Show 1 4 adventurers club 4 t s A riding lesson by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter OUTE heard stories about how people have learned to sim by getting thrown into the water and havin having 11 to swim well heres the story of how duke edwards learned to ride a horse duke lives in new york city maybe youve dohve heard of him maybe 1 youve seen him ride horses he does it pretty regularly now ill bet y youve auve never seen anything half as good ag as that first bronco back excursion duke ever took out in kalispell Kal IN mont Tont in july 1912 it was this way duke was twenty years old and fed up with the big city the old adventurers blood was pumping in his veins and his feet were itching to go places so he invested most of his money in a railroad ticket and headed west wesl he know what he was going to I 1 1 do when he got there but that was soon settled for him on the train duke met up with a bird in a big 10 gallon hat ile he got i to 0 o talking with him and told him he was going west to see it if he cougil bouli get a job on a ranch can you ride a horse the big fellow wanted to know riding a horse one of dukes accomplishments well duke ride a horse any more than he could walk a tight rope but he going to let that stand in his way of getting a job sure I 1 can he said and right there his troubles started the big fellow told duke he was a rodeo rider hed just finished up working for a wild west show and was on an his way to join another one in california he told duke held hed fix him up with a cowboy outfit and see if he work him into a job somewhere that was more than duke had figured on I 1 mean he might have blurted bluffed his way through the business of 0 riding ai al tame horse but getting aboard one of those bucking bronchus bron chos they ride in the circus was another thing altogether the more he heard about that job the tha less he liked it but before hed finally made up his mind the lit big fellow had badi staked him to a lot of cowboy clothes and duke owed him so much money thail he just had to have a job to pay it back the reward for bluffing Is usually a showdown show down duke began hoping turn him down when he applied tor for a job but they the big fellow saw to that lie ile went to work at seventy five bucks bucka kr 1 M I 1 A rearing and snorting the horse plunged up and down a month and his keep and since it was the ot off season and the show was wag in winter quarters lie he managed to bluff his way through the first couple of weeks on the job dukes method was simple but it had its kickback lie ile just brag bragg gedl edi so much about what a good broncho buster he was that everybody took it ton fori granted that he knew his horses but all that talk was just going to make maka things worse for him when the big showdown came duke fooled the rest of the show but he kid the big fellow when he found out duke ride a horse he started teaching him as much as he could but you cant teach a man to bust bronchus bron chos in two weeks and about all the time they had before the show went on the road again lf duke had a streak of luck the first week or two the show was on OH the road ai they forgot about him or something anyway nobody asked him to ride horse then in kalispell Kal mont the blow fell and a tough blow it was too 1 c Dypa dynamite mite was a tough specimen of horse flesh I 1 kalispell Kal was a great ranching town A cowman in the neighborhood brought la in a bad horse that went by the pretty name of dynamite and dynamites reputation was so bad around that neck of the woods that the show offered a prize of a hundred hundred bucks to the first cowboy that stayed on his back and the first name drawn to ride dynamite was you guessed it duke edwards 1 I 1 say anything says duke but I 1 felt myself going into a faint by this time I 1 knew how to mount a horse and ride it around the lot but id never been on a bucker it took six cowboys to saddle that brute and hold him so I 1 I 1 could mount but I 1 I 1 had to act as if I 1 afraid I 1 I 1 climbed into the saddle and then with a yell we were off the horse rearing and snorting went down almost to his knees and bounced up again I 1 thought my head would snap off my neck I 1 felt myself fainting ta inting but I 1 stuck to the horse until we reached the bandstand duke played a solo on the big bass drum it took duke and dynamite just about forty seconds to reach that handstand bandstand but remember quite a while to be on a bucking horse it was at the bandstand that it happened there dynamite put on an extra estra pound or two of reserve steam he gave a last leap kicked up his heels and duke went flying over his head straight into the bandstand duke flew he could see the big bass drum coming up at him felt his nose flatten out as it hit the drumhead then Avery everything thing went black until he awoke in the hospital with a busted head and a big cut in his forehead and did they fire duke after that well the tunny funny part of it everybody suld sald hed given that dynamite horse one heck of a good ride duke stayed wital that outfit for three years and rode plenty more tough horses then he went into the movies and rode in western pictures so youve probably seen duke at one time or another on the screen and that one experience he says lias has given him the only rule of success he be knows first throw your bluff says duke and then make it good I 1 D service |