"WILD WEST" AFLOAT
GAMBLERS ON THE OCEAN. LONDON. May 31. A Wild West flavour pervades the steamship that is bringing the oowbovs. buckjumpers, and 230 bronchos to London, to com]>eto at the “Rodeo” at the Empire Exhibition. The social hall has become the resort of the most daring gamblers seen on the ocean. Some of them crouch cross-legged on the floor: others lounge- at full length’, and all toss the dice, says the correspondent of the London Daily Mail, in a wireless message, to the accompaniment of weird incantations. Frequently as much af £4O changes hands after a single throw-. Cowboys who am often “broki” in the afternoon are affluent in the evening, and penniless again at night. Gambling throughout' the night is now prohibited, but from midnight op wards the cabana reecho to the sound of the banjo ppymg jazz. The horses are pining for a (more strenuous existence. One illtempered broncho broke out of him barriers, and roamed along the deck, heighing and stamping, lie was easily captured by the cow-punnhe«L ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 7
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173"WILD WEST" AFLOAT Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 7
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