Los Angeles Times, Wednesday 4th August 1920 (Part 3 page 2)

JAP WRESTLERS SIGNED UP

Osakis to Put on Special Exhibition at L.A.A.C.

Look's Like a Wild Night With Forty Performing
 
Gladiators Only Weigh About Three Hundred Pounds

    A wild, woolly and greasy evening's entertainment of big league Japanese wrestling with forty Osaki performers direct from the land of the cherry blossom participating is the bill to be dished up to the bugs at the L.A.A.C. tomorrow night.
    When the Miller-Irslinger match fell through, Athletic Director Keppen hit upon the plan of staging some Nipponese fancy stuff. With the Osaki wrestlers in town holding an elimination tourney of some sort the proposal looked not only good but feasible. Sir Keppen directed his doddering steps to the scene of conflict, and after delivering up several of his week's wages in yen, signed the whole gang of two score grapplers.
    These will appear tomorrow night at the Seventh-street palace of pastiming. According to Com. Keppen the entertainment would be a $50,000 one were any promoter contemplating the transportation of the troupe from Japan. But with the whole glad bunch here the quotation is not so high.
     The heaviest of the gladiators sings the scales at the 315-pound mark. The rest are are mere babies - 275 to 300 pounds or thereabouts. A special ring with a dirt platform will be constructed for their benefit. The Osakis never work on mats. It's against the rules of their fraternal order.
    A battle royal for the championship of Culver City and Boyle Heights will be one of the titles at stake.