Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-21
ORIENTAL WILL
WRESTLF POLICE
JAPANESE JlU-JITSU EXPERT
WILL GIVE EXHIBITION
FIREMEN AND OFFICERS ENGAGE
TO TEST NlPPoNEsE
Native of FIowery Kingdom and Local
Wrestling Expert Are TRAINING
Hard for Bout at Maud Sat.
urday Evening

Charles McHugh, promoter of the
1iu-jitsu match scheduled for next Sat-
urday evening between Jap Yokoyama
and Eddie Robinson, the local wrestling
expert, has planned a novel series of
bouts to test the powers of the Orien-
tai, and today, by arrangement with
the chiefs of the police and fire depart
ments of Los Angeles, Yokoyama will
engage in wrestling matches with sew
eral members of both blue-coated
branches of the municipal service. At
10 o'clock this morning the Jap, at
tired in his white jacket, the symbol
of his craft, will march up to the DO
lice station, accompanied by a score of
hackers, and will proceed to the squad
room, where he will meet several of
the best of the bluecoats, who will en-
deaVor to pit their skill in the Ameri-
can game against the tricks of the
Japanese rough and tumble profess
sion.
After an hours tussling with the DO
lice in the regular drilling room the
Jap will tackle the Los Angeles fire.
men. The bouts are merely for pur-
poses of exhibition, but will serve to
show the deXterity of the Oriental in
handling the big and powerful ath-
letes who guard the city from fire and
crime. There are several members of
the police force who are expert wrest-
lers, and Yokoyama will not find it
easy work to defeat the pick of the
police squad. Among the firemen are
few who are adopts in the Yankee
game, and their vigorous life, which is
the best muscle hardener that could be
discovered, makes them formidable an
tagonists.
Will Test Methods
Both Robinson. the American, and
Shosha Yokoyama, the Jap, who are to
wrestle Saturday night, the jiu-jitsu
style of the latter being pitted against
the American methods of the former,
are in hard training for the bout, and
those who turn out at Maud Junction
when the men clash will see a bitter
struggle. Robinson is SO wen known
as an athlete of unusual ability that it
IS not necessary to devote space in
description of his wrestling prowess,
The Jap's defeat of George Santell.
champion Of the middle west in a bout
at Maud recently, gave him a. big repu-
tatlon, but the followers of the Ameri-
can are pinning their faith OH his pom
derous frame and long years of expert
ence in the game.
In addition to the regular main event
of the evening, McHugh is arranging a
GOOD card OF preliminary wrestling
bouts. which will serve as appetizers
to the big struggle. Two jiu-jitsu con-
tests between local Japs also will be
carded.
Owing to the bitter feeling existing
between Yokoyama and Robinson, it is
expected that no time will be lost when
the contestants meet. The average
Jlu-Jltsu expert is as clever in sparring
as any boxer. He does remarkable work
IN feinting to open his opponent. And
MS work is done largely by his feet 1t
is queer style of combined offense
and defense, this Oriental game.
1t is Oriental in all its characteris-
tics. 1t is the product of the Asiatic
ways of thinking and doing. Cunning
and trickery are it's main factors. The
1iu-jitsu artist by his adroit and sub
tie methods leads his opponent to open
up, and then he takes advantage of this
opening to get a hold which will bring
that opponent into subsection. Robin
son is particularly we'll adapted to this
style of work and for this reason a hot
mill is expected.