisa Bellinger,making her senior home International debut,showed what a fine prospect she is with aresounding win over the more experiencedPolish girl Jolanta Szatko who throughoutshowed her utter dislike of the combinationbal Lisa's temperament was excellent andshe appeared to revel in the atmospherearound her.Carl Prean followed and again a 15-yearoldmaking his home debut came good.Dryszel had already played one set and thisfu rther added to the pressu re, but Carl,following on his impressive performance atthe Italian Open when he beat Grubba,Constantini and Bisi, Italy's two worldrankedstars, showed that he has themakings of a top player with a five-starperformance, beating Dryszel in three tobring England back to 2-2.Kenny Jackson now faced Grubba andagain proved that endeavour is not enoughif you want to be a top player, as despiteall his attempts to get on top, Grubba remainedcalm and emerged the winner againtwo-straight. During this match Jackson producedan amazing return. After a fast andfurious hitting rally, the ball was left highand short over the net. Grubba attempted tofinish the rally with a tremendous fast killon Iy for Jackson to take the ball on the halfvolley with virtually no approach and kill itback past Grubba. The whole audienceerupted but alas it was the last time Jacksonwas to catch Grubba unaware.After the way Lisa had beaten Szatko,Joy Grundy's task seemed comfortable, andso it seemed as she raced through the firstgame in full command. However, a fewpoints lost near the· end of this game shouldhave been clear warning that Szatko shouldnot be taken too lightly; but the warningwas not heeded and Joy lost lhe secondafter leading and 'finally the third rathereasily to ensure Poland of at least a draw.Sandley's return to the table was expectedto produce the necessary win but thiswas not to be as Dryszel, producing hisbest form during this short tour, triumphedin three very close games. Once againSandley's lack of concentration at vitaltimes contributed to his downfall and onewas left pondering \'vhat might have beenhad he capitalised on leads he held in bothhis sets.And so the match was lost: but theexcitement remained as despite the latenessof the hour almost everyone stayed tosee young Prean's attempt to beat Grubbafor a second time. As the announcer put it,"This match is like an Alfred Hitchcockthriller - will Prean ~tucceed once again ­or will Grubba extra'ct the revenge he sodesperately wanted following his defeat inItaly?". The previous evening John Hiltonhad shown up Grubba's lack of experienceagainst the combination bat and we werewell aware of Grubba's feelings and worriesabout Carl's rubbers and knew that Carlhad a great opportunity to score onceagain. Well, the result is now history andmaybe in the years to come Prean, if hecontinues to progress so well, as a star willlook back on this evening as his firstsuccessful debut in a full Internationalmatch. Oh yes, I forgot to say that Carl didwin the set and Grubba, after the match,paid tribute to his young tormentor with thecomment "he has great potential with anawkward style that I have never encountered before".So the final result was a 5-3 win forPoland but gave Peter Simpson, theEngland Trainer/Coach, valuable informationon a few of the candidates for his teamto travel to Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo forthe Commonwealth and World Championshipsin March and April next year.RESULTSENGLAND 3 POLAND 5K. Jackson lost to S. Dryszel -20, -16.G. Sandley lost to A. Grubba 10, -18, -18.L. Bellinger bt J. Szatko 13, 16.C. Prean bt Dryszel 20, -20, 11.Jackson lost to Grubba -15, -15.J. Grundy lost to Szatko 17, -19, -16.Sand ley lost to Dryszel 19, -18, -17.Prean bt Grubba -18, 17, 15.

~*******************************SCOTTISHNEWSby DEN~S GEORGE********************************EUROPEAN LEAGUE - Division IIScotland got off to a good start to the1982/83 European League season with aclose 4-3 win over Switzerland at Falkirkon Sept. 11 - David Hannah coming backfrom a game down and 5-10 in the secondto win the vital 7th tie. This was followedby a comfortable 7-0 win over Portugal upnorth at Dingwall on Oct. 9. Our matchagainst Luxembourg in the Grand Duchy onNov. 5 produced some, 'fireworks' fromCarole Dalrymple who hit off Carine Rischand took the Mixed with Keith Rodger.Earlier Richard Yule had beaten Yves Maas,but Andre Hartmann won both his singles,surviving three match points againstHannah in the first tie and beating Yule2-0. In the 7th tie Maas beat Hannah tomake the scoreline Luxembourg 4 Scotland3 - the same as in the home match lastseason - and end a run of five successiveEuropean League victories by the Scots.THE SCOTTISH TOURNAMENT SCENE2nd SEOUL INTERNATIONAL OPEN25/31 August, 1982The season started with Yule, Hannahand David Campbell, accompanied bycoaches Graham Davies and Andy Fleming,flying the 'Polar Route' to South Korea.After beating Malaysia 3-1 and Saudi Arabia3-0, Scotland bowed out to Korea 11 0-3.STTA SENIOR CLASSIFICATIONTOURNAMENTMeadowbank, Edinburgh5 September, 1982Despite playing less than 24 hours afterreturning from Seoul, Yule went through theday undefeated in the 1st Category, but theyounger players were badly affected by jetlag- Hannah losing to Yule, Dave Mcilroyand John Broe to finish 5th, whilst Campbellcould not muster a single victory, ending~p in 10th place. Carole Dalrymple, freshlyreturned from six weeks coaching in Japan,under the tutelage of former World Cham­,pion Ichiro Ogimura, was unbeaten on theWomen's 1st Category - beating her nearestrival -' Elaine Forbes - 22 and 16.Final Classification (To'p 10 positions)Men1 R. Yule, 2 J. Broe, 3 D. Mcilroy, 4 K.Rodger, 5 D. Hannah, 6 G. Doherty, 7 I.McLean, 8 R. Lindsay, 9 S. Rennie, 10 D.Campbell.Women1 C. Dalrymple, 2 E. Forbes, 3 K. Mackay,4 E. Robb, 5 D. Greig, 6 V. Thomson, 7 I.Ferguson, ·~8 --, 9 S. Thomson, 10 E.Meenan.MEADOWBANK 2-STAR OPENMeadowbank, Edinburgh26 September, 1982Despite a reduced entry and very fewplayers from south of the border, the fi rstopen tournament of the season produced aday of highly competitive play in 10 eventswith a welcome trend of younger playersPage 6­staking their claims for a breakthrough intosenior ranks.tained their dominance of the club scene inScottish table tennis circles by winning theBroe won the Men's Sing'les for his first STTA TEAM CUP (open to the 1st and 2ndsenior title, and Carole Dalrymple won the teams in the top divisions of all affiliatedWomen's for the 5th successive year. Brian leagues the previous season) for the 3rdWright and Diane Greig won the Junior year running and the 7th time in the pastSingles and Gordon Waddell and Sarah nine years since they ended Gambit'sHurry the Cadet Singles. TEES SPORT (Edinburgh) long run of success in 1974.the well known Middlesbrough sports Central's supremacy was emphasised byequipment firm - donated voucher prizes the fact that their 'B' team (Graemefor the Junior and Cadet events, a gesture Doherty, David Harris, Sandy MacLachlanfor which the organisers and players were and Brian Wright) also defeated Gambitmost grateful.(Bert Kerr, Jim Graham and Jeff Dalgleish)in the triangular final group to take theRESULTSrunners-up position.Men's Singles Semi-finals:STTA JUNIOR & CADET ASSESSMENTJ. Brae bt D. Campbell 15, 17;D. Mcilroy bt R. Kerr 12, 12.TOURNAMENT, Jack Kane Centre,Final:Edinburgh 10 October, 1982BROE bt Mcilroy 19, 18. The largest entry to date - Boys 32,Women's Singles Semi-finals:Girls 14, Cadet Boys 27 and Cadet Girls 13C. Dalrymple bt K. Mackay 14, 9; --- battled away throughout the day in theV. Thomson bt P. Fleming 15, 23. first assessment tournament of the season.Final:Interest in the girls events was centred onDALRYMPLE bt Thomson 17, 15.Anglo-Scots Janet Smith (Bromley) andBoys' Singles Final:Fiona Stuart (Bridgwater) who came northB. WRIGHT bt Peter Curry (Nd) 19, 15. ~ to try their luck against the top homeGirls' Singles Final:players; Janet lost to both Lynn JohnstonDIANE GREIG bt Lynn Johnston -21, 19, 20. and Diane Greig in the Girls' to take theCadet Boys' Singles Final:3rd position overall but Fiona won the CadetGORDON WADDELL bt David Low 15,11. Girls' section, going through unbeaten.Cadet Girls' Single,s Final:Final Classification (Top 5 positions)SARAH HURRY bt Linda Hood 19, 10. BoysVeterans' Singles Final: 1 B. Wright, 2 M. Crawford, 3 -D. Thomas, 4BERT KERR bt Donald McLean 17, 18. I. Stokes, 5 G. Cummings.Me,n's Doubles Final:GirlsMcilroy/Campbell bt Broe/C. Gerrard 1 D. Greig, 2 L. Johnston, 3 J. Smith, 4 A.17, -14, 18. Cook, 5 M. Cusick.Women's Doubles Final:Cadet BoysP. Fleming/Thomson bt E. Meenan/ 1 D. Low, 2 Jon Wilson, 3 G. Turnbull, 4I. Ferguson 16, 16. K. Sutherland, 5 R. Macintosh.Mixed Doubles Final:Cadet GirlsG. Docherty/E. Robb bt J. Graham/ 1 F. Stuart, 2 D. McNeill, 3 S. Hurry, 4 L.I. Ferguson -13, 15, 20. Hood, 5 S. Rao.SCOTTISH TEAM CUPEAST OF SCOTLAND 2-STAR OPENMeadowbank, EdinburghMeadowbank, Edinburgh3 October, 1982 17 October, 1982Glasgow's Central Club (Jim Caulfield, John A return to something like his old formBroe, Ian McLean and David Mcilroy) main- brought Keith Rodger the Men's SinglesJOHN BROE (Scottish No,. 3).Photo by B. D. George.

title in this year's EAST OF SCOTLANDOPEN when he defeated John Brae - whowon the Meadowbank Open in September- in the Final. Elaine Forbes retained theWomen's Singles title she won last seasonat the start of her 'come back', inflictinga rare defeat on Carole Dalrymple in the'final. Elaine also retained the Women'sDoubles with Carole and won the Mixedwith David Campbell to achieve the triplecrown.RESULTSMen's SinglesIn the final Brae took the first end at 19but Rodger hit back to take the secondeasily at 12. In the decider John led 10-8and 14-11, but Keith fought back grimly to15-all and went on to regain the title hewon in 1980 at 17.Semi-finals:K. Rodger bt D. Mcilroy 11,14;J. Brae bt D. Campbell -24, 20, 12.Final:RODGER bt Brae -19, 12,17.Women's SinglesElaine Forbes looked good 'from the outsetwhilst Carole Dalrymple lost a set toLiz Robb. In the Final Elaine's two-wingattack wrested the initiative from Carole anda.fter sharing two close ends she rompedaway to win 16 in the third.Semi-finals:C. Dalrymple bt V. Thomson 13, 9;E. Forbes bt P. Fleming 17, 10.Final:FORBES bt Dalrymple 20, -19, 16.Boys' Singles Final:WRIGHT bt Waddell 20, -16,11.Girls Singles Final:LYNN JOHNSTON bt Diane Greig 14, 17.Cadet Boys' Singles Final:WADDELL bt Jonathan Wilson 19, 9.Cadet Girls' Singles Final:DOMINIQUE McNEILL bt Hurry 15, -16, 18.Men's Doubles Final:Campbell/Mcilroy bt Brae/C. Gerrard17, 19, 10.Women's Double's Final:Dalrymple/Forbes bt Fleming/Thomson15, 11.Mixed Doubles Final:D. CamJi)beli/Forbes bt G. Campbell/Dalrymple 19, -11, 15.MIDLANDS 1-STAR OPENDundee31 Octobe'r, 1982Brae convincingly defeated Rodger in theMen's Singles and also took the Men'sDoubles with Calum Gerrard. Elaine Forbes,back on home ground, again defeatedCarole Dalrymple and went on to achievethe triple crown, taking the Women'sDoubles with Carole and the Mixed withDavid Campbell.RESULTSMen's Singles Semi-finals:J. Brae bt S. Rennie 18, 12;K. Rodger bt D. Mcilroy 8, 16.Final:BROE bt Rodger 17, 12.Women's Singles Semi-finals:C. Dalrymple bt E. Robb 8, 11;E. Forbes bt K. Mackay 16, 16.Final:FORBES bt Dalrymple 19, -19, 18.Men's Doubles Final:C. Gerrard/Brae bt Mcilroy/D. Campbell17, 17.Women's Doubles Final:Dalrymple/Forbes bt RobbjMackay 17, 10.Mixed Doubles Final:D. Campbell/Forbes bt Rodger/Dalrymple15, 18.Veterans' Singles Final:KERR bt Miss E. Dunbar 10, 10.STTA YOUTH & JUNIOR CLOSEDMeadowbank, Edinburgh7 November, 1982With David Mcilroy in Iceland and JohnBrae playing for Ormesby in the EnglishHalex National League, the way was leftopen for Graeme Docherty to win theUnder-21 Men's Singles from GordonClancey. Anglo-Scot Janet Smith (Bromley)won the Girls' Singles from Lynn Johnstonand Sarah Hurry won the Cadet Girls'Singles, the other singles titles were wonby the top-ranked players.RESULTSU-21 Men's Singles Semi-finals:G. Docherty bt I. McLean 15, 8;G. Clancey bt G. Sutherland 20, 14.Final:DOCHERTY bt Clancey 19, 9.U-21 Women's Singles Final Group:1 C. Dalrymple, 2 V. Thomson,3 L. Johnston.Boys' Singles Final:BRIAN WRIGHT bt Martin Cawford16, -11, 19.Girls' Singles Final Group:1 J. Smith, 2 L. Johnston, 3 A. Cook.FRIENDSHIPRUBBER* Winners of every event in the 1981 WorldChampionships played FRIENDSHIP* Colin Wilson played Friendship 2mm to winCommonwealth Gold Medal.* Carl Prean played Friendship / Tornado ChinaStyle to win European Junior CllampionshipGold Medal.* Available in 2mm Red or Black £8.50.and in 1.5mm Red or Black £8.50.Also Long Pimple.FROM THE FOLLOWING JAQUES MAIN STOCKISTSDENN:EIT'S SPORTS KIT BOURNEMOUTH ASHCROFT LIVERPOOL TABLE TENNIS SHOP DOWN PATRICKFINNIES AYRGREAVES GLASGOW HUBBLE & FREEM,,~N MAIDSTONE IWILLMONT BIRMINGHAMJEFFREY GUILDFORD TENCH SPORTS MANCHESTERCLAPSHAW & CLEAVE BRIGHTON JACK LEES HALIFAX MULTI-SPORT LONDON ECHARRIS BRISTOLOLYMPUS HARROW FUSSELL NEWPORTWOOF CHELTENHAMJENNINGS HEREFORD STEVENSON NORWICHVI SPORTS CRAIGAVON N. IRELAND ROSEBANK LIVERPOOL MAPPERLEY NOTTINGHAMWATERHOUSE & CONNING SOUTHAMPTON HAMLEY LONDON WI PLAYRITE STREATHAM 361 WHITEHORSE ROAD,PAUL DAY ELY CAMBS.DIXON NEWCASTLE SANGSTER TORQUAY THORNTON HEATH, SURREYPage 7

Cadet Boys' Singles Final:GORDON WADDELL bt David Low 11,12.Cadet Girls' Singles Final Group:1 S. Hurry, 2 D. McNeill, 3 C. O'Neill.U-21 Men's Doubles Final:McLean/D. Campbell bt G. Campbell/S. Fowler 16, 20.U-21 Women's Doubles Final:Johnston/D. Greig bt J. Smith/Dalrymple18, -18, 17:U-21 Mixed Doubles Final:R. Nixon/Dalrymple bt D. Campbell/Thomson 16, 17.ACTIVITY OUTSIDE SCOTLANDHUMBERSIDE 3-STAR OPENKeith Rodger played some of his besttable tennis to reach the final where he lostto Douggie Johnston, amongst his]i' .en route being Dona~-keTSnd CarlPrean. ~NORWtClfUNION IRISH TROPHYRichard Yule - the holder - beat bothColum Slevin and Kevin Keane beforelosing to Skylet Andrew in the final.ICELANDIC INVITATION TOURNAMENTThe Icelandic TTA celebrated their 10thanniversary with an invitation tournament inReykjavik on Nov. 16. David Mcilroy reachedthe 'final where he was beaten 2-3 by DavidWeisman of Wales. All the other playerswere from the Iceland TTA.SCOTTISH TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATIONSENIOR RANKING LISTS(Published 19 October, 1982)Men1 Richard Yule (WaS) (2)2 David Hannah (1)3 John Broe {waS) (4)4 Keith Rodger (EDII\I) (3)5 David Mcilroy (WaS) (7)6 Graeme, Docherty (WaS) (11)7 David Campbell (EDIN) (6)8 Ian McLean (WaS) (10)9 Be,rt Kerr (EDIN) (9)10 Anwar Majid (EDIN) (5)11 Jim Graham (MaNK) (8)12 Ron Lindsay (WaS) (14)13 S~ott Renn:e (EDIN) (20)14 Calum Gerrard (WaS) (15)15 Brian Wright (WaS) (21)16 Geny Campbell (STIR) (18)Page 8DAVID MciLROY (Scottish No.5).Photo by Lindsay McCrea.17 Dougie Mein (EDIN) (16)18 Alan Golliar (EDIN) (19)19 Gordon Clancey (WaS) (24)20 Jim Caulfield (WaS) (-)21 Graeme Suthe,rland (EDIN) (22)22 James Russe·1I (STIR) (-)23 Billy Gibbs (EDIN) (-)24 Ian Stoke's (WaS) (-)Wo:men1 Carole Dalrymple (STIR) (1)2 Elaine Forb,es (EDIN) (2)3 Kay Mackay (STIR) (5)4 Valeriel Thomson (WaS) (3)5 Patricle Fleming (WaS) (4)6 Liz Robb (FIFE) (6)7 Diane Greig (WaS) (9)8 Islobe I Fe,rgus,on (was) (7)9 Senga Rowley (STIR) (-)10 Eleanor Me'enan (WaS) (10)Junio,r' Boys1 Brian Wright (was) (32 Mart:n Crawford ( (6)3 David Thoma as) (10)4 Ian Sto WaS) (18)5 G n- Cummings (WaS) (19)Gordon WaddeH (STIR) (17)7 Martin Burke (EDIN) (8)8 Stephen Husbands (LAN) (-)9 Alan Miller (STIR) (14)10 Graeme Steven'son (AYR) (15)Junrio,r Girls1 Diane Greig (WaS) (2)2 Lynne Johnston (STIR) (1)3 Janet Smith (BRaM) (-)4 AI ison Cook (AYR) (3)5 Maureen Cusic,k (WaS) (9)6 Louise Be!nne1t (STIR) (7)7 Pat Caldet (STIR) (8)8 Lynne Davren (WeS) (5)Cadet Boys1 Gordon Waddell (STIR) (2)2 David Low (ABDN) (-)3 Jim Wilson (EDIN) (11)4 Gavil1 Turnbull (EDIN) (6)5 Keith Suthe,rland (STIR) (8)6 Robe,rt Mcintosh (W DUNB) (19)7 David Harper (AYR) (-)8 George, Innes (WaS) (7)9 Michael McEwan (LAN) (18)10 Stephen Woess (W DUNB) (14)Cadet Girls1 Fiona Stuart (SaM) (--)2 Dominique McNeil (LAN) (5)3 Sarah Hurry (STIR) (-)4 Linda Hood (ED IN) (6)5 Shaila Rao (EDIN) (-)6 Giltian Phimi.ste,r (Stir) (-)7 Lucy Hampton (WaS) (8)8 Suzanne McManus (WaS) (-)PONTEFRACT 1-STARThe Ponte'fract 1-Star Open is to be heldon Saturday, 22nd January, 1983, and NOTSunday, 23rd January as published in theDiary and Tournament Calendar.Letters to the EditorFROM POLANDBy chance I learned that recently theEnglish Table Tennis Association celebratedtheir 60th Anniversary. As a devoted 'friendof England, I couldn't be spared to ignorethat magnificent solemnity, therefore pleaseallow me to send here to you for thatoccasion my best wishes and compliments.I would like to wish you and all the tabletennis founders, officers, officials, playersand. supporters in England many subsequentach-Ievements and successes. The Englishtable tennis, which has been from thebegining the genuine corner-stone of thisexcellent sport, distinguished itself withdiamond syllables in history and also atpresent is of great importance in Europeand World as well. Undoubtedly, it may 'fillall of you, dear friends, with the pride andsatisfaction, creating also the inspirationfor the. ~ext .- at I~ast sixty years persisting- activity fIlled with no lesser attainments.I wish you to be always - as yet - thepattern for all the table tennis lovers inEurope and World.With kindest regards,F. K. PRZYBYLSKI,Chairman Commissionof Foreign A·ffairs.Malego Franka Sir. 5a/601-115 Warsaw, Poland.DESERVED WINNERRe Alliance/Grove result published inNovember T.T. News. I would agree thatHelen Lower has improved greatly over thepast few months thanks to her coaches, butnot enough to take Tracy Lightfoot to three.The result of the game between Tracy~-- and Helen was 21-11, 21-14. The resultpublished was for Hel~n's win over CherylClarke (Ch) in the quarter-finals.I hope that the error wi II not have caused-any embarrassment to Tracy who was thedeserved winner of the Girls' Junior event.ROBERT LOWER (Fathe'r),63 Aspen Way,Merridale Gardens,Wolverhampton.c P~Ltd.NOW AVAILABLE FOR HIREFROM THE WORLD FAMOUSBUTTERFLY RANGEINTERNATIONALEUROPA TABLESSURROUNDS - NET & POSTSSCORE BOARDS - Etc.P L U STOURNAMENT LIGHTINGFor that really competitive quoteCOMPOContactPROMOTIONS6 Merston Court, Hermitage Road,Higham, Nr. Rochester, Kent.Telephone: 0474 - 82 - 3325

NA TIONAL JUNIORRANKING TRIALSby MIKE WATTSThe Eurosport Village at Shotley Gatenear Ipswich, Suffolk, was the chosen venuefor the first National Junior Ranking Trialsheld over the weekend of the 29th to the31st October, 1982. One hundred and sixtyJuniors and Cadets congregated at Shotleyon the Friday and this number was swelledby over one hundred parents, coaches andfriends who journeyed from all over thecountry.The village was formerly HMS Ganges,one of the Royal Navy Training Establishments,and has been taken over by an Internationalgroup who are renovating the siteto attract major sporting events and youthgroups. The playing conditions were ideal,with three halls all with good lighting,wooden floors and surrounds together with16 Jaques tables. In hall one fifty-six Juniorboys foug ht out fi rst and second stagedgroups on six tables whilst in hall two thirtyCadet boys and thirty Cadet girls competed,also on six tables. Finally, in hall three fortyJunior girls completed the line up, playingon your tables.Play got under way at 7 p.m. on theFriday night with two rounds of the FirstStage Cadet groups. The use of Fridayevening was necessitated by requests forCadets to be allowed to play also in theJunior events and in fact two boys and fourgirls were kept extremely busy completin-gboth Cadet and Junior events. The Juniorboys and girls commenced Saturday morningand the total first stage groupsamounted to:Junior Boys - 8 groups of 7 playersJunior Girls - 5 groups of 8 playersCadet Boys - 4 groups of 8 playersCadet Girls - 4 groups of 8 playersBy about 6 p.m. on the Saturday eveningone hundred and sixty eight games hadbeen completed in the Junior boys' groupsand hurried preparations began to restructurefor the Second stage which commencedat 7 p.m. After completion of thefirst stages the final positions and gameswon were as follows:Group 11 N. Mason 6-0, 2 G. Wilson 4-2, 3 M.Randle 3-3, 4 P. Cole 3-3, 5 L. Neil 2-4, 6J. Chapman 2-4, 7 G. Plutz 1-5.Group 21 A. Cooke 6-0, 2 C. Aspinall 4-2, 3 P.Huggon 3-3, 4 G. McKim 3-3, 5 D. Dewsbury2-4, 6 D. Billings 2-4, 7 J. Singh 1-5.Group 31 P. Gunn 6-0, 2 M. Thomas 4-2, 3 D.Topiwala 4-2, 4 P. Ashcroft 3-3, 5 A. Newton2-4, 6 C. Grant 2-4, 7 P. Holliday 0-6.Group 41 A. Cunningham 6-0, 2 D. McVitie 5-1, 3K. Samuels 4-2, 4 D. Blackburn 3-3, 5 K.Cartwright 2-4, 6 S. Sharpe 1-5, 7 D. Smith0-6.Group 51 G. Lambert 6-0, 2 M. Jukes 5-1, 3 R.Hayward 4-2, 4 A. Wattis 3-3, 5 R. Darnell2-4, 6 J. Thatcher 1-5, 7 D. Boon 0-6.Group 61 A. Sexton 6-0, 2 M. Ellett 5-1, 3 C.Bartram 4-2, 4 J. Wheel 2-4, 5 A. Dixon 2-4,6 C. Metcalfe 2-4, 7 S. Khan.Group 71 S. Dettmar 5-1, 2 A. Dodd 4-2, 3 N.McMaster 4-2, 4 S. Worrell 4-2, 5 R. Thomas2-4, 6 R. Tilford 2-4, 7 D. Lake 0-6.Group 81 P. Logsdon 5-1, 2 D. Griffin 5-1, 3 D. Rook4-2, 4 J. Stokes 3-3, 5 M. Firth 2-4, 6 A.Syed 2-4, 7 P. Bannister 0-6.Boseba"k Sports(Dick & Terry Turner)T.T. 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However, commonsen~eprevailed and the Ranking Panel,having convened a hurried meeting immediatelyplay 'finished, was able toproduce a compromise that appeared tosatisfy everyone.Having cleared this problem, the taskbegan to restructure the remaining threeevents following the completion of allFirst Stage Groups.In the Junior girls' groups after onehundred and forty first stage matches hadbeen completed the finishing positions wereas follows:Group 11 J. Parker 7-0, 2 A. Heggarty 6-1, 3 N.Hamilton 4-3, 4 J. Shaw 4-3, 5 A. Judd 3-4,6 D. Simmonds 2-5, 7 R. Hunter 1-6, 8 C.Hemming 1-6.Group 21 S. Collier 7-0, 2 T. Moore, 3 D. Soothill5-2, 4 M. Hams 3-4, 5 J. Shippey 2-5, 6 J.Mills 2-5, 7 S. O'Leary 2-5, 8 S. Weston 1-6.Group 31 To Thuy Dung 7-0, 2 H. Bardwell 6-1, 3 J.Ryalls 5-2, 4 T: Spencer 3-4, 5 A. Barker 3-4,6 L. Hayden 2-5, 7 J. Barella 2-5, 8 A.Clemens 0-7.Group 41 T. Lightfoot 6-1, 2 R. Brook 5-2 3 N.Tsakarisianos 5-2, 4 L::~ Goldsmith 5-2 5 L.Popkiewicz 4-3, 6 L. Davis 2-5, 7 T. Holland1-6, 8 J. Ballard 0-7.Group 51 M. Seaton 7-0, 2 J. Powis 6-1, 3 F. Elliott5-2, 4' A. Boxall 4-3, 5 C. Mouzon 3-4, 6 R.Knight 2-5, 7 L. Harman 1-6, 8 A. Woolven0-7.Final positions in the Cadet events were:Cadet BoysGroup 11 A. Syed 7-0, 2 M. Oxley 5-2, 3 T. West 4-34 M. O'Driscoll 4-3, 5 I. Neate 4-3, 6 T:Shepherd 3-4, 7 K. Gray 1-6, 8 M. Seaton0-:7".Group 21 A. Dixon 7-0, 2 B. Billington 5-2, 3 M.Harvey 5-2, 4 K. Ball 5-2, 5 D .Holland 2-5,6 G. Barden 2-5, 7 P. Gooding 1-6, 8 R.Powell 1-6.Group 31 M. Syed 7-0, 2 S. Simon 5-2, 3 S .Jones5-2, 4 J. Ferguson 4-3, 5 J. Bult 4-3, 6 D.Watson 2-5, 7 S. Champion 1-6, 8 D. Ward0-7.Group 41 M. Rutherford 6-1, 2 P. Amos 5-2, 3 K.Lawrence 4-3, 4 S. Craggs 4-3, 5 N. Pickard3-4, 6 N. Carr 3-4, 7 S. Gibson 3-4, 8 J.Fletcher 0-7.Cadet GirlsGroup 11 J. Powis 7-0, 2 A. Sanders 6-1, 3 F. Stuart4-3, 4 S. Hammond 4-3, 5 L. Robins 3-4, 6K.W Rogers 2-5, 7 K. Baker 1-6, 8 T. Scott..Pawson 1-6.

