Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1920 — Page 17
ADDITIONAL SPORT NEWS
Any Strong Yankee r Coivboy Would Make Bull Fight a Joke Could Become Toreador King With Bare Hands Under Present Mexican Rules. By LOUIS P. KIRBY, International w Staff (orreepondent MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Nor. 28.—There is an opportunity for some American cowboy to win laurels la the Mexico City boll r!ag. A good cowboy could become the king of toreadors with his bare hands. Nothing could be more Irritatingly tame and tawdry than a bull fight. Dozens of bullfighters come forth In gold and silver costumes to harass and eventuallv kill a foolish bull, who can not tell his real enemy from a piece of rag. If n bnllfl'-bter is Injured It Is due to the clumsiness of the bullfighter For, no matter how many bulls appear for combat, there is no change In the stupid, clurasv, silly ways of the doomed toro. In the Western cattle country there arc cowbovs who could Jump on the back of anr of the Mexican fighting bulls se'ze the n ! mal by the horns and bring It to earth or break Its neck. This feat, which ,has been performed by of men who neTer did earn $5,000 in a single afternoon, calls for greater dexterity and courare than that of Mexico's idolized toreadors, who earn more than opera ■lngera. Vit i,i M IKE IT LOOK TOO EASY. It may be that the Mexican m iltltudes would not greet the cowboy with enthuaiasm. because he would make the mastering of a bull such a simple matter. But a few cowboys might awaken the Mexican people lo the sordid tameness of their bullfighting pageants and cause them to turn ;o sports in which ail of the participants hare a "fighting chance." Any one familiar with the ways of bulls know that there Is no real danger, even In the narrow confines of the bull ring. At the spectacles here every effort la made to emphasize the supposed dangers of the arena. In the first of the six contests which make up a bullfighting spectacle the toreadors and their assailants Jump the fence repeatedly In pretended haste to escape danger, but they soon forget this piece of stage play. Persons In the audience have a way of throwing orange peelings Into the arena and these must be gathered up and removed by porters. The porters, forgetting that they should pretend to be terribly afraid, some time gather the peelings while a combat Is raging, even passing near the stupid bull while he Is slowly trying to make np his mind in which direction to charge. The scene in the ring would be a comedy but for the fact that the bull Is making a fight In which he has no chance to win. A man wayes a cloth and the bull charges—not the man, but the scarlet rag. It is always the same. The bull Is never Intelligent enough to distinguish between his tormentor and the piece of cloth he carries.
THEATRICAL. PLAY PART OF GAME. Often the bull, tired, overheated and faint from loss of blood from the gads thrown into his back, looks for some exit from the disagreeable place in which he has found himself. He is forced t turn again upon those whose work it is to kill him with as much pageantry as possible If he Is too tired to charge the bullfighters gather about him. still pretending that there is fearful danger, and. after much theatrical display, give him the fatal wound. The bull sinks upon his knees, tries to rise and sink* again, but <wual!y maintains an upright sitting position. One of the attendants pushes the animal over upon its side, and whi.e it Is dying mules, gully decorat'd, are driven up to drag away the defeated gl Komet mes in a fight a horse Is killed. It is a horribly simple matter. '1 be br.rs s are blindfolded when they enter the ring and cannot see the danger into which thev are forced They secse dan ger however and are usually uneasy and restl'-as. When the time comes for tue spectacle of the disemboweling of a taor*e the rider forces his steed in the way of the bull, which drives its horns into the horse's side. Sometimes the horse, fearfully wounded. Is able to move about r or a time. Sometimes it is knocked down by the bull aud is lucky enough to die quickly. At times the bull fails to drive its horns into the horse's side anu the thing must be tried again to complete the bloody spectacle. If the rider does not wish to sacrifice his horse he Is able to keep the bull away with a lance. No more b>r*es are killed than the number called for by the bloody pageant. For there must be blood—of bulls and horses—or the crowd is not satisfied. HOW THE PAPERS FLAY IT IP. The favor.te headline of Mexican newspapers for a bullfighting story is "Gold, Blood, bilk and Sunshine." This is considered clever and is repented endlessly. Mexicans dhinot understand the dis gust of some Americans when they first see a bullfight. Not long ago several hundred American business men were In Mexico City and a number went to see the bullfights. Some of the Americans left the arena after seeing the first bull killed. Some of the Mexican bullfighting fans sneered. They couldn't understand why any one didn't enjoy the game. One of the Americans when asked why he left, said: “It's a coward's game. The bull, the biggest fool of all animals has no chance. It Is a cruel, bloody slaughter. No man with the name could enjoy such a sport. In every game, every piayer should have some chance. In oullfightias It is nothing but the prolonged torturing of the bull foredoomed to death. "I felt ashamed to ait there and watch such a spectacle and I can’t understand the natuie ot the Mexican people if they lore tuts sport above all others. 