Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-09
The Copper City Review News InternatlonaI,amercan Building.

head is freed. Pickett gave this exhi-
 bition twice yesterday on different steers. It was a revelation to all who had never seen 1t before.
 interesting Crowd.
 The tournament while most interest ing in itself was not any more inter esting than the crowd. It was a holi- day collection of people who left the city in carriages, hacks, buzz wag- ons," horseback and afoot. Hudnreds were admitted through the gates dur ing the afternoon. The grandstand was full and sitting room was at a premium on the bleachers. Unfortun- ately for the gate receipts a friendly freight train had lined up along the park and the box cars accommodated fully three or four hundred people.
 The ropEg exhibition and the crowd which attended 1t combined all the characteristics of a big eastern foot ball game, metropolitan baseball, horse racing and a bull fight. The crowds of boys and young men in out ing clothes lined up along the fence in front of the bleachers resembled a crowd along the lines at football con- test; the crowd itself in the grand stand cheered and jeered as do the fans at ball game: the bookmakers, offering pools on the ropers for first, place and show. their raucous an nouncements and the young men about the board taking bets and doping up the ropers, was very like a scene at race track. and the glamour of red bandannas, chaps, big hats and husky cowboys, combined with the sup pressed excitement attending the exit rom the corral of a steer and tb chase of a cowboy across the field, was not unlike the better features of bull fighting.
 But while the sport in some man. ner resembles all these it is finer, more manly, more virile and more ex- citing than all of them. More skill, more strength, more nerve and more is required in roping than in any of the sports popular in other parts Of the country. And the beauty of 1t is that il is not cruel. True, an old steer is thrown helter-skelter over himself and handled a little roughly, but il is just like it is done on the range and when he is united he is none the verse for his experience.
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 The crowd was interested and at times thrilled by the exhibition and this is especially true of the tender feet" Much could be written as side lights on the contest. There was genuine human interest in every second of the afternoon spent at the park while the roping was in progress. Whether it was the wild stampede of the crowd inside the inclosure as a sgrant steer headed in their direc- ton with a cowpuncher in close pur- suit-the women screaming with fear and the men very anxious over the sit it was a broncho be- ing busted" taking his leech-like rid CT through 8 panel in the fence and then to be lost in a cloud of dust as he dashed across the field, or whether it was the band playing or an exchange of repartee between a tenderfoot in the bleachers and a brown-skinned American of the Arizona range type, it was all the same-wonderfully in- teresting
 ar Miss MuIhaH- Here Today.
 Al the conclusion of the exhibition yesterday it was announced that Miss Lucille MulhaIl of Oklahoma, famed far and wide as a cowgirl, has chal- lenged any man or woman to compete with her in roping steers. It was an nounced that she will be at the park this afternoon and that if no one ac- cepts her challenge she will give an Miss Mulhall has an in ternational reputation. She comes of a long line of COW people, her father being the famous Zach Mulhall.
 The exhibition begins at about 2 o'clock. It is preceded by a parade.
 Up the Canyon, down the Canyon, heIn E TI get the franchise (Ahr l