G'roup 21 L. Davis 7-0, 2 L. Hayden 6-1, 3 H. Perrott5-2, 4 M. Carey 4-3, 5 A. Wattis 3-4, 6 D.Wickstead 2-5, 7 H. Lower 1-6, 8 S. Padley0-7.Group 31 D. Soothill 7-0, 2 C. Potts 5-2, 3 S. Webb4-3, 4 J. Ellery 4-3, 5 K. Wilde 3-4, 6 T.Holland 3-4, 7 J. Cooke 2-5, 8 H. Kavanagh0-7.Group 41 L. Souter f3,-1, 2 A. Holt 5-2, 3 J. Houghton5-2, 4 R. K~ight 5-2, 5 A. Evans 4-3, 6 J.Roberts 2-5," 7 A. ShuffJebotham 1-6, 8 H.Broomhead 0-7.This meant that after the completion ofthe 'first stage groups two hundred andtwelve cadet games had been playedmaking a total of five hundred and twentygames.On the Saturday evening the Junior boysplayed two rounds of the Second Stageand then all Second Stage groups beganin earnest on Sunday morning. The tournamentwas scheduled to finish at 5.30 p.m.and the last ball was struck in anger at5.35 p.m., putting a 'final touch to an extremelybusy but excellent weekend. Addinga further three hundred and seventy twogames to the five hundred and twentygames played on Friday and Saturday madea total of eight hundred and ninety twogames, which must be one of the biggestschedul-es ever completed.Impressions! Well, if this is the norm forRanking Tournaments then they are here tostay. The National Selection Committee areusing this season as an experiment butthis 'first one was a huge success.On the playing side it will be difficult tofind a better performance than that producedby Nicky Mason from Surrey,currently residing in Bexhill-on-Sea, EastSussex, who powered his way throughthirteen matches with a sets average oftwenty six to nil. This was followed closelyby Jill Powis 'from Staffordshire, who alsoremained unbeaten over ten sets, also withoutdropping a game, and also gained ninewins out of eleven in the Junior events tofinish a creditable sixth overall. AndrewSyed from Berkshire proved his numberone Cadet Boys ranking, Winning all his tensets and remaining unbeaten in his JuniorSecond Stage Groups, although finishingwell down the field. Final positions andSecond Stage Groupings:Junior BoysGroup 11 N. Mason 7-0, 2 A. Cooke 6-1, 3 G.Lambert 4-3, 4 P. Logsdon 3-4, 5 A. Sexton3-4, 6 A. Cunningham 2-5, 7 P. Gunn 2-5, 8S. Dettmar 1-6.Group 21 M. Jukes 6-1, 2 D. Griffin 4-3, 3 M.Thomas 4-3, 4 G. Wilson 3-4, 5 C. Aspinall3-4, 6 A. Dodd 3-4, 7 D. McVitie 3-4, 8 M.Ellett 2-5.e Personal Tuitione Top quality coaches.e Good class accommodationand meals.e Large modern sports hall.e 24 Butterfly tables.e Seminars and video.e Social evenings.e First class organisatione Ideal Surroundings.e Grant Aid available.e Excellent value.e Tournaments~~::E~:1.COACHESleft to right: Alan Ransom., Nicky Jarvis, Carole Knightfront: Bob Wley, Dougie Johnson, plus: Linda Jarvis, John HilmiaVER 1000 SATISFIED PLAYERSI•••ENJOY YOURSELF, TOOlTEES SIPOEtA'LS Of18E '983 RrlnCOURSES ~10Wl ZeIIInd PIlle, MiIIdIIsIJroIIb Cleveland TS11HJ. Tet (0842J 217844& or 2~(24 hours _ring .rvice)1983 DATES:1. 24th to 29thJuly2. 30th July to7th August(Long Course)3. 8th August to13th August .-4Page 11

Group 31 P. Huggon 7-0, 2 N. McMaster 5-2, 3 C.Bartram 4-3, 4 D. Topiwala 4-3, 5 K.Samuels 3-4, 6 M. Randle 3-4, 7 D. Rook 2-5,8 R. Haywood 0-7.Group 41 J. Stokes 6-1, 2 P. Ashcroft 5-2, 3 S.Worrall 5-2, 4 P. Cole 4-3, 5 A. WaUis 2-5,6 J. Wheel 2-5, 7 D. Blackburn 2-5 8 GMcKim 2-5. ' .Group 51 R. Thomas 6-1, 2 M. Firth 6-1, 3 L. Neil5-2, 4 R. Darnell 5-2, 5 A. Dixon 3-4, 6 D.Dewsbury 2-5, 7 K. Cartwright 1-6, 8 A.Newton 0-7..Group 61 A. Syed 7-0, 2 R. Tilford 5-2, 3 J. Thatcher5-2, 4 S. Sharpe 5-2, 5 C. Grant 3-4, 6 J.Chapman 1-6, 7 C. Metcalfe 1-6 8 DBillings 1-6. ' .Group 71 J. Singh 6-1, 2 P. Bannister 5-2 3 PHolliday 5-2, 4 D. Lake 4-3, 5 D. Bo~n 3-4:6 D. Smith 3-4, 7 S. Khan 1-6 8 G. Plutz1-6. 'Junior GirlsGroup 11 S. Collier 3-1, 2 J. Parker 3-1, 3 T. Light­~~~.t 3-1, 4 M. Seaton 1-3, 5 To Thuy DungGroup 21 J. Powis 3-1, 2 H. Bardwell 3-1, 3 R. Brook2-2, 4 A. Heggarty 1-3, 5 T. Moore 1-3.Group 31 N. ~sakarisianos 3-1, 2 F. Elliott 3-1, 3 D.~_~~thlll 2-2, 4 N. Hamilton 2-2, 5 J. RyallsGroup 41 M. Hams 3-1, 2 L. Goldsmith 2-2, 3 J.Shaw 2-2, 4 A. Boxall 2-2, 5 T. Spencer 1-3.Group 51 C. Mouzon 4-0, 2 A. Judd 3-1, 3 A. Barker2-2, 4 L. Popkiewicz 1-3, 5 J. Shippey 0-4.Group 61 L. Davis 3-1, 2 R. Knight 2-2, 3 L. Hayden2-2, 4 D. Simmonds 2-2, 5 J. Mills 1-3.Group 71 L. Harman 3-0, 2 S. O'Leary 1-2, 3 J.Bare.lla 1-2, 4 R. Hunter 1-2, 5 T. Holland(withdrew) .Group 81 A. Clemens 2-1, 2 S. Weston 2-1, 3 A.Woolven 1-2, 4 C. Hamming 1-2, 5 J. Ballard(withdrew) .Cadet BoysGroup 11 A. Syed 3-0, 2 A. Dixon 2-1,3 M. Syed 1-2,4 M. Rutherford 0-3.Group 21 M. Oxley 2-1, 2 S. Simon 2..1, 3 B. Billing­ton 1-2, 4 P. Amos 1-2.Group 31 S. Jones 2-1, 2 T. West 2-1, 3 M. Harvey1-2, 4 K. Lawrence 1-2.Group 41 S~ Craggs 3-0, 2 K. Ball 2-1 3 M.O'Driscoll 1-2, 4 J. Ferguson 0-3. 'Group 51 J. Bult 2-1, 2 D. Holland' 1-1, 3 I. Neate0-2, 4 N. Pickard (withdrew).Group 61 G. Barden 3-0, 2 N. Carr 1-2, 3 T.Shepherd 1-2, 4 D. Watson 1-2.Group 71 P. Gooding 3-0, 2 S. Gibson 2-1, 3 S.Champion 1-2, 4 K. Gray 0-3.Page 12Group 81 R. Powell 3-0, 2 D. Ward 1-1, 3 J. Fletcher1-1, 4 M. Smeaton 1-1.Cadet GirlsGroup 11 J. Powis 3-0, 2 D. Soothill 2-1, 3 L. Souter1-2, 4 L. Davis 0-3.Group 21 C. Potts 3-0, 2 A. Sanders 2-1, 3 L. Hayden1-2, 4 A. Holt 0-3.Group 31 J. Houghton 3-0, 2 H. Perrott 2-1, 3 S.Webb 1-2, 4 F. Stuart 0-3.Group 41 R. Knight 3-0, 2 S. Hammond 2-1, 3 M.Carey 1-2, 4 J. Ellery 0-3.Group 51 A. Evans 3-0, 2 L. Robins 2-1, 3 K. Wilde1-2, 4 A. Wattis 0-3.Group 61 D. Wickstead 2-0, 2 K. Rogers 1-1, 3 J.Roberts 0-2, 4 T. Holland (withdrew).Group 71 H. Lower 3-0, 2 A. Shufflebotham 2-1, 3J. Cooke 1-2, 4 K. Baker 0-3.Group 81 H. Broomhead 3-0, 2 H. Kavanagh 2-1, 3T. Scott-Pawson 1-2, 4 S. Padley 0-3.The next Junior Ranking Tournament isscheduled for ~he weekend of 5th/6thMarch, 1983 at Lilleshall, followed by thethird trial on the 2nd/3rd April, 1983 atLoughborough. However, neither of thesewill be as large as the Selection Committeeprunes its invitations.FOOTNOTE BY TOM BLUNNA few weeks ago I had the pleasure ofatten.ding the juni.or ranking trials atIpswich. A round tnp of almost 700 miles~eemed a long way to go for a juniorInternal event, but I came away quite satisfiedthat it had been well worth the effort.H.M.S. Ganges brought back memories offriends during the war reporting for theirfirst national service. But although thebuildings remain the same the "ship" isnow a full scale sports complex with onlya small part of its potential so far fulfilled.The E.T.T.A. were given an opportunity tos~mple th.e facilities and in spite of thedistances Involved felt it was an opportunitynot to be missed.I had not realised the extent of theoperation until I got there and talked topeople and made enquiries. I was veryimpressed by the effort that had been madeby the organisers but also by the parentsof the. children taking part and, of course,the children themselves. Whilst the E.T.T.A.can provide the organisation it would beto no avail without the physical andfinancial support of the parents and I wishto thank them very sincerely for theirefforts. I was very ... pleased to be able totalk to some parents but I had not the timeto go round to all of them.The youngsters fought very hard and Iwas quite impressed with the standard ofplay produced in the latter stages.The Ipswich League provided the basichelp on the spot and their members stuckvery well to their tasks over th,e three days.I have asked the Ipswich. chairman, Mr.Armes, to pass on the grate"ful thanks ofthe E.T.T.A. for their tremendous contribution.The overall organiser, Mrs. Joyce Love,is also the ~ecretary of. the Ipswich League~nd the national councillor for Suffolk, andIS to be congratulated for her contribution.The liaison with the E.T.T.A. was providedby Mike Watts, the deputy generalsecretary, who provided his usual energeticand efficient contribution.The staff at the Eurosports Village wereextremely helpful and could not have donemore for us. The food was well aboveaverage and the accommodation clean andadequate.There will be discussions and reports tosee how the event can be used as a patternfor the futu reo I was su rprised at the progressmade with junior ranking trials since Ifirst took an interest over 20 years agowhen we staged them at Ultra on fourtables. Well done everybody.En,/lInd fOp offlllJ/eIn Junlo, ()pen 'England dominated all the main events inthe Cleveland Junior Open table tennischampionships played at Eston LeisureCentre and sponsored by Cleveland LeisureServices on Saturday/Sunday, 27th/28thNovember..The boys' singles was won by top seed,Nicky Mason, of Surrey, without the loss ofa single game. Mason beat Gary Lambertof .D.evon, 21-12, 21-13 in the quarter-'fi naI,Phillip Gunn of Warwickshire 21-7 21-10 inthe semi-final and then the' Wel~h No. 1Nigel Tyler, 21-8, 21-12 in the final..In the other half of the draw, Tyler didwell. to re~ch the final, his best win beingagainst Bill Gleave in the quarters. AlanCooke,. the. No. 2 England player in thecha~plonshlp from Derbyshire, wasbeaten ~y Yorkshi~e's Stephen Sharp in thequa~ter-flnal, who In turn lost to Tyler in thesemis.The junior girls' singles was also won bythe ~op ~eed, England's No.1 Lisa Bellinger,again without the loss of a game.Her . ~ardest match was against NinaT~akanslanos of .Gloucester (now living in~Iddlesbro~g.h) In the quarter final, whileIn the semi-final Lisa beat Helen Bardwelland in the final she accounted for SusanCollier, who had earlier beaten secondEnglish player, Jean Parker.The under 14 boys' singles was won byBerkshire's Jimmy Stokes who beatOrmesbx's top hope, Stuart Craggs, in thequarter-final and then the Syed brothersMatthew and Andrew in the semi-final andfinal.The under 14 girls' singles was woneasily by Jill Powis, of West Midlands whobeat Lisa Robbins, of Essex 21-5 21-13 inthe final. ' ,Cleveland's best performance came in theunder 11 boys' singles where James Nichols~ndid w~1I !o reach the final only to findMichael 0 Dnscoll of Yorkshire, too good.I~ the girls' section Anne Pashley ofGUlsborough, reached the semi-final andI~st narrowly to Julie Billington, of Chesterfield,who in turn was beaten by her team...mate Kerry Hall in the final.The juni~r team events were both won byEn~land with Mason and Cooke beating theSaints team 'from Devon 3-0 in the final.

Saints did well in the semi-final to beatthe Norwegians 3-1, the Saints team beingMark Ellett and Gary Lambert.The junior girls' team event was againwon by England, Bellinger and Parker beatingthe Gordon League team from Gloucester3-1 in the final. Bellinger won bothher sets while Tsakarisianos did well to beatParker.The under 14 team event was won byReading Omega's Andrew and MatthewSyed who bca,at Hermits of Bradford 3-0 inthe final. Th~ under 14 girls' team winnerswere the Woodfield Club from Wolverhamptonwho beat Melling of Lancashire 3-1.RESULTSU-17 Boys' Singles Se,mi-finals:N. Mason (England) bt P. Gunn (W.Midlands) 21-19, 21-15;N. Tyler (Wales) bt S. Sharpe (Yorkshire)21-1 7, 16-21, 21-15.Final:MASON bt Tyler 21-8, 21-12.U-17 Girls' Singles Semi-finals:L. Bellinger (England) bt H. Bardwell(Herts) 21-10, 21-16;S. Collier (Berks) bt J. Parker (England)21-18, 8-21, 23-21.Final:BELLINGER bt Collier 21-18,21-12.Boys' Doubles:W. Gleave/P. Gunn (Cheshire & W.Midlands) bt N. Mason/A. Cooke(England) 22-20,19-21,21-17.Girls' Doubles:L.:Bellinger/J: Parker (England) bt J.Powis/L. Souter (W., Midlands andMiddlesex) 21-12, 21-11.U-14 Boys Singles:J. STOKES (Berks) bt A. Syed (Berks)17-21, 21-18, 21-14.U-14 Girls' Singles:J. POWIS (W. Midlands) bt L. Robbins(Essex) 21-5, 21-13 ..U-14 Boys' Doubles:A. Syed/J. Stokes (Berks) bt A. Dixon/S. Craggs (W. Midlands & Cleveland)21-10, 21-8.U-14 Girls' Doubles:J. Powis/L. Soutar (W. Midlands &Middlesex) bt D. Soothill/C. Potts(Cumbria & Cheshire) 21-8, 22-20.U-11 Boys' Singles:M. O'DRISCOLL (Yorkshire) bt J. Nicholson(Cleveland) 21-15, 21-10.U-11 Girls' Singles:K. HALL (Derbyshire) bt J. Billington(Derbyshire) 21-10,21-18.U-17 Bo'ys' Team:England bt Saints 3-0.U-17 Girls' Team:England bt Gordon League 3-1.U-14 Boys' Team:Omega bt Hermits 3-0.U-14 Girls' Team:Woodfield bt Melling 3-1.HUMBERSIDE3-STAR OPENGLOSS REMOVEDby Rea BalmfordThe 1982 Humberside 3-Star was, asusual, a highly competitive event and, althoughsome of the gloss must obviouslyhave been removed with the withdrawal ofno less than four of the eight top seededplayers in the two major singles events, anumber made up to five in the absence ofBob Patton, there was some spectacularplay and a memorable Men's Singles se,mifinal.Of the thirteen seeds remaining in this163 strong event only Douggie Johnsonof the top eight made the semi-'finals, atwhich stage he was joined by David Wells(12), Carl Prean (13) and Scotland's KeithRodger (16).Falling by the wayside in Round 2 werethe other two seeded Scots, Richard Yuleand Surrey-based Anglo David Hannah, whodeparted to Malcolm Francis and AndyCreed respectively, as well as SkY' Andrew,who went out to Ian Kenyon, while NigelEckersley of the bewildering service lastedonly one round more before taking his leaveto Kevin Satchell.Having thus cleared the decks, the topquarter of the draw saw Don Parker, pushedto 27, 19 by Kevin Be·adsley in a Round 1thriller, remove surprise packet CliveMorgan from Birmingham, who had beatenFrancis, from his path to line up againstRodger, who had taken Graham Sandley'svacant quarter-final with a Round 4 win overIan Horsham, and it was the Scot who madefurther progress, albeit in three.European Cadet champion Prean tied upthe second quarter after finally putting astop to Kenyon's gallop, in the course ofwhich he had colle,cted the scalps of AlanCooke and Andy Bellingham in addition tothat of Andrew, with a last eight win overAlan Fletcher, back in his native city.Fletcher had lived dangerously, droppinga game on each of his four outingsprior to the quarters, as he took the placewhich had been allocated to County teamcolleague Steve Mills, shown the door in ashock victory by the relatively unknownDavid Hinchliffe from Derbyshire, while alsoworthy of note in this section was a goodrun by the rapidly improving Shaun Browne,who made the most of his Round 1 reprievewhen John Hilton failed to make the date.There were shocks, too, in the other half,the biggest the dismissal of Paul Day, thetitle holder, in the bottom sect.ion, defeatedin a last 16 match by David Constance aftercruising through the first game 21-7, whichwas followed by Constance, in turn, givingbest to Wells, who had previously put outSatchell.It was only in the third quarter that theseeded players followed anything like thepath laid down for them, with Only thedefeat of Hannah, whose allotted quarterfinalspot finally went to Adrian Moore,interrupting the pattern as Johnson camethrough to beat first Kenny Jackson andthen Moore to clinch his semi-final place.The first semi saw Johnson's superbretrieving wear down Wells in a thrillerwhich brought the sizeable group of spectatorsto their feet. Wells took the first at15 and led for most of the second, pickinghis winners to break down Johnson's stonewalldefence but, with some spectacularrallies, the Brummie hung on to shade thesecond 22-20 before taking charge of thedecider.Rodger had a more comfortable passageagainst Prean but, although the final neverreached the heights of the Johnson-Wellsconfrontation, there were some nervetinglingexchanges which ended withJohnson winning in two straight, but closelycontested, games to earn the right to collectthe winner's cheque from Alan McCubbin,the Deputy Director of Humberside CountyCouncil Leisure Services Committee, whowere the major sponsors of the championships.The popular Class 2 Singles, went the wayof David Dodd, who eight months previouslyhad taken the Yorkshire Junior Open Boys'Singles title in the same hall, and he addedthis one with a win over Stephen Moore,elder brother of Adrian, who took the crownlast season.There were far fewer upsets in theparallel Women's Singles, where Karen WittTIESBADGESTROPHIEST-SHIHTS ANDSWEAT SHIHTSALL CLUB INSIGNIATelephone Or WriteForYour EditionOf The Alec BrookCatalogue Illustrated In Full ColourADD (London) Ltd. 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came through to the final without the loss ofa game to defeat Alison Gordon, who canhave done herself no harm in the quarters,when she seized the opportunity to takeout the higher ranked Anita Stevenson.She went on to a final place with a winover Jean Parker, who had put out JoyGrundy - a ~esult that must always be onthe cards when two players who know eachother's game so well are in opposition.Tangible reward came for Wells andKenyon, both of whom had a good tournament,when they won the Men's Doublesfrom the holders Day/Jackson, Miss Wittadded a second title when she claimed theWomen's Doubles with Anita Stevenson,while the Boys', Girls' and Veteran eventsall went the way of the top seeds.Apart from the County Council LeisureServices, the Hull and District Associationowe a debt of gratitude to a number ofNorth Humberside firms and businessorganisations, who were represented byDoug Sinfield, Works Manager of B.P.Chemicals and Brian Farley, Sales Managerof Major and Co. Ltd., who kindly assistedwith the presentation of the awards.RESULTSMen's Singles Quarter-finals,:D. Johnson (Wa) bt A. Moore (Sx) 22, 17;K. Rodger (Sco) bt D. Parker (La)19, -16, 16;D. Wells (Mi) bt D. Constance (Do) 19, 15;C. Prean (lOW) bt A. Fletcher (Y) 12, 16.Semi-finals:Johnson bt Wells -15, 20, 8;Rodger bt Prean 18, 16.Final:JOHNS·ON bt Rodger 20, 17.Wo·men's Single,s Semi-finals:K. Witt (Bk) bt L. Bellinger (Bd) 15, 9;A. Gordon (Bk) bt J. Parker (La) 14, 16.Final:WITT bt Gordon 14, 20.Men's Doubles Semi-finals:Wells/Kenyon (K) bt J. Souter (Mi)/Johnson 16, 18;P. Day (Ca)/K. Jackson (E) bt Rodger/R. Yule (Sco) 13, 13.Final:WELLS/KENYON bt Day/Jackson 13, -17 16.Women's Doubles Semi-finals:Witt/A. Stevenson (Le) bt M. Smith (Bk)/Gordon -17,17,19;L. Bellinger/J. Bellinger (Bd) bt A. Judd(Ca) /F. Elliot (St) 10, 9.Final:WITT/STEVENSON bt Bellinger/Bellinger18, -16, 18.Class 2 Mixed Singles Quarter-finals:D. Dodd (K) bt L. Taylor (Cv) 15, -19, 16;S. Moore (Sx) bt G. Baker (Sy) 19, -13, 16;M. Green (Sp) bt A. Sexton (Sy)-21, 18, 10;A. Cooke (Dy) bt D. Gannon (Le) 15, 20.Semi-finals:Dodd bt Green 6, 17;Moore bt Cooke -10, 17, 20.Final:DODD bt Moore 10, 18.Junior Boys' Singles Semi-finals:N. Mason (Sy) bt P. Gunn (Wa) 8, 16;Cooke bt Sexton 11, 16.Final:MASON bt Cooke 17, 11.Junior Girls' Singles Semi-finals:Parker bt J. Shaw (Y) 14, 14;S. Cotlier (Bk) bt N. Tsakarisianos (Gs)17,12.Page 14Final:PARKER bt Collier 18, -6, 15.Veteran Singles Semi-finals:B. Adedayo (Mi) bt D. Schofield (Ch)17, -13, 16;P. D'Arcy (Ch) bt M. Sheader (Li) 19, 14.Final:ADEDAYO bt D'Arcy -15, 10, 19.THE 54thfDUNLOP'MIDLAND OPENGRAHAM SANDLEY,Photo by Graham Duncan, 22 Elmbourne Rd ..Tooting Bec, London SW17.A complete face-lift, and with a new floor,the Alumwell Centre at Walsall presented avery different picture from the one of old,and a worthy setting for one of the oldest·and most popular Championships in theCountry.Despite a record entry, inc~uding nearlyevery ranked player - a comparative newcomer,and a Junior at that - Alan Cookeof Chesterfield, provided the shocks andstole the show.After an easy passage through theGroups, he disposed of the holder and firmfavourite, Douggie Johnson in Round 1 (17,20) - followed by two straight victoriesover Alan Fletcher, then Max Crimmins.Skylet Andrew was his next victim (8, 19,15) before losing by the narrowest ofmargins in the semi-finals to Donald Parker- 20, 14, 21. A brilliant performance, andon this showing;~ a youngster with a verybright future.Parker accounted for our other leadingJunior, Carl Prean (12, 16, 15) on the wayto the final, where he found the eventualwinner Graham Sandley, a very differentproposition. In rather a one sided affair,Graham took the title, 21, 12, 21, 19, followingan easy two straight win over JohnHilton in the semi-'final.Karen Witt won the Women's Singles title,beating Jackie Bellinger 17, 17 in a goodfinal match:Previously Jackie had surpassed herselfby disposing of higher ranked AlisonGordon, Carol Moore (Knight), and JoyGrundy - all exc"ellent performances ­whilst Karen put out Lisa Bellinger, andAnita Stevenson.The Bellinger sisters easily took theWomen's Doubles, beating Alison Gordonand Mandy Smith (in another one sided final,and Sandley (partnered by DouggieJohnson), gathered first prize in the Men'sDoubles.RESULTSMen's Singles Semi-finals:G. Sandley bt J. Hilton 15, 12;D. Parker bt A. Cooke 20, 14, 21.Final:G. SANDLEY bt D. Parker 12, 19.Women's Single,s Semi-finals:J. Bellinger bt A. Gordon 18, 14;K. Witt bt A. Stevenson 15, 13, 12.Final:K. WITT bt J. Bellinger 17, 17.Men's Doubles Semi-finals:Wells/I. Kenyon bt M. Crimmins/A. Hajid22, 17, 13;D. Johnson/G. Sandley bt J. Hilton/P. Bowen.Final:D. JOHNSON/G. SANDLEY bt D. Wells/I. Kenyon 18, 14.Women's Doubles Semi-finals:J. & L. Bellinger bt A. Stevenson/A. Mitchells 11, 18, 20:A. Gordon/M. Smith bt S. Sandley/A. Mitchell 12, 8, 13.Final:J. & L. BELLINGER bt A. Gordon/M. Smith14, 12.Veterans' Singles Semi-finals:D. Schofield bt B. Adedayo 8, 18;P. 0'Arcy bt S. Battrick 23, 15, 17.Final:P. D'ARCY bt D. Schofield 15,.17,17.Class 2 - Men's Semi-finals:I. Fullerton bt P. Gunn 13, 11, 20;A. Moore bt A. Cooke 16, 20, 19.Final:A. MOORE bt I. Fullerton 21,12.Class 2 - Women's Semi-finals:s. Collier bt S. Cain 7, 12;J. Parker bt J. Parker 14, 17.Final:S. COLLIER bt J. Parker 12, 18, 17.Letters to the Edi torRe: NATIONAL LEAGUE v COUNTYCHA,MPIONSHIPSIt gave me no great pleasure to read yourEditorial (November issue) in which youvoice the opinion I have held, and haveattempted to propogate, for a considerabletime, namely that the County Championshipshave been reduced to what is verymuch a second-class Competition.What I 'find most difficult to understand isthat, as a member of the ManagementCommittee of the Association in your positionas Deputy Chairman, you have beenapparently unable to impress your views onyour colleagues. Although lip service is paidto the principle that these two Competitionsare at least of equal status, nobody in thegame believes that any more, since ,it is soobvious that the Association has as itsfavourite the National League.You call for suggestions as to how best

