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...shamelessness in refusing even to try to kill a bull who looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed 1,557 bulls, was gored badly three times, killed the fourth time; the almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant, vulgar and low"; Lalanda. "unquestionably the master of all present fighters"; Freg, the Mexican veteran who has 72 wounds, has been given extreme unction five...
...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...
Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...
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