The sun., 1904-12-23
HIGASHI DOWNS AJAX The COP
LITTLE BROWN MAN Uses BIG
ONE FOR JIU.JITSU VICTIM.

Mild Exhibition OF Jap Way Of scrapping
In Police Trial Room--Giants Fight
Shy After One Round-Not Man He
Couldn't Put Out, Says Cortrisht.
Five Of the sturdiest and best conditioned
cops on the force went up to Police Head
quarters yesterday to act as 1subjects' for
Higashi, a Japanese exponent OF jiu-jitsu.
The Commissioner has received 80 many
communications urging the desirability Of
the police knowing this method Of offence
and defence that he determined to have
it tested. The five selected were Selig
Whitman, known as Ajax the all round
strong man Of the force, s feet 0 inches
tall weight tS5; John j. Flanagan, the
champion hammer thrower. s feet 9H
inches. go pounds; John McGinty, once
amateur featherweight boxer and later
professional welterweight, 6 feet 81 inches
200 pounds; Charles Hammer. amateur
middleweight champion boxer in 1891, s
feet IL inches, weight 200 pounos; Adam
Strupel, runner. all round athlete and the
mounted cop who patrols Park row and
bears the title Of 1handsomest mar OF the
force" feet 10 inches and los pounds,
Higashi is feet inches tall and weighs
12o pounds.
Only two Of the police athletes stripped
with the Jap and only one tried to combat
him in earnest. -Ajax's' experience Was
a deterrent. The giant, after brief tussle,
sank down Imply, black in the face and
for a minute unconscious. The Jap tapped
the policeman on the pit of the stomach
and he began to breathe again.
When the two contestants appeared on
the mat. improvised Of mattresses in the
trial room. which had been cleared OF
benches, the contrast between the little
brown man in his short sleeved hmono
and trunks and the burly athlete towering
over him was ludicrous Nevertheless the
soft musoled Jap was solemnly warned
that he must not break any bones. Then
the two men faced each other.
SHOW me what the tricks are like.
said Ajax.
An right smiled the Jap, stepping
forward.
Don't do them yet hastily exclaimed
the policeman; just show them
He was shown and thought it was easy.
SO he made unge at the Jap, picked
him up and fell on him. In an instant
the Jap was on top with Ajax's arm in an
uIlIdtuld ltdiiii POoitioh'
They started again. Ajax selected a
good hold. The Jap casually gripped the
policeman's lapels. Slowly he twisted the
collar around until his knuckle pressed
the giants throat near the jugular. Ajax
gave ground with his eyes bulging. but
still struggling Suddenly he collapsed and
a half dozen sprang to pull of the Jap,
thinking he would fatally injure his oppo-
nent. But Higashi had already quit and
revived Ajax.
Then Ajax wanted to wrestle -5rmco,
Roman style Everybody smiled at the
seriousness with which he made the chal-
lenge to the little fellow, who had gained
his entire respect. The Jap good naturedly
took few lessons in the elements OF the
Western game.
Then Hammer came out, but merely
as a lay figure for the Jap to illustrate
various tricks and moves upon. Higashi
explained that there are three kinds Of
ju-jitsu: the kind with bare hands that
with stick, and that with rope. All
the japanese policemen carry a long rope
ct the hip and short one up the right
sleeve. With these they can overcome
a man and tie him up while he is still strug-
Cling. In the bare-hand game. there
are three divisions, the first with sixty
tricks, preparatory to the second with fifty
more complicated In the third division
there are fifty tricks, all deadly.
Chief Inspector Cortright said at the |
conclusion OF the exhibition:
There isn't a man in the room that
that Jap couldn't put out Of business in
two minutes.
III crooks take up the game, the cops
will certainly have to learn it or die vio- |
lent deaths in their ignorance"
Higashi was a professional teacher OF |
jiu-iitsu at Doshisha College in Kioto, and |
Tor four years has been in America teach |
ing it,