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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 7 (October 1, 1938)

A Sports Ground for Softball

A Sports Ground for Softball.

An important development in sport in Wellington is the granting of the Petone Oval to softball instead of cricket as has been done for many years. This important sports ground has been the headquarters of cricket in the Hutt Valley, but the popularity of softball, a game introduced in to New Zealand last summer, has made such progress that it already rivals cricket in some parts of the Dominion. Influencing the Petone Borough Council in making its decision to place the Oval at the disposal of softball was the fact that the softball authorities intended to use the ground on Saturday morning as well as the afternoon and that more than 100 players would be participating in the games instead of 22, as in cricket.