Musashimaru
Regains 1999 Form
Wins
First Fourteen Bouts Enroute to Eighth Yusho
by “Yukikaze” for
SUMO SHIMPO
In 1999, then-ozeki MUSASHIMARU won the Haru and
Natsu basho to earn promotion to yokozuna.
After stablemate DEJIMA took the Nagoya title, he then won the Aki
and Kyushu contests to become the first non-Futagoyama rikishi to take
four championships in a year since AKEBONO did it in 1993. But training injuries took him off the dohyo early in 2000,
and have been hampering his performance ever since.
Or at least that was the case until the rikishi of
the Nihon Sumo Kyokai gathered under the roof of the Kokugikan for the
2000 Aki Basho. Ranked at
yokozuna-West, MUSASHIMARU did what fellow Hawaiian and yokozuna #1-East
AKEBONO did the previous tournament:
won his first 13 bouts to take the lead in the yusho race.
But he then extended the rensho one better, defeating ozeki #2-East
KAIO on the next-to-last day after stablemate
ozeki #1-West DEJIMA had slapped the senior yokozuna down on day 13.
A senshuraku loss to AKEBONO kept him from a second zensho yusho;
but at the end of the day he was holding the Tenno-Hai for the eighth time
in his career.
AKEBONO trailed from the start thanks to a shonichi
loss to komusubi-East AKINOSHIMA. He
won his next 11 torikumi, which raised the spectre of a potential playoff
on senshuraku. But the
Musashigawa “College of Sumo Knowledge” is a formidable obstacle for
anybody pursuing their heyagashira: in
this instance it was DEJIMA who supplied the breathing space.
Wins over ozeki #1-East CHIYOTAIKAI and MUSASHIMARU proved too
little and too late: this
time a strong 13-2 was only good enough for the jun-yusho spot.
Yokozuna #2-East TAKANOHANA won here two years ago for his 20th
yusho, but has not held the Tenno-Hai since.
The elbow injury he received in Nagoya must have been more serious
than first thought: he
didn’t even answer the bell this time out, so his dry spell now enters
its third year. (He might
have used the break to practice with the hair-cutting scissors, for older
brother Wakanohana’s retirement ceremony at the end of September.)
KAIO’s 11-4 was the best record posted by a shin-ozeki
since Haru 1994, when TAKANONAMI went 12-3. Two
of the other three current ozeki had little trouble: both CHIYOTAIKAI and DEJIMA finished 10-5.
But #2-West MIYABIYAMA had the Damoclean sword of kadoban over his
head as he headed into combat with no apparent shoulder problem.
He lost on shonichi, then won five in a row before losing four of
the following five. When the
dust finally cleared the “Musashigawa Monster” had scraped up an 8-7:
not exactly pretty (in fact, it looked downright ugly!) but he will
keep receiving an ozeki’s paycheck and perks for another two basho at
the very minimum. Meanwhile: sekiwake-west
MUSOYAMA was concentrating on becoming only the third rikishi in modern
sumo history to regain ozeki ranking after being demoted.
He won five of his first six, lost three in a row, then won his
next four before losing to maegashira #10-West WAKANOSATO to stand at 9-5
going into senshuraku. But
the 2000 Hatsu Basho champion’s final opponent was the
perennially-underachieving maegashira #6-West KOTONOWAKA - and he easily
pushed the future Sadogatake Oyakata off the dohyo for the
so-important-it’s not-even-funny 10-5.
So there will be five ozeki (count ‘em:
CHIYOTAIKAI, DEJIMA, KAIO, MIYABIYAMA, and MUSOYAMA) on the Kyushu
banzuke.
Despite an injured shoulder, sekiwake-East
TOCHIAZUMA decided to answer the bell.
It was a brave decision but a costly one:
he withdrew on day 6 after going 2-3. Since
injury withdrawals count as losses, the resulting effective record of 2-13
pushes him down into the hiramaku ranks and considerably sets back the
progress he had made toward ozeki promotion.
In other lower sanyaku action longtime veteran and Futagoyama
stalwart AKINOSHIMA showed little after besting AKEBONO:
he finished with a 7-8 that would have been even worse had
maegashira #1-West KOTORYU not done an isamiashi on day 8.
