78Th Annual Comanche Rodeo Kicks Off June 7 and 8
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www.thecomanchechief.com The Comanche Chief Thursday, June 6, 2019 Page 1C 778th8th AAnnualnnual CComancheomanche RRodeoodeo Comanche Rodeo in town this weekend Sponsored The 78th Annual Comanche Rodeo kicks off June 7 and 8. The rodeo is a UPRA and CPRA sanctioned event By and is being sponsored by TexasBank and the Comanche Roping Club Both nights the gates open at 6:00 p.m. with the mutton bustin’ for the youth beginning at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for ages 6 to 12. Under 5 is free. Tickets may be purchased a online at PayPal.Me/ ComancheRopingClub, in the memo box specify your ticket purchase and they will check you at the gate. Tickets will be available at the gate as well. Friday and Saturday their will be a special performance at 8:00 p.m. by the Ladies Ranch Bronc Tour provided by the Texas Bronc Riders Association. After the rodeo on both nights a dance will be featured starting at 10:00 p.m. with live music. On Friday the Clint Allen Janisch Band will be performing and on Saturday the live music will be provided by Creed Fisher. On Saturday at 10:30 a.m. a rodeo parade will be held in downtown Comanche. After the parade stick around in downtown Comanche for ice cream, roping, stick horse races, vendor booths and food trucks. The parade and events following the parade are sponsored by the Comanche Chamber of Commerce. Look for the decorated windows and bunting around town. There is window decorating contest all over town that the businesses are participating in. Our favorite funny man Chase Nolen Meet Comanche Rodeo's sport of Rodeo began as a favorite funny man, Chase child riding calves to bulls Nolen. Chase has been in growing up in Hico, TX. the Rodeo profession for Now days, Chase fulfi lls 10 exciting years. He has his passion by entertaining entertained many crowds as folks, young and old, in Rodeo Clown/Barrelman. the arena by telling silly Chase has clowned and jokes and performing crazy entertained as the contract stunts. act of the year for the Chase currently resides United Professional Rodeo in Weatherford and is mar- Association, the Stand ried to his beautiful wife United Series in 2016, Melinda, and has three gor- and has had the honor of geous children ages 19, 11 entertaining for the annual and 4. See Chase this Cody Ohl PBR tour. weekend at the Comanche Chase's love for the Rodeo! M AT C H RACES! Page 2C Thursday, June 6, 2019 The Comanche Chief www.thecomanchechief.com IIt’st’s RRodeoodeo TTimeime Early History of Rodeo Parade Route It’s rodeo time in Coman- Ranch Wild West, where he 1945. Similarly, there was no che! Here’s a little general spent many years perform- attempt to standardize the Saturday at 10:30 am! early rodeo history. ing in the United States and events needed to make up Rodeo stresses its western abroad. such sporting contests until folk hero image and its being Pickett attracted many 1929. a genuinely American cre- imitators who appeared at From the 1880s through ation. But in fact it grew out rodeos and Wild West shows, the 1920s, frontier days, of the practices of Spanish and soon there were enough stampedes, and cowboy con- ranchers and their Mexican practitioners for promoters tests were the most popular ranch hands (vaqueros), a to stage contests. The fi rst names. mixture of cattle wrangling woman bulldogger appeared Cheyenne Frontier Days, and bull fi ghting that dates in 1913, when the great which began in 1897, re- back to the sixteenth-century champion trick and bronc mains the most significant conquistadors. rider and racer Tillie Baldwin annual community celebra- One of the activities in- exhibited the feat. However, tion even today. Until 1922, troduced by the Spanish and women’s bulldogging con- cowboys and cowgirls who incorporated into rodeo was tests never materialized. But won at Cheyenne were con- bull riding. Another was steer cowboys did take up the sport sidered the world’s champi- wrestling, involved wrestling with enthusiasm but with- ons. the steer to the ground by out the lip-biting, and when Until 1912, organization riding up behind it, grabbing rodeo rules were codified, of these community cel- its tail, and twisting it to the steer wrestling was among ebrations fell to local citizen ground. Bull wres- the standard contests. Two committees who selected the tling had been part of an an- halls of fame recognize Bill events, made the rules, chose cient tradition throughout the Pickett as the sole inventor of officials, arranged for the ancient Mediterranean world bulldogging, the only rodeo stock, and handled all other including Spain. The ancient event which can be attributed aspects of the festival. Many Minoans