The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-03-16


lbuu fight yesterday It is Lent SO it
was only a second class fight, the
team or troupe Of Pieadores, IIande-
Ihlleoros and Matadores, having no
great regulations. The bulls were
raised in Mexico and bred for fighters,
/ but for strictly first class fights the
bulls should be imported from The
famous fighting herds Of Spain. Span
ish matadores Of worldwide reputation
are necessary generally but there is
one here said to be a millionaire, who
is regarded as world beater When
these famous men fight, a scat such
as I had for two dollars, would cost
ten. There was one man Of some rep,
utation and seemingly very expert in
playing with the bulls and making
Ihairbreadth escapes with the ease and
grace of a waltz to fast music. He
only gets $1,000, however for his part
tn two and one-half hour entertain.
ment, where a great bull fighter would
get $4,000
The new bull ring is built Of steel
and concrete, the seats and all being
concrete, supported on steel fipmes.
1t has a capacity for $4,000 spectators,
and is said to have cost $1,G00, 10000,
They claim 1t is the largest amphi-
theatre in the world but the Stadium
at Athens is just twice this capacity
and the seats are Of marble The ring
within this colossal amphitheatre is
about fifty yards in diameter sur
rounded by an inner fence about FIVE
feet high, Of two inch lumber, with a
2x6 foot above the bottom on the in
side, for men to step on in jumping
the fence when hard pressed. Outside
the inner fence about six feet is the
inner wall Of the amphitheatre about
ten feet high with an iron railing
above it,
One bull yesterday, after Jumping
the inner fence in his vain attempt to
get away from his merciless tormen
TORS, twice tried the hopeless task Of
Jumping this ten foot wall with The
trailing above, and did reach the tor
of the wall with his front feet only tc
fall back into torment again.
The amphitheatre is divided into
two equal parts, sombra Shade and
sol (sun) My two dollars seas in the
shade would have been eighty cents il
the sun. A fence divides the shade
from the sun and a company CT sol
diers sits by each fence with mus
Ikets to quell mutinies. somewhat like
they do at the church Of the Holy
Sepulcher at Jerusalem.
AS the moment $3.50 10 begin
arrives the Mexicans begin TO mnr
mur and whistle and show signs O
suppressed anxiety and uncomfortable
emotion A side gate swings open ant
two uniformed and plumed norsemeI
on splendid studs come forward at TIL
SOUND of bugle. Proudly the horses
arch their necks and sniff the air
and champ their bits as nimbly the,
spring forward under the weight 0
their trappings and gold and silver OF
naments, bearing the plumed knight
in glittering array, with all the pom
and circumstance of war, as in III
ehlvalrous days Of old when knight
hood was in Flower" Across The are
ma thep prance in front Of the box r(
served for the president Of the repul
llic, and ostensibly receive the roys
approval OF their enterprise and tn
key that unlocks the gates where III
"torosr are confined.
At bugle call they return to tn
gates they entered and at anothe
call, out step the Matadores and Bai
derilleros proudly marching wit
measured step, glittering in the bewi
dering beauty of their costumes, {
the center Of the arena, ianked b
the mounted and plumed escort an
followed by the mounted Pieadora
who who with their tanner plumag
and iaded steeds keep to the roa
At another signal the knights rein
and the arena is ready for the shei
ding of innocent blood Of fettere
and helpless animals in a mannt
!. Ieruel, ghastly and horrible
a No good is expected to follow onl
y The entertainment of the curious an
J. the pleasuret9 Of the morbidlv cruz
{ Two days they have been eonane
without food and In total larknes
one IS freed from his dungeon an
as he steps toward the ring, bin
/ ed by the light and terrorized al
Il bewildered by mis- strange surroun
i, limos "a harhad dart with q tneniI