Show Star Matador From Brooklyn Gains Heights BY GESFORD F. F FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY United Sidney Franklin the only United States In Mexico after aCter five years S ea of pre preparation Ill mal make c chIs hIs debut in Iii the MadrId bullring thIs sprIng Madrid is big time for tor matadors and Franklin has I reached at last nt-last last the goal h. h It may mayor or may not thrill nie lle straphangers of the largest of New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's five flye boroughs to know that Franklins Franklin's lIns lIn's homo home is at 19 Jackson Place Brooklyn Bl and that he has the honor of being New Yorks York's solo conk conI to an ancient an and dIstinguIshed diStinguished dIstin- dIstin Latin art Franklin turned from wrestling wIth hIs fellow tellow in the subway to the perhaps after aCler all only sl slightly more dangerous of waving n a cape in front of n a toro in 1 23 At the same samo titus he accomplIshed the praCtically unheard of feat of alien alien- the tho practice ot of speaking through his adenoids for a pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant soundIng Franklin attended a a Brooklyn grade grado and high school and finally Columbia UniversIty from whIch he was graduated in 1920 For two years for a commercial art firm Then he came to Mexico as a tourist on a three months vacation and like w went nt to a a. bull bull- fIght From the first moment of the parade of matadors and theIr help help- eiS ei'S Franklin was nn an I All AlI who knOw w their Erne Ernest t Hemingway henningway henning- henning way recall that means bullfight Ian fan a person who eho would ho bo described in the United States as crazy or bugs over o the sport thrilled at his first corrida corrida cor- cor rida was told by a frIend a SpanIard Span Span- lard that It was not a a. sport for North AmerIcans but only for fon GrIngos he was in informed Conned could not because ot of temperamental tal difficulties adapt themselves to it So Franklin immediately became Do a matador to J disprove this tinis theory and to Brooklyn could coul be capable of even een stranger wonders wonders won won- ders than those it has already produced produced pro pro- I The American matador had a ahard ahard hard time of it for fOl several years Bullfight managers would not engage engage en- en gage him because me he was a Gringo and nobody a boy bey from the other side of the Rio Grende much less from Brooklyn could pla play about with the toros and live to tell what happened For three years eatS Franklin Fi Was Inthe in inthe the minor leagues as far as corn corri- das went Mostly hIs fights were along the border and Americans along th the border and AmerIcans frequently fi went across tIne the frontier anxious to tolee lee itee what would happen to ono one ot of their cou foolish enough to try to 1 kill a bull Often their trIps were rewarded by seeing Fi-anklin Fi trampled hurled agaInst the thC ramparts and gored But tile the Gringo Cringe matador was ver very game and the next Sunday or the Sunday after that alwa always s 's I found hini back in tine the ring for tor another an- an other round Ii When he had reach reached cd tile the top of his profession Franklin fought ui in inthe the me rin ring with such fighters as Luis Feg Juan and Jose Ortiz When he had become be- be come on a p pan With them the pub puli- lie which the tho could I Inot not ot bu but t dge that FranklIn y good Indeed Before goIng to Spain Franklin will spend several weeks eels at his home He expects to fight in Span Spall probably at Barcelona othir r cities as well as Madrid l a year ear or more So far as is known he will willbe be the first Yankee matador to try his luck i in Spain |