LET 'ER BUCK 



ride into rounds of applause. Nettie Hawn makes a 

 beautiful ride on the wicked Snake, the kind which in 

 1913 made her the cowgirl champion of the world. 



There are rides and good ones, too, by Princess 

 Redbird, the Indian girl, Ollie Osborn, Prairie Rose 

 Henderson, Ruth Roach, Eloise Hastings, Peggy 

 Warren, well known here through several years of 

 game and classy riding, all of whom have won second 

 or third places in the contests. Then, too, there is 

 Blanche McGaughey. She's ready to mount. Wait a 

 minute; and she tucks a pretty embroidered handker- 

 chief in her belt remarking : — 



"I don't want to lose my powder puff." 



"Does yer nose need some nose paint?" remarked 

 the male brute who was handing her the halter 

 rope. 



Scar Leg did his best, but Blanche rode like an 

 Amazon and another sensation is added to your 

 collection. 



That chivalric attitude which permeates spectators 

 is also characteristic of the buckaroo, and was evi- 

 denced in the quiet remark of "Skeeter" Bill Robbins 

 when he turned to me after plucky Peggy Warren was 

 pulled from beneath the fallen bucker, and said, "I 

 sure hate to see a girl git hurt." 



Bertha Blancett is climbing into the saddle of Ram- 

 bling Jimmie, who takes a small fraction of a second 

 to bear out his name and not only rambles in great 

 jumps across the arena smashing through the arena 

 fence, but, not satisfied, hits through to the outer fence 

 before he is taken up. Now again, you see Bertha 

 away in great swinging, snorting bounds on that buck- 

 jumper Dempsey. All through this marvelous rider 

 shows a headiness and control never before demon- 



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