Show 1 wat uommra November THE OGDEN STANDARD - EXAMINER 2 1930 dulfei frm v If £0 How a “One Chance in a Million Accident Sent the Matador's Sword Flying From the Bull's Wounded Shoulder Through 1 A v ? i f a Spectator t a JTfCTi -- 4’ ) f c"Ji J"U: 'A X A-'-" ' v i 4 of other strongholds of Spanish aristocracy and tradition have been shakingheads — hoary with the frost of many Winters and with wry countenances exclaiming: g in Spain is not what it used to be” And for every old grandee who speaks there are hundreds — perhaps thousands — who bow and say to themselves: “Alas all too truly spoken” For whatever illusions a foreigner may have about the location of a Spanish heart there is just one place to look for it That i3 in the arena where blood and death fraternize with glittering gold and silk and silver —where it is a shining Toledo blade against a pair of horns the one directed presumably by skill the latter by brute strength and anger Bull fighting is not exactly what it used to be The causes of its deterioration are many and extend over a long V JSftCM' Q3 If v Vj 'U 'ril'Vl V f W 'AWW’i GREAT many of the more venerable residents of old Madrid old Barcelona and old San Sebastian as well as their compatriots Sf'S Xv ed - j V & '' A T '“ A ff VS i- V t s X4 A s - vi- “-- ' Vi ' v ' - V' - v ' — "'‘y ' v: v- x - ' ’ ng After the tournament was over a bull lay dead on the sawdust an unfortunate spectator lay stiff in a mortuary— -- both killed by the same shining word Whispered conversations on street corners reviewed the happenings of the afternoon again and again After the noonday meal thousands of merchants and students and professional men their wives sons daughters and the rest— had been gloriously happy They were'en route to a spectacle They were to see reenacted the age-ol- d feud between man and bull— and with excusable optimism they were full of hopes that they might witness before the setting of the sun some unusual display of courage or skill or both such as delighted their ancestors and fascinated many yet alive Visitors In Madrid that afternoon t 090 A a" v & V V V ' - A' " ?A W - —'i "5 They saw the whole resounding with city topsy-turv- y laughter and sallies They saw the streets leading to the arena jammed with “aficionados” They saw every window packed with watching the procession of automobiles and street cars and They pedestrians probably sympathized with the wildly gesticulating policemen in the streets who were wiping freely perspiring brows in frantic attempts to make the stream of traffic beWere impressed Thl a Exci tin g Tournament at Old Barcelona Spain Wat Witnessed by Sailors From Uncle Sam's Battleships Arkansas Florida and Utah stay-at-hom- es V im0 'of - - fight r V ' xP'A’ ’ ' A J § ' -- ' t A iL t Y 1 IlSI 1 - The police arrested the matador Manolo Martinez by order of the Provincial Governor who ordered an immediate trial Whether or not the arrest was made for the purpose of mak-- j ing a test case of the occurrence police did not say To date no word has come out of Madrid as to the final 'Outcome of the V - V vV j ! case Although it is per- fectly evident that the accident — the '1 hurling of the sword ? ' I by the dying bull so J that it landed by A ) chance In the heart of an innocent spec- tator —was an anom--r I aly not to be looked for again— just as lightning strikes twice in the Before Its Bigors Were Lessened by Decree of the Late Dictator Prime De same place— misgiv- Rivera Bullfighting Offered Little Mercy to Horses Ridden Into the Arena ings began to ' arise The Photo Above Shows a Blindfolded Equine Being Gored by a Furious Bull in many Spanish Now However the Law Requires Horses to Be Padded hearts inspired per- Like the One on the Left by superstihaps tion or perhaps by a t events Then the band blared out capes waved in his and he practical fear of death Attendance at eyes' the the strains of a Spanish “paso-doblbull fights has fallen off still farther ban- charged The by derillos merely served to increase his and former optimistic fans of the an-bovine rage Perhaps visitQra were impressed cient game are $ ow voicing fears for more than by anything else by the The preliminaries over the trumpet its survival order of the thing There was no sounded the death signal The picked All of these facts rouse hope In the hearts of members of humane societies Neither matador advanced to make the kill waiting1 no confusion should there be for the sequence But exponents of the game like to The sun flashed off his shiny Toledo of the scenes was prescribed blade and the crowd roared Then regard slump as trancenturies ago and has been followed there was silence sitory rigidly since in' obedience to that The beast charged but the matador If there is anything which irks the dictator tradition old school of for pofans more than away stepped deftly