to solve the problem. My first one would beto sack the Calendar Working Party. Realisingthat this will never be taken seriously(although it is intended as serious) I wouldinvite the Management Committee as analternative to lay down firm policy guidelinesto the C.W.P. It would be necessaryto make it clear that National Leaguematches should not take place on the sameweek-end as County Championship fixtures.This might involve the National League inplaying two matches or more over the sameweek-end. I (can see nothing against thisand do not uhderstand why the C.W.P. hasnot thought of it before.From the same issue of the Table TennisNews I culled several other interestingitems. In the Surrey Notes of Murray Corbinhe records that our Chairman, Tom Blunn,visited the Thames Valley League and toldthem that "the County Championships Conferenceand National Council had turneddown the opportunity of sponsorship someyears ago and it was partly due to thatdecision that the National League had beencreated". Unless Tom has been badly misquoted,his remarks leave me dumbstruck.My Essex colleagues and I have attendedevery C.C. Conference in the last 15 yearsor so, and in all that time the only mentionof sponsorship was when I suggested in thepresence of Tom himself (when he wasmaking a guest appearance) that the Championshipsshould be sponsored in somew~~y, and Tom promised to investigate mypr;oposal. This was long before the NationalLeague was ever thought of and absolutelyno mention of sponsorship has ever beenmade since. If it had been it would surelyhave been jumped at, not "turned down".Then, in the column of myoid adversary,John Woodford, I found some more astonishingstuff. John speaks of the absurdityof Devonshire travelling all over Englandat great expense and cites this as a reasonfor playing off all County ChampionshipDivisions over two week-ends. However, arenot the equally nonsensical journeys ofNicky Mason from Bexhill to Soham andGary Larrlbert from Exmouth to whereverthe Dolphins play (Disneyland?) a reasonfor doing likewise in the Divisions cateringfor the National League minnows (or evengiants) ?At the Meeting of the National Councilheld on the 24th July, I asked the Chairmanwhat steps (if any) were being taken by theAssociation to equate the County Championshipswith the National League in termsof sponsorship, which, you will agree, isthe very point you were making in yourEditorial. I received the reply, and it isminuted, that "discussions were takingplace with two possible sponsors of theCounty Championships". Well, as you imply,by the time they come along, the CountyChampionships may not be around toreceive the money.To surrlmarise, it is my personal viewthat the National League idea has beenallowed to get out of hand and the Associationis entirely to blame for this. The establishmentof a Division of leading Clubs eachwith adequate' sponsorship playing forsubstantial prize money is clearly "a consummationdevoutly to be wish'd". Howeverthe game as a whole must be diminished ifthe long established County Championships,whose structure of junior and senio'r divisionshas been bringing through our bestplayers for many years, is not given equalstatus, equal publicity and equal sponsorship.To allow the National League to spawnSecond and Third Divisions of indeterminatestandard can only degrade the currency oftheir Premier Division and at the same timeclutter up the Calendar with what really areunnecessary Competitions.62 Ardmore Lane,Buckhurst Hill,Essex.ALAN SHEPHERD,THE EQUIPME'NT JUNGLEStuart Greenberg's letter (Table Tennis~ews, Novem~er} reflects the disquiet feltI.n Table TenniS Circles about the equipmentJungle.Unfortunately a confused situation isabout to be made far worse. A likely rulechange will force players to have differentlycoloured rubbers on each side of theirblade.The purpose of this rule is to make lifeeasier for the opponents of corrlbination batplayers. It will be obvious to them whichside of the blade is being used and it ishoped that fewer mistakes and thereforelonger rallies will occur.That, at any rate, is the theory. Thepractice wit I be different.I fail to see how defensive players cansurvive at the highest levels without a combinationbat and how rallies will be prolongedas a result of making defenderseasier to hit and penetrate.Neither is it clear to me against whom weare about to legislate, since ranking listscontinue to be dominated by conventionalfast rubber players and have been eversince the early '50's. There must be somethingwrong in calculations that discriminateagainst a generally unsuccessful minorityand remove one of the few remaining obstaclesto the progress of the 3rd ballrobots. It is that breed that was ushered inby the invention of sponge and the absurdlylow net which have ruined rallies.Stuart Greenberg is quite right in anotherconclusion. Practically ALL players will beforced to buy at least one sheet of rubbersince most now sport the same colour o~both sides of their bat. This will applywhether they have a "funny" rubber orwhether they play with Mark V on bothsides, which is presumably considered "unfunny".If the E.T.T.A. has a membership of60,000 players and if each sheet costs £10then an expenditure of £600,000 is about tobe inflicted on the players by officials whomthey have elected. Our delegates to theI.T.T.~. Congress in Tokyo next April havebeen Instructed to vote in favour of this.You may well conclude that there arebette.r things we can d~ with our money andconSiderable anger Will exist at the grass~oots where some very old bats are used,Indeed treasured. Many bats are boughtready made with adhesive like super-glueand rUbb~r ch?nges. are very di.fficult. Manyplayers Will think thiS a good time to retireand much maligned combination bat expe.rts,~aving spent years perfecting theirSkill, Will be deeply resentful that it is aboutto be taken away from them overnight. Theymay conclude that, if they have to start allover again, it might as well be in snookerand darts or, if they are very athletic,squash. Losses of membership are inevitable.I have to confess that I have no emotionalhang-ups about combination bats. I havenever seriously played with one, but thelittle time I have devoted to them convincedme that they were quite fiendishly difficultto play with and that life was too short.Nei~her did I find them difficult to playagainst and on the rare occasions when Ilost to a funny bat opponent it was becausehe was better than I. 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playing careers and many veterans still getgood results because of them. It is in thatage group that our biggest membershiplosses will occur. My son does play with acombination bat, but that is another story.In my view the prospects for ambitiousplayers in England have seldom been sobleak. It is almost impossible for an Englishplayer, living in England, to reach internationalstatus if he tries to play the gamein the same way as the 'full-time athletes ofother countries where professional attitudesprevail. Most English players are starved ofpractice opportunities. Neither is there theslightest opportunity of earning the moneythat will enable them to live above thepoverty line when playing Table Tennis fulltime.For an English player to succeed,therefore, he either has to be independentlywealthy, emigrate or find his own individualstyle which is likely to be based on funnyrubbers.By marching so enthusiastically into thevoting lobbies therefore, we shall be renderinga disservice to some of our best playersand make sure that we become a secondrate Table Tennis nation. Since our Sportdepends so much on T.V. it is not clear tome what we shall have to offer to the networksif we sacrifice half of our playingstrength on the altar of a very doubtfultheory.The latest converts to this rule changeare said to be the Japanese. I assume thatth'e wonderful business opportunities thatwill arise world-wide as a result of everybodyhaving to buy new rubber in no wayin'fluenced that decision.It is one thing to feel exasperated afterone has been humiliated by an apparentlyunskilled combination bat twiddler. It is anotherto race into the voting chambers and-turn the whole Sport upside down.There IS a case for standardisation, butthere is none for discrimination against theminority and still less for sending themembership on an expensive and unnecessaryshopping spree which willbenefit the Japanese export drive, butnothing else.Is it too late to reverse this folly?National Councillors, please THINK again,stand up and be counted.JOHN PREAN,12 Mar'lborough Road,Ryde, Isle of Wight.37thWORLD CHAMPIONSHIPSSupport YOUR Team in TokyoWhilst only a chosen few represent theircountry in the magical "World Championships",all table tennis enthusiasts are mostwelcome to go along to support their teamsin Tokyo.In 1983 TEES SPORT are organising their3rd supporter's tour to a major championship,at Ii basic cost of £999.00. Thisincludes: Return air fare via Hong Kong,transfers from Airport to Hotel, Bed andBreakfast in a 4 star hotel for 13 days,shuttle bus service to the National Stadium,Season ticket for the Championship, freeday excursion with the Organising Comrnittee,plus souvenir bag, holiday insuranceand a daily analysis of play by ,AlanRansome.Page 16Most of all the organised tour providesthe opportunity to go along to spectatewithout the hassle of arranging your ownflights, accommodation and tickets, etc.,whilst enabling you to learn a great dealabout the technical aspects of the championshipsand meeting new 'friends withsimilar interests.For those who are able to add a littlesightseeing in the fascinating Orient beforeor after their trip to Tokyo, Tees Sport offertwo fu rther options to thei r 37th WorldChampionships package.For further information and a bookingform contact:Tees Sport 0642·217844.We,.11 Co,,,e,by H. ROY EVANSThe Welsh Open, highlight of the Season,looks like attracting the usual galaxy ofstars from Europe, Asia, Canada and theUSA. The tournament, now sponsored byNorwich Union, takes place on January 20thto 22nd, at the National Sports Centre, andequipment will be supplied by TSP. Overtwenty countries will be competing.Holder of the Men's Singles title is UlfThorsell, but he seems unlikely to be includedin the Swedish team. The women'stitle is held by South Korea's An HaeSook.Entries close on December 6th, and thereare already signs of a strong entry fromacross the border. It is hoped to publish thedraw in the January issue.EUROPEAN LEAGUEAfter the narrow loss to Ireland, we wereexpecting to recoup our fortunes againstLuxembourg. Alan Griffiths was still notavailable, so Nigel Thomas, Mark Thomasand Lesley Tyler did duty again.The 6-1 defeat was a big disappointment,taking into account our 3-4 defeat inSwansea last season. Nigel Thomas beatHartmann in the opening match, but thatwas our only win. Mark Thomas should havebeaten Maas, and Lesley Tyler, playingmuch better this season, had third gamechance against Carinne Risch. Mark andNigel lost the doubles 22-24 in the third,and this was followed by a heavy defeat forNigel and Lesley in the mixed.Mark lost to Hartmann, and then Nigellost 19 in the third to Maas.We went to Spain after that, with thesame team. Last season our fixture with theSpaniards was disrupted by the snow inBritain, and the match eventually took placea day late. This time it was the rain inSpain, which evidently doesn't only fall onthe plains, which caused the abandonmentof the Saturday match when floods causedthe electric light to fail.The match was postponed to the nextday, but the Welsh were involved in a taxiaccident on their hour and half journeyto the venue, and arrived rather shaken.And whereas, Spain managed to wring a5-2 win out of their snow epic in ColwynBay, we couldn't reverse the result overthere.Neither Mark nor Nigel could beat Palesor Caymel, but Lesley beat Sanahuja andshe and Mark took the mixed.The final jinx hit the Welsh when the rearrangedflight went to Heathrow, and BrianEverson's car was at Gatwick!Wales plays Switzerland at Caerphilly onDecember 4th, when the same team willagain do duty. The problem for theSelectors is that Alan Griffiths has had notournament play this season, and hisGerman matches do not provide very strongopposition. So although a change mighthave been on the cards, it was'decided topick the same team, and wait for Alan'sperformance in the Cardiff Open onDecember 18th.There are 'further European Leaguematches against Turkey on January 19th onthe eve of the Welsh Open and againstPortugal on January 25th at Bridgend.SHROPSHIRESTAR SHIELDSFor the past two years the PontesburyTTA have organised an invitation Under-14and Under-12 team competition for theShropshire Star Shields. A maximum of 12Under-14 and six Under-12 teams to competein a one day tournament to be held onSaturday, 14th May, 1~83 at the Mary WebbSchool, Pontesbury, Shropshire~ Playingconditions as for a 2-star tournament.The day's play will commence at 10 a.m.(extension for the teams with the greatestdistance), and be completed by 6.30 p.m.approx. and will guarantee each participatingplayer a minimum of seven sets and amaximum of 10. Each team to consist offour players, either boys or girls, who playin the same association, with each matchconsisting of eight singles, with a doublesonly being played in the event of a draw.Members of teams who fail to qualify forthe final stage compete in a consolationsingles event.Every effort to date has been made tokeep the standard of teams as high aspossible. Last year's winning team at U-14were Wolverhampton, whose team includedEngland-ranked Adrian Dixon and MurrayJukes, while Bradford (David Rook andMartin Firth) were successful in 1981. AtUnder-12 the very strong Chesterfield associationwere last year's winners, whileGrove dominated the event the yearprevious. This tournament has been calledthe unofficial national team championshipsfor these age groups, so any associationwith a strong cadet or Under-12 membershipshould apply for an entry form at theirearliest convenience, to avoid disappointment,from organiserJOHN MORRIS,2 School Bank, Pontesbury,Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY5 OPP.Telephone Shrewsbury 790303 (B).

THIS & THAT IN SURREYby MURRAY CORBINERIC AUSTIN, Head of P.R., South East Divisionof the TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, shares amoment of delight with MICHELE HAMS, aftershe won the U·17 Girls' Junior Championship bydefeating JANE BARELLA In the final.TSB SURREY JUNIOR CLOSEDThe sun opened its arms and gave awarm welcome to the U-14's on the first dayof these Championships last month, atElmbridge Leisure Centre. At the end of theday, RICHARD JONES had a conclusive winover Rupert Greatwood in the Boys' U-12Singles; SUSAN VIGOR was victorious overher chum Cheryl Bateman in the Girls' U-12Singles; JULIAN DUDMAN was taken tothree by Richard Jones in the Boys' U-14Singles - a very creditable performancehere by young Richard; CLAIRE BROOKSdisplayed great skill in spanking KarenWilde 16 and 15 in the Girls' U-14 Singles;JULIAN DUDMAN/SIMON HURLEY helpedand encouraged each other admirably innegating Jones/Derren Hams attacks in theBoys' U-14 Doubles, while CLAIRE BROOKS/KAREN WILDE, with their experience andskills, were always in control in the Girls'U-14 Doubles against the sisters Katherineand Joanna Binks, who played remarkablywell. I will follow their progress withinterest.On the second day, the weather wasaverage - cold, wet and gloomy. The typeof day when I could understand the reasonfor MARGARET JONES getting lost. However,rumour has it that on the first daywhen it was bright and lovely, Margaret lefthome with young Richard, went down theA3, but turned off at Tolworth rather thangoing straight on, ended up in WorcesterPark and calmly asked Richard if theLeisure Centre had moved recently. By thistime, poor Richard had bitten his fingernails, and the rubber from the edges of hisbat and had started on the seats.The table-tennis was pretty good andreached a fair standard later in the day.With Nicky Mason missing (by the way, Inote with interest that he whipped MaxCrimmins 10 and 20 in a Premier Divisionmatch recently and is performing very wellfor Soham), all eyes were on AndrewSexton to see if he could take the title,but with people like Andrew Hardy, NeilSutton and the unpredictable David Dewsburyaround, well, who knows what wouldhappen?The protagonists for the Boys' U-17Singles were established when HARDY beatDewsbury, and SEXTON getting the betterof Julian Daniels; both semis going to three.In the final, Hardy did not serve or positionthe ball to get his "above average" forehandloop drive in play sufficiently, andSEXTON was therefore able to control anddictate the pattern of play. Throughout theday, Sexton always looked a cut above theothers. He could become a very good playerand I believe that he needs more encouragementto be braver and to take morecalculated chances, which he must plan.Unfortunately, in Surrey, as in manyCounties, too many players are encouragedto play too softly and safely. This not onlysets up a winning situation for theiropponents, but it creates a state of being"chickens" and "bottlers". Only the bravesurvive at top level. Too many Coachesworry about their pupils losing. The pupilstherefore grow up with a negative attitude.Look around and you will see what I mean.I thought Sexton played rather well, but Icould look at him and tell when he was orwas not confident in what he was doing.One must always have the confidence ofones actions, while realising that, beinghuman, mistakes will be made. If thepsychology of this is understood, mistakesbecome further and further apart. The worldis then your oyster.During the day, MICHELE HAMS playedexcellently. She sustained her aggressionby combining forearm top spin with fast,crisp, no-messing-about backarm rolls, inorder to destroy her opponents, and in theGirls' lJ.17 Singles final, Jane Barella wasthe last victim of this current "businesslike" Michele. Jane, to her credit, hadearlier in the day, been involved in a"match of the day" with Jane Mills, wholost in the third. The Boys' U-17 Doubleshonour went to HARDY/SUTTON, whoproved too skilful and tactful for Sexton/Melville Taylor. Melville appeared to be,over-awed by the occasion. He too is a 'soft'player. The Girls' U-17 Doubles final was anexciting three game affair between JaneMills/Jane Barella and MICHELLE HAMS/LESLEY / POPKIEWICZ, the eventualwinners, while in the Mixed, SEXTON/POPKIEWICZ made light work of Sutton/Michele Hams.The support given over the years by ourgenerous sponsor THE TRUSTEESAVINGS BANK, has played a significantpart in the development of Junior tabletenniswithin the County. Dutifully presentand I believe even more so because of theirgenuinue interest in the progress of thesport in Surrey, were ERIC AUSTIN, Headot P.R. Department, S.E. Division of theT.S.B., and his lovely and gracious wifeJanet, who was presented with a bouquetby the equally lovely Miss CHERYL BATE­MAN, on behalf of the Surrey TTA. TheChampionships were again organisedsuccessfully by ALAN GRANT and much ofthis is also due to the help and co-operationof many good people including PHILGOACHER, NORMAN HOOPER, JOHNHAMMOND, JANICE SEABROOK, TERRYCARPENTER, JUNE LODGE, MIKE andGEOFF GREEN, GAIL McCOLLOUGH, FREDGARBET and JIM CARTWRIGHT.BITS AND PII;CESI am sorry but I do not have the time toreport on the County games ... JEROMEJONAH looks a very good prospect . . .CLAIRE 'The' Legs' BROOKS is now residingat 37 The Ruffets, South Croydon. Tel.01-6570203. Ifwill give her the publicity shedeserves next month, on account of hersuccesses during the last few months ...What has happened to LYNNE BENNETT?I have not seen her for a long time . . .Many players, to name but a few, have beenable to raise their standard of play sincethe Summer Coaching, including JULIANDUDMAN (he is the image of his Mumfacially), CHERYL BATEMAN, MARIAHITCHCOCK, RICHARD JONES, JANE andNEIL' SUTTON, SIMON HURLEY, and ofcourse, 'Legs' BROOKS ... I do so muchadmire NEIL SUTTON for the structure andcontents of his game. He is a fine youngman from a fine family. Lovely people!Surrey is blessed with quite a few lovelyT.T. families ... lowe a special 'thank you'to CHRIS GLOSSOP and PETERBURROWES for the sandwiches theysupplied me with during the Saturdaysessions at Tweeddale in the summer ...Too many players are reading TABLETENNIS NEWS on the cheap. Bad on you!Order your own and support your sport ...Please do not forget that (1) the entries tothe TSB SOUTH OF ENGLAND JUNIOROPEN at Woking on 15/16 Jan. close onWednesday, Dec. 15. Yes, this month; and(2) the entry forms for the SURREYSENIOR CLOSED at Elmbridge on 29 Jan.,are in circulation ... In case you missedlast month's THIS AND THAT, it was onpage 24. Check it out . . . HAPPY XMASAND A. PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! YOUHEAR? Adios!Philip Reid reports from ...LEICESTERSH IRELUCKY - AND UNLUCKYLeicestershire first team recorded a maximum10-0 win against Staffordshire II in a2nd Division encounter but were lucky to doso. Even the most biased of Leicestershiresupporters (including myself!) would agreethat Staffordshire were very unlucky not totake a couple of sets early on. But the goodfortune for the hunting shire did not last.Entertaining Yorkshire II, the home sidewere not a little bemused to find themselves3-0 down, with Chris Rogers, Paul Randelland David Gannon all losing. The ladies ­Karen Rogers and Anita Stevenson ­pulled them back but disaster struck when,in the final set of the evening David Gannonled Steven Sharpe 20-16 in the third only tosuccumb to the talented Yorkshire youngsterwho thus gained a point for the Tykes.It was a magnificent match, full of entertain-Page 17

ing play and good sportsmanship. Theyoung Yorkshire players Tony Sanderson(who beat Paul Randell and Chris Rogers- a great performance) and Mark IIlingsworthplayed very soundly indeed but I wasparticularly impressed with Steven Sharp.Still a junior, he displayed a wide range ofstrokes and a temperament uncanny in oneso young. He was involved in nail-bitingfinishes with Chris Rogers and DavidGannon and each time his superb, unruffledcalm did the trick. Four of the games wentto 19 or 20 in the third and Yorkshire wonthree of them but deserved to. These Yorkshireplayers were a credit to their county.I often hear of outbursts, bad sportsmanship,etc., of youngsters. One wants to lookat the likes of Alan Cooke (Derbyshire),Adrian Moore (Sussex), Carl Prean (lOW)and Steven Sharpe (Yorkshire), to seesportsmanship and play at its very best.Thank you Yorkshire for giving me and thecrowd assembled there an evening toremember!The Veterans, meanwhile are finding thegoing very much to their liking. Geoff Aidwinckle,who appears to have taken on anew lease of life, was the hero againstHertfordshire, winning two in a close 5-4encounter. He had to struggle against thesporting Avon team and his 24-22 in thethird win against Roy Smith was as theresult of an expedite at 21-20 in the third(which Mike Jackson missed!).The juniors went down 7-3 to Yorkshire IIwhere only David Aldwinckle sparkled withtwo wins but even he was powerless againstLancashire, the team going down 10-0.SCORESLeicestershire 5 Yorkshire II 5C. Rogers lost to A. Sanderson -19, -19;lost to S. Sharpe 16, -20, -21.P. Randell lost to Sanderson 21, -20, -19;bt M. IIlingsworth -19, 10,20.D. Gannon lost to Sharpe -18, 13, -23;lost to IIlingsworth 12, -16, -16..Miss A. Stevenson beat Miss H. Shields18, 17.Mrs. K. Smith beat Miss J. McLean 15, 14.Rogers/Randell beat Sanderson/Sharpe-13, 10, 11.Miss Stevenson/Mrs. Smith bt Miss Shields/Miss McLean 6, 18.Leicestershire Jnrs 0 Lancashire Jnrs 10D. Aldwinckle lost to P. Huggon -19, -16;lost to P. Aspinall -12, -15.P. Bumpus lost to Huggon -6, -11;lost to M. Mercer -20, -21.1. adams lost to Aspinall -11, -17;lost to Mercer -13, -21.Miss J. Murray lost to Miss C. Hemming-8, -5.Miss T. Clark lost to Miss A. Holt -11,17, -7.Aldwinckle/Bumpus lost to Aspinall/Mercer-18, 12, -11.Miss Murray/Miss Clark lost to MissHemming/Miss Holt -15, -10.Leicestershire Veterans 7 Avon Veterans 2J. Iliffe beat A. Broen 18, 18;bt C. Tincknell 14, 7.C. Truman bt Brown 18, 8:bt R. Smith 19, 11.G. Aldwinckle bt Tincknell 14, 8;bt Smith 12, -17, 22.Mrs. P.. Kilsby lost to Mrs. M. Hooker-22, -13.Truman/Aldwinckle lost to Brown/Smith12, -10, -11.IIifte/Mrs. Kilsby beat Tincknell/Mrs.Hooker 17, 8.In the Leicester League 'Top-Spin' con-tinues its fifteenth year of publication, underthe editorship of Terry Bown. This magazinegoes from strength to strength with competitions,articles being included along withthe usual league chatter.Two divisions I can confidently forecastthe winners are the top and bottom divisions.Knighton Park are carrying all beforethem and look like winning the first divisionwith a record number of sets. The trio ofChris Rogers, Karen Smith and MartinPickles look pretty useful but if anythingshould happen to any of them there'salways Dave Gannon in reserve! Newarkehave recorded wins of 10-0 and 9-1 overtheir nearest challengers in Division 18 soit's a case of 'Who will be runners-up?'. Afamiliar figure operating in Division II is theerstwhile Jones & Shipman secretary, FredDay. Fred has been around a few years ­over 30 actuallyy - but he can still showthe youngsters a thing or two when it comes·to defending. At least two players in theleague were playing 50 years ago. ThePresident, Phil Smith has played in theleague every year since its inauguration in·1932 and not far behind is Dorothy Tudor,who turns out regularly for British Rail.John Shade continues to send me theexcellent Hinckley magazine 'The HinckleyLoop'. It is surprising that Hinckley, a smalltown languishing in the Southern part ofthe county (four miles more and it would bein Warwickshire), has produced three of thegreatest players Leicestershire have everknown - Ernie McLeish, John lIiffe - andperhaps greatest of all, that legend in hisown life-time, Johnny Burraston.I will take this opportunity of wishing youall a very Happy Christmas and a ProsperousNew Year.'Jack Chalkley reports from.STAFFORDSHIRENO HARM DONEAgainst our old adversaries. Leicestershire,who last year beat our 'A' side, wecould hardly expect our 'B' team to winmany matches, but a 10-0 drubbing wasa little unfair. But that's the way it turnedout and, in the long run, I am sure the experiencewill do us no harm. Both GregHallam and Craig Bakewell took opponentsto "deuce" in the third, the latter giving asplendid performance against EnglandrankedChris Rogers. To be fair, Leicestershirepaid us the honour of playing theirstrongest team - surely destined to win thedivision this year - and those of us travellingto Leicester were treated to some firstclass table tennis. Thanks to Mr. Powis, wewere able to field Fiona Elliot and Jill Powis,both of whom had to be whisked away froma coaching weekend at Lilleshall, and•against the highly ranked Leics pair of AnitaStevenson and Karen Smith neither weredisgraced. It was good to see the long timescourge of Staffordshire sides, Paul Randell,again, now in his new slimline form and, asever, always anticipating the right positionat the table.RESULTS (Leics names first)Randell bt Mark Evans -17, 16, 16;bt Hallam 15, 13.Dave Gannon bt Hallam 16, -21, 12;bt Bakewell 14, -15, 17.Rogers bt Bakewell -15, 15,20;bt Evans 16, 17.Randell/Rogers bt Evans/Hallam 18, ·16,17.Stevenson bt Elliot 14, 17.Smith bt Powis 13, 8.Stevenson/Smith bt ElliotjPowis 19, 17.Our Junior 'A' team scored a spectacularwin over Northamptonshire. The visitors hada strong combination in McKim and Hawes,and there was every indication that thesetwo would secure a point by winning alltheir singles and the dOUbles, but StaffsNo.3, Kevin Cartwright (Wolverhampton),in the last match of the afternoon, haddifferent ideas. Admittedly, he left it to"deuce" in the third, but with our girlsagain showing their strength and RichardHayward and Cartwright beating the weakerNo.3, the juniors gained their second 6-4win of the season. We can hardly expectre-election to the Premier this season, butthis is providing a good base for next yearwhen we will be able to field an almost unchangedside.RESULTS (Staffs first)Adrian Dixon lost to J. Hawes -16, -17;lost to G. McKim 20, -13, -14. 'Hayward bt R. Bashford 7, 5;lost to McKim 15, -19, 14.Cartwright bt Bashford -18, 12, 18;bt Hawes 19, -8, 21.Dixon/Hayward lost to McKim/Hawes-18, 17, -12.Jill Powis bt M. Shears 12, 5.Tracey Spencer bt D. Furniss 8, 8.Powis/Spencer bt Shears/Furniss 6, 19.Staffs Junior 'B' also gained their secondwin of the season with a 6-4 victory away toNotts 'A' side. The Stafford trio of RachelRoberts, Stephanie Hadley and AdrianHough were the main contributors, withStephen Meigh (Potteries) also adding asingles win. Neil Harris (Wolverhampton)at No. 1 was the other member of the team.Our thanks are due to the hardworkingWolverhampton trio of Mike Leach, JohnHarvey and Colin Pearse for successfu!lystaging the Malcolm Scott MemorialRestricted Tournament at the WoodfieldClub. John had a rewarding day, seeingboth his sons, Matthew (still a junior) andMartin, reach the semi-finals and bothfalling to the eventual winner, Dave Hanney(Lichfield and Wolverhampton). Groupwinners in the men's event were P. Chester,Matthew Harvey, D. Russell, A. Hough, D.Hanney, R. Hayward, K. Cartwright, T.Jones, M. Hughes, R. Dixon, K. Baker, K.Lawrence and Martin Harvey. In the semifinals,Hanney beat Matthew Harvey 17, 11and Martin beat Mark Hughes 12, 19. In anentertaining hard-hitting final, Dave Hanneywon in straight sets, but only just, 11, 20.Jill Powis' name is certainly dominatingthe news this month. In a three-corneredplay-off in the women's event, Jill beat bothTracey Spencer and Angela Sanders, andTracey took the runners-up position with awin over Angela.Guess who took all the ladies and girlshonours in the Woodfield One-Star Tournament?Yes, Jill Powis. In the Women'ssingles, she faced the Staffs No. 1 JillHarris in the semi-final and ran out an -18,13, 15 winner and in the final she had anarrow 11, -21, 22 victory over Janet Dunning.Paired with Amanda Hegarty, they wonthe Women's Doubles with a 17, -22, 17defeat of Dunning and J. Cornock. In theGirls' it was straight sets wins all the way,beating M. Carey 15, 13 in the final. TraceySpencer partnered Jill to win the Girls'Doubles final against M. Carey and F. Stuart13, -20, 10,Page 18

The Men's trophy also stayed in theCounty, with Andrew Bellingham justifyinghis No. 1 ranking with a victory over theSussex professional champion, MalcolmFrancis, 12 and 14 in the final. Bellinghambeat the Staffs No. 2 (in the newly publishedCounty rankings). Craig Bakewell 12,22 in the semis and it was good to see TonyIsaac up amongst the leaders as the othersemi-finalist. Isaac and Bellingham werepaired in the Doubles but lost to anotherlocal pair Trevor Washington and SteveDunning (Worcs) -12, 18, 18 in the final.In the Boys' events, M. Randle beat M.Jukes -13, 13, 17 and Jukes and AdrianDixon beat M. Thomas and J. Singh 18,18.The November County rankings are givenbelow. The selectors again face an impossibletask of ranking some of the men,and whilst the level of competition must begood for the County, one has to feel somesympathy for those who, at the moment,have had to come off worse. Equal rankingsare not accepted, so someone has to suffer.Let's hope it has the beneficial effect ofincreasing their resolve to get to the top.Men1 A. Bellingham, 2 C. Bakewell, 3 A. Rich,4 M. Evans, 5 P. Barnett, 6 G. Hallam, 7 W.Bridgeman, 8 S. Rochelle, 9 R. Williams,10 J. Hancock, 11 D. Hanney, 12 An Dixon,13 P. Dawes, 14 R. Murray.Women1 J. Harris, 2 F. Elliot, 3 J. Dunning, 4 J.Powis, 5 S. Cain, 6 L. Burgess, 7 A. Hegarty,8 R. Roberts, 9 P. Brookes.Boys1 Ad Dixon, 2 R. Hayward, 3 K. Cartwright,4 N. Harris, 5 M. Harvey, 6 K. Lawrence, 7A. Hough, 8 S. Meigh, 9 C. Burgess, 10 R.Heap.Girls1 F. Elliot, 2 J. Powis, 3 A. Hegarty, 4 A.Sanders, 5 R. Roberts, 6 T. Spencer, 7 S.Hadley.Cadet Boys1 Ad Dixon, 2 M. Harvey, 3 K. Lawrence, 4S. Slater, 5 N. Tongue, 6 R. Shelton, 7 K.Grey, 8 A. Till, 9 M. Stretton, 10 J. Cooper.Cadet Girls1 J. Powis, 2 A. Sanders, 3 K. Rogers, 4 H.Lower, 5 J. Dixon, 6 T. Pennington, 7 J.Harris, 8 L. Sherratt, 9 A. Flaherty.The County have invested in a number oflapel badges displaying the new design ofthe County badge. The badge will form thecentre piece of future County trophies. It isa very attractive design as also is the priceat 60p, and we are looking for a good saleamongst table tennis players in the County.They are available at all County events orfrom most league secretaries or Countyofficials.At a recent County Committee Meeting,concern was expressed about the conditionof many of the County trophies. We obviouslyneed to bring them back to presentableform and a considerable sum of money mayhave to be spent. Will holders of individualtrophies and the County league teamtrophies please return them to the secretary,Derek Sherratt, no later than themiddle of January, and it is important thatwe all take note of the fact that thesetrophies need to be kept safely and in goodcondition - there is no doubt that theirstate is due to lack of care and concern,probably by many people over the pastyears,Iris Moss reports from ...MIDDLESEXON THE MOVEFirst of all, I must apologise for theabsence of Middlesex Notes in the magazineso far this season, but I am hoping tomove house in the very near future andhaving been in one place for 34 years theclearing up is taking all my time. Needlessto say I will be putting an announcementin the magazine as soon as I know mymoving date but in the meantime my currentaddress will find me and I will be arrangingfor the Post Office to forward my mail.Unfortunately we had to abandon theMiddlesex Under-15 Open this year. Lack ofsponsorship and shortage of time on mypart to chase it up made it impossible forus to cope. We are hoping that a bit ofluck, and maybe a little improvement in theeconomic situation, will enable us to runthe event next season.The Middlesex 3-Star Open too was indoubt for some time. Due to a misunderstandingthe hall was let for the Saturdayevening but by restricting entries we havemanaged to run it. Once again we areindebted to Levomex Exports and ButterflyTable Tennis U.K. Ltd. for sponsorship andto the Management of Picketts Lock whoare doing all they can to keep charges to aminimum. By the time this article is readthe Tournament will probably be over, hopefullyin better weather conditions than lastyear, and a full report will be published assoon as possible.Sadly, we have lost two Leagues thisseason. E.DW.A.S.C.A, which was theEnfield Works Association founded in 1947lost so many "Works" through the recessionover the last two seasons that they wereunable to continue, and the Isle of DogsLeague which was a "young" Leaguefounded in 1979 are finding difficulty inmustering sufficient support to run a programme.The Secretary of the Isle of DogsLeague (Laurie Laken, 28 Cahir Street,London E14 80R) is still willing to keepgoing if he can find enough Clubs to makeit worthwhile, so if you belong to a Club inthe area and would like to take part contactLaurie right away.The Middlesex teams which have playedin the County Championships have hadmixed success so far, with the Senior andJunior Premier teams not having played todate. We will be watching their progresswith great interest.Les D'Arcy reports fram .YORKSHIRESPOTLIGHT ON THE LEAGUESHarrogateRichard Whiteley, just out of the juniorsand now ranked No. 8 in the Yorkshiremen's list is helping YRHA 'A' to defendtheir Harrogate 1st Division title this season.Main challengers are Wanderers 'A' (NickyDavies, Graham Carr, Ian Walmsley), St.George's 'A' and M.M.P. NALGO 'A' andYRHA '0' are joint leaders of Division 2with Dunlop 'A' leading Division 3. CountyChairman, Geoff Scruton still finds time toplay in the Harrogate League and recentlylead his team, KSC 'I' to a 6-4 win overHayelton '0', Geoff taking all three.One of Geoff's umpiring colleagues, LewisWard, has recently been awarded the goldmedal for blood doning. Fifty pints of bloodis the minimum for this award so Lewis,must feel quite "drained". Seriously, it is atremendous contribution to the medicalworld, made over a twenty-five year period.There must be something in blood doning,for this cheerful and energetic enthusiast isa human dynamo at tournaments where heleads by example and is a tonic to hisfellow officials and players alike. Keep upthe good work Lewis.Harrogate for its population size (64,620),with 83 teams and 340 players must be oneof the biggest in the country. One reason forits success could be the sets system usedto determine their divisional championshipsinstead of points given in the usual way,each set won counts as a point. sets lost ­points against.YorkChris Elliott reports that the York Leagueare trying out the system this season andfinding it creates more interest with everyset being important for promotion, relegationand divisional positions. The top fourteams in division 1 last season are makingfull use of the new system: champions Railway'A', RU Hospitals 'A', WLD andBootham, all registered 10-nil wins in openingmatches.A familiar face missing from the York TILthis season is Trevor Percival. Trevor representedYork nearly 80 times in the YorkshireLeague and held the men's doublesand mixed doubles titles. I'm sure allTrevor's friends in the York League and therest of Yorkshire look forward to his returnin the forseeable future with a renewedzest for the game. Len Godridge hasdecided to make a comeback and will joinDivision 4 leaders Stillington 'A'.David Atkinson may be in Division 5, buthad he given more time to playing thegame he could possibly have been in countyclass, for as an official, he has proVed hisworth at city and county levels. Starting in1963 as Shepherd's SC Secretary, Davidbecame a member of the York TTL Committeein 1968 and to date has held mostof the major posts including GeneralSecretary/Tournament Secretary combinedfrom 1976-81. David was awarded the YorkshireTrophy for service to York and Dist.table tennis on no less than seven occasionssince 1968 - a remarkable achievement.Earlier this year, on his retirementfrom the County Management Committee,David was awarded with Yorkshire's SpecialBadge for outstanding service to the county.Now, with more ·time for playing available,David could soon be adding trophies of adifferent type to his collection.HullLeague President, George Watts, hasonce again lined up with Beverley OMA foran incredible fifty-seventh season. Georgewho has played for OMA during the wholeof his table tennis career won two of hissingles in the season's opening matchagainst Jackson's 'A' in Division 4. AlanMerkin, another long serving Beverley OMAplayer came through the second match unbeatenin the singles v Midland Bank 'A' ­creditable performances from two of Yorkshire'ssuper veterans.At the other end of the age scale,nationally ranked cadets John Bult andAlison Evans (Wold) are leading the way inDivision 1. John (3). Alison (2) and GarethPage 19

Bult (1) showed their class with a 7-3 winover Judlan 'A'. John has given furtherindication of his progress by coming runnerup to Tony West (Essex) in the N. YorkshireJunior Open at Boroughbridge.BradfordKevin Beadsley collected a hat-trick ofwins in early season tournaments - N. Yorks,W. Yorks and Yorks Closed - the lattertitle being for a record fourth successivetime. At the W. Yorkshire 2-Star, Kevin'sdoubles partner scratched. Spectator, DavidHinchcliffe (Sheffield), volunteered to takehis place and finished up taking the Championshipwith Kevin, after knocking outJohn Hilton and Phil Bowen in the semi andSteve Mills/Chris Rogers in the final.Mills made amends by defeating Hiltonin the singles final 11-21, 21-12, 21-19 afterbeating Peter McQueen in the semis.Bradford Yorkshire League sides havebeen on good form as usual, but will havesome difficulty working out why Bradford IIlost 8-2 against Wakefield in the PremierDivision. B.radford III in the opening matchof the season defeated Wakefield 8-2 andthen lost 8-2 to Bradford II. Steve SharpewhoJlost all three in straight games againstthe 3rds (David lndriks, Paul Rook andMick Holt), came back with a vengeance towin all three against the 2nds, once again instraight games and the doubles with AlanSummerscales (two singles).Alan's father, George, also won two in amatch which left Steve Kosmowsky, RichardPriestly and Ian Gomersall more than alittle bewildered and Wakefield celebratingtheir best Yorkshire League win in recenttimes.Next month's Yorkshire notes will featuretwo outstanding Bradford veterans - SteveNunn and Arthur Bowers.Leslie Constable reports on the.ST. NEOTS WINTER LEAGUEIn the Senior Division of the St .NeotsWinter l.eague Ely started off well by beatingSt. Neots and Peterborough 6-3 and 8-1respectively and look as if they are all setto make the running for the title at thisearly stage. Welling borough also made agood start by beating both Cambridgeteams by a 6-3 margin and Northamptonwon their first two matches by beatingNorth Herts 'A' and North Herts 'B' by 5-4and 7-2 respectively. St. Neots could be aserious threat to the above teams as theyhad a very convincing victory over Cambridge8-1. The remainder of the matches tothe end of the first half of the season shouldbe very interesting and my contention isthat Ely and St. Neots will be very prominentat that stage.A CLOSE MATCHSt. Neots 'A' 5 Cambridge 4This Veterans' Division match was oneof the closest in the division and fortunesswayed as the match progressed. AlthoughJohn Thurston was the mainstay of theCambridge team by winning all his threesingles he could not prevent St. Neotswinning by the odd set in nine. Len Saywellplayed well for St. Neots and had a closeset with Thurston before losing at 19 and16. Ken Green was the only other victor forCambridge when he beat Gus Albon in aset that went to expedite in the secondgame. All in all a very good match thatmay have a good bearing on the title atthe end of the season.RESULTSSenior DivisionKettering 4 Peterborough 5Cambridge 'B' 3 Wellingborough 6Ely 6 St. Neots 3Cambridge 'A' 5 R.A.F. 4Northampton 'A' 7 North Herts 'B' 2North Herts 'A' 4 Northampton 'A' 5St. Neots 8 Cambridge 'B' 1Wellingborough 6 Cambridge 'A' 3North Herts 'B' 6 Kettering 3Peterborough 1 Ely 8Veterans' DivisionBarnet 7 Bedford 2Peterborough 'A' 2 North Herts 7St. Neots 'A' 5 Cambridge 4St. Neots 'B' 4 Northampton 5Peterborough 'B'Hunts CentralNorth Herts 7 Northampton 2Hunts Central 7 Peterborough 2Bedford a St. Neots 'A' 9Cambridge 7 Peterborough 'A' 2Barnet 9 St. Neots 'B' aPeterborough 'B' a Bedford 9St. Neots 'A' 3 Barnet 6Northampton 2 Hunts Central 7St. Neots 'B' 2 North Herts 7Peterborough 'A' 1 Cambridge 8Doug Moss reports from ..WORCESTERSHIREARRANGj:MENTS IN HANDArrangements for the County ClosedChampionships are well in hand and theAssociation has been fortunate in obtainingsponsorship for the Senior event again thisseason. Mr. Peter Hines (Newton of PentonTransport) has agreed to continue thesupport he gave last year. This not onlyentails financial help but transport for thecollection and return of tables. The JuniorClosed, including Cadets events, is to beheld at Christopher Whitehead School,Worcester on 2 January and it is expectedthere will be a bumper entry. It is to behoped the weather will be very much kinderthan last year when the Tournament had tobe abandoned at 2 p.m. so that playerscould combat a raging blizzard to get home.The Senior Closed is held at the sametime each year, which makes Leagues ableto arrange their own dates for local Tournamentsand keeps the players aware of theoccasion and helps the entry. It will thereforebe held on Sunday, 13 February andwill continue at the Perdiswell SportsCentre, Worcester with 12 tables. JohnMytton (Referee) and Diana Moss (TournamentSec.) will be in charge of both Championships.The organisation was made verydifficult last year by having to complete atleast half of the Junior Championships atthe Senior event and the added complicationof players like Louise Davies, MurrayJukes and Jeremy Duffield being successfulin 6/7 events! There is a determination tosee there is not such a handicap thisseason.There has been another Round of CountyChampionship matches since my last report.The 1st team won a vital match againstHerefordshire by 6-4. The County ladies,namely Lynda Reid and Mandy Mytton, weretoo strong for the Hereford ladies and wonthree events. However the Herefordshire No.3 (Andy Castle), was beaten both by SteveDunning and Nick Bottomley and thenTrevor Washington played the captain's roleby winning a vital match against MichaelOwens. Mark Owen (Hereford No.1) wasin his usual convincing form to win twosingles and the doubles event. The Veteranshad a very hard match against Cheshire IIand certainly did not deserve to be beaten6-3. The team was without No. 1 MervynWood. Two events were lost at deuce inthe third game and one at 17-21 in thedecider. In Brian Belcher's singles againstthe Cheshire No.2 the expedite rule had tobe introduced at 19-20 in the third gamejust when Brian had staged a fighting comeback!Then came an anti-climax when theCheshire player served first and won thevital point after two good returns! BrianBelcher and Brian Thompson both beatTerry Donlon, who was a bronze medalistin the over 50 event in the unofficial Worlds. Veterans Championships. The juniors foughtwell against Oxfordshire but were withoutthe services of Louise Davis and MurrayJukes, who were at Lilleshall. NeverthelessDavid Taylor, Dean Kloos and Mark Joneseach won a singles event and the team lost4-6.Thanks to Ken Walton stepping into thebreach the County League will be runningagain this season with teams from Bromsgrove,Dudley, Kidderminster and Malvern.It is most disappointing that the WorcesterLeague cannot see its way to enter a team.The County Team K.O. Competitions area feature of the Association's activities eachseason. They continue this season withPeter Bird doing his usual good work. TheScratch competition has 15 entries withteams from all over the County and twoteams from Herefordshire who, by tradition,are allowed to take part. The Shock SupplyCo. team from Leominster, Herefordshire,must be the favourites as the team includesMark Owen, Michael Owens and AndyCastle who form the Herefordshire Countyteam. The Handicap competition has 34entries with a wide representation anddisparity in standards. To cope with this theteam handicaps range from Owe 30 toReceive 2901The Premier Division of the WorcesterLeague is proceeding well with a highstandard of play. DroitwiCh Hardware 'A'team is the most successful at this stageand are unb~aten. The registered playersinclude Mark Owen, Michael Owens (Herefords)and David Harvey (Glos). Michael isthe only unbeaten player at presentamongst those who have played regularly.In a recent Carpets of Worth match vSaucerers, 15-year-old Murray Jukes beatBill Dawe, Glos County player, and SimonClaxton at 21-15,21-11. Murray has recentlybeen in good form in a Junior Ranking trialand at the Woodfield Open, Wolverhamptonhe won the Junior Doubles and was runnerup in the Junior Singles event. It hasbeen interesting to see that Steve Taylor(of Bromsgrove) and Willy Ahern (ofMalvern), who are on the County rankinglist, although not at present high enough tocommand a place in the teams, have beenplaying well and getting some good victories.Brian Belcher, County Veteran, hasalso been a force to contend with in thisDivision - as would be expected!I feel that the Worcester League is probablyin a unique situation as regards itsYouth League. There are some 16 teamsplaying in 2 Divisions. All the matches areplayed on the same night and at the samePage 20

venue, i.e. on Thursdays at Lea and PerrinsFactory with up to six tables available. Thishas the advantage that Junior players knowprecisely when and where their matches willbe played and certainly limits the amount oftravel. Perhaps the parents should realisehow fortunate they are! This would not bepossible without the excellent co-operationof Lea and Perrins (Worcester Sauce) andin particular Mr. Brian Mintoe their Manager.Lea and Perrins have always been mosthelpful to table tennis in the City andCounty. But all this would no! work withoutthe enthusiasm, dedication and remarkablepatience of Molly Hough, who runs thismore or less single handed. Whatever othercommitments Molly has she is there at thematches every Thursday to supervise thematch arrangements. Molly Hough, a formerCounty team player, is also a most activeCoach and Worcester's Sec. for the MidlandLeague junior teams, involving, with theassistance of Tim Snee, the provision oftransport to away matches. In the past theteams have not been very successful butMolly Hough is so pleased this season tosee the teams having a good deal ofsuccess with players David Taylor, DeanKloos, Mark Jones, David Smith, LewisSikert and Paul Ashcroft. Where wouldLeagues be without the enthusiasm andvoluntary effort of such people plus thoseso much involved in Coaching which inWorcester is under the direction of FrankSoutham and John Turner and his team ofhelpers?!Mary Rose reports from ..WARWICKSHIREWARWICKSHIRE PLAYERS­ENGLISH RANKINGSCongratulations to Desmond Douglas onretaining his NO.1 ranking in England andalso to Douggie Johnson who has jumpedtwo places to No. 2 in the latest LentecNational Ranking List. Douggie gainedvaluable computer points by winning theHumberside 3-Star Open tournament lastmonth and during the Seoul Open in Augustbeat Sweden's European Champion MikaelAppelgren.Other Warwickshire players in the LentecSenior Rankings are at No. 31 BarryJohnson, No. 33 Barry Hayward, No. 70 CarlMorgan (first time in the English list), No.76 Derek Munt and at No. 100 RalphGunnion.Our lady players not to be outdoneappear in the Women's Ranking List, KarenGroves and Sandra Peakman are at No. 23and No. 24 respectively; great girls, keepup the good work.COACHINGBob Montgomery of Coventry hasaccepted the post of Coaching Secretary ona temporary basis for which the county arevery grateful, and a meeting of the committeewill now be held.COTSWOLD LADIES' LEAGUEBirmingham ladies have now joinedteams from Stratford and Leamington inentering a team in the successful CotswoldLadies' League which has been running forfive seasons and providing an excellentstandard of competitive play for the ladies.Birmingham have now played two games,beating Bristol (away) 6-4, but losing 7-3 athome to Worcester. Both games wereplayed in a very competitive but congenialmanner and Birmingham now look forwardto their next game at the end of Novemberagainst Bath 'B' at home at the WestWarwicks: ,Ire c::Jb Olten Solihull.STRATFORD MATTERSForty-nine teams compete in five divisionscompared with 51 l:::.st year, the majorabsentee being Astwood Bank who afterwinning Division 2 were um,cle to findsufficient players to ta:~e the:r rightful placein Division 1.DIVISION 1Last year's champions ::>eak 'A' got offto a good start beating FISSC 'A' 6-4 with amaximum from Richard Hen::,D.w. NewcomerDavid Noaks for FISSC ~howed thathis defensive style will cau:e many problemsthis year. MEB (Evesham) are alsokeeping up with the leaders, winning theirfirst three matches, At home to Luddington'B' they won 8-2 with a maximum for NickyMyton.DIVISION ;2Peak ;g' are keeping pressure on thisdivision winning 9-1 in their first twomatches against Kenilworth St. Nicholasand Navigation Black and followed up witha 10-0 win over FISSC 'C'.Reports of divisions 3, 4 and 5 will be innext month's mag.MIDLAND LEAGUEJunior Division 4Stratford made hard work of defeatinga poor Stroud side in their first match.Three wins by Steven Swcllow, two byRichard Gardener and one by David Gillibrand,togeth~r with the doubles fromSteven and Richard gave Stratford a 7-3victory.If they are to have a successful seasonmuch more application will be required toensure good results against the strongersides in this division.VETERANSThe veterans opened their fixture list with. . .a 5-5 draw at home against Klddermlnster'B'. In a hard-fought match Ron Keyte wontwo singles and newcomer David Noakesand Pete Kelly won one each, then Kyteand Kelly combined to win the doublesmaking the draw a fitting result.I would like to thank Mrs. D. Shaw ofStratford for all the above information, otherleagues please take note.CONDOLENCESThe Warwickshire Association were'shocked and saddened to hear of thesudden death of Maurice Cobain, secretaryof Luddington TTC. Maurice collapsedwhilst playing table tennis at Luddingtonand died shortly afterwards, He will beremembered for his quiet enthusiasm andthe effort he put into his matches. He willbe missed by many of us in the Association,particularly at Luddington,NATIONAL ~E~GUE . .. Dunlop BI.rmlngh.am won their first m~tchIn the Premier Natl~nal League ~-3 ~gamstW~mstead of ~eadlng. Dunlop Blr.mmghamq~lckly established a 3-0 lea~ With SteveMills, Ian H~rs~am and skll?~er BarryJ~hnson ~II winning. But the vlsl~ors thenhit back With And~~w Wellman beatln,9 BarryHayward and Philip Bradbury gettmg thebetter of Steve Mills.Ian Horsham made it 4-2 with a convincingwin over Bradbury. Barry Johnson wasbeaten to make the score 4-3, but thenBarry Hayward proved too much for Reevesand Dunlop were home and dry.NEWS FROM ABROADPaul Judd and his wife and family havesent a card to let us know they have founda house to rent in Canada. They are enjoyingthe weather and Paul has joined atable tennis club. Ther new address is:68 6645 138th Street, Hyland Creek Estates,Surrey, B.C., Canada., Sanjay Kathuria (a member of our DunlopNational League team last year), hasreturned to India. He sends greetings tothose involved in the National League sideand would like to receive news fromWarwickshire and Birmingham in particular.G-1916 Rayouri Garden, New Delhi, 110027,India.Alf P eppard reports from ..GL,OUCESTERSHIREHEAVEN FORBIDIA considerable amount of discussionarose with regards the demise of MarshPublications, .and in the. Oct?ber issue ofT.T.N. our Editor, chOOSing hiS words very• carefully, mentioned under the heading,"Birds of Prey", tha~ there was .always achance that our National Mag~zlne. couldgo the same way (Heaven forbid thiS everhappening) if additional advertising andmore especially a greater number of subscribersare not forthcoming.An excellent letter from Ken Muhr (Oct.'82), just about summed it up. I quote hiswords, "The backbone of British tabletennis is the local league player a ratherparochial animal (as far as table tennis isconcerned) who has little interest or aspirationsbeyond his once. weekly matc~. Di~i.cult enough to get ~Im t~ part Wlt~ hiSmoney for one ~agazlne, wlt~out off~rI~g asecond". Ken IS perfectly right, thiS IS atypical analysis of the a!orementioned typeof player. At last year s Gloucester CityA.G.M. I held up a copy of T.T.N. and askedthe following question' How many pre ent. . '. .sat thl~ ~eetlng take thiS o~r NationalM~gazlne. One person held hiS hand up,mind you we do not get many to our A.G.M.Surr:tming up I think .there is a big differenceIn the two follOWing words, "Readingthe Magazine" and BUYING the magazine.The rank and file who form the bulk of ourAssociation, just .d.on't give a monk.ey's.The:se are hard biting words, yet I firmlybelieve them to ~e true. What actuallyhappens I su~pect IS that a small percentageof e~thusla~ts buy T.T. News and thenhand their ?op~es around t~ be read byothers, less 1n?II~ed to part w.lth hard cash.I ~now that thiS IS the trend In ~Iouces~~rshlr~..Ca~I back my words up With speclfrcstatl~tlcS. I arr:t not even gOing to. try, butwhat s happening here I suspect IS o~c~rringall over the Country. The vast majorityof league's are run by very dedicatedpeople (some more so than others), and aslong as things are going in the correctdirection, not a twitter will be heard. But assoon as something goes wrong, example,Handbooks not out in time, or the Treasurerabsconds with all the lolly, then all Hell islet loose, people get asked to resign. TheJoe Bloggs of table tennis come up with'Well 'Arry I mean to say, I could do hl~job blindfolded'. Know what I mean? Couldthey say 'Yes perhaps', but that kind ofperson is never available when the timecomes are they? I mean at the A.G.M.,some people tend to forget that, Admini-Page 21

