Eskrima Kombat

The following dramatic and highly detailed account is taken from the Sheffield Independent of Monday 3rd February, 1908.  It’s particularly interesting as it represents a hard-fought jujitsu-style contest taking place some seven years after the heyday of E.W. Barton-Wright’s music hall challenge matches.  By this time, many of the sporting journalists and wrestlers of England were experienced in … Continue reading “George Dinnie vs. Yukio Tani (1908)”