sparring A cry went up sition Then the angry bull charged anything else it is the influx of forHis slim agile adversary Every eye feasted on the sight The again eign matadors into the Spanish rings matadors marched into the inclosure A young American named and then stabbed plunged pointed d and arrogant magnifThere was a hush Was it a skilful Franklin has invaded Spanish Sidney in the silk and gold stroke? If so the next move of the and made himself a huge arenas icently impressive popular and glittering ornaments which Spain crowd would be roars of approval If favorite says shall be worn by her peace-tim- e not there would be merciless disapDuring the past few years many Pornational heroes tuguese youths have crossed the border proval Behind the matadors marched the The hush was longer than usual and into the land of the grandees and the matador stepped away looking trained assiduously for fifadrid Seville lesser fighters— the picadors and bandBarcelona and San Sebastian arenas The blade wasf inerillos AH' bowed to the presiding slightly puzzled authorities The latter threw down the serted In the vital crevice between the The plain fact of the matter is that" shoulder blades but the animal was they have demonstrated their superikey of the bull-pe- n The pen was unlocked and the beast still on his feet ority over Spanish matadors to such Then the beast started to quiver: a degree that they are now favorites entered p racing wildly about foamwhile Castillian stand very obviously he was fatally wounded ing and snorting The beast saw a profusion of red but obviously too he was clinging to sulking on the sidelines - j 1 i - v 4 1 y j have Did visitors to Madrid that afternoon go to see the bull fight? What visitor would not? At the arena they found a huge structure packed to the roof with spectators eating smoking drinking but mostly jabbering In loud tones about the present and past e” 1 pin-pricki- rarely ' ng I bull-fighting- j 1 ’s bull-fig- m ht steel-sinewe- - S U Osofcte v f X‘ S r s ' i ViV A period But within the past few weeks there occurred a strange catastrophe which has left a shadow on the sunny nation Those who believe in omens are secretly voicing the opinion that it was the death blow — the straw which broke the camel’s back — in the gory pastime of the toreadors matadors picadors and banderillos It occurred in Madrid the capital of the country Because it happened there it attracted the attention of the world but only as an incident and not as a factor in the gradual death of !v v - f x CytfrtA i A'-iy- " A- bull-fighti- VN err 'r £ fi W— -- $ § coUci ‘ vV ' P - x" ? n i V 4 on on-th- it 1 xaacvaj dog-fashi- - A' —A wVvfc life with an amazing tenacity Then the reddish-brow- n bovine took a firm stance on all fours and started to shake fBack and forth the shoulders lunged betraying almost incredible power All looked on amazed but no one watched the blade sunk into the flesh by ' shining the matador a moment before The spectators were on their feet and the nearest of them were about forty feet away behind the arena wallwatched there came a whirAsthey ring sound: — and a cry of alann--b- ut too late! The blade pliant steel that it was had shaken from its moorings in the breast of the beast when he started to lunge and had flown into the air Its point still damp and warm from the life blood of the fierce bull it swung in an arc— forty feet through the air — over the parapet — and plunged to the hilt in the heart of an onlooker He sank to the floor even as the courageous bovine its life- sawstruggle done keeled over e dust and breathed its last Then there was great confusion Twenty thousand voices rent the airat once and forty thousand eyes surveyed first the scene ’ of the combat and then the spot where dence had A'''®' taken away a life — a life apparently inno-cent of eveytning in N this instance — except I the natural desire I to witness a bull- - “Bull-fightin- drab-color- v t A Tense Moment Just Preceding the Kill The Object Is to Plunge the Sword Between the Bull's Shoulder Blades If the Thrust Is Correctly Made the Beast Sinks to the Earth and the Matador Is Roundly Applauded If not Ile Is Jeered t At i t- - ’ Sidney Franklin Brooklyn Youth Who lias Been Making a Success of Teaching Spanish Matadors IIow to Fight Bulls T ?-'- 3 :— ?V s -- 1 Tills Drawing by Artist Biedermann Illustrates the Strange Killing Grgphicall of a Spectator in a Manner Which Incited the Awe of the Madrid Populace After the Slender and Pliant Toledo Blade Was Deftly Plunged Into the Bull's Shoulder the Powerful Beast Shook It Loose Sent It dying Through the Air— Straight Into the Heart of the Spectator Seated in' One of the Boxes lili 1 :J! ! I H 1 4s ga Snapshot Recently Made at Madrid Showing a Bull Fatally Injured Being Dragged bull-fighte- rs Nswspapsr Featurs Sarvtea f A i A 3tK OWU1 |