The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-28
TEXAN SPORTS.
Encounter Of Bull with u Lion and
ltOneSs.

TEXAN SPORTS.
Encounter OF bull with Lion and
LiOness.
The San Antonio (Texas) correspond
ent of the New York Herald describes
the second fight between bull and lions
at that place:
At one o'clock the lion, cold George"
was put into the arena. He was large
African lion,- who, although old present.
ed formidable appearance. He was
very large. He had been given calf a
few days before, which he destroyed in
fine stye, as well as several vagrant dogs
that had been strayed into the arena, in
which he had been placed for a week
past to allow him to exercise his muscles.
Old George has only one eye, the other
having been burnt in order to get the re-
mains of his keeper out of his cage in
Memphis few years ago, he having torn
him all to pieces At 3:45 o'clock Mex
lean yaqueros were seen bringing the bull
across the prairies. The lion was shut
up in one corner of the cage, with cir
Gus canvas, while the bull was led in by
four men with ropes.
He took a sudden fiji of butting, jerk
ing away from his keepers, and made a
rush upon one of them, a large, heavy
man, and threw him to the ground in an
instant, piercing the calf of his leg with
his horn. The position of the unfortu-
nate man was horrible, the Infatuated
bull standing over him shaking his head,
threatening each moment to impale the
PROSTATE victim. A cry of horror escap-
ed from the multitude. Fortunately the
attention of the bull was diverted, and
the injured man was conveyed out of the
arena. A huge cash was cut in his leg,
fracturing the tibia, cutting through two
large muscles and an artery. But for the
presence of a doctor the wounded man
would have bled to death.
As soon as the bull was fairly in the
cage the curtain that concealed the lion
was dropped. AS soon as they saw each
other the lion crouched down, growing,
and flashing the ground with his tail.
Before he couldspring, the bull, although
lame from his previous encounter with
the lioness, without moments hesita-
ton bounded toward the lion, catching
him under the belly. He threw the lion
sprawling, feet upward, against the cage,
following it up by going for him again
and pinning him to the ground. 1t was
in vain the lion made show of resistance :;
the bull pinned him to the cage, holding
him against the bars as in vice.
On the bull withdrawing his horns,
one of which had made deep wound in
the flank, the lion escaped. For fully
five minutes the combatants glared at
each other-the lion with uplifted paw
and most forocious mien, the bull
with head lowered, as if to make the on
seton the slightest provocation. The pose
was magnificent. With a mutiled roar
the bull charged, his horns holding the
lion firmly to the ground, the bull appar-
emily suffering no injury.
The final assault of the bull was ter
rife. He gored the lion, and then, with
toss, sent him whirling through the air.
When he struck the ground he lay on his
back with his mouth open, apparently
dead. The lion revived, however, but
seemed unwilling to again tackle the
monarch of the prairies.
The managers, seeing how unequal the
combat was, determined to add new
feature to it. The bull was tied up, and
while doing which he made furious efforts
to get through the cage, the strength of
which he tested to its utmost. The
wagon was backed up to the door of the
arena, and the lioness which had been
vanquished last Saturday was turned in.
Had the lion and the lioness attacked the
bull together there is no doubt they would
have come out victorious; but the lioness,
remembering her previous encounter,
fought shy, and beyond showing her
teeth and striking attitudes did not do
much, while the lion was too much ex-
hausted by its exertions to do much
damage beyond tearing the hide from
the bulls face and legs.
1t was a strange sight-probably never
before witnessed in Amerlca-to see the
Infatuated bull rushing around the arena,
with tail up and head down, chasing the
two huge lions, tossing one after another
WV LILO AC"u VI VAdAiPl thCll lIlueT
foot.
At times the bull seemed to be stand
ing on his head on the bodies of the pros
trate animals that filled the air with
their roaring. 1t was evident that the
lions stood no chance, the lion being hors
de combat, with several deep wounds,
while the lioness was too fleet to allow
the bull to pin her in the cage.
just before the bull was lassoed there
was very pretty scene. The two lions
were very close together, the crippled
lion budding up close to the terrified
lioness. The bull advanced on them in
a trot, but, just as he was upon them, he
seemed to realize their helpless condition,
stopped short, and, after cycling them
for few minutes, slowly walked off in a
different direction. Victory was declar-
ed for the bull, and he was lassoed and
secured to the cage.
Nhittier's Youth.
1t is not generally known that John
G. Whittier, i'll his early life, when he
was but %, succeeded George D. Prem
tice as editor of the Ne,o ENGLAND Week.
y Reriew, published at Hartford, Conn.