New York Tigers.
Paris, Sept. (>. Not long ago a French bull-fighter of Beaucaire, named August Fabre, who was not particularly prosperous, thought ho saw an opening for his talents in America ar,d wrote to New York for an engagement. To his surprise he received the answer, i{ It is not a slayer of bulls we need in New Yo.k this fall, but a slayer of Tigers.” The great Fabre had never heard of Tammany, and he took the message literalK*. Screwing up his courage with a few drinks of absinthe, he cabled back : “ Agreed for the tiger fight. Am going to go into training. Send date.” Then the ingenious bull-fighter told his friends and was preparing to learn the way tigers should be attacked and conquered, when he met a friend better posted than himself on American idiosyncraeies and from him he learned the truth. But he cautioned his friend to silence and himself said nothing. So the inhabitants of Beaucaire remain convinced that in New York arenas are maintained for tiger-fighting.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 4
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