The Japan Times, Friday 16th January 1914 (Page 1)

WRESTLERS ARE WARMING UP

TACHIYAMA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS NO BLACK MARK SO FAR

    The "regulars" at the Ryogoku Amphitheater has a strong effective and vociferous support from a large contingent of those carefree men who were there yesterday for a thorough enjoyment of life taking advantage of the employees' holiday. The house was filled with a human mass as well as human voice jumping way up out of the staccato note. The thermometer rose high, recording the atmospheric as well as nerve temperature with in the great building.
    The youthful Ayagawa of the Hitachiyama clan was dealt the first defeat of the season by Kurosegawa. Powerful and bombarding Utsunomiya, who had been maintaining a perfectly clean record, and the only one to do so in the Western Camp, was lifted out of the honor for his first biting of the dirt.
    The gentlemen of the portly body and uncomfortably developed dimensions, Nishinoumi was taken advantage of his bodily proportions by the light weight artist, Tamateyama. The featherweight got a jump on him first and took the under-hold. In the crash of the opposing powers, the two made a dog-fall. Tachiyama still remains impregnable; none has yet succeeded in defending or eluding the crushing blows of his iron muscles.
    On the sixth day the Eastern Camp materially narrowed the lead gained by the Westerners, by capturing nine matches against six points made by the opposing camp.
    The results of the more important matches on the sixth day were as follows:

Eastern Camp Western Camp
Yamadagawa *Hakkozan
*Karumogawa Yatakayama
*Onogasaki Onogawa
*Jindate Shiunryu
*Toshuzan Tsushimanada
*Kurosegawa Utsunomiya
Tsuruwatari *Kohitachi
Midorishima *Ryugasaki
*Orochigata Ayanami
Ishiyama *Omifuji
Tamateyama (tie) Nishinoumi
*Tachiyama Sakuragawa
Mifunegata *Unryu
*Kashozan Konishiki
Umenohana *Saganoumi
*Isenohama Shikainami
*Otori Komagatake

    The chief matches in today's program are given below with the + marking the more important bouts:

Eastern Camp Western Camp
Ryogoku Unryu
Shakagatake Chitosegawa
Asahiyama Yatakayama
+ Tsuruwatari Utsunomiya
Yamadagawa Onogawa
Ishiyama Konishiki
Akashiryu Sakuragawa
Onogasaki Ryugasaki
Kashozan Kohitachi
+ Midorishima Ayanami
Tamateyama Saganoumi
+ Onaruto Komagatake
Isenohama Shikainami
+ Tachiyama Asashio
Mifunegata Hakkozan
Karumogawa Tateshio
Umenohana Shiunryu
+ Kurosegawa Ayagawa
Orochigata Tsushimanada
+ Toshuzan Nishinoumi
Otoru Omifuji