East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-10

succession and without any delays
He starts and stops all events. He
must ride from paddock to judges
stand. from track to arena to see that
all is in readiness for each event and
ne must accomplish it all in a hurry
But without the cooperation of the
others he could do nothing. While
it rests with him to pull the events
off, it rests with the others to Get
their stuff in readiness to take the
tack the moment tine time arrives.
The livestock director must have
his steers at the gate waiting for the
signal to turn them in for the steer
roping ,bull-dogging or maverick
race, He and his assistants must |
have those bucking bhonchoes halter ,
ed and ready to take the arena at
moments notice and this is mans
job in itself During the first two
years of the Roundup, I. D. Taylor,
now president, had this work in
charge last year James H. Sturgis
was livestock director and this year
sam X. Thompson is the master of
the barns and paddocks.
At the paddocks too must be the
director who has the performers in
charge for the first two years Fred
erick Steiwer and for the last two,
Henry w. Collins. To him is given
the task of keeping the cowboys and
cowgirls rounded up and ready to
take the field when they are called.
No event awaits for any man. If he
is not ready the event goes on without
him. but very few have ever been left
out because OF failure to put in an
appearance, for the cowboy knows the
rules and the order of events
Indians Are Ready.
Roy T. Bishop is the director on
whose shoulders rests the delicate and
difficult duty of arranging the Indian
part of the celebration. The nature
of the redman makes him hard to
handle but Bishop has won the con-
fidence of the Umatillas, the Cayuses
and the Walla Wallas and they are
ready to do his bidding. Hence, the
exhibition manager is not made to
wait when the time for an Indian race
or war dance arrives.
Every day of the exhibition there
Is parade in addition to the great
Westward Ho parade of Saturday
morning, and the parade manager
must be on the job with considerable
activity to line up several hundred
cowboys. cowgirls and Indians and
have them in readiness to make their
mounted march at the appointed time
But so we'll have Paul Sperry and Fred
Earle and their helpers performed
their duties that not once has the pa
rade been late in starting
Exercising a careful supervision
over the whole acting as an assist
ant to whatever director needs him,
filling such breaches as arise and at
tending to all matters that come up
unexpectedly is the president of the
association. for the first two years, j
Roy Raley and for the past two, T.
d Taylor. So the statement that the
Roundup is not one man show is
quite apparent and the why and the
wherefore Of the smoothness of the
performance is readily understood.
No Time Lost.
To show better just how rapidly
each exhibition is pulled off and just
how little time is lost the records Of
the time OF the different events OF
the 1918 Roundup. as kept by Mark
Moorhouse, exhibition manager, are
published here. So well was the show
kept in hand each dag that the time
of starting each event varied but
few minutes on each of the three
days Because of more entries on one
day than another. some event would
require more than its allotted time,
but this time was always made up at
some point so that the exhibition end
ed not five minutes apart each day.
On Thursday the wild horse race end
ed at $40 and on Friday and Satur-
day at sos.
Probably the most remarkable time
made at any Roundup was In the
bucking contest OF the second day last
year Eighteen horses were saddled
and mounted in "a minutes and no
two of them were bucking at the
same time.
The Records.
The following records show the