OCR Text |
Show Sport tn the Arena- The accident at the Mines bull fight some time ago. In which one man waa toaeed and another gored to death, drnwa attention to a moat curious game, which, as bull lighting steadily gslna ground In the south of France, Is becoming very popular among the Meiidlonnles. If It were not unhap-plly unhap-plly merely the prelude to the gross butchery of the real Spnnlah gnme, the Jeu de la Cocarde would have much to recommend It to a place on the list of trials of strength, for It Is essentially essen-tially an amateurs' gams, requiring the highest daring and skill, while It need Involve no cruelty to the bull. The cocarde Is a little tuft of feathers end ribbons. Two of these are fastened fast-ened to the bull's horns, and he Is than turned Into the ring, where the play-era, play-era, all on foot, are awaiting him. The game Is now to excite the bull Into charging, and for this the usual red cloths are used. But at the moment that the bull dashes Into the red rag the player steps deftly aalde, and Instead In-stead of sticking a cruel banderlllo Into the animal's neck tries to snatch the cocarde from the bull's horns. The game, of course, Is won by the first to bear oft the little trophy, hut the bull usually manages to bear his plumes a long time before being bereft of them. |