WOMEN’S BASEBALL CONTROL

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25134, 15 March 1947, Page 2

WOMEN’S BASEBALL CONTROL

AMALGAMATION PLAN REJECTED (P.A.) PALMERSTON N.. March 14. Baseball associations which looked for an amalgamation of the men’s and women’s national associations in New Zealand were given a refusal on Wednesday night when the annual meeting of the New Zealand Women’s Baseball Association, at Palmerston North, decided by-six votes to one to decline the suggestion of the New Zealand Softball Council, the men players’ association, to amalgamate. This resolution came after many months of talks between the two organisations. Women needed a controlling interest in their own sport, as in other sports, it was claimed.

Nine provincial associations were represented at the meeting. A rose bowl for competition by interprovincial B grade women’s baseball teams was presented by Miss Mabel Howard. M.P., and the president of the association (Mr C. Buckett) presented a shield for annual competition between Otago and Canterbury. The next interprovincial championships are to be held in Dunedin in the second week of March, 1948. and the annual meeting will be held at the same' time and place. The election of officers resulted: — patroness. Miss M. Howard, M.P.; president, Mr C. Buckett (Canterbury); vice-presidents, Mrs J. Carver (Masterton). Miss V. Fluery (Dunedin); secretary. Mr Alex Rennie (Christchurch); honorary solicitor. Mr H. S. Murchison.

The headquarters of the association is to remain in Christchurch.

Yesterday the North Island representative team beat a South Island team, 16-5.