Show Recap on rodeo ai County fair Made by reporter By A. C. Wilkerson Roping Club Reporter Roping Club produced another very good rodeo for the Duchesne County Fair August A two-night rodeo was but the first night was rained A great deal of the credit for the success of the rodeo belongs to two members of the fair Jake fair board and Hale rodeo Both worked night and day to make it Duchesne's best Stock contractors were Ivan and Cliff Ivan Merrill and Reed Taylor did a fine job of The Uintah a new group of square dancers on gave a good When this group get their horses matched up a little better and with a little more they could be one of best of such clubs in the state as most of the men are old cowboys and some of the women have had a great deal of riding I notice most of members are riding sorrel If all of them were that color it would make a very spectacular It may interest some of the people to know that Leora Sprouse has ridden in all the drills with a leg in a I believe the best event of the show was when Tony's and John's Sinclair Service offered a prize for any Duchesne business man who could throw and tie one of Roosevelt Roping Club's tough brahma calves in 18 The rope was placed around the calf's neck in the All that had to be done was ride out a jump off the go down the throw the calf and tie Lavor Thompson was the first sporty businessman to give it a The calf cooperated fine as he met Lavor about half way up the but he had his own ideas about who was supposed to throw and when the dust settled the calf was down all but Lavor was on the Lavor is a pretty tough boy so he crawled out from under that calf and showed him who was of he had lost too much time to qualify You would have thought that would have cooked the but out came another Duchesne businessman by the name of after two succeeded in winning the I only hope that when the next Roosevelt rodeo is held we can find that kind of good sports as this is an added attraction well worth the price of the show Doc Jenkins thought he was I guess as he ran his calf clear to the lower end of the arena just so he could tie it in the even then he won a I so I guess it was a good thing for the other boys that he likes A special matched roping between two Roosevelt Doc Jenkins and Wayne competing against two boys from the was It was not as sensational as the one held in Roosevelt last Spring at the early I imagine our who won it enjoyed it about as much because they were roping for a instead of a pot as Following is a list of rodeo i Calf Roping Dee Allred Merv Betts Doc Jenkins Bull Wayne Jennings Doc Jenkins Bareback Riding Pete Madsen Vernon Christensen Keith Team Roping Phil Maxwell and Jack and Dee- Allred Merv Betts and Clair Winterton Bull Riding Pete Madsen Vernon Christensen Lucky Madsen Saddle Bronc Riding Danny Santio Vernon Christensen Lucky Madsen |