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...series of regular reports on what and how much MacCulloch ate every day, "indicating with appropriate smiles and glances when he's overdoing it." Martin is looking forward with thinly disguised relish to the day that MacCulloch asks for three eggs. The cook, Martin explains, is a judo expert, fourth class...
...opponent, and 2) give added power to his stomach muscles, caught his opponent with a hip hold, gave a mighty heave and hurled Austria's Robert Jaquemond to the mat. The toss earned France's Verrier, 24, a strapping 202-pounder, the individual title at the European Judo championships, and helped France win the team crown (over Austria, 2-0). The fall gave Austria's burly Jaquemond the only injury of the tournament: a sprained wrist...
...Muscle Culture." As last week's tournament showed, the sport of judo, founded in 1882 by a Japanese named Jigoro Kano, is nothing more than a gentlemanly version of jujitsu. Kano learned the ancient art at 18, but decided that the kicking, stabbing and choking were more than he could stomach. So he founded the "muscle culture" of judo, an "efficient use of energy" that eliminated the mayhem and murder of jujitsu. Since Kano's time, the judo cult has spread to all corners of the globe. The first judo club was formed in Britain...
Judoka consider themselves head & shoulders above ordinary grunt & groaners. One haughty English contestant spoke up for all judoka last week: "Judo is a clean, honest sport, an art, physical poetry, not a childish theatrical exhibition...
...France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany and Denmark. Next year the U.S., Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Australia are expected to join. Last week Japan (with more than 1,000,000 judo athletes) joined the federation and Risei Kano, son of judo's founder, became the new president. *In judo hierarchy, contestants are graded by an intricate system. Novices wear white belts. Then, through about two years' training, the novice judoka progresses through yellow, orange, green, blue and brown belts. From brown to the coveted black takes another year. There are ten grades...