The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
JAP MATCH
WITH ROBERTS
Wrestling Match of Interna-
tionaI Significance Was
Made Yesterday.

| What promises to be one of mos
notable sporting events ever pulled OF
lin the Territory was arrange for yes.
terday noon, when articles of agree,
ment were signed in the Orpheum box.
office for a wrestling match under
catch-as-catch-can rules, between
Sailor Roberts of the Z. S. S. Iroquois
and Mftsuka, known by the wrestling
cognomen of Wakaminato, to take
place at the Orpheum Theatre week
from next Saturday.
| Present at the conference were joel
Cohen, K. Ono, August Reinecke, Pete
Baron, VIII Prestidge, Young Scott and
representatives of the press.
Mitsuka appeared clad in kinono
and made friends by his quiet, digni-
fed bearing.
After some discussion the following
articles were signed and the forfeits
to bind appearance on the mat posted:
We the undersigned hereby agree to
meet in wrestling match and to abide
by the following conditions:
1st The bout to take place on May
End, 1908, at the Orpheum Theatre, in
Honolulu.
End Fifty per cent of the gross re-
ceipts less the amount of cost of pre-
liminary bouts shall be set aside as
a purse for the principals in said bout,
l1I fafI
to the winner of said bout and 25 per
cent to the loser.
3rd. The bout to be wrestled under
the catch rules of the In
ternational Association.
The following holds to be barred:
Strangle hold: hammer-lock; flying
mare, leg-up-the-neck and full Nelson.
4th The contestant obtaining the
best two out of three falls to be de-
clared the winner.
5th. Catch weights to govern the
match
9Th Harry Cobb to be the referee of
said bout.
7th A forfeit of $50 to be posted by
each man Immediately after signing
articles, said sum to be claimed by the
promoter If a man fails to appear on
the mat at the time and place specified.
Signed this 22nd day of April, A. D.
1908.
SAILOR ROBERTS.
Per PETER BARON.
MITSUKA,
Per K ONO.
Witness: H NJ. AYRES.
Prof Pete Baron will train Roberts
and may be relied upon to have him
in the best of shape when the event
full evening arrives. AS a conditioner
of athletes Baron has no equal in Ha-
wall and he is no slouch as a wrestler
himself
Mitsuka will be coached by Will
Prestidge and Jimmy Spencer and with
these two men for advisers he should
be put next to all the tricks of the
trade
The preliminary will be of a most
attractive nature and will take the
form of contest for the Japanese
wrestling championship of Hawaii,
with Mitsuka barred.
The contestants will be Isoarashi
ex-champion of Hawaii; Mashikiyama,
champion of Maui; Akiraka, a dark
horse who claims to have never lost
bout; and Ichinoto, a professional
recently arrived from Japan.
Two Of these men will be drawn
against each other and will WrestIe
the best two falls out of three, Japa-
nese style. Then the other pair will
get together on the mat The winners
of the two bouts will contest for su-
premacy and the purse.
Another preliminary will be present.
ed, details of which will be announced
in a day or so.
Mitsuka is thirty-one years old and
was born on the island of Kusiu in
Southern Japan, where Admiral Togo
first saw the light.
He weighs 200 pounds and is a won
derfully built man. One of his feats
is TO juggle with two hundred pounds
sacks of rice. Another of his stunts
is to allow any Japanese wrestler in
the Territory to butt him with his
head as hard as he can in any part
of the body. No one has as yet been
able to make the big man lose his
balance in this way
Mitsuka neither smokes nor drinks,
which is remarkable in a Japauese
wrestler. That he will make it ex-
ceedingly lively for Roberts admits of
no doubt
Roberts, last Saturday night, show
ed considerable class and is big, strong
and game. Between him and Mitsuka