The Washington herald., 1908-03-23

LargartiJIno chico. the young I.arrarti-
jillo, just as We say Young Corbett. came
near going to dwell with his fathers
eternally.
Bulls Named IN Honor of AdmIraIs.
The hospitality or the government named
the bulls in honor Of the fleet The first
bull was the gallant Alfred. in honor of
Admiral Evans the second. ''the heroic
RaTger. in honor OF Admiral Thomas"
the third, the Brave Teddy. in honor OF
Admiral Emory" the fourth. "the Shufly.
in honor of Admiral Sperry:' the NTH.
Banjo, in honor of the officers Of the
navy" the sixth. Yankee Doodle. in
honor of the sailors" Could hospitality
go further than that?
About 10 men from each ship and al
the officers Of the fleet were invited. The
sailors filed two-thirds OF the arena and
the officers and the high society of Lima
fIIed the boxes. All had assembled on
time. and then came the President 10 sit
IN the box directly opposite that OF the
officers OF the municipality. with chairs
OF red plush for the box and dais for
the President. who was In fun evening
dress. The American admirals and cap
tains were In that grand box The Peru
Wan band played ''The Star-Spangled
Banner" and the bluejackets stood at
attention, and then all hands cheered
Then the President came and the Peru
Wan national hymn was played. after
which the blueiackets gave three rousing
cheers for PardO and Peru Then all was
ready for business. The key was tossed
into the ring for the parade Of TIE
fighters, capeaderos. banderiileros. mata-
cors, tie rig 70 pull the dead bulls cut.
and all that
The Americans were all intense The
lighters took their stations. the mayor
gave the word. a bugle blew. "a door was
opened. and a great brown and black bull
with horns. as one of the local news
papers described him. like the spires Of
a steeple." bounded into the ring took
one look around. and dashed madly after
an aged horseman riding a beautiful iron
gray pony and Haunting a red cape over
his mounts hanks There were two Of
these horsemen. and the exhibition they
gave OF fine riding would have put the
best cowboy or Rough Rider 10 shame.
The man the bull put after was more
than eighty years old. and the way he
twisted the pony here and there and iust
escaped the lunges Of that bull. turning
sharp angles. pulling up short. making
his horse fairly leap out OF the way. dodg-
ing this way and that until the bull was
astonished, excited rcars OF applause
from the bluejackets. They liked that
part. Then younger man took up the
same work. He was even more skilIsul.
Bull fighting was fine SO far
sink Darts In Bull.
Then came the signal for the banderil-
leros 20 sink their darts in the shoulders
of the bull One OF them would catch
the bulls attention. and they would rush
toward each other. The banderillero
would change his course after the bull
got under way. and by just grazing his
horns. would plant the darts in his shoul-
ders- The first man got rousing cheers.
From his darts two flags unfurled. one
was that of Peru and the other that of
the United States. It was supposed. 10
be pretty compliment to the Americans.
The bull was now very tired PadilIo.
the second matador. came out. bowed
to the authorities and asked the Presi-
dents permission 10 kill the bull. He get
it and it was up to him 10 do il. He waved
his bright red cape, sheltering his sword.
repeatedly in front Of the bull. stepping
aside just in time to escape the horns.
The bull was dazed. Then Padilio stood
about ten feet away. poised his sword 10
take aim ana rushed on the bull. The
sword did not hit the fatal spot. The
thrust was failure.
Again the matadOr failed. The sword
went in deep. Muscular contraction. which
had forced the first sword out. failed to
r1O nd
cloak over the weapon deftiy and drew
it out. Again there was a failure TO kin.
but the buA was almost exhausted. He
sank 70 his knees. got up and made one
more lunge at Padillo. who then sank the
sword TO the hilt in the proper place and
al was over. There were cheers but
Padillo hadn't done well.
So the fight went on. Padillo killed an
other bull, but he had three failures at
throsts before the beast sank down and
died. There were Kisses for him. and
some of the bluejackets shouted:
Take him out and put him in q minor
league!"
Bull Repels BOarders.
The Last bull was killed by Largartijillo.
1t was the same story, except that Just
as the matadOr gave the deathblow the
bull hooked him along his right side and
tore his clothes. He had a narrow es-
cape. His wounds were only bruises As
the bull sank down dying, fully 200 blue
jackets jumped into the ring TO follow
the example Of two who earlier in the
fight had leaped in and secured the darts
in an animals neck for nementos
They swarmed at Yankee Doodle He
saw them coming, and as they seized the
darts. rose to his feet and tried to lunge
at some of them. II was too much, and
he fell as the men began to scatter, and
died at once