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DENVER PD .- Retired | tired’ miles between rodeos,
the. usually: futile ciphering ;
to make the. season’s win-
nings surpass the entry fees,

rodeo cowboys know it takes -
more than a hat and boots to .
make a cowboy. “So’:they~

"don’t begrudge the bevy of

urban imitators. ‘
“Hell, we've had the i image.

" to ourselves for a lot of years
_and it -never: ‘did . US any”

good,” said Chip ‘Eidson,
who competed ‘out of Oak-
dale, Calif.;: “for 15 years
before ~ retiring. “It’s a
compliment.”

The seasoned members of
the -Professional Rodeo
Cowboys. . Association
(PRCA) ‘in Denver for the
75th. Annual - National
Western Stock Show Rodeo,
make the'replicas spawned
by John Travolta’s “Urban
Cowboy” stand out like a
farmboy in his first suit.

Hands are hard-calloused
from decades of rope
grasping. Their stride has the
arythmic grace of athictes
persisting despite repeated
injuries. The straight-in-the-
eye look never wavers.

Somewhere in the dog-

that" most abandon, :
“confidence grows to produce:

and in-holding on in a sport
the...

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men assured enough to smile
at the media hype of their

image and to welcome the -

benefits.

“It is a compliment to me,
to John Wayne, to Roy
Rogers. It makes you feel
good that people are copying
you,” said Larry Mahan, 37,
six-time All-Round World
Champion. —

At a PRCA party queries
about the proliferation of
urban cowboys ruffle no
feathers. Not much bothers
men who have mastered
their fear of frantic animal
tonnage.

“Cowboys were already
urbanized,” said Dennis
Reiners, 43, of Scottsdale,
Ariz. “There are fewer and
fewer range-grown cowboys.
They're all athietes. A real
rodeo cowboy can't afford

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pushed prices up:”

Reiners, world saddle
bronco champion in. 1970,
admits’ he’. gets - “rankled
some”: in a “bar. by: urban
cowboys who “put-on” like

they are a rodeo star.

“IT can tell by looking at
him, he couldn't. spur a

-bronc out on his best day. I.

can look at a cowboy, tell
you what event he works and
how he does. So, what they
say don’t really count,” he
said.

Reiners and Mahan
agreed the real problem with
urban cowboys is their habit
of writing checks using
Mahan’s and_ Reiners’
names.

ERidson and other rodeo
circuit veterans see mostly
benefits in the fashion trend,
including less harassment of
cowboys competing in large
Eastern cities.

“And it’s good _ for
business,” said Mahan, who
now has a line of Western
clothing.

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Mahan, Reiners and Jim
Apodaca, 50, were bull
riders in their day and shrug

. at mechanical bull riding
championships for bar

- cowboys. |
“Real cowboys don't use
the electric bulls because
you get into-a rut. You get
too much machine and not
‘enough animal, but they're
okay for schoo said

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