strators are human beings, prone to mistakesand above all else UNPAID.I have a very deep respect and a genuineaffinity for table tennis Widows. Throughoutthe country there are many of them (myown wife, bless her, is one). In somethirty-five or so years I have personallywitnessed at least two marriages end indivorce, just because the husband gavemore attention to table tennis that he did tohis wife. Of course the same applies whenthe wife is T.T. mad, and hubby is left athome with the cat, and the goggle box etc.So this being the month of the festiveseason and good will I will personally drinka toast to all, Table Tennis Widows andWidowers, and proffer the following advice- If you cannot beat them, why not jointhem, that's what my wife did.At the Kingswood (Bristol) Ladies' TeamTournament held on Oct. 24 at Downend,Gloucestershire sent four ladies, CathyRobb, Christine lacopi, Heather Colwilland Jean Golding. Things, somehow, forGloucestershire did not go at all well andour ladies despite good fighting qualitiesfinished bottom. The ultimate winners were,Wilts 1st, runners-up Hants, Cornwall camethird, Somerset fourth, the host team Kingswoodfifth, and Gfoucestershire sadly last.Cathy Robb our No. 1 forgot to put herclock back an hour and as a result waswaiting in one of the car parks inGloucester for one and a half hours prior tobeing picked up. Poor Cathy.Jack Reeves a Gloucester city player ofmany years standing, left the City in 1965to work in Preston and was there for elevenyears. I'm very glad that he's back now inGloucester where his expert knowledge oforganising is invaluable to both City andCounty table tennis. Jack, however, whileat Preston, had many happy memories,especially of the then young up-and-comingDonald Parker. I quote Jack's own wordsfrom a letter that he wrote in GloucesterCity's Official handbook this season: "Myjob took me away to Preston in 1965, andfor the next eleven years I became involvedin the Lancashire scene. One of manypleasant memories was the day Jim Parkerasked if we could find a place for his 11­year-old son Donald in our Deepdale Club.Not easy, as each night we had to smugglethis little lad past the pub landlord wherewe had our clubroom. It was evident thatDonald had astonishing concentration andequal determination not to give you a point(even in practice games). At 15, he was ajunior international and was in the partycaptained by Bryan Merrett, which touredChina in 1973, playing in front of fanaticalcrowds of 18 to 20 thousand. Since thenthe Chinese have virtually dominated thegame and added complete new dimensionsto it with their inimitable attacking style.Donald, of course, is now an ETTA coach,and his younger sister Jean has recentlybecome a junior international".Well those are Jack's words. The writerconcludes this paragraph, by coming moreup to date. Donald is now ranked NO.7 inthe country, but I suspect his best achievementthis season was his marriage to theAll-England lady No.1. May the years aheadbe good and kind to you both.We now move a little nearer to theGloucestershire domestic scene with threeCounty matches played over the same weekend,the Seniors played the Isle of Wight atthe C.E.G.B. in Gloucester and ran outwinners 6-4. Playing for the I.OW. CarlPage 22Prean, England's No. 1 Junior, was undefeatedin singles and doubles.The other two matches were Juniors inDiv. 2B, Gloucestershire travelled to Essex,where they were firmly beaten 10-0. DarrenGriffin was not available for this matchwhich was played on the Saturday. On thenext day we were again in action versusMiddlesex and Griffin was available. Theresult, a very welcome win for Gloucestershire6-4, Claire Symonds (Gloucester),playing at NO.2 won her first ever singlesat County level, this match was played atThe Nailsworth Boys' Club, at NailsworthNr. Stroud.RESULTSv Isle of WightPaul Jackson lost to Carl Prean -4, -16;bt Keith Taylor 11, 10.Andrew Golding bt Taylor 11, 10;bt Jim Daly 11, 11.Richard Russell bt Daly 15, 13;lost to Prean -8, -8.Cathy Robb/Christine lacopi lost to JillFothergill/Janice Badcock -16, 15, 17.Jackson/Golding lost to Prean/Daly -14, -19.Robb bt Fothergill -13, 17, 12.lacopi bt Badcock 14, -10, 11.Juniors v EssexAarron Beckett lost to M. Taylor -12, -12;lost to S. Detmore -11, -15.David Smith lost to Detmore -8, -10;lost to R. Dornall -14, -15.Ian Heskins lost to Dornall -16, -14;lost to Taylor -14, -15.Beckett/Smith lost to Detmore/Dornall-15, -16.Ellery/Symonds lost to L. Hayden/C. Milbourne -13, -12.Jenny Ellery lost to Hayden -20, -13.Claire Symonds lost to Milbourne 9, 10.Juniors v MiddlesexDarren Griffin bt K. King 13, 16;bt J. Goode 20, 15.Beckett bt Goode 23, 14;lost to C. Herbert -19, -13.Smith lost to Herbert -16, -17;bt King -17, 16, 18.Griffin/Beckett bt King/Herbert 16, 18.Ellery/Symonds lost to L. Souter/K. Bussey-6, -21.Ellery lost to Souter -10, -10.Symonds bt Bussey 16, -18, 16.That is as far as I can proceed withCounty activities to date, all other matchessome already played, some not, will bereported in due course.And of course not forgetting the County(Closed) this year, which has moved itsvenue from Stroud to the little market townof Newent. This important event in theGloucestershire Calendar takes place onSunday, Dec. 19 (Competitors and Administratorswill certainly require the Xmasbreak to get over it).The following month, sees Gloucestershirerunning The Cotswold Junior 'Select',most likely one of the most prestigousJunior events in the Country. Last year wehad around 400 entries for this populartournament which takes place at the LeisureCentre in Gloucester on Jan. 29/30.Perusing The ADMAG, a paper publishedand printed in Evesham, Worcs, I saw thefollowing table tennis news: The BengeworthT.T. Club finals take place tonight atThe Church House starting at 8 p.m., Men'sSingles will be between Ian Linsay andKen Baker, Women's Singles features JeanCarter and Linda Reid, while Mick Hatchplays Vic Davies in the VETERINARYSingles. It happens to us all!In view of the National Trials for Juniorsheld in late October at Ipswich, Gloucestershirejuniors can look forward to a drop inranking positions, when they are madepublic. Also on the subject of Lentec SeniorRanking, Nina Tsakarisianos, Gloucestershire'sNo.1 lady player, has dropped fromNo. 27 to 37, this is due to the fact thatNina has not been competing of late in theNational Tournaments. She is, however, inJanuary of next year flying out to Japan fora two month extensive training period. Weall wish her every success in this venture.Two other well known Gloucesteriansleaving these shores for foreign parts areUmpires Les Smith and George Payne, Iunderstand that they are going to Splitin Yugoslavia for the Yugoslavian Open.CLAIRE SYMONDS (Gloucs), aged 15 andranked No.3 In the County as a Junior.Tony Carey reports from.SOMERSETPILGRIMS' PROGRESSSomerset Juniors and Seniors openedtheir County programme with hard matches,both, held in the very good Yeovil facilityof Westlands Sports Club on Oct. 2.The first match involved our juniorsagainst a very strong Surrey 2nd team,comprising N. Sutton, G. Bateman, A. Hardywith J. Mills and L. Popkiwicz. The Somersetteam picked from the Trial was LeeSadler, Murray Barter and Kevin Fudge,with Melonie Carey and Fiona Stuart. Unfortunatelywe suffered a set-back beforethe start when Barter failed to turn up atthe pick-Up point and could not be contactedat home either. This meant ahurried but unsuccessful attempt to contactPhilip Payne, our reserve. This left usvery embarrassed, especially being onhome ground, and meant that Surrey hadtravelled a long way only to find that twoof their players lost out in not playing theirfull quota of sets. As a member of theSomerset Committee I should like to makea personal apology to Surr:lY:The match proved to be a bit one-sided

in the score of 8-2 to Surrey 11, but I wasglad to see our players still trying to thelast point to keep on terms giving us foodfor thought as to how much work we mustget in to raise our standard. I am sure ourteam will agree with my comments andwith the encouragement of the coaches Iam sure we will reach that standard andmaintain it. Our two notable successes wererecorded by Sadler and Melonie Carey, Leewinning in three against Hardy, and Meloniealso winning in three after a fright in the2nd, losing -8 to J. Mills after taking thefirst 19.This match was followed by anothercracking Senior match on the lines of lastseason's Somerset and Avon clash, ouropponents this time being Hampshire II ­C. Shetler, G. Green, G. Longland, supportedby B. Clark and C. Davies. Our teamwas Brian Reeves, David Lee, David Wilson,with Jill Green and Judy Craig (nee Woodhouse).Some of my readers will perhaps think Ihave made a mistake in including GrahamGreen in the Hampshire line-up, but J canassure them that this is correct. The fact isthat Graham, having moved from Somersetto Basingstoke, with Jill, decided to try fora Hampshire trial and did quite well, andwas given a run out against his old County.There was some good-humoured leg-pullingwhen he arrived, as you can imagine, andI certainly think it provided a sparkle toDave Lee and David Wilson's play.The match itself was hard fought withboth sides having something to cheer, asthe results seesawed.After Lee lost the first set to Shetler,Wilson had a good win against brother-inlawGraham to level the scores. It then wasthe turn of our ace defender Reeves to putus in the lead with a fine win againstLongland.We slipped behind when we lost bothdoubles, but Lee restored our fortunes byfighting back from a -7 defeat in the firstagainst Graham to win the next two withsuperb attacking play 15, 10. We again wentbehind when Clark proved too strong forJudy. Then our fortunes turned again whenBrian pulled out all the stops to beatShetler after losing the 1st -11. Both playerswere completely shattered at the end ofthe set which produced some superb rallieswith Brian excelling in his retrieving ofsituations which seemed impossible. ThanksBrian for the display - an artist indeed!The result brought us level at 4-4. Jillthen showed what a class player she isby winning her set against C. Davies, puttingus into a 5-4 lead and creating atension within the room which was intenseon the two players in the last set, Wilsonand Longland. Both played well with Davidunlucky to lose the first at "deuce" but hedid not let this deter him in the second,producing a fighting performance but againunlucky to lose -24. This gave Hampshirethe point they needed to draw and ended avery entertaining day.I only wish I knew how to get more spectatorsto watch matches like these andspread the gospel. Perhaps if we couldinvite schools to send parties to see a sportwhich entertains, is all action and doesn'tinvolve a hooligan element this might servea double purpose, inspiring more youngerplayers to take up the sport. And perhapsdeveloping a talent that they did not realisethey had.Aberdare OpenSomerset were represented in the Juniorsand this time two Seniors, Wilson and Lee,competed. This was the strongest oppositionthat our youngsters had met thisseason so far in a Welsh tournament. Oneof the reasons being that this was a Juniorand Senior Tournament which attractedplayers who were on the edge of seniorranks but in their last junior seasonwanted to gain experience and also get atleast two sets, which is a relevant factorwhen you have travelled a long way, as ournear-neighbours from Cornwall had. Theydeserved a medal just for getting there.Our players were Melonie Carey, SarahWebb, Payne and Barter, competing inJunior and Senior, and the two Davids beingjoined in the Senior competition by ClaireBryant, the sister of Mark, another of ourpromising juniors, a player who I feel hasa lot of talent and could be challengingSadler for the NO.1 spot if he applied himself.Claire could also be a good Senior,as she practices very hard and is developingher game, but she must start to believein herself. All our players won their openingset in the Junior event, then lost to moreexperienced opponents. Melonie met herold rival Evelyn Wright in the quarter-finals,and we were hoping for a third-time luckywhen after losing -16 in the 1st she made asplendid recovery in the 2nd from being18-12 down to pu II back to 19 before thenet deflected her return to give the result toEvelyn. A good match which should giveMelonie confidence for their next meeting.Perhaps the Cardiff Open who knows. .The Senior event also was a good experiencefor our Juniors and I think withnothing to lose they played in a morerelaxed manner, giving a good account ofthemselves before bowing to greater experience.This freedom certainly paid off forMelonie in her first round when she beatCaroline Jones of Wales with some of thestroke play she shows in practice. The bigcrunch came in the second round againstanother fine Junior from Cornwall, AllisonClements, and with both of them known fortheir determination and hard-hitting, it couldprove interesting. This it did, with Allisonproving the stronger.Millfield Junior School Under-13Tournament (Oct. 17)From a field of 24 teams of boys and girlsfrom all corners of Somerset, MelonieCarey, Somerset's England-ranked Cadetand County No. 1 Junior, completed adouble success in this tournament havingwon last year with Darcy Manning. Thisyear she teamed up with another ChiltonTrinity School player, Mandy Williams, whoplayed her part wonderfully in a good teameffort which saw them overcome all oppositionto reach the final where they met theNo. 1 seeds Paul Fowler and Paul Smithfrom Hargrove School. After a very excitingmatch they ran out 3-1 winners. Mandyproduced a great performance to defeatFowler in her second set, after giving Smitha fright, taking him to 20-all before losing-20. Next season Melonie will be too oldto complete the treble with Mandy, whomust now try and believe in herself, andwith hard work can achieve a very goodstandard I am sure, and win again.England Cadet Trial (Ipswich)Somerset provided three girls for thisevent, Melonie Car~y, Fiona Stuart andSarah Webb, in a field of 32. The journeywas the longest we have made so far for acompetition, good practice for the northerncircuit later in the season. The girls werein separate groups of 8, and started play onthe Friday, playing two sets, and continuingthe other five on Saturday. From thesegroup results eight other groups werefermed of four players to play on Sunday.In her first group Sarah had a field dayusing the secret technique devised by LesBridges - the high lob into the lights ­which worked well in this venue with itshigh ceiling against other small opponents,these being Claire Potts, Jenny Ellery andKaren Wild. Fiona started off with a winagainst Sarah Hammond, in her group, thenlost to Jill Powis. Melonie also started wellwith a win against Dawn Wickstead andthen met Helen Perrot in a fine but tenseset which went to three before Helenclinched it. As you can expect, we were alldrained of energy by that time, but after anight's sleep we were back on the tablesfor the next five group matches early Saturdaymorning, and at the end of the day allthree girls had the same win ratio; but onthe count-back Sarah and Fiona, havingbeaten higher-ranked players, were put intoa higher group for the last group play onSunday, Fiona meeting Sarah in her groupand losing in three.Melonie started her group with anothertense set against Sarah Hammond, winningthe 1st 21-11, then Sarah foug ht back tolevel at one-all and with Melonie leading19-16 in the third it looked all over, but itwas not to be, with the experience of Sarahpulling her through to win 25-23. This didnot deter Melonie, though, for her next setagainst Rachael Knight, giving her a frightin the first by leading 20-18, only to lose on"deuce" after missing a sitter which, if shehad taken a deep breath, would have killed.The second also was a good game untilonce again the greater exoerience of Rachelstarted to tell as she could see that Meloniewas over-anticipating her kill shots, dueperhaps to tiredness or anxiety, and sheexploited this to win the second. This wasthe last one Melonie lost in her group, beatingher old rival Jenny Ellery in the process,who, although being on her own at the competition,still competed with whoever sheplayed against, and their coaches. "Wellplayed Jenny".The final win ratio at the end of the competitionwas five-all to Sarah and Meloniewith four to Fiona, but on the count-backit looks like Sarah will head the other twogirls - well played, Sarah! and the oldEast London League player.Geoff Waters reports from .CAMBRIDGESHIRERECORDS DISAPPEARLast month I was gloating over the 100%records of our county first teams and HassySoham in the National Club League PremierDivision, but alas all three records havenow disappeared.The county seniors made the long trip toOldham and were beaten 7-3 by LancashireII in a Division 2A match. They made adisastrous start losing all three of the openingmen's singles and the women's doublesall in straight games and a 4-0 deficit placedthem in a hopeless position to salvage evenone point. Mick Harper and Keith Richardsonwon the men's doubles, but two setslater the match was lost. In the later stagesPage 23

that date clashes in March with the NationalLeague and that means that four of the topplayers will have to honour their commit·ments to the Dolphins.So, the imminent East Sussex championshipsmaybe the only occasion this seasonwhen the top Sussex trio will meet. And theseeding is vastly interesting - Francis atthe top with the prospect of meeting AdrianMoore in the semi-final and then possibly,no probably, Stephen Moore in the final.The dark horses are queueing up ­Graham Gillett the former Sussex champion- he is in Adrian Moore's quarter and theFrancis half; two more new players forSussex of some distinction - John Greenfrom Warwickshire and now Mike Williams,formerly from the Bristol area.Dark fillies as well - Diane Griggs andCarol Hewett are returning from maternitybreaks anxious to test themselves againstsome of the old faces and some new ones'- Sally Weston (Crawley) the 16-year-oldSussex No. 1 who seems a trifle fortunatestill to be on top of the Sussex women'sranking list ...Worthing's Mrs. Pat Wales, central figureof the opposition to the Sussex selectors,especially on their policy towards womenveterans, is now really making her pointson the court as well as in committee. Inrecent weeks she has beaten Sally Weston,Sheila King and Angela Maskell ,ranked respectively1, 4 and 7 on the Sussex rankinglist.But I suggest, that even if she beats thewhole lot twice over it is highly unlikelythat the selectors will change their policy ofgiving youth its chance, even if veteranplayers can beat them regularly. The selectorsare not therefore, necessarily playingthe strongest available players - its up tothem, they have been elected to do as theythink fit ... once again the only answeris to change the selectors at the next AGM!Dick Turner reports from.CHESHIRESTARTING AGAINAfter last season's sorry events resultingin the relegation from the Premier Divisionof the Senior Team, the county havedecided to let bygones be bygones. AsDerek Schofield said when taking the chairat the October meeting, "there should beno recriminations but rather efforts to getthe Association re-started effectively". Withthe November meeting being reasonablywell attended the association appears to be .getting on firm ground again.However good fortune has not yetreturned to the Cheshire Senior Team wholacking full strength have suffered a 7-3defeat at home to Oambridgeshire and a6-4 defeat away to Derbyshire - a countywith eight players in England's top 100rankings should perhaps be doing betterthan this and our memories of winning thePremier are only a few years away. TheJuniors kicked off with a 10-0 win overCumbria II but were held to a 5-5 draw byDerbyshire. Only the Veterans 1st team havea 100% record. In defence of their PremierDivision title they have had three goodwins, 6-3 v Kent, 5·4 v Essex and 6-3 vMiddlesex. The Veterans II side after defeatingOxford and Worcester 6-3 were defeated6-3 by Northampton,Malcolm Allsop reports from.DERBYSHIRESPONSORSHIP RECEIVEDGood news from the Derby League is thatthe Junior Two-Star Tournament is receivingsponsorship from the Derbyshire BuildingSociety. The Event will be held at the MoorLane Sports Centre, Derby on Sunday,March 27. As this is the day after theEnglish Schools Team Finals at Matlock, itis hoped that a strong entry will be attractedby a weekend in Derbyshire where they willbe made most welcome. Entry Forms maybe obtained from Mike Payne, 534 DuffieldRoad, Allestree, Derby or telephone Derby557162.Derbyshire teams had mixed fortunes onOct. 16 with only the Juniors notching upvictory, but that by 10-0. I have beencritical in the past of the application ofAndrew Henry but in this match his consistancycould not be faulted. Nigel Adamsgained his first victories and David Rhodeswas again a strong No.3. Louise Forsterwas again a model of consistancy, andwhilst Joanne Weightman got off to a badstart against the No.2 Cumbria girl, KarenBackhouse, she finished very strongly tocomplete a fine team effort.What more can be' said about AlanCooke? Our young NO.1 won both his setsfor the Senior 1st team against Yorkshire;Stephen Young won one singles, andMarilyn O'Sullivan and To Thuy Dung wonthe women's doubles. However, overall, theYorkshire team proved too strong and ranout 6-4 winners.Northumberland were the visitors for theCounty 2nd team, and our young team couldnot match the visitors' experience. RobertAlbutt and Stephen Yallop won the Men'sDoubles and then David Hinchliffe won asingles as we pulled back from 0-4 to 2-4,but that proved the end of our reward aswe went down 2-8. With youth on its sidethis team can only improve, hopefully beforetoo long elapses!Congratulations to Cooke (again) on hisperformance in the England Junior Trialswhere he finished runner-up to Nicky Masonwhich hopefully will see him move up theJunior and Senior Rankings following hisother successes this season.The Derbyshire Inter-Town League getsunder way earlier this season with thematches scheduled to take place at weekendsfor the first time. Alfreton will behoping to successfully defend their Div. 1title won last year by them for the first time,with improving Geoff' Kennel and experiencedStuart Morris and Geoff Gillproving strong opposition.In the quarter-finals of the DerbyshireChallenge Cup, Granville Aces of Burtonmeet Hallam 'B' of Eastwood, whilstChesterfield Activity 'A' meet Matlock.These quarter-final matches have to beplayed by Dec. 22. In the semis Cressey(Alfreton) will be at home to the winners ofthe Burton/Eastwood tie; whilst Combustion(Derby) will be away to the winners of theChesterfield/Matlock tie.In the Divisional Championships of theAlfreton League, Billy Fowkes won the Div.1 title with victory in the final over GeoffGill. Clive Holmes won the Div. 2 final overAdrien Weightman.In the Derby and District League thePremier Division standard looks the weakestever as the older players just get older;whilst the young talent, with very few exceptions,is failing to make the grade, andmaintain it. I think "maintain it" is the vitalstatement because so many of the youngsterson whom coaches' time and patiencehas been spent have reached their peak butthen drifted either to the lower divisions orout of table tennis.Mechanics 1st could retain their Premiertitle, yet St. Andrews 1st who should be thefavourites have yet to playa match. If theycannot manage one match a week, how arethey going to manage later in the seasonwhen they have to make up the fixtures. Nodoubt, David Yallop, Stephen Yallop andStephen McCarthy will play their matcheswhen they hit their "peak", but the presentleaders, surprisingly are St. Andrews 2ndconsisting of Paul Harmer (former EnglandJunior), Peter Astley (former Warwicks),Marilyn O'Sullivan (Derbys No.2), andArnold Vi nay. Making a fine debu.t in thePremier Division are Granville 1st consistingof Nigel Adams (Derbyshire Junior No.1),Paul Harvey (Derbyshire Junior No.4) andMartyn Allsopp (no relation to the writer!).Ron Hedley reports from ...BUCKINGHAMSHIREWHERE HAVE ALL THE JUNIORS GONE?Bucks, like a lot of other counties, aresuffering from a lack of junior players. Atpresent there are only three girls who areinterested in playing for the county and theyare all virtual beginners. The three girlsmake up for their lack of experience bybeing very keen. Apart from these girls Icannot think of another six girls playingleague table tennis, at any standard,throughout the county. During my years asMatch Secretary there has always beenplenty of high standard boys on our rankinglist. A couple of seasons ago two juniorswho finished in the top six in the WycombeLeague averages could only get into thecounty junior second team as reserves. Thisseason it appears that virtually all the boysplaying in the six leagues, that make up theCounty Association, are on the ranking list.The High Wycombe League responded topressure from the A.G.M. and have set upa coaching session on the first Sunday ofeach month. Under the guidance of leaguechairman Alan Catchpole four or five of thetop players in the league are giving theirtime to help and encourage juniors withinthe league. On the first Sunday only threeboys turned up and following letters to sixof the schools in Wycombe no further responsehas come. It is most dishearteningand also most costly but how can you makepeople play table tennis who obviously donot want to? To some the problem is amajor headache and one that the countycommittee discussed at length at their lastmeeting but I am afraid they are no nearersolving the problem.HIGH WYCOMBE LEAGUEThe league have decided to support the'Mayors Appeal' which is to raise money forhospital equipment. On December 5th ahandicap tournament will be held at theHaylemere Community Centre. The eventis open to all Wycombe League players andit is hoped to raise £100 towards the'Appeal'. To make the event more interestinga 'mystery doubles' event is to be runPage 27

in conjunction with the handicap singles.The mystery of the event is on who peoplewill have for a partner. All entrants will bedrawn to produce a partner for the firstround and each subsequent round all winningpairs will be re-drawn to form newpartnerships. At the recent County meetinga member suggested that the event couldhave only been invented by myself, As I diddream up the idea I am not sure if it was acompliment or not. Unfortunately the leaguewill not be entering a team in the CarterCup this year as they could not producethree junior boys and this also applies tothe Bromfield Trophy due to the lack of girlplayers.CIPPENHAM T.T.C.Bucks National League representatives,Cippenham TTC from Slough, sufferedanother defeat on 17th October, this timegoing down 5-3 to Jaques Generation II inFareham. It was an unfortunate match forCippenham in that they could and possiblyshould have been 3-0 up at one time.Winning positions were established in eachgame but at the break the Slough clubfound themselves 4-0 down. Second-halfwins for Peter Simmonds who played splendidlythroughout, Ray Tilling and DaryllWindsor made the scoreline respectable butthe usually dependable Frank Earis wentdown in both his sets. Cippenham, at theend, were left to reflect on a series ofmissed opportunities in a match where thefirst game was won in six of the eight sets.The team travel to Abeng on 2nd Januaryand then welcome Colne Valley to TheCentre, Farnham Road, Slough on 9thJanuary. Only one victory has been gainedthus far from four starts but all is not yetdead - especially with the news that AlecWatson, many times Bucks champion, isback in training after a year out throughillness and determined to win his place backin the side.SLOUGH NEWSCalor, in the form of Ian Kenyon, MandyReeves and Steve Brindle, top the SloughFirst Division at the time of writing, but arehotly pursued by Langley 'A' and no lessthan three Cippenham teams.For the first time ever Slough will berepresented in both National Club Championships.League champions Calor, whoseteam depends so much on Mandy Reeves,have been unable to enter the men's competitionso that place has been allocated toCippenham, while the young ladies ofLangley will grace the distaff event.WEST MIDLAND LEAGUEby John MorrisFollowing the Pontesbury T.T.A.s highlysuccessful, and enjoyable season in theEast Midland Cadet League, the managementcommittee of Pontesbury, with someencouragement from Ian McKelvie, decidedto attempt to organise a similar venture inthe West Midlands.All likely persons known to the PontesburyT.T.A. were contacted, and the newWest Midland Cadet League was formedwith representative association teams fromEllesmere Port, Grove, Telford, Lichfield,Shrewsbury, Gloucester and Pontesbury..AII fixtures are being played on threeSaturdays, October 4th and December 18th,1982, and March 12th, 1983, and the ex-Page 28cellent facilities provided by the PontesburyT.T.A. at the Mary Webb School means allmatches are played under the very bestconditions.In the 1983/84 season, the new venturewill be run by a management committee,containing a representative of each of thecompeting associations.The playing format for the current seasonis three players per team (boys and girls),all play all, plus one doubles. Two points fora win, one for a draw.Any other association who wishes to joinfor the 1983/84 season should notifysecretary John Cooper, 'The Callow',Pontesford Hill, Pontesbury, Shrewsbury,Shropshire. Telephone Shrewsbury 790221.The first series of matches were playedat the Mary Webb School, Pontesbury, onSaturday, October 4th with the followingresults:Ellesmere Port 6 Pontesbury 4Lichfield 9 Grove 1Gloucester 7 Telford 3Ellesmere Port 9 Shrewsbury 1Pontesbury 8 Lichfield 2Gloucester 10 Grove 0League TableP W L F A PGloucester 2 2 0 ,17 3 4Ellesmere Port 2 2 0 ,15 5 4Pontesbury 2 1 1 12 8 2Lichfield 2 1 1 11 9 2Telford 1 0 1 3 7 0Shrewsbury 1 0 1 1 9 0Grove 2 0 2 1 19 0The 2nd series of matches will take placeon SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18th at theMary Webb School, Pontesbury, time tableas follows:11.30 a.m.Tables 1-2Telford v ShrewsburyTables 3·4Ellesmere Port v LichfieldTables 5·6Pontesbury v Gloucester1.30 p.m.Tables 1-2Grove v TelfordTables 3-4Lichfield v ShrewsburyTables 5-6Ellesmere Port v Gloucester47th STAMCOSUSSEX 2-STARCHAMPIONSHIPSTHREE CROWNS FOR KARENby R. G. KEMPKaren Witt gained a third Women'sSingles title at the STAMCO sponsoredtournament held on the weekend 9/10October, 1982 at the White Rock Pavilion,Hastings - but in the final, England No.8Lisa Bellinger, and equal third seed (whohad earlier beaten second seed AlisonGordon) was unlucky to be pipped at thepost, with a very close third game thatKaren just won. Men's singles championPaul Day also seeking his third consecutivetitle struggled into the final with last year'srunner-up Graham Sandley; but top seedSandley was a confident winner, and in factwas not extended to a third game in theevent. Earlier the two semi-finals wererelatively easy wins for Sandley over SkyletAndrew 21-11, 21-12; and Day over AlanFletcher 21-13, 21-14 who had taken advantageof late scratching Bob Potton andSteve Mills' round 2 defeat at the hands ofIan Kenyon.Sandley picked up another title as withpartner Colin Wilson they beat Day andSteve Mills in a scrappy final, the third gamegoing easily to the winners. The Bellingersisters Lisa and Jacky were outstandingin the Women's Doubles, and took thechampionship with a good win over secondseeds Alison Gordon and Mandy Smith.The sisters had beaten top seeds KarenWitt and scratch partner Tina Shortman ina close semi-final.Colin Wilson and Helen Williamson werethe winners of the Mixed Doubles, beatingDay and Sue Collier in the final; althoughDay and Collier were unfortunate not to geta third game having been 19-16 up, Wilson'sserve then taking the next five points.The Moore brother.s from Sussex eachteamed up with a Bellinger sister, and bothpairs excelled to reach the semi-finals,Adrian and Lisa just losing 18 in the third toDay and Collier.PopUlar Londoner Babs Adedayo beatJohn Holland to win the Veterans' Singlestitle again, having earlier beaten top seedDerek Schofield in a close semi-final 21-18,26-24.Another fair crowd of local table tennisenthusiasts enjoyed an exciting finalsession; Mr. Leon Sheppardson from mainsponsors STAMCO was in attendance topresent the trophies.(The results were pUblished In theNovember Issue. Ed.)SPORT FOR ALL - 1983The Sports Council is to place specialemphasis on the 50+ age group during1983. The "Sport for All" Campaign for1983 is to concentrate on that group andis to be called "50 + - All to Play For".1983 can only see the start of a campaignto encourage those reaching middle age toconsider becoming more involved in sportand recreation. Thus, this first year will beone largely of promoting awareness. TheCampaign will start with the official launchon the 13th January, 1983, and there will bea follow-up during May.DUNLOP SPORTS APPOINTSNEW P.R. EXEC.Dunlop Sports Company announces theappointment of Andrew Callaway to theposition of public relations executive. Hewill be based at the company's new salesand marketing headquarters in Wakefield,West Yorkshire.A former journalist with WestminsterPress and IPC Business Press, Mr. Callawayhas held posts in public relations withPilkington Brothers and John WaddingtonsLtd., the Leeds-based printing, packagingand games company. He joins Dunlop fromPaul Whitaker and Associates Ltd., theLeeds advertising agency where he waspublic relations director.Andrew Callaway is 32, he lives in Wyke,Bradford and enjoys most sports includinggolf, cricket, badminton and squash.

