- Title: INDONESIA: BOARFIGHTING - A NEW SPORT FOR MEN AND DOGS
- Date: 9th June 1969
- Summary: STADIUM & CROWD: FARMERS WITH SPEARS: THREE FARMERS IN RING WITH BOAR: ONE FARMER RIDING BOAR & BRINGING IT DOWN: THREE DOGS IN RING WITH BOAR. Initials LD/V/AS/SS SPORT: BOARFIGHTING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 24th June 1969 13:00
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- Location: BANDUNG, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Reuters ID: LVA9QKJ2P09X671O65VZAYYTA1HV
- Story Text: RECENTLY, BULL-FIGHTING WAS INTRODUCED VERY SUCCESSFULLY IN INDONESIA - AND NOW THE INDONESIANS HAVE DEVELOPED THEIR OWN NATIONAL VERSION OF THE SPORT BY USING LOCAL WILD BOARS INSTEAD OF BULLS. ON FRIDAY (JUNE 6) THE FIRST BOAR "CORRIDA" WAS HELD IN BANDUNG, WEST JAVA.
WILD BOAR DAMAGE CROPS AND LOCAL FARMERS THEN AS VERMIN AND HUNT THEM DOWN WITH SPEARS - SUCH AS THE ONES USED TO DRIVE THE BOARS TOT HE STADIUM FOR THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT, ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 5,000 PEOPLE.
THE FIRST PART OF THE PROGRAMME RESEMBLED BULLFIGHTING IN THE USE OF CAPES TO DRAW THE BOAR - BUT THERE THE SIMILARITY ENDED. THREE MEN FACED ONE BOAR AND, INSTEAD OF CLIMAXING THE DUEL WITH A KILL, THEY MANOEUVRES THE WILD PIG INTO A POSITION WHERE ONE OF THEM COULD MOUNT IT AND BRING IT DOWN.
ANOTHER VARIANT OF THE SPORT CAME WHEN DOGS WERE LET INTO THE RING WITH A SECOND BOAR. AS THE DOGS SNAPPED AND SNARLED AND WHIRLED AROUND THE BOAR - THE OLD WILD PIG WAS IN AN INFERIOR POSITION AS IT WAS MUZZLED AND COULD DO LITTLE MORE THAN LUNGE MENACINGLY AT ITS ATTACKERS. BUT THE BOAR IS A POWERFUL BEAST AND CURVED FANGS ARE AS DANGEROUS AS THE HORNS OF A PROVOKED BULL - AND THE DOGS, ON THE WHOLE, KEPT THEIR DISTANCE AND THE ROUND ENDED IN A DRAW.
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