The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-07

event. When the COW punehers drove these
fellows into The arena and they wee rop-
a. thrown down and saddled amid
-9ofps Of excited yeils and encourage
rneutE. ~ was Brit GTuwell again. win
MS wooden leg. WHO was the FIRST TO mount,
leaping up and sitting lady fashion, with
his apparently useless limb hooked v-se-
ike around the pommel, and there he STAY
Cd, ImmOva be, Whi.e The Eild-eyed beast
snort6d and caVorteI around the corral.
There are not many who We're in that con-
course but will remember Tie unique pic
ture OF a onxtlegzrd vaquero percned
upon mad beast hardly held by three
strong larists.
David Britton Gruweu was born on
ranch in Alameda, Cal, twenty-nine years
ago, out for the greater part Of his life
his home has been in East san Jose.
where his proves has won MIN the place
Of demi-gOd Ia the eyes Of his towns
men. Horses were bis passion from his
birth fact thar the elder Gruwen was
quick 10 perceive, and, fearing that harm
would come 70 the boy on account of his
lhbfmity, he strictly forbade his mount
ing ony Of the Wild horses on the ranch,
80 at hrst his chances were few for fOs-
tering his dearest wishes.
HIS inborn spirit was not to be dOwne6
50 cneaply, however and boy Ike the
enid promptly cousoled himself by break
ing the calves for riding purposes, and by
OF his fathers frisky young mich kline
trained TO drive its comrades 10 and from
the pasture, but that soon grew TO be a
tame sport, and whenever his fathers
back was turned the youngster would
make shift to mount the snrrel mare
known throughout the he.ghborhood for
qualities the reverse OF anna Die This
stalwart beast bucked him off a dozen
times day regularly keeping him black
and blue from head TO foot most of the
time, but he learned some tricks from the
animal that served him in good stead in
later days.
When he was l6 Brit GruweWs hour of
parental opposition was over He had prov
ed his ability 10 ride everything availa-
bie, ana entered upon his chosen oc cupa-
lion as professional Few men won
dare do what that one-l gged boy accom-
piShcd when he mounted a horse that had
never had bride on at Back mounta n
and rode twenty-five miles to San Jose, in
The dead Oh night, over one of the rough
est trails in The country After all the
thrilling scenes he has since gone through
North ana South, he goes back TO this, and
tells of that wild ride ns 4 he felt that il
was the most hair-ra.sing venture of his
lie,
I'VE knocked about a good dear since
those days" ne says You see when Ari-
iona Charles Wild West show came 10
San jose ! get into 1t somehow. It was out
Of The common run for One-legged fellows
TO Tide as l do. and I've had a good many
offers from first to last Some of them
ia take up with for while and then get
sick of the outfits.
I'D won some prizes by that time in
well known combinations but when 1 rode
the big Belgrade bull at WaHa Walla,
Wash, a eritter no other man could come
rear, 1t put my name up for good and all.
l have ridden 300 outlawed horses and not
one of them ever got me down.
There was a Ioan nag in Spokane l
shant forget soon. Neither win two thou
sand citizens who saw the fun. 1t took
three men 10 hold him down blndfolded
while We saddled him, and when l got OHIO
his back he hawled aud squealed and act
ed more like tiger than horse. Wen, if
he didn't do some bucking in that ring!
He gave a performance that wasn't on the
programme. Two-thirds of those people
got out, because about half the seats We're
smashed to kindling wood under that
brutes hoofs.
did you know there's going to be one
of the largest tournaments ever held at ST.
Louis next month";" he went on, warning
up to his prospects, Twenty thousand
dollars in prizes. I'm going to take a run
over that way about that time"