Show 9 I tL f Y e i inI t fl t 1 fI z j l e a i J J f r ov tt ft 1 I J s t I j t t. t I l. l t i f I v Ji t. t T z Z au k m Jl mS bt ny 7 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 8 so good lot for ur the thet t Inside of a us liS the N outside of u 11 horse horse su so sa say say- eth the doctor So runs an on old saying author unknown lad and op there are ore a n greut great ninny loony Americans who bo boo lIe e It Of course there tl arent aren't us ns ninny of nf us who answer to the tall call of boots anti and addles us s there W warin war T In ln the old days when westward ward the course of ell cu pare takes Its way For s Is the motor use age and today fun jou 11 1 Shear hear blur more often the drone drolle of ot airplane engine or the pop lOP cf ct automobile ex ex- than thun you ou do the tile creak of or saddle leather Heather mill and the clop clop-clop of ot horses horse's hoofs houCK Hut Lut fur for all 1111 of ot that this form of f travel still retains retain a wide wille popular popular- i 11 and there ure even U those who wi point to a dl decided Increase In III horseback horse buck back riding for Cor pleasure If It not for jl business 1 u within recent years For despite the fact that modern America In the main goes oe about Its business sl now on u pneumatic tic tires f theres there's still Mill enough ridin ridin to Steep keep the saddle manufacturers In bus bus- loess Iniss for fUI several years yet et Perhaps one imp of u a rather widespread Interest In equestrianism Is the amount of r new nl newspaper simper spate u that has hul been gl given within recent months to IJ certain K lung long distance riding feats which have been In under way A recent news pic pic- lure turi which h was widely published was t that of Frank Meath It of Silver 11 Springs ild standing with his horse at Milet Mile t One In Washington the point fur or I the he measurement of or distances from the capital over OWl ell the highways of the United States Mr r. r Heath who Is u a war Will veteran had hud been rid In ridin ridin rid lu in in tu to u er his Ills health und and In fo the course of oI n a Journey of or some I two wo years end and lId a II holt half on bl his eleven eleven- cleren old old ear horse horS he tie had covered 11 j miles rullIs and vU s. Iti-il Iti every ry state In the Union Last jeur eliI press dl dispatches carried Ui the news 8 that Bert J J. J McCloud of or I l Fort ort Morgan Colo was about to set setout setout out on a n tulle mile trip on hi Ills his eight eight- old Earold old Arabian horse Chief Sitting Bull He lie was tl to attempt the tilt feat feut of at riding from Denver Den to New l York rork and ond then cross criss-cross the United States Stater and anI Canada s several times He Ill too expected ex ex- petted to 10 visit every ery state in the Union and at ut the tile start sturt of his trip he ht estimated that he would cover covel the 30 80 miles In 1200 days So far as Is known he lie Is still ridin for ui w the end of his hi trip Is a s prize of 2000 2 21 O If It he makes it successfully and complies compiles with all oil the requirements one oat being that he must cull call on all 1111 gov gOY governors at ot the state capitals and ond also oIs upon the resident ut at Washington Cloud Mi-Cloud who Is fifty years old and ond a u form former r cowboy and ond Arizona Hanger finished a OOOO-mile OOOO trip at ot Phoenix Ariz two t years ago ogo During this thle trip tie he crossed a 0 strip of desert In the great Southwest In which sealed Instruments instruments In in- recorded a heat of ISO de de- reps and ond It took him T 72 hours to 72 miles Up from the South another horse horse- IS Ridin nidin There Is he some Bome that likes the c city l l'- l' Grass Orase that that's curried smooth and green and cottar collars Wagons run by gasoline gasoline- But for me It hawse and saddle addle Every day without a change And a IL desert sun a a blazin On a hundred miles of ot range Just a a a a Desert rippin In the sun Bun Mountains blue along the skyline skyline sky sky- It line lineT line line- neI ne- ne T J dont don't envy anyone When Im I'm rid ridin In When my feet Is In to the stirrups And my hawse haws li Is on the bust With his hla hoofs boots a a From a cloud of golden dust And the bawl bawlin In of ot the cattle Is a com a-com a comin In down the wind Then a 1 finer liner life than Would be mighty hard to find and Just a a ridin long long- cracks through the air up a baby cyclone up the prickly pear e As Im I'm ridin I dont don't need no art exhibits When the sunset does her ber beet best glory On the mountains to tr the west And your opery open looks foolish When the night bird blyd start starts hit his tune And the desert deserts silver sliver mounted By fly the touches of the moon Just a a a a ridin Who Vho kin envy kings and czars CUrB When the coyotes