The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-10-15
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Foghorn Clancy Sounds OFF
on ls4l's RobbEO
BY FERD BROWNING
APP Feature Service writer

NEW YORK. Oct. i5.-We
were two stories underground in
the heart of Manhattan but it
wouldn't have been any trick at
all for : guy with fair magma
ton to figure ne was on the OF
Bark itself.
Calves bawled, horses neighed,
bulls snorted and hooves pound
ed. There were yippees and
kiyiS. brieht shirts and fancy
boots. dungarees and 10-gallon
hats, sideburnS and high heels.
And there was an odor strange
to Manhattan-wnere it's quite
an odor that qualities as a
stranger.
It's rodeo time in Madison
Square Garden again and Fog
horn Clancy Frederick Melton
Clancy if you'd risk a punch in
the nosel points out the high
lights and big shots as rodeo
men send 700 head Of livestock
pounding up and down the
Gardens subterranean ramps
like a World Series crowd al
Yankee Stadium.
The 200-pound Foghorn is
sort Of chief statisfician" and
drumbeater for the ro-
deo Like an diversified, Our
TowniSh Frank Craven, he raises
a hand-tooled leather boot to the
lower rail of the underground
lamps a freshly-fiIled
pipe, and explains in his gravel
IiSh basso:
Now, those are outlaw buck
in horses. Don't look specially
mean, do they? But they are.
I've seen 'em in the chutes reach
grab a would-be rider by
The arm and shake him like a cat
olayin' with a mouse. Quite a
story behino 'em.
'sYuh know 1--WE didn't they're
descendants of Coronado's horses.
They were big, bred to carry
nan wearin' full armor. He
.urned 'em loose stead of takin'
EN- back, and they roamed the
orairies, wild, for centuries.
"Runnin' wild. they lost in
stature but gained in stamina
and cunning. Those smaller.
crafty. mean horses are the
outlaw buckers. Some of 'em.
ranging far north. bred with
other horses and a larger strain
developed. They're not the
true outlaw buckers you see
here. Matter of fact the true
outlaws gettin' scarce. we have
TO keep on the lookout for EN-
all the time row.
Foghorn pauses, speaks to a
realty dressed cowboy going up
he ramp and says in as near an
:ndertone as his voice viii al
ow:
That's Bill Clements. head
nan in the Cowboys Turtle AS
A look at his listeners faces
md he explains:
That's the cowboys union
Euh see, when they met to form
he organization, some of the
Joys suggested some long, high
oundin' names. One oil boy, aft
T so much of that, rose and said,
Now, let's not get no high-faul-
n monicker for this outfit We
.ot a good idea but don't let's go
90 fast. Let's just move along
low like a turtle. not runnin
larum scarum but KNOWN
where we're goin' +" So it's the
COWBOYS Turtle Association
Then the Brahma bulls come
10 the ramp and Foghorn ex-
,lains about how they came from
he coast counties in Texas
Vhere the dreaded fever tick
till lives.
Don't hurt them strong fellas.
hough", says Clancy. But every
,ull has TO go through three ereo-
ote dips before it can legally be
brought into clean country.
Then Dan Hines. a former
Texas Ranger and the arena di-
rector for this years Madison
Square Garden rcdeo. stops by
10 say hello and 10 laugh with
Fcqhorn about Al Heapolitan.
New Yorkis only entrant in the
championship contest running
at the Garden until Oct. 70.
Hes the bronco buster from
he Bronx, Foghorn says and
aughs. enters every year and
GETS thrown regular. He'll make
, rider someday, though"
sIf he don't get killed first
Hines contributes as he walks
away.
Then the longhorn steers come
Town. and later the wild cows
rom the milking contest and
finally all the activity IS over
ID in the arena
But they don't sell tickets to
he best part OF the showdown
where Foghorn gives you all the