TABLE TENNIS
AUSTRALIAN TOURNEY N.Z. TEAM’S SUCCESS (Pur Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Having achieved the object ot placing table tennis on an international footing, the New Zealand team has returned from Australia. The team comprised Messrs. A. Spooner, manager, H. Boys, R. Cantlay, R. Algie, and E. Boniface. The team played representatives of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland. Algie won [he Melbourne singles title, where the general standard of play is above that of other parts of Australia. Adamson, Australia's highest ranking olayer, was unable to compete. Cantlay won the Adelaide singles championship, playing his best game of the tour. In the last teams’ match of the tour, New Zealand beat Queensland, She inter (State champions, by ‘l2 games to 8. “An all-Australian team probably would be too strong for a New Zealand tour at the present time,” said Mr. Spooner, but the standard appears to be rising faster here than i n Australia. In New Zealand, players are younger. The game has at-L-ined great popularity, but is chiefly -onfined toMhe cities, the difficulties of travel being far greater than in New Zealand.”
The Australian Table Tennis Association would probably send a team for the proposed Centennial tournament next
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20058, 3 October 1939, Page 8
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203TABLE TENNIS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20058, 3 October 1939, Page 8
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