As for komusubi-west TAKANONAMI: if he’d fought like this earlier in the year, he’d still
be parking under the Kokugikan and not walking in off the street.
The man who has made kimedashi his trademark technique didn’t
employ it even once this outing; but his height and strength got him eight
wins by day 13, a 9-6 at the end and almost-certain promotion to sekiwake
in Fukuoka.
There was no Shukun-Sho (Outstanding Performance
Prize) winner this time out. Among
the upper maegashira (#1 to #5) only #2-West HAYATEUMI went kachi with a
strong 9-6 to earn his first Gino-Sho (Technique Prize).
#1-East TOSANOUMI blew both of his chances to add to his ten
kinboshi: he lost to both
active yokozuna and finished 5-10. #7-West
TAKAMISAKARI suffered a serious knee injury on day 3: it looks as if it will be a while before AKEBONO gets some
stablemate help in the upper ranks. WAKANOSATO
went 11-4 to lead all maegashira and take the Kanto-Sho (Fighting Spirit
Prize). #7-East TOCHINOHANA
won the Gino-Sho to go along with his 10-5, a mark shared with #12-East
HIGONOUMI. HAYATEUMI,
#13-West HAMANOSHIMA and #14-East KYOKUSHUZAN had 9-6 marks.
#12-West SENTORYU slumped to 5-10.
The news from the Juryo division was headlined by
the announced retirements of two yusho-winning veterans: #1-East KOTONISHIKI and #11-West MITOIZUMI (see
accompanying article). KOTONISHIKI’s
stablemate KOTOMITSUKI, who earlier this year had been absent from his
shin-nyumaku debut and had gone back to the second division as a result, won his first 10 torikumi on his way to a yusho-winning 14-1
at #4-East: his promotion to
Makunouchi should be a lock (see accompanying article).
#8-East WAKAKOSHO posted a 12-3 while #5-West TAMANONADA went 10-5.
It was a good basho for the next generation of gaijin rikishi:
#7-East ASASHORYU (Mongolia) and #9-East KUNIAZUMA (Brazil) both
put up 9-6 marks, as did Japan natives #2-East JUMONJI, #9-West
WAKATSUTOMU and #13-West TOMIKAZE.
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Kotomitsuki:
A Face To Watch
By "Tonkatsu" for SUMO SHIMPO
Most
of the readers of SUMO SHIMPO are familiar with the rapid rise of
MIYABIYAMA (civilian name:
Masato Takeuchi) starting with his professional debut in 1998 which
occurred shortly after his touring visit to Southern California.
At the All-Japan championship the previous year he was a
semi-finalist.
But
the champion of that tournament was an owl-faced young man with a flat-top
haircut named Keiji Tamiya, who beat current World Heavyweight Champion
Osani. He waited a little
longer to turn pro than MIYABIYAMA, not making his debut with Sadogatake
Beya until 1999. He didn't rise through the lower ranks quite as fast as the
“Musashigawa Monster” but was promoted to Juryo for the 1999 Kyushu
Basho. He then went 33-12 in
his first three tournaments as a sekitori to earn promotion to the top
division in the same basho that MUSOYAMA was listed at ozeki.
Unfortunately, like MUSOYAMA, he missed his debut due to injury and
dropped back to the Juryo as a result.
He went 9-6 in July, then went 14-1 to win the Juryo yusho at the
Aki Basho and earn promotion back inside the curtain.
Barring
further injuries, we look for big things from KOTOMITSUKI in years to
come.
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Kotonishiki,
Mitoizumi Retire
Kitakachidoki, Ohinode Also “Hang it Up”
by “Yukikaze” for SUMO
SHIMPO
The
Aki Basho marked the final official competition for four veteran rikishi,
including two former sekiwake who had won the Tenno-Hai earlier in their
careers.
The first occurred before the basho even got
underway, when the banzuke was issued.
Isenoumi Beya’s KITAKACHIDOKI, seeing that the ranking table
listed him at makushita #3 for the upcoming contest, announced he was
leaving the dohyo wars. A
sumo veteran since 1981, KITAKACHIDOKI enjoyed a long career as a
journeyman hiramaku; but the highest rank he ever reached was maegashira
#3. His retirement means
there are now no rikishi from the island of Hokkaido in the sekitori
ranks: not a small thing when
you remember that TAIHO, KITANOUMI and CHIYONOFUJI were all natives of
Japan’s northernmost landmass.
