on this day: 1909

["Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>]

The Japan Times, Tuesday 8th June 1909

THE KOKUGI-KWAN.

Two days after the opening of the newly-completed wrestling amphitheatre 
near the Ryogoku bridge on the 2nd inst., the spring matches are now in 
progress, attracting a large crowd of spectators and the house is always 
full with wrestling lovers. The first day of the series successfully came 
off on Saturday. Instead of an improvised tent in which hitherto the 
wrestling was carried out and the audience was badly accommodated, the whole 
scene was changed in the new gigantic dome and the deep red carpet below 
aglow with the new paint of snowy white in the ceiling and wall around. 
Every pair of wrestlers of strong muscular physique was received with éclat 
whenever they appeared in the ring and tournaments were eagerly watched by 
the audience. Conspicuous figures in the day's result were as follows:-

First Day
Won          Lost
Hitachiyama  Otori
Ikarigata    Isenohama
Kunimiyama   Chitosegawa
Nishinoumi   Umegatani

Second Day
Midorishima  Amagasaki
Nishinoumi   Otori
Kunimiyama   Ryogoku
Umegatani    Chitosegawa
Takamiyama   Tachiyama
Hitachiyama  Isenohama

Third Day
Midorishima  Onogawa
Isenohama    Chitosegawa
Ryogoku      Tamatsubaki
Namino-oto   Kunimiyama



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