Coatbridge LENTEC won the title in the pulled off a shock win against top seed·£3,000 BOOST League's first season with veteran Bert Kerr Graham Sandley in the other semi.in the side, the NAIRN TRAVEL (Bridge of But In the final Andrew, whose serveTO SCOTTISHAllan) with Walter Clarkson at No.1, Falkirk caused Sandley a headache, could not getSPORTSREAL with Carole Dalrymple at No. his game together and Kenyon had anTABLE TENNIS1 and Springburn (Glasgow) with Ron easier task than he could have anticipated.Lindsay at No.1, are all certain to cause Kenyon failed to make it a double when heby M,orag Blairone or two upsets.and David Wells let a good lead slip inThe second Division's title is anybody's the men's doubles. Andrew and David BarrThe Scottish Table Tennis National guess with four new teams competing ­ made a late dash in the deciding game andLeague today announced a sponsorship NAIRN TRAVEL 'B' (Bridge of Allan), Dum­ just edged out.agreement with a Glasgow based sports barton BALLANTYNES, Milnefield Harrisequipment manufacturer, CLOBER SPORTS. (Dundee) and Whitehill (Glasgow). LastThe £3,000 sponsorship is to be spread over year's teams, Greaves Sports 'B', Teamth ree years and a prize fu nd of £750 is at WILSON INSURANCE (Lasswade) withstake in the first year.Elaine Forbes at No.1, and Falkirk BISON,Both CLOBER SPORTS, which is situated are perhaps the strongest contenders forin Clydebank's Enterprise Zone, and the the title, but there are sure to be manyLeague are in their third year of existence. surprises in store. It is pleasing to noteThe Company manufactures their own that the all-girls side, Drumchapel Ladies,tables which are of a very high quality and are competing again this season, and whilstare approved by the S.T.T.A.they do not expect to win the 2nd Division,they will certainly be no pushover withThe injection of cash into the Leagueplayers like Liz Robb, Diane Greig andwhich is to be named the CLOBER SPORTSIsobel Ferguson in the side.NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS LEAGUE comesjust at the right time in its development. Both the STTA and CLOBBER SPORTSFifteen teams are now competing in its two are looking forward to their three yeardivisions. The League is played on seven partnership.Saturdays throughout the season and startson 20 November, 1982.Favourites in Division I are GreavesWiltshire 2-Star OpenSports 'A' (Glasgow), last year's winn~rs,and Murrayfield JOOLA. The Glasgow sideGRITTY REVIVALfield top Scottish names such as RichardYule, John Broe and David Mcilroy and willby Laurie Selbyp·rove formidable opponents for the Murray­'field side who have David Hannah, Keith Although officially billed as a 2-Star, noRodger and David Campbell. Murrayfield fewer than 21 Eng land-ranked stars set outJOOLA are also strengthened by Australian to try to pocket the £125 top prize in theInternationalist, Greg Thomas. These two second Wiltshire Open on Oct. 31. And atteams do not clash until the 'final match of the end of a long hot day of surprises, itthe season on 12 March, 1983, which should was the cool Ian Kenyon who collected thebe a real nail-biter if both are unbeaten by cheque.then.No.10 seed Kenyon staged a gritty revivalHowever, the other teams should not be against John Hilton, seeded No.3, in thediscounted and will certainly prove more semis. This earned him a place in the finalthan a handfuI to the top two contenders. against Skylet Andrew, the fourth seed, whoAbove left: lafn Butler, Managing Director, CLOBER S.PORTS; r.ight: Morag Blair,General Secretary, Sc'o,ttish Table TenniS ASSOCiation.Top seed Karen Witt looked in no dangerafter she scraped home in the openinggame of the women's singles against MandySrnith who produced her giant-killing formin the semi against No. 2 seed AnitaStevenson. But Anita got among thetrophies when she partnered Karen tovictory in the women's doubles over GinaPritchard and Claire Maisey.Picking the winner of the U-17 singlesproved as difficult as the men's singles. Topseed David Griffiths went out to the unseededMartin Campbell and No.2 seed K.Davies fell to Michael Childs, the ninth seed.Campbell snatched the first game but Childsmoved up a gear to take the next two.The seeding committee was spot on inthe girls' singles with No. 1 Mary Denbowbeating Jayne Sully in the final. The girls'doubles gave Wiltshire their only winnerswhen Claire Hunter and Helen Wilson beatMiss Denbow and Miss Sully in the final.Unseeded, Claire Brooks had a great day,sweeping into the final of the cadet girls'singles and then beating top seed JoanneLee to take the trophy. The cadet boys'final brought one of the most exciting setswith Anthony Jones battling back afterdropping the opening game against unseeded'Philip Szekeres. Both pairs in theboys' doubles were unseeded. After a seesawfinal the Surrey pairing of AndrewHardy and Neil Sutton came out on top.RESULTSMen's Singles Semi-finals:I. Kenyon bt J. Hilton -13, 19, 15;S. Andrew bt G. Sandley -19, 19, 17.Final:KENYON bt Andrew 18, 15.Women's Singles Semi-finals:K. Witt bt M. Reeves 15, 19;M. Smith bt A. Stevenson 16, 18.Final:WITT bt Smith 21, 14.Men's Doubles Semi-finals:Andrew/D. Barr bt I. Horsham/M. Oakley17, -19,16;Kenyon/D. Wells bt P. Brown/Hilton 18, 20.Final:ANDREW/BARR bt Kenyon/Wells-18, 15, 19.Women's Doubles Semi-finals:Stevenson/Witt bt J. Bellinger/Smith 17, 17;C. Maisey/G. Pritchard bt C. Peacock/R. Russe 19, 12.Final:STEVENSON/WITT bt Maisey/Pritchard20, -19, 14.Boys' Singles Semi-finals:M. Childs bt D. Champneys 19, -16, 18;M. Campbell bt D. Griffiths 17, -4, 17.Final:CHILDS bt Campbell -19, 13, 14.Girls' Singles Semi-finals:M. Denbow bt S. Butler 19, 20;J. Sully bt C. Hunter 19, -20, 20.Final:DENBOW bt Sully 15, 12.Cadet Boys' Singles Semi-finals:A. Jones bt D. Jones 14, 13;Page 29

P. Szekeres bt P. Payne 10, 11.Final:JONES bt Szekeres -11,19,15.Cadet Girls' Singles Semi·'finals:J. Lee bt K. Broozek 17, 10;C. Brooks bt J. Brion 15, 19.Final:BROOKS bt Lee -15, 19, 16.Boys' Doubles Semi·finals:Champneys/P. Stace bt Childs/P. Savins-15, 17, 20;A. Hardy/N. Sutton bt K. Davies/Griffiths16, -16, 16.Final:HARDY/SUTTON bt Champneys/Stace17, ·16, 16.Girls' Doubles Se,mi·finals:Hunter/H. Wilson bt Butler/D. Kratchovila(no scores);Denbow/S. Hegarty bt M. Cohen/J. Cryer15, 13.Final:HUNTER/WILSON bt Denbow/He,garty19, -19, 13.COACH SUSPENDEDDutch coach Gerard Bakker - trainer ofEuropean champion Bettine Vriesekoop ­has been suspended by the NetherlandsTTB for two years following an altercationwith player Ron van Spanje at a trainingcamp in Beekbergen last July (writes Basden Breejen).The difference of opinion resulted in aneye injury sustained by van Spanje, whowears spectacles, and who now may beunable to play for some months. As a consequenceBakker tendered his resignationand the NTTB discharged him immediately.ROAD TO RECOVERYThe Editor regrets any erro'rs or o,misslonsin this issue due to him being in hospitalover the, period Nov. 12 • Dec. 4 undergoingmajor surgery involving a partial gastrectomy.Happily the operation has pro'vedsuccessful and grateful thanks are expressedto the of'fice staff at Hastings,Messrs. Shipley, Watts and Old'fierld, fortheir invaluable assistance editorially, toMrs. Chris Wilkes for her part on theadvertising front and last, but by no melansleast, to Mr's. Doreen Ya'les for her part asthe woman in the middle.Thanks 100 are hereby extended to allthose friends of the Editor who se,nt him getwell cards and messages of condolencewhich did much to sustain him during hisstay in Bolton and District Ge,neral Ho,spital.The road to recovery now stretche,s beforehim and the will to maintain all previousconnections with table tennis is againparamount.DAVE CONSTANCEBritain's top freelance player/ coachavailable for certain dates inforthcoming season for coaching(individuals, groups, clubs, leagues,counties) weekend and weekcourses, exhibitions, etc.'Phone Dave Constance0202420411George Yates reports from ...LANCASHIRETWO OUT OF THREELancastrians acquitted themselves well atOrdsall Recreation Centre, Salford over theweekend of Nov. 27/28 winning two of threematches and might well have made it a hattrickhad they had the services of DonaldParker in their opening encounter againstEssex.As it was Essex triumphed 6-3 but withParker then available they disposed ofDorset (7-2) and Berkshire (6-3) withParker losing only to Tony Clayton.Stephen Scowcroft had a good returnwinning four of his six singles and SteveTurner had three wins and three losses.Shaun Browne, not used in singles, partneredParker to two men's doubles winsafter Scowcroft and Keith Williams hadgone down to David Newman and IanHorsham in the Esex match.Amanda Goodwin taking the place of JoyGrundy had a good win against ElaineFoulds and shared in three mixed doublessuccesses with Turner. Detailed results:v Essex (lost 3-6)S. Turner lost to I. Horsham 13, -17, -16;lost to D. Newman -13, -15.S. Scowcroft bt Newman 19, 15;lost to A. Penny -7, -16.K. Williams lost to Penny ·13, -14;lost to Horsham -13, -14.A. Goodwin bt E. Foulds 19, 19.Scowcroft/Williams lost to Horsham/Newman -14, -10.Turner/Goodwin bt Penny/Foulds-14, 18, 20.v Dorset (won 7-3)D. Parker bt M. Werner 9, 12;lost to A. Clayton -15, -22.Turner bt Clayton 17, 15;bt M. Abbott 19, 17.Scowcroft bt Abbott 20, 18;bt Werner 13, 16.Goodwin lost to S. Creasey -19, -18.S. Browne/Parker bt Abbott/Clayton 19, 13.Turner/Goodwin bt Werner/Creasey 16,11.v Be,rkshire (won 6-3)Parker bt A. Wellman 14, 16;bt D. Barr 13, 17.Turner lost to Barr -19, -14;bt Fullerton 4, -17, 9.Scowcroft bt Fullerton 10, -12, 15;lost to Wellman -13, -21.Goodwin lost to M. Smith -13, -13.Browne/Parker bt Fullerton/Wellman 11,12.Turner/Goodwin bt Barr/Smith 17, -19, 19.Jeremy WiII iams reports from ...COiRN'WALLCORNISH LEAGUE ­ST. AUSTELL GO TOPAfter two consecutive victories over Truroand Red ruth; St. 'Austell are the earlyleaders of the first ever Cornish League. St.Ives, Falmouth and Helston are the otherearly pace-setters but St. Austell havedemonstrated in their form that they standa great chance of reaching the playoff inApril and challenge for the White Hart Cup.Initial reaction to the competition has beengenerally good and it is encouraging thatLaunceston, St. Ives, Redruth and Falmouthhave all attracted large crowds (over 20 insome cases), at such an early stage. Aswith the National League there could besome unusual faces in the end of season"averages", and many of the players arerising to the occasion: Kevin Allen's winover Raymond Bunt is undoubtedly thebiggest upset so far and there have beenfine wins for Glen Wearne over Nigel Cockand John Penhaligon. Former stars TrevorKemp and Keith Songhurst have raised theirgames and are proving difficult to shake off.Barry Cornelius (St. Austell), John Bassett(St. Ives) and Jon Woollins (Launceston)are also unbeaten at time of writing. Theearly Cornish League Table stands asfollows:P W D L F A PSt. Austell 2 2 0 0 15 5 4Helston ... 2 1 1 0 14 6 3Falmouth 2 1 1 0 12 8 3St. Ives 2 1 1 0 12 8 3Camborne 2 1 0 1 9 11 2Red ruth 2 0 1 1 7 13 1Truro 2 0 0 2 6 14 0Launceston 2 0 0 2 5 15 0COUNTY MATCHES ..After an encouraging draw away to Avonin October, Cornwall's Senior County teamhave slumped to two successive defeats indivision 3B of the English League. Cornwallwere beaten 7-3 at home to Berkshire IIwith Simon Rowland ensuring victory forthe visitors with two narrow wins overBarry Cornelius and Jeremy Williams.Against Hampshire II at Southampton, IanJames hit fine form to record two straightgame wins but despite his efforts Cornwallagain went down 7-3. One can only speculatethat when the Cornish players all hitform together - then the results will startto come in.Indeed, the Cornish ranking lists ofregistered players, issued in September,have caused a great deal of controversyover the positioning and exclusion of someplayers. As it is merely a registration ofplayers for selection purposes, it cannot becalled a true ranking list. Ideally, a separateranking committee is required to rankplayers on a points system as in theLentec National Rankings. Cornwall'sofficials are however, overloaded with workand until someone volunteers to help ­this aspect will be a weakness in the countysystem.This matter caused a heated discussion atthe last executive meeting, as did theappearance of the County Team's shirts.Thus, it was agreed to obtain new countyshirts with the money saved from the WhiteHart Hotel sponsorship scheme.LAUNCESTON KERNOWCornwall's only Halex National Leagueteam have faltered in recent weeks afterrecording a comfortable 6-2 victory at hometo Solihull on Oct. 17. Launceston faced twoawkward matches away to Tarmac Ladiesand home to Chan Construction, losing 5-3and 6-2 respectively.~~~~ ~~:The Edito:r and Staff of IT.T. News'wish all readers and advertisers theseason's greetings.Please note: Owing to the XmasHolidays, the January issue of IT.T.News' will be later than usuaLPage 30

PWDLFAP Junior Division 38Berkshire 3 2 1 a 19 11 5 Oxfordshire 4 Buckinghamshire 6, War­Hampshire 3 2 1 a 18 12 5 wickshire 6 Hampshire 4.CountyAvon 3 1 1 1 16 12 3 PWDLFAPSomerset 3 1 1 1 15 15 3 Buckinghamshire 2 2 a 0 13 7 4Gloucestershire 3 1 1 1 14 16 3 Warwickshire 2 13 4Championships 2 a 0 7Round-up Cornwall ... ..... . 3 0 1 2 1-

P W L F A PClwyd . 3 3 0 17 10 6Hertfordshire III . 2 2 0 13 5 4Cumbria . 3 1 2 11 16 2Huntingdonshire 2 0 2 8 10 0Wiltshire . 2 0 2 5 13 0Veterans Divisio'n 38Sussex 4 Hampshire 5, Somerset 2 Hertford­shire II 7, Berkshire 6 Wiltshire 3.P W L F A PHampshire . 3 3 0 19 8 6Hertfordshire II . 3 2 1 17 10 4Berkshire . 3 2 1 16 11 4Sussex . 3 1 2 13 14 2Somerset . 3 1 2 10 17 2Wiltshire . 303 6 21 0Letters to the EditorV.R.S. STIGAI would like to reply to David Cosway'scomments in his Hampshire Notes in theNovember edition of 'Table Tennis News'regarding the V.R.S. Stiga Club from Portsmouthnot being allowed to enter theEurope Club Cup Championship after winningthe National Club Knock-Out Championships.In my experience the ETTA is oftenblamed by people who do not know, or donot bother to find out the true facts aboutvarious issues, and the case of V.R.S. isa perfect example of such a situation.I am not going to argue about the meritsor otherwise of a decision taken at thehighest level by the governing body of oursport, but the facts are that in July, 1979,the National Council finally decided that theNational League should start in the 1979-80season and also that the club winning thePremier Division should be the one torepresent the ETTA in the Europe Club CupChampionship. Accordingly Appendix 'G' torules governing the National Club Knock­Out Championships were changed, deletingthe reference to entry into the Europeancompetition. Similarly, in July, 1981, theNational Council decided that the Runnersupin the Premier Division of the NationalLeague should be eligible to represent theETTA in the European Fairs Cities CupCompetition, and, once again, Appendix 'G'was amended.The above National Council decisionswere related to every county through theminutes of the meeting and I presume thecounties would then have passed on the informationto their affiliated leagues at oneof their regular meetings. On neither occasionwas there any protest from HampshireCounty, the Portsmouth league or Mr. KeirDonaldson.The normal procedure is for the regulationsgoverning each ETTA competition tobe sent to every entrant before, I repeat,before they start, so there was no questionof altering things after the competition hadstarted, as stated by Mr. Cosway. In fact, ascan be clearly seen from the above datesthe regulations were altered some considerabletime before V.R.S. won the OrmesbyCup.Mr. Cosway's comments are very similarto those contained in a letter I receivedfrom Mr. Donaldson and also that of a pressreport in a local Portsmouth newspaper. Healso states that 'no one appears to havetold V.R.S.'. Again, this is incorrect as Ipersonally telephoned Mr. Donaldson andexplained everything to him. He acceptedwhat I had to say and, furthermore, agreedthat he had not read his copy of the regulationscarefully enough or he would haveknown the outcome. He was, to his credit,gracious enough to apologise to me for hisremarks. On behalf of the E.T.T.A. I alsowrote to the local newspaper to give themthe corre,ct story, but, to date, I have noknowledge of my letter having been published.I have always tried to avoid controversyin my organisation of the National Competitionsfor the E.T.T.A. since 1969, preferingto stay in the background, but I must confessto getting very angry when the ETTAis blamed for something it is completelyinnocent of, and on this occasion I feltcompelled to write to put the recordstraight. I hope, therefore, that the abovefacts will satisfy the Hampshire 'CountyAssociation, for whom incidentally, I havethe highest regard, Dave Cosway, KeirDonaldson and all other interested parties.N.eedless to say, the performance of theV.R.S. team in Winning the Ormesby Cupwas first-class, which can never be takenaway from them.KEITH PONTING,Administrator, Nationa'i Leagueand Hon. Secretary, National Te'amCompetitions Committee.21 Southport Avenue,Redhills,Exeter EX4 1RA.CONSTANCEi'SPOIlIS HOUPOOLE '83* 13 Sports-Canoeing-Soccer-Cricket-Squash- Deep Sea Angling - Table Tennis-Golf-Tennis-Horse Riding -Real Tennis-Rugby- Windsurfing-Sailing*Top Coaches and Sportsmen on the Staff-Nicky Wayne (Canoeing) -Martin Chivers (Soccer)-Peter Townsend (Golf) -Dave Constance (Table Tennis)-Ken Moss (Rugby) -Sue Livingston (Tennis)*Evening Entertainment-Discos-Parties-Barbeques-BarPage 33

Lambert and ButlerChampionshipby ALBERT SHIPLEYTable tennis as it used to be played,before the "twiddlers" took over, was enjoyedby the audience sitting comfortably inthe magnificent surroundings of theWembley Conference Centre on Sunday,28th November, 1982.Included in the six European rankedplayers who took part were three of themost experienced performers in actiontoday; all former European Champions ­Milan Orlowski of Czechoslovakia, DragutinSurbek of Yugoslavia and Jacques Secretinof France. It had been hoped to include thecurrent European champion, Mikael Appelgren'from Sweden, but a back injuryprevented his appearance and his placewas taken by a fellow countryman, UlfBengtsson. Completing the line-up wereAndrzej Grubba of Poland and last year'swinner of the event, Desmond Douglas.The first stage of the championship wasplayed in two groups, the winner andrunner-up in each group going forward tothe semi-finals. There is simply not enoughspace in 'this magazine to do justice to therallies that were produced in the groupmatches. In Group 1 Orlowski emerged thevictor, winning both his matches and hiswin over Bengtsson at 23-21 in the thirdwas a classic. Bengtsson's victory over theluckless Grubba gave him the other semifinalplace from this group.Although in Group 2 each of the threematches were settled in two straight games,the spectacular table tennis produced bythe combinations of Surbek, Secretin andDouglas had to be seen to be believed.Surbek may be past his prime now, but thatbig forehand and his remarkable fitness stillgive a fascinating display. Jacques Secretinis now almost as well known for his exhibitiontable tennis and in all his matchesthere were slices of entertainment mixedwith competitive skill and he quicklybecame a favourite with the audience.Desmond Douglas was in sparkling formand won the group with Secretin, much tothe delight of the crowd, going forward tothe semi-final by virtue of a win overSurbek.The first semi-final between Orlowski andSecretin would have earned two 5.9's froman ice-skating judge for artistic presentationand technical merit. It must have producedevery shot in the book and two of the threegames included the drama of a 20-all scoreline.Once again the crowd were delightedwith a Secretin win as it meant yet anotherchance to see his superb showmanship andskill.In the other semi-final, Douglas was insuch sharp" form that the hard-hittingBengtsson found his best shots beingreturned with interest and the scoreline of21-8, 21-13 does not accu rately reflect thelength of the match.And so the scene was set for the finalthat the spectators would have wished for,Secretin v Douglas, and they were not disappointed.It was almost the perfect set-up- an English player in good form and Women's Single,s Quarter·fin~ls:therefore likely to win - against the artistryand humour of the Frenchman with theCharlie Chaplin touch.Desmond won the trophy, a magnum ofchampagne and the £1,600 first prize, playingfor the first time in front of his family.As Chairman of the E.T.T.A. Tom Blunn saidin his reception speech, we should alwaysensure the presence of Mrs. Douglas if herson's performance was indicative of herinspiration.The event was, recorded by BBC Televisionand it is hoped that most readers willhave seen the excerpts on the 11thDecerrlber Grandstand programme, butthere would be more than enough 'film leftin the can to produce a programme ofentertaining table tennis that is sadly rarelyseen these days.SCORESGroup 1M. Orlowski bt U. Bengtsson 18, -9, 21;bt A. Grubba 15, 13.Bengtsson bt Grubba -23, 16, 16.Group 2D. Douglas bt J. Secretin 20, 16;bt D. Surbek 11,17.Secretin bt Surbek 13, 18.Semi-finals:Secretin bt Orlowski 20, ..11,21;Douglas bt Bengtsson 8, 13.Final:DOUGLAS bt Secretin 15, 18.WEST YORKSHIRE2-STAR OPENby Steve Nun,nOnce again there was a very good entryfor the West Yorkshire 2-Star Open playedat the Richard Dunn Centre, Bradford onNov. 6 with 60 entries having to be returned.The tournament was played on Saturdayso as to avoid clashing with HalexNational League matches, which althoughis progress in our sport, I personally thinkthis is at the expense of tournaments notgetting the top players. The NationalLeague seems to be playing havoc also withthe County Championships, local interleaguefixtures etc. With so much activityI just do not know how players find timeto represent local leagues where themajority of players get their experience.I only hope that our game does not sufferthrough players having too many commitments.In this tournament under review theonly disappointment was the withdrawal ofsupport by the sponsors. For some internalproblems, this was only three of four weeksbefore the event. This is something theBradford League are not quite happy aboutas they had already given the sponsors agreat deal of publicity both nationally andlocally.RESULTSMen's Singles Quarter-finals:J. Hilton (La) bt K. Beadsley (Y) -19, 9, 15;C. Rogers (Le) bt P. Jackson (Av) 18, 14;S. Mills (Y) bt S. Scowcroft (La) 10,15;P. McQueen (Nd) bt P. Bowen (La)..21, 21, 18.Semi-finals:Hilton bt Rogers 17, 16;Mills bt McQueen 19, 9.Final:MILLS bt Hilton -11, 12, 19.T. Lightfoot (Ch) bt T. T. Dung (Dy) 9, 12;J. Parker (La) bt K. Smith (Le) -21, 17,18;J. Grundy (La) bt M. Hill (Y) ..19, 13, 10;A. Stevenson (Le) bt L. Broomhead (Y)15, -15, 18.Semi-finals:Parker bt Lightfoot -15, 14, 18;Stevenson bt Grundy 15, -15, 18.Final:STEVENSON bt Parker 13, 14.Men's Doubles Semi-finals:Beadsley/D. Hinchcliffe (Y) bt Bowen/Hilton 15, -21, 15;Mills/Rogers bt T. Donlon/D. Schofield(Ch) 17, 13.Final:BEADSLEY/HINCHCLIFFE bt Mills/Rogers16, -15, 14.Women's Doubles Semi·finals:Hill/Stevenson bt Grundy/Parker 18, 17;S. Hunt (Li) /Smith bt J. McLean/J. Speight(Y) 12, 13.Final:HILL/STEVENSON bt Hunt/Smith"­11, ..18, 20.Boys' Singles Quarter·finals:S. Sharpe (Y) bt N. McMaster (Nd)15, -12, 18;J. Thatcher (Y) bt N. Newton (Y) 19, 13;R. Hayward (St) bt M. Firth (Y) -22,20,11;D. Rook (Y) bt H. Leigh (La) -15,20, 14.Semi-finals:Thatcher bt Sharpe -11, 17, 15;Hayward bt Rook 5, -12, 15.Final:HAYWARD bt Thatcher -16,12,11.Girls' Singles Quarter-finals:Parker bt E. Wright (Wal) 8, 15;M. Seaton (Y) bt D. O'Driscol (Ng) 9, 8;R. Brook (Y) bt J. Ryalls (Y) 14, 6;Lightfoot bt Dung 13, 15.Semi·finals:Parker bt Seaton 16, 14;Lightfoot bt Brook 15, 15.Final:PARKER bt Lightfoot 9, 20.Vete,rans' Singles Quarter·finals:P. D'Arcy (Ch) bt G. Brook (Y) 11, "17, 19;Donlon bt B. Allison (Li) -12,22,14;M. Sheader (Li) bt Mrs. D. Schofield (Ch)12, 13;Schofield bt T. Moran (Ng) 8, 19.Semi-finals:D'Arcy bt Donlon -19, 16, 10;Scho'field bt Sheader -16, 10, 18.Final:SCHOFIELD bt D'Arcy 17, 12.EUROPEAN LEAGUESUPER DIVISIONENGLANDVWEST GERMANYWEDNESDAY, 9th MARCH, 1983at 7.30 p.m.Fleming Park S·ports Centre,Eastleigh, Southampton(Junction M27/M3 continuation)Tickets: £4 & £3(inclusive of programme)fromCHRIS SIMS, 2 BAKERS DROVE,ROWNHAMS, SOUTHAM,PTON S,01 8AD(0703-733532)Page 34

