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.