Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular Pitcher. Thinnest, blondest member of Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees, Vernon Gomez has succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high...
...hunting man, Sir John nevertheless shares with most Britons a passion for exterminating what he understands by "cruelty to animals." He frowned black disapproval last week upon the "refined rodeo" now being staged in London by SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS He will put his police into disorder. U. S. Cowboy Maestro Tex Austin. First amused, then indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded...
...circus acrobat in Switzerland and a cowboy in the U. S. before his father died and an earldom descended heavily upon him, Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and the Empire was shocked when His Grace, at the climax of hilarity, boasted: "I remember Denver when it was only one shack. When I first saw Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, there was only one shed there. Some of my friends went...
...shares of Madison Square Garden Corp. stock valued at $546,000, Colonel John S. Hammond had become the Garden's board chairman. Since 1932, white-haired, soldierly Colonel Hammond has had to pay his way like any one else when he went to the Garden to see a rodeo, prizefight, bicycle race, dog show, circus, wrestling match, horse show, dance marathon or hockey game. That was a disagreeable novelty for the oldtime West Point and Olympic (1904) sprinter. Years before, when he was U. S. military attache in Bolivia, he had run into a shrewd promoter looking for speculative...
Students hurrying to their 12 o'clock classes yesterday had the privilege of witnessing a miniature rodeo, staged by the combined efforts of a small black and white calf and Patrolman McGinty of the Brattle Square Station. An infant bovine, apparently imbued by the desire to "enter and grow in wisdom" escaped yesterday from a truck of the New England Meat Packing Company and immediately sought sanctuary within the Yard, entering by the Johnston Gate near Harvard Hall...