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...Ernesto Blanco for the glory of Spain's national sport. The next three days the encierro was repeated with different batches of bulls. At the end of four days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...
Both men, the citizenry decided, were admirable fellows. Therefore, crowds cheered Edward of Wales when he arrived from London to visit the Spanish Royal Family; and still greater crowds throated lustily when Nicanor Villalta, slayer of 800 bulls, returned from Mexico, bearing that chief prize of the American bull ring, a bauble known as "The Golden Ears of Mexico...
Daniel Simonds '28 will sail his schooner "Nicanor" across the Atlantic this summer to participate in the Fastnet race, the English long distance ocean race corresponding to the American yachtsman's Bermuda race...
...Nicanor" is 67 feet long overall, and is from designs by Alden similar to his famous "Malabars", which have made such excellent showings in ocean races of the past few seasons. The craft was built in the yards of Charles Morse in Thomaston, Maine...