Word: rodeoing
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...Pickett's romantic technique was never very handy around the ranch, but it was sort of satisfying, and Pickett kept doing it at Wild West shows around the country. Word got around, others tried it, and a native American sport-bulldogging, or steer wrestling*-was born. When the rodeo finally caught on as a spectator sport in the 1930s, steer wrestling became one of its most spectacular and bone-crushing events...
Long Neck. No one bites steer lips any more, but last week, at the annual rodeo at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, one cowboy was far and away the foremost master of the rest of Pickett's technique. James ("Big Jim") Bynum, 38, three times (1954, 1958, 1961) world's champion bulldogger, has dominated the sport with his 250-lb., 6-ft. 4-in. frame for more than a decade. Up until the Pueblo go, Bynum had piled up $12,409 in steer-wrestling competition in 1963. With almost three months left before the National Finals Rodeo...
...smooth pattern of action is broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under...
...whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe: Dr. Pepper signs, juke joints, a greased-pig rodeo...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Rodeo in Las Vegas...