The sun., 1907-08-20
HITACHIYANA COMING HERE
JAPAN'S GREATEST WRESTLER
SORRH TO N5SS tart.

wanted To Meet the Secretary q, . Garsien
Party in Toxic Two Years Ago Write
To Mr.. TAFT ASKING flim te Tell Us
ThMt Ne IN Coming TAFT Does a..
WASHINGTON. Aug. Ie.-Hitachiyans the
Great 10 coming To America. In fact at
this moment he is upon the Pacific. bound
from The land OF cherry blossoms to the land
Of promise. the land which promises him
big returns. To assert that You never
heard Of Hitachiyana the Great is to con-
fess that you are not a member Of the Taft
party. which went to the Orient two years
ago and visited Japan before returning
home; IL 10 also to admit that you know little
or nothing Of Japanese wrestling.
Hitachiyana 10 the champion wrestler OF
Japan. To the wrestling ring there he 10
what Jim Jeffries Is to the American prize
ring. They talk about him In all the barber
shops all over the empire and admire him
in every circle Of Japanese life. Hitachi-
yana also has the genius OF a circus press
agent. he knows the value OF pure reading
matter In American newspapers. and he
has schemed carefully TO herald his coming
and TO get his name before the American
public.
Hitachiyans has written to his good
friend. Secretary Of War Taft. the only
American he ever saw whom he declares
he fears to test his prowess against. tell
ing him that he is coming and asking him
to let his friends and acquaintance know
Of the fact Hitachiyana evidently knows
that the Secretary Of War has many friends
and acqusintances.
When the Taft party was in Toxic two
years ago Gen lerauch'. the Japanese
Munster ot war arranged wrestling ex-
hioiton AS part OF the programme OF en-
ter'ainment Tor mr lait ana MS frienos
at sarden party M was really great
government ansir' ntschiysna was IN
vted TO De present ana give an exnio'ton
so were all the other leading wrestiers OF
the country IL was a spectacle winch
aroused the admiration OF all the Americans
among whom were Secretary Tart. Mrs.
Nlcnoias bongworth. tnen MISS Ance hoose-
Veit; Representative Longwortn. brig.-oen.
Edwards. Representative Bourke Cochran
Of the Marty
Hi,achivana was in bis hest form, and
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msVch oe'"een n"acniysnS anu .ne iorrner
chahpion OF tnS Empire hnacmyaha
cBalu bucSooueN AZ hVtcibk uto ohuokoutot
or the mat, according to the rules Of jap
anese wrestling. amid the wild cheers Of
the ,JapaDese and the yociferous applanee
~ the Amar;cars
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tea.ns me- man ne ioApeu from 'ne s.ase
ana r'ished 10 secretary laft ana received
the Secretary's greeting and congratuia-
tions. Hitachiyana in larger physically
than Secretary Taft. weighing nearly 900
no,pds He declared that Sacretarv Taf,
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800, ~ III 80 ,'. "
pnJ Jee"' in"''"oo1 "nu 'A"' 40 "ou "e"
tate 10 en'er the wrestling rinH WIN MN
There was mutual admiration between
the two men and the great wrestling match
was the talk Of the Taft party for a long
time Now the ,Jananese cbanpion is
coming IN Amsrics and be hss written m
,h. $4,000 -, a,,,1,,,rO;r, Nc o,,,;nu H..
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Iokio. japan June L. iW''
Washington:
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