Arizona republican., 1900-12-12
SPORTS AT THE TRACK
Wild West Scenes and Races Amuse
 Carnival Visitors.

The man who was attracted to the Phoenix carnival by the premises of the wild west portion of the programme and the sportive features, was given his first entertainment yesterday. The morning and the afternoon were de- voted entirely to the races and the cow boy sports, and the whole combined to make up a series of attractions which were marked by a variety of excite ment. A short time before noon the vaquerOs and Indians made a dash through the streets to the music of a fusilaGe of pistol shots.
 At ? o'clock in the afternoon. the pro- gramme at the driving park began, and two thousand people watched with intense interest the achievements of the brOncO-busters, cheered the winners in to hotly contested running races, and then witnessed one of the best car nival scenes, as a band of redskinned warriors chased a stage coach around the track, amid vOllays of shots from revolvers and rifles, and were finally driven away before the fire of a bunch of rescUing COw-punchers. The stage coach scene was the last on the pro- gramme and to a large number of the spectators it was the most Interesting. It was a typical picture Of an act in the early life of the frontier. The an Cilnt stage. one that saw many years of service thirty years ago, recalled to the early settler the times when to make a stage trip was to take ones life in ones hand and to chance a meeting with the ever-hostile Apache Old Bill Allrich, who handled the reins of the double team, served to enhance the realistic cOloring. In the youth of Ar izona, Bill Aldrich was noted figure, and in the stage coach days, he saw many a brush with the bloody reds. The stage made the circuit of the track, the two passengers armed to the teeth. When oposite the grand stand, the Indian band came, forbidding and hideOus in their war paint, and bran dishing guns and bows. save chase to the stage. A volley from the reds, as, with blood-curd.ing whoops, the began the chase. set Aldrich and his outfit in quick action. His long whip whirled out over the Hanks of his horses, and doubling half over, he gave them the reins. Again and again he piled his whip and his four settled into a dead run. the stage whiriinS around the bend and into the stretch. Tn the meantime passengers were rot inactive. Their guns and revolvers were in con stant action, but the redskins were gaining. Lashing their ponies to their top speed, the Indians closed in on the stage. firing volley after vollcy. when with a chorus of yells, the rescucrs dashed around the track Better mounted than the Indians. the va queros gained rapidly. With Jack GiD- son in the lead, they bore down on the warrior band, their revolveys pouring a constant voiley after the reds. For an instant the Indians hesitated. and then, between two fires. scattered in retreat. For a short distance the cow punchers chased them and ostensibly turned the retreat into a slaughter, while the old coach hurried on to safety.
 BRONCHO BUSTING.
 The broncho-bustinG exhibition was another feature of a character which held out the idea of wild-west realism. There were three contestants, and