[sumo] on this day: 1951

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

http://www.juryo.com/newspaper/19510820.htm

The Mainichi, Monday 20th August 1951

Sumo With Pants

   HOLLYWOOD - These well padded Japanese Sumo wrestlers put something new 
on television when they performed for the airwaves, and television returned 
the favor by putting something new on the Sumo wrestlers.
   After 2,000 years of wrestling clothed only in the Mawashi (wrestling 
belt), TV forced Sumo wrestlers to put on underwear pants although finding 
those copious enough to fit a 42 inch waist was quite a problem.

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