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

fling gait which bespeaks the angry
steer. Fifty feet Is his start from a
mounted cowboy and his helper:
then on signal the pair ''hit the wind
at breakneck speed. The bulluogger
swings to the right and his helper to
the left for the helpers main purpose
is to keep the steer In the track.
The champion bulldogger win use
every effort to overtake his steer at
the outset, rather than tire him by
long run, The first phase Of the bat
Tie is 10 throw himself from his horse.
grasp the steer by the horns and
drag until the steer comes to a stop.
/ At Cheyenne the object is to force
the animals horns into tn ground;
thus man and steer turn complete
somersault- This has an unnecessary
element of danger-to some extent
for the steer, whose neck or horns
are not infreQuently broken. But
this "Hoolihaning" is not allowed at
Pendleton, where the rules favor the
steer.
In perfect turmoil of hoof, head.
and huddle, Runyan, the bulldogger,
dives from his saddle for steer. but
instead of landing on the steers head
he landed on his own. Visitors from
large cities and sedate centsrs OF
learning gasp. "Whoopi" goes the
cowboy and ranch contingent, go
set i'm steer" Hook i'm eew,"
while Runyan gamely picks himself
out of the dust, shakes some of 1t
out of his system, and waves a hand
as a signal that he is unhurt
There were many game fights put
up, for it was contest OF cham
pions, the best total time for the
three days winning. The first day
the steers had the best of it, not one
being thrown; and the second day
was nip and tuck; but Saturday the
cowboys came into their own. But
ii must be remembered that there
were no half-grown. underfed ami
mails in the Pendleton outfit, which
: were from the herd that had been
brought from Texas the year before
and had been roaming free on the
range with the best of feed: as fine
a lot of bignecked lpnghorns as one
, would wish 20 see.
Jack Joyce made a pretty catch,
finally wrestling with only a one
horn grip, whereupon the sharp -hoof-
ed brute proceeded to jump on him
with all four feet. Still the bulldog
ger held on. actually fighting now for
his life, until the steer dragged him
to the rail and there tried to gore
him. when the plucky cowboy finally
let go.
But it was VALLEY Padgett whose
time proclaimed him peer of all bull
doggers. Once around the track, he
sweeped down upon the longhorn be-
fore the grandstand: a short tussle.
and the animal fell amid a roar from
the audience.
bite i'm lip"'-this elimination OF
the contest promptly to do by lean
ing over and fastening his teeth into
the upper lip of the steer (henee ths
term bulldogging) and while main
tanning this hold raised his hands In
ute. 81 seconds after the steer had
been turned into the arena.
But the king sport of the buckaroc
is the bucking contests for the cham
pionship of the world. So. when the
restiye, furtiye cowponies aEe led GU
and the buckaroos troop across th'
arena and drop their saddlRs in from
of the judges stand, the crowd Is oil
edge with expectancy for mos
nerve Tightening event. You see a
glance that those big, raw-bone'
cowboys striding across the aren
with their saddles are real cowboy
who have ridden long hours in a
l sorts OF weather. Most Of them hav
mingled with desperate men, Their
Is one among them who unfortunate
" has time" to serye-they say
was cattle rustling-but he rides to
well to let a little thing ike that prs
vent him entering these contests. :
for a. few days he IS on parole.
There is no more important az
junct in cowboy ro1tine than the eov
horse. worth st5s today in the ope
market, horse which knows the a
!: of the game--how to ford, swim ar
avoid quicksands. dodge the traps
the prairie dog and gopher, to mo'
furtively in q prairie herd so as n
to stampede II, how to 'cut out" ar
: then to follow the quarry advanti
. geously in every turn, to withstar
the sudden shock of thetaunted lass
and finally to hold Il when Il
!: thrown steer Is to be tied. But b
. fore the cow-pony goes through th
schooling ne must, when about thr
or four years old, be brought wi
!. from the range, roped and mounte
: From this phase of ranch life bro
. cho busting has developed the spo
: Of riding particularly bad horses, al
: those ridden at the Pendleton Roun
up are as bad as they make the
whether they be "show buckei
; trained bucker," outlaw or "wi
: horse"
: A horse that bucks hard, straig
: away, with nose between front feet.
not necessarily a hard kind of buc
er for the expert to ride. Still
: looks well from the grandstand, a
in consequence is known as a "sfo'
: bucker.' but he Is never used as
mi-fihal A wild horse Is 0
: that has roamed the range and h
never before known the feel Of he
: stall or saddle. wild horse"
nine cases OUT Of ten puts up a II
Z and game fight, but may or may T
be difficult for the broncho bust
= The trained bucker Is in the midC