down the valley valley val val- ley leyAre leyAre leyAre Are a a to the stars If hes he's When my earthly trail Is ended And my final bacon curled And the last great roundups roundup's fin finished tin fin At the Home Ranch of the world 1 l dont don't want no harps nor haloes baloes Robes Robel nor other dressed up things thing Let me ride the starry ranges On a pinto hawse with wings Just a a a a Id I'd like half ro so well welt As a up the sinners That have hare wandered out of ot lIeU Itch And a a CLARK man Inan Is U rId In He lIe Is A A. Fells Felix an Argentine tei who started from Buenos Aires two and a halt half years ago and ond who recently recent recent- ty ly arrived In to Mexico City on his wa way to New York city ills Is Journey Journ y was begun to demonstrate the endurance of ot the native horses of ot the Patagonian pampas and he Is doing It on two of them one seventeen years old and end the theother theother theother other sixteen When he has hae com corn d his journey he will have some miles of rId In back of or him and a host of ot experiences to tell about to his friends Out But not all 01 of these long distance riders are men The latest one in the field Is Miss Voncell Viking a twenty two two old year old well tins N N. N M M. girl who has bus started out to win a wager of Z OO saId sold to have been made mude with the marquis of Donegal at ot a dinner party In London that she could ride rido from New York to Los Angeles eles In da days s Mayor Maor Jimmy Walker of or of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York bid her tier godspeed about the tho th middle of October lust lost year and within two weeks she and her horse Broadway Broadway Broad way clattered up avenue avenue ave ave- avenue nue to the capitol And at lit the prest present pres ent eat writing she's sines somewhere somewhere some some- where In the great Interior of or there United States e nidin rid ridin In does does that have a familiar sound If It It does dOlI Its It's because Its It's a 0 sort of refrain In a poem by byDo Do Badger tIger Clark which has be become ome a classic out In the wind-swept wind West where men know what Is I. and know whether a man roan knows what hee hel talking about whether about whether Its It's In verse vers e or prose when prose when hes he's talking about believe that ridin Evidently they Badger Cadger Clark knows for his Is probably the best hest known and most often otten quoted single poem In the who whole West Last year when the people o of or f Kansas staged a big pageant In cel celebrating cele cele- brating braUni the famous Medicine Lodge Indian treaty and other events event In the growth of ot their country the printed programs for tor the pageant Included Include d several verses from tram In th the Introduction to the episode depicting depleting g the day of the cowboy And that that's e only one ODe of or Innumerable Instances Instance of or orIts its Its popularity You'll come across It repeatedly In newspapers you'll hear bear hearIt It recited at gatherings of all l kinds In Inthe inthe Inthe the West and when an timer old-timer sets him down to write his reminiscences the chances are ore that somewhere inthe Inthe in inthe the book hell he'll quote or some other Badger Clark poems has hus had an on Interesting Interest interest- ing lag history as have some SOUle of or the others other I of or Clarks Clark's poems After Atter a varied career including an experience as a plantation manager In Cuba where tropical fever nil all but wrecked hl his health Clark went down In III the CAW ww country country of or Arizona to recuperate Ina In Inu Ina a u letter to his hia mother he found round prose too weak to express his content with the wonderful desert country In which he found himself and ond he tried to express express ex ex- press It U In la verse verpe The result was wu Ills mother with natural pride sent the verse verso to a magazine the old Pacific Monthly and ond It was Immediately accepted und and published Thus Badger Clark started as al the poet lariat of the West and gave to the West Its best loved verses I East Easterner ast erner erners who discovered the West last summer for Cor the first time when President dent Coolidge's decision to establish the summer White louse House In the Black UllIs fills of South Dakota brought to that tool section a horde of ot tourists also discovered dill dis covered cO this poet lariat and acclaimed acclaimed ac ac- claimed him But for all of ot their praise of him the only authoritative word II Is that uttered by an old cowman cowman cow man when he said suld after reading a book of Clarks Clark's verses Including nidin You can break me If It theres there's theresa a II dead poem In the hook book I read the hull hall of It It- Who In h h l 1 is this kid Clark anyway I dont don't know how he but he KNOWS Kl |