While Tachiyama, Ise-no-Hama, and other well known professional wrestlers were displaying their skill at Shanghai, whence they have just returned to Tokyo, they had an amazing experience with the amateur Indian wrestlers of the locality.
    Tachiyama and Ise-no-Hama laughed outright when a reporter asked them to relate their experience. "Funny? I should say so!" said Tachiyama. "Even while we were performing at Dairen, many Indians at Shanghai wrote us to say that they wished to have a bout with us. We knew we could work up a sensation by accepting the challenge, but we thought it wise to decline it, lest we hurt them.
    "But on the very first day of our matches at Shanghai, a party of some twenty big Hindus presented themselves at the wicket and said they wanted to try their strength with us. It was such a sultry day that I was cooling myself beside the wicket when they came. I began to feel like trying my luck with them, and called one of them to my side. 'You want to wrestle Japanese fashion?' I said to him, and as I did so, I gave him a firm grasp on the arm. He gave a scream, and looked somewhat frightened. The fright, however, did not prevent him from promising to come with his companions the next day, fully prepared for a struggle. 'He's nothing, thought I, but I wanted to show him what Japanese wrestlers can do, and so I at once requested the Consul and the police for permission to wrestle with the dusky gentlemen. What a sensation it created. Newspapers published extras announcing the proposed matches between "Japanese and Indian wrestling champions.' On the appointed day the pavilion was packed with spectators and after long waiting two champions appeared in the arena. We made our young fellows deal with them, but poor fellows! They were no match for even our rank and file. They hied away as quickly as it was convenient for them to do so. They never showed up again.
    "Foreigners like to test our strength when they meet us. When we were invited to a club dinner at Shanghai, we lifted one of out hosts on our palms. Amazed? I should think they were!"