European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday afternoon in from Miles Provencal come to see this backyard bullfighting where bulls Are Seldom harmed old Provence in Southeastern France is a Region of Vine roman ruins and a kind of bullfighting that is like the Heming or Madrid Mexico variety Only insofar As men contend with on summer sunday afternoons bulls Are turned Loose in the specially barricaded the towns of Aries and Nimes the old roman Arenas Are Provencal come from Miles around to see and take actually there is no fighting and the bulls Are Seldom object of the for the is to Spear the Silken Rosette that is directly Between the bulls if he does it within the prescribed limit of ten minutes he has gained the and usually no one presented by the local club the its More a game than the highly stylized activity of professional open to anyone with enough courage to get in close enough to the Bull to Spear the photographs by Bernd Lohse retired bullfighter from the town of Collo Begues impassively puffs his pipe As he watches the Fence climbing Toreador Scurry Over the the bulls Are specially raised Fox the sport and Are As fierce As those used in Spain and four pronged Spear in the fighters hand teaches in toward the Rosette Between the bulls spearing the Rosette is the object of the the Dusty Public squares wooden barriers Are Thowe a there Are no stands and spectators pay no admission 11
