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...Greeley, Buzz was an enterprising nobody. Then in 1934 he tied up with Greeley's KFKA, a radio station in somewhat the same situation. He caught ranchers at breakfast daily in seven States with three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales, saw to it that the folks...
...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
After the first week of the Garden show the leading contender for the national cowboy championship was shy, shambling 27-year-old Paul Carney of Galeton, Colo. With 6,178 points (one point for each dollar won during the season-except in bronc-riding events, which merit 1¼), Cowboy Carney was 1,598 points ahead of his nearest rival. Competing in three events (bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, steer riding), he appeared to have the title in the palms of his tremendous hands...
Like most of his confreres, Cowboy Carney rodeos ten months of the year, travels by auto, likes pool & poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have...
...Krieger will probably wind up at right halfback in the berth vacated by All American Bob MacLeod. Krieger is fast, shifty, and a skilled pigakinalinger. He can, if necessary, handle the punting assignment. "Cowboy" Bu Hayden, Jack Orr and Jim Banman are competing for the fourth backfield position. It's a wide open fight with Hayden holding a slight advantage since his pass-catching ability fits in most closely with the scher... of things at Hanover this year...