Next
to ‘pull the plug’ was Sadogatake’s KOTONISHIKI.
He came into the 2000 Aki tournament ranked at Juryo #1-East, which
was a good position to make a run at a return to the ‘bright lights’
of the Makunouchi.
His dream may have been strong but his body was no longer capable
of ‘cashing the check’:
at the basho’s midpoint he stood at 1-7.
It was at that point, no doubt after talking it over with
Sadogatake Oyakata, that he decided it was time to go.
The formal announcement was made the next day.
KOTONISHIKI’s
overall record in 100 basho is 663 wins, 557 losses and 58 absences:
his 66-basho top-division record is 506-441-43.
He entered Sadogatake Beya in March of 1984, made his Juryo debut
four years later and his shin-nyumaku debut in May 1989.
He won the 1991 Aki yusho while ranked at maegashira #5.
In 1998 he surprised the sumo world when, ranked at maegashira #12,
he took the Kyushu title with a 14-1 performance.
By so doing he became the only modern rikishi to win more than one
yusho while ranked as a hiramaku.
He holds the record for the number of sansho prizes captured with
18: seven
Shukun-Sho (Outstanding Performance Prize), three Kanto-Sho (Fighting
Spirit Prize) and eight Gino-Sho (Technical Prize).
He has eight kinboshi.
Further down the ladder at #11-West, Takasago’s
MITOIZUMI was back from a Kosho Seido break.
If the “Big Salt” had any illusions that a two-month layoff
would help his battered body, it didn’t take long for him to find out he
was mistaken. He had gone on
record saying that he would continue as long as he could stand on the
dohyo. But after losing his 11th match to makushita rikishi
KOTOIWAKUNI, it became clear that the Kyushu banzuke would be listing him
in tiny mushimegane text after 16 years in the larger kanji
reserved for sekitori. With
his oyakata/adopted father by his side, he tearfully announced that he had
no regrets about his long career, but that it was now time for him to hang
up his mawashi and prepare for his intai-zumo ceremonies.
(This writer has no doubt that the Japanese salt industry is crying
in their sake with the news of this particular retirement.)
MITOIZUMI’s career record over 136 basho is 807
wins, 766 losses and 162 absences, while his 79-basho Makunouchi record is
530-566-99. He entered
Takasago Beya in March of 1978, made his Juryo debut in May of 1984 and
was shin-nyumaku two basho later. In
1992 he won the Nagoya yusho while ranked at maegashira #1.
He has seven sansho prizes: one
Shukun-Sho, six Kanto-Sho, no Gino-Sho and no kinboshi.
As the adopted son of Takasago Oyakata, he will assume that
particular elder name upon his father’s retirement.
Finally, Tatsunami’s OHINODE announced that he
was closing out his career due to a series of injuries. He entered sumo as a makushita insert after his college
career; but it took him 44 basho after entry to become a sekitori.
He rose through the Juryo and reached the Makunouchi, but never
ranked higher than maegashira #9.
TWO OLD
WARRIORS’ FINAL HURRAH
– Former
sekiwake KOTONISHIKI (left) and MITOIZUMI (right), both shown here
in
happier times, announced their retirements during the 2000
Aki Basho.
See story on page 2 for further details.
(Photos: Ken
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Former
World Amateur Champion Falls Short in Olympics
by “Yukikaze” for
SUMO SHIMPO
Representing Mongolia in heavyweight (100+ kg) judo
at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, former world amateur heavyweight sumo
champion Badmaanyambuu Bat-Erdene lost his opening-round match to Pan Song
of China. The former
champion, who is a colonel in Mongolia’s national police, carried the
Mongolian flag in the opening ceremonies.
(based on reports from olympics.sportsline.com)
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California
Sumo Championship Reflects State’s Diversity
by
"Tonkatsu" for
SUMO SHIMPO
On
Sunday, September 10, 2000, thirty-seven competitors, boys and girls, men
and women, ranging in age from 7 to 60 and in weight from 60lbs. to
500lbs., assembled at the Police Athletic League Gymnasium in Long Beach,
California for the first California Sumo Championship to be held since
1952.
The
State's ethnic diversity was well represented by the competitors.
