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Show $5000 A DAY THAT IS THE SALARY j GAONA, MEXICAN BULL FIGHTER, GETS , ' ! TAKING CHANGES BRINGS THRILLS AND MUCH CASH m ii N W ELL. MEXICO CITY. Fob. 19. ---Bull fighting has replaced revolution In Mexico as a public pastime. Twenty-five thousand spectators, specta-tors, of high and low degree, orowd to the bull ring In tho cap-ltul cap-ltul on a Sunday afternoon. Many are women, Rodolfo Gaona, the champion bull fighter of Mexico, gets $5000 for an afternoon's work. His only rival is Sanchez Me-Jlas, Me-Jlas, a young doctor from Seville, s ho has found It more profitable to plant wounds In bulls than to I heal wounds In human beings. Gaona is to Mexico bull ring fans what Babe Ruth Is to American Amer-ican baseball fans. I saw him perform, at an eight-bull eight-bull show. The first bull put up a gory fight It gored two horse Then Gaona tackled it alone. In either hand Iiq helel a ban-dcrllla. ban-dcrllla. a two-foot stick covered j with coloreel tissue paper and pointed with a steel barb. He shouted. The blood-smeared bull turned on him. It charged. charg-ed. Stopped five feet from tho bullfight, r. glaring, snorting. Gnona reached between Its horns and sank tho banderillna side by side In the bull's shoulders. shoul-ders. He repeated the trick. Bach time the bull's horns narrowly nar-rowly missed him Taking a chance is what sunplles the thrill that makes his money. Finally he dispatched it with his sword. Wild applause. lip |