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Show I Fu jitsu is inferior 10 CAtCH-AS-CATGH-CAN j ; The people who had made up their minds that Jlu Jltsu waa not equal ai a port to . the good old Anglo-Saxon catch-as-catch-o&n wrestling had no reasdn' la the world to change . their minds Monday night. Eddie Robinson had not the slightest difficulty in throw , ' lng his opponent, and as be promised to do finished up the match In short order. Robinson's opponent, S. - Mookayama, k' was entirely unaMe to secure an effect- Ire hold on the' American. The "appearance of the 'two . men , stripped for action was as different as their methods of work on the mat. Robinson has most f Jits power above the waist, with a magnificent neck and shoulders and light legs, while the Jap :anese wrestler seemed much slighter : and more agile. Robinson tipped the ' scales at iZi pounds at 3 o'clock.' and Mookayama weighed about live pounds less.-' - " ' ' . 8ome little delay Was occasioned before be-fore the main -bout by the refusal of Louis Sato, who manages the Japanese wrestler, to put tip the remainder of the $500 side bet. Robinson' finally claimed tho forfeit which had heen posted and the match went on. -. Both -men -were a cautious as possible possi-ble when they fsxed each other on the mat .Mookayama tried time after time for one of the flying falls which charac-terlie charac-terlie the style used by him, but Robinson Rob-inson absolutely refused to allow him to secure hla favorite grips. After working work-ing for an opening for some time, both exhibiting some clever footwork,-Robinson forced the Jap to his hand and knees, slipping a rather dangerous neokr hold as he did so.- Robinson immediately immedi-ately worked into a half Nelson and crotch hold and forced hla opponent's j shoulders to the mat in three minutes I and eleven aeconds from the time they stepped on the mat. In the second fall Mookayama did hie beet work; Me took more chances,-, and his lithe body slipped out. of dangerous holds, time and again. He-waa evidently evident-ly disinclined to do any more work- on the mat than necessary, -and rose to hltt feet time after time. He finally managed- to secure -what apparently ia a mrul'fltallAn of'thA lCvun Twia atran- I gle hold. ' but Robinson's superior strength told instantly, and he had- little lit-tle difficulty in breaking it. - After sev-eral sev-eral unsuccessful attempts Robinson secured a half Nelson and- donble bar lock and forced the, Jap a. second time to the mat, the time, being five mirrutea twenty-one aecpnds. ' . ' Before the , mala event two seta of Japanese wrestlers gave exhibitions or jlu jltsu, and their txsuts were the most interesting events of the evening. Thu first pair with to our tongues unpre nouncable names gave an exhibition of flying falls and then wrestled the best two kv three-bouts. - In their, system a man is not down until he can no longer struggle, and the object it to force him Into some position which will result In a broken bone or strangulation if per sisted in. Both pairs of wrestlers gave splendid exhibitions, and some of their work, especially that done on the mat with their legs, is "really marvelous. . Billy Gregory .of Omaha and Jack Wilson of Butte' wrestled two hot falls In the catch-as-catch-can atyle, Greg ory winning both, the first in four minutes min-utes forty-six seconds, with a half. Nelson Nel-son and bar" lock, and the second with a neck-and-crotch hold. The men worked fast and gave an Interesting exhibition. Some of the local Japanese were much dissatisfied with the outcome of the bout and claimed that Mookayama was not the man who was originally Intended Intend-ed to face Robinson, but that the Ban Francisco man failed to come to thb front at the last minute. . . The match established one thing beyond be-yond a doubt, that while the jlu Jltsu holds are undoubtedly effective. It is not possible to secure -them against an active ac-tive opponent skilled In catch-as-catch-can tactics.. '.. , -.' ' ' ' |