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Four members of the Business squad have played together for months representing New Section F. Murphy, Karmater, Smith, and Bramhall. Their spotless record includes a Victory over the U.S.S. Worcester, which subsequently won the Atlantic Fleet Championship (Battleship and Cruiser Division). Former CRIMSON sports editor Peter B. Taub '31 played for the Worcester club...
...game, or a contest in the sense which Grantland Rice suggests. There is never any question of win or lose, because the outcome is never in doubt. The bull always dies. A bullfight is rather a sacrifice. It is high tragedy. If there is a contest, in Mr. Taub's sense of the word, it is not between the man and the bull. It is between the man and the crowd. The crowd tries to be passive or hostile, and the man tries to rouse them. This is the essence of his theatrical domination of the scene...
...agitator" whom Mr. Taub describes as "harassing the bull" is not an agitator and is not in the ring for the purpose of harassment. He is there to test the bull's eyesight, his manner of charging, his use of the horns. He deserves no sympathy if he gets caught, since he is practically forbidden to put himself in any danger. If he works close to the bull and looks good, he detracts from the maestro's performance. If he gets caught, he may spoil the bullfight: the bull often becomes too dangerous after he has tossed a man once...
...sugrprising, however, that Mr. Taub (no relation to Mulehaas) missed these points, since what he saw at "La Linea" was not a bullfight at all. It was a novillada, an apprentice fight in a small town, and with very bad, very small bulls...
...hope that Mr. Taub's naval travels will keep him in the area long enough to gain a fuller insight into the subtleties of the sport. Alan R. Trustman...