Pitchers pack bags
Top-line softball pitchers could be in short supply in Canterbury next season. From last season's Canterbury men’s representative team both of the "home-grown” pitchers, Colin Sutherland and Peter Babbington, have left Christchurch. While Sutherland, a Papanui club stalwart, recently moved to Wellington on a transfer from his bank, Babbington, after a highly successful summer with Richmond, has returned to the West Coast. Another leading Canterbury pitcher, Jimmy Hall, who played short-stop for New Zealand when it won the men's world series in Midland, Michigan, a year ago, signed with the Wellington club, Poneke-Kilbir-nie, towards the end of last season. Better news for Canterbury softball is that the
young Canadian hurler, Mike Ash, will be returning to New Zealand for another southern summer with the Suburbs club. With Sutherland and
Babbington, Ash completed the representative team’s pitching staff last season. The Suburbs coach, Bryan Mountford, has been in touch with Ash this week and said that he already had his “bags packed" for New Zealand. Ash, who took a huge total of 291 strike-outs for suburbs last season, will probably arrive in the third week of September and will stay in Christchurch for the whole season, until the end of March. Meanwhile, the Richmond club is still hopeful that it will be able to entice Babbington back for the 1985-86 season. This year’s Rothmans national men’s tournament is in Christchurch, over the Christmas-New Year break, and the Canterbury team will be in urgent need of good pitchers.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19850725.2.191
Bibliographic details
Press, 25 July 1985, Page 48
Word Count
249Pitchers pack bags Press, 25 July 1985, Page 48
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.