West Side Wins In Tokyo Spring Wrestling Games
By a margin of 19 points, the West Side of the Tokyo wrestlers
beat the East Side aggregation in the spring matches, which were finished
on February 4, the score being 98-79. The highest individual point-winner
of the West Side was Genjiyama, champion, who won nine games, losing one
game against Asogadake. On the last day of the matches, he wrestled a draw
match with Tochigi, champion of the opposing camp, who is the highest point-winner
of his camp, and who has a record identical with that of Genjiyama. Tochigi
lost one game to Kiyosegawa on the sixth day. No wrestler has won all of
his matches in the spring tournament of this year.
At the close of the games on February 4, Genjiyama
received the victory banner, on behalf of the West Side.
Genjiyama, Super-Champion
Genjiyama became a super-champion, as the result
of his individual record during the spring wrestling, it became known,
when a new official list of the ranks of Tokyo wrestlers was announced,
on February 5.
Genjiyama is 33 years old and began his career in
professional wrestling in 1911. He became a champion last year. He stands
a little over six feet high and weighs 250 pounds.
Tachihikari was promoted to the rank of champion.
He is 27 years of age, stands 5 feet 5 inches in height and weighs 250
pounds.