CORRAL DUST 



The star ropers are particularly well-proportioned, 

 clean-limbed men — take, for instance, that wonder- 

 ful trio there, George and Charlie Weir, and Eddie 

 McCarty. McCarty is well known at Cheyenne as 

 one of its prime movers and organizers. He won the 

 world's steer roping championship here in 1913, also 

 in 1918, and has always been in the finish, his best time 

 for a single steer being 26 2-5 seconds, made with a 

 total of 55 4-5 seconds for his two steers in 1919 when 

 Fred Beeson, a marvel at roping, beat him out in 47 

 seconds, Beeson's best time for a steer was 20 seconds 

 flat that year, which stands as the top record here. 



George and Charlie Weir are experts par excellence 

 in the steer roping game, George probably being slight- 

 ly the better of the two, although in 1917 Charlie beat 

 his brother out for first place, each roping two steers 

 in the remarkably fast time of 1 minute 7 2-5 seconds 

 and 1 minute 26 2-5 seconds respectively, Charlie's best 

 single throw being in 7 2-5 seconds above the 20- 

 second Beeson record, and that of George only 5 2-5 

 seconds away from it. George Weir was first world's 

 champion in this event in both 1915 and '16, while his 

 brother rode close behind him for second in the former 

 year. This quartette, I believe, cannot be equalled in 

 the entire country. 



There's good old Jim Roach who rides in from the 

 tucked away Cabbage Hill, which does not mix much 

 outside and raises some of the best strawberries in the 

 country. Jim's an old hand at the range game and a 

 wizard in the maverick race. He won out first in the 

 steer roping in 1912 in the fast time of .55 for two 

 steers. Tommy Grimes in 1914 took the twelve hun- 

 dred dollar purse and the three hundred fifty dollar 

 Hamley saddle in 1914 with C. Prescott second and 



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