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Billed as the "world championship.'' Colonel William T. Johnson's rodeo which opened last week in Manhattan for the first of five stands in its annual circuit is actually nothing of the sort. The nearest approach to championships in calf-roping, bulldogging, bronco-riding and the rest of the spectacular exhibitions that go to make up a rodeo are the point scores compiled by the Rodeo Association of America (of which the Johnson rodeo is not a member) from some 50 Western rodeos throughout the year. Nonetheless, because the Johnson show enables them to stare...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...
...professional wrestler would run away from a Brahma steer which weighs 1,000 Ib. and has horns a foot and a half long. No polo player in his senses would risk his neck on a bucking-bronco. A cowherd who tried to milk a wild cow would promptly have his brains kicked out. Performances like steer-wrestling, bronco-riding and wild-cow milking were a part of the World Series Rodeo that arrived in Manhattan last week for a stay of 19 days at Madison Square Garden. Grand climax of a circuit that attracts more than 3,000,000 customers...
...catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban coast with rod and line* but neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam...
...leathery, garrulous, honest-injun cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played a harmonica with his nose. He sang "Never Tie a Knot in a Billy Goat's Tail'' while his wife "Powder River Kitty " in another ten-gallon hat. played the guitar. Back in his hotel Powder River Jack Lee received reporters, expressed himself...