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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...
...time: 10.6 sec., a new arena record that earned him $318.85, for the event and boosted his 1965 earnings to $29,431. That was enough to assure him the R.C.A. championship saddle and buckle-at last defeating Dean Oliver. It was, in fact, more money than any other roper in history had won in a single season...
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...