East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-12

Der or ropers the Roundup has this
year purchased two additional car
loads OF Texas longhorns. No place
or event Of this kind in the world
has ever been able to boast Of so
many toD-notch ropers. This event
alone with these people contestins
will be thing OF worldwide promi-
nence.
For the cowgirls' bucking contest
there will be practically all the IA
nous cowgirl riders of the west, am
ong them will be: Mrs. Happy Jack
Hawn, who won last years title;
Bertha Blancett, who won second last
year; Dorothy Morrell, who won first
place at Cheyenne this year; Hazel
Walker, Minnie Thompson, Blanche
McGaughey; Lois Thompson, Lola
Beach, Prairie Rose Henderson, Ber-
tina Dukes, Annie Gillies, Amy STAN
ton, Edna Lindsay. Dolly Mullins,
Alstine Parker, Hazel Warren and
last but not least, Tillie Baldwin, who
Is always ready TO defend her title or
cowgirl slick rider champion. These
girls come from all parts of the
world, some OF them old Roundup
favorites and some of them strangers
to this section of the country, but
they are all riders with regulations
and will be I'm the contest each day
of the show. In addition there are
many yet TO enter AMI 1t is expected
there Will be not less than rs cow
girls fighting for the championship
In this one event.
The relay races, the two classics
OF the Roundup which have been
properly termed the aria of the grand
opera Of the west, will be such races
as were never seen before on any from
tier exhibition track. In these events
the riders more than the horses tell
the tale. The ability to keep ones
head and make time In the changes
when thirty thousand people are yell
ing at you from the grandstand and
bleachers is the thing that counts.
In the cowboys relay some of the
riders will be Braden Gerking, Roy
Kelly, SLEEPY" Armstrong ami Dell
Blancett. all we'll known to the
Roundup. Some OF the new riders
will be Knapp of Elma. Mont, and
Lynch OF Spokane. And there are
still more strings coming with relay
riders.
The cowgirls' relay race will be a
race TO delight kings With Bertha
Blancett. Tillie Baldwin, Vera Nc
GIMME. Louis Thompson, Lila Smith,
Ruth Parton and Mrs. ]. A. Barton
already entered with strings and
more to come the race will be a thrill
er and a classic of classics. The con-
jitions have been set back to the old
style this year, the girls must change
saddles. That is the big thing in the
relay races and these riders have rep.
utations in the changing of saddles
1t now looks as if there would be as
many as ten strings entered with ter
cowgirls riding. Nothing as big and
good as this has ever been offered the
public before.
These are only instances to show
the bigness of some OF the regular
Roundup events. They will all b,
just as big in proportion. The cow
boys bucking contest for the world!
championship does not fill so Ions
before the opening day The entries
for this one big event come in lik,
tidal wave on the last day bu
contestants for this.
there Will be more than a hundred
Considering the new features which
have been added to the program thil
year, they alone are worth travelling
hundreds of miles to see. The cow
girls steer roping contest, open tC
the world and conducted under tn,