East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-24

Thus 1t is particularly adapted in To-
cation. setting. and understanding.
but perhaps pre-eminently in its
united effort to give full measure
and to eliminate graft. In fact, al
though sl.50O.OOO was spent by the
Roundup attendance and $4,000
cleared as profits, this epic play of
the west Is not money-making
scheme. for it is staged by a volun-
teer organization and pays neither
salaries nor dividends.
What is done with the profits?"
There is a man who. Ike many 9TH
ers in the throng, wears a red badge.
In it letters in gold read: ASK me,
I live here" He will tell you that
the profits go to the city of Pendle-
ton for the next years Roundup,
but principally for the making OF the
great city park which includes the
Roundup grounds; and the first ac-
ton of the association was TO deed
this park, free from membranes, TO
the city. Thus, the Roundup is es-
sentially a local institution, civic
possession, just as much as is the
school system or fire department, but
it is more than that: 1t belongs to
UmatiIla county and the whole state
| of Oregon, and has become part OF
the great American play book.
Follow the great crowd where II
| pours into the Roundup park and
| go milling with it to your seat in the
grandstand, within a few hundred
yards of the old oregon trail. Be-
fore you the broad quarter mile
track, defined from the center are
| ma by a low fence, lies empty and
| quiet. On either side the bleachers
are packed to the utmost. Across II,
behind a wire fence, a long phalanx
of cowboys and Indians sit their
! horses as spectators or as waiting
contestants. Beyond these, the pic
turesque tepees of the Umatillas
| snuggle in pyramids of white in the
shadow Of a soft green grove Of cot
tonwoods suffused in the haze of In
dian summer: and beyond, the low
| hills seem to meet turquoise SKY
J and drift lazily out to ranch ana
range. Near you the Portland band
and the Roundup band In the bleach
ers occupy the moments with well
rendered rags" and martial airs
while thirty thousand people eagerly
await things which one reads and
dreams about--the west stalking in
the flesh. To the minute at i y. IN.
on each of the three days these con-
tests for worlds championships be-
gan. and almost to the minute at five
they ended: Roping. racing and re-
lays by cowboys, Indians. and cow
girls; steer roping. maverick races
steer bulldogging; riding bucking
horses, steers, bulls. buffaloes and
cows; stage coach racing, Indian
ceremonial and war dances. trick RID
ing, mounted tug of war, the grand
parade, and that wonderful fnale'
the wild horse race-and to any one
not versed in the ways OF the open
west all OF this is as instructive as II
is entertaining.
Lassoing or rope throwing has It's
many styles, such as horse roping,
steer roping, calf roping, and fancy
roping, each an art in itself. 1t by
no means follows that good steer
roper Is good calf roper, and few
straight ropers do fancy roping.
Fancy and trick rope work was first
brought into the United states about
twenty years ago by Vincent Orepso.
a Mexican. Rope work such as
spinning and making fancy catches
may have originated through the play
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