The Archive · 1938

Hollywood Girls

Softball Battle Waged At Manila

Manila, Nov. 9.

A strange collection of male athletes, representing practically every known field of sport, combined a small portion of skill and a large portion muscle to clout out a 9-6 victory over the visiting Hollywood Stars softball team of dainty girls at the Rizal Memorial Stadium tonight.

The girls started out as favourites because they were determined to make good in their debut. They even sent in their star hurler, pretty -Lois Terry, who last year in the Pacific Coast League won 32 games and lost only 5. But the men took the game seriously and slugged the ball heavily to come through and triumph.

The men who represented the American-European Y.M.C.A. also represented practically every sporting group in Manila,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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