Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...customary strategy is to stay close behind a rival he fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock set a slow...
Last year Pitcher Gomez married Dancer June O'Dea (Of Thee I Sing). They spend some time at Rodeo, where Gomez indulges in his hobby of hunting...