Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-10-07
LEE CALDWELL VISITS
ELkO ON WAY WEST
Returns From Pendleton Roundup
Where He Won Worlds CHAM
pionship Bucking Contest


today. He came here from Salt Lake
and is on his way to California.
Mr.. Caldwell won the worlds cham
pionship in the Pendleton Roundup
ably won more bucking contests
The East Cregonian has the following
TO say of Mr.. Caldwell's exploit:
For the first time in the history
OF the Roundup a Pendleton buck
aroo. Lee Caldwell, is champion
broncho buster OF the world 1t is no
accident that gives him that title. Ii
ever champion furnished indisput-
able proof OF his fitness to be called
such, young Caldwell furnished that
proof Saturday afternoon when one
after the other with hardly Il chance
TO recover his breath, he rode in per-
feet form four OF the greatest buck
ing horses in the west, among them
old Long Tom,' and established a
claim that none could deny.
Ii is not the first time that Caldwell
has taken honOrs i'll the greatest OF
cowboy sports. Last year he won
second at the Roundup and, though
hardly more than a boy, he has prob
OF the sixth annual Roundup, and
through the western states than any
living buckarOu. The winning of the
worlds championship in the city
which has been MS home for years
was the climax OF his brilliant career
as a conqueror Of bucKing bronks.
All-Around Champ, Too.
Caldwell not only won the bucking
championship but he also won the
gold belt given by the Police Gazette
for the best all.around cowboy. The
fifty points he won as first in the
bucking contest was five more than
Buffalo Vernon won and seven more
than won by Allen Drumheller.
Last Friday he rode Miss Hesita.
ton with such ease that his place in
the semi-fnals was assured. Pitted
against fourteen other great cowboy
riders in the semi-iinals Saturday
afternoon, he made a sensational ride
on "Two-step" and, by it, was picked
to ride against Yakima Canutt of
Pomeroy and Jackson Sundown, a
Nez Perce Indian, for the coveted
title and prize.
Canut rode first. mounting the
black demon, "Speedball' his third
morse OF the day. He staid straight
through all the high pitching OF that
animal, though he kept his spurs set
IN the cinch. Shutdown, in the semi
finals, had conquered the little out
law 'Lightfoot" that had thrown him
in the finals of the 1911 Roundup
and he became a great favorite when
he made another brilliant ride on
Culdesac. Caldwell drew the redoubt-
able old Long Tom" maker of
champions.
From the first great bound of the
sorrel brute, he raked old Long
Toms sides with his sharp spurs,
something no other rider has ever
done. Across the arena the big an
imal pounded but Caldwell was new
er shaken.
The judges, however, we're divid.
ed in their decision and Caldwell was
required to ride "Spitfrc," a wicked
little bucker, that lie raked with his
rowels fore and aft. Still the judges
were undecided and "Peedec Mutt" n
hard pluDger was brought for him
to mount. When Caldwell, though
tired and shaken by his efforts and
handicapped by sprained wrist, sat
his outlaw ia straightup form and
scratched him from shoulder to rump
in reckless disdain, there could be no
further room for doubt. A mighty
yell Of Caldwell went up from the
grandstand and when the judges an
uounced him winner, q thunderous
cheer swept out of the grandstand and
bleachers in the gathering dusk to
tell the world that the verdict was a
popular one. Canut was given sec.
ond and Sundawn third.
The finals of the bucking contest
brought to a close the last exhibition
o fthe sixth annual Roundup. and
there were eighteen thousand people
to testify that IL was the greatest
show In the world.
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