The Newtown bee., 1880-07-28
Sunday SpOrt-A Bull Fight.

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 sunday SpOrt-A Bull Fight. 1 The following interesting account of [ | bull fight is given by Mr. Sinclair Touse,
 during his visit in Spain. and copied iron
 his book, Papers from Over the Water.
 MADRID, SPAIN, November, 1867. | I passed between two rows of guards
 having muskets with fixed bayonets, ano l found my scat.
 The arena or ring is over two hundred | feet in diameter; around it is a strong fence about five and a half feet high Some eighteen inches above the level ol the aroma, on the inside of the fence, and
 against it, Is step running the entire
 circuit of the ring. placed there to aid the
 mon in jumping the fence whom pursued
 by the bull Some six feet beyond this
 fence is another one, Il little higher; and
 back of this arc the stone seats, rising amplitheatre fashion, to the covered
 boxes occupied by the higher classes.
 At convenient distances, gates are plac- ed in the first feuce-thatis is, the one next Tthe ling which. on opening. turn out Across the space formed by the first and second fences. These gates are thus ar ranged for the purpose of turning the bull back into the arena or ring when he jumps the first fence, as he sometimes does. -E-e
 This space between these two fences is favo:ite spot for the young men to stand, and thrust sticks into the bull whenever they can
 The seats were full of people--perhaps ten thousand men, women, boys. girls, and babies in their mothers arms.
 At a signal, two or three sickly looking fellows in udiform ride into the ring, march slowly around It, and go out. An other signal, U blast on Il bugle, and ill come the gayly clad wretches that are to teasD and torment the bull. Another blast on the bugie, and then enter three or four poor miserable old horses, ito in- stantly kill which would be kindness with one eye blinded, ridden by men hay ing their legs cased in iron. to prevent their being hurt by the bull or by the horses falling on them. Each of these mounted horsemen with iron clad legs has long stick looking like Il bean pole. which he carries on the blind side of his horse, for the purpose of thrusting at the bull, but which is so seldom needed that it appears to be carried more for show than use.
 Ten gaudily dressed fellows, mounted and on foot, place themselves in front of the manager of the delightful sports that are to follow, make obeisance, scatter about the ring-the bugle again sounds. Il gate is opened, and in bounds . hne-looking dark-brown bull, with beautiful head and horns. (These Spanish bulls do not have the short. hori- zontal horns and thick, heavy, curling necks of American bulls, but the horns are longer, tapering and stand up,spread- ing apart as they grow, more like the horns of ths working oxen of New Eng iand.l
 He is smarting with pain from the barb and spear wounds he has received in the pen; his shoulders are bloody; he is frightened. mad with anger; he passes a horse placed conveniently near the gate for him to attack, dives at one ofthe tor mentors who bears a bright colored cloth or rather dives at the cloth, the cowardly fellow that holds it before the animal taking good care to keep his worthless If tb4sxx of h These fellows have different high-sound- ing names, as picador, bandarillo, nata- dore, etc; but shall drop all these and simply call chem tormentors, teasers, etc. shall not even style them bull fighters. 1 for they don't fight the bull at all, not one of them.
 Another red rag Is held before the bull Ut arms length by another tormentor the bull dives at it, fastens his horns in It; tormentor drops it, runs for the fence, bull after him; tormentor jumps the fence; bull nttacks other red rags; other jump the fence. Tho crowd don't like such tame sport. A blast of the bugle, and another tormentor enters with gayly trimmed barbed arrows about three feet long; these he is to place in the shoulders of the b,ill, to increase his rage and make him attack the horses. He approaches the animal from the side, don't face him like man, and while the attention of the bull Is drawn to the rcd rug of another tormentor, succeeds after leveral attamvfs. in plnuting tue baxbs ]