Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-04
JAPANESE WILL
MEET AMERICAN
AT JlU JlTSU
EXCELLENT WRESTLING PRO-
GRAM ARRANGED
YOUNG JOHNSON TO TACKLE THE
MIGHTY FUkuTA
White Man Has the Advantage in
Weight, Which the Oriental
Expects to Overcome
with Skill

What should prove to be the best
wrestling cards ever held on the Pa
ciic coast will be held this evening at
McCarey's Maud Junction pavilion.
Three all-star bouts will compose the
program, two jiu-jitsu and one catch
as-catch-ean event. Two of the best
wrestlers in the west, the best exponent
of the art of jiu-jitsu now in the United
states and a white man who is believed
to know almost as much of the art as
the brown man himself will be the
principal attractions.
No pains have been spared by Pro-
moter Orendorff to give the fans an
opportunity to view a game which is
exciting as much or more interest
throughout the east as any other form
Of sport. Should the fans give Oren-
dorff the support which he expects,
Gotch, Zbysco and many others, in
Guiding DR.. T. p. Roller, probably will
be seen here within the next few
months.
In the main event of the evening, the
good old catch-as-Cltch-can style of
wrestling will prevail when Eugene
Traveller and Jack Lee hook up in what
promises to be one of the tlercest
struggles for supremacy ever Waged on
a mat. Both are confidence personitied,
and have been training daily for to-
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will come away Victors. Which will
win? That is the question which Los
Angeles fans have been asking for the
past two weeks. Both men will appear
in the best of. physical condition, and
no claims of out of condition or not be-
ing ready will be given a hearing.
Race Rivalry Results
The jlu-titsu event, in which the
mighty Fukuta meets young Johnson,
also has excited much interest and
race rivalry runs high. Fukuta is the
man who taught Harvard all that col
lege knows about iiu-jitsu, and his
name is still revered by those students
who suffered punishment at his hands.
While at the university Fukuta threw
several members of the football team,
any one of them weighing from thirty
to eighty pounds more than himself.
Fukuta, realizing that his local repu-
tation is at stake, has made every pos
sible condition for tonight and has
trained down to barely 140 pounds.
Those who have seen the japanese at
work declare he is not one bit over
rated, and say that unless Johnson
knows a good deal Of the art Fukuta
will gain the victory
But johnson is not at all .disheartened
by the rosy accounts emanatlng from
the Fukuta camp, and say that should
the Japanese win he will have to go
through the hardest battle of his
career.
Johnson the Heavier
johnson is many pounds heavier than
his opponent and is very strong.
Whether or not his brute force will en-
able him to master the Wiry, scientific
Japanese is a question which will be
settled tonight. Johnson also knows
quite a bit about the jiu-jitsu game
and has come away victorious from
many a match. Should he win he will
have beaten a jiu-jitsu artist on whom
has been conferred the third degree.
The opening contest will be a bout
between Sagi and Tani, who also will
travel the jiu-jitsu route. Both are
clever japanese and each has quite a
local reputation. Charley Eyton will
referee the catch h-as-catch-can event
between Lee and Traveller, while a
Japanese professor has been imported
to see that all is above board in the
jiu-j -jitsu contests.
Reports from Greenewald's and
Hookstratten's cigar stands indicate a
large attendance.