Arizona republican., 1904-07-05
COWBOY TOURNAMENT
Enormous Crowd, Good Sport and ;
 Tie for First Money.

The cowboy tournament at Eastlake | park yesterday under the management
 of Jack Gibson was the most largely at tended exhibition of that kind that was ever pulled off in Arizona. The crowd packed the grand stand and lined up
 three deep along the fence from one end
 of the tournament grounds to the other. It is estimated that 2,OOO people passed the gate, though a good many of them were children admitted free.
 The sport was good though the steer tying records were disappointing. The prize winners made good time bu. others fell back among the minutes and made the programme move slowly. Jim Gibson and. Frank Burris O. Cave Creek each tied their steer in 43 sec- onds and Chris Cline of Tonto Basin in 5S seconds. Gibson and Burris
 punched the fiftydollars frs and thirty dollars second money, then divided it. Cline got twenty dollars.
 It was an odd incident that Gibson opened the tying ard Burris was the l Hast man to tie. Following is the list of contestants and the time they made: Jim Gibson. Cave Creek, 43; Frank Burris. Cave Creek, 43; Chris Cline, Tonto Basin, 5S: Lon Lancaster, Rio Verde, 1:O2; Walter Harrington. Buck eye. 1:OS; Jno. Roberts, Buckeye, I1:O9 1-2; Hank Cline. Tonto, 1:10; J. C.. ! Wright, Buckeye, 1:25; Jack Neville. Texas, 1:25; Bud Burns, Gibson's Ranch. 1:25 1-2; J. w. Collins Buck eye, 1:31;. H. V. Roser5erger, Tempe. 2:05: w. P. Card. Phoenix, 2:11: | Wayne Davis. no time: T. AlvaradO. Sonora, no time; Geo. Hagga"d, Buck
 eye, no time; Ollie Dumas. Buckeye, no time; oscar Roberts, Phoenix, no time. | The unexpected as usual happened
 to various of the contestants. T Al varado had a narrow escape but as he | came out of it unharmed 1t was re- i cognized as q humorous incident. The | first time he threw his rope he missed entirely. The second time he caugh. | a long horn but the rope slipped off. | The third try was d fine catch but when
 the animal was thrown the saddle cinch broke and the rOre. around the horn of the saddle brought saddle, rider and all 1 to the ground with a sUddenness that made people catch their breath. The steer went one way and the horse. bare except for a bride, went another. Oscar Roberts who can nearly al
 ways be depended on for fine exhibi-
 tion also had bad luck. He made two
 or three efforts before he got his beef and after he tied the brute it got up Iagain. He hung on by the tail till he
 tired the steer out and it hrllly laid
 down.
 Various other rOpeTs, known to be good men also met with similar luck.
 The broncho riding exhibition was participated in by II. E. Rosenberger
 Frank Burris of Ca-e Creek They
 gave a good show and the honors O: the
 day were awarded to Rosenberger.
 The next event of particular interest
 was the greased pig races. The two
 pigs were furnished by L. NJ. Hoghe
 who offered d prize of $2.5O each to
 the two boys who caught them and held
 on to them. Phil Re:ber caught one
 of the pigs and Eddie O'Connor the
 other. When il was learned that Rei- Der has been working for Hoghe at his
 ranch he was accused of having prac
 ticed up with the pig so he could un- derstand his curves. The flag pick ing was omitted as was the cowboy dance, on account of the lateness of the hour
 MT. Gibson desires to acknowledge his thanks to all who participated in making the tournament a success and especially to Hon. l. T. Stoddard. Paul Kruger, Vernon L. Clarke and Perry Sears, who attended as time keepers and announcers.