Washington - President Roosevelt invited the members of his "Tennis Cabinet" to witness the Japanese wrestling matches in the East Room of the White House this afternoon. In addition there were present the Japanese Ambassador, the French Ambassador and a few others.
    Hitachiyama, the Japanese champion, captured the President's heart and a photograph bearing his autograph. Two other Japanese athletes wrestled six rounds, two of which the Japanese referee who presided over the exhibition decided as "drawn."
    It was at the conclusion of these that Hitachiyama took the center of the stage and gave what is called an "exercise," which consisted of playing ball with the three smaller men who accompany him. One of these devoted assistants was hurled through the air for a distance of ten feet or more by the champion and landed sprawling at the President's feet.
    This exhibition stopped because the three assistants were tired out and Hitachiyama told the President he regretted very much that he had not, as was the custom in Japan, forty men to tire out instead of three. The President replied that he should dislike to be any one of the forty, even to be last one.
    The entertainment was quite the most unique that has ever been given at the White House since the occupancy by the Roosevelt family. The "Cave Dwellers" in Washington are speaking of it tonight in hushed voices and with a shudder.
    The local Young Men's Christian Association loaned the mat used, and the exhibition was what is termed in Japan  "somu" wrestling, where any part ot the body above the feet touching the floor constitutes a fall. The preliminary arrangements for the exhibition were made lust before the President went on his trip South, when Hitachiyama called and presented the President with a very handsome Japanese sword.
    At the match today the large mat was placed in the center of the East Room and a 14-foot circle drawn. Under Japanese rules the contestants must keep within this circle. After greeting by the President and Messrs. Aoki and Jusserand who entered with him, the referee entered the circle and made motions with a highly decorated fan, which indicated that the sport was about to begin.