quarter-finals of the Coral Beach Club Invitational Tennis Tournament.

In losing, Bain was taught a painful, but important, lesson by his older and crafty opponent, that youth and power can be neutralised by age and experience.

Bain, after losing the first set, rebounded to take the second by a similar 6-4 score, then breezed to what appeared to be a winning position at 5-2 before caving in under the relentless pressure of his opponent.

The 60-year-old native of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts belied his age as he appeared to catch a second breath and with it took the wind out of Bain's sails by returning his best shots. He frustrated his younger opponent and forced him into committing unforced errors while breaking service twice and holding three times, including the 12th game for the match.

"I was lucky,'' said an exhausted Mount afterwards. "His service was just too powerful for me, but luckily his first serve was less than 50 percent, which gave me a chance on his second serve.

"I can't put a finger on what happened, really. He just let me back into the match when he should have closed me out and I just hung in there until it was over.'' Clearly disappointed, Bain did gain a measure of revenge an hour later as he teamed with Earl Leader to defeat Mount and Patrick O'Kelly, the third seeds, 6-0, 6-2.

In another thrilling match, Jan Quin and Brian Way had to call on all their youthful experience en route to an upset victory over the third-seeded pair of Marnie Johnson and Nick Hoppe winning 6-7 (7-2), 6-2, 6-4.

"I nearly blew it out there,'' exclaimed Way following the match. "I had to do something in order to regain my composure because for a while I was seeing double.'' Way arrived at Coral Beach early, having to sit through a rain delay forcing his match to go well past lunch time. BOWLING BOW Social Club romped to a 17-10 victory over Warwick Whites during recent action of the Barritt's Sportsmen's League behind a team high series of 2,655 and second-best team game of 918.

Warwick Whites rang in with team high game of 931 and third-best team series of 2,561.

Vernon Daniels led the way for Social Club with an individual series of 561, third best in the league that night, while Warwick received a boost from Lionel Dowling, who posted second-best high game of 224.

Pembroke Juniors recorded a narrow 141 -121 triumph over Young Blood as Woody Jones notched top individual high game of 231. Young Blood consoled themselves with third-best team high game of 902 and Glenn Tuzo's individual high series of 582, highest in league action.

Buy & Sell doubled Mini Forwarders 18-9 on the sterling performance of Miles Smith, whose 578 series ranked second best on the night. Also, the winners had second-best team high series of 2,564.

Sparks were flying as they topped Warwick Reds 19-8 behind the third high series of 213 scored by Hank Rawlins.

Saturday's schedule: Social Club v Youngblood; Warwick Whites v Pembroke Juniors; Warwick Reds v Buy & Sell; Sparks v Mini Forwarders.

TABLE TENNIS TEN The team that will be travelling to the US Open Team Championships in Detroit next week will train at Elliott School today at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 5.30 p.m.

FISHING FHP Maurice Schaffer came up with a potential Bermuda record on Saturday when he hooked and boated a 411 -pound African Pompano on his 30-pound test line.

What makes the feat even more remarkable is that, "the African Pompano is a species not regularly caught the waters off Bermuda,'' said International Game Fishing Association representative Tom Smith, who weighed the fish for the skillful angler. "The catch will extend to three current records caught here.'' Schaffer hooked the prized catch on fishing grounds to the east of the Island.

He made the trip with Dick Sanderson.

BASKETBALL BAS Registration for the Bermuda Basketball Association's Winter League will take place on Monday at the Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation starting at 7 p.m.

The competition is open to all interested youth, corporations and clubs. Any individuals unable to find a team are welcome to attend and an attempt will be made to place them with a side.

The season will commence on December 5 at BAA gym. For more information contact, Dean Jones at 295-1394.

ATHLETICS ATH Bermudian Terrance Armstrong just missed out on qualifying for the NCAA Championships over the weekend.

But the senior at Rider College in New Jersey can take solace in that he ran a personal best of 30 minutes and 22 seconds in the 10,000 metres at the IC4A Championships in Fairfax, Virginia.

Armstrong was 36th out of 360 runners but missed out by a few places.

VOLLEYBALL VOL The Bermuda Volleyball Association will host a six-a-side co-ed tournament for local high schools with a junior tournament beginning on Tuesday, December 7 at 3 p.m. and the senior tournament taking place the next day also at 3 p.m.

Games will be played at Saltus Grammar School gymnasium.

SOCCER SOC St. George's Colts will hold a training session today at 6 p.m. at Wellington Oval.

BIG CATCH -- Maurice Schaffer with his 411 -pound African Pompano, which is a potential Bermuda record.