Soccer Fans Take 

 Game Seriously 

 Argentina 



Two Die in Rioting 

 As Crowd Protests 

 Bad Decision 



By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr., 

 Star Staff Correspondent. 



BUENOS AIRES.— Gunfire and 

 saber strokes, or a shower of pop 

 bottles— the difference lies in the 

 point of view. 



The Argentine soccer fan can ex- 

 plode with all 

 the violence of 

 a World Series 

 crowd when the 

 umpire calls a 

 sour one in the 

 vital inning. 

 Two fans were 

 killed here this 

 afternoon — one 

 a 9 - year - old 

 boy! 



The shooting 

 started when the 

 crowd, angry at 

 an umpire for 

 sending a popu- 

 lar athlete to W. H. Shippen, jr. 



the showers, tore through the wire 

 netting and surged out on the field, 

 bearing innocents as well as bellig- 

 erents before it like chaff. The 

 police say they fired in the air and 

 used the flats of their sabers v 



A panic followed. Spectators at- 

 tempting to flee the place found 

 exits closed or inadequate. When 

 order was restored at last four gun- 

 shot victims were found, along with 

 many others bruised and cut in 

 the mad crush. An ambulance re- 

 sponding to an emergency alarm 

 collided with an automobile at s 

 nearby intersection. 



Later the Board of Directors oi 

 the "Boca Juniors" met because oi BUENOS AIRES 

 the "lamentable consequences" o: calle SAN MARTIN 335 

 the game. The board put up mone: y _ ' 

 to bury the victims and passed << ' ' ' w /\ 

 resolution condemning the "bruta ^ Central 

 police" for firing on "defenseles, r Alsina, J367 



spectators." The police, on th«Sucursale a ' 

 other hand, claimed it was thi 

 spectators who fired the fatal shots 



Incidentally, the Boca Junior; 

 won— 1 to 0. 



Our friends gave us the choici 

 today between attending the socce 

 game and seeing the local zoo wit! 



its Sunday crowds. Unfortunately 

 (from my point of view, anyhow, 

 although my wife disagrees) , we 

 chose the zoo. We wanted to see 

 Wild Bill, the buffalo, and his mate, 

 Francisca— a pair we helped import 

 to the Argentine, along with vari- 

 ous other gift specimens from the 

 Washington Zoo. 



Washington's Zoo Director Wil- 

 liam M. Mann and Mrs. Mann were 

 supposed to pay a round of official 

 calls this afternoon. We bade them 

 good -by and set out for the zoo 

 on the subway, together with ap- 

 proximately 90,000 other people. In 

 the press of thousands to buy tickets 

 at the gate, I fell in line behind 

 a familiar figure. It was Dr. Mann, 

 who had postponed his social duties 

 in favor of another jaunt to the 

 zoo — his sixth to date ! 



The B. A. zoo is an outdoor affair. 

 Such things as South American os- 

 triches, Patagonian cavies, tapirs, 

 llamas, alpacas, agoutis, storks, pea- 

 cocks and howler monkeys stroll 

 about free within the huge, tree- 

 grown inclosure. Dr. Mann was hav- 

 ing a swell time. He kept pointing 

 his camera this way and that: 



"Ah, William," he cried, "111 take 

 those home with me ... ! and those, 

 and those . . . ! I'll take their pictures 

 home anyhow; meanwhile, we shall 

 hope, and also rely, upon the gener- 

 osity of our good neighboor, the 

 Argentines! 



"I'd rather be here than any place 

 else in the world — unless it's Wash- 

 ington ! The cirucs is moving in 

 back in Washintgon today. At this 

 hour, this very minute, the red wag- ! 

 ons are unloading; Beverly Kelley 1 

 and the rest of the gang are in town ! 

 They'll , be knocking around 

 Melvin Hildreth and the circus f 

 Maybe Frank Portillo is thr^ f 

 another party for the clowns]^ 



Dr. Mann produced his handker- 

 chief and wiped his eyes. If he 

 hadn't been surrounded by such a 

 lively zoological panorama, I'm 

 afraid he would have caught the 

 next boat home. As it was, he hur- 

 ried us to the restaurant to compare 

 it with the one he hopes to build 

 in Washington with a new P. W. A. 

 appropriation for $90,000. The zoo 

 director got a cable yesterday from 

 Secretary Abbot of the Smithsonian 

 Institution announcing the award. 

 Dr. Mann, for years, has been plan- 

 ning a fine restaurant in Rock Creek 

 Park. He was elated to learn that 

 his hopes may be realized. 



"We have a lot people to thank 

 for that appropriation," Dr. Mann 

 said, "and not the least of them is 

 Nickey Arundel— the fighting young 

 editor of 'Nickey's News!' You re- 

 member how he campaigned for the 

 giraffes until we got them?" 



In the zoo here children rode 

 llamas, ponies and tiny donkeys, or 

 jogged along in miniature carts. 

 They chased the cavies and agoutis 

 over the grass, and fed animal 

 crackers to the ostriches. 



"How well-behaved these specta- 

 tors are," Dr. Mann said. "Even the 

 worst of them never mistreat an- 

 imals. That's why all these fine 

 specimens can roam free with the 

 crowds. Now in Washington 99 per 

 cent of the spectators are fine people 

 —it's that onery one per cent we 

 have to guard against, the uned- 

 ucated minority!" 



"But, doctor," I said, "did you see 

 that swarthy -looking citizen who, 

 just a minute ago, tried to give a 

 lighted cigar to the baby tapir?" 



"No, William," he said. "I didn't 

 see that! And, besides, I'm a guest 

 here!" 



From what I saw today, however, 

 of the free association between an- 

 imals and men, it was the animals, 

 as much as the men, who were 

 educated. 



The tapir, young as he was, turned 

 down the cigar with a sniff of con- 

 tempt, and I saw a llama, with a 

 gleam in his eye, reject a bit of tin 

 foil. The man who offered the foil 

 moved away quickly. 



"Why not educate your animals, 

 doctor," f asked, "and let the public 

 take care of itself?" 



"William," he replied, "if I teach 

 you too much about zoology you may 

 take my job!" 



Back at the hotel tonight, just to 

 make it a perfect day, Dr. Mann got 

 a cable from his circus pals, who 

 missed him, they said, even more 

 than the 60 or more tickets he buys 

 for the Washington performances. 



The cable was from Beverley Kel- 

 ley, who has just completed a book 

 on elephants. Dr. Mann cabled back 

 something to the effect : 



"Were those the ponderous pachy- 

 derms or just an earthquake we felt 

 down here?" 



Next: The difficulties of being 

 a conventional guest. 



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