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Inter-collegiate table tennisThe Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (West), will conduct a two-day Inter-Collegiate table tennis tournament...

Inter-collegiate table tennis
The Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (West), will conduct a two-day Inter-Collegiate table tennis tournament at their premises on January 18 and 19. Entries close on January 10. The draws should be collected from the College Gymkhana on January 13.

Willingdon golf
The two-day Willingdon Sports Club Millennium golf tournament, for the Sterling Travels Trophy, will be held on January 7 and 8 at the Willingdon Sports Club.

Mayur dazzles
Sixteen-year-old Mayur Mehta, a XIth standard commerce student of VG Vaze (Kelkar) College, Mulund, first swam the 35 kms stretch from Dharamtar Jetty to Gateway of India in five hours, 37 minutes on December 24 and two days later, the 22 kms Revas Jetty to Gateway of India distance in a timing of three hours, 31 minutes and 45 seconds, both in record timings.

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The earlier record-timings for both these routes also stood in Mayur’s name and were established in March and February 1998. The recent new marks were madeunder the guidance of pilot Late Madhukar Koli’s sons and team.

Mayur had finished second in the 25th Annual All-India SFI approved 14 kms competition in Calcutta’s Hoodly river on 18-12-99.

Bipin football
The Bipin Memorial Football Association (BMFA) will be staging their annual 13th one-day tournament for boys under-16 at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel on January 14.

Teams from the centres at which the Bipin Memorial camps were conducted would be competing in the tournament for boys under-16. The six teams Borivali, Malad, Kalina, Santacruz, Parel and Bombay Central (Madanpura) drawn in two groups, would compete in the preliminary league before advancing to the knockout phase.