The current 13-day Japanese wrestling tourney at the Kokugikan, in Ryogoku, Honjo Ward, is enjoying a sudden revival in public esteem following several days of rather sensational upsets in the ring.
    After the opening day, few but the died-in-the-wool-and-yard-wide sumo fans evinced much interest in the tourney. Not that the tourney was a flop, exactly, but it promised to be simply a repetition, or reasonably accurate facsimile, of last May's meeting. There was no one to beat Futabayama, and Minanogawa, the other grand champion in this tourney, had been laid out before.
    Then the great Futaba got licked, not once but three times. And those who beat him took their turns at the horizontal. Minanogawa was going strong, but then he tasted the dust of the floor. The only wrestler still unbeaten in the tourney was a youngster of the 17th rank, Dewaminato.
    The result was a sudden surge toward the box office. There were so many eager spectators standing in the snow outside the gate for yesterday's matches that tourney officials had to begin the program at 2 o'clock in the morning.

    The fans were not disappointed. Futaba, bolstered by some kindly advice from his physician, was back in form to put away Banjaku, and Dewaminato continued in stride and disposed of Shachinosato, who is not only larger but is ranked much higher in sumo ratings than Dewaminato.
    Grand Champion Minanogawa, recovering from his defeat of the previous day, tossed away Ayanobori, a promising candidate for champion rating, while Champion Maedayama had no trouble at all with young Akinoumi, the stout lad who had interrupted Futaba's strong of 69 victories on Sunday night.
    Tamanoumi, who defeated Minanogawa on the previous day, lost yesterday to a 12th-ranker named Hishuzan, in one of the day's more exciting encounters. Another match that thrilled yesterday's audience, says the Yomiuri, was that between Ryogoku, the fourth-ranking veteran who administered Futaba's second defeat, and Onami, of the seventh rank and of whom no one seemed to expect very much. After an unusually furious struggle, Onami forced Ryogoku to the floor.