Included in the field were four Japanese, two Vietnamese, seven
African-Americans, ten Hispanics (including one representative of Mexico)
and one Native American.
The competitions were preceded by an outstanding
performance by the Hikari Taiko Drummers Association of America, based out
of Norwalk, CA. Referee
and former amateur sumotori Ernie Hunt then stepped onto the dohyo to
oversee the action. Jim Alves
acted as ring judge, while Henry Proventure manned the scorer’s table
and logged the results.
Medals were contested in six men’s divisions,
three women’s divisions, three kids’ divisions and a team competition.
Divisions with only 2 competitors were determined
by a best-2-of-3 format. Divisions with 3-6 competitors went to
round-robin, where each and every competitor fought all others in the
division.
Divisions
with 6 or more went to single elimination with repechage, where losing
participants were seeded into a second, ‘consolation’ bracket.
The consolation survivor received the bronze medal, while the two
primary finalists fought to see who would win the gold medal:
the losing finalist got the silver medal.
The
results were as follows:
Masters,
40+ open round robin. 1. Jim "Yukikaze" Lowerre, age 47,
290lbs. 2.
Harry "Tonkatsu" Dudrow, age 60, 255lbs. 3. Rod Carrasco, age
44, 250lbs.
4. Tomikazu Tada, age 42, 147lbs. 5. Kiyohide Tsubakiyama, 42,
200lbs. 6.
Norio Hayakawa, age 56, 185lbs.
Note: After
the competition it was decided to award medals for a Masters
Lightweight Division, based on the three lighter contestants’ record
against each other.
The results were:
1. Tomikazu Tada; 2. Kiyohide Tsubakiyama; 3. Norio Hayakawa.
We look forward to greater participation by masters age competitors
in the future.
Men's
Lightweights, single
elimination with repechage.
First round: A. Justin Sabo
d. Tomikazu Toda; Andrew Freund d. Raul Ramirez; Robert Perkins, bye;
Trent Sabo d. Nick Rodriguez.
Semi-
final: Andrew Freund d.
Justin Sabo; Trent.Sabo d.Robert Perkins.
Repechage:
Raul Ramirez d.Tomikazu Toda; Nick Rodriguez, bye; Robert Perkins
d. Justin Sabo; Raul Ramirez d. Nick Rodriguez.
Bronze medal match: Raul
Ramirez d. Robert Perkins.
Final: Trent Sabo d. Andrew
Freund.
Men's
Middleweights,
four man round robin.
1.
Justin Crite 2. Michael Pike
(won three way play-off) 3.
Andre Bitsui (Navajo) 4. Rick
Rand
Men's
Heavyweights,
six man round robin.
1.
Jon Crite 255lbs (won wrestle-off) 2.
David Knight 330lbs. 3. Jim
Harrelson 285lbs. (won wrestle-off) 4. Jose Gonzalez (Mexico) 260lbs
5. Clark Dailey 500lbs. 6.
Harry Dudrow 255lbs.
Women's
Lightweight, best 2 of
3. 1. Leslie Cohen 2-1 2.
Yuko Hakada.
Women’s
Heavyweight, best 2 of
3. 1. Shontel Green 2-0 2. Amanda Ascales.
Women's
Openweight, four-woman
round robin.
1.
Shontel Green 3-0 2. Leslie
Cohen 2-1 3. Yuko Hakada 1-2 4. Amanda Ascales 0-3.
Kids
Lightweights,
round robin
1.
Gabrielle Carrosco 2. Kareem Isaac 3.
Katherine Carrasco 4. Martin
Mendoza.
Kids
Middleweights, round
robin
1.
Mike Phan 2. Elvis
Raya (won three way play-off) 3.
Ngoc Phan 4. Keith Eddington.
Kids
Heavyweights, round
robin
1.
Austin Proventure 2. Jose Maciel 3.
Corey Carter 4. Toni Maciel.
Men’s
Openweight pool 1:
single elimination with repechage.
Jon
Crite (Hvy) d. Justin Sabo (Lt); Jim Harrelson (Hvy), bye; Andrew Freund
(Lt) d. Robert Perkins (Lt); Nick Rodriguez (Lt), bye.
Second round: Jim Harrelson
d. Jon Crite; Nick Rodriguez d. Andrew Freund.
Semifinal: Nick Rodriguez d.
Jim Harrelson. Nick Rodriguez
to final.
