Show H 0 0 H KH i Siamese Fighting Fish Put Up Hot Contests I Meet Mr lr Wat Vat Chant two Inches of forked and flailing lightning famed fighting minnow of Slam Siam This ferocious though diminutive diminutive diminutive tive fish lay Immersed In a bowl bowl- bowlIn In Inthe inthe inthe the New York aquarium the object of admiration of a huge buge crowd crowll accord accord- according according ing to a report In Time the News News- Newsmagazine Newsmagazine Newsmagazine magazine In Slam fish fighting occupies much the same place that cock fighting once dill did In the United States In each of Bangkok's ten halls there are arc sev sev- sev- sev several several eral tables about which are grouped seats for tor spectators When the audi audi- audience audience ence Is ready really two VO bowls each con containing taming a contestant are placed on the table A fight Is guaranteed If they charge at one another and pump their noses on the Intervening glass The betting commissioner books bets the being 44 H The two vo fish are ure then dumped Into one big bowl howl together They charge furiously first ripping ort off each ench others other's ruby red ventral fins Next to go Is the red top fin tin while fre- fre frequently frequently fre frequently the they bite off chunks of side meat drawing blood 1 With WIlh good fish a fight will last for six hours Un- Un pedigreed Un-pedigreed pedigreed ones are ure exhausted In 1 15 minutes After a fish has lost a bat hat battle tie tle he Is bred brell no more but spends his declining da days s 's training small fry Trainer fish constantly have bu their bodies mutilated as fiS do United States fIsticuff trainers Their advantage over oyer the United States equivalents they can regenerate broken parts |