The All Americans woke up early at the Koshien Hotel on Saturday, November 24 and were brought to Matsuzakaya department store, one of Osaka’s largest, at 10 A.M.   After shaking hands and smiling for pictures, they were presented with souvenir silk scarves and fed lunch before rushing off to the ballpark.

At least 50,000 fans packed Koshien Stadium to watch the All Americans.  Osakans have a reputation as boisterous people and the fans did their city justice, shouting and cheering throughout the game.  Masao Date, who had pitched so well for seven innings two days earlier, dominated the Americans for the first three innings.  But in the fourth, an error by second baseman Isamu Mihara put Foxx on first and rattled Date.  The Japanese ace then walked Averill and gave up consecutive hits to Bing Miller, Frankie Hayes, pitcher Earl Whitehill, and Rabbit McNair.  By the time, little Shinji Hamazaki came on in relief, Date had surrendered four and the game was essentially over.  Hamazaki fared no better.  He limited the damage in the fourth to just another run, but gave up two more in the fifth and another four in the sixth before leaving the game.  On the other side, Whitehill pitched masterfully, shutting out the Japanese in all but one inning.  The only hiccup came in the sixth when Mihara singled up the middle, Karita walked, and Isamu Fuma came through again with another RBI triple.  Fuma would later score on an Inokawa ground out.  At the end of nine, the All Americans finished with 15 to All Nippons’ 3.  Despite 12 American and 7 Japanese hits, there were no home runs.  Even Ruth hadn’t come close, hitting two singles before a Kenichi Aoshiba pitch hit him on the ankle in the seventh and he had to be helped off the field.  Doc Ebling went straight to work in the dugout massaging the swollen joint and Ruth told reporters that he expected to play the following day.