New Britain herald., 1915-05-12
TAR EASTERN OLYMPIC GAMES
 TO BE HELD SOON IN SHANGHAI

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 According to report from Shang- hai, the Far Eastern Olympic games will be held in that city, beginning on Saturday and continuing through all of next week, when the star athletes 1 of China, Japan, India. the Philip pines. Korea and Siam will compete for supremacy. This gathering of the gladiators of the Orient suggests a new yellow peril so far overlooked by MT. Hobson of Alabama. The Chinese student having been shorn Of
 his pigtail and thrown aside his horn
 trimmed goggles, and having dismissed
 from his mind the ancient Chinese belief that physical exercise is de-
 grading and fit only for slaves, pro-
 mises to cut quite Q figure in the
 athletic world in the not distant fu-. ture. The undersized Chinese who
 man-handles your shirts and collars
 is not to be accepted as representa- tive of his countrymen, for the Chinese Republic includes among it's citizens many men of beef and Drawn who are possessed of undoubted ath- letic proWess. The same is true of Japan and India, for in the interiors of those countries are to be found physical giants who at their own game of wrestling could doubtless give the best of European and American grapplers a hard tussle.
 The Eastern Olympic games pro- gram includes all the regular track and field events. alice sammee like the Western Olympics. and also base
 ball, tennis, basketball, volley ball, soccer football, wrestling and boxing. For nearly year the coaches Of the colleges of Japan, China. the Philip pines and other eastern countries have been training their star men for these games, and it would not be sur prising if records were broken.
 Baseball and soccer have become the leading college games of the Far East, but the sport that holds the at tention of the major part of the peo- pie is wrestling. Wrestling as it is conducted in Japan, China and India is not like the western mat game. The | Japanese wrestlers have forty -eight when any part of the body above the knees touches the ground. The Jap system of wrestling is strictly game, and it is not advocated as means of self defense. -jitsu is for that. The Japanese wrestlers who have dis played their prowess in America have not been very successful, but that is probably because they are unacus- toned to the rules and practices gov- erning the western style of wrestling.
 India is said by many experts to have produced the greatest wrestlers known to the game. Gama, the In- dian grappler. visited England some time ago, and made Zbyszko jump out of the arena in London. Hacken- and Gotch showed no anxiety to meet the Far Eastern gladiator. The best Indian grapplers hail from the Peunjil district. These hillsmen are brawny specimens of humanity, and they are educated for the game from their infancy. Al-. most from the day of their birth they are Kept in strict straining. The na- tive princes each have stable o wrestlers, and the tournaments are great affairs, attracting from 50-000 to 100000 spectators. The mahara- jahs are "dead game sports and often millions of dollars change hands on the result of a wrestling bout.
 In the Philippines, thanks to the influence of Uncle Sam, baseball has become the most popular game, and has generally supplanted cock-fght- ing and other inhuman sports fostered by the Spaniards.