The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-25
As !Nne It
Reminiscent Chances of One Of the Greatest All. Time Western Sports, The Rodeo

Many of the average football and baseball fans probably never thought of the contests and exhibi- tons staged under the name Rodeo, as @ sport. But if you ever wit- messed few of these daring exhibi- tions, into which the contestants, cowboys, and cowgirls, enter of their own free will putting up their entry fee, and competing for @ purse usually a very handsome sum of money, you will know very em. phatically that the Rodeo, ranks perhaps not as one of our greatest and most well attended sports, but 1t does rank as one of our most daring and up and coming sports in modern time.
 Surely many of you have read, but l doubt if many of you have ever glimpsed @ bull fight as they are usually staged in the Far West or in Mexico, but that is the origin of the Rodeo, with @ considerable amount of variation added.
 Let's take for example the Worlds greatest Rodeo, which is now being staged at the Madison Square Car den in New York, and which has been sponsored and widely attended there for the last ten or more years.
 This year Q new and more elabo. rate Rodeo has been produced, headed by Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, who with his Sons of the Pioneers made up the very grand musical, and elaborate end of this Western exhibition.
 This semi-super sport, is set to the background of the Old West as 1t was in its early eras and as It has progressed up through the years and as 1t emerges today.
 The grand entry is arranged and starts oil with the grand entrance or cowboy band led by that pair of cowboy and cowgirl jugglers, Flo and Ted Vallett, who really send this performance of with Q bang.
 After the musical interlude af. forded the spectators by the Sons Of the Pioneers,' we have some of the more vivacious acts in the Rodeo, with cowboys from all parts Of the West converging upon the Garden to compete for nearly S100,000 in prize money.
 Following this circus of thrills for the crowd we meet some of the best known cowboys alive today in the calf roping contest in which about 16 thousand dollars Is at stake, and these boys leap down of their trusty steeds, with lightning like versatility, to throw and 'fIog Tie those 'Onerey Steers, some to suc- ceed and some to fail. (Better luck next Ttme). This routine is fol- lowed through with more hair-raz- ing escapades, plus more tricks and songs by Roy Rogers and his Horse Trigger, which really puts that boy ish and girlish enthusiasm into the young folks in attendance as well as the old Sportlites.
 These daring and elaborate acts plus, steer wrestling contests, comedy by Ken Boell, ace cowboy comedian for years; bull riding contest, wild COW milking contest, and fancy rid 
 ing exhibitions, set to @ climax and very dramatic ending, by a parade of Western heroes, such as Washing ton, Davey- Crockett, Andy Jackson, Gen. George Custer, Bill Cody, and Rough Rider, Teddy Roosevelt, fol- lowed by 8 parade of the colors, go to make up the Worlds Champion Rodeo, in the war year of 194S.
 This program is composed of some Of the best and hardest sport per- formances ever to be witnessed in this country; sport which think is reaching a new peak in popular ity, in the sport world. Thrilling to watch and thrilling to be in, a long remembered glimpse of one of the greatest all time Western Sports, the RODEO.