Grand Champion Futabayama, hulking sumo gladiator who came out somewhat what less than second best at the recent 13-day Japanese wrestling tournament here, went to the mat with Cupid last fall and took the full count, the Miyako has just revealed.
    The 28-year-old wrestler, who had not tasted defeat in the ring for three years prior to last month's series at the Kokugikan, became engaged last November 16 to Miss Chiyoko Okura, movie actress, in a ceremony in Kyoto, according to the newspaper. Neither party to the betrothal breathed a word about it, yet the word leaked out anyway.
    Miss Okura does not plan to renew her contract with the Japan Motion Picture Company when it expires March 1. The wedding is expected to take place shortly thereafter, whereupon the bride will purchase an inn in Osaka for ¥30,000 and become its proprieress. The Grand Champion will not let matrimony interfere with his still brilliant sumo career, however.
    News of the impending match, which Futabayama would not confirm, caused something of a stir in sumo circles, it seems. It had been taken for granted all along that the 260-pound wrestler would marry the 24-year-old daughter of his manager, Tachinami, when he got around to it. The daughter was a bit taken aback herself when word of the whirlwind romance got around.
    "I had heard much talk of the growing friendship between Futabayama and Chiyoko Okura," she told the Miyako, "but I didn't realize that it had progressed so far. She used to come to my father's sumo training quarters quite frequently. Last month a man from the same movie studio came here I guess now that he must have been a go-between.
    Mrs. Saku Miura, operator of an inn in Kyobashi Ward and one of the sumo king's earliest benefactors was inclined to discredit reports of the engagement. She has been like a mother to Futabayama and always has frowned on his association with geisha and movie stars, according to the Miyako.