NISHINOMIYA STADIUM, Hyogo, Jan. 21.- although resorting to their "body-ramming" tactics of the ring, the hefty wrestlers of Japan's professional sumodom lost to the Kansai Sports Writers' Club in an open baseball game by a score of 8 to 4 here this afternoon.
    Favored by an unseasonable warm weather in mid-winter, a crowd of approximately 5,000 spectators swarmed out to the main stands of the double decker stadium to see the ball match unique in Japan's 60 year old baseball history.
    Attired in slick white uniforms, the sturdy wrestlers, wearing a top-knot as in the sumo ring, played with bare feet - perhaps for the first time in the world's baseball history.
    Taking advantage of their home grounds, the reporters drew first blood in the initial inning and added five more in the following frame.
    But going into the sixth inning, the stalwart wrestlers, with a barrage of four hits, tallied four runs when Mitsuneyama, chubby but sparkling second sacker, walloped a triple to left field, with bases filled after one out.
    Despite the grapplers' desperate defensive, the writers, in the latter half of the same frame, scored two runs to clinch the ball game.
    After losing the first match with the sports writers' team, the wrestlers to cross bats with the combined force of Nishinomiya stadium employees and professional baseball umpires, but were again defeated by a score of 5 to 3 after battling for 10 innings.