Repechage:
Justin Sabo d. Robert Perkins; Jon Crite d. Andrew Freund; Jon
Crite d. Justin Sabo; Jim Harrelson d. Jon Crite for the bronze medal.
Men’s
Openweight pool 2:
single elimination with repechage.
Trent Sabo (Lt) d. Justin Crite (Mid); Harry Dudrow (Hvy), bye;
David Knight (Hvy) d. Andre Bitsui (Mid); Rick Rand (Mid), bye.
Second
round: Trent Sabo d. Harry
Dudrow; David Knight d. Rick Rand.
Semi-Final: David Knight d.
Trent Sabo David Knight to
final.
Repechage:
Justin Crite d. Andre Bitsui; Rick Rand d. Harry Dudrow; Rick Rand
d. Justin Crite; Rick Rand d. Trent Sabo for the bronze medal.
Openweight
Final:
David Knight d Nick Rodriguez.
Team
Competition:
three-man teams, openweight:
Oceanside
1 (Robert Perkins, Jon Crite, Nick Rodriguez)
Oceanside 2 (Justin Crite, Michael Pike, Jim Harrelson)
Oceanside 3 (Trent Sabo, Justin Sabo, Andre Bitsui)
SoCal
(Rick Rand, Harry Dudrow, Andrew Freund)
Round
1: Oceanside 1 d. Oceanside
3, 2-1; Oceanside 2 d. SoCal,
2-1.
Bronze: Oceanside 3 d. SoCal,
2-1
Final: Oceanside 2 d.
Oceanside 1, 2-1.
Two-time
World Amateur Sumo Champion (lightweight division ) Svetoslav Binev was
present, but did not enter the contest due to injury.
Readers
may recall: in the last issue
we said we were going to answer the question, "What if they gave a
tournament and no one came?" Thanks
to the turnout for this event, we still don't know the answer to that
question. The tournament was
a success. We had exciting
competition cheered on by an enthusiastic crowd. We
think we proved that you don't need a team from Japan or the so-called
"top competitors" to have a good tournament!
The fact that the Long Beach PAL has 501 c-3 status enabled us to
sell ads in the program with payment by donation. This enabled us to sell
enough ads, combined with the modest entry fee, to pay for the awards.
We
feel that we did very well considering the limited time we had because of
the need to wait to find out what was going on with the NASC.
Next year we are not going to wait.
We are going to set the date and time for Cal Sumo 2001 in January.
If the so-called leaders of sumo in North America want to dicker
with gambling casinos for ten months they are welcome to do so - but we
are going to move ahead and build on what we have started.
“Yukikaze”
edited and formatted this report.
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On-Again,
Off-Again North Americans On Again (Maybe!)
by
"Tonkatsu" for
SUMO SHIMPO
After nine months of on-again, off-again
dickering, the North American Sumo Championships are (perhaps) finally
going to happen. The venue
will be an as-yet undetermined Indian hotel-casino in Connecticut.
The
competition is open to any citizen of a North American or Caribbean
country who can get themselves there.
We
expect California lightweight champion Trent Sabo to compete, since he is
going to school in Rhode Island.
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Hawaii State Sumo Championship
Results
As reported to "Tonkatsu" by John Jacques
The
Hawaii State Sumo Championship was held over the July 4th weekend.
John Jacques files the following report:
The
Hawaii State Sumo Championship wasan overall success even though it was a
terribly rainy day and we held it outdoors.
We made a dohyo in a field at a local beach park and covered it
with a layer of sand so it would drain off.
Turned out to be great footing for sumo, even in spite of the rain.
We had a total of 44 competitors, including youth with 3 girls, 7 boys, 11
high school boys, seven college age, and 16 adults.
Results
by category:
Little boys 1.
Simeon Vierra
Young boys 1.
Jarret Au 2.
Justin Welch 3.
Michael Heffernan
Young girls 1.
Quiana Heffernan 2.
Kailee Heffernan
Jr. High boys 1.
Randal Franco 2.
Euta Lightsy
High School boys 1.
Steven Lightsy 2.
Onipa'a Pa'a'ainna 3.Quintin
Beaver / George Perry
College men 1.
Nick Keitzer 2.
Buddy Tupou 3.
Marquis Dawkins / Konolio Atimua
Lightweight men 1.
