Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03
MEXICO STIRRED UP
ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE AD-
VENT OF THE WHITE Sox."
By Ted Sullivan.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Correspondence
HOUSTON, Tex, February q. 1907.
I have just returned to Uncle Sans coun-
try from Mexico City. where 1 went as rep
resentative of the base ball champions of
the world-the Chicago White Sox. 1t was
my first trip into the sister republic, and
1 hope my mission as an evangelist of
Americas national game will supplant the
hideous bull-fghting pastime of our near
neighbors-the MeXicans. 1 saw one fight
where bull was killed and two blind
folded horses gored to death, and the man
who deftly and artisticaIly ran his thin
bladed sword through the shoulders Of the
poor beast got an ovation from the au-
dience for such skill that surpassed any
outburst of enthusiasm that ever greeted
Adelina Patti in the greatest days of her
highest warbling. but it is the last fight
that l care to see. 1 am sorry to say that
there were some American ladies In that
bull-fghting arena vino have high preten-
sions to refinement and culture; yet IL such
scenes as torturing bull to death and dis
emboweing a poor horse suit such tastes
their culture must be of a degenerate ma
ture. / asked one of the officials of the
government IL 1t were not possible that
the Mexican authorities in time would leg
islate bull-hghting out Of the country. He
answered me humorously that II my coun-
try would take action and legislate college
foot ball out Of American sports then would
the Mexican government believe bull-h
ing was brutal. and he stated. and backed
1t up with facts, that there had been but
one bull-hghter killed In thirty years in
Mexico, while in the foot ball game in the
United States there have been an average
Of fifteen foot ball players killed yearly.
To get back to base ball and the visit
of the champion White Sox club to Mexico.
1 must say from all appearances 1t Is going
to be made an international event every
where. All Mexico Is alive to the import
ance Of Americas representative champion
club going there. Guarantees Of eight or
nine hundred dollars in gold are offered by
many cities in Mexico for q date with the
Sox. The letters that Senator Culberson Of
Texas gave me to leading officials in the
Of the trip. One day will be set aside to be
called President DiaZ's day." when he will
go to the grounds and sit with his escort
in private boxes, which are now being
erected for him at the grounds. The stands
will be decorated with American and Next
can flags. The Mexican military band will
escort the White Sox from their hotels to
the ball grounds.
In the midst OF all this excitement about
the coming champions I hear'on all sides,
both In broken English and the yernacular
of the native American, that Mexico is to
adopt Uncle Sans national sport, and BULL
fighting will have to go.
I am now at Houston, fifty miles from
where the Washington team 10 to train. II
todays weather Is a sample Of what the
National team will have next month they
will have no cause to grumble. There is a
great deal Of interest taken here in the
game that Ii to be played between the st.
louis Cardinals and the rejuvenated Ma
ti0nal team.