DARE DEVIL RIDING AT TOP SPEED 



On the Track, But in the Arena You'll Admit 



THAT'S TYIN' TM 



In the third phase of the steer roping contest the cowboy dis- 

 mounts and hogties the steer by crossing its three feet, and 

 securing them by two wraps and a half hitch with a hogtieing 

 rope which he carries about his waist — sometimes the cowboy 

 crosses three fingers at the same time. "That's tyin' *im," the 

 way Homer Wilson of Oklahoma is doing it. The importance 

 with which this event is regarded is obtained by the amount of 

 the prizes offered, which in cash value totals nearly $2,000. 



The world's champion roper receives $600 and a $350 saddle 

 presented by the Pendleton Commercial Association, including 

 the jack pot divided into day money on a 50, 30, 20 basis from 

 the $25 entrance fees charged in this event. 



George and Charlie Wier and Ed McCarty stand out as the 

 top-notch championship Round-Up ropers, but the best official 

 record for a single steer here is 20 seconds by Fred Beeson with 

 Joe Gardner second and Ed McCarty third. These three ran 

 down, roped, threw, dismounted and hogtied six Texas steers in 

 the remarkable time of 2 minutes, 8 1-5 seconds, an average of 

 21 3-5 seconds for each steer. How long would it take you to 

 drive one of the longhorned brutes into a barn? 



One event here is as old as the hills— even the Seven Hills of 

 Rome. It is the standing or Roman race — for as far back as 

 the days of Ben Hur we find its prototype. It is a race which 

 demands consummate clear-headedness, agility, balance, horse- 

 manship, coordination and endurance. The trick and relay 

 riders are also in this class. The riders, each allowed an 

 assistant, start at the gong and must rise to a standing position 

 within fifty yards and remain standing until they have circled 

 the quarter-mile track. 



Ben Corbett, in 1916 broke the men's record in 59 1-5 seconds, 

 beating Hoot Gibson's 1913 record by only 1-5 of a second. 

 But the most superb Pendleton record is held by Bertha Blan- 

 cett, four times first champion in the cowgirls' standing race — 

 being but once beaten for first place by Vera Maginnis. In 

 addition she also holds the supreme time record on the Pendleton 

 track of 59 seconds flat. 



