MEN’S SOFTBALL

Evening Star, Issue 26000, 15 January 1947, Page 3

MEN’S SOFTBALL

INTERPROVINCIAL MATCHES . The Otago , Men’s Softball Association held its first meeting for .1947 on Monday night. Mr D. D. Moore was in the chair, and there were also present Messrs L. Couch, E. Turnbull, W. Dickinson, T. Lethaby, W. .Winslade, G. C. Stephens, and the secretary, Mr T. Allen. The recently-formed Otago Softball Umpires’ Association was voted' a grant of £3 35,. to assist it in the initial stages of its development. The secretary, Mr' T. 'Allen, announced that the Caledonian Ground would not be available for the representative Otago-Canterbury game on March 1. He had therefore made contact with the Otago A, and P. Society, and the association had been granted the use of Tahuna Park on that date.

It was decided that the Otago representative team to;play Wellington on February 22 shoiild leave Dunedin on. Thursday, February 20, in order to arrive in' Wellington on the morning of Friday, February 21. The team is to arrive back-in Dunedin on Tuesday, February 25. A letter was received from Mr H. O. Bradley, secretary of iiie Southland Softball Association, confirming February 8, as the date for the OtagoSouthland Bates. Shield match, vo be played at Invercargill. In response to a request from the Southland Association it was decided to hold a return game with Southland on March 15 at Dunedin. -

Mr Moore stated that the associa-. tion’s diamonds at Hancock Park were in heed of some top dressing in certain spots, and that it would be advisable' for a working bee of players to attend to them before the recommencement ,of the competition, on Saturday. —Mr T. 'Lethaby understook to attend to the matter.

The A'.T.O. Spitfires team made an application for the postponement of their game with the Bear Cubs on Saturday,, as the majority of their, players were entering camp for a week’s training.—The application was granted. It was announced that competition games would be resumed on Saturday with two first division fixtures set down for 1 p.m. to make up the two games lost on account of rain..