WHEN IT GETS TAME.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 752, 1 August 1922, Page 5

WHEN IT GETS TAME.

BULL-FIGHTING IN MEXICO. The general impression of Mexico is that it lives on thrills. There they sihoot a man to save the trouble of saying good-bye. Thera are 19 generals to every' one soldier, and they shoot all the generals in turn, and then name streets after them. There is in Sydney a man who has just come from a visit to Mexico. But he cannot give an improved version of Mexican life. All that everybody before him hasl said, he declares, is correct. This is Mr M. Silverstone, of the American Picture Corporation. “ Bull-figh'ing is still the big thing in Mexico City,” he says. “ though sometimes the crowds get tired of it —not enough thrills.” Both Died. “ When I was there, somebody started an argument that a bull could beat a lion, and in a flash the idea had passed through the city, and everybody was talking about it. The pressure became so great at last that the promoters of the bull-fights, arranged for a ontest between a lion and a bull. “It came off, and was exciting and bloodthirsty enough for anybody. But the result didn’t please the crowds. The lion won. So they declared tne thing was a fake, and threatened to shoot the show up unless another match, was given. “Of course, the promoters bad to put it on. But the lion killed the bull. This! was too much. The people were more than ever convinced that tha fight, was a deliberate fake. They yelled and stamped, and fired their pistols, and demanded another for their money, or they would murder the promoters and all their hirelings. “ This third match satisfied them. The biggest bull that could be found was pitted aginst the most ferocious lion that could he bought from the menagerie. Neither of them vror. After splashing bicod all over the place, they both lay down and died.”