The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-12-17
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"Rough and ready and hard to please
Never curried below the knees,
I'm the wild wolf from Alkali Flat
And it's my night to howl"
Wild West Day at the baseball par
yesterday afternoon was enjoyed D,
everyone except the steers, while evel
they had their little season Of fun a
they fooled the pick Of the cowboys
Hawaii sent out against them. Fort.
dashing COW punchers rode and roped
sombreros tapped about the ears o.
maddened bucking bronchos as the.
plunged and writhed TO rid themselve!
of the impertinent bipeds who essay
ed to ride them: astonished calves fell
themselves seized upon by hilarious
creatures with hairy chaps, giving
themselves UP to be butchered to make
a Honolulu holiday, and greasy pislets
played the football in a grand scrim-
mage of two score grasping boys.
Despite the rainy weather and the
fact that the muchly heralded cham
MON roper of the world, Angus NC
Phee. did not arrive in time to enter
the contests, the attendance at the
grounds was good, the grandstand and
bleachers being well-filled, while IL is
expected that an even better attend
ance will be out this afternoon tc wit
ness the conclusion of the roping and
broncho busting contests and the hold
up of the stage by the Indians. NC
Phee will be himself also and will ex-
hibit his skill as a roper.
The roping yesterday would have
been much better had the steers not
been rope wise. These animals have
evidently been up against the game
often enough to know what to do when
the rope falls and cowboy after cow
boy circled the critters trying to throw
them while the animal pivoted with his
head to the galloping horse and won
out on time allowance. Out Of the
fifteen who chased the nimble steers
about the diamond and whirled the
lariat only six succeeded in downing
and tying their animals within the two
minutes allowed, some of the contest
ants failing even in roping their steers.
The best time was made by Maikai
Keliilike, of Kahoolawe, who was two
seconds over the minute.
Unfortunately the program yester-
accident, Charles Lucas Jr. being rem
dered unconcious through his horse
falling on him in the potato race and
Johnny Winters, the Wyoming rough
rider, going down under his horse in the
wild horse race. Neither Of the riders
were seriously hurt, however, Lrcas
being taken to the hospital, where he
came around within short time, and
Winters being able to limp off after
his steed had been pried off his leg.
1t was feared at first that Lucas was
badly injured.
Very wisely the management had ar
ranged for the attendance of a number
of the boys from the Red Cross corps
of the National Guard to give quick
aid in case of accident, and the Board
of Health ambulance, in charge Of D.
p Lawrence, was kept on hand
throughout the day. Both the ambu-
lance corps and the Red Cross detach-
ment did good work. The latter. under
the command of Quartermaster Serg-
cant Barry, were out with their
stretcher just as soon as it could be !,
seen that an accident had happened, |
carrying the unconscious form of |
Lucas to the ambulance and being |
ready to do the same for Winters had |
1t been necessary. |
THE ROUNDUP.
The opening feature of the equestrian |
carnival was the grand roundup of the |
cattle, the forty-five head of stock be- !
ing loose in the field prior to the COM
mencement of events. Gathering these |
and herding them to the corral was
done by about forty punchers, includ-
ing nearly all the well known herds
men and riders of the Territory, who |
circled the stock and drove them into |
the enclosure provided outside the ma
kai Waikiki corner of the field. The |
sight of so many expert riders, splen-
didly mounted as the majority were,
was decidedly interesting and worthy |
first number. The number present,
however, proved to be too many after
wards, there being so many riding
around during the contests that 1t
spoiled the effect to a great extent. 1t |
seemed rather unnecessary to throw
more than half a dozen ropes on any
steer to drag him back to the corral,
while it would have been better still
If the animal had been quietly driven
instead of dragged. In the broncho /
riding and roping there were too many
riders butting in and there was rather
an overdose of aimless dashes back
and forth across the diamond.
The potato race, as curtain raiser,
proved to be good, being won by a
team captained by Sam Chillingworth.
His riders were Eddie Holt, W. Davis
and iKeahua. It was as the result of
a collision in this race that Lucas, one
of the riders, was hurt. his horse go
Ing down and apparently rolling right
over him. The N. G. H. stretcher bear
ers were on the spot within few Sec
onds and had the injured man carried
to the ambulance, in which he was
hurried to the hospital
GOOD BUCKING CONTESTS.
The broncho busting contest was
good, each of the three riders proving
TO be experts and the same can be said /
of the horses, who did everything the
widest mustang could be expected to
do but squeal. In this contest Johnny
Winters, the imported expert, made
his bow to the crowd. His riding was
finished and he extracted the last jump
out of his mount, holding his seat with
the greatest ease in spite Of the best
the pony could do to throw him. The
horse he rode bears the very appro-
pirate name Of O'Hell. 4
In the estimation of the crowd the
I,act r;dinr mos dona nv Ka1ua ahine Of