New Britain herald., 1929-06-11

1 ing and is bound to achieve its end ' can hope to solve the situation. AN AMERICAN BCLL.F1GHTEI, Americans who attain emtnence of one sort or another in Europe are by no means uncomm mon. Despite the multjfarious opportunities within the
 borders of the land of the Stars and Stripes, it happens occasionally that some enterprisinE American finds no opportunity at all for his particular and special talents, 70 he goes to
 Europe and dillydaliies in science. art, literature or bull fighting and attains a recognition that his folks on this side ot the 1e-mile limit are forced to regard as phenomenal. There was Sydney Franklyn. of Brooklyn. N. Y. Nature and fate decreed that ths young person ot
 brawn and courage should become bull-fighter. There is much buli- 1, throwing in the r. S.. using tho term in an allegorical sense; but there ii no bull-fighting allowed. this inter. fering with our sensitive natures.
 Bull. Fighter Franklyn, therefore. has lived in Spain. His great cppor. tunity came Sunday. at Seville, when he slew two giant bulls. ono after i the other, the combats raising the crowd to its feet and yielding him the highest honors conferred to bull- , fighters this season. This Babe Ruth of the Eory arena was carried around upon the shoulders Q! swarthy bull fans. and we would not be surprised if. charming ssnoritaa tried to ktss him repeatedly. He waa carried through the main gate tn triumph. something that is accorded only to those bull fighters of sterlins superiority.
 What more proof ts needed than the spanish-American war. and the ruffled feelings 1t enaendered be. | tween the Dons and the Americanos is definitely over. past. and forgot, , ten? As . peaceful emiasary few could give such convincing DOT. trayal as this Mr. Franklyn, whe , didn't even feel compelled to hid, his identity behind name some. thing like Barcelona Mclusia. Tho spaniards may find 1t difficult ts pronounce his peculiar foreign name. but they found no difficulty ir noting the skill of this overseaa bull-fiehter.
 We'll say for the bulls slain fir mortal combat by the redoubta ble Broohlynite that they didn't have q chance. as usual. Their only oppor, tunity lay in irritating the person holding the shining steel blade. Al the bulls had was punch. backed by weight and muscle: but a punch amounts to little when it meets colo steel. Consequently our admiration for Mir. Franklyn oozes bit. w. cannot wax enthusiastic about bull. 1 fighters because not sufficient
 number of them ever are killed oI injured. To us it looks like greet.
 ing 8 bull! with a machine gun a' 1 100 pacas; any keen-witted Ameri, can could command such a situation perfectly, provided the gun didn'
 jam.
 But Mr. Franklyn. now the kinl
 of Seville for q week. is entitled tt all the hcnors the sport loving Span ish can bestow. In this connection |
 makes no difference what we thinl
 about this particular brand of sport or what the American nation as {
 whole thinkA He hapens to be cir
 culatinE where the plaudits ar,
 numerous and the income nothin,
 to be sneezed at. In the United
 States a man of such talents woult
 earn no more than a skilled butche
 in the stock yards. In Spain he i blushinsly accepting fees that. i they recur often enough. will mak
 him independent in his old age
 After all. the other fellows view
 point is not to be lightly considered
 In Spain they would regard a base
 ball game as barbarous. on the SCOT
 that every time Babe Ruth hit. th
 ball the lives and limbs of the in
 ficlders and outfielders are endan
 sercd.
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