Natives Are Learning
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Baseball
ALL Pacific Islands natives, having a sharp eye and a steady hand, soon excel in European ball games; and this is true of the natives of New Cale donia, who are quickly learning to play good baseball.
Men of the American forces in the Territory have been using the native vil lage greens as baseball grounds, and the natives are picking up the game, and are displaying remarkable throwing powers.
It is recalled that a New Caledonian native won the French Army bomb throwing championship in the last war.
Mr. William Brown, radio operator, formerly of Butaritari. Gilbert Islands, is now at Esperance, West Australia. He escaped from Rabaul in January, just as the Japanese were coming in.