The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-06

the middle of q great faelia and
that he gives to the spectators. He
is performing . work of art and he
is playing with death, bringing it
closer, closer, closer, to himself, a
death that YOU know 10 in the
horns because you have the can
vas-eoyered bodies Of the horses on
the sand to prove Ii. He gives
the feeling Of his Immortality, and
as YOU watch II. II becomes yours.
Then when II belongs to both of
YOU, he proves It with the sword. "
Hemingway has seen hundreds
Of matadors, regards himself az an
authority. He gives his frank, of
ten violently stated opinion Of all
Of them; the late Maera who killed
one of his last bulls with a dislocat-
ed wrist, after five tries; the cow
ardly Cagancho who Ii wonderful
with q bull he trusts. wretched
with all others; Rafael lei Gallo,
famed for his final appearances
and for his shauelessness In re-
fusing even to try to Hill d bull
who looks at him III d way he does
not like; the late great Joselito
who killed i.557 bulls, wso goredI
badly three times, killed the fourth
time; the almost crippled Belmonte
(retifedl, greatest living bull
fighter: villalta, brave but "awk.l
ward looking as q praying mantis"
with difficult bull; Ortega, at
present one Of SPANS most ac-I
claimed i1aatadOrs, whom Heming~
way characteFizes as Ignorant,
vulgar and low; Lalanda, s'un-
QuestionRbly the master Of all
present fighters; Freq. the Next
can veteran who has % wounds,
has been given extreme JUNCTION
five different times.
Hemingway deprecates the re-.
cent rule linaugurated under
Primo de Riveral that the abdo-,
mems of horses in the BUN ring
must be padded. II saves the feel-
ings OF some spectators but, says
Hemingway. 1t hurts the horses asI
much when the bull hits them. He
admits there are essential crueltiesI
in bullfightink but thinks the
spectacle as q whole "a d good and
worthwhile sight. The people Of
CASTLE have great common sense.
. They know death Is the UNI
escapable reality, the one thing
any man may be sure of. =. i
They think great deal about
death and when they have q reli-
gion they have one which believes
that life is much shorter than
death. Having this feeling they
take an intelligent interest inI
death and when they can see lei
being given, avoided. refused and
accepted in the afternoon for al
nominal price of admission they
pay their money and go to the
hullring. y
The author has done a little
amateur bullfightiAg himself but
was too old. too heavy and too
awkward. :. In the ring served
as little else than target or punch
ing dummy for the bulls. -. When
] had compromised myself through
awkwardaesA | would fAll onto the |
bulls musxle. elinging to his horns
Ms the figure elings in the old pic
tnre of the Rock AZ Ages and with
equal passion. This caused great
hilarlts anaeng the spectators.
After several years expatriation.
husky s2O0-lh.l Author Heming-
way last autumn returned to the
y. S, Is now in Montana, has his |
Aome b Ksy West. Fla. A leading
light 81 u, s. letters his influence
ia far OCT Of proportion To the
af his published work. AL
rahia sportsman and anti
literary writes. be- eschews Man
haitian and IL cliqaes. would rather ;
fish than drlnk tea. AT 81 he
AAa become ! q. 5. legend.