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Congratulations to
the ProRodeo Sports News for fifty years of continuous
coverage of professional rodeo. In November, 1952, the
Rodeo Cowboy Association began their magazine with
eight pages of information. Today, fifty years later,
it has grown to 56 pages. In 1952 Harry Tompkins won
the Bareback Riding Championship, the Bull Riding
Championship and the All-Around Championship. Other
names such as Jim Shoulders, Casey Tibbs and Gerald
Roberts were also at the top of their game in 1952.
The Canadian
Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame inducted their 2002
Honorees on November 1 at the Calgary Stampede
Round-Up Centre. Those inducted were; Jim Dunn,
bareback rider; Rex Logan, stock contractor; Dave
Penner, steer wrestler; and Greg Schlosser, bull
rider. Also honored were Calgary Stampede’s horse,
Guilty Cat, and Wayne Vold’s bull, Rambo.
The first Dean Smith
Celebrity Rodeo in honor of Ben Johnson, was held in
Graham, Texas, November 1 and 2, with the proceeds
going to the American Cancer Society. Talk about
celebrities - some that attended were Dale Robertson,
Alex Cord, James Drury, Buck Taylor, Jerry Potter,
Peter Brown, Bruce Boxleitner, Ann Lockhart, Barry
Corbin, Kenny Call, and on and on! The entertainment
was Don Edwards, Red Steagall, Riata Ranch Cowboy
girls, The White Horse Troup & Hardin Simmons
Cowboy Band, plus more. A matched roping between Roy
Cooper and Tommy Guy, then a Junior matched roping
between Justin Smith and Cliff Cooper (both 11 years
old) was held. Both dad, Roy, and son, Cliff, won. The
team roping match was won by Clay O’Brian Cooper and
Lari Dee Guy. Vicki Bass won the cutting horse
contest.
Team Penning was won by
Lynn Anderson, Eddie Hinton, Bobby Norris and Dean
Smith, and the team roping was won by Jerry Long and
K. C. Jones. Jerry Long is legally blind and they
attach bells to the animals horns when he is header,
and he ropes by sound and intuition. Pretty amazing.
The Rodeo Clown Museum
at Heritage Village, near Crazy Horse monument, has
closed for the winter, but they are looking for more
memorabilia and photographs from all rodeo clowns and
bullfighters. Most recently they received photographs,
etc., from Dixie Reger Mosley, who is the only woman
who was rodeo clown/bullfighter for thirteen years.
Anyone interested in being a part of this great
display please send to: Ann Ziolkowski, Heritage
Village, Crazy Horse, SD 57730. |
