DUNLOP TO HOST SUMO DEMO
By Adnews Staff
To promote this weekend's North American Amateur Sumo Championship, Dunlop Tires will host a sumo demonstration today in Vancouver. Dunlop is the title sponsor of the competition. The Dunlop Tires Sumo Smackdown will consist of three exhibition matches between 720-pound Emanuel Yarbrough, the former world amateur sumo champion, and 520-pound James Perry, the current North American amateur sumo champion. Also, spectators will be able to try on rubber sumo suits. Public relations for the demonstration are being handled by Environics Communications. The Dunlop Tires Seventh North American Amateur Sumo Championship will take place on Saturday in Richmond, BC. This is the first time the championship has take place in western Canada. Last year's event, the first to be held in Canada, took place in Toronto.