1 am not squeamish. When I was a boy on the farm I killed steers In harvest time for the harvest hands adn killed man a pig In the fall of the year. But id dn't make a game of it." The bullfighting rings are built In circular form like the old Domun arenas, where slaves and gladiators met in combat. A Mexican talking to a man who thought bullfighting brutal said: "But the huUilghts are an Improvement on the combats in which one man killed another." "Yes,” replied the other, “but It is not a big enough improvement for 2,000 years." The bullfighting carnival this winter ■will be the most brilliant Mexico City has seen in years. It is said by some that the spectacles will excel any that bare ever been seen here. Great numbers of famous bullfighters are here from Spain to take part in the combats. Harvard Boxing Teacher CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 26.—Larry Conley has been engaged to Instruct In box'.ag at Harvard. It is his second year at the college. His work will be primarily devoted to teaching by classes, although be Is expected also to give private advanced lessons. Notice, Dick Miller Manager Dick Miller of the Indianapolis Belmont football team Is requested to get In touch with E. D. Clssell, Frankfort, Ind., Immediately In regar 1 to a contr et sent him for a proposed Belmont-Kirklin game Sunday. LAFAYETTE ATHLETES WIN. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 26.—Lafayette College won both the individual and teqm honors In the annual 514-tnile handicap run of the Meadowbrook Club here Thursday. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. Michigan City, 7; Brownson Hall (Notre Dame), ft. Wiley (Terre Haute), 13; Garfield, 0. Brazil, 7: Wabash College Seconds, 6. Central (Evansville), 47; Kentucky Military, 26. SOCTH ATLANTIC BIX. BALTIMORE, Nov. 26—Bobby Williams of St. Aloysios Club, Washington, won the cross-country championship of the South Atlantic Association over the Druid Hill Park course here Thursday In 31 minutes 26 2-5 second*.
New Baseball Head Might Have Had League Career Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago, named supreme head of baseball, might have starred as a big league ball player had he preferred a diamond career to a judicial one. The noted Jurist was reared In Logansport, Ind., and his spectacular playing on nmateur and semi-pro teams in that vicinity attracted the attention of minor and major league scout*. Landis declined all league offers. He played the game entirely for love of the sport. He' played an important part In making baseball history, however, when he presided in the court battle between the Federal League and the National and American League. The case was settled out of court. He is an ardent fan. attending most of the big league games In Chicago and many of the world's series contests. lie is 54 years old and was born in Millville, Ohio. Those who know the Judge are positive that he Is undoubtedly the man best fitted to help guide the great national game out of the muck surrounding it at present to a higher and cleaner level.
Thanksgiving Races Pushed hard all the way by Howard Dang rfield of the Colored Y. M. C. A., A1 Seelback of Buffalo established anew State mark oi 44 minutes fiat to win tho five-mile Thanksgiving day walk on Monument Circle yesterday.* This'tlme breaks Seelback's record of 45 minutes 50 seconds. established in the “Y” walk last year. Dangerfield came home a few inches behind Seelbach, and Good loe of the Colored Y. M. C. A. finished third. Frank Hayden, former Shortr dge High Soboo! athlete, captured the three-mile run for the Colored “Y” in 17:03. Sneff of the “Y" was second, and Brown, Butler freshman, running unattached, finished third. Hayden's mark does not toueh the record established by Paul Koehring last year when he romped home without opposition in 16:17. RIVERSIDE’S CHALLENGE. Following their 30-to-0 victory over the strong Spades eleven, the Riverside A. C.'s are ch-Ilenglng all strong city teams In their class for games, Turne s, Mapletons and Brooksides preferred, for a •Sunday contest os one of any later date. Call Main 7617 and ask for Bay.
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HOLDS DEFENSE OF NAVAL BASES FIRST CONCERN Chief Engineer Outlines Plans to Keep Enemy From Landing in U. S. OLD PRINCIPLES SOUND WASHINGTON. Nor. 26.—50 long as our Important naval station# are adequately defended against any probable naval attack, no enemy will venture at landing In strength on the soil of the United States, according to MaJ. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers In the first section of bis annual report to the secretary of war, made public today. ••It Is an accepted fact," said General Beach, "that our shores never can be Invaded In force unless our navy Is e ther destroyed or effective y blockaded within our coast line. The first essential of a successful defense requires, as never before, that our Important naval stations shall be adequately defended against probable naval attack. So long as our groat naval bases, such as Narragnnsett Bay, the Chesapeake, Guantanoma, the Panama Canal and San Francisco are made safe against probable attack and so long as our navy remains intact, no enemy will venture a landing In strength on our shores.” General Beach declared that one of the most Important deductions from the war was the necessity for equipping auch bases with an armament fit to cope with any carried on battleships now building or contemplated. He stated that the principles enunciated by the board of engineers in 1826: (1) to provide safe anchorage for our fleet; (2) to deny our harbors to an enemy fleet, and (3) to protect our Important cities and naval stations from bombardment from the sea, have been proved by the war to be as sound today as when stated. General Beach Insisted It would be a mistake to rely on lesa than slxteen-lneh guns and howitzers, which he said should be emplaced on fixed mounts, al-
