Top Wrestlers Win On Meet's 2nd Day
NISHINOMIYA, Mar. 23 - All the high ranking wrestlers
including two "yokozuna" grapplers - Haguroyama and Terukuni - defeated
their respective opponents on the second day of the Kansai tourney of the
Japan Professional Sumo Association at the specially constructed ring here
today.
Two formidable contenders of the East team - Akinoumi,
"yokozuna," and Azumafuji, "ozeki" - were absent from the ring, although
it had previously been reported than they would participate in the 11 day
tournament.
1st Day (March 22)
| Mitsuneyama | thrust out | Chiyonoyama |
| Masuiyama | pushed out | Kamikaze |
| Wakasegawa | thrust out | Fudoiwa |
| Terunobori | pushed out | Shionoumi |
| Saganohana | derricked out | Shinshuzan |
| Maedayama | thrust out | Midorishima |
| Nayoroiwa | threw down | Sagamigawa |
| Haguroyama | thrust out | Yatakayama |
| Terukuni | derricked out | Onoumi |
| Chiyonoyama | thrust out | Onoumi |
| Kamikaze | threw down | Wakasegawa |
| Yatakayama | threw down | Fudoiwa |
| Nayoroiwa | threw down | Shinshuzan |
| Shionoumi | thrust out | Mitsuneyama |
| Saganohana | threw down | Kashimanada |
| Maedayama | thrust out | Kotonishiki |
| Terukuni | thrust out | Kuganishiki |
| Haguroyama | pushed out | Sagamigawa |
| Kotonishiki | vs | Chiyonoyama |
| Kamikaze | vs | Kashimanada |
| Fudoiwa | vs | Itsutsuumi |
| Kashiwado | vs | Shionoumi |
| Saganohana | vs | Sagamigawa |
| Kusunishiki | vs | Maedayama |
| Nayoroiwa | vs | Wakasegawa |
| Midorishima | vs | Terukuni |
| Haguroyama | vs | Masuiyama |