Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
WILD WEST SHOW
WINS VAST CROWD
Buffalo Bill at Head of Worlds
Rough Riders Thrills
10000 AngeIenos

Sixteen thousand persons packed the
seats surrounding the arena of Buff
falo Bills Wild West show at Wash
ington street and Vermont avenue last
night and yelled with glee when the
veteran scout and Snowman, at the
head of a battalion of cowboys,
charged a band of painted Indians as
they were closing about the Famous old
Deadwood stage coach and were bring
ing it to a halt in its wild ride about
the saWdust ring. When Cody killed
the chief and pulled him by the feet
behind the canvas flap even the young
sters dropped their bags of peanuts
and forgot to beg pa" and ma" to
buy more.
Sensation followed sensation and
held the vast throng in such rapt at
tention that the candy butchers"
gave up their jobs in disgustSand crept
down to the side of the arena to watch
the show for the hundreGth time them
selves.
The war whoop of the Sioux astride
his wiry mustang; the pistol shots of
the cowpunchers running down Paw
nee Bills buffalo; the weird chant OF
the Squaw as she lulled her brave TO
sleep beside his camp fire, and the
wild dances of the natives from the far
east caused the round shouldered clerk
to forget his figures and the staid man
of business his cares. Even mother
dismissed the high cost of living from
her thought and forgot to scold "the
boy for wiping his dusty boots on
the mans back who sat in front, and
the man with the crouch exclaimed,
"Gee, that's class"
MULE CAKE WALKS
An army mule cake-walked all over
the arena with q slender little Mex
ican glued to his back. Bucking bron-
cos waltzed and plunged and kicked
in vain endeaVors to unSeat the Amer
lean cowboys from their high pOmmeled
saddles, and the crowd strained its
neck to catch better view of the eX-
hibition.
Iue crowning feature of the show
was a football game on horseback be-
| tween a band Of Sioux led by their
chief, Iron Tail, grandson of Sit
ting Bull, who figured in the Custer
massacre, and a dozen cowboys. AS
the struggling horses and men pum-
meled the big ball about the ring and
victory swept first to the red men
and then to the white men, the vast
| throng cheered its favorites. The In
| dians, quick and agile, riding their
! the sphere near the goal, but the cow
| boys would not take defeat and by
sheer force of will beat back their OPP
ponents and drove the ball pell-mell
| across the line, unseating several of
the bucks" and overturning a horse.
In the thick Of the battle between
the Sioux and cowboys that ragged
around the big ball, unharmed by the
charge and countercharge or the tram
pie of horses hoofs, Chief Little Lone
Bear. 5 years old, great-grandson of
! Sitting Bull, the .red war man." rode
| his pony and stuck to his blanket like
a burr. His little face was smeared
with red and yellow war paint. The
feathers from the gaudy headdress
! that denoted his rank were somewhat
awry when he emerged from the tan
gle Of horses and men. The crowd
! cheered him as he loped gracefully
from the arena and in answer he gave
| treble and was swallowed up from view
| in a band of redskins.
| One of the drawing cards of the ex-
| hibition, the breaking of twenty-nine
little white balls out Of thirty thrown
| in the air by Johnny Baker champion
crack shot of America, was clouded by
reason of the fact that Bakers act
! took place during the performance Of
several hundred bowling Hindus and
natives of the far east. Baker was
lost sight Of in the crowd of perform
ers and only the splintering of the
white balls in the air told those who
watched their program closely that
Americas crack shot was doing his
turn.
OUT WEST CLUB PRESENT
Two hundred members of the Out
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