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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 90

— Owing to a. law prohibiting them, whips are never used in Moscow. — The spectators at wrestling matches in Japan pelt the winner with their hats. This i? a custom with the Japanese for show ing their appreciation of the skill o£ the winner. The hate are gathered up by, the attendants and handed to the. champion.' liventually the owners corao forward and redeem their hats with presents of various kinds. The custom in question is, it ia explained, due to a recognition of the fact that cnthusia=m is likely to cool down. shortly after the ejent which excited it is passed. So to prove the genuineness of his admiration the Jap gives hie hat as a pledge, to be icdeemed in his Cooler jnoznenta.