New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 27

AmazingFacts Abiog Hurdreds of “ | Outlawed Arenas - Fthe oeCret Slaughter.f Gamecocks of Spor e } Women-—Bet on ' K Fighting Birds At Left, Cockfoot and Gaff—a Drawing Frem Life. TRAINING. The Three Photographs Above and at Left Show Two California Women : Putting Their Birds . Throug i t Paces to Prepare Them for | an Actual Bout. The : : 7 : Birdy Wors Loather. . - : i o . Ve croorded funer of slorious fife 55 worth an e wiithionf o rarne” of Battle Such Birds Wear Steel Gaffs. 40 Select Pit Cocks ¢ Of my old WHITEHACKLE and EVERETT CLATBORNE stock s % - ¥ arenas. In country Beio B 3 places the arena is S SRS L L “They ave being properly walked and carefully fed and I guarantee generally in & bll’kl’l; {ast, aggressive fighters that will claim the count to the last. Will sup in cities it mo.ry 2 : main of these to reliable parties at $10.00 each. over 8- garage 4 S S R SN Lol R “THE VICTOR.” Reproduction of an Old English Sporting Print Glorifying Cockfighting. warehouse. An investigator for this newspaper gives the following graphic account of a cock fight held near Chicago: eye of an eagle. A “First the heads of the two birds WoR, sharply brought together, then the hand- lers retreated with them to the pitting lines. Then the referee gave the word, the handlers released their fighters. Both birds strutted warily for a moment, then both flashed into the air at each other. “They crashed with beating wings, ri ping feet, slashing beaks; fell back, clashed again. Then suddenly one of the cocks lay still and bleeding — the black fighter. The handlers rushed in. “Next came a 30-second rest, while the birds were freshened up, wounds were laved, gaffs tested. Then they went at it again, and this time the {lod Quill made quick work of his adversary. He shot at the Roundhead like a_ falcon. Twice he slashed, and both gaffs were buried in the black bird's throat. The wounded cock gurgled, sank forward, aimed a last despairing blow at his con- queror. A stream of blood came from his open beak and he died! “During that afternoon I saw eleven are birds killed outright. held in place by a steel ring, which fits “The final bout was the most cruel. snugly over the back spur of the bird. Two heavyweight roosters had for “After leaving the street car on the bard and clean for five minutes, but ey outskirts of the town we walked to a Were not allowed to stop. huge white barn. Inside, in the center of Wi One was & White Dom, the other & the floor, was the fighting pit—a bow] Warhorse. At the ninth round neither eighteen feet ‘nln dilmete;, nunl“ou)r:.dedT:y :" ll.'":';n r';::dh:&"l‘x:"m:‘ h:dlln.u a padded wall three feet higl 0] ¢ breas wholo was surrounded by ten tiets of un: of the bicody irde, peld them & few inches finished pine seats, where about three ®Part. This aroused the old ting in- i i stinct, and the two n hundred men sat smoking and talking. ously at each other wik ther® urie “Then they were released, but the Warhorse had given too much, He was ‘:I;.h' hut" hinfl:aud (hu?l‘dh nrgw one gd-, and he collaps; n. The made the li:al cl:x 80 he wouhf'h = The birds are matched accord: weight, and a rooster is eligible for ing at the age of ten mon on After an his chest, for he becomes a full cock. Here is a quotation from an editorial in one of the leading magazines devoted to the game: “Today the future of cock- " fighting in America seems brighter than at any time within the memory of man. Qurlrgg the past few years the number of pits in the Northern States has Rreatly increased. . , . Never before have se many ladies been seen at the fights.” \: The writer calls his favorite pastime one of the most ancient and certainly one of the clesnest of sports,” but he suggests earnestly that there should be n:m’!