HAILED AS HERO
MATADOR’S PRESENCE OF MIND United Press As—relation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 3, 8.30 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, January 3 The matador, Liberio Ruiz, is being hailed as a hero, after calmly playing and killing a bull, thus preventing a panic among 24.000 spectators, while the strongest of the recent earthquakes swayed the high steel concrete arena. Pretending to ignore the shock, the matador fascinated the crowd, although they seemed to be in the grip of terror. The band lent its aid by playing loudly. The ’quake ceased at the moment the bull was slain. Only a handful of spectators departed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20926, 4 January 1938, Page 7
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102HAILED AS HERO Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20926, 4 January 1938, Page 7
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