Henry Armstrong Lewis

[Seelye Martin <seelye@beaver.ocean.washington.edu>]

The half black, half Japanese rikishi is Henry Armstrong Lewis, who fights
down in Sandamme under the name Sentoryu.  He was born at Yakota airbase
on July 24, 1969, on the day of the moon landing, which accounts for his
middle name.  He grew up in Cleveland, and unfortunately wreaked his knees
playing high school football.  He has tremendous upper body development,
but lousy knees.  He'll be 25 this July, and I really hope that he can
break into Juryo.  He is in the same Stable as Musoyama. (This information
is courtesy of my daughter Maria, who attended Santa Maria School in
Tokyo, which was founded by folks from Yakota, and which is run by
Japanese nuns from a Spanish teaching order.  Mark Shilling's kids go to
the same school, Mark is a sumo writer and commontator, so the kids are
hip to Henry.)

  From Seattle last year, a graduate of Franklin High School, a giant
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Samoan, was recruited by one of the stables, but I heard nothing about him
in the Tokyo press.  Because I wasn't interested in Sumo at the time, I
didn't catch his name, but I'll check with local newspapers.  In short, we
have at least two mainland US young men in sumo.  Regarding the Franklin
kid, apparently he was also pretty heavily recruited by the local gangs,
who wanted him as an enforcer, so his mother was pretty happy to get him
out of town..
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more later,
Seelye Martin