East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-09-21
Events Provide Success
ion Of Thrills-Crowd
is Enthusiastic.

Roundup Park. Thursday After
noon-Does the Roundup still main
tain It's hold upon the popular fancy.
in spite of its six years OF age and its
many limitations?
The answer is written plainly in
human figures here this afternoon. 1t
is told by the attendane at the open
ing day of the seventh annual exhibit
ton, an attendance that is easily tho
largest for an opener IN the past four
years, If not since the Roundup first
began. The grandstand is a solid
pack and the thanking bleachers are
half filled.
It is estimated that there are be-
tween 10000 and 1900 watching the
first show Of the 1916 Roundup.
Bands Welcome Visitors.
The gates were open at I2 o'clock
and there were hunoreds in the first
rush through. The Roundup, La
Grande Elks, Milton. Athena and
Weston bands began playing at 1
o'clock and the crowd kept pouring
through the gates in steady stream
until the crack of a pistol announced
that the Roundup was under way.
Spectacle Is superb.
The scene presented to the thou
sands Of visitors is one that cannot
but enrapture and thrill. Opposite
the crowd and lined DIP just beyond
the back stretch of track sit hundreds
of cowboys and cowgfrls on their pom
les waiting for their turn in the
grand western playday. Their gaudy
shirts and chaps. their gay kerchiefs
and bright trappings stand out in
splotches of color against the back
ground of green trees and white te-
pees Of the Indian encampment.
The arena and track is so full OF
action that the eye scarcely has time
to revel in the beauty of the scene.
Man struggles with orute for supre-
macy, the brute as often the victor AS
the vanquished; whooping owboys
astride sinewy ponies, dash past in
clouds of dust; Indians, their tawny
bodies bedecked in oarbaric splendor.
dance or parade or race; stagecoach-
es, clumsy old forerunners of the fast
express, careen and pitch along their
course to exemplify the danger and
hardship of travel In pioneer times.
outlaw mustang rear and plunge and
snort in their maddened efforts TO rid
themselves of their human burdens:
steers shaking their long, menaclng
horns, race across ,ne field only TO
have their wild flight checked sud
denly by lariat that trips them up
and brings them crashing to eartu:
writhing ropes dance and sing in the
air; cowboys yip Indians whoop and
the crowd gives vociferous vent 10 its
varied emotions
Events Follow Swiftly.
Event follows event rapidly and al
most bewilderingiy as the Roundup
presents the sports OF rangeland ana
plains There is never a moment hat
does not have its thrill as there reck-
less roughriders vie with one another
in the pastimeS familiar TO lhlu lite.
What with bucking and bul:dogging.
roping and riding, relay, pony -oxpress
stage-coach. cowpony and Indian rae
ing and a dozen or more daredevil
stunts that only the mind of a cow
boy could conceive. the audience has
scant time to pause and rsflect on
the meaning of II all For the time
being the spirit of the thing holds
them enthralled.
Before the opening or the program
the judges, K s, Dixon OF Prineyllle
VIM, Daughtrey of Portland and f.
p, Marshall of Pendleton. accompan.
led by President T D. Taylor. rode In
front Of the grandstand and we're
INTRODUCED.
COwpony and Squaw Raoe Exciting.
As they rode away. bucking burruS
steers and bulls were led into the
arena and sent the crowd into laugh
ter as they dumped rider after rider.
They were still buckng when. with a
thunder OF hoots. fifteen yelling COW
boys dashed up to the judges stand
and were off in a bunch In the always
exciting cowpony race. II wis
close contest for the fun half mile
/ between Bob Leihe of Cheyenne ana
Roy Peebler of La rHnde. but the for
mer finished two lengths ahead
II was the squaw race that sent tho
crowd into its first rull-volced yell
citing bad start we'll 10 the renr
Josephine Robes, young Indian
maiden dressed all IN red won the
sympathy OF the crowd and aa her
fleet horse began taking up tho dr.
tance the audience cheercd her on. At
the stralghtaway she was close Al tho