Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
NEW YORK RODEO
LISTS BAD HORSES
Grave Digger and Death No.
tice Head "Cast" of
Garden Show.
epeeial plspatch 70 the star.

Special Dispatch to the Star.
NEW YORK, october Occupied
with the erroneous beliefs that lightning
never strikes twice in the same place,
that black cat crossing your path is
portend of disaster, is the popular be-
dangerous to approach. Some of the
most savage horses of rodeo history
would allow themselves to be petted CT
would eat sugar out of ones hand. The
stored horse of Cheyenne's Frontier day
rodeo, Old Steamboat, was led through
the streets of that wyoming city in the
parade that featured opening day OF the
rodeo by a red silk ribbon in the hands
of a little girl.
Old Steamboat never offered to run
away, nor did he attempt to injure the
child that led him. Yet in the IL years
that Old Steamboat ruled the rodeo
only one man ever rode him. That man
was Dick Stanley of Portland, Greg. He
won the championship at Cheyenne In
1908. Scores of less capable riders were
bucked into hospital cots and dozens OF
budding careers ended abruptly in the
gravel of the riding arena when Old
Steamboat catapulted his man out OF
the saddle.
Dick Had Unfair Advantage.
Dick Stanleys triumph over Old
Steamboat was not convincing. In the
first place, he made his race on field
hook deep in mud and left the saddle
simultaneously with the blowing Of the
whistle. The very next day, under fairer
conditions, Old Steamboat bucked of
three riders. No man ever again sat
him for 10 seconds.
The fighting instinct, which trans
formed Old Steamboat from horse
that would suffer himself to be led on
silk ribbon into a raging equine demon
when a saddle was strapped on his back.
lives in the heart and brain of every
true bucking horse.
RodeO in Garden October "a.
Some of the most vicious of the pres
ent-day crop of bucking horses will be
seen in action at the Fourth Annual
World Series Rodeo, which opens at
Madison Square Garden on October "a.
This rodeo is held yearly for the benefit
of Broad Street Hospital.
More than 100 bronchos will arrive
from the West within few days. Most
of them have won names in Todeo rings.
for the cattle country still follows the
Indian custom of applying significant
names to man or beast.
A chapter of Western history might
be written about the horses which are
to buck in Madison Square Garden in
the World Series Rodeo. Half score
hIS E1dIl~hhiCtos. 1NOOOA 4Ouo oAliOAAS tAASbA
are Jimmy Rodgers, Grave Digger and
Death Notice. Pancho Villa and Hur-
ricane are not exactly gentle cayuses
either.
Grave Digger Coming.
Grave Digger, with a record of three
men, won his name after trampling his
first victim to death. Grave Digger
wastes no time In his work. He thun-
ders out of the chute, hitting the
ground so hard at every jump that he
can break the grip of any man. With
the killer instinct born in him, Grave
Digger senses the loosening grip of
rider. A sunfish twist usually finishes
the task Of throwing q man, ana then
1t is largely a matter of quick rescue
work to prevent fatality.
Death Notice makes an ideal running
mate for Grave Digger. The name is
anathema to rodeo riders. He is a
spinning horse that will whirl in circles
until a rider is dizzy. A sunfish twist
and plunge usually end the battle Of.
human andT caSuse, with The rider
fioored. But if the combination fails
Death Notice simply puts his head be-
tween his knees and turns somersault.
Obituary Killed Two.
Obituary, a black cyclone which has
killed two tophand riders, will be In
the Garden. Jimmy Rodgers, WHICH
killed rider at Calgary, also will be on
deck
Hurricane Is horse. to quote from
Johnny Baker, a cowboy who drew him
twice in the last year, that lust ex-
plodes is yards from the chutes."
Baker should know, for he dropped with
the debris.
Brainstorm, all that the name implies,
is a powerful chestnut gelding that
pounds the turf so heavily that legs
can't grip against his lungs. 1t does
not take this horse long to rid himself
of a rider.