When in Japan recently Fitzgerald Bros.' representative witnessed the Homeric wrestling bouts between the Osaka guild and the Tokio guild, 350 a side. Attendances at these contests are as large as at our interstate football or cricket matches, and spectators will throw clothing or whatever is at hand into the ring to reward a favorite. Next day a pupil of the latter will bring the articles round to the enthusiasts, who will give in exchange a money present. While it lasts the contest is very fierce. It is permitted to strike the opponent on the head or face with the open hand or the side of the hand, and to do various things foreign to Cornish or Westmoreland ethical ideas, but there is no mistaking the strength and adroitness of these men, whose muscles are of the soft, silky kind, which according to Sandow, is the perfection of muscle, and not of the hard, knotted variety, which is the ideal with most European athletes. Consequently they are as active as tiger cats, and not unlike them in the methods they adopt. The wrestling they give at the circus is not the wrestling they do in the great contests in Japan. That has little throwing in it, the great effort being concentrated to push the adversary over the straw ropes. What we are given is a system of fancy wrestling, still distinctively Japanese, but more suited than the orthodox to the understanding of the foreigner. There are some 48 falls — 12 throws 12 lifts, 12 twists, and 12 throws over the back — permitted by the code, and in one performance these men will illustrate more than half of them. On Wednesday next the public will have an opportunity of witnessing the art of these wrestlers.