The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23

A rope was thrown on a quiet-IookluE
bay pony. and he was led out for WIlfe's
benefit Willie begged for his spurs. bur
Lasater was firm and said the PONY had
10 be ridden without spurs OF not Al AN.
so Willie pulled OF his coat. threw of his
SnSpenders, took Ciuch In his belt and
crawied on him. and Slapped him across
the face with his hat. The pony was in
no wise slow with his part OF the pro-
eramme, but proceeded TO business at
once. and pitched for about nifty yards
about so revolutions 20 the minute. and
then started TO run. This brought a
Whoop OF derision from the crowd, with
remarks such ass
why, 1 can ride him bareback"
Take the bride on"
That horse don't know how TO pitch"
and so on.
Gimme my spurs. and I'll make him
PITCH Con shouted back He was given
his spurs. and he tried 10 make the horse
pitch, but was only partially successful.
Drury Grogau of Fort Griffin. Shackel-
ford county. was the next bronx buster"
His bronx was a skittish little sorrel
OF the Heart l." brand, who had thrown
every body who had ever tackled him. The
sorrel pitched with saddle when IL was
cinched. IT was against the rules to al
low the "bronks' 10 pitch with saddle
but the sorrel didn't mind the rules He
was kicking and plunging when Grogan
climbed on him, and he did some very
hard bucking, and scattered the crowd
near the grand stand. much TO the sat
lstacuon or 'Jo' Dickson. who had been
talking his lungs out trying TO keep them
back. GrOgan rode him successfully, and
was heartily Cheered
Emilne Gardenhire Of the Tip ranch. In
Archer county. was the next rider. He se-
looted what was said to be the worst horse
in the pen. 1t was a blood-bay from the
F1z d. 4 rr1F a In. IA.
Montana Blizzard" The Blizzard" was
fairly peaceable while being saddled. and
seemed to known what was coming. He
has been OUtlawed for some time. and
would be worth 500 if anybody could ham
die him.
Emiline crawled on him with a rawhide
riding whip in his hand He took off his
hat and slapped the blizzard" over the
head, and for a few minutes there was the
widest mix up of pitching horse and cow
boy imaginable Gardenhire rode with his
hands free and piled the whip over the
horses hips and shoulders. Blizzard"
buckcd and paved and jumped from side
TO side, but Gardenhire never moved out
of his saddle and seemed to maintain his
seat with perfect ease. After about fif-
teen minutes mingled bucking. side jump
ing, and running. Blizzard" succumbed,
and Gardenhire galloped around the cir
Gle swinging his hat with everybody in
the crowd cheering him.
GoT here insisted that he be given a
horse that would pitch and be allowed an
other trial. Lasater told him 10 get a gray
did There were yellow marks on the grays
neck that looked suspiciously IKE collar
marks. The saddle was cinched and Cor
mounted. The old gray started off I'm
long lOpe. When he was turned loose the
lariat did not fall clear, but tangled In
a. - ne aHa.N FHfaHH
somewhat, but 1t finally fell and the gray
scooted across the prairie in an easy lope
amid yells of "Old plowhorsei" The chill
dren ride him.
But the gray suddenly seemed to re-
alize that he was being ridden. and
jumped high enough TO go over ten
barred gate and ,camc down with his
feet in a bunch. lie had commenced
pitching The third buck Gon lost his
seat, and four feet OF daylight showed
between him and the saddle. 1t was a
clean throw, but Goff took his rope with
him and lit on his feet, and was back
on the horse as quick as a fash. The
old gray seemed to think his contract
was performed, and refused TO pitch any
more. Goff rode down to the grand stand
and asked for his spurs.
Iasater said mo" that the gray was
a pillow horse, that belonged TO "old man
Kenyon" and he wouldn't allow him 20
be cut up with spurs.
This ended the bronx busting" and
the prize, a suit Of clothes. was awarded
to Gardenshire.
The steer roping was next The steers
had been loaded into a cattle car and
brought up from the cattle pens. They
we're also outlaws" and were so bad
that nobody cared to have anything to
do with them-all big fellows, that would
weigh from !. 400 to 100 pounds. 10
nj. i ~. ft-af
In the country. and had been ''gnatted"
for a couple of days so they could run.
And they did run.
The roping created more interest than
any other feature of the reunion. The
box car the steers were In was covered
with people getting a look at the steers,
sizing them up Those who were going
into the roping contest busted them
selves in looking at their saddles and
testing their ropes. Their method of
testing a rope was quite a show within
itself man would take each end OF
a rope and tie it around the horn Of his
saddle and then ride away and let the
ponies pull on it.
The ponies entered fully into the spirit
Of the thing. and would tug and sit back
on their launches until the rope was
stretched like a fiddle string
AS Gardenhlre had won I'm the riding
contest, he was given the first go. A big
specklcd steer, with hOrnS -FOUR teet
across, was run out. Gardenhire threw
such a big loop that the steer ran through
it, He missed his second throw, but
caught his third, the steer in the mean
time having ran nearly a mile He
brought him down, turning him end over
end. and tied him in three minutes and
thirty-seven seconds.
Ross Sloan OF Seymour took the next,
a big, vicious looking red steer He
caught over the horns the first throw
and downed and tied his steer in $40.
bud" Smith of Haskell got big black
steer that ran like a jack rabbit. He
caught and downed his steer in 1913.
"Gus" Lyles missed two throws at a
plebald steer, but downed him in $780,
"BiH" McLaren Of Seymour got a red
steer with horns as wide as gate. His
time was 200.
Dave Harris got a big plebald steer
that was old at the business. He threw
him end over end the first jerk, but the
steer was on his feet the next second, and
he tripped him twice more before he got
him down effectually. Then his horse
jerked the horn off the saddle and depart
ed in the direction OF Mexico. Dave"
got the steer tied In 4:l0, and had his sad
die rebuilt next day.
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