Word: bronco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without Colonel Johnson, the opening parade up Broadway was led last week by the new impresarios: his rangy, longtime arena director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named...
...World's Championship Rodeo has no world's championships to offer in calf-roping, steer-wrestling, bronco-riding or any other spectacular event of a rodeo. Nearest approach to such championships are the point scores compiled annually by the Rodeo Association of America (which the Garden rodeos joined last year) on the basis of some 50 rodeos, including the famed contests at Cheyenne, Pendleton, Calgary and Salinas. But the World's Championship Rodeo is champion in one respect, drawing more first-rate performers than any single Western rodeo...
...State Banking Superintendent. Not only were the finances of the world tottering as never before but the office's morale and reputation had been shattered because the previous incumbent, Frank H. Warder, had been convicted of accepting a $10,000 bribe. Sitting in the saddle of this banking bronco, however, was brisk, hard-working Joseph A. Broderick. He did his job well enough so that when he was indicted on charges of neglect of duty in connection with the failure of New York's Bank of United States, not only Alfred E. Smith and Charles E. Mitchell...
Died. Pete Knight, winner in the last twelve years of more rodeo titles and prize money than any other bronco rider in the world; of internal injuries after being tossed from "Slowdown" at the Hayward, Calif. Rodeo...
...great, and our going, except for the damage of frozen ground, not so severe on horses." But to hedge-jumping British riders U. S. post-&-rail fences seem high and hard. Author Peters calls the Prince of Wales Va much maligned gentleman," implies he iFa first-rate rider. Western bronco-busters he pooh-poohs, says they are "champions . . . but not of good riding...