Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-03-28
"GREENOUGHS SIGN
FOR RODEO TOUR,
EUROPEAN CITIES
Turk and Alice to London
With Pick of Worlds
Rodeo Stars

Selected among 100 of the
worlds foremost rodeo perform
ers to make European appear
ances this coming summer, Turk
and Alice Greenough, Red Lodges
famous bronc-twisting brother and
sister, have contracted to tour
with the World Championship
rodeo troupe, it was announced
Sunday upon their return from
Fort Worth, Texas, where they
fulfilled riding contracts in the
Fat Stock show.
The tour is to be under the di-
r%ection of "Tex" Austin, one of
Americas outstanding rodeo man
ayers, and will take the company
to London where the troupe will
make appearances in the rodeo
premier before the elite of the
British capital. Negotiations are
now underway for other appear
ances in Paris and Berlin, Miss
Greenough said here Monday.
Dates for the British appear
ances, she said, have been set for
June 8 to 30. They expect to sail
from New York sometime in May,
Miss Greenough said, and mean
time she expects to remain with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Greenough, on the home ranch
south of Red Lodge.
Being selected as members of
this troupe is a signal honor for
any American cowboy or cowgirl.
Turks name will be included
among such rodeo luminaries as
the Knight brothers, Harry and
Pete; Don and Jim Nesbitt, Ed
die Woods and others, while Alice
will be among the eight women
performers included in the COM
pany. These are, besides Miss
Greenough, Pauline Nesbitt, Rose
Davis, Opal Woods, Gene Craig,
Betty Myers, Florence Randolph
and Rene Shelton. All are out
standing among the worlds wo-
men rodeo performers.
The European expedition will be
no novelty to Miss Greenough,
however, as her rodeo engage
ments took her on a similar tour
somewhere back in the years 1880
or 1881. At this time she gave
performances in the bull rings of
| Spain and southern France, being
the first woman ever allowed to
participate in SPANS national
sport. Her job was merely to ride
enraged bulls into the aena before
the matadors went into action.
This was only one display of
the fortitude that has helped to
make her one of the "tophands"
of the game. At New York City
last summer, while appearing in
the World Series rodeo events,
Miss Greenough crushed an ankle
that had previously been frac-
tured when she was fighting a
"mean one" in the mounting chute.
The mishap, however, did not de-
ter her from going on to Boston
where she captured the worlds
championship for women bronze
riders a few weeks later. Today
the shattered bones of the ankle
are held together with ivory pins.
The London tour will return to
America in time for its members
to participate in the leading
shows throughout the United
States this summer, but new adj
ventures will await Miss Green
ough and two other young wo-
men performers of the European
troupe in Australia and the Far
East.
Miss Greenough displayed her
contract with the international
Sport Promoters here Monday
which calls for appearances and
exhibitions in Australian cities,
Singapore, China, and Honolulu,
Hawaii, among other places. Mrs.
Nesbitt and Miss Roberts hold
similar contracts. This tour will
give its first performances in Aus
tralia about October 8.
In discussing her forthcoming
engagements, Miss Greenough said
that the Londan performance
would be carried out strictly I'M
der American rodeo rules and
regulations, while the Australian
appearances would be conducted
under both American and Austral-
ian rules. The Australian regula-
tions, she explained, requires that
the English type of flat saddle be
used as we'll as the military OF
straight spurs, which, being with
out rowels, makes it more diff
cult to cling to the pitching horse
flesh.