JIU JITSU AND LA SAVATE.

r Jiu-jitsu triumphed over la savate | in Paris the other day in ten seconds. j M. Georges Dubois, a well known c exponent of the French style of boxing, who is aa " handy " with his feet as with his hands, challenged . Victor Rennie, a professor of jiu-jitsu, to combat. The match attracted a i great deal of attention, for jiu jitsu is the craze of the hour among Pans 5 sports. By the rules of the contest, . all methods known to boxers and [ wrestlers were allowed, except , " gouging out the eyes and kicking below the belt." M. Dubois felt that ] the honor of upholding la savate in the oyes of Paris devolved upon him, and , went to the contest animated by the fierce determination of the champion [ of a lost cause. He went into the fight [ wearing a pair of heavy boots, with , which he confidently averred he , would settle his opponent "in a I kick." In four seconds M. Rennie , bad the savate man's arm feebly { beating the air aloft. In 10 seconds his leg was tightly clasped round Dubois's neck. At the end of a i minute Dubois would have been dead of strangulation in the powerful leg grip of his adversary, but the umpires stepped in and gave the exponent of Japanese wrestling the [ victory. Rennie declared afterwards 1 that any policeman selected at random in the streets of Tokoi would have served Dubois in exactly the same fashion.