[sumo] on this day: 1949

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

Nippon Times, Tuesday 25th October 1949

Chiyonoyama Wins Tourney

   Champion Chiyonoyama with a record of 13 wins and two defeats won the 
individual championship at the autumn sumo tournament in Osaka. Grand 
Champion Haguroyama was apparently headed for the title but two successive 
defeats in the last two days enabled Chiyonoyama to nose him out.
   That the once popular sumo has lost tremendous ground was shown clearly 
by the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the fans. The 15 day tourney saw 
only about one half of the seating capacity of the sumo stadium filled 
daily.

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Sumo Champ Retires

   Yokozuna (Grand Champion) Maedayama of the Japan Sumo Association 
informed the board of directors Sunday afternoon that he would retire. He 
gave illness as a reason for his retirement. The Grand Champion had been 
absent at the arena since the sixth day (October 15) of the autumn "sumo" 
tournament in Osaka due to "illness." Criticism had been raised against him 
after he showed up at Korakuen Stadium, Tokyo, to see the Seals - Giants 
baseball game on October 15 despite his "illness." The Sumo Association had 
suspended him Saturday.

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