El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-09
SECOND PROGRAM
FULL Of THRILLS
Frontier Days Contests
Draw Less Visitors, But
Are More Exciting.

Outfeaturing even the features put
on during the performance OF the OPEN
ing day of the Frontier days celebra-
ton, the program run thrugh Thurs
day at Rio Grande park, showed bursts
OF speed and thrills which were before
unequalled.
Two spills in the "brono" riding
event for COW punchers. and bulldog
ging" with such vim that on two oc-
cssions the steers were thrown COM
pletely off the ground and over on
their backs faster and more vicious
bucking, and the remarkable riding
OF the women contestants. all went TO
make the day interesting.
There was not as large an attendance
Thursday as on the opening day. al
though the stands and bleachers were
more than comfortably filled. As he
had promised. Tex" Austin. the man
ager, We down the arena and had hay
sprinkled over some sections to lay
the dust, but fortunately the wind was
blowing away from the grandstand.
Miss Douglas Gets Worst Horse.
The women's "bronc" riding contest
was again one OF the most interesting
clever riding Miss Mildred Douglas,
was again mounted on what proved TO
be the worst horse of the lot but she
was more near equaled in her riding by
bucking Of all the animals
The bulldogging proved to be the
most thrilling event As in the otner
events all the animals seemed to show
more speed. and it was case OF luck
and swift work to be successful
Driver and Perkins Hit Ground.
Two falls resulted when the cowboys
tried out the brOnchoS. After success
fully riding Boat TO a standstill. Len
Driver tried another turn on an extra
horse, Casey. Driver stuck on during
all of the gyratiOns Of Casey over the
length of the field. but when the horse
got near the corral fence at the
lower end. ne stopped suddenly
and sidestepped. and beautifully
unseated his rider Cy Perkins. VINO
has amused the crowd for two days
with his funny antics burlesquing the
regular contestants, failed to estimate
tn, bucking ability of Dude. Dude sue
ceeded in sending Cy 10 the ground
after just about four jumps
King Has Narrow Escape
Cliff King had a narrow escape from
injury when the horse he was riding.
SNOWFALL threw himself on his side,
pinning mis- rider down by the leg
king remounted, however, and stuck
on.
Rescue Race Exciting.
The military event showed the visit
ing cattlemen what the horse soldiers
could do. The event was called
rescue race. including five teams OF
team being mounted. The unm0unted
man was about 100 yards in front, and
on the starting signal fired five rounds
from his rifle. The rider then rode up
at full speed and the two men riding
double, returned TO the starting line
Score For the Day.
The score for the days events was
as follows: Fancy roping, no decision;
women's 'hronc" riding, won by NIL
dred Douglas; steer roping, Won oy
Johnnie Judd. time eight seconds; sec
ond, A. T. Sanders. time eight and one
half seconds; third, Gaines Weir. Time
10 seconds Trick riding. no decision
given. Spud race. won by Rufus Roi-
Inns team against Frank Smiths team
score 5 TO 4 Cowboy "bronc" riding,
no decision given. Military event res
cue race. won BY eth cavalry second
Sth cavalry; third remOunt stauon-
Steer hulIdogEing. won by Frank
Meaney, time 15.3 seconds seco9e:
third. Ed Lindsey. time IS seconds.
Quick change race. won 6y pug sh;- =
Fay ward Wild steer race, won By
Cy Perkins-