of Crete practiced to a single individual. of these early contests bore competed against men and bull jumping, bull riding, and Rodeo itself evolved after more resemblance to Buf- won. Hispanics, blacks and bull wrestling. Bull wrestling the Texas Revolution and falo Bill’s Wild West than to Native Americans also par- may have been one of the the US-Mexican War when contemporary rodeo. ticipated in signifi cant num- Olympic sports events of the Anglo cowboys learned the While today’s PRCA- bers. In some places, Native ancient Greeks. skills, attire, vocabulary, sanctioned rodeos must in- Americans were invited to The events spread and sports of the vaqueros. clude fi ve events: calf roping, set up camp on the grounds, throughout the Kingdom of Ranch-versus-ranch con- bareback and saddle bronc perform dances and other New Spain and was found tests gradually sprang up, as riding, bull riding, and steer activities for the audience, at fairgrounds, racetracks, bronc riding, bull riding, and wrestling, with the option to and participate in contests fi estas, and festivals in nine- roping contests appeared at also hold steer roping and designated solely for them, teenth century southwestern race tracks, fairgrounds, and team roping, their Pre-World Some rodeos did discriminate areas that now comprise the festivals of all kinds. Wil- War I counterparts often of- against one or more of these United States. However, un- liam F. Cody (Buff alo Bill) fered only two of these con- groups, but most were open like the roping, riding, and created the fi rst major rodeo tests. The day-long programs to anyone who could pay the racing, this contest never and the fi rst Wild West show included diverse activities in- entry fee. attracted a following among in North Platte, Nebraska in cluding Pony Express races, All this began to change in Anglo cowboys or audiences. 1882. Following this success- nightshirt races, and drunken 1912, when a group of Cal- It is however a favorite event ful endeavor, Cody organized rides. gary businessmen hired roper included in the charreada, his touring Wild West show, One even featured a foot- Guy Weadick to manage, the style of rodeo which leaving other entrepreneurs ball game. Almost all con- promote, and produce his fi rst originated in the Mexican to create what became pro- tests were billed as world’s Stampede. Weadick selected state of Jalisco. fessional rodeo. championships, causing con- the events, determined rules There would probably Rodeos and Wild West fusion that endures to this and elegibility, chose the offi - be no steer wrestling at all shows enjoyed a parallel ex- day. Cowboys and cowgirls cials, and invited well-known in American rodeo were istence, employing many of often did not know the exact cowboys and cowgirls to take it not for a black cowboy the same stars, while capital- events on offer until they part. He hoped to pit the best 7TH ANNUAL RODEO: This is art work from from Texas named Bill Pick- izing on the continuing allure arrived on site, and did not Canadian hands against those the August 8, 1947 Comanche Chief inviting folks ett who devised his own of the mythic West. Women learn the rules of competition of the US and Mexico, but to the Annual Rodeo in Comanche! unique method of bulldog- joined the Wild West and until they had paid their entry Mexican participation was ging steers. He jumped from contest rodeo circuits in the fees. severely limited by the civil WELCOME TO THE 78TH COMANCHE RODEO his horse to a steer’s back, 1890s and their participation Before World War II, the unrest in that country. None- bit its upper lip, and threw grew as the activities spread most popular rodeo events theless, the Stampede was a it to the ground by grabbing geographically. Animal wel- included trick and fancy roping, huge success, and Weadick its horns. He performed at fare groups began targeting trick and fancy riding, and followed with the Winnipeg local central Texas fairs and rodeo from the earliest times, racing. Trick and fancy rop- Stampede of 1913, and much rodeos and was discovered and have continued their ef- ing contestants had to make less successful New York by an agent, who signed him forts with varying degrees of fi gures and shapes with their Stampede of 1916. on a tour of the West with his success ever since. lassos before releasing them Although Weadick’s last brothers. He received sensa- The word rodeo was only to capture one or several production, the 1919 Calgary tional national publicity with occasionally used for Amer- persons or animals. These Stampede, was only a minor his bulldogging exhibition at ican cowboy sports until skills had to be exhibited on success, he led the way for a the 1904 Cheyenne Frontier the 1920s, and professional foot and on horseback.