Sport: Career Cowboys

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Like most of his confreres, Cowboy Carney rodeos ten months of the year, travels by auto, likes pool & poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have to do is let them have their way."

*"Because the turtle is slow but sure," top-flight rodeo performers dubbed themselves Turtles when in 1936 they formed a union for collective bargaining with promoters.

*Longest run of any sport event ever held in the Garden.

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