San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-01
BULLDOGS A
STEERFROM
RACING CAR
Mable Strickland Rides
Wild Animal at Cham
pionship Contest.
STEER TIED In II rs
Pretty Dick, Worlds Fierc-
est Bronc, Can't
Throw Rider.
STEER TIED In II rs


speeding automobile as it followed the
snake-lil.e course Of wild steer AMI
| then jumping from the car and bull
DIGGING the animal. Daredevil Dan
Miller, famous cowboy, presented the
feature performance OH The second day
of the Championship Cowboy Contest,
being held ut Schwab Field under the
auspices of the San Antonio Fire and
Police Departments for the benefit
of the pension fund of the fircmen
and policemen of this city.
The automobile was forced 10 fol
low the steer around the field twice
before it was in position TO enable
Miller 10 make his spectacular jump.
Special credit should be given Miller
and the driver of the ear as it was
very difficult to hold the car in its
course because of the heavy ground.
still wet from the recent rain.
Mabel Strickland of San Antonio de-
monstrated that she can ride nearly
anything eli four feet when she rode
one of the widest steers in the pens
in a special exhibition Wednesday.
The wild Brahna went through every
phase of pitching known trying to rid
himself OF the load on his back bat
the young lady rode him as well as the
best of cowboys could.
Worlds Hardest Bronze.
Allan Holder. famous sheep roper,
again showed that his fame with the
rope was not limited TO sheep by win
ming the calf rOping contest for the
second day in succession. Tuesday, he
rOped and tied his calf in ~ seconds
and Wednesday he bettereG this time
by applying the last hitch TO the rope
in 70 - seconds. J. ID. Perkins,
among the first 10 rope his calf. scored
20 flat and it was thought that he
had first place as the calves seemed
much harder 10 handle than on the
previous day and the cowboys were
unable TO make as good time as Tues
day. Other times in this eY>nt were ::
Louis Kubitz. 20 Ii; George SadleT,
% 10: NJ. J. Franklin, 30 20 Rich
ard Merchant. 30: Lee Robinson. 33 !:
Fred BcesOn. 80 Louis Jones. 81 80 ::
Chester Byers. 81 %; Hugo Strick-
land. ~ 40; Johnnie Mullin, as 40 !;
Grove Tullos, 80 %; and J. J. Hoff-
man. 53 10.
Pretty Dick. reputed as one of the
hardest bronchos in the world TO ride.
jerked loose from the men who were
saddling him and only for the heroic
work of the handlers. who held on to
the bride. putting themselves in n
good position to be seriously hurt By
the enraged animal. q good exhibition
of horsemanship would have been
spoiled. However. he was Gained down
sufficiently for Tex Roberts 10 mount
him. and then he flew over the lot.
rearing and plunging in a manner
that would throw the average rider
at the first buck.
Pat Held on to Horns.
In the bronch0 riding contest. every
entrant managed TO keep on the back
of his horse until the judges blew
the whistle. On the previous day. one
or two were thrown off. Entered in
this contest were: BucS Lucas. on
Tradsety: John Henery on High
Power; Oklahoma Curley. on Griz-
ley: Mike Hastings on Razor: Bug
ger Red Jr.. on Head Light: John
Kerscher on Panther Pet. and Shorty
Giden on He'll Do.
Although he did not win the event.
Petty Ryan. red-haired Irishman. re.
ceived the greatest ovation from the
spectators in the bull-dogging contest
when he displayed that he was all
man. although therc is very little Of
him As he left his horse on the
lump. Patty got only finger hold on
his steers horns. n hold that the. aver
age rider would have let 20. but tho
little 1rislman stayed with his rni-
NAL and after nearly losing him twice.
he threw til" Brahma in n little over
n minute. He displayed remarkable
courage by staying with his animal
hecsvse he was drug around the lot
with his head seemingly right under
tn" steers hoofs.
Roy Quick combined his powerful
pair Of shoulders and export horse
manShip and won the laurels in this
eyvent with record time of II 81
seconds This is the best time that
has been made in this event. Lee Rob
inson got good iumn on his animal
nnd was second with 20 seconds fat.
Pinkcv Gist took third r,.,co with n
-. Other times were: Fred \lvoid
II Buct Lucas I minute ard scc-
ond and Patty Ryan. 1 minute and is
seconds.
Another Narrow Escape.
Red" Sublette was again present
to give the crowd some sidc-splitting
comedies. Not only did he ride his
trick mule SPARK Plug" but he rode
one of the wild Mexican steers and
rode it in good fashion.
Bigger Red Jr.. had n very narrow
escape in the steer riding contest when
he got on a bad animal and was
thrown off Immediately. He went
down in n heap right underneath the
plunging animal and only miracle
prevented his being crushed by the
frightened steer. The rearing animal
rose up in the air and came down on
the very spot that the cowboy had
landed on and only the presence Of
mind Of the red-haired fellow in rolls
ing OF like ball. prevented serious
injury.
Amid a hail Of saddle blankets.
brides and other cowboy paranherna-