The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-04-14
Wild West Show
AT Fair Grounds
To Open Tonight
Thrilling Programs Arranged
And Railroad will Run Free
Trains to Kahului For Sat
urday Night Show.

Jack Burroughs and his troop of
star riders, including Vera McGinnis,
one of the most dauntless and skill
full horsewomen of Western America,
which means the world, and a score
or more of the best riders and horse
and cow handlers of Maui will stage
three performances at the fair ground
today and tomorrow The first per-
formance will be this evening at 1880.
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a
second production with added attrac-
tions and some extra stunts that will
please the young folk and tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock, the climax, the last
show.
Free special trains will be run to
Kahului tomorrow evening by the Ka-
hului Railroad, it was decided last
Tuesday afternoon. One train will
leave Wailuku at o'clock. The other
leaves Haiku at $3.50 and will stop
for passengers at all way stations
Return trains will be run both to Wal
luku and East of Kahului after the
show.
Red BIooded Stunts
1t is the atmosphere of the plains
and the hills, of the great outdoors,
that lends the first attractiveness to
such show as will be produced at the
fair grounds tonight. There is sense
of freedom and bigness that attaches
to it. There is the admiration one
instinctively feels for fine horses and
cattle and for the skill and gameness
the riders show in the handling of
them.
Rearing, plunging, prancing, leap
ing wildly bucking horses upon whose
backs are perched daring riders are
a feature of such shows. Gamely the
rider strives to maintain his seat as
his steed exercises every vile, trick
and artifice to dislodge him from his
perch With knees, and feet and legs
the rider clings determined not to
touch leather" though the instinct of
self preservation fairly howls to him
% grasp the pummel of his saddle,
to drop reins and throw his arms
about the neck of the beast to get a
more secure hold. Against every
trick of the wild horse must be di-
rected all the skill of the horseman
To the average person a steer is re-
garded as big, ungainly numbering
brute. One does not connect with
them thoughts of quickness and ac-
tion but it is easier to handle frac-
tious horse than to remain on the
back of a steer once he determines
he will not be ridden and is his latent
determination. He has tricks all his
own that a horse does not know of
and never tries. So the wild steer
riding will be as interesting and as
thrilling as the riding of bucking
horses.
Girls Will Race
One feature added to the tomorrow
program is the promise of a match
race for five furlongs between horses
ridden by Miss Vera McGinnes, the
girl rider of the Burroughs company,
and Miss Lorna Won Tempsky. Miss
Won Tempsky has been seen in races
and sports on Maui frequently and
she is considered the superior to many
and the equal of most men riders of
this island. A barrel race for horses
ridden by the same riders is scheduled
for tomorrow night.
Fine Trick Riding
Exhibitions of trick and fancy rid
ing and skill in horsemanship will be
staged by the various members of the
Burroughs troop including Miss Nc
Ginnis and the performances are such
as to waken the admiration of all, as
was the case at ten performances in
Honolulu. There will also be an eX
hibition of tricks by Texas Tommy,
q high school horse. This steed is a
temperamental chap, as fond of at
tention and applause as prima don
ma and his performances is as attrac-
tive to grown ups, almost, as to chill
dren.
Tomorrow afternoon Jack Bur
roughs will do everythings he can to
please the children. Il would rather"
he says, play to a crowd of children
than any one else. They seem to en-
ioy it so much. So all of us always
do our best when the little folk are
there.
Advance sale of box seats is re-
2orted as going well. General admis-
sion includes seats in the rear of the
grand stand or other seats that have
been erected and from any of them
a full view of the performances can
be had.