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...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 every year, takes in $8,000,000, the World Series Rodeo offers $40,000 in prizes, annually awards "world...
...knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like...
While baseball attendance has fallen off in the last five years, rodeo's has tripled since 1928. A good rodeo performer makes $12,000 a year; the best, more. Possibly the most dangerous sport in the world, it supports 250 performers a year, of whom many graduate to other professions. Onetime performers at Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose...
...have to raise 'em," angrily declared U. S. Rodeoist Tex Austin as he docked in Manhattan. He estimated that he had lost $200,000 on his show in London because the British Royal S.P.C.A. had him arrested for "terrifying" a steer, because fox-hunting Britons had boycotted his "refined rodeo...