Page 6 University Daily Kansan, November 13, 1981
Spare time
Rick Smith, Clark, Wyo., rides a horse named Black Flash in the saddle bronze event of the American Royal Rodeo Tuesday night. He scored 71 points for the ride.
Royal cowboys ride tall in the saddle
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Three hours before the American Royal Rodeo opened at 8 p.m. Tuesday, two cowboys galloped through downtown Kansas City, Mo., on their dusty ponies.
They were chasing two calves that had escaped from the calf-roping contest.
102. When they found one of the calves, they twirled their lariats, which land-
around the calf's neck and led the runaway back to Kemper Arena. Calling in one of the most practical roden events, according to the
Calf-roping is one of the most practical rodeo events, according to the 1980 All-Around Champion Cowboy, Paul Tierney. "I don't know," he said. "You get it used."
1960 All-Around Champion, on the ranch and the farm. "he said. "You get used to working with animals. There is part of the work, so you ignore it."
working with animals. Danger is part of the work, so you should.
Because being a cowboy is such hard and underpaid work, he said,
cowboys started rodeos so they could earn some money doing what they do best—riding and roping animals.
And there is money to be made in Kansas Clfv
Northwestern
Cash awards at the American Royal Rodeo totaled $77,000 this year,
and Dalton earned an order started.
After the national anthem, bareback riding, the first event of the evening, began.
Six boys took their turns, and Ben Shatto of Kansas City was first out of the chute on his horse, Blue Eagle.
As Blue Eagle bucked wildly, Shatto held desperately to a strapt around the horse's neck, waked one hand high in the air and flailed his feet wildly.
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Buckwheat cowboys are required to kick their spurred feet over the bucking horses' shoulders every time the horse's front hooves touch ground, according to the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association's rulebook.
Judges award points to both the cowboys and the bucking animals—horse, steers and bulls—so the contest is not only against other cowboys.
As calf-roping, the second event, began, the announcer warned the contestants, "You have to give the calves a head start."
Participants accumulated points in all the events during the rode, and the best contestants in all events competed in the finals Sunday night.
Bursting from the chute, the first call broke a rope with an orange flag tied to it, and the judges began timing how long it would take boy Steve to break the rope.
As Thornton's lariat closed around the calf's neck, the calf was jerked backward.
It tried to struggle to its feet again, but before it could, Thornton had trussed its feet so could move.
trussed its feet so it couldn't move. The calf lay on the arena floor and mooed while Thornton raises his arms
Women entered only the third event last night—barrel racing. Only women participated in that event.
E eleven riders took turns at racing their horses around three barrels.
"They must come as close as they can, but not close enough to knock the
"They must come as close as they can, but not close enough to knock the barrels down," the announcer said.
After the barrel racers came saddle broncing ride, which is the same as bareback riding except that a saddle without a saddlehorn is used.
The cowboys' feet and hands flailed as they tried to hang on to their bucking horses.
"There's no horn on those saddies because they can go right through the ribs and the chest," the announcer said.
"You have to be pretty good to do that," one teen-age boy in the audience whispered.
Cowboys could be seen unloading steers from cattle trucks into the chutes for stear wrestling, which the cowbells call bulldozing.
John Miller of Kowa, was the first cowboy to take off on horseback after a steer, to try to tackle it and wrestle it to the ground.
chutes for steer wrestling, which the cowboys call building. John Miller of Kowa, was the first cowboy to take on horseback after
He was one of only three bulldoggers who scored. The others were disqualified or were unable to tackle their steers.
Before the bull riding event, one cowboy was psyching himself up behind the chutes. He wandered up and down, mumbling to himself, gesturing as if he was going to run.
The event is so dangerous that two rodeo clowns ring the roing to attract the bull's attention away from the cowboy, if the cowboy is thrown.
When the cowboys aren't in trouble, the clowns' antics entertain the audience.
but when cowboy Roy Carter of Crockett, Texas, was thrown to the ground and was about to be transplanted, he himself had been riding, clowning over the man he himself had beaten.
Both the cowboy and the clown had the breath knocked out of them, but were able to walk away.
Last year Coffee was knocked unconscious by one of the bulbs, the announcer said. Tuesday the crowd sat silently until the bull was rounded up in front.
Meanwhile the bulls stirred in their pens and tried to dash through the fences.
"Bull, bull, bull back," the cowboys shouted when one bull started
looking dangerous. "Look out."
Although the rodeo performance was finished at 10 p.m., and the crowd bad sauntered home, the boys weren't finished.
They rounded up the calves and steers and got ready to compete again until about 2 a.m. There were so many cowboys entered this year that not all of them could perform during the show.
