Arizona republican., 1901-12-26
COWBOY TOURNAMENT
Result of the First Days Sport at
Phoenix Park.

The largest crowd that ever wit :
messed an event at Phoenix park
gathered yesterday afternoon to see the
steer tying and broncho riding exhi-
bition composing the first days enter
tainment of Jack Gibson's tournament
Carriages were hitched to every avail
able tree and post all around the park
enclosure, and the east-bound street
cars were crowded from early after
noon till o'clock and from that time
on till night standing room was at a
premium on the west-bound cars. AT
the park entrance there were bicycles
in countless numbers piled up against
the natatorium building and if some
were not lost or stolen it was because.
Phoenix people are all scrupulouslS
honest-or were yesterday
Within the park was crowd that
looked like old fashioned county
fair. The grand stand was packed to
its fullest capacity. the fence from one
end of the park to the other was care
fully held up by hundreds OF sturdy
men, boys and ladies, and the fences
on the south side and ends of the en-
closure were fringed with the festive
Phoenix kid engaged in that most de-
lightful of occupations, ''rubberneck-
was a short fence running out into the
arena and these. like all the others,
were laden with a human fruitage-
The fence at the west end Of the
grounds gave way in one place in the
middle of the afternoon and a boy by
the name of Homer Rambo was pre-
cipitated to the ground and very Sc
verely, though not dangerously. injured
by a board falling on him. One of his
legs was badly gashed and bruised and
it was thought at first that his leg was
broken. but such did not prove to he
the case. He was carried out to the
grass plat surrounding the theater
building and given the necessary at
tention. That was the only thing OF
a serious nature that happened, except
to a steer. that had a leg broken, there
by saving himself from some hard falls.
The steer tying exhibition was good
one and showed well the fortunes Of
the range. The cowboy, like everyone
else, sometimes meets with disappoint-
ment when he wants to show off, and
even a cowboys pride must have IA
fail once in a while. Charlie Davis was
the one to suffer yesterday. He hap
pened to get a steer that refused to
stay thrown long enough for anybody
to tie him. He was rather small ami
NAL, but as active as cat. Mr.
Davis roped him all right and threw
him repeatedly, but somehow he failed
to knock the wind out of him and Mr..
Steer was up again before Davis could
get to him. After a number of heavy
falls the steer got onto his job and in
stead of keeping his head in one direc-
ton so Davis could ride round him
and give him the grand fall. he turned
pivot like with the rider and refused to
be tripped. But Davis worked hard AMI
landed him in seven minutes and thir-
ty-three seconds. Tt wasn't much of
record. but it is likely that with the
same steer others would have had no
better luck.
The quickest time made was z3- Sec
onds by Joe Bassett. though two others
were rot far behind him. The record
FOR the day stands as follows:
Wayne Davis, l minute. 5112 seconds.
George Sears, IS seconds.
Joe Bassett. 49, seconds.
Ed Horrell. Sc seconds.
Walter Cline, / minute. 15 seconds.
Charles Davis, minutes, SO seconds.
Logan Morris. minutes. Is seconds.
Bob Harper. 1 minute, Az seconds
Oscar Roberts 3 minutes. 3 seconds.
Tex Wilkinson, l minute. "a seconds
Inc brOncho rldlng was equally as IN
teresting and showed the knights of
the range in combat with the cow pony.
which must be conquered before the
real work with the steers begins.
There were but four entries yesterday
Joe Binckley. Tex Wilkinson. Joe Bas-
sett and William Riley. The sport was
very entertaining Throughout and par
ticularly to those for whom that sort
OF a. demonstration was a novelty.
Today there will be more of the same
kind of sport, beginning at p. M In
today's steer tying contest the men
who worked yesterday viii today throw
a steer each. The time of each man
for the two steers will be added to-
gether and the three highest viii be
given a chance to test their skill with
each other on four more steers to he
turned loose. the man tying his animal
and getting to the odd one first get
ting a ten-dollar purse in addition to
the regular prizes.