Arizona republican., 1919-07-01
Doc pard on Big Sid Worlds Championship Bronco Busting Contest

fish, around the field, Spurs, quirts and brides went to the puncners ~LJ stayed with them and wholesale de- trision to the over confident champions who made their pictures in the dirt" Then again that hush over the big crowd, followed by such cheers as greet well-loved holder of the belt
 The 'palomina' was coming danc- ing in with the tripping step of a pretty girl at a party; this yellow coat like sunshine, his waving mane and tail silky as a woman's hair. He looked some dainty lady's pet till half dozen "herders" came up with the saddle and hackamore. They had all been there before" but it took all six to get the saddle on that round unscarred back and cinch it fast, and as Lazy s" had predicted, they had to throw him, roll his head in a blank | ct, and hog tie all his feet to do it.
 Then he refused to get up; quirts, and Language" fell unheeded. His rider, Low Stirrups," a long, thin
 Texan, climbed into the saddle and took up the reins. A yellow catapult rose with a leap, revolved like a cy- clone over to the front of the grand
 stand, and in some uncanny fashion
 unloaded the Texan on top of the be-
 ruffled parasol of one of the town
 girls" in the front row of seats.
 Good d-naturedfy, a genuine horse laugh in his eyes, he waited the next
 conner, and the next. It was something of an honor to be thrown by that ''d- old yellow high binder and If
 a fellow did happen to stay with him. But no one did. Palomina played to
 the grandstand; he stayed in front ot
 it and deposited his would-be riders
 around on all the soft spots that
 struck his fancy. When there were
 no more takers of the dare, in his gently -twinkling eyes he danced
 away, a little dusty but openly vic
 torious.
 There was nothing fit to come after
 Palomina but the barbecue; the big. gest cattlemen had given one, two
 three or more fat steers, and the bes range cook in all the outfits took com mand of the baking day before thu
 big trench had been dug, three fee deep, three feet across, and Ions
 enough for aN the beef Stones wer' laid along the edge and old wagon
 tires interlaced across the top ant with a bed of glowing cedar coals i made a gridiron on whcih St. Lawr ence might have enjoyed a broiling. It took all night and part of th' forenoon to get the meat done to tn,
 boss cooks taste, and then with stack I of bread from the town bakery and l helping from home lunch baskets tha , barbecue wa ssomething to remember As an extra there might be baket , bulls head, the heads of fat steers in hiey hal nf eli S hair on and buried in pits of ho : earth and fire built on top the, , steamed all night and next day tn
 mud shell, broken away, carried tn } skin along with it and left the mea l white and tender as a chicken.
 l After the barbecue the flag picking
 hat racing, bare backed steer riding
 everybody's fun. Along in front of tn
 grandstand small flags were stuck il the ground and the riders swept down each stopping for a flag as he ran Then hats were dropped along tn course and the stopping rider caugh the headgear and flung it over hi
 horse as he ran. Sometimes a to' eager rider lost his balance and fel
 and his comrades jeered and advise, him to go home and hoe the garden.
 But the bare-backed steer riding We'll! A dozen ''yearlings goin ol two" turned loose in the field, ever. man to rope his mount on foot an, ,, get on hi mwithout help. That line backed short-horn for mel" 'Watcl me do the Rairey act with that bal face with the white socksl" Bet V
 ten he throws vel" "Donei" Bet V , ten ye cant stay with that dish face, roanl"
 The field was strewn with unsteere knights; the honors were easy-witl :. the steers. All but the "dish-face roan," him the solemn, red-face ] Scotch boss of the Flying W outfi rode in state, face to tail and using n. convenient member for a rudder an'
 spouting whole cantos of Marmion a n he careered over the field of mingle