Debagatake, the tallest and heaviest man in the sumo troupe, is six feet eight inches tall and can make the weighing needle spin dizzily to the 358 pound mark. He will attempt this season, as he has done in the previous years, to push his contender out of the ring or tire his opponent with his weight. Being still a newcomer, found in the mountains of Kyushu only a few years ago and consequently still poor in the finer arts of wrestling, Debagatake has to resort to brute strength to uphold his title.
    The extra champion of Japan at present is Tochigiyama, but if no unfair plans have been laid out, as they frequently have, Tochigiyama may not see himself seated in the championship seat after the coming tournament, since there are not a few wrestlers under him who have promising sumo careers ahead.
    With the wrestling season back again, the great Ryogoku wrestling stadium is preparing to welcome a record crowd on Friday. Wrestlers are now tackling each other with might and main, training for the ten days' tournament which will either raise them into the "maku" or drop them into oblivion before the end of the month.
    Onosato, the small but skillful wrestler who has been promoted to second champion of the East, and the giant Debagatake are the two most popular figures in sumodom this season. For the first time in many years has such a small man as Onosato ever been girdled with the belt of second champion. As a result of his coming debut in this role is arousing interest of every zealous wrestling fan. Onosato must rely on his skill and speed to overthrow his contenders, who are all bigger than him.
    Tachihikari, the second champion of the West, who three years ago surprised the wrestling world by successively defeating two noted sumotori, may this season show himself in the limelight again after two years of retirement.
    The sumo season though reviving since the great earthquake of 1923, is still generally speaking, waning. The days of the great wrestlers, Umegatani, Hitachiyama and Tachiyama when persons gathered at the Ryogoku stadium hours ahead of it's opening to see the day's wrestling, are memories of the past today. Probably no sumotori as strong as Tachiyama will reappear in Japan for years to come, possibly never.