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BASEBALL PLAYING AND SIGHTSEEING IN AUSTRALIA.
We played our first game at Melbourne on Saturday, December 22d, the second day after our arrival from Sydney, and in the presence of one of the largest crowds that ever assembled at the Melbourne Oval, the handsomest of their kind in Australia.

The surroundings were of the most beautiful character and the day itself as perfect as any one could have desired for base-ball purposes.

The lawn in front of the Club House was thronged with ladies in light attire, and the many-hued sunshades that they carried gave to it the appearance of an animated flower garden.

The Club House balconies were crowded and even the roof had been pre-empted by the ladies and their escorts as a coign of vantage from which to view the game.