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...Brien, formerly instructor to President Roosevelt, will speak on "A Modern Method of Self-Defense; an Adaptation from Jiu-Jitsu," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
...Brien first went to Japan as a sailor in the American Navy. During his stay in that country, he became a spector of police in Nagasaki, a position which he held for more than eight years. Since his return to America, he had developed the game of jiu-jitsu from a wrestling proposition into a science for practical use. Mr. O'Brien has given many exhibitions of his art in this country...
Before an audience that completely filled the Living Room and the gallery of the Union last evening, Mr. A. Fukuta and three of his pupils gave an exhibition of Jiu Jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence...
...Webster 1M. presided, and explained briefly the nature of the sport. Formerly there were many schools of jiu-jitsu, but about twenty years ago the president of the Tokio normal school consolidated the best systems and developed the present art. Mr. Webster then introduced Mr. Koizumi, Mr. Nakamura, and Mr. Horikiri, who illustrated the different forms of fighting, throwing, falling, and combinations of all the forms. The exhibition was concluded with a short wrestling bout between Mr. Nakamura and G. F. Evans...
...Nakamura and Mr. Horkiri will give lessons in jiu-jitsu this winter. A meeting will be held later in the year, at which all those who wish to take lessons may make arrangements for them...