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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-01-28, Page 7Riding Bucking Bulls For Money Joe Green is a wiry, sensitive 23 -year-old from the town of Sulphur, Okla,, who makes a lir- ing by riding rodeobulls who do everything but snort fire and brimstone. Green does not par- ticularly 'like to ride bulls. In fact, he . is almost always ner- vous just before he performs. But, going into the National Finals Rodeo at Dallas last month, Joe Green felt strangely calm. Not that it helped. "That worried me," he said, "It always worries me when I'm not ner- vous." The Dallas rodeo, organized this year as a World Series for a- sport which annually draws 15 trillion spectators, matched Joe' Green and 68 other carefully selected cowboys against the most dangerous rodeo animals in the country for prizes adding up to $57,500. The events ranged from steer -wrestling to calf -rop- ing, but to the cowboys, the busi- ness of ridiing bulls was differ- ent -= and more perilous than anything else. Riding bulls, with their fran- tic spins, their quick direction changes and, as a special fillip,' their horns, is mere risky than riding broncs. Further, bull rid- ers are not permitted saddles. They cling with one hand to a rope tied around the bull's stom- ach, What they fear most, under- standably, is being thrown for- ward in )the zone where a bull canhook them in the face with his horns. Two things distinguished bull rider Joe Green as the Dallas rodeo began. He was hot - he had won prize money ina dozen straight rodeos since August, building. his year's earnings to $9,921. And then, unlike many of his rivals, he was not afraid to admit the fact of fear. Green himself believed that money, rather than the bulls, was the underlying cause of his tension. "I went through long periods of notwinningand 1 got in debt and I needed the money so bad. But it got to a point where, when I could win some money, I juinped off. I actually jumped off, I was so tense." Green paused, then added: "Still F haven't cheked up since April," Green's third bull in Dallas was an animal named Baldy, net big for a rodeo bull (1,600 )pounds) but fast. Baldy's coat *as brownish yellow, his face ems white, and his horns were small. As Green spurred Baldy out of the shute and into the arena, the bull spun hard and tight to the right, Green hung on. Sud- denly Baldy stopped spinning and leaped high. Green lost his tight- foothold on the animal's mid-section, but stayed on. Then Baldy spun to the right again and Green sailed off his back. Baldy planted his hind feet in the small of Green's back beforea rodeo clown lured him away. Green tried to ride again that night. "I couldn't" he said. "My ribs felt like they were pulling in two. It turned out the cartil- age was torn bebweeh three of them." Why does Green da it - sub- mit himself to physical beatings and mental torture year after. year? (He started bull riding , when he was 14.) Green makes no mystery of the answer. "Hell" he said, one hand on his battered side. "Why do you think I do it? For money," -From NEWSWEEK GUY'S BEST PAL - "Poi,". a 3 -year-old toy Labrador, proves he is man's best friend to his master,' Robert laqulnto, 15, of Minneapolis. The dog's barking saved. seven sleeping persons when the laquinio house caught fire, Convicts Escape In 'Warden's Car San Quentin, California, the biggest penitentiary in t h e world, was grossly overcrowded in 1935. Built to hold 3,000 pri- soners, its population had risen to more than 6,000. Nat, especi- ally noted for its comfort and congeniality at bhe best of times, (life in the prison had become intolerably wretched. A feeling of unrest among the inmates snowballed and soon a score of ,prisoners were singled out as agitators and oast into the infamous dungeons. But far ' fr o m relieving the. tension, this move aggravated it. Rudolph' "Bad Boy" Straigkat a 35 -year-old criminal who had twice tried, and flailed, to escape from San Quentin, became more determined, than ever to succeed at his . third attempt. At a lime when most people were loolcdng:forward to' Christ- mas, Straight .was anticipating e happy new year of freedom. Carefully he selected three accomplices. They ' were a 28 - year -old Scotsman, Alexander Mackay, and two Americans Joe Kristy, 26, and Fred Lan- ders, 27. The four of them plan- ned to make their bid for free- dom on January 16th, 1935. Straight promised .them there would be "outside help." At about noon on the day, a party oafdistinguished men, all responsible prison officials, were sitting downto lunch 'in the oiffi.ce of Warden James Hollo- han,, They finished their lunch and, while they satsmoking and chatting, Lieutenant Jones and 'watchman Doose of the prison guard left to fetch the warden's car. A minute after their depar- ture, four desperate men, each of them armed, stopped work in the nearby prison garden, en- tered the warden's house, and burst into the luneh room. The 62 -year-old warden tried to restrain then, but was thrown to the floor and his skull wads' fractured . with a blow from the butt of a pistol. The rest' of the ,;.rt ' 7,,. WILT'S LONG STRETCH - Philadelphia Worrior Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, stretches his entire lenplh toward the Cincinnati Royals basket, victims were ordered to swap clothes with the convicts, Mark. Noon, the prison board secre- tary, was forced to telephone the guard, to warn him not to open fire. The hostages emerged just as the warden's ear was driven up. Jones and Doose were disarmed and the members' of the prison board were ordered into the car. The four convicts followed them in, Foroing the two guards to stand on either running board, they drove out through the west gate. Once outside; Doose was pushed 051 and Jones hauled inside to drive. ' The car sped on its way with the wake of pursuers keeping a respeattful distance for fear the convicts used their guns. Realiz- ing that 'bhe escapers were alarmed by the speed at which the police had closed in, Mark Noon suggested that he should be set dawn to hold back the pursuing ears. T h e convicts agreed and dropped him off just before the Petaluma Bridge. Noon stopped the leading po- lice oar and learned that the Petaluma drawbridge was up, effectively blocking the escape of the fugitives. The .convicts' oar carne roar- ing back' along the road. Swear- ing with rage; they headed to- wards Novato', doubling back through' the ranks of their pur- , suers' and creating' wild confu- sion. They encountered a road block near Marshall and opened fire. The police, apparently unaware of the .'hostages .in the ear, re- plied. with 'rifles and machine guns. Both rear' tires • of the car were blasted away:but somehow it kept going. Driving.at a suicidal pace, the eonvdcts reached Valley Ford. As they rounded a bend another hail" of bullets met them. The windshield and rear windows were shattered and the car.ca- reered crazily off the road. -Forcing open the nearside doors, the convicts leapt out and raced for the shelter of a nearby dairy. The driverless car plung- ed towards the brick wall of the building at 30 m.p.h. Somehow the officials threw themselves clear , just ' before the vehicle smashed into the brickwork. A huge ,army of police closed in on the dairy in which the ,onsets had taken cover after locking the staff in the deep freeze. Straight appeared at a win- dow and raised a rifle. Before he could fire a change of buck- shot Mt him full in thelace, face, At the Hall of their leader, the other three mels .surrendered. Bach was found' to have a .45 auto- matic, and a hundred rounds between them. The four members of the pri- son board were safely retrieved and one was taken to hospital to have a bullet removed from his hip. Straight was also re- moved to hospital, but died later that day. With the three surviving con- victs safely back in jail, the most dramatic break in the history of San Quentin was at an end. But one question remained to be answered. How had the guns been smuggled into the prison? The mystery was cleared up by Landers who revealed that bhe guns had come from a man palled Clyde Stevens, a former San Quentin convict, wanted by the police for robbing a San Francisco bank. They had been hidden under thehood et a truck whcih was stored et night in a San Rafael garage. The arms `had been brought into San Quentin by an unsus- pecting driver two months earlier. The next clay police arrested r . • CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS WAN I ED EARN Cash in your Spare rime Just All•OccasiontUrinates LulChristmas. a, l naluding ltellgiousi Stationery. Gifts Write for samples. 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