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Horse lovers of many nations thrilled at the news. Questions flew. Who will defend for America? Will Papyrus stand the voyage? Will Steve Donoghue, wizard English jockey, ride Papyrus? The date? The stakes? The winner...
...Austin's world's championship cowboy contest takes place at the Yankee Stadium, New York, Aug. 15 to 25. Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies...
...Peitaiho near Shanhaikwau, the British Admiral Anderson and party, which included several women, were pelted with stones and handfuls of mud by rickshaw men at the conclusion of a ride in rickshaws. British blue-jackets rescued the party from its obnoxious situation...
Standing near the place where Charles I was condemned to death and Cromwell was proclaimed Lord Protector; in the place where the King's Champion used to ride in on a charger and challenge to mortal combat anyone who questioned the right of the King to the Crown; where for many years Coronation Banquets were held, King George V said that " Westminster Hall appealed in a special manner to the mind and manner of the whole English-speaking race. For centuries it had witnessed the growth of the Constitution and had been, as it were, a link between...
Next morning the Special arrived at Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...