Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-07-06
LARGE CROWDS COME IN ON
SPECIAL TRAINS AND FROM
ALL POINTS
City Beautifully Decorated, Sports all
good, and Day Declared To Be
One of Entire SUCCESSIVE acci-
dents Occur.

people from all parts of Southern
Idaho. The weather was ideal and
The conditions perfect for grand
celebration. Many people came to the
city on Monday and the special trains
from Gooding brought a large num-
her as well as the regular IA from
the west Mountain Home entertain
ed the largest number of people that
has been within her borders in a
long number of years.
The Nampa band came on IA and
consisted of l 5 pieces, under the able
direction of Prof. l. f. Stewart. They
dispensed sweet music in various
parts of the town during the day and
q concert in the park in the evening.
The exercises in the park at 1890
we're listened to with interest and
greatly enjoyed The bnnd Pill ed
several selections, a mixed choir of
voices rendered two numbers when
Mayor Ticknor. in his pleasing man
Der, extended a cordial welcome to
all visitors to enjoy the city's hos
pitality and entertainment and clos
cd by introducing the speaker for
The day. Judge Carl A. Davis. Judge
Davis delivered an oration on Good
listened to with close attention.
The first event in the afternoon
was the ball game between Gooding
and Mountain Home. The game was
close. The teams were evenly match
ed and as a result the score stood
6 to 3 in favor of the local team.
Both teams played loose ball in the
opening, but soon closed down and
CT, 10 ho
Several errors marred the pleasure
OF the game. but otherwise the game
was good and everyone well salts
fed with the decisions and results.
excoDting the Gooding fans.
The races on the streets followed
the ball game and resulted as fol-
lows:
In the potato race on saddle hors-
es Geo. MCGOWAN 1st, on Spokane;
Dick Everett 2nd on Keeno and
Fred. Jackson 3rd on Brownie.
Free for all quarter mile DASH
Prank Lockman. Little Buck 1st;
nick Everett. Keeno. 2nd; Ralph
Reynolds on Harry Gorrips Bay Mug
gett. In this race Ralph REYNOLDS
had the misfortune to have his sad
ale turn. but managed to stay with
his horse and rode a close second.
il is held that barring this accident,
he would have won first money. His
excellent riding under the circum-
stances was highly complimented on
all sides.
The 300 yard dash turn a stake
and return was won as follows: Dick
Everett, on Axes Keeno, 1st; Frank
LOckman on Big Pete a close second
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third.
The bucRing contest was next and
attracted a great deal of attention
and interest. This event proved a good
one and developed excellent riders
among the Elmore county bucaroos.
There were four outlaw horses for
nhis contest and the four riders drew
Tor horses. Dick Everett drew Sor-
rel Baldy: Billy Smith, Sorry SAM
Gerard Wiseman. Jackson's Sorrel
Top and Geo. MCGOWAN, Slippery
Jim. Dick Everett on Sorrel Badly
made a good ride. The horse made a
good fight but was easily mastered
bv his rider. Next Billy Smith tack
led Sorry Sam, one of the worst
horses in the bunch. After riding
him around the square. with
al every step, the herder was inter
ferred with and the horse allowed
10 plunge into high woven wire
fence. Rider and horse fell. but the
horse regained his feet and the rider
was assisted to a seat where he soon
recovered from the fall. Gerard Wise
man was next man up and had Jack
sons Sorrel Top to ride This horse
proved to be the best performer in
the bunch. No sooner had Wiseman
gated him in the fianks than the
horse gave as fine an exhibition Of
Hhe real thing as one seldom sees
these days. The way that horse rear
ed. plunged and carved the air was
a caution. He performed like a horse
trained to the business and in love
with the meanness il was capable of
developing. He took his rider mer-
w chase but could not unseat him
from the saddle. After a struggle
lasting several minutes the horse
gave up and the crowd cheered Wise
man who had ridden him to a fraz-
zle. Geo. MCGOWAN a local rider was
next on with Slippery Jim for vic
tim This is a good horse and has
given a good account of himself in
the past. but on this day he refused
10 do business. Geo. whipped him and
put the spurs to him, but the horse
did little more than plunge and run.
Geo. rode him to a nicely but could
not give anything like a good exhib-
ition of his ability to stay with the
bad ones. This is greatly regretted
by many who were anxious to see
Geo. go a line in the bucking horse
business. The contest was decided in
favor of Gerard Wiseman. although
all the boys rode their horses straight
M and rode them to the entire sat
isfaction of the crowd present. The
contest was good and good feeling