Word: roper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five events (others: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts can do the whole...
Fighting in the 185 pound class, Eliot's Steve Crosby had lost the first two rounds to Steve Roper of Winthrop. With 45 seconds left in the last round, Crosby connected with a left hook to the nose, and followed up with a tremendous right to the chin that threw Roper back into the corner. Roper's guard fell, and Crosby buckled him up with another left and a right...
...this point, Referee Joe Zapustas of the Massachusetts State Boxing Commission called the fight. "Roper was weaving," he said. "One more punch really would have hurt...
...Roper's longer reach and height advantage enabled him to bloody Crosby's nose in the second round, but at the start of the third, Crosby realized that he was behind, and began to push Roper back. He finally maneuvered Roper into a corner and ended the fight...
Eliot's Dave Naplor and Dudley's Dave Massey pair off at 125, and hard-punching Steve Crosby of Eliot meets Winthrop's Steve Roper in the 135 pound class. Dave Hockman is uncontested at 135, giving Dudley an automatic five points. Withrop's John Peterson and Leverett's Steve Sohn will vie for the heavyweight championship...