The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-05
Twelve Thousand on Fourth
See Old West Brought
to Life Again.
THRILLED BY DANGER
Little Ruth Parton of Top
penish and Nep Lynch
Of Plains Heroes.
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not. Whooping and shooting until thu
hand was drowned out the parader.
filed before the crowded stands and
then. with a clatter Of boots and j
Hurry Of dust, dispersed into tine in.
field.
Sucking burros.-Thcre are more
bucks In q three-f foot burro than in
the widest mustang ever roped, and
punchers who wear medals for wild
horse riding were rolled in the dust by
two tiny. uninterested little beasts, to
the huge delight Of the crowd. The
burros won in straight falls.
Cowboys saddle horse racs.-Clysses
Stovall.of Toppenish, WASH, got a fly :
Ing start over field of buckaroos
tmounted on horses that never saw o
steer) and came home under wraps.
several lengths ahead of Myron Davis
of Stevsnsville. Chester parsans rode
third. Tine, 80 as.
cpwboys' rslay.-This was the event
OF the day. The race is over two
mile course. with four relays Of horses.
Al the post the rider must unsaddle.
cinch up his new mount and be off.
The event Is continuous. the prize 60
Ing to the man in the lead at the
end Of three days. Nep Lynch Of
Plains. hero OF The 1916 Stampede, won
yesterday. gaining a four-second lead
over Sleepy" Armstrong, 1915 cham
plon. Armstrong entered the race with
q second to spare.
Armstrong jumped away at the start
and led all the way in the first Ian.
fast work in changing mounts and In
the backstretch of the second lap took
the lead. The second change was dis
astrous for Lynch. however, and Arm
strong led by n nose through the third
lap. Lynch made a speedy change, got
away evenly on the third lap and cam.
under the wire dozen jumps and five
seconds ahead Of his rival
SQuaWs' raee.-A jabbering, excited,
coloifnl revival of pioneer snort was
this event. Half a dozen brightly
dressed Indian women, riding the pick
OF the tribal herds. scrambled ali over
the track for starting advantage and
finlly got away in a bunch, whipping
ana yelling as they rode. Mary Mag
dalene Two Horses won after neck
and-neck race with Cecile Mountain,
Marie Bigfoot was third.
Trick ridino.-Speeding ahead of a
cloud of dust a COW pony gallops down
the track. his rider swaying drunkenly
in his saddle. In front of the stand
the puncher suddenly filings himself
downward and hangs as his horse
dashes on. That is what trick riding
means In cowboy circles. The buck
aroo Is no tame circus performer. He
and his pony work like a team of
trained athletes in spectacular and
dan gerous stunts" 1t is fine and
periious art, and Scoop" Martin and
W. J. Sherwood exhibited it well on the
track yesterday.
Cow0irls' pony race.-Ruth Parton.
idol of the crowd, was beaten in the
half mile sprint yesterday by Mis-, ].
4. Parsons. The little Toppenish girl
put UP clever race. but Mrs. Parsons
outrode her and won. Lila Smith of
Walla Walla was third
Cowboys standing race. - julius
Caesar never was cowboy, il history
has been rightly told, but he had a
share In the Stampede yesterday Tom
Grimes of Cheyenne and w. J. Sher.
wood of Pendleton put on n standing
Roman race which was exciting enough
to tit into the program. though some
what of an anachronism Grimes won
in 56h seconds.
Pony express race.-"Sleepy" Arm
strong evened up his score with Men
Lynch in the pony express race, a re-
lay event which does not require y
change OF saddles. Armstrong got
away In the lead and gained in the
first remount. Lynch gained n trifle
In the second change, but Armstrong
walked away from him in the third Ian
and finished dozen laps in the lead,
Indian relay race.-For one part of
the Stampede crowd the Indian relay
Is the biggest "ace on the card. When
a gargantuan redskin came waddlinr
solemnly down the track leading a
string of three sleepy cayuses, the
hlanketed gallery on top of the cattle
shed west of the grandstand came sud
denly out of the trance in which it had
spent the afternoon and began an al
most excited debate in cultural. Many
blankets and many beaver skins are at
stake In the Indian relay race. Marion
Deschamps got away like a winner. his
black pigtails flying in the breeze, his
moccasins clamped tight against his
ursaddled horses belly. But in the
third lap Deschamps' mount tried to
go into his stable and Pierre Adams