Sumo On 8th Day
High-Ranking Fighters Win; West Team Narrows East's Lead
All the high ranking grapplers of the East and West
teams including four "yokozuna" wrestlers defeated their respective opponents
on the eighth day of the summer main sumo tourney, May 19, at the Kokugikan,
Tokyo.
Outpointing the East team 12 to 10 on that day,
the West team narrowed the former's lead in the senior inter-team series
to 10 points, 95 to 85.
The results of the leading matches were:
| Saganohana | defeated | Futasegawa |
| Sagamigawa | defeated | Aobayama |
| Toyoshima | defeated | Kamikaze |
| Maedayama | defeated | Bishuyama |
| Nayoroiwa | defeated | Matsunosato |
| Haguroyama | defeated | Masuiyama |
| Terukuni | defeated | Terunobori |
| Futabayama | defeated | Kasagiyama |
| Akinoumi | defeated | Kashiwado |
| Saganohana | vs | Kasagiyama |
| Kashiwado | vs | Sagamigawa |
| Nayoroiwa | vs | Masuiyama |
| Maedayama | vs | Futasegawa |
| Kamikaze | vs | Akinoumi |
| Haguroyama | vs | Toyoshima |
| Futamiyama | vs | Terukuni |
| Futabayama | vs | Matsunosato |