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Pollard Canberra's
top squash man
Graham Pollard con
firmed his standing as
the top ranked squash
player during the
spring pennant com
petition.
An analysis of wins and
losses shows that Pollard
won 10 of the 12 minor
round matches, losing only
to Geoff Walsh and Alan
Woodward. Woden cham
pion Walsh also finished
with a 10-2 record, losing
to Pollard and Dickson
player John O'Callaghan,
however he was easily
beaten by Pollard in the
first semi-final.
Other results in A grade
were Woodward nine wins
and three losses,
O'Callaghan 7-4, Jim
Lavis 7-4, Peter Taylor
6-6, Bob Alexander 4-9
and Bill McLennan 1-9.
Graham Wurtz finished
with a slight edge over
Terry Donnelly in the No
2 division. Wurtz, of
National Centre, had 12
wins and one loss and
Donnelly, of Squashbowl
nil wins and one loss.
Of the others Ken
Shands and Jim Ferguson
each finished with six wins
and six defeats. Peter
Kable 4-6, Charlie Cross
4-9, Ken Thompson 2-7
and Les Armstrong 1-11.
Woden UI players Alan
McLeod (4-9) and John
Robertson (3-6) played in
No 1 and No 2 divisions,
scoring most wins in the
latter.
No 3 players were even
ly matched with Ian Ison
completing the series with
nine wins and two defeats,
Barry Reid 10-3, Bob
Read 9-3, Tom Slater 9-3
and Gavin Feirclough 8-4.
Consistent Jock Hailey
(9-2) headed the No 4 re
sults table followed by
Warren Nicholls 9-3 and
John Bryctt 8-4.
Bryett is the find of the
season and was most im
pressive in winning three
matches in straight games
in the finals. Other promi
nent No 4 players were
Bruce Buchanan 5-6, Gor
don Gale 5-7, Larry Meng
4-6 and Bernie Ayers 3-8.
The ACT Squash Rac
quets Association is ex
pected to restrict to eight
the number of teams in
next year's first grade
competition. Two teams
under a cloud are ANU
and Woden III.
ANU has lost its No 1
.player, Jim Lavis, and is
hoping that Michael Ronai
will be back from overseas
in time for the com
petition'. However, ANU
will be lacking strength at
No 1 and will be under
considerable pressure.
Woden has had three
teams, two of which have
lagged at the bottom of.
the table for two seasons.
Additionally Woden has
had difficulty settling on a
consistent team because of
the unavailability of
players. Woden II had
seven reserves in the last
competition and Woden
III needed five.
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