‘v;dymls:. “i:n;lin( h“d drunken- e fin e apiri the killing contests. i v Themselzres Be Branded “for Love”’ “My host took me to my first cock- fight in a street car. He carried a long box which cackied and clucked with alarm at each jar. Jones, as I shall call the owner, informed me that the fighting rooster inside was a Red Quill, a popular breed at this time. “Jones fished from his pocket a case con- taining two needle -sharp I steel prongs, | about two EVIDENCE. MReproduction of Part of an Advertisement From @ 3oughern Magazine, i Openly Advertising Filhti-_:. Cocks for Sale. CANVAS pit, with blood - stained eath cruelly sharp, b T8I £ gruclly o ooken some States, while in others gaffs scattered about. Nearby a the b 5 4 attles are kept & dark secret to avoid and South Carolina. tiny, latticed cage, with several badly police raids. . In one Oklahoma town, it The East is represented gored gamecocks bleeding to death from said, the local enck-flxhtins club calls by men in New York, Penn- their wounds. in the police to keep quiet and order. sylvania and Connecticut, That's what the police found when Cockfighting has been referred to as a who write that their birds they raided a cockfighting den recently. pardonable sin sbove the Mason snd are the best fighters in that The audience had fled. ixon line, and a gentleman's prerogh- part of the country. They This den was not on the Mexican bor- tive below that line, expound their theories on der, it was in the heart of Chicago, It There are severa! flourishing periodi- training and battling, aight have been in Boston, Atlanta, New cals in the South which are published in This is the :ockfighcing York or Los Angeles, for the savage the interest of cnckhxhtfen ou can tee season in the Soutn. Every slaughter of gamecocks goes on contin- on this page reproductions from one of Sunday morning aously in almost every State in the these magazines, illustrating advertise- men in different Uni ments of the wic‘mdl piercing gaffs, and States put their This {s not an opinion; it is an amas- of gamecocks offered for sale. birds in cases and | One raiser of the birds says in his ad- carry them to vertisement, “Boys, the above fowl are bred to fight, and are second to no fowl on the market today.” Another writes that his roosters are “excellent cutters, fast, strong and healthy.” Another of these magazines carries ac- Owners of cockfighting arenas hold matches openly in GRIT AND STEEL Selma Bets Fifty Thousand 9n Cock Fights and Loses , City Council Forbids But Spectators Come Fromi Ty Miles Around and Huge Sums are Wagered. * | gaffs. They were to be The following recently appeared|having held another meeti in the Selma (Alabama) Times-Jour- strapped to the back of nal, but was first publishe ing fact. the rooster's nfiiolfi States in this country do not al- low cockfi dm and where State laws 12il to outlaw slaughter, city councils often pass ordinances prohibiting it. But these laws and ordinances are defied; an expert on the “sport” declares that there are at least 1,000 arenas through- out the United States where men—and, occasionally, women — gather to watch and bet as the birds engage in life-and- death struggles. counts of cock fights in For the game, blue-blooded creatures Nebraska, Indiana, Ken- are :mflc&lly doomed to death. A tucky, Tenneisse, Ala “bandler” who has been conditioning and bama, Georgia, Florida, matching birds for twenty years asserts Louisiana, M {as lssi pi, that the average fighting cock lives Texas, Missouri, Ohio. through three battles. Champions, of Illinois, Utah, Virginia, eourse, "Ipnd the gaff” much longer. West Virginia, North SPECIMEN. Part of an Article From » Periodical on Cockfighting Describing o Secret Bout Held in Alabama in Defiance of the Law. This is Only One of Scores of Such Articles Published in Diff, Bets were made con- , = e v e 'mmtli' on the var Short Socket, Short Blade Regulations, $10.00; ious birds scheduled ade Roguhtion:‘ $12.00, My Proper; x;n:.., and ::yfig:}:‘t‘.' [:h ;s' :agg‘:g i y .00. are . onoa‘y Special Private” Jaggers are $20. ey lovers, as they like to call themselves, would lose interest in their sport if the gambling were elimi- nated. “All talk stopped i a8 the referee en- i b tered the pit and & ; s announced the first bout, which was be- tween my friend Jones' Red Quill and a Roundhead rooster, at five pounds, two ounces. The birds' handlers entered, bearing the armed battlers. The Round- head was a beautiful, slim, black bird with the fearless, cruel This is one of my mady drop sockets —3$15 per pair. WITH MPER BEST OF TE T“END SET TO CUT- Repair work at & r{\.?r pflc'ei Send slong your WO kK hewer ey e pncm; for turning| fixed this hsnease“" D out work than TEMPERED IN ALL THE RLD. Ty pay me handle their bird B ACTS The Death—A Photograph Showing the End of Cockfight, With the Referee Standing Over the Victor and the Fatally Wounded Bird. Another Ad From a Magazine That Announces It Is iz Published in the Interest of Those Devoted An [llustrated Advertisement of — te Game Fowl.” Dueling Gaffs. «Strange “Submission Complex” of Women Who Let HY do beautiful women sometimes submit to ter- ¥ ribly painful “love brand- ings” from the men who adore them? The recurrence of this amazing rite, recently among different peo- le in different parts of the United gum has induced p?chololguu mltmiythe cases carefully and to coin & new m term — the “submission complex.” A woman who is the victim of s “gubmission complex,” say these experts, wants to feel herself com- pletely in the power of the man she loves. The brand is the mark of power and the pain inflicted by burning or cutting it into the woman's white flesh, gives her the feeling that she is sacrificing her oelf for the man. The scientists add that when o woman says, “l can-enly love a man who can dominate me com- lmll." or “I like the cave-man ," she indicates that she has a ight submission complex. How. ever, it is a far this per (ea[, normal fe to the obses- sion that forces other women to men to brand them, or causes fi.::m to submit to “love brand ings” with 'MC resistance, A few ago in Baltimore, Maria Thomas, a pretty , sixteen- ear-old girl, allowed her' twenty. {vv-yur«:ld boy friend, Pedro Dana, te brand his initials en her forehead with a knife. Dana wasar rested and sentenced to serve one year in the House of Correction. The etory they both told was about as follows: Pedro met Maria a few months ago and, from the first, was an impetuous wooer. His love was first expressed in violent daclarations. Then, as a mark of his ardor, he cut the first initial of her name, M, on his chest, over his heart. After he suggested that she submit to a branding. Maria demurred, she said, but fin- ally her young adorer forced her to submit. He took a sharp pen- knife and carved his {nitials, P. D., on her forehead, just above her left eye. Assl in court the letters, about uarters of aa_inch hi.m«ma faintly red, ‘This _astonishing branding of Maris Thomas is & typical Here's another. In Burbank, California, fifteen- r-old Mary Gerard was branded i;' the twenty-year-eld boy she loved, Tony Santi, with the initials e girl’s parents ers I_;_ld pnl:.gzdr Ill‘l"l on her and '-hll!f 'ony tried to fight them of They confessed afterward that they concocted this story to make Tony appear a hero so Mary's mp-nntl: would consent te his mar- er. ditfering detaile, but with toe suns g de wil same evidence of the “submission com- case. Maria Thomas, a Sixteen Year Old Baitimoro Girl, Who Was Branded on the Forshead With Her Bey-Friead's Initials—P. D. plex” in the woman. In some instances the man seemed to plan the b , in others it was the woman's idea. Sometimes each branded the ether. The oranding of human beings, marriage. science tells uz is s Several savage tribes in ll brand a woman with ber husband’s mark en the day of Cuwprrignt, 1998, Istrmetionss Fvatuss Guvics, (na, @rees Britais Bighw Beserved. agry. Africa sti the property of one man. Branding was used as a mark of shame and guniuhment until com- paratively recent times. There was the fleur de lys branded on the white shoulder of milady in “The Three Muske- teers.” Branding still goes on as part of the ritual of cer- tain religious cults and secret organizations. The Way Pedro Is Said to Have Branded Maria With & Knife. relic of sav- ting off finger on \ A tribe of pigmies in Borneo follows the custom of cut- art of a girl's index r wedding day, so that other tribesmen will know she is N times it is & mark of distineti Certain tribes of °Meflm ::: ctiohns used to for . braves e’ th of thei F thmn Peason 'or the same ou! quessan warriors of m's..'.filsh.z submit to a most rlnlul ordeal of tatooing as the time of manheod approaches. Their bodies and thighs are literally covered with intricate designs and they through ny while the tatooer wields his needle ricks the colors of the designs into the kin. This ordeal lasts for days. A “Fire Cult” in California used to brand its members on the chest with the letter F. applied with white-hot irons. This went on until a cularl: violent burning caused the dea of an unfortunate applicant for membership. Then the pelice breke up. Pthe fi“l‘::i the 'sychologists say 'se_stra; manifestations reveal the close knfn.- ship bent:efl:ni modern men and we- men al eir sa ancestors 100,000 years ago." The “sbmis sion complex” in women is only o.nmue of that astonishing rela- P