HE WOULD RIDE THAT WAY 



With the Other It's 

 ALL OVER BUT THE SINGING 



The incidental ups and downs of the buckaroos' and buck- 

 ers' lives during even the three days of the Round-Up, would fill 

 several books and each book would have a kick in every sentence. 

 Cowboys will come and cowboys will go but the spirit of the 

 Round-Up will go on forever. 



Newcomers will ride in future Round-Ups and leave their 

 mark and a second edition of this book may carry on the record 

 but they'll have to aim high to beat the standard the past and 

 present contestants have set. But they'll ride fair, play the game 

 and do their part to keep it a pure sport. The cleanness of the 

 sport is no better evidenced than in the consideration and fair- 

 ness shown the animals, not to mention the credit and admira- 

 tion given them in the part they play in the game. , 



The Round-Up rules prescribe, that a rider may neither knot 

 his halter rope at the end nor wrap it around his hand ; he may not 

 touch any portion of his saddle. This act is known as "pulling 

 leather" or still worse grasp the horn of his saddle which is 

 "choking the biscuit." He may not show daylight under the sad- 

 dle, loose a foot out of the stirrup even for an instant or in any 

 way artificially support himself; a violation of any of these will 

 disqualify him in his ride, even the observance of them in a 

 sloppy manner or in a fearsome or too safe a way will deny him 

 even a look into the finals. 



There are many rules it is true, but the big idea is to stay on 

 top. There is no rule, however, against cinching in spurs but it 

 isn't desirable and sometimes is most dangerous if a horse falls 

 or the rider is thrown and hung up in the cinch. Of course such 

 accidents as a halter coming off is the least of a top-notch buck- 

 aroo's troubles, likely as not he can ride him without. A stirrup 

 breaking gives him a little more bother, but the saddle slipping 

 either over the bucker's head or under his belly is more serious, 

 for the rider has either to stay with it or leave it, which dashes 

 his hopes if not him. To be hung up in the stirrup and dragged 

 is a most dangerous proceeding although Buddie Sterling rode C. 

 Cross that way. But C. Cross had a powerful manner of bucking 

 and an indelicate way of trampling on his rider when down, at 

 which times it was "all over but the singing." This rider kissed 

 the dust after choking the horn of the saddle which is the S. O. S. 

 of the bucking code. This horse he gave a buck or two and — 

 nearlv killed the buckaroo. 



