i5 - Weduesday, April 25, 1990 - North Shere News

EXPERIENCE BEFORE youth: 83-year-old Henry Paynter Sr. plays the

net while his son Henry Jr., 38,

takes the back court during a men’s

over-35 doubles match at the Canadian Seniors and Masters Badminton
Championship. The Paynters were two of 180 badminton players — the
largest number yet — (to grace the courts at Hollyburn Country Club. :

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

Adams captures badminton gold

MASTERS ATHLETES proved
they’re not getting older, only bet-
ter, at the 42nd Canadian Seniors
and Masters Badminton Champi-
onships held at Hollyburn Country
Club.

By ELIZABETH COLLINGS
News Reporter

A North Shore highlight was -

provided by badminton veteran
65-year-old Dave Adams of West
Vancouver who came away from
the four-day tourney with a gold
and a silver medal.

Adams, who plays out of
Hollyburn, teamed up with Barry
Ursell of Winnipeg to win the gold
in men’s over-65 doubles where
they defeated Bill Thom of
California and West Vancouver's
Simmy Forsythe.

In mixed doubles, Adams team-
ed with Lee Calvert of California
for a silver, advancing to the finals
before losing to defending 1988
and 1989 champs Claire Lovett
and Ursell.

The names of the over-65 cate-
gory winners were inscribed on a
memorial plaque for Ken Grierson,
Adams’ long-time doubles partner
who died last year after contrac-
ting legionnaires’ disease.

Five years ago, Adams and
Grierson won the over-60 Cana-
dian men’s doubles and the World
Masters doubles in succession.

Adams attributes his badminton
stealth to an early retirement,

“I had the good sense to retire
early so I could devote more time
to badminton and fishing,”’
Adams said, adding that he works
out three times a week and prac-
tices badminton at least twice a
week.

Other world-class players of
note at Hollyburn include Chan-
narong Ratanaseangsuang and Jim
Powell, both of Alberta, who won
the men’s over-50 doubles by
upsetting the current World Men’s
Doubles Over-50 title holders Ab-
dul Shaikh of Vancouver and Jim
Poole of California. Jesper

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Helledie won the men’s over-35
singles as well as clinching the
men's doubles with Ken Little of
Alberta.

Other Hollyburn players in the
tourney include Roff Paterson,
Linda Meicalfe, May Murray and
Lenore Williams.

NS GRA

APRIL 27, 28 & 29/90
10 am. -9 p.m.

The Council of the City of North Vancouver endorsed the
following Temporary Road Closure for Staff Parking during
Local Government Awareness Day.

200-Block West 8th Street
Thursday, April 26,1990
7:00a.m. to 6:00p.m.

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