The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
SEES A BULL FIGHT
Victor Murdoch Takes in the
Mexican National Game.
COMPARED TO PRIZE FIGHT
Mexican Herald Interviews
Eagles Managing Editor.
COMPARED TO PRIZE FIGHT

The following interview with Victor
Murdoch appears in the last Friday
Mexican Herald:
A reporter for the Herald met Mr.. Vic
tor Murdoch of the Wichita (Kan) Eagle
at his hotel yesterday and learning that
he attended the bull fight last Sunday, in
company with several hundred American
visitors who are in the city, asked him
for an expression regarding this great
Mexican sport. Mr.. Murdoch protested
that he was a little weak on the nomen-
clature and fine points of the game, but
upon being pressed, oovercame the natural
modesty of a newspaper man and con-
sented to be interviewed.
1T was great day for Fuentes," said
Mr.. Murdoch. "In the sands Of time Mr..
Fuentes, on that Sunday, left the impress
sion of a large acquiline instep. Fuentes
is a bull fighter. or rather all bulls are
Fuentes fighters.
after attending bull fight the correct
thing for an American to do is to press
mis- white, patrician hand to his solar
plexus and call buIl-fighting horrible,
'sickening,' degrading It affects all
Americans this way-after the fight An
American will attend a base ball game
and see the pitcher slam a ball into the
anatomy of the man at the bat, and be
glad that the batter reaches first that
way. An American will also attend a
prIze-fght and watch two men with low,
retreating. mansard brows deposit Japan
csc sunsets all over each others coun-
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put the same American in an upper seat
at bull-fght, and his sense of justice
in the realms of cowdom and his good
Samaritan intentions towards beef loom
up like the feet Of the White Lady on a
clear morning An American will sit on
a hard board seat for hours watching
bulls butchered and squirming in horror
at the sight. He will sit there with his
constitution loaded with a ninety cents
(Mexican money! sirloin and weep tears
caliente over his awful startling discovery
that beeves occasionally die at the earnest
solicitation of a man at the other end Of
an ak. There may be as many as seven
bulls killed in a fight, but the American
IS not a man to run away from agony
and he will stay right there and see the
whole dreadful thing through. When by
an exceptionally clever step a banderillero
places two Christmas trees in the bulls
shoulders, the squeak which comes from
the American is a groan. Do not deceive
yourself about this. 1t is not involuntary
applause for a clever piece Of personal
valor Make sure of that. 1t is a groan.
by the time the fifth bull is dispatched,
an occasional American will remember
that tha bull. unlike the beef of his own
packing house, is here at least given the
-c5mrer alton Of a valorous protest, but if
~ IS good American, he will stihe IN s
ri ainal admission and continue horror
stIlcFcn and seated. The one unpardona-
h-a ching about bull-fghting is the mount
Of the oicadOres. The horses are not
given 4 fair show. 1t is the sincere desire
Cf every American present that a govern
ment mule be turned loose in the ring at
this part of the show, and if he doesn't
turn around and wipe out bull, matador,
the umpire, the horn blower and part of
the grand stand, the pulque is on Uncle
Sam
But 1t was a great day for Fuantes.
Fuentes had during the afternoon turned
four bulls over to the undertaken; the
umpire had gone to sleep and the bleach
ers over on the north side of the ring
were dreaming of mother and home, when
a man over at a gate marked 'Miuras"
lifted 4 shutter and a fine black imported
gorer shot into the ring and cracked his
tail in the face of Fuentes. But Fuentes
only smiled. 1t wasn't his act He had
kindly permitted a young gentleman by
the name of Corzo to try his hand. It
was to be seen from the first that this
bull was warm article with chilli dress
ing. A lot of men carrying a dry goods
store among them surrounded the bull
and Haunted their opera capes at him.
The bull studied them awhile and having
concluded that they were not trying to
give an imitation Of the burning of Rome.
but were guying him, he turned loose.
All the audience saw at this point was a
bright red streak in the air, like a brake
man throwing a lantern at the conductor
on a dark night. The bull then turned
and there was another red streak; the
bull turned again and another man with
an opera cape flashed suddenly by ard
sank on the outside of the fence with the
rapidity az the last three days OF a thirty
day note. The men on the horses, with
horses now came out. Owing to circum-
stances over which they had no control
they also speedily left the ring to think
about it. The men with the shawl store
now came back and gave the bun a ghost
dance. but they made him tired, and he
didn't pay any attention to them The
bleachers now got mad. The had paid
their money and they expected to see 8
bull-fght, not a foot race. The BandeTil-
leros now stepped forward with their
Christmas trees. A man with pink bar
ber-poles made motion at the bull and
the bull took after him, and he Aguinal-
doed. Then a fellow with red sticks
stationed himself IN front OF the bull with
the easy confident grace OF a man pro-
pronouncing TeuepanQuetzaltzin for the
first time. The bull recognized him and
went after him. Whereupon the gentle
man left. Another fellow with blue sticks
tried his hand and was about as success
full IN placing the bsnderillas as a tourist
Is at landing on the understanding Of a
street car driver with guide book Span
ish.
The bleachers arose and roared A
man with a voice like a fractured gong,
who had come all the way from Zacate-
cas- to see the fight and had already eaten
down to the second vertebrate Of his sugar
cane stalk arose and demanded that the
banderiileros go away to some secluded
spot and chase themselves, while q young
lady from Peoria. Illinois, who 'ooIldn't
just stand the horrible, horrible thing an
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