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Show Boxing Fast Overtaking Bull Fighting in Spain Boxing, after a few years' stern chase, has overtaken bull fighting In the fuvor of Catatonlans. The recent fights for the Euroiean heavyweight championship in which Puoliiio L'czudun, Tiger of the Pyren-nees, Pyren-nees, defeated Knnlnio Spalla, of Italy, drew a gale of 380,000 pesetas more than double the highest amount ever I taken in at a bull tight In the same arena. Althmigh ringside seats for the bout cost SO pesetas, four times the amount usuully charged for bull tights, the attendance at-tendance reached more than 31,000. The arena, which ordinarily accommodates accom-modates 2G,o)0, had never been ii'le,) l rapacity for a bull fight. |