Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-05
BULL FIGHT AT OMAHA.
rcn Thousnnd People Witnessed the
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Spectacle.
Omaha, Neb., July 5.-The first of two
dozen bull fights arranged by the South
Omaha festival committee was Wit
uessed yesterday by 10000 persons. In
every detail the spectacle was about
what the average pehson expected who
had read details of the Spanish fights,
with the exception that no horses We're
eored and the ferocious bulls which the
agile toreadors provoked to frenzy,
We're not killed.
The hairbreadth escapes. the snort of
pain and wild dash on the part of the
bulls to destroy their tormentors We're
An evidence, and several times the mata-
dor dashed in and laid his sword over
the neck of the frantic animal, just to
show how he would dispatch the wild.
plunging brute were II not for the pres
cnce of the sedate looking humane soci-
ETY. officials. who occupied prominent
position In boxes. The understanding
OF the public was that the officials would
attend the first fight. and ii 1t was not
too revolving or too cruel the exhibitions
could continue thru the week. The tacit
understanding is that from now on the
bulls will be killed outright in the ring
and dragged from the slaughter pen by
horses attached to their tails in true
Spanish style.
Yesterday the toreadors, picadors and
n,atadors contented themselves with
tormenting the bulls, piercing their
hides with long darts and racing around
the ring, lodging the lunges of the ami
mails.
The great crowd gathered early in the
afternoon and fought for seats. The big
amphitheater constructed by the COM
nittee has a seating capacity of 5000
The building is Of circular farm. and a
ring of ninety feet in diameter is in the
center, with raised seats around the
sides. At O'Clock four raily dressed
toreadors and two n,atadors entered the
ring.
The picadors-the ores who handle the
bulls from horseback-were excluded
from the exhibition for fear some of tn.
horses might be disemboweied and the
sport stopped. The matadors carried
huge swords. but 1t is said that the
weapons were dummies covered with
4intoil and irst inspected by the HUI
name society officials. to be certain the
bull could not be actually killed. Still,
this is a mooted question, as the swords
were not required to shed blood. and the
management insists they We're of real
steel.
The toreadors We're greeted with howls
and whoops by the excited crowd. ana
they bowed and kissed their hands lika
circus clowns There was number of
women present, and to these especially
The bull fighters kissed their hands
and were greeted with waving handker-
chiefs
Then door was opened at one side
of the pen and great Western bull,
with splendid horns and dilated nos
trills. stalked out. He seemed perfect
1y at home, and examined the throng
curiously He paid about az much at
tention to the toreadors who danced
about the ring, waving their red sashes.
as mich COW In New England mea-
dow would to the Growing of a baby. A
cowboy finally rushed out and roped the
s animal and led 1t back to the pen.
The next entry was different. Before
the toreadors We're ready for the change
a great black bull bounded in the ring
with snort. One glance at the gayly
/ colored spaniards grouped at one side
was enough. They did not have to
wave any red flags at the newcomer.
The bull lowered his head and made a
charge. His long horns touched the
\ coat tails OF several OF the Spaniards.
who ran in different directions. The bull
brought up with roar and Q thud
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