Show ad 40 J OWN 10 0 14 T film k t 4 kp A V 7 02 r ri W R 0 41 D AM af VA alff va Y by ELMO SCOTT WATSON so gooe tor or the imade of 0 a man us bs the outside ot of a horse borse so say eth tile doctor so runs an old saying author unknown and apparently parent ly there are a greni greal many Anie americans ricans who believe it IL of course there arent its as many of us who answer to the call of boots and beaddles fuddles fudd eadd les as there were la in the old days when mien westward the course of takes its way for tills this is tile the motor uge age ant anil today you yiu beer more often the drone of airplane engine or the pop of automobile exhaust than you do the creak of saddle L leather and the clop clop of horses hoofs kut but for all of that till ahls forro r of travel still sill retains a wide kopul or siy ity und there are even those who point to a decided increase in horse hulk bach riding for pleasure it if not for business bu within recent years for deIo decoite ite the fact that modern america Aili erica in n the main goes about its business now ou on tle tires lovle still mill enough ridin riden ridin to keep tile saddle manufacturers in ID bus int eliut t tar fr years yet I 1 perhaps S one iti libation of a ruther rather widespread interest inie reid in equestrianism Is the amount vt of newspaper spree that has been ghen fien within recent months to certain iong long distance riding teats feats which hae aseen under way A recent news pic ture lure which was widely published was that of front frank heath of siler springs md aid standing with tits his horse at mile axt x t one in washington the point for the i he measurement of distances front from the hie capital over of EI tile the highways of tile lie united states sir air ileath heath who Is a war veteran bad been aldin rl din rid lu in to ills his health aud and to lo the course of a journey of some two mo years end and a half on his eleven year old horse he be had covered miles and visited every state in tile the union lost last acar press dispatches patches carried tile neus that cert bert J mccloud of fort morgan colo was about to set sel out jut on a tulle mile trip on oil ills eight bear earold ear old arabian horse chief sitting sitten hull bull ue he was to attempt the abe feat of ding from denver to new york and then crisscross criss cross the united state slates all aart i idu several beveral times tie ile too ex i acted to visit every state in the union and at the start of his trip ile he estimated that he be would covet the 36 WO miles adles to lo 1000 days so far as Is known lie he Is still mithu aldin tor for ai af the end of his trip is a prize of 25 if ile he makes alliker it successfully awl and complies with all the requirements out belog being that lie he must cull on oil all gov enors erners at the state capitals and also upon the president PresIde ut at washington who ho la is fifty years old and it fortner former cowboy and arizona ranger a 26 0 wile trip at phoenix ariz two years ago during this trip lie ile crossed cros ed a strip of desert in the great beai southwest in which sealed in i recorded a heat beat of ISO de and it took look him 72 hours to wabe make 72 miles up fp froin the south another horse ridin there is in some that likes the th city grass thata curried smooth and green theartres Theay tres and collars collar wagons run by gasoline but tit tor for roe me its hawse and saddle every day w without a change and a desert deser t sun a blazin j on a hundred miles of range f just a ridin a 1 ridin desert rippin in the sun mountains afountain 9 blue along the sky eky lin line e I 1 dont envy anyone anyon when im ridin f when my feet la is in ID the stirrups and my hawse Is on the bust with his hoofs a prom from a cloud of golden dust and th the bawlin of the cattle Is a comin down the wind then a finer alner life than ridin would be mighty hard to find just it a ridin Sp splitting littin long cracks through the th air St irrIn up a baby cyclone rippin up the prickly pear As im aldin I 1 dont need no art exhibits when the sunset does her best 4 eve r satin glory on the mountains to te the west I 1 and your opery looks foolish when the night bird starts his tune and the be deserts silver mounted by the touches of the moon just a ridin a ridin who kin envy kings and czars azars when the coyotes down the valley are a to the stars stairs it if hes odin when my earthly trail in I 1 ended and my final bacon curled and the last great roundups roundup 8 finished at the horne home ranch of the wo world rid idon I 1 dont want i ant no harps nor haloes baloes robes nor other dressed up things let me ride the starry ranges on a pinto hawse dawso with wings just a ridin a ridin id like half so 0 o well As a ro round ln up the sinners that have wandered out of hell hall and abidin a BADGER CLARK CLARIL man li ii ridin ue he Is A fells felli an argentine schoolmaster school marter who started from buenos alres aires two and a half years ago and who recent ly 17 arrived in mexico city on bis big way to new york city ills his journey was to demonstrate the endurance of the native horses of tile the patagonian onlan pampas and he be Is doing it on two of them one seventeen years old and the other sl sixteen itten when aben he be lia hase coro corn plated his journey lie he will have some rolles miles ot of ridin ridin back of win him and a host of thrilling expert exper ances to tell about to tits his friends cut but not all of these long distance riders are men tho the latest one in the field Is miss Vot voncell icell viking a twenty two year acar old rowell N INI girl who lina has started out to win a wager of 0 25 fX sold said to have been made mad with ga the ibe marquis of 0 done donegal at at a dinner party in london that she could ride from new york to los angeles in says days mayor jimmy walker of new york bid tier her godspeed about the middle of october last year and within two weeks she and her horse broadway clattered up op pennsylvania avenue aveline to the capitol and at the present writing ashes ridin rid lit somewhere in the great interior of theste these united states It Idla ridin does that have a ta familiar sound it if it does its because its a sort of refrain la in a poem by badger clark which has become a classic out in the windswept wind swept west where men know what Irl diri Is I 1 and know whether a man knows what bes he talking about whether its in verse or prose when hes talking about ridin evidently they believe that badger clark knows for his bis is probably the best known and most often quoted single poem in the whole west last year when the people of kansas staged a big pageant in celebrating the famous medicine lodge indian treaty and other event in the growth of their country the printed programs tor for the pageant included several verses from ridin in the introduction to the episode depleting depicting the day of the cowboy and only one of innumerable instances ot of its popularity come across acres it repeatedly in newspapers hear it recited at gatherings of all kinds in the west and nhen an old timer sets him down to write his reminiscences the chances are that somewhere in the book hell quote or some other badger clark poems ridin itself has had an interesting history as have some of the others other of darks clarks poems after a varied career including an experience as a plantation manager in cuba where tropical fever all but wrecked his health clark went down in the cow country of arizona to recuperate in a letter to his mother he be found prose too weak to express his content with the wonderful desert country in which he found himself and he tried to express it la in verge the result was din ills his mother with natural pride sent the verse to a magazine the old pacific Bloat monthly illy and it was immediately accepted and published thus badger clark started as the poet lariat of the west and gave to the west its best loved verses easterners who discovered the west last summer tor for the first time when president Coolid decision to establish the summer white bouse in the black hills of south dakota brought to that section a horde of tourists also discovered this poet lariat and acclaimed him but tor for all of their praise of him the only authoritative word I 1 la that uttered by an old cowman when he said after reading a book of darks clarks verses including 1111 ridin din you can break me it if theres a dead poem in the book I 1 read the bull ball of it it who in h 1 Is this kid clark auywa I 1 dont know inow how lie he knowel but lie KNOWS |