Malcolm Allsop reports from.DERBYSHIREUNANIMOUS BACKINGA Special General Meeting of the DerbyLeague on Nov. 26 gave the League Committeethe unanimous backing to proceedwith plans for a new £100,000 Building inconjunction with the Derby Athletics Club.The New Building will be adjacent to thepresent Moor Lane Sports Centre, venue oftHe Derby Junior Two-Star Open, and willhave a Table Tennis playing area 120 x 40feet. In addition to changing rooms, toiletsand showers for both sexes, there will bea Bar, Refreshment Area and Lounge overlookingboth the Sports Ha,1I and theAthletics track. A Committee Room and asmall gymnasium are also included in theplans which should make an ideal quartersfor both Sports; and which individuallywould be beyond the budget of both.Sports CO'uncil backing is expected toenable the construction to commence earlyin 1984 in readiness for the 1984/85 tabletennis season. Additional help is anticipatedfrom the Derby City Council and a Brewery,although negotiations are still being held.The Derbyshire 1st team gained their nrstwin of the season when they entertainedCheshire·, after two away defeats. The spiritof the team helped a recovery from 3-4down, with captain Neil Marples gaining aclose win in the final set to make it 6-4.Neil won -19, 20, 20 after leading 20-18 inthe third but still managed to give theDerbyshire supporters a tense finish!SCORESA. Cooke bt W. Percival 7, 9;bt M. Sankey 12, 7.S. Young lost to Hankey 18, -20, -14;bt A. Taylor 18, -19, 14.N. Marples lost to Taylor 19, -18, -16;bt Percival -19, 20, 20.Miss O'Sullivan lost to T. Lightfoot-19, 16, -17.To Thuy bt J. Deakin 20, 18.O'Sullivan/To Thuy lost to Deakin/Lightfoot-14, -11.Cooke/Marples bt Hankey/Taylor -4, 21, 20.The 2nd team match was conceeded toWarwickshire after Stephen Yallop, ClareBentley and captain Les Allwood turned upin Birmingham only to find the Chesterfieldcontingent had been unable to travel andhad telephoned Warwickshire to informthem they would not be present.The juniors played their first away matchagainst Cheshire and made another drawto preserve their unbeaten record. AndrewHenry continued his improved form inDerbyshire colours to win both his singles;"Nigel Adams and the ever-reliable LouiseForster won a singles each, and Louisecombined with Joanne Weightman to winthe girls' doubles.On the local tournament scene, the DerbyDivisional Championships will be held atLancaster Sports Centre on Sunday, Jan.16; but the Derbyshire Championships dueto be held at Alfreton on Feb. 6 have hadto be postponed owing to a clash of events.In the Derby League, Granville 1st madea good start to their life in the PremierDivision with an unbeaten run, until they incl.udedformer Derbyshire Champion PhilipVickers, and suffered their first defeatagainst reigning Champions Mechanics 1st.Leading title contenders St. Andrew's 1st~ot under way at last after having their first'five matches postponed, which I now understandwere all postponed by theiropponents, and with the Yallops, David andStephen, together with Stephen McCarthyare moving up the table to challengeMechanics.The Derbyshire Inter-Town League gotunder way with Derby 1st suffering an 8-2d~feat at E~stwood with Ernie Lough winninga maximum; anq Burton proving toogood for Alfreton by 8-2 in Division One.In Division Two, former DerbyshireJuniors Martin Simpson and Paul Druceproved too strong for Eastwood 2nd, asDerby 2nd gained a 9-1 win. G. Giggionsand J. Higginbottom won two each forChesterfield 2nd in a 6-4 win over Matlockdespite two wins each for County ChairmanColin Hartland and D. Kennedy. ,In the Junior Division Burton gained a9-1 win at Alfreton whilst Derby swampedEastwood by 10-0.The Eastwood Junior team of David North,~oanne and Adrian Weightman are playingIn AI'freton and Derby Leagues to gainfurther experience, and as YMCA 3rd areleading the Derby Division Four table.Printed and Published for the English TableTenni;a Association, 21 Claremont, Hastings,East Sussex by Wallace (Printers) Ltd., 2Lonsdale Road (off Mornington Road),Bolton, Lancashire. Tel. (0204) 493734/5.RDLLAWAVFDLDAWAV theJOOLA 20008 ROLLOMATUsed for international competitions. Probably themost advanced wheelaway system in the world.Designed with large wheels that move with a lighttouch, together with an individual folding method.25mm playing surface gives excellent bounce.JOOLA TRANSPORTThis table has many advantages. It has a 19mmplaying surface suitable for league matches. Fortraining purposes half of the table can be angled. for a good ball return. Four strong wheels on eachhalf make it the easiest table to move on themarket today. Folds to take up minimum storagespace. Ideal for Sports Centre use. Considered thegreatest advancement in table tennis table design" for many years.JOOLA TRIMMV.The latest folding and wheel away table fromJoola. The 19mm playing surface is ideal formost league matches whilst the flexibility ofthe folding system makes it completelVsuitable for the school or youth club with 8limited budget.JJOOI.A at TEES Sr>~IlTSpecialists in Table TennisZetland Place, Middlesbrough,Cleveland. TS1 1HJ.Telephone: (0642) 217844/5 and 249000.24 hour Answering Service.Page 35

71 David Dodd (K) 77 42 G. McKim 8572 Miohael Browne (Wa) 72 43 A. Dixon 8573 Ian Roberts,on (Nd) 68 44 P. Bann:ister 8274 Andy Rich (St) 68 45 A. Wattis 7975 Michael Hammond (Sy) 66 46 E. Go,rniak 7676 Derek Munt (Wa) 64 47 K. Cartwright 7077 Steven Sharpe (V) 58 48 C. Grant 7078 Stuart Pal me\r (Sk) 56 49 P. Holliday 706LENTEC'COMPUTER 79 Andy Withe,rs (Ca) 54 50 J. Singh 6480 Paul R.ainford (La) 5381 Jonathanl Proffitt (He,) 52 JUNIOR GIRLSRANKINGS 82 Tony Isaac (St) 52 Poi1nts83 lain Fullerton (Bk) 51 1 L. BeMinger 20284 Steve'n Holloway (Sy) 50 2 J. Parker 19585 Malcolm Green (Sp) 50 3 S. Co II ieir 187B6 Kevin Gre,en (Cv) 49 4 T. Lightfoot 164by PETER CHARTERS87 Andrew Cre,ed (Av) 46 5 J. Powis 14488 Roger Chandler (Sx) 42 6 H. Bardwell 135(Cha;irman, National SeJ,ectio'n Co'mmittee) 89 Greg. Hal,lam (St) 40 7 M. Seaton 13090 Dere,k Holman (Ha) 38 8 F. Elliot 11891 CH~ Monis (K) 36 9 R. Brook 114Following are the 'Lentec' Computer92 Percy Collino (Mi) 3410 N. Tsakarisianos 11293 John Burleton {K} 3211 To Thuy Dung 11012 T. Moore 10813 N. Hamilton 10796 Glen Baker (Sy) 2614 A. Hegarty 10315 J. Ryalls 10216 M. Hams 10199 Matt Sheader (Li) 25 17 L. Goldsmith 10018 C. Mouz,on 94In the event of points equality, the player19 D. Soothill 93WOMEN20 J. Shaw 92Ranking Lists issued for November 1982. 94 Mark Illingsworth (V) 31The points score, up to and including the 95 St,ephen Cowley (La) 26Humberside ·3-Star for seniors; and up to 97 Gary Spence,r {K} 25and including the Ranking Trials and Wilts 98 David Gannon (Le) 25Junior 2-Star for Juniors/Cadets, are given. 100 Ralph Gurmion (Wa) 24previously placed higher has been given the 21 A. Boxall 89top division. Where the players are new to 1 Jill Hammersley-Parker (La) 234 22 A. Judd 852 Karen Witt (Bk) 218 23 L. Hayde,n 77the Ranking List, the first one into the list 3 Alis,on Gordon (Bk) 165 24 T. Spencer 76has been given top position. 4 Carole, Moore (Knight) (Cv) 160 25 D. Simmonds 745 Anita Stevenson (Le) 143 26 L. Davis 74The next Computer Lists will be issued 6 Joy Grundy (La) 137 27 R. Kni,ght 737 Lisa Beilling,er (Bd) 135 28 L. Harman 70earlier than originally planned. The Seniors'8 Karen Smi·th (Le) 79 29 A. Barker67will be issued after the Middlesex 3-Star 9 Je,an Parker (La) 71 30 J. Miffs 6510 Ang-e'la Mitchell 31C·hampionships, whilst the next Junior/(Mi) 70 L. Popkiewicz6411 Melody Hill (Y) 69 32 S. O'Leary 61Cadet lists will be produced after the 12 He·le'n Williams (Mi) 52 33 J. Barrella 55English Junior Closed Championships. It is 13 Mandy Smith (Bk) 48 34 M. De,nbow4614 Mandy Reeves (Mi) 47 35 R. Hun,ter 43hoped to get the lists out for Christmas. 15 Joanne Shaw (Y) 42 36 J. Shippey 4116 Jacki.e' Be,llinge,r (Bd) 40 37 A. Clemence 41MEN 17 Christine Peacock (La) 37 38 V. Be·lIingham 40Pornts 18 Julie Revill (Le) 36 39 S. We'ston 371 Desmond Douglas (Wa) 601 19 Suzanne- Hunt (Li) 35 40 T. Holland 282 Douggie Johns,on (Wa) 574 20 Susan Collier (Bk) 31Page 363 Graham Sandley (Mi) 512 21 Sarah Sandle.y (Mi) 30 CADET BOYS22 Hel,e~n4 John Hilton (La) 500Sh ie,lds (Y) 26 Points5 Paul Day (Ca) 482 23 Kare.n Grov.es (Wa) 251 A. Syed 1996 Skylet Andrew (E) 441 24 Sandra Peakman (Wa) 252 A. Dixon 1527 Donald Parker (La) 423 25 Jill Harris (St) 243 M. Syed 1308 Nig·el Eckersley (Ch) 412 26 Claire. Maise,y (Wi) 224 M. Oxley 1269 Kenny Jackson (E) 394 27 Nicola Hamilton (He) 225 M. Ruthe-rford 1261 O~ David WeHs (Mi) 387 28 Sally Midgely (Y) 206 P. Amos 12511 Ste.v.en Mills (Y) 386 29 Gina Pritchard (Dv) 187 S. Craggs 12212 Mark Mitchell (Mi) 380 30 Juli;e McLean (Y) 188 S. Simon 11713 David Constance' (Do) 373 31 Terelsa Moore (Sx) 179 A. West 11414 Carl Prean (lOW) 368 32 Ruth Baxter (Y) 1610 S. Jones 10B15 Philip Bradbury (Bu) 366 33 Lorraine Garbe.t (Sy) 1011 J. Stokes 10516 Colin Wilson (Mi) 342 34 JUlie Gornock (St) 912 K. Lawrence 10317 Chu Van Que (Nd) 339 35 Laura Goldsmith (Mi) 913 K. Ball 10118 Ian Kenyo'n (K) 309 36 Mary Denbow (Ox) 814 B. Billington 9819 Richard Jermyn (He) 308 37 Nina Ts'akarisianos (Gs) 815 M. Harvey 9120 Steven Turner (La) 306 38 Linda Sm ith (Y) 716 J. Fe-rguson 8721 Max Crimmins (Sy) 293 39 Jenny Co·llins (Bk) 717 G. Barden 8622 Chris Rogers (Le) 286 40 Cheryl Buttery (Li) 418 J. Bult 8223 Ian Hor'snam (E) 279 41 JuUe Dowsett (E) 119 M. O'Driscoll 8124 John. Kitchener (Sk) 278 42 Rebe'cca Russe (So) 120 N. Carr 7325 David Barr (Bk) 270 43 Elai'ne Sho·rt (Dv) 121 S. Gibson 6726 Kevin Be:adsley (Y) 257 44 Janet Parker (Wi) 122 P. Gooding 6727 John Souter (Mi) 256JUNIOR BOYS23 J. Goode 6528 David Tan (Mi) 247 24 T. Shepherd 64Poi~nts29 Andy WeHman (Bk) 245 25 D. Holland 5830 Alan Fletcher (Y) 241 1 C. Prean 290 26 '1. Neate 5831 Barry Johnson (Wa) 232 2 N. Mason 272 27 D. Watson 4932 Kevin Satchell (Wi) 225 3 W. Gle,ave 230 28 R. Powell 4633 Barry Hayward (Wa) 218 4 A. Cooke 212 29 L. Jose, 4534 Lindsay Taylor (Cv) 214 5 G. Lambe·rt 185 30 N. Pickard 4235 David He'eves, (Bk) 207 6 P. Logsden 16836 Joey Kennedy (K) 205 7 P. Gunn 167 CADET GIRLS37 KeHh' Paxton (Du) 200 8 A. s.e~ton 166 Points38 Peter McQue,en (Nd) 196 9 S. Dettmar 1661 J. Powis 21739 Wi'lliiam GI:eave (Ch) 190 10 M. Juke,s 1662 D. Soothill 16140 Nicky Mason (Hoare) (Sy) 183 11 D. Griffin 1633 L. Souter 14141 KeHh Richards,on (Ca) 179, 12 A. Dodd 15942 David Newman (E) 174 13 M. Thomas 1584 C. Potts 14143 Andrew Bellingham (St) 171 14 D. Topiwala 1545 L. Hayden 13444 Malcolm Francis (Sx) 165 15 S. Sharpe 153 6 L. Davis 12845 Paul Randall (Le) 161 16 D. McVitie 151 7 R. Knight 12446 Pet,er Taylor (He) 155 17 M. Elleltt 150 8 A. Sanders 12347 Brian Johns (Ch) 151 18 P. Huggon 150 9 J. Houghton 12148 Mick Harper (Ca) 149 19 S. Worrell 147 10 H. Perrott 10149 Adrian Moore, (Sx) 149 20 G. WUson 145 11 A. Evans 9550 Steven Scowcroft (La) 143 21 A. Cunningham 145 12 S. Webb 8951 Mark Oakley (Sy) 138 22 G. Bartram 144 13 S. Hammond 8852 Tony Sanderson (Y) 134 23 D. Rook 14214 A. Holt 8153 Alan Gooke (Dy) 132 24 K. Samuels 14215 M. Carey 8054 Shaun Browne' (La) 117 25 R. Hayward 14216 L. Robins 7655 Deismond Charlery (E) 112 26 N. McMalsteir 14256 John Payne (Mi) 110 27 P. Ashcroft 14017 K. Wilde 7557... Tony Clayton (Do) 109 28 N. Aspinall 14018 J. Elle-ry 7058 Babs Ade.dayo (Sy) 103 29 P. Col-e 139 19 D. Wickstead 6859 Martyn Smith (Av) 98 30 J. Wheel 127 20 F. Stuart 6860 Anthony Boasman (Ch) 92 31 R. Ti,lford 127 21 T. Holland 6761 Sim-on Heaps (Do) 88 32 A. Syed 124 22 H. Lower 6162 Paul Namdjou (K) 88 33 J. Stokes 124 23 K. Hogeirs 5963 Phillip Bowen (La) 88 34 M. Firth 123 24 H. Broomhead 5864 Stephen Moore (Sx) 87 35 M. Randle 118 25 A. Shufflebotham 5265 KeHh WiU'iams (Mi) 84 36 J. Thatcher 114 26 A. Wattis 4666 Phillip Smith (Sx) 80 37 R. Thomas 10967 Gary Lambert (Dv) 80 38 D. D,ewsbury 10668 Paul Whiting (Dv) 78 39 R. Darnell 10669 Mark Hankey (Ch) 78 40 L. NeH 10370 Carl Morgan (Wa) 78 41 D. Blackburn 9727 J. Cooke 4628 J. Roberts 4129 H. Kavanagh 3730 K. Baker 36

EUROPE TOP 12TOURNAMENTWith just three months to go to the mostprestigious table tennis event to be held inEngland since the 1977 World Championships,the organisation for the EUROPETOP 12 i's shaping up well.The PlayersWorking from the current European Rankinglist, the line up will be:Men1 Mikael Appelgren (Sweden)2 Tibor Klampar (Hungary)3 Dragutin Surbek (Yugoslavia)4 Desmond Douglas (England)5 Stellan Bengtsson (Sweden)6 Jan-Ove Waldner (Sweden)7 Milan Orlowski (Czechoslovakia)8 Istvan Jonyer (Hungary)9 Jacques Secretin (France)10 Gabor Gergely (Hungary)11 Zoran Kalinic (Yugoslavia)12 Andrzej Grubba (Poland)Women1 Bettine Vriesekoop (Holland)2 Jill Hammersley-Parker (England)3 Valentina Popova (Russia)4 Ursula Kamizuru (West Germany)5 Marie Hrachova (Czechoslovakia)6 Ann-Christin Hellman (Sweden)7 Gabriella Szabo (Hungary)8 Zsuzsa Olah (Hungary)9 Olga Nemes (Rumania)10 Judit Magos (Hungary)11 Edit Urban (Hungary)12 Marie Lindblad (Sweden)On the present rankings Josef Dvoracekand Jindrich Pansky (Czechoslovakia) arethe first and second reserves. Other playerswho are pushing for a place at Thornabyinclude the tenacious young Swede, ErikLindh who has beaten Stellan Bengtsson fora berth in his country's European Leagueteam, and the tall pole, Leszek Kucharski,who needs to do just a little bit more toearn his way to Thornaby. With a newEuropean Ranking List due at the turn ofthe year, the exact line up for the TOP 12will not be known until January. Being prejudicedand optimistic, if Douggie Johnsoncould take the Yugoslav and French Opentitles as well as notching up some impressivewins for England in the forthcomingEuropean League matches, he mightwell halve his current 24th ranking and slipinto Thornaby.Pri'ze, MoneyThe Europe Top 12 Tournament is oneof the richest table tennis events in theWorld. A total of 21,000 Swiss Francs (almost£6,000) will be shared out amongstthe 24 competitors, as follows:Men1 S.F. 3,000 (£810)2 S.F. 2,250 (£610)3 S.F. 1,750 (£475)4 S.F. 1,300 (£350)5 S.F. 1,100 (£300)6 S.F. 950 (£256)7 S.F. 750 (£202)8 S.F. 700 (£190)9 S.F. 600 (£162)10 S.F. 500 (£143)11 S.F. 450 (£120)12 S.F. 350 (£95)Women1 S.F. 1,500 (£400)2 S.F. 1,150 (£310)3 S.F. 900 (£250)4 S.F. 700 (£198)5 S.F. 600 (£162)6 S.F. 500 (£135)7 S.F. 450 (£120)8 S.F. 400 (£108)9 S.F. 350 (£95)10 S.F. 300 (£80)11 S.F. 250 (£67)12 S.F. 200 (£54)The VenueTo produce their best table tennis theconditions for the players needs to be right.Thornaby Pavilion has these conditions ...a tried and tested wood floor (this venuehas already been used for several majortable tennis events including the EuropeanYouth Championships, the Norwich UnionOpen and every Cleveland 3-Star), tungstenhalogen lighting, Butterfly tables andSchildkrot 3-star (black) balls. The' atmospherewill be electric ... all 1,400 seatswill be close to the playing arena.SpectatorsEvery convenience possible is being laidon for spectators at Thornaby. All inpackages for accommodation in first classhotels and comfortable seating in thestadium, two restaurants and a bar insidethe Pavilion itself, equipment exhibition inthe foyer and Cleveland County Council, thepromoters are designing spec,ial scoreboards to ensure that everyone in the hall iskept up to date with the state of play onevery table.CarI'sEuropean Cadet Champion Carl Prean has built lentechnology into hisPreangame by using lentec's devious long pimpled Swing. C·arl hasprogressed up the Lentec National Ranking List and has had some. memorable victories into the bargain, 'like his recent triumph overGrubba in the Poland v England friendly international.svving to LentechnologyObtainableL ,'.·::':}:!:Im:Hi·The long' pimples on Swing actually buckle under the impact of the ballto produce unexpected deviations in flight. Keep your eyes on thelentec National Ranking List and watch out for lentec's comprehensiverange of rubbers. Ifyou want to start climbing - it could be time youbuilt some Lentechnology into your game.from your specialist table-tennis supplier, or ask for our descriptive leafletand order form from:L. Lenton 8r Co.J(Technical Products) Ltd.MANUFACTURERS OF TECHNICAL RUBBER PRODUCTS.UNIT G10, WEM INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, IT·IISOULTON ROAD, WEM, SHROPSHIRE..~ rTELEPHONE: WEM (0939) 32165.•Use your Access or Visa card to order by telephone. Ring Wem (0939) 32165, 24-houranswerphone.-where sport &technology meet.Page 37

The playing schedule has been arranged TOP 12 ORGANISING COMMITTTEEso that spectators from all parts of the Chairman: T. Blunn.country can set off at lunchtime on Friday Organiser: A. Ransome.to arrive in time for the first session on Promoter: D. Sykes.Friday evening. After two sessions on E.T.T.A. Representative: A. Drapkin.Saturday morning and afternoon, the even­ E.T.T.A. Liaison Officer: A. Shipley.ing is free' from play and two social events, Referee: L. A. Chatwin - N.R.a dinner dance and disco, are being laid on Asst. Referee: R. Scruton - N.R.for visitors to Cleveland. The fourth session Hospitality: C. Davison.will take place on Sunday morning, with Ceremonies & Guests: Mrs. J. Ransome.the final afternoon session finishing by tea National Press Officer: R. Oldfield.time so that travellers may arrive back Secretariat: R. Edon.home by at least midnight. The road systemCommittee Membersfrom all directions of Great Britain is nowextremely good.B. Cossavella, M. Goosey, M. Watts,S. Sherlock, D. Hutchinson, C. Revel,For CoachesD. Taylor.A special package is being organised forOfficial Tour Operatorcoaches who are interested in increasingtheir knowledge of international standardTicket Sales/Tour Packagesplay. The E.T.T.A. National Coach andTees Sport,Junior Team Captain, Donald Parker, willZetland Place, Middlesbrough,conduct seminars and discussions betweenCleveland, England.and after sessions.Telephone: (0642) 217844.TOP 12 Telex No. 58232 for TABTENProgrammeTees Sport are the Official tour and travelFriday, 4th Februaryoperators for the Top 12. A package tour7.00 p.m. Opening Ceremony. is on offer including:7.15 p.m. First Session: 2 rounds Men's and OPTION 1 All in Spectator Package2 rounds Women's matches. * A Rover ticket for the whole event.Saturday, 5th February'* 2 nights (Friday and Saturday) in a 3 or9.30 a.m. - 12 noon Second Session: 2 4 star hotel within easy reach of therounds Men's and 2 rounds Women's Pavilion, with bed and Englishmatches.breakfast.1.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Third Session: 3 * A Souvenir programme.rounds Men's and 3 rounds Women's * Advance information on the Top 12matches.Tournament.Sunday, 6th February£39.95 incl. V.A.T.9.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Fourth Session: 2 OPTION 2 CO'aching Packagerounds Men's and 2 rounds Women's * A Rover ticket for the whole event.matches.* 2 nights (Friday and Saturday) in 3 or2.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Final Session: 2 4 star hotel within easy reach of therounds Men's and 2 rounds Women's Pavilion, with bed and Englishmatches.breakfast, together with the coaches4.30 p.m. Closing Ceremony. group.By cutting out all the expensive middlemen weoffer full E.T.T.A. specification tables:16mm, 18mm, 2Smm and Championship·X £81.60to £189.00 Whee/away options from £71.60Used in Premier League Championships and suppliedtoTable Tennis Associations, Local Authorities, Official Bodies,Schools, Clubs etc., throughout the country, theseguaranteed quality, high specification range oftables allfeature traditional solid wood constructionandthe famousSwedishViiala playing tops.0,)iI-'"Forfurtherinformation write fo:SpeD Bouse, SpeD Lane, LeedsLS16 5EL. Tel. (0532) 785669* A Souvenir programme.* Advance information on the Top 12Tournament.* Seminars and discussions led by DonaldParker, E.T.T.A. National Coachbetween and after sessions.£45.00 incl. V.A.T.OPTION 3 Ticket Only* A Rover ticket for all 5 sessionsguaranteeing a seat in the playing hall.£15.00 incl. V.A.T.KINGSWOOD LADIES' TEAMCHAMPIONSHIPby B. P. LamertonThe first of a proposed annual ladies'team championship sponsored by Kingswood(Bristol) Sports Council (ChairmanCouncillor CUllimore) was held at DownendSports Centre on Sunday, 24th October ­organised and refereed by Pat Archdale(Avon) who was ~ ably supported throughoutthe day by Sports Centre" ManagerRichard Cawley and his staff.The format for this invitation event coveringthe Western Counties was for four-ladyteams each consisting of at least onejunior and one veteran, ranked in order ofm.erit and div,ided into four groups of eightwith. th.e leading t~o players in each groupqualifYing for a final knock out section.Points awarded were one for each gamewon in the groups and two thereafter. Afterthe initial disappointment of the non-arrivalof Avon it soon became apparent thatHampshire and Wiltshire were going tomake the running. The 'luck of the draw'.. which paired Hampshire's Nos. 1 and 2 inthe quarter-finals and their Wiltshirecounterparts in the semis finally tipped thebalance Wiltshire's way and the first destinationof the trophy had ,been decided beforeTracey Watkins con'firmed her sidessuperiority with a final 17, 13 victory overKathy Conlan.RESULTSQuarter-finals:Kathy Conlan (Hants) bt Barbara Clarke(Hants) 17, -17, 14.Sharon James (Cornwall) bt Judy Craig(Somerset) 15, -19, 6.Alison Boyce (Wilts) bt Shirley Collins(Cornwall) 16, 18.Tracey Watkins (Wilts) bt Michelle Tighe(Page Club) 14, 15.Semi-finals:Conlon bt James 10, 16.W:atkins bt Boyce 15, -16, 14.Final Positions:Wiltshire 49 pointsHampshire 40 pointsCornwall 32 pointsSomerset 22 pointsPage16 pointsGloucester 15 pointsBADGESQuality Sew-On Minimum 20For friendly, efficient servicecontact:S. A. CORY &- CO. LTD.Glengarriff,Co. Cork, Eire.Telephone: Bantry 63159.Page 38

