Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-06 | Page 11 | Rancher Will Champion Cowboys

RANCHER WILL CHAMPION COWBOYS I r i y i iF F Fit it r 5 w l l I 1 s r I A. A y 4 l ON CR CRUSADE FOR no RODEO DEO PERFORMERS RS James Jame S Minot t 0 To ask Ii riders riders' d e rs' rs recognition Recognition in Rodeos Sought for Wild West Group An Arizona ranch owner who at 47 still enters rodeo roping events for the fun of It came to Salt Lake City Thursday on a crusade in be behalf behalf behalf be- be half of professional wild west per per- formers He is James who stopped en route to Ogden where he will plead before a convention of the Rodeo Association of America for recognition of the Cowboys' Cowboys Turtle association The association comprises professional professional professional rodeo performers exclusive of trick riders and ropers the genuine cowboys who make a living entering open events on the na national national national na- na rodeo circuit The association wants recognition recognition tion the same kind that other exhibitors exhibitors exhibitors ex ex- grant actors' actors guilds and similar organizations Mr said We do not oppose local riders riders rid rid- ers entering rodeos but when they make rodeos their means of living i we ask that they join the group Mr was asked by the association to present its plea A friend of Will Rogers Mr Mi Mi- notto is a former Arizona state senator senator senator sen sen- ator and once was a candidate for governor A friend of Governor R. R D. D Stanford of Arizona he carried that executives executive's good wishes to Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Henry H. H Blood in a visit at atthe atthe atthe the capitol How am I as a rodeo performer It took me 10 years to to win my first event Mr said I