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Take Care. Making such breakneck gyrations look like doing what comes naturally has boosted Jim Shoulders, at 29, into the biggest-money-winning rodeo rider on record. Last year he was top bareback rider, top bull rider and top all-around cowboy for the second time, and he earned $43,381. This season, injuries have slowed him down. He may earn a little less money, but when the season ends this week in Harrisburg. Pa. he should be at the top of the lists once more in bareback bronc and bull riding...
Wear & Tear. Rodeo riding, Shoulders argues, is the roughest racket in sport. But it is not the physical danger that concerns him. "There is absolutely no money guarantee," he complains. "You've even got to furnish your own equipment, and you have to pay entry fees to compete. If you're hurt, you have to sort of scuffle around for yourself...
...accidents, Jim Shoulders has had to do precious little scuffling. Riding the suicide circuit from New York to California, hitting all the dusty little cow towns in between, he has come to know most of the rodeo stock well. Usually he knows which bronc will give him a good, fishtailing ride; which bull will come out of the chute bucking, or which will plunge several feet and then start spinning. Most of the time he knows the safest side for dismounting when the horn sounds the end of the ride...
Twenty-five million Americans attend rodeos each year to watch the sport most incapable of being fixed. There are now special convict, Negro, High-School, 4-H and Indian rodeos; there is even a National Inter-Collegiate Rodeo Association with 83 members. The Rodeo lobby has enough strength to pressure Congress into passing a bill authorizing a Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Despite the growing spectator quality of the sport, it continues to evoke strong loyalty. When I asked Jay T. if he would ever quit the rodeo, he replied, "Why no. It's mah profession."GALOOTS...
...Rodeo tromps the Boston Garden sable each night at eight, featuring the real and unreal of vaquerdom, paunch-sing Gene Autry, and pigtails-fringe-flap Annie Oakley...