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Show SfiNTEL DEPfiRTS POfi NEW FIELDS World's Champion Wrestler Expects to Acid New Laurels to List I Ad San'.' ', world's light iica yweight wrecthng champion, is going to tackle 1 a new game. Not altogether new. pcr- ' haps hut. sufficiently so to make mat-, litis interesting. Snntci. who is well j known to Ogden fans. having met 1 i Jack Harbertson here twice during I 1920, departed las' Thursday from, ! San 'Francisco for Japan, where he is, 1 neduled to appear on the mat dur- ' lug ihe coming eight months- Henry Webber, his manager, accompanied ' the champion. J This time Ad Is going against the Other fellow's game, and in a strange'. , country at that. Just how the for- j I mer idol of San Francisco will fare at , the new game remains to be seen. I First and foremost. Santel wishes, it understood that he is not going up against the big fellows those Japa-I Japa-I neso wrestlers who weigh 3fo pounds land upward. He will confine his ef-j : forts to the jlu Jttsu experts who are smaller men. two an li '& roitixyw i n There are two styies of wrestling I In Japan. There Is Jlu-Jltau. with which We are more or less familiar, I and smoa. Smoa wrestling, so San-I San-I tel explains, Is confined to the heavier 1 trrannlers. The opponents face each other In a pit and then try to push; each other off his balance. The man who hits the canvas with his knee or, hand, or is thrown out of the. ring. has lost a fall ' They butt heads and break noses." j Santel writes this department. "None j of that for me I don't understand lipW they can stand it." In his new- contract. It Is specif leal - j ly stated that Santel s to be permit- i ted to use either Jiu-jitsu tactics or i i tch-as-caich-ea'n Ad does know-some know-some Jiu-jitsu holds and thinks that With a combination of the two he can hold his own. GUARANTEE TO COVER. He is making the trip with expenses paid and a guarantee that will cover Incidentals, but is also taking a chance with the promoter on his drawing powef. Santel has been told that With wrestling the national pastime In Japan, they have arenas capable of seating 40,000 and that In some places i he tickets ranee In pries from $2.50 to $7.50 each In American money Kirsi of oil the American grappler 1 will do the larger cities, wrestling the j little brown men in each rltv. Then I be Will hit for the provinces and plans to take on an opponent every other night. Wrestling, he is told, is one of the I features of the Japanese unl ersltles, and Ad. on arrival, will bp feted by ths collegians and probably asked to : lecture on the game as it is played In j the l.'nited States. tigdenltes are Interested in the out-' out-' come of the champion's trip. |