Word: calf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share of the bets, and undisputed claim to being the best calf roper in the world...
...outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with a "pigging string," and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" hitch. Expert ropers can do it all in ten seconds or less...
After the first four calves, only one-tenth of a second separated the two sweating cowboys. Then Altizer's fifth calf fell when it was lassoed. Roping rules require that a calf be brought up to its feet again and thrown by hand. It took Altizer 21.5 sec. to do the job. Oliver spurted into a 7-sec. lead. Doggedly, Altizer cut the lead to 2.9 sec.-but now he was pressing. He missed on his first attempt to lasso his ninth calf, had to whip out a reserve lariat and chase the calf again, lost a few precious...
...strangers as enemies. Do not touch." All of which is unsettling enough without one of Getty's pets hopping the fence into someone else's land. As Getty and a few friends were out for a stroll, one of the dogs, named Max, took off after a calf grazing in the field of Farmer A. H. Tilley, grabbed the animal by the throat and took a hefty bite. Said Getty, fined $14 for permitting his hound to "worry a calf": "Max always was a bit of a hunter...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bareback riding, broncobusting, calf roping, steer wrestling, etc., at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo...