New York, Nov. 15.
The entire Atlantic seaboard is aroused by an announcement that Mr. Dave Mackay, the Newark fight promoter, intends to hold a bullfight to assist the unemployed.
Mr. Mackay said that Mr. Sidney: Franklin, the well-known American bull-fighter who recently returned home from Spain where he achieved first rank in the arena, has voluntered to offer his services free for such a "benefit performance'
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced to-day that it will have recourse to every possible legal means to prevent such a spectacle, declaring that any possible aid given 1 the unemployed would be more than counter-balanced by the cruelty to the bulls and horses and the brutalization of American public taste.
Meanwhile from various quarters many are requesting that the S.P.C.
make a special concession in this matter, on the ground that it is better to hurt a few bulls than to hurt thousands of the unemployed. It is, also proposed that special rules govern the contest, with special reference to the jon of the goring of horses which is usually the worst feature of bull-fights from the standpoint of those not occu: tomed to them.
Officials of the S.P.C.A. ang other' social service groups were adamant, however, declaring that it was unthinkable that such a spectacle be permitted in the United States—United Press.
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