LET 'ER BUCK 



I'm a figurin' Bob's as like as not ter ride 'im." And 

 sure enough, he does. 



Look! They are going to draw for horses for the 

 grand finals as this occurs on the grounds in the pres- 

 ence of everyone. It's Lee Caldwell, Yakima Canutt 

 and Jackson Sundown. These three have ridden 

 through with the other twelve or thirteen selected for 

 the semi-finals and now have fought their way through 

 these into the grand finals. See ! the cowboy drawing 

 now is Canutt, that tall and lanky buckaroo with a 

 ranginess characteristic of the clan; there goes Sun- 

 down, the agile, erect figure you know so well, the third 

 is Caldwell, the shortest and youngest of the three. 

 What a superbly proportioned body, splendid 

 shoulders, lithe and beautifully muscled and the very 

 embodiment of health, on whom attention is now main- 

 ly focused. The women say he's good-looking and 

 even the men admit it. 



Last year he rode in second for the world's cham- 

 pionship here, so close to Red Parker, the champion, 

 that there was a division of opinion; but the judges 

 decided it. Furthermore some member of the Round- 

 Up committee expressed the Pendleton spirit and the 

 clean sport of the show when he remarked "Lee, if you 

 ever ride into the world's championship at the Round- 

 Up you will have to win hands down, because you're 

 a Pendleton boy." 



Lee had just come down from Moose jaw, where his 

 winning of the All Canada championship had been 

 heralded before him ; but he had come to the greatest 

 of all shows where more men ride and are eliminated 

 in the elimination contest than even enter the other 

 great shows. 



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