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.