Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-13

Ter schooled and ready wed in dire exgencies would
not agree.
THE Governor has forbidden Pickett to fight Be-
nito" he affirmed quickly, but you have other bulls
just savage. Pickett will meet any one OF them
you pick"
A new license was in our hands before the non
pussed impresaro and presidente could frame other
excuses and while the well meaning American Wom-
en- compIacently congratulated themselves in their
homes preparations for the cruel struggle went on
apace.
AS a substitute bull NJ. Rivero stipulated Frijoi
Chiquita little Beans), fully wild, wary and
wicked creature as BOnito and awaiting his call to
combat in Ell Torco stalls The bull bred on
the famous Tepeyahualeo granaderia. His short
thick, powerful neck commended him to the eXpe-
rienced impresarO forcbly than BOnto, for
it would be upon the neck and horns that Pickett
would exert his strength to throw the beast if ever he
succeeded in getting Il hold.
Meanwhile an unfair advantage or us was being
taken in the arena. twenty foot board was dis
played before the gaze Of the partisan spectators
bearing in Spanish this annOuncement:-"By request
Bonito has been withdrawn and another bull subsH-
tuted." The implication, Of course, was that we
had made the request in fear of Bonito's prowess.
The crowd howled its rage and derison which was lit
lie assuaged when we discovered the imposition and
posted a second bulletin with the emphatic declaration
that by order of the authorities Bonito would not
appear and that the bull ring mpresariO had selected
FrjOli Chiquita as quite as worthy a cOmbatant.
We had planned to present our regular circus tour
namcnt as n preliminary to the fight between
and bull but the tremendous audience would not have
it so. They demanded Eel feroz fenomeno negro de
Okahoma! The mad lust for bull ring blood and
battle,
them. Soon their attitude became menacing and we
desisted.
A mob of twenty-five thousand frenzed hostile
Mexicans many of them irresponsible poems, is not
force to Willingly antagonze We retired behind the
barriers and the "Gran Lucia aurina-Humana" was
announced.
There is doubt that Pickett had underestimate
the awful danger of his undertaking. His victories in
the American Southwest had made him oyeTconfdent
of his prOwess. He had never even seen Spanish
fighting bull am told and in his mind had llkened
the big believing monsters, quiverng with life and
strength and rage unto the vicious Texas which
he had often conquered Frjoli Chquita's size and
proclivities much like his bovine American
brothers. as a wildcat is like chipmunk, And while
the cowboy saddling his horse and receiving from
worthless suggestions to the tactics to employ
half dozen FL ToreO vaqueros tOrmentng and
tOrturing the bull in the effort to arouse him to the
extreme pitch of man hating fury.
Picketts entrance into the enclosure received min
ged Kisses and cheers; then Wild tumult Of acclaim
gate thrown open and Frijoli Chquita dashed
upon the scene sighted Pickett and made for him with
the power and speed of a runaway locomotive. The
mans face banched momentariy for the first time he
fully realized the peril Of his position and the over