Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25
WORLD OF SPORTS

has been in Seattle for nearly three
weeks, came one step nearer getting
matched with Prof. Tokugoro Ito the
japanese iiu jitsu expert, when the two
met yesterday in the office of Jack
Curley and talked over matching.
Robinson is in fine trim and works
daily at the Pleasant Beach gym
naslum and he is the only white man
who has steadily followed jiu Jitsu
wrestling and defeated every Japanese
opponent.
Prof Ito gave an exhibition Of the
jiu jltsu art at one of the Arena wrest-
ling shows, and issued a challenge to
wrestle any white wrestler, allowing
him to use any style of milling against
his, jiu jitsu. A friend of Robinson's
was in the crowd, and after an ex-
change of several letters Robinson
came up. there to do battle.
Prof Ito is a hot fayorite among tina
Japanese in the northwest, and at the
meeting yesterday guaranteed to have
at least 1000 of his countrymen present
to watch him wrestle Eddie Robinson.
From a New Yorker: They have been
having a lot of trouble here in the east
this year with rough riding and a
steady campaign for its suppression
has been begun and seems to be having
results. But III Is dollars TO uOuBHuulS
that after a little while the boys will
resume their crowding and jostling, and
the stewards will take another long
nap before they come to with start
and hand down bunch of suspensions.
1t has, too. been year of disappoint-
ments among the riders. For the first
time In many years the metropolitan
circuit is without a premier rider. MIL
Ter, the last reigning king. met his
Waterloo In California, after being
forced to divide his seat on the throne
with Eddie Dugan, and Dugan came
east the king bee. But Dugan was
soon supplanted by Vincent Powers,
the old Calm jockey, and he In turn
gave way to Taplin, the present ia
Vorite.
It is an odd thing that as soon as
jockey becomes popular and in posi-
tion where he can pick his mounts, ho
Immediately becomes a rough rider.
They have all followed the same pro-
cess, exactly, until ii began to look as
though the way to be q star was to
knock all the other boys in the race
over il you couldn't get by them In any
other way. Burns in the heyday of his
success seemed utterly regardless of
the safety of other boys in the same
races with him; Miller got to imagin-
ing he was 1uggernaut, and when he
was supplanted by Dugan, Dugan
thought he was the big ball and the
other riders the pins. and 1t was up TO
him to make strike in every race.
And as the Jockeys popularity in
creased, so did the roughness of his
tactics, and in tho same proportion
would grow the seeming reluctance of
the stewards to interfere.
Thus things have always gone until
there was a public outcry in the press.
and then the stewards would talk II
over, give out an interview or two say
ing rough riding would not be tolerat-
ed, straighten the boys up with little
iudicious discipline. and then sit tight
and let things relapse into the old con
dition once again. Inasmuch as this
has been the custom of racing stew
ards ever since Aretino won the Ken
lucky Derby, there is little reason to
doubt it will endure until the last horse
is swatted on the head by bag of
sand from an airship end the equine
race perishes from the face of the
earth.