Show 0 l r T More Truth Than Poetry 1 0 b I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE b VIVA EL TORO But lately th the Spaniards when en seeking a a. sport Their hot Spanish blood to arouse With high beating hearts to the the ring would resort Where men battled with gentlemen cows The men armed with lances went always scot free But oh oh how the populace thrilled And wakened the echoes with to see seo The unlucky bovines get killed The climate Is torrid In sunshiny Spain So the lads with the sashes and lutes lutea For many mariy long years have ha been wont to abstain Fro From rough and athletic pursuits They have ha better accomplished their leisurely aim Of enjoying their lives to the full By going by thousands to witness a game gam a Where here the work Is all done by the bull But the cables cable that I report they've recently turned From the ring with a world weary frown And seek for the laurels that only are earned By achieving OI Olympic renown s It humbled were we're told their Iberian pride To feel that they never could clutch The rhe trophies and prizes and cups cupa set aside For pole vaults and ski jumps and such t tWe We wish them good luck In their new enterprise And were we're honest In saying so too Not even a Spaniard can tell till he tries What a little real effort will do We hope their ambition to win on their own Will b be full fully and freely requited And we also will add In a tense vibrant tone That the bulls will be simply delighted PLAUSIBLE Maybe all that howling in the radio re receivers eivers i Is S merely expression of ot atmospheric opinion of ot some of ot the oratory that Is 1924 bY by the B Bell Syndicate |