That's why no final scores were given during the events, 1980 All-Around Champ Tiaraien said. Even he had to wait until the crowd left to watch.
The American Royal is one of the most famous livestock and horse shows and rodeos in the United States. It draws many competitors, he said.
and huddles in the United States. It was only a couple of minutes.
When the cowboys started their late-night round of call-roping, there was
"It'll probably end up on somebody's dinner table," a cowboy said with a laugh.
The rodeo continues tonight through Sunday in Kemper Arena, Matinees and evening performances are at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily, except today, when the matinee begins at 11:30 a.m.
when the beginner begins at 1:00 a.m.
The saddle-horse shows begin Monday and end Nov. 21.
The saddle-horse show begins on Wednesday at 11 NOV. 21.
Tickets range from $4 to $7.90 and can be bought at the Parking
center.
Leon Coffee, clown rode, tries to get a bull's attention during the American Royal Rodeo. The clown's responsibility is to distract bulls while the bull rider makes a safe escape from the ring.
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Rex Rossi, professional trick roper, shows his tricks during the rodeo.
arts calendar
Music
The KU Collegium Musicum will perform at
the Spence Museum of Art. No admission
charter.
The Chamber Music Series will present the Seraphim Trio at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. Tickets are $3.50 for KU students and $7 for the general public.
Susan Kessler, French horn player, will perform a student recital at 6 p.m. Sunday in the School Hall.
The Kansas Woodwind Quintet will perform
8 p.m. Monday in Sartorius Reception Hall. No
reservation.
Maynard Ferguson will perform at 9 p.m.
Monday in the Lawrence Opera House, 642
Massachusetts St. Tickets are $5 in advance
or $10 for a one-hour show at the
general public, and $8 the day of the show.
Auditions for the Pi Kappa Lambda Concerto Concert will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall. The auditions are open to all students.
John Williams, countertenor, will perform his doctoral recital at 8 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 W. 23rd St. No admission charge.
Theatre
The musical "Brigadoon" will be performed at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the University Theatre. Student tickets are $4, $3 and $2.
Club holds festival
Who says a dollar won't go far for an evening of fun?
Tomorrow KU students can attend a dinner, a slide presentation and a dance—all for a dollar at the Brazilian Festival at McColum Hall.
The Brazili-Portugal Club, with the assistance of the McColum Hall social club.
Katia Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
freshman, is a member of the Brazil-Portugal
Council.
She said the group planned to dance a samba, then would teach the dance to the dancers.
Beer will be served, she said. There will be no charge besides the dollar paid at the door.
The slide show will begin at 8 p.m. while the food is being served. The dance will begin at 9 p.m.
Concert ticket sales sluggish
In what seems to be a continuing trend at the University of Kansas, attendance at the two concerts last weekend in Hoch Auditorium was lower than expected.
According to Irene Carr, Student Union Activities adviser, 2,600 people attended the George Thorogood and the Destroyers concert last Friday night.
Carr said she had not talked to the promoter of the concert, but said the Thorogood concert did
Thorogood likes to perform for small crowds of about 2,000 people. Carr said. Hoch, with a seating capacity of about 8,000, was larger than Thorogood's group in Lawrence with a seating capacity near 2,000.
Carr said that Hoch was the best place on campus to hold concerts unless a band could attract a crowd large enough to fill Allen Field House. Other on-campus locations, such as the Kansas Union Ballroom, are too small for a promoter to make profits.
The Manhattan Transfer, which performed last Saturday, had an audience of about 1,500. The promoter did not make money on the concert, Carr said.
"But it was a fantastic show," she said.
The show was very polished, Carr said, and the rapport between the group and the audience was great.
She said the Transfer might return to Lawrence. Even though the concert did not make money, word-of-mouth about how good the show was made SUA and the promoter think that the next Transfer concert here would be a financial success.
In an article published Oct. 30 in the Kansan, Duke Devine, SVA special events chairman, said, "KU is in danger of losing concerts because we can't support the ones we've got."
Carr said that she thought people were generally interested in the concerts, but a lack of them was a problem.
She also said that there were so many concerts in the Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka area that people had to choose the ones they really wanted to see.
Tonight, Molly Hatchet will present a concert at 8:30 p.m. in Hoch. The opening group will be DVC. Tickets are $8.50 and $9.50, $0 less tax. Tickets will be available at the door beginning at 7 p.m.
on campus
TODAY
THE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM will feature Jack Ulmer from the Boeing Co., speaking on "Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Machining—Its Evolution, Payoff and Future," at 3:30 p.m. in 3140 Wescott Hall.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
TOMORROW
THE KU CHESS AND BACKGAMMON CLUB will meet at 10 a.m. in Alcove D of the Union.