Sport: Broadway Rodeo

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The rest of the show was the smell of tanbark, a display of gay bandanas, a pounding of hoofs, a whooping of cowhands and a continuous schedule of feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount and ride wild horses in a race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo, football and a riot in a picket line; Trick-Roper Gene McLaughlin, 7, of Del Rio, Tex. performing with his brother Donald. 8.