Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Game was a well-pitched battle between 23-year-old Lon Warneke of the Cubs, who won more games (22) in his first big league season than any other National League pitcher, and 22-year-old Vernon ("Goofy") Gomez, tall, lean, left-handed Yankee, who comes from Rodeo, Calif. Chicago got one run in the first, the Yankees two. When his teammates had tied the score in the third, Warneke walked Ruth and let Gehrig single. Then, to fill the bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next...
...Goldsboro, one Gene Roberts, newshawk, promoted a Hoovercart Rodeo as a publicity stunt. Goldsboro entertained its biggest crowd since William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER...
...fame of Goldsboro's Hoovercart Rodeo spread. Rodeos and parades were held in Oxford (469 entries), in Roxboro, Kinston and Wendell. More & more Hoovercarts appeared on North Carolina roads, spread northward into Virginia. Last week the first one appeared on the streets of Danville (pop. 22,247). Virgilina, Va. organized a Hoovercart parade...
...never be another Bill. Both White and Black will mourn the day That the "Biggest Boss" took Bill away. "'Bill' Pickett was born about 1860; died April 2, 1932, from injuries received while roping a bronc on the 101 Ranch. He was the originator of that great rodeo sport, 'Bulldogging,' having been the first man to jump from his horse onto the head of a running steer. "This was written on the day of his death by one who had been his boss for 30 years. "-Z. T. MILLER" PAUL W. CRESS Perry, Okla...
Sirs: Issue April 18 Milestones mentions death of Bill (or "Nigger"-as he was always "billed") Pickett (am sure spelled with two t's). "Bulldogger" not "Bulldozer" is technical rodeo term {Continued on p. 50) {Continued from p. 6) for his act and those who these days throw steers-by horns. How necessity-danger-was responsible for Pickett's act is an interesting tale: It seems he vyas a "hand" on a Southwestern ranch, was helping load cattle, went into the car to "untangle" the load. Those starting the cattle into the loading chute...