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Fighter's Lot. In Manila, the Supreme Court thought & thought, finally delivered itself of the opinion that a dead rooster could be declared the winner of a cock fight provided it had died while on the offensive...
...Apaches as a tribe are yellow curs without any fighting ability," says Colonel Henry Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a problem that involves numerous horsey charges, much sword waving, and about sixteen gallons of ketchup...
Staccato Flaps. When his handler released him, John Kehoe's grey tore across the pit, neck-feathers up. His onrushing enemy was a powerful red rooster equipped, like the grey, with needle-sharp, steel gaffs that man had added to his natural weapons. (U.S. cockfighters consider themselves more humane than Latin Americans, who use razor-edge "slashers.") The cocks hit each other almost two feet off the ground, in a staccato flap of wings. Every few minutes, handlers separated the cocks, sponged blood from their heads. Above the excited hubbub rose a woman's flat drawl: "Come...
Chicken men can't understand why the world is against them. They argue that chickens are insensitive animals anyway, and that game roosters fare better than most common chickens, which end up in a fricassee without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss...
Pittsburgh Competition. His "hard coal" greys were being threatened by a "soft coal" outfit from out Pittsburgh way. It was then that Kehoe brought out his ace, a grey-black-&-green veteran of two fights last year. It looked bad for the grey when a rival red rooster drove a spur into a lung. A few minutes later Kehoe's rooster suffered first a broken leg, then a broken wing...