Show Record Crowds Acclaim Vernal Rodeo Best Ever Three day Show Attracts a Attendance Ex Exceeding Mickey Hicks I Wins Wms Money in Ui Bronc Riding Before Saturdays top crowd or of nearly 4 doughty Micky Hicks of Jackson Jakson Hole Wyoming V rode rodet t to first place and In the fin finest fin fin- finest est eat bucking and riding show In the history of the Vernal Rodeo Froma Fronia From Froni a field which Included twenty twenty- twenty one one of or the finest riders In the na- na nation nation na nation tion Hicks took money day aU aUthree three days dabs da s In addition to the fin fin- final's final's fin final's als al's prize From Prom the time Ume the Uintah High I school b band nd led the first day s a par par- parade parade par parade ade which featured over a hun hun- hundred hundred hun hundred dred beautiful saddle horses Un- Un un until tit til the prize winning ticket was drawn and Clive Caldwell Caldell of Ash Ash- Ashley Ash ley Icy ley claimed the gift Chevrolet there was action aplenty for the throngs which occupied Vernal Besides the regulation bronc and bareback riding bulldogging calf roping and team roping and raes there was waa rich program or of trick riding fancy roping clown lown stunts and trained animal acts I Bonnie Lee Karl Allen Aliens Alien's clan clan- clansy clas classy sy little mare martt proved to be the est fiti-est est eat local horseflesh when it walk walk- walked walked ed off oft with a pair of Thurs races races Thura-dav Thura da s i three-eighths three and Satur satur- saturday Saturdays Saturdays day days s half halt mile for Basin horses Fashion Hugh Coltons Colton's pretty little year two ered co itself with glory when it took first place In Fridays FrIday S a one half mile The other Vernal horse which collected d first money was as Dia Dia- Dia Diamond Diamond mond owned and ridden by Weeks Jr San Ton proved the racing favorite onto of the meet when It took first money both Friday and Sa Sa- Sa in the free for races Her time in the Saturday was faster 1 16 8 a tenth of or a 11 second faa faa fas- ter than her time at Payson when hl broke the track record t there ere San Ton Is La owned by R Lewis Lets Lev is ot of Montrose Colorado Mr Lewis brought a 1 splendid string to therace the therace race raco meet But it was v as really the horses brought broll ht to tn the h- h ro- ro cico co by popular Guy Guv Rife that laco made ilcI the celebration a cla i le Never before hat ha such spirited horses matched wits with cowboY athletes as ac when the six she brono bronc Mickey finalists Mickey Hicks George org I Con Conwell well 7 1 Ho n Farl Earl and came Weldon Bascom and Bill came out of the chutes in thiS championship the the-the round It was the the- the highpoint of ot the celebration Billy BlUy Kingham of Cheyenne was first money winner In the bull buU- d dogging bulldogging bull ing event Halloway Grace Grace- proved the finest roper calf-roper In the tourney the team roping went to Melvin ropper and Ralph Bennett and a former Vernal boy Won WIMon Basom took bare bark riding honors honors Specialty features which the crowds were the rope twirling of lo bra local SlI Earl Calder and the fart fan fancy fan fancy cy riding of blonde Jean Allen Allen Earl na Bascom and trick the the trick rep rop- rop ing roping of George Pittman Judges to fo the thc rodeo events were were- a Clark Burt McKee ant anc Joel Evans Evana all of or Vernal Race meet judges were Austin WardeR of Willow Creek J 1 W Weaver Wm Mott and Joe Neil Nell of Meeker It ft was a much complimented and no doubt weary rodeo committee which saw the final events of ot the planned ell planned and ll- ll d rodeo run off oft and which announced Continued on page five rive RECORD CROWDS ACCLAIM J VERNAL RODEO RODIO BEST EVER Continued Continued from from page one oneat at the conclusion of the meet that next vears years year's Vernal Vema Rodeo v will be beheld beheld beheld held September 8 9 10 Projected for the next edition of the rodeo Is a new grandstand and an even better show than the recent one The successful cel tion was captained by Jack Douglass with Alvin Weeks John W Wearer Wea and Ralph W Watson general Summary of events e Bronc riding Mickey Hicks Jackson Hole first George Convell Consell Dubois second Johnny Hagen Wolf Point Mont third Billy Bills Cheyenne first Buck Huck Peterson Nevada second Hallow ay Grace third Calf roping Grace first Melvin Cropper r second Jimmie Wilkinson third Team roping Melvin Mehin Cropper and nd Ralph Bennett first Ralph Bennett and Jimmie Wilkinson second Leonard Vaughn and Max MaxI Ma Williams third I Bare back riding Weldon Bascom Bascom Bas- Bas com corn Alberta Canada first Ivan Ian I an Powell second Clyde de Hall third |