The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-05

Kansas City, Mo-, July 31.-Kansas
City is to see its first genuine Roundup
at the old Federal League Park, Sep
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This announcement was made today
by Gel. ]. a. BartIss, wealthy oil and
cattle man Of Dewey. Okla, whe> has
staged the Roundup in his ksme town
annually for the past ten years and
which has the reputation of being the
squarest, the biggest and the best in
the United States or Canada Il is Mr.
Bartles' intention to make the Kansas
City exhibition of steer roping, brenche
busting, wild horse racing, buIldogging,
trick riding and trick spinning the best
ever staged In this or any other couH-
try, and those who know Mr.. Bartles,
NOW he never does things BY halves.
When he promises a thing, one can
bank on it being better than the prom
ise.
Kansas City is the logical place for
The Roundup, and the dates are ideal.
The last day is Labor Day
The Cheyenne Frontier Days celebra-
ton is now on The Stampede viii be
held in New York, August 5th to 18th.
Chicago dates for a similar entertain
msnt are August 18th to 9th. Cham
pionship records viii be smashed at all
these events, and as all the participants
are Western men, the Kansas City
dates have been so arranged as 70 in
vite them all 70 stop over here on their
way home to the western cattle ranges.
This insures the very best talent in the
world
The ball park will prove to be exact
/ ly what is required for this contest
The fence viii be moved back, making
an arena 700 by 1000 feet and additions
seats will be erectedl to accommodate
%, 900 spectators.
In addition to prizes offered by the
stockmen and business men of Kansas
| City, No, Bartles has made up a prize
list of Sc, 240 IN cash. The purses for
the steer roping and broncho busting
I contests will be 50, 600 each; cowgirls
broncho riding contest $1,000; steer bull
logging S11OO; trick riding and trick
roping, S11OO each; wild horse race
S740. These are the largest cash prizes
ever offered, and the cont estants viii
represent every section OF the country,
guaranteeing the best exhibition that
can be secured in the world.
In addition TO the contests, there viii
be Indian war dances, Indian bands.
Indian contests and a reunion of old
time cattlemen, frontiersmen, stage
coach drivers and the pioneers who
blazed the western trail with their six
shooters on, the side of the law and re-
claimed from the buffalo, Indian and
outlaw, the west now gone forever.
Bat Matersen, the noted city mar
shall of Dodge City, now of New York
City, viii be invited to be marshal Of
the event, and Bill Tilghman of Okla
homa fame, and others whose names
are famous with early western history
viii attend the event as Mr. Bartles'
personal guests
Miss Lucille MuIha1, the worlds
champion steer roper and rider the
only woman who can successfully COM
pete in roping centest-Win be one OF
the contestants.
This viii be a contest from start to
finish, not wild west show, not q cir
Gus, net q salaried man In it. A real
contest participated IN only by the sons
and daughters OF the prairie, who viii
here In miniature re enact the part
played by the dauntless dead In the
west that is gone forever