Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — Jiu-Jitsu Useless. [ARTICLE]

Jiu-Jitsu Useless.

A cricket club formed a gymnasium for the use of its members durin; the winter months, and an instructor was engaged to teach jiu-jitsu. Recently one of the cricketers turned up with a bandaged head and said some youth had inflicted the injury. “WhaJ!” exclaimed the jiu-jitsu instructor. “You mean to say you let a youth knock you about like that? Why didn’t you try jiu-jitsu?” “I couldn’t.” r "Nonsensg! „ There's no conceivabh rtttt&tloß to which elMindt > successfully applied. Show me where he gripped you.”2_ “I’m sorry to say he didn’t grip me anywhere. He dropped a brick on my head from a third floor window.”