Before a capacity audience, who packed the open-air ring, the Osaka main tourney of the Dai Nippon Sumo Association got under way on June 14 at the specially constructed sumo ring, Abenobashi, Osaka, under the fine early summer weather.
    From early in the day, sumo fans in the Kansai district turned out to the sumo ring. The absence of Terukuni and Akinoumi, both "yokozuna," proved a big disappointment to the crowd.