Kenna Heffernan 2.
Buddy Tupou 3.
Roger Heffernan / Gino Lee
Editor’s note:
we assume the lightweight and middleweight divisions were
combined, because the Heffernans usually wrestle middleweight.)
Heavyweight men
1. Wayne Vierra 2.
Nick Keitzer 3.
Poli Liua / Marquis Dawkins
Grand Champion 1.
Wayne Vierra 2.
Heath Johnson 3.
Kenna Heffernan / Buddy Tupoa
Special
Awards: "Guts"
Konolio Atiuma; "Technique" Nick Keitzer; " Fighting
Spirit" Roger Heffernan
(The
SCSK thanks Mr. Jacques for his best wishes on the success of the
recently-completed California Open Sumo Tournament.)
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So
Akebono Didn’t Go Zensho - What’s Your Point?
Editorial by "Yukikaze" for SUMO SHIMPO
Before anything else is said, let it be hereby
stated: this writer was one
of those who really wanted AKEBONO to win a tenth Tenno-Hai, and was
especially pleased when he did so. It
places the big Hawaiian in an extremely elite group of rikishi who, based
on the number of championships they have garnered, are considered legends
of the sport:
|
YOKOZUNA
|
Heya
|
# of Yusho
|
|
TSUNENOHANA
|
Dewanoumi
|
10
|
|
FUTABAYAMA
|
Futabayama
|
12
|
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TOCHINISHIKI
|
Kasagano
|
10
|
|
WAKANOHANA I
|
Hanakago
|
10
|
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TAIHO
|
Nishonoseki
|
32
|
|
KITANOFUJI
|
Kokonoe
|
10
|
|
WAJIMA
|
Hanakago
|
14
|
|
KITANOUMI
|
Mihogaseki
|
24
|
|
CHIYONOFUJI
|
Kokonoe
|
31
|
|
TAKANOHANA*
|
Futagoyama
|
20
|
|
AKEBONO*
|
Azumazeki
|
10
|
* = still active
This writer has used the powerful research tools at
his disposal and has found one clear fact:
with the exception of AKEBONO, all the champions on this list went
zensho yusho (15-0) at least once in their careers. And MUSASHIMARU, who is a better-than-even favorite to make
this list at some point in the future, has already rolled one perfecto and
came pretty near to a second.
To sumo fans out there who probably believe that
AKEBONO’s record is somehow inferior or second-rate because he has never
‘run the table’ this writer has two words – so what?
A yusho is a yusho is a yusho whether it’s 15-0, 13-2 or even
11-4 (as it was at Kyushu 1996 when MUSASHIMARU won his second yusho in a
five-way playoff). For the
record: the last top-division
zensho yusho was in December ’95 when then-ozeki TAKANOHANA followed a
15-0 performance in September with another one just like it, to finally
earn promotion to yokozuna. But
has he done it since? No -
and neither has anyone else.
With the increasing number of strong rikishi that
are moving into the Makunouchi from the college ranks (at last count 24 of
the 66 sekitori were makushita-inserted collegians) it’s a titanic
struggle just to win the Tenno-Hai, never mind taking all 15 torikumi
placed before you. Of course
AKEBONO has demonstrated that his career is not yet over, and he just
might yet roll out a 15-0. But
whether he does or not, AKEBONO’s record should be judged by its face
value – and it’s a legendary record, pure and simple.
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New
Tournament On SCSK Event Calendar
by
"Yukikaze" for
SUMO SHIMPO
The Southern California
Sumo Kyokai will be participating in a new tournament on Sunday, December
10, 2000.
The 2000
Holiday Open Tournament will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall on
515 West Valley Parkway in Escondido, CA.
For the first time since the SCSK’s 1998 summer competition, it
will be held outdoors on natural surface (weather permitting) with the
tawara from the indoor dohyo placed upon it.
The event has
been organized by 5th degree black belt (shotokan) Clarke Dailey, who
participated in the recently-concluded California Open Sumo Championship
and heads up the Christian Karate Federation in the Escondido area.
There will be competitions for men in the light,
middle, heavy and open weight divisions:
a cash award will go to the openweight winner.
There will also be competitions for children.
Entry fee for competitors is $10.00:
spectators will be admitted free.
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Junior
Division Yusho Winners
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