The Osaka main tourney of the Japan Professional Sumo Association will be held for 11 days from, June 14 at the sumo ring specially constructed at the plaza in front of the Citizen's Hospital at Asahi-machi, Abeno-cho, Osaka.
    All of the 400 wrestlers on the roster of the association including four "yokozuna" grapplers, namely Futabayama, Terukuni, Akinoumi and Haguroyama, will participate in the coming main tourney.
    With the support of the Osaka Prefectural and municipal governments, the tournament will be jointly sponsored by the Osaka prefectural branch of the Japanese Compatriots' Relief Society and the Japan Sumo Association.
    In the forthcoming meet, Futabayama, who has already expressed his intention to resign from the professional sumo circles, will perform his final "dohyoiri" or a ceremony marking the formal entrance of a "yokozuna" grapplers in the sumo ring.
    All participating wrestlers will do their best in the Osaka series because the summer main tourney of the association originally scheduled to have been held in May in Tokyo has been canceled.
    A party of wrestlers, who are now touring various parts of the country, will assemble in Osaka on around June 11 to take part in the Osaka meet.