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Show WRESTLING THE JAPANESE GAME Baseball But Little Known Among the Common People Peo-ple of Country. Wrostlin? is the sport which baseball base-ball win have to overcome before it becomes the diversion of the everyday every-day youth in Japan. Japanese college boys are playing the diamond gnmo. but among the common people It Is still little known. Wrestling le tho native sport of the. Japanese It is stricil a game. The Japanosf p.nnp of wrestling Is not for use In case of attack. Jiu Jltsu is an entirely different affair There are forty-eight standard holds used by JapaiK-so wrestlers and a fall counts whenever anv part nf the body above the knp touches tho mat. Agafim wrestling, understood by ev. pry Tapnnrpp and surrounded bj tradition, tra-dition, baseball must compete. It is maklnn it, but so far has gained ground only among the colleces, where It Is the race, as football is here, r Crowds attend the games, especially wIipii American teams, such as have' visited Japan recently! are taking part, but they are more like the foot- 1 ball crowds In this country than the baseball mobs. Japan Is pnrhaps peculiar in that there is no native game of ball except a 6ort of an association football played play-ed hy bos. Girls have always used a soft cotton ball to tos about, but a I game played with a ball by men Is a ' new thing Tpnnis is now played In Japan, manv girls taking part There are Japanese boxers in America, but the game itself would not appeal to Japanese Jap-anese in general. rtri. |