The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-03-16
GILKEY DESCRIBES THE
GREAT MEXICAN SPORT


the rider has turned traitor to his
faithful friend and his ambition is
to show the crowd that he can tide
the horse until the enraged bun
cores the helpless horse to death.
He moti0ns with his harpoon pointed
prod poIe until the frenzied bull
dashes at rim No effort is made
Ito protect the blinded and bswildered
horse as he. stands trembling, know
ing not which way to leap On the
contrary, the horse Is held so that
the horns viii be most likely to
strike the vital parts in front Of
the saddle. Metal shields protect the
legs Of the rider who is 50 heavily
weighted with armor under his cloth
when his horse falls. The 5ull plum
ged at the first horse but struck
him in the neck with one horn only,
burying the big horn in the neck and
ripping it out, q bloody, but not
mortal wound and the horse did not
fall but little later was led ont,
only to be returned to meet death
at the hornes Of the next bull.
The second horse was lined Up
striking the horse broadside, he threw
the horse to his side on toD OF the
picadore against the fence and foot
board, and horse, rider and bull We're
in heap, the bull still horning at
the horse until Matadores drew his
attention away The rider was pulled
from under the horse, little hurt
The horse, partly disemboweled,
struggled to mis- feet and was lead out
al the sound Of bugle. Then the
Banderilleros commenced their persecu
ton of the bull by inducing it 10
lrush at them and while lodging Lis
horns, thrust barbed steel two and
one half inches long in either side
Of the neck with the wooden handle
hanging down to wrench The flesh
at every move.
Six Banderilleros were sci. in three
pairs, when after further cape play
and lodging until the bull was ex-
hausted, the bugle calls on the Mata-
dor with his sword, who induces
| the bull to charge at him and as they
meet, he, if skilltul thrusts his sword
about two and a half feet long to
the hilt; sometimes the point sticks
out back of the fore leg, at the lower
tpart of the body Then the bud is
further annoyed with capes urtil
he faints and falls to rise no mole.
Then another performer slips a knife
between the sections Of the spine,
instant death. Horses also have their
dying misery stopped in the same
way.
This cutting the spine is the most
merciful act in the whole drama.
One bull killed four horses that
died in the ring and was himself stab
bed at by a novice six or eight
times. sticking the sword in ais necs
or shoulder from six inches to 1f
teen each time and the bugle cal
then ordered him taken from the
Iring.
One bull with long sharp horns
Igored horse on one sode of III,
ring, but the horse remained On hii
fleet and was whipped around {,
lmy side by an assistant. Meanwhile
1.-THE other horse was lined up near m,
land the bull struck him unde. thI
breast and threw both horse an,
rider backward over his head, thl
rider striking the ground first. thl
horse on top of him with his feet il
the air At the same instant, within
thirty feet the other gored hors
dropped dead under his rider. TIL
horse thrown in the air was instantl
killed and disemboweled ard tn
blood rushed out like a fountain
making a mud for several feet.
Several men full but the bull'
charge was over in each case am
he was drawn off by other Mata
dores and other capes. One mai
was horned and his clothing torn
and he was left lame but killed hi
bull later
am glad do not i've in
country that permits bull fights
Mexieans, however, look en- Amer
icen prize fights With as much horrC
as Americans regard bull fights
may sometime attend anotne
bull fight but hardly think ail
Like most Americans feel tina
the sight Of one such aggregation q
useless horrors is enough for 0 hf
I time A. S. GiLKEY.