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Just look what happens to our big stars when they go to South America." Before the week was out, Matador Bienvenida could point to two examples of just how tough Latin American bullfighting can be. One example was provided by one of Mexico's top matadors, Jorge Aguilar, who was carried to the hospital with a deep horn wound in his right...
...love is lost between Mexican and Spanish bullfighters; in fact, for several years before 1950 no Spanish matador was allowed in a Mexican bull ring. This was Dominguin's first professional appearance in Mexico, and his father-manager was anxious about his famous son's reception...
...Sidney Franklin had to learn enough about bullfight technique to get through a face-saving appearance with yearling bulls at a rancho in the country. That was back in 1922, and with time off for wars, revolutions and surgical operations, Franklin, the only American ever to become a topflight matador, has been in or around bull rings ever since...
Warm Reception. Now 49, his body scarred by repeated gorings and 20-odd corrective operations, Franklin knows that his career as a top matador is finished. But like all good fighters, he hates to call it quits. His first practice corrida at Alcalá was quite a comedown for a matador once the toast of two continents, but Franklin did not seem to mind. In fact, he was delighted with his pupils, even though some of them reacted to the tension of their first appearance by lapsing into a series of low-comedy antics...
...Professor" Franklin was bubbling: "With these kids around me, and the smell of the sand and the bulls in my nostrils in my own plaza, I'll never be an old, retired matador. I'll go right on in the ring until I die, with my fighting slippers...