BUSY SHIPS ALL DAY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1925, Page 9

BUSY SHIPS ALL DAY

BASEBALL ON A WINTER

GROUND

PARTIES LEAVE FOR OTHER

CENTRES.

. The more formal side of the programme for the American fleet's visit is now pretty well completed, and there is more time for the visitors and the people of Wellington to become acquainted and to talk it over. The baseball exhibition given by ships' teams at the Basin Reserve yesterday afternoon was very popular, and a big crowd, considering that Monday is a busy day with workers, assembled to see how the game is played. Wellington knows not the art of baseball, though understanding well the use of pigskin, but those who attended the exhibition certainly came away convinced that there jb really something behind America's national game, even though the play is for a dry summer ground and not such a field as was played upon yesterday. To-morrow afternoon New Zealand will return" the compliment, and endeavour to convince the visitors by senior p!ay at' Athletic Park that there is also something behind our national game. Later in the week an exhibition of American football may be given by two teams from the ships. Sev-er-al parties have left for trips to country centres, apparently with- considerable enthusiasm, lor these sight-seeing journeys are very popular, the more so as those who have returned have brought back good accounts. More school members of the Navy League are being taken over the boats to-day, and are enjoying the experience immensely. This evening the Savage Club is entertaining the Admiral and fifty officers at a korero at the Town Hall, and at the Tivoli Theatre thero will be boxing matches, ship by ship.