Japan has sent us her most famous wrestler, Mr. Hitachiyama, who tips the scales at 330 pounds.
    It will be interesting to Americans, who have been educated to believe in muscle rather than weight in athletics, to see how his contests with American athletes will result. A large part of his bulk must be fat, and fat, as we are accustomed to think, impedes the muscles and renders its possessor much less powerful than he would be without it. On the other hand, of course, his great weight will have some undetermined force, but how much cannot be told until he tries conclusions with an American wrestler.
    All Japanese men are more or less athletic and their practice of jiu-jitsu shows that they are familiar with the laws of strength as well as with the laws of skill. It is significant, therefore, that all their professional athletes are distinguished for size and weight. A Japanese wrestling contest looks to Americans like a fat man's contest. But Americans are yet unacquainted with the force these giants can exert. It may be, as we suppose, very little in comparison with that exerted by wrestlers of other nations; but it may be, also, unexpectedly great. Now that Hitachiyama is in this country we shall find out.
    If the Japanese should prove his prowess with our athletes it will undoubtedly have an effect upon American training methods. Now we almost starve a pugilist when he is getting into condition for a fight, and oarsmen dread training, for they know it means a period of abstinence. If Jeffries, for example, were to prepare for a match, he would begin by taking off many pounds of weight, though he is nowhere near the size of Hitachiyama. Whether this enforced reduction is a good thing Hitachiyama's proceedings will help us to determine. - San Francisco Call.