SUMO WRESTLERS START TOURNAMENT TRAINING
Young Hopefuls Get In Much Practice and Then Attend Retirement Ceremony
Young hopefuls of the eastern camp of sumo wrestlers
began intensive training yesterday for the summer matches, which will get
under way in the Kokugikan Amphitheater in about a week.
The training arenas were filled with practice matches
as the young athletes dashed from one to the other in the hope of getting
in as much practice as possible.
Tamanoumi supervised the practice matches beginning
at 5 o'clock in the morning. Terukuni, Haguroyama and other veterans of
the eastern camp arrived about 10 o'clock to make final arrangements for
their training schedules and to discuss sumo technique. After practicing
and testing their strength against each other to the satisfaction of the
trainers, they left in the early afternoon to attend the ceremony of the
retirement from active competition of Musashiyama at the Yasukuni Shrine
sumo arena.
The ceremony war held under the supervision of Dewanoumi
in the presence of a large number of fans and friends of the retiring champion,
who had held championship rank since 1936. Cause of his retirement is reported
to be a bad right shoulder, which has handicapped him for some time.