TABLE TENNIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 2

TABLE TENNIS

TOUR OF HUNGARIANS. CANTERBURY DEFEATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. In a table tennis, tournament last night the Hungarian players Barna and Beliak had no difficulty in beating a Canterbury team. The style of play, precision, speed and brilliant recoveries of the visitors, who did not lose a singles match or when playing together, impressed the large audience. Although Barna beat Beliak 21/14, 21/11, 22/20, the game was much more even than the score, with the exception of the last set, indicates. Barna’s skill in backhand driving was amazing and in this respect he was superior to Beliak, who played a brilliant, aggressive game in which he employed some very clever drives. Results: — Singles: McGillivray (Canterbury) drew with L. Meier (Canterbury), 21/18, 18/21; Beliak beat G. Barron (Canterbury), 21/6, 21/16; Barria beat F. Levenbach (Canterbury), 21/3, 21/5; Beliak beat Meier, 21/9, 21/13, 21/9; Barna beat McGillivray, 21/7, 21/10, 21/7; Barna beat Beliak, 21/14, 21/11, 22/20. Doubles: Barna and Beliak beat McGillivray and Meier, 21/5, 21/13; Barna and Barron beat Beliak and Levenbach, 21/16, 15/21, 21/15; Barna and Beliak beat Levenbach and Barron, 22/11, 21/13. The selector for the New Zealand- . Table Tennis Association, Mr A. S. Meachen (Wellington), announced last night that K. G. Cantlay and H. Boyes (Auckland) and E. Boniface and M. Gosling (Wellington) had been selected to represent New Zealand against the Hungarians in tile Wellington Town Hall next Thursday.