The Archive · 1938

Hollywood Stars Lose In Manila Again Defeated by Male Softball Team

Manila, Nov. 11.

The "Hollywood Star," visiting American girl-softball baseball team, suffered its second straight defeat last. night at. the Rizal Memorial Stadium By bowing to the company team of Heacock, 10-0.

The American girls: made their debut the previous night when they were nipped by a combined American-European Y.M.C.A. team of male athletes, 9-6.

The powerful visiting aggregation played classy ball but the men last night proved too smooth a group to be caught napping. The men pitched with plenty of zip and the girls lashed out wildly to finish on the short end of the score.

The Heacock men hung up 14 hits and made only one error, while the visiting girls clouted out three hits and pulled three boners.

Mabel Sparlin "of the visiting "Coumbia Pictures" team from the Pacific Coast of the United States led her squad to victory against the "All-American Stars," another squad picked from among the touring girls, 11-3.

Miss Sparlin was in rare form and struck out nine of the All-Amer-jeans." y The "Columbia Pictüres" made ten hits and three errors, while the losers rapped out four hits and committed two errors—United Press,

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