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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-08-14, Page 7FinalDay Of A Bull Fighter Manuel Laureano Rodriguez, called Manolete, is considered by malty to have been the greatest. bullfighter of ' our time. A tall, thin lean with popping eyes and a large nose in a narrow face, he exercised in the ring a classic style so pure that it has never quite been matched. Never was it more apparent than on the day he died. • In Spain, every detail of that day—Aug. 29, 1947—has become part of the legend which has made the dead matador! practi- cally a god. Although the story is not so well known in the United States, it has still had plenty of circulation, thanks largely to the efforts of author - painter -aficionado' Barnaby Con- rad, A onetime torero himself (as a Foreign Service Vice Con- sul in Spain during the --.early 1940s, he fought more than 30 bulls, and once appeared in the ring with the great Juan Bel - Monte), Conrad first told the story in 1952, in a thinly dis- guised novel, "Matador" Next, in 1956, he rounded up all the avail- able photographs of Manolete's last fight, wrote a narrative text, and created an exciting program for TV's "Omnibus." Last fall, the dramatic TV ,show "Play- house 90" used Conrad's material as the starting point for "The Death of Manolete," their sea- son's opener, Conrad's latest re-creation of this momentous day is the book, "The Death of Manolete," just published Combining the same pictures and text (somewhat ex- panded) used in the "Omnibus" program, the book has a remark- able cinematic flavor. The story skims through Manolete's boy- hood and apprenticeship, and his rise, before 30, to a wearisome triumph. It also traces the growth of Islero, Manolete's last bull, and of the matador Luis Miguel Dominguin, both of whom were factors in the tragedy. Domin- guin, then only 21, was the flashy challenger whose taunts and popularity forced Manolete to face him, and to outdo him, When Islero, a Miura, slammed into the ring that afternoon in the Spanish town of Linares, Do- thinguin had made one kill in spectacular fashion. Manolete, - anxious above all for a brave bull that would charge straight, saw with sinking heart his own animal's tendency to hook to the right. As Manolete worked the bull, the crowd, capriciously disposed to favor his young opponent, gradually began to drop its pre- judice and roar admiring "Oles." "Where Dominguin had worked inches away from the bull," writes Conrad, "Manolete dealt in centimeters" Pass after pass. the matador "wrapped the ani- mal , , . completely around his stationary body," It was perfec- tion, and so , the kill too had to be perfect, Straight in over the right hoar went Manolete's. sword. Suddenly, however, Is- lero hooked to the right, driv- ing a horn deep into the exposed matador. A few minutes later the bull died. Manolete died early the next morning, but only after being assured that the wild crowd had awarded him both ears and the tail from the dead bull as a tribute to his perfor- mance. The matador's funeral was the largest ever witnessed in Spain DRIVE WITH CARE! COOLING DIP — The water is only 68 degrees, but Sen. Theo- dore Francis Green, taking a dip off Newport, is 90 years old. The spry senior senator from the smallest state was cooling off after taking part in ceremonies at the Newport Jazz Festival. CITiR9ck ,4lerar«ays Talked Good Gime Chuck Connors, former pro- fessional basketball and big - league baseball player, is a man of a million words and is equally affluent in gestures. Once base- ball's foremost Thespian, he traded a rosin bag for a tube of grease paint, and has appeared in more than a score of movies, usually as a heavy. Boston remembers him as a centre on the first Celtics team to represent the Bay State in the National Basketball Association. But it was only a few years ago that Connors, who is currently starring with Gregory Peck Jean Simmons, Charles Bickford, and Buri Ives in a western called "The Big Country," appeared at first base as a member of the supporting cast of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Even then Chuck could read lines, and his inability to hit the curve ball hastened his arrival as an actor. Yet, if he earned no special distinction for his hitting, he did acquire a curious sort of notor- iety as probably the only man in baseball ever to be recom- mended for a team by his moth- er. Mrs, Connors so pestered a New York sports writer with tales of her son's abilities that the reporter finally broke down and tipped him to the Yankees. No less important a member of the New Yorkers than head scout Paul Krichell was sent to cast a trained baseball eye at Chuck, and the next thing Mrs: Connors knew was that her son,. with the help of the Yankees, had enrolled at Seton Hall. It was only a few weeks later that Connors jolted the Bronx Bombers' front office by signing a baseball contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, though Kri- chell had arranged to have the Yankees pay his college tuition. Chuck began his professional LITTLE BOY BOOM — Jonathan Orovitz, 12 -year-old boy, studies rocket plans in his home. The seventh grader sent U.S. Defense Department scientists plans for a rocket called The Oracle," which could send a monkey into space aboard a satellite bigger than anything the Russians hove sent up. Later versions, he said could carry a man. The Defense Department said the boy's plans were 'logical but present severe engineering problems acting career by memorizing "Casey at the Bat"—frequently turning up as the featured enter- tainer at sports banquets; By the time he reached the Dodgers he had a card that read: "Kevin (Chuck) Connors, • af- filiate Brooklyn Dodgers Base- ball Club. Recitations, After - Dinner Speaker, fter-Dinner'Speaker,' I-Iome Record- ings for Any Occasion, and Free - Lance Writing." Connors has what theater peo- pie call personality plus. Brook- lyn baseball writers carne to .de- pend on him for quotes. Yetit seelns unlikely that his baseball reputation had, much todowith his getting into the movies, He simply wasn't that big a name in the National League. Film directors have cast him with satisfying results as a soldier, gangster, .marine, and cowboy. Chuck's latest film, ,a western, is one in which every- one had to be more than six feet tall a requirement he' meets easily, He has found movie people more subtle than ball- players, who seldom bother to. conceal their opinions. If a film is to be made on the life of Ted Williams, Red Sox outfielder, Connors would like to play the part. "I know Wil- liams' mannerisms like a book," Connors told reporters during a recent visit at Boston's Fenway. Park. "I was a left-handed hit- ter, and I know just how Ted grips the bat, grimaces, and rubs his hands on the handle." There is considerable evidence that Williams, who likes Con- nors, would agree to the casting. In the meantime, though, Chuck is settling forhis owntelevision series with the American Broad- casting Company, starting some- time in September. It will be called simply "The Rifleman." No doubt Connors will shoot first and ask questions after- ward. Homeowner Can Reduce Home Noise Dad turns on the electric drill. Junior starts up the power mower. Sue switches on the record player. Mother plugs in the vacuum cleaner. By this time everyone feels like plugging up his ears. But Keith Hinchcliff, Univer- sity of Illinois extension hous- ing specialist, says that much noise can be built "out" of both new and remodelled houses. There are two main ways of reducing noise: (1) absorbing the noise in the surfaces of the same room and (2) holding the noise on the other side of the wall. 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