A FALLEN STAR.

JAPANESE WBESTXEB'S DEFEAT. LONBQX, December 23. Tfce old sporting adaje, "a good tig 'an is botmd to beat a good tittle 'an/'recoiv- \ I ed very unexpected confirmation at" tlie j Tiroll Theatre of Tartotiea \asz Friday j eTeaiiig, wien that clever tittle Japanese! nrrestler. Ynkio Tsui, was wall beaten bj-! a f ellow-ceoatryiaa.n named Miya&e, in j

I sa-w Mlyaie and Tsni eshibit In prfxate only a matter of ten days before TacTs defeat, and it then struck mc that { a lony period of mnsic-hall wresiJrng witii ( men who were more or les3 'Tnass" at the Japaaese styie of play had had a bad effect on Tani's style. Miyake, who is lat least a couple of stones heavier than ! Tanl, who can scale at a few ponads over nine stone.- appeared te be fmx quicker J than tie smaller man, aad the* was a I finish abont his etyfc that was lacking in ! Tarn's. Twice in a very brief spacts at I time aCyake had Tani in what appeared to be helpless positions, bnt he did not press kis advantage home: indeed, ail I thxoosfc. iliyaie seemed to be keeping a good, deal up hla sleeve. EQs cbailenge to Tani at the Tfvoii j created much surprise, for it was nnderj stood that tie pair were muttmily interested in a. Jujitsa school tece»tly opened in Oxford-street. Possibly they fell oat: heacs Miyaks , . bid for the ilflo offered to anyone wio could throw the Qttle man. At any rate, when tlie pair faced each j-trther on the TivoU stage the bigger man I lost no time in showing that he meant i business. Directly they shaped up Mij yake leg-hooked Tani, and, heaving hiT, j bodily oo! Ms feet, brought him with a I smash to the mat that made everybody i wince. Tani was evidently much shakea, ! bnt rose quickly, only, however, to be brought dowa again la a similar fashioa. After these preliminary aktrmishinga vrtyake grrtarvhed his opponent down an the mats, and then, evidently having taten his man's measure, played with him for a few seconds by deliberately going to the floor and defying all Tanl'a efforts to get at him by iishtniag-like play with his feet. I Then, springing up again, liiyake once more threw Taai forcefully, and, dropping on him like a shot, pinned him in such a position that Tani had eitiier to give In or suffer a broken arm. He chose tha I less painful course, and retired, utteriy ! crestfallen, as well he might b«, seeing chat his value as a "star" turn ims fallen Ito a very law point. I He is still, however, light -weight chain- . pion of Englaud in tile ca.tch-a»-catc6-ca,a style by virtue of having beaten Jim Meilor In tiKK style some months ago on the I very stage tvfaere he met his downfall last Frixiaj.