In Texas, from sophisticated Houston to the heart of the brush country, rodeos are supplanting baseball as a favorite Sunday pastime: big-time professional shows, semi-pro affairs put on by peewee promoters, local amateur meets, two-chute matches (popular with gamblers), all-Negro rodeos, kid rodeos, rodeos under floodlights.
Last week, at rural Huntsville, near Houston, 25,000 rodeo fans saw a roundup unique even in Texas. Started ten years ago to give the inmates of the old, grey prison more recreation, the Texas Prison Rodeo brings out such crowds that it has to be held on four...
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