The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-19
RODEO TO Be
THE GRAND EVENT
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pirate garb. Each dance hall will have
a mammoth bar. where. instead OF
nose paint" soft drinks will be
served. and around the halls will BIZ
arranged faro banks, roulette wheels
and other games redolent of the olden
golden days when the lid was off and
the sky was the limit.
It's estimated that the celebration
will cost between s40,O 00 and $4,000
and will bring at least 20, 900 visitors
to Reno. The assured success of the
initial undertaking promises to make
the Roundup an annual event, one OF
a circuit comprising the rodeo al
Salinas, the Cheyenne, Wyo., Frontier
Days, the wild west show at Prescott,
Ariz.. and the Pendleton, Ore, celebra-
ton.
Although Reno will entertain the
largest crowd since the Jeffries-John-
son fight, July 4. 1910, there will be
no lack of comfortable Accommodations
for all the thousands who will attend.
Not only have the hotel and apartment
facilities of the city more than doubled
in the past nine years, but with char
acteristic hospitality, the handsome
homes of Reno's best citizens will be
thrown open to the city's guests. A
bureau has been established at the
Commercial Club to compile the data
on all rooms available and to impart
the information to the visitors.
Nevada's cowboys are determined
that the California and Oregon bucka-
roos, who will decend on the round
Up fresh from the Salinas rodeo, shall
not walk away with the lions share
of the thousands of dollars in prizes
that have been hung up for the win
ners of the score of wild west events
so far programmed. Keen riding and a
lively but good-natured rivalry will
mark the decision of those events.
Between 300 and 400 riders will take
part in the sports, which will be put
on at the rae track. The entire Sa-
linas show will be here, and riders
from all the West and as far east as
Texas and Oklahoma will be entered.
Coyote. the wild horse which has been
unridden and untamed for twenty
years, will be among the star per-
formers. Other famous bronchos which
will test the skill of the riders in
clude Tango Annie, High Tower, Billy
Sunday. Blue Blazes. Gold Dust. Glass
Eye. Gaviota. Hot Stuff, Self Starter
and Hawkeye and Bullseye.
The Roundup Association has pur-
chased a carload of Mexican steers,
a carload of Nevada bulls and a car
load of wild horses to help furnish
the sport. In addition, six carloads of
horses are coming from the coast, in
the stables of Millerick Bros,
Jack Hahn and Cuff Burrell.
Among the famous riders who will
take part are Ed Perez, Don Cooper,
Hugh Taylor. Herman Marker and
Preston from Iovelock, Bonnie
and Johnnie Dobbins, prize winners
at the Salinas show, Hank Potts,
as the human tick" and
Johnny Judd. the famous roping ex-
pert. Art Accord will perform a spec
stunt, leaping from a speed
ing automobile at a running steer and
bulldogging the animal in front of the
grand stand.
The list of prizes and events in
Cowboys bucking contest,
$500; bull riding contest. 1925; pony
race. $50 daily: cowboys re-
lay race. $50 daily; cowgirls' relay
race. $50 daily; amateur cowboys
quarter-mile dash, $50 daily; ~free-for-
all mems horse race. open to pure
bred horses. five-eighth mile. first and
third days. $3.50; cowgirls' kimona
race, $135; Roman race, quarter-mile
dash. s1S5: stake race. $240; flag race.
July 4. $3.50; wild horse race. $120;
stage coach and chuck wagon race,
s25 daily; b~ulldogging contest, $50;
best cowboy and cow-horse outfit, $40.
Special prizes will be given for
mounts on outlaw horses that are not
used in the contests. Mounts will
be paid for exhibition bull rid
Fancy ropers and riders are re-
quested to write to the management
regarding exhibition work. There
will be a daily parade of the riders.
AS a great proportion of the crowds
will come by automobile. keen interest
is being shown in the three road races
centering here. which will he IN Oh
the celebration. One race will
from Gardnervilie. ar ahcr IRON
W~innemucca and the third from
Cal. Three handso ne cups
will ha awarded the wlnrprs with ST. r