The Eagle County Blade (Colorado), Thursday 15th September 1904 (Page 2)

Japanese Wrestlers

    Japanese wrestlers violate every law of hygiene and every rule imposed by trainers of pugilists and instructors in athletics in Europe and America. They are notorious drunkards and gluttons. They eat enormous quantities of the richest foods; their appetites are amazing; and they drinks gallons of beer, wine and sake daily. I saw in a Tokio newspaper the other day an account of a popular wrestler who had drunk a keg of beer at a single sitting. They are irregular in all their habits, yet they retain their enormous strength.