Word: bareback
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...been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...more dashing events on the bill, the bareback and saddle brone riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, and the wild brahma bull riding contests, they are fine while they last, but there is not enough of this real rodeo stuff and what there is of it is all too brief. It seems a pity to have a young man come all the way from Ysleta, Texas, and then work only eight seconds (the length of a time a contestant has to ride a brone bareback) an evening...
...home-run-hitting John Mize might never have been a big leaguer but for Doc Hyland. The Cincinnati Reds passed him up 13 years ago when another doctor discovered an old pelvic injury (the result of riding mules bareback in his Georgia childhood). Doc Hyland operated and Big John did the rest...
Balloon Game: First, Miss Coe '51; second, Miss Hughes '49; third, Hope Ingersoll '50; fourth, Carol Jones '49. Bareback Riding: First, Miss Thomas '49; second, Miss coe '51; third, Miss Neboldin '50; fourth, Miss Parsons...
Francena Thomas, riding for the seniors, took top honors in three of the activities and brought her class first place in the meet. Miss Thomas won the experienced horsemanship class, the musical chairs class, and a bareback riding event...