El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-18

terest in the national sport is difficult
to determine but something certainly
has caused bull fighting to become a
popular amusement in our sister repub-
lie aud even here in Ell PasO the pop.
ulace have taken to the path that
leads to thu bull pen in Juarez. Every
Sunday, so far, the seats in the large
amphitheatre have been crowded and
many have been turned away from the
doors with the announcement that
every seat was taken and there was nc
room for more. People who have lived
in Ell Pasosfor years have lately felt an
itching to see bull fight, and if they
have net already they will eventually
be found in a seat at the bull pen.
Bull fighting is a CORY amusement,
one in which human being is likely
to be killed at any time: q class of en-
tertainment that Americans have been
brought up to believe deg aiding and
desplicable. But with all this it is
exciting and to certain degree enter
tanning. On ones first arrival in Ell
Paso he makes up his mind that he
wants to see bull fight He goes.
He comes away sick and desplses him.
self for going. If he remains here, he
soon again finds himself elbowipg the
crowd at the entrance of the bull ring.
He finds seat and watches the per-
formance through. Soon he gets the
opinion that his first impressions were
wrong; that bull fighting is not near SO
bad as he a. first thought; he eve n
firds himself cheering when a torero is
pitched iu the air from bulls horns,
and the worse the man is hurt the
louder he cheers. At first he cannot
bear to look at bull goring the life of
81 ponr biindfolded horse; after awhile
be calls the sport tame or the bulls nc
good if at least two horses are not
killed in his sight. The flow of blood
the sight OF horses eutraits dangling
on the ground no longer has effect on
his heart or stomach. He is looking
for the fine points of the p'cador, ban
derillero or matador. He is studying
how the torerO is going to get around
the sharp horns of the Infatuated bull
and shove shafts of barbed steel in his
hnmp. He becomes used to the scene
He loses sight of the fact that man and
beast are facing one anothe- in a NOR.
tai gerry combat. After seeing many
bulls killed he still attends, hoping
some day to see bull pick one of his
torn entOrs up on his horns and pitch
him co his death. He thinks then he
will be satisfied. When he sees the
bull kill the man that will be his last
fight. With this thought in his breast
be finds himself q regular attendant al
the plaza de torres. He is tired of see
ing the blood of beasts in the bull ring
He wants to see human blood, he wants
to see rivers of it and in the center ar
iufnriated bull fighting his tormentor!
to their death.
Why have the people both American
and Mexican gone wild over bull ii g hts
In former years the bull ring in Juare.
was only sparcelv attended and ther
mostly by people who took seats on the
sunny side. Now it is different. There
is twice TIL number of seats on the
shady side as there is on the sunny
side and still every sea- is taken an
this too by a m ore refined and better
class of people; by men and women
whe abl.o prize fight and call it bru
tai. when in fact it is game of science
and not a scene of blood. But such arr
facts as they exist at the prese t day
No the prize fight is brutal, but it il
tame as compared with the game o
man and beast. The audience wan
blood, they want 1t to flow freely eithe
from the wounds of the Coaded bull
the soreback horse or the bespanglet
| torero.
The following account is given in
Mexican paper of the great Ma zzautini'
fight in the CT y of Mexico last Sun day
giving all account of the last two bull
killed at Bucarilla ring,
The fifth bull was the bull Of tn