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though guna of lesser caliber, now provided, will continue to be of decided secondary uso and importance. Permanently located and concealed fixed guns, he stated, suffer practically no damage from hostile naval fire, according to results observed In the last war and he recommended that the principal protection against hostile fire must be dispersion, concealment and dupllca--1 tlon. Bomb proofs no longer offer adequte protection, he concluded, and their cost Is prohibitive. He announced the overwhelming efficiency of gune on shore to guns on ships, and said that what was really necessary to protect our Important cities nnd bases wa* not to install as many guns as an enemy could bring but the minimum of powerful weapon* sufficient to prevent any but a foolhardy enemy from risking his ships In an attack. GINS OF CALIBRJB MOST ESSENTIAL. "No auxiliary or lßdrteatal project," he said, "should be allowed to Interfere with putting In place this minimum number of guns of proper eallbre. This I is especially necsssary for our outlying possessions such as Oahu and th# Panama Canal, the defense of which la of vital Importance and th* nsglect of which st this time may result tn future disaster. "Although five years have elapsed since the board of review recommended the installation of big guna," he added, “our pnost vital strategic areas snd naval bases on the seaboard are still undefended. RECOMMENDS INLAND WATERWAYS. General Beach strongly recommended the development of a comprehensive road and Inland waterways system ass measure of defense. 1 “In tkls connection," he said, "the ' provision of s deep waterway between Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay, thence ,to New York harbor and Long Island ' Found, would proride a means of de sense of immense values This Interior waterway would make It practically Impossible for the combined fleets of any i two of the leading powers In the world ! to blockade our n-vy successfully, and. i therefore, would bare the effect of multiplying the power of our fleet. The first I and most Important step In this develop- ! ment would be to rive the Delaware- ; Chesapeake canal a navigable depth aufj ficlent to enable the fleet to past bei tween those two great bodies of wster."
MINISTERS TO BOOST CHEST Pulpits to Announce Community Plan of Service. The advantages of a community chest to the city of Indianapolis will be pointed out by indlanapolls ministers from their pulpits Sunday to further the campaign for the cheat, which opens next Monday, continuing through th# week with sl,ooi>,000 as the goal o the campaign. It Is expected that every minister In the city, whatever the denomination of bis church, will urge that tbo community chest campaign receive the generous support of every person In the city. Many of the ministers of the city have expressed the opinion that the community cheat Is the best plan of financing and caring for the various cbarltab.e and philanthropic institutions of the city which. In the past, have been compelled to make separate solicitations. Business men generally are endorsing the chest and its campaign for $1 000 000 aud it Is believed that the full amount will be subscribed In less than a week. Final plans flor the campaign will be mad* at a meeting to be he.d at the Claypool hotel at 6:30 o’clock Saturday evening. L. C. Hueamann, chairman of the board of directors of the chest, will preside and Charles F. Coffin, campaign director, will outline the completed plans for the drive. The city has been divided into four general divisions with a dl rector of each division. John Smith has been named to direct tbs solicitations of manufacturers. Brussels Conference Went Up in Smtfke BERLIN. Nov. 26.—The Brussels eon fr re nee went np In smoke In the opinion of the Deutsche Tageszeltung which repudiates a telegram from the Copenhagen National Tldende stating that a bill has to the League of Nations secretary for 8,000 pounds for 80,000 Imported Havana cigars smoked by the conference. A* the League of Nation# has no treasury department functioning the bill was referred to the supreme council. "This cigar bill Is the one positive iffect of the Brussels conference,” com ment* the Tageszletung.
Suffrage Bust Fund Boosted by 2 Gifts WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Thanksgiving offerings were received by the National Woman's Party from Miss Grace Henshaw of Boston and the Rev. Olympia Brown, two of the oldest living suffragists and associates of Susan B. Anthony during her lifetime. They requested that their cofMributions be turned over to the national memorial fund being raised to pay foi mable busts of the thre ewomen who blazed the trail for suffrage, Miss An-
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thony, Lucretla Mott and Elizabeth Cady Sfanton —to be preented to the scapitol. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont sent a cheek ot SSOO to the fund before her departure for Europe lest week, Alice Paul announced. HUNTER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. SEYMOUR. Ind, Nov. 20.—Bruce Ferguson, 17, son or Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ferguson, residing near here, was wounded probably fatally Thursday when he was accidentally shot while hunting. He was standing on a stump and started to pull the gun towards him, when the trigger caught on a piece of bark. The charge entered his abdomen.
Pinched for Swiping Coal; Freed by Judge KOKOMO, Ind, Nov. 26.—Arrested for the theft of 20 cents' worth of coal. Minor ■Williams was released by Judge C. H. Wills of the city Police Court, pending good behavior. The prisoner showed he was out of work ana money. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER SCALDED. DECATUR, Ind, Nov. 26.—William Wlllets, 58, Erie engineer, was badlyscalded by escaping steam and water, when a steam pipe In his engine cab burst late Thursday evening. He was hurried to the Decatur Hospital and It Is thought he will recover. His home ia In Huntington.
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