ationalLEA UEby Robert Ol-dfieldSOHAM CRACKIn the three-horse race for the PremierDivision title, Soham have cracked witheight fences still to go. At Ellenborough on7th November, the Cambridgeshire club,sponsored by Hassy Perfection, held thereigning champions to the halfway stagebut, then, England's No.3, Graham Sandley,raced through Paul Day 21-12, 21-16 andEllenborough reered off the next three setsfor a stunning 6-2 victory.Thorn-EMI Ellenborough are now odds-onfavourites at John Power bookmakers althoughOrmesby are still leading th~ division.Their team possesses unnvalledstrength in depth ~ shown by the matchon 21st November. Both teams playedwithout their top players, as Sandley andSkylet Andrew were on international dutyat the Yugoslav Open, yet only Billy Gleavewas able to score for the visiting team.Unless Ormesby sign up Andrzej Grubba(rumoured to be av~ila~le next season for asum not unadja,cent to 850,000 zloty), EllenboroughCQuid finish at a canter."I b_ack Ellenborough to win", saidDunlop Birmingham's Barry Johnson, "b~tOrmesby are still in with a slight chance IfAlan Ransome can get his team motivatedfor the four crucial matches in March". Andfor relegation? "It's got to b~ N~wcast~e",said Johnson, sitting pretty With 'five pOintsalready clocked up. "I can't see Newcastlegetting six points between now and the e~dof the season so we're very pleased Withourselves. We don't travel very well so, forthe last match, we travelled up to Newcastlethe night before to help prepare ourselves.A good night's sleep and, next day, 6-2".Dunlop have leap-frogged LetchworthCorporation into fifth place.But good fortune really shines on thefourth place w·here Unity have been given a2 person 7 day holiday by Intersun Holiday.The Bradford club are delighted and areproposing to raffle it towards club funds.PREMIER DIVISIONCurrent League TablePWDL F A POrme-sby 8 7 1 0 47 17 15Thorn-EMI Ellenborough 7 6 1 0 45 11 13Hassy Soham .. 6 4 0 2 29 18 8Unity 7 3 2 2 32 24 8David Hope, the Thorn EMI Ellenborough Chairman, receive~ 'Ih~ spons'orship cheque fromMr. Ron Bright, Associate UK Sales Di,recto:r of Thorn EMI Lighting, watched by The Mayorof Enfie·Jd, Councillor PhyUis Oborn, and the Thorn EMI Ellenbo'rough National LeagueSquad.Photo by Newington Studios, London N16.Dunl'op Birmingham 7 2 1 4 19 37 ~Letchworth Corporation ~ ~ ~ ~ ~6 ~g 0BWF Wamdsad .. . 35 0Newcastle 5 0 0 5 5BUTTERFLY'S FOR JAQUES"They've messed it up again"" said adismayed John Prean when he heard ofJaques Generation's shock defeat to Butter­'fly Cardiff on 21 st November. Son, Carl, hadbeen rested so that he could prepare forthe following Wednesday's Norwich UnionTrophy. "It's no problem" said Tim Manhire,as confident as ever "It just means we can'tafford to drop another point when we .pl~yTarmac and Grove". A dry New Year IS Inorder I suspect, with the long jou rney fromFareham to Market Drayton on 2nd Januaryto meet John Hilton and Co.Meanwhile, Dolphins continued to sinkrather than swim, and Ormesby II held MBSSt. Neots to a draw despite two sets 'fromKeith Richardson.FIRST DIVISIONCurrent League Table~P W D L F A PJaques Generation : 7 6 0 1 42 14 12~~~.:c Wc;l~eri;~·~;;I:oii···:::::::::::: ~ ~ g ~ ~~ i~ ~~Butterfly Cardiff 6 2 2 2 22 34 ~Ormesby " 7 1 3 3 25 31 4MBS St. Neots ; ~ ~ 1 15 41 4BWF Wamdsad II 6 13 43 1TCB Dolph ins 7 0 1LINCOLN TIGHTEN THE NOOSEIn successive matches during November,Ruston Bucyrus Lincoln pronounced'effective brain death' on two opponents ­Tarmac II and Riversley Insurance."Riversley have got no chance.",. sai~pTarmac's Steve DunniAg re~lIstlcally."We're not a good team but th~y're eVfifflworse. Malcolm (Corking) is a good play~rbut the others just aren't up to 9t~ndard~~.Target Gold Salford have taken ove.r. atthe top of 2nd Division North a.fter smashingHermits 6-2, though Kevin Beadsleyremained undefeated and won the two setsfor the' Bradford club. "I think we stan~fair chance now" said Salford spokes~anGraham Compton, "especially after beatingHermits".SECOND DIVISION NORTHCurrent League TablePWDL F A P~~Ul~a~~;~shir~·:::::::::::::::::::::::: ~ ~ g ~ i~ 1~ ~g~~~~~ts ~ ~ ~ ~ 29 27 8RB Linc·o·I~ .. ··::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 7 3 1 3 30 ~ ~Un ity II . . .. . 7 2 2 ~ ~~ ~3 2Tarmac Wolverhampton II 7 1 0 6 13 43 1Riversley Insurance 7 0 1GILLETTE TOO SHARP FOR DAGENHAMSecond south leaders, Dagenham, wererapidly deflated by Gillette Reading on 21stNovember when they returned home at thewrong end of a 6-2 result. Inevitably it wasaPage 39

the undefeated David Constance and SimonHeaps who did the damage and Gillettecould yet receive the elusive promotioncl)ance.However, SIB Bath look like a good investmentfor a Christmas bonanza if theycan win at Dagenham on December 19th.But they only just slipped past Gwent intheir last match and Cranfield Colours arenow off the bottom with a respectable fourpoints on the table.SECOND DIVISION SOUTHCurrent League TableP W D L F A PDagenham FC . 7 6 0 1 35 21 12SIB Bath . 5 5 0 0 30 10 10Gillette Re'ading . 5 4 1 0 21 15 9Larkhall . 7 3 1 3 27 29 7Gunlnersbury Triangle . 7 1 4 2 26 30 6Cranfield Colours Gwent .. 7 1 2 4 24 32 4Graham Spicetr .. 7 1 1 5 24 32 3L.ansdowne Medway . 7 0 1 6 16 40 1GRANTHAM GIRLSuzanne Hunt, who was registered forRB Lincoln last year but failed to play amatch transferred to Grantham at the startof this season and is having a great seasonin Third Division North. "I've only lost twosets", she said, "and I'm enjoying it a lot. Ilike playing against men as it sharpens upmy game". Grantham, wbo play at the localleisure centre, are still in third place afterholding Hermits II to a draw on 7thNovember.But neither team looks likely to troubleByker, even though the cross-country trip toBarrow in Furness produced a narrow 3-5w.in over lowly Vickers.- -~- -THIRD DIVISION NORTHCurrent League TableP W D L F A PByke'r . 7 700 48 8 14Hermits " .. 7 4 3 0 39 17 11Grantham . 7 4 2 1 39 17 10South Yorkshire II .. 7 3 2 2 30 26 8Ormesby' III . 7 1 2 4 17 39 4Crus,ade,rs , . 7 1 2 4 16 40 4Vicke'rs . 7 0 3 4 12 39 3Uni'ty III .. 7 1 0 6 18 38 2HIGH RISE CHA~Chan Construction, with Philip and IanGunn, Lester Bertie and Birmingham's newEngland ranking, Carl Morgan, have alreadyp~lIed away from Jolliffe Poole and GroveII~ and look unstoppable in Third DivisionWest.· Pengeley Torbay are up to third placeand have a West County derby with LauncestonKernow on December 19th. Achance for the 'Cornish to get some Christmasshopping in Plymouth the day before,no doubt.THIRD DIVISION WESTCurrent League Ta\bleP W D L F A PChan Construction .. 7 700 45 11 14Jo,lliffe Pool,e .. 7 4 1 2 38 18 9Penge ley T,orbay . 7 4 1 2 35 21 9Grov,e II . 7 4 0 3 35 21 8Tarmac Ladies .. 7 2 2 3 22 34 6Launlces;~,on Ke'rnow .. 7 2 1 4 25 31 5Cowbridge Bridgetnd .. 703 4 14 42 3WW Solihull . 702 5 10 46 2COLNE CLOBBEREDShock of the season in Third DivisionEast occured on 7th November whenJaques Generation II went to Caine Valleyand returned' to Fareham with two points.Ramish Bhalla and Val Sinanan won twoeach for the visitors.Yet the following match the team whowere at the bottom of the division travelledto the Hants club and won 6-2! MBS St.Neots' II are now in fifth position with theLowestoft club, Dunlop Waveney, holdingup the rest.Page 40THIRD DIVISION EASTCurrent League TablePWDL FA PJaques Generation II .. 5 4 0 1 23 17 8Abelng .. .. ....... ... ... .. ... ..... .. .. ... .. 5 4 0 1 23 17 8Colne Valley........................... 5 3 0 2 24 16 6Cippe-nham 5 2 0 3 19 21 4MBS 81. Neots II 6 1 0 5 18 30 2Dunrop Waveney 4 1 0 3 13 19 2Prize Fund Correction:The first prize in the First Division is£600, not £900 as stated in the Novemberissue of Table Tennis News.Halex National League is on Page•258 ofPRESS CUTTINGS WANTEDSo that the ETTA can present theleague's sponsors, Halex, with a representativeselection of the regional coverage thatthe league is receiving, it would be extremelyuseful if clubs could send a copy oftheir press cutting file to the office shoWingthe publication and date of each cutting.HALEX NATIONAL LEAGUEFIXTURESDecember 1982PREMIER DIVISION19th DecemberDunlop Birmingham v Letchworth Corp.Unity v NewcastleFIRST DIVISION19th DecemberJaques Generation v Tarmac W'hamptonButterfly Cardiff v BWF Wamdsad IITCB Dolphins v MBS St. NeotsGrove v Ormesby II2nd DIVISION NORTH19th DecemberHermits v South YorkshireRiversley Insurance v TG SalfordTarmac Wolverhampton II v MarchUnity II v RB Lincoln2nd DIVISION SOUTH19th DecemberDagenham FC v SIB BathCC Gwent v Gillette ReadingGraham Spicer v Lansdown MedwayLarkhall v Gunnersbury Triangle3rd DIVISION NORTH19th DecemberCrusaders v GranthamSouth Yorkshire II v VickersUnity III v Ormesby IIIByker v Hermits3rd DIVISION WEST19th DecemberTarmac Ladies v WW SolihullChan Construction v Cowbridge BridgendPengeley Torbay v Launceston KernowGrove II v Jolliffe Poole3rd DIVISION EAST19th DecemberColne Valley v Dunlop WaveneyAbeng v Jaques Geiieration IIJanuary 1983PREMIER DIVISION2nd JanuaryUnity v OrmesbyBWF Wamdsad v Thorn-EMI EllenboroughDunlop Birmingham v Hassy SohamNewcastle v Letchworth Corporation9th January .Thorn-EMI Ellenborough v Dunlop B'hamHassy Soham v NewcastleLetchworth Corporation v Unity23rd JanuaryDunlop Birmingham v OrmesbyNewcastle v Thorn-EMI EllenboroughLetchworth Corporation v Hassy SohamBWF Wamdsad v UnityFIRST DIVISION2nd JanuaryTarmac Wolverhampton v BWF Wamdsad IIGrove v Jaques GenerationMBS St. Neots v Butterfly CardiffOrmesby II v TCB Dolphins9th JanuaryBWF Wamdsad II v Jaques GenerationTarmac Wolverhampton v MBS S1. NeotsButterfly Cardiff v Ormesby IITCB Dolphins v Grove23rd JanuaryJaques Generation v MBS S1. NeotsOrmesby II v Tarmac WolverhamptonTCB Dolphins v Butterfly CardiffGrove v BWF Wamdsad II2nd DIVISION NORTH2nd JanuaryUnity II v HermitsRiversley Insurance v South YorkshireTarmac Wolverhampton II v TG Salford9th JanuaryHermits v Riversley InsuranceSouth Yorkshire v Tarmac Wolverhampton IITG Salford v RB LincolnMarch v Unity II23rd JanuaryTarmac Wolverhampton II v HermitsRB Lincoln v South YorkshireMarch v TG SalfordRiversley Insurance v Unity II3rd DIVISION EAST2nd JanuaryAbeng v CippenhamMBS St. Neots It v Dunlop Waveney9th JanuaryCippenham v Caine ValleyDunlop Waveney v Jaques Generation II23rd JanuaryColne Valley v Abeng30'th JanuaryMBS S1. Neots II v Cippenham2nd DIVISION SOUTH2nd JanuaryLarkhall v Dagenham FCCC Gwent v SIB BathGraham Spicer v Gillette ReadingGunnersbury Triangle v Lansdown Medway9th JanuaryDagenham FC v CC GwentSIB Bath v Graham SpicerGillette Reading v Gunne.rsb~ry TriangleLansdown Medway v Larkhall23rd JanuaryGraham Spicer v Dagenham FeGunnersbury Triangle v SIB BathLansdown Medway v Gillette ReadingCC Gwent v Larkhall3rd DIVISION NORTH2nd JanuaryUnity III v CrusadersByker v GrahamOrmesby III v VickersSouth Yorkshire II v Hermits9th JanuaryCrusaders v BykerGrantham v South Yorkshire IIVickers v Unity IIIHermits v Ormesby III23rd JanuarySouth Yorkshire II v CrusadersOrmesby III v Grantham

Byker v Unity II.Vickers v Hermits3rd DIVISION WEST2nd JanuaryGrove II v Tarmac LadiesChan Construction v WW SolihullPengeley Torbay v Cowbridge BridgendJolliffe Poole v Launceston Kernow9'th JanuaryTarmac Ladies v Chan ConstructionWW Solihull v Pengeley TorbayCowbridge, Bridgend v Jolliffe PooleLaunceston Kernow v Grove II23rd JanuaryPengeley Torbay v Tarmac LadiesJolliffe Poole v WW SolihullLaunceston Kernow v Cowbridge BridgendChan Construction v Grove IIHALEX NATIONAL LEAGUERESULTSPREMIER DIVISION7th NovemberLetchworth Corporation 3 Ormesby 5David Wells bt Donald Parker 19, -19, 17.Richard Jermyn lost to Douggie Johnson-11, 10, -4.Joey Kennedy bt John Broe 11, 21.David Dodd lost to Richard Yule -12, -17.Wells lost to Johnson -15, -17.Jermyn lost to Yule -15, -23.Kennedy lost to Parker -7, -17.Dodd bt Broe -16, 12, 20.Thorn-EMI Ellenborough 6 Hassy Soham 2Graham Sandley bt Kenny Jackson-20, 16, 17.Mark Mitchell bt Paul Day 11, -17,16.Colin Wilson lost to David Hannah -19, -21.David Tan lost to Nicky Mason -18, -19.Sand ley bt Day 12, 16.Mitchell bt Mason 13, 24.Wilson bt Jackson 18, -17,21.Tan bt Hannah -17, 7, 15.Unity 7 Dunlop Birmingham 1Skylet Andrew bt Ian Horsham 18, -15, 12.Steve Turner bt Steve Mills -18,20, 19.Chris Rogers bt Barry Hayward 16, 10.Gary Thomas lost to Barry Johnson-20, 18, -13.Andrew bt Mills 18, 19.Turner bt Johnson 16,4.Rogers bt Horsham 19, 14.Thom,as bt Hayward 18, 16.Newcastle v BWF Wamdsad(match postponed).21 st NovemberThorn-EMI Ellenborough 7 Unity 1Mark Mitchell bt Chris Rogers 18, 25.Colin Wilson bt Steve Turner 15, -10, 18.John Kitchener bt Steve Sharp -16, 14, 16.David Tan lost to Billy Gleave 17, -10, -14.Mitchell bt Turner -19, 21, 13.Wilson bt Gleave 11,13.Kitchener bt Rogers 13, 12.Tan bt Sharp 14, 12.Newcastle 2 Dunlop Birmingham 6Chu Van Que bt Ian Horsham -13, 9, 19.Peter McQueen lost to Steve Mills -10, -5.Ian Robertson lost to Barry Hayward-15, 15, -9.Andrew Clark lost to Barry Johnson -10, -19.Chu lost to Mills -18, -22.McQueen bt Johnson 18, 17.Robertson lost to Horsham -17, -15.Clark lost to Hayward -7, -14.FIRST DIVISION6th NovemberBWF Wamdsad 1 Tarmac Wolverhampton 77th NovemberJaques Generation 7 TCB Dolphins 1Grove 6 S1. Neots 2BWF Wamdsad II 4 Ormesby II 421 st NovemberButterfly Cardiff 5 Jaques Generation 3BWF Wamdsad II 5 TCB Dolphins 3Ormesby II 4 MBS S1. Neots 42nd DIVISION NORTH7th NovemberSouth Yorkshire 3 TG Salford 5Unity II 7 Tarmac Wolverhampton 1Riversley Insurance 2 RS Lincoln 6Hermits 4 March 421 st NovemberSalford 6 Hermits 2South Yorkshire 6 Unity II 2March 6 Riversley Insurance 2RB Lincoln 5 Tarmac Wolverhampton 32nd DIVISION SOUTH7th NovemberLarkhall 5 Graham Spicer 3Cran'field Clrs. Gwent 4 Gunnersbury T. 4Dagenham FC 6 Lansdown Medway 221st NovemberGillette Reading 6 Dagenham FC 2SIB Bath 6 Larkhall 2Lansdown Med. 3 Cran'field Clrs. Gwent 5G,unnersbury Triangle 4 Graham Spicer 428th NovelT.berSIB Bath 5 Cranfield Colours Gwent 33rd DIVISION NORTH7th NovemberGrantham 4 Hermits II 4Unity III 3 South Yorkshire II 5Byker 8 Ormesby III °Crusaders 4 Vickers 421st NovemberGrantham 8 Unity III 0Ormesby III 4 South Yorkshire II 4Hermits II 8 Crusaders 028th NovemberVickers 3 Byker 53rd DIVISION EAST7th November 1982Abeng 5 MBS S1. Neots II 3Colne Valley 3 Jaques Generation II 521 st NovemberDunlop Waveney 3 Cippenham 5Jaques Generation II 2 MBS S1. Neots II 63rd DIVISION WEST7th NovemberGrove II 2 Pengeley Torbay 6Chan Construction 5 Jolliffe Poole 3WW Solihull 4 Cowbridge Bridgend 4Tarmac Ladies 5 Launceston Kernow 321 st NovemberCowbridge Bridgend 4 Tarmac Ladies 4WW Solihull 0 Grove II 8Launceston Kernow 2 Chan Construction 6Jolliffe Poole 5 Pengeley Sports 3FOR SALESTIGA ROBOTBRAND NEW CONDITIONONLY USED TWICE£750T. K. RAllTON,13 JOHNSON WALK,TILGATE, CRAWLEY.Tel. 0293 541605.TABLE TENNIS NEWSPubl'ished each month from October to May.Postal subscriptions £6.00 for eight issues (U.K.),Europe (including Eire) £10.00, Overseas airmail£12.50.Adveirtisements: Mrs. Christine Wilkes, EnglishTable Tennis Association, 21 Claremont, Hastings,East Sussex TN34 1HA. Tel. Hastings (0424)433121.Subecriptio,ns: Miss B. Davies, English TableTennis Association, 21 Claremont, Hastings, EastSussex TN34 1HA. Tel. Hastings (0424) 433121.Distribution: Mrs. E. Doreen Yates, 43 KnowsleyRoad, Smithills, Bolton, Lanes. BL1 6JH. Tel.Bolton 42223.Editorial: Mr. George R. Yates, 43 KnoWs1eyRoad, Smithills, Bolton, Lanes. BL1 6JH. Tel.Bolton 42223.~ ~ ~~rn[furn ~rnW~J]@3~ ~ ~®J]~©@1]JlID~D&~ill)Q54 ARNDALE CENTRE, MIDDLETONMANCHESTER M24 4EF.Tel. 061-643-7515BUTTERFLYSUPER ANTI £8.00SRIVER RUBBER £7.50TACKINESS RUBBER £9.50STIGA MARK V£8.50Order any two sheets and get six Table Tennis Balls FREElPlease add 25p per order for post and packingSend. S.A.E. for current Price ListPage 41

County ChampionshipsSENIOR PREMIER DIVISIONSetting off down the Motorway, championsMiddlesex were no doubt well pleasedwith their start to the Senior Premier campaign,maximum points from three gamesbeing just what they wanted. Little did they,or anyone else, know until the results werechecked that their men had not played inranking order, so that one of their wins,against Warwickshire, became a defeat.This is a sad blow for the normally wellorganised Middlesex Association and itwould be a pity if the title eventually restedon this slip up. However, this cannot detractfrom an excellent weekend's table tennis,full of good play, good sportsmanship, anddrama.In the first series of matches, a DonaldParker-less Lancashire found Essex's TonyPenny and Ian Horsham too hot to handlealthough a good win for Amanda Goodwin(no pun intended) over Elaine Foulds gavethem a chance at 3 all. Yorkshire gave newcomersStaffordshire a hard time, only themixed doubles going against the WhiteRose county. Middlesex handed out as!milar defeat to Dorset, the big upset beingvictory for Mark Werner over David Wells,although the amended result became 6-3.The closest match was the see-saw contestbetween Berkshire and Warwickshire. Withnever more than one game separating theteams it was Ian Fullerton who pulledBerkshire through taking a nail biting lastset at 21 against Barry Johnston.The second session saw Middlesex cruiseto 5-0 up in their contest with Staffordshire,Jill Harris recording the only on tablesuccess for the losers. Lancashire hit thewinning trail to give Dorset two defeats, thesurprise being Tony Clayton's win overPark~r, especially in view of his comprehensivedefeat by Stephen Turner. Warwickshireand Yorkshire figured in the longestgame of the evening, but after reaching 2-0,Yorkshire faded. However, they did recoverto 4 all with Kevin Beadsley facing therelatively unknown Carl Morgan and fewwould have given the Midlanders muchchance. But what a match Morgan played.Not afraid to go for his shots, he outgunnedthe Yorkshire left hander to demonstratewhy Warwickshire regard him as one oftheir future stars. Another 5-4 was Essexv Berkshire where, as Stuart Gibbs said'Tony Penny was magnificent', and withsupport from Horsham and David Newmanthey just scraped home. This match alsomarked the 1st team debut of cadet LisaHayden whose performance fully justifiedthe Essex decision to include her in theirsquad.On Sunday morning, a strangely lethargicBerkshire allowed Lancashire a comfortablewin, Parker plus both doubles putting themwell on top. The previously unbeaten Essexshould have been 3-0 up against Yorkshirebut both Alan Fletcher and Steve Millspulled bac~ big de'ficits to give their side a2-1 lead from whence they were never inany trouble. Middlesex and Warwickshire(who else!) went to 5-4, the on table victorsrelying heavily on David Wells but thegame won by Colin Wilson had to be forfeitedto give Warwickshire a 5-4 win. Thereal cliff hanger was Staffordshire andDorset, both without a win and with thelosers even at this stage likely to make aPage 42quick return to Division 2. Staffs led 2-0, 3-1,and 4-2, but fighting displays by Wernerand Clayton put Dorset on level terms. Whowould have been in the shoes of MartinAbbott or Craig Bakewell? After somerallies that would not have disgraced aninternational event, it was the young Staffsnumber two who had the Black Countryteam and their supporters in raptures.TABLEP W L F A PYorkshire 3 2 1 19 8 4Lancashire 3 2 1 16 11 4Middlesex 3 2 1 16 ,11 4Warwickshire 3 2 1 14 13 4Essex 3 2 1 13 14 4Berkshire 3 1 2 12 15 2Staffordshire 3 1 2 9 18 2Dorset 3 0 3 9 18 0Lancashire 3 Essex 6S. Scowcroft bt D. Newman 19, 15;lost to T. Penny -7, -16.K. Williams lost to Penny -13, -14;lost to I. Horsham -13, -14.S. Turner lost to Horsham 13, -17, -16;lost to Newman -13, -15.A. Goodwin bt E. Foulds 19, 19.Turner/Goodwin bt Penny/Foulds-14, 18, 20.Scowcroft/Williams lost to Newman/Horsham -14, -10.Yor'kshire 8 Staffordshire 1K. Beadsley bt A. Bellingham 10, 20;bt A. Rich -22, 12, 11.A. Fletcher bt Rich 12, 11;bt C. Bakewell 13, 12.S. Mills bt Bakewell 9, 17;bt Bellingham 8, -18, 9.M. Hi II bt J. Harris 17, -10, 20.Beadsley/Hill lost to Bellingham/Harris13, -14, -17.Mills/Fletcher bt Bakewell/M. Evans-17, 14, 18.Middlesex 8 Dorset 1(ame,nded to 6-3)C. Wilson bt A. Clayton 9, -15, 20;bt M. Abbott 16, 8.J. Souter bt Abbott 14, 17;bt M. Werner -16, 18,16.D. Wells lost to Werner -11, -16;bt Clayton 11, -19, 14.M. Williams bt C. Creasey 20, 15.Wilson/Williams bt Clayton/Creasey17, -17, 19.Wells/M. Mitchell bt Werner/Abbott 19, 8.Berkshire 5 Warwickshire 4A. Wellman lost to D. Johnson -17, -13;bt B. Hayward 16, 15.I. Fullerton bt Hayward 13, 13;bt B. Johnson 15,21.D. Barr bt B. Johnson -19, 20, 6;lost to D. Johnson -12, -12.M. Smith bt K. Groves -17, 14, 10.Barr/Smith lost to Morgan/Groves -20, -16.Wellman/Fullerton lost to Johnson/Johnson-14, -17.Staffordshire 1 Middlesex 8(amended to 3-6)Rich lost to Wells ..,16, -10;lost to Souter 15, -12, -12.Evans lost to Souter -14, -19;lost to Wilson -22, -14.Bellingham lost to Wilson -13, -21;lost to Wells -17, 19, -14.Harris bt Williams 18, 13.Rich/Harris lost to Wilson/Williams-14, 11, -20.Bellingham/Bakewell lost to Wells/Mitchell-21, -15.Dorset 2 Lancashire 7Werner lost to D. Parker -9, -12;lost to Scowcroft -13, -16.Abbott lost to Scowcroft -20, -18;lost to Turner -19, -17.Clayton lost to Tu rner -17, -15;bt Parker 15, 22.Creasey bt Goodwin 19, 18.Werner/Creasey lost to Turner/Goodwin-16, -11.Clayton/Abbott lost to Pal kerIS. Browne-19, -13.Warwickshire, 5 Yorkshire 4B. Johnson lost to Mills -11, -15;lost to Fletcher -15, -19.Morgan lost to Fletcher -11, -20;bt Beadsley 18, -15, 18.D. Joh~son bt Beadsley 11, 14;bt Mills -9, 15, 17.Groves bt Hill -10, 19, 18.D. Johnson/Groves bt Beadsley/Hill-19, 13, 19.B. Johnson/Hayward lost to Mills/Fletcher19, -18, -20.Essex 5 Berkshire 4Horsham lost to Barr -13, -14;bt Fullerton 15, 9.Penny bt Fullerton 7, 18;bt Wellman 11, 17.Newman bt Wellman -18,13,21;lost to Barr -19, 19, -18.L. Hayden lost to Smith -15, -13.Pennyy/Hayden lost to Barr/Smith -11, -14.Horsham/Newman bt Wellman/Fullerton14,13.Berkshire 3 Lancashire 6Wellman lost to Parker -14, -16;bt Scowcroft 13, 21.Fullerton lost to Scowcroft -10, 12, -15;lost to Turner -4, 17, -9.Barr bt Tu rner 19, 14;lost to Parker -13, -17.Smith bt Goodwin 13, 13.Barr/Smith lost to Turner/Goodwin-17, 19, -19.Wellman/Fullerton lost to Parker/Browne-11, -12. ,