RODEO IN NEW YORK
MOUNTING CASUALTIES
DEATH OF A COWBOY
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 27, 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 26. The recently inaugurated annual rodeo at Madison Square' Garden, where the most vicious horses and cattle are imported for broncho busting and steer"' clogging, a la Wild West, by volunteer entrants, showed a mounting casualty list with the death today of one cowboy and more or less serious injury to three cowgirls. "Dock" Lucas died as the result of being thrown from the back of a bucking steer. Ho passed away as his parents were rushing to the bedside from Texas, while three cowgirls, one suffering from a broken leg, another a broken ankle, ant] a third internal injuries from being trampled on by a horse,-were reported to bo. resting easily in local hospitals. The casualties total seventeen since the opening of the rodeo. Stage and screen stars have volunteered their services for a theatrical benefit. ■ _■_
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 8
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160RODEO IN NEW YORK Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 8
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