The time-honored sport of Japan is not as supposed by most Americans, jiu-jitsu, nor is it hari-kari. Wrestling is the oldest sport in Japan and the members of the profession have clung to old traditions even so far as wearing top-knots, which most Japanese have discarded.
    But even the Japanese wrestlers have been unable to withstand the lure of baseball and they have formed a number of ball clubs which vie with Japanese college teams for the championship of the island kingdom.
    In Japan this is regarded as the first move of the fans to change their national sport from wrestling to baseball and it is meeting favor with hundreds of thousands of natives.
    One of the really famous teams is the Tokio wrestlers' nine, every member of which is as well known in Japan as Strangler Lewis or Earl Caddock are in America. One member of the nine had declared that next the being the champion wrestler of Japan he would rather be the best baseball player in Nippon, which is some statement, coming from a Japanese wrestler, and goes to show how strong the great American game is going here.
    They have a baseball league of college teams in Japan, including Waseda University, Tokio University, Keiwo University and Kyoto University. The two first mentioned have toured the United States and have given some good American clubs a race for their money.