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...yard dash, Woodring, the present champion, is favored to repeat. Last spring, however, he was forced to cover the furlong in 21 2-5 seconds to beat Leconey and Hutchinson of California; and inasmuch as both of these men will run again this year, he will have to turn in one of his best performances, McKim of Princeton has been credited with 21 4-5 seconds in this event, but at the Penn relay carnival Woodring started ten yards behind his opponent in a 220 strotch and beat him to the tape by over 12 foot...
...Charles Wellington Furlong, explorer and author, will speak on his Western experiences at 7.45 o'clock tonight in Brattle Hall. The entertainment will be entirely under the auspices of the Cambridge Museum for Children. Tickets will be sold at the door for $1.00 and may be obtained in Advance at the Cooperative Society...
...these annual shows come 70,000 people, cowboys and Indians from the surrounding counties and states, and here are celebrated the immemorial sports of the West--horse racing, steer roping, Maverick races, broncho busting, and many others that require skill and strength. The stage coach race, established as Mr. Furlong said, before the "Safety First" idea, is another exciting and neck-breaking event...
...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
...cowboys could find a boa-constrictor that bucked, they'd saddle him up for the Round-up", said Mr. Furlong, "for they try to ride any animal that has a buck in it". The worst of all are the bucking buffaloes, which no one has ever been known to stick to. Bucking bulls are the next hardest, particularly as the saddle is put as far back as possible "to get everything that's in the bull in the way of a buck, out". The most famous of these animals was Sharkey, who was black, weighted a ton and a half...