Baseball, Mat Rivals
TOKYO, Japan (INS) - Here are two symptoms of the
baseball fever gripping Japan as a result of the visit of the San Francisco
Seals:
Kanematsu Maedayama, champion in the sport of sumo
(Japanese wrestling), resigned from the wrestling association under fire
for skipping the autumn mat tournament in Osaka to watch the Seals play.
Baseball is wrestling's big rival in Japan.
And the Communist newspaper Akahata is boycotting
the Seals visit except to quote school children as complaining that "bourgeois
newspapers" are "uninteresting" because they "print only baseball news."