The Peerless Prophets yesterday closed a contract with Lucille Mulhall, who will be in Wichita October 15 and 16 to rope a steer
each day, ride a hurdle and do other fancy riding.
Miss Mulhall has been celebrated as an equestrienne since she first essayed to do difficult work. A remarkable fact
in her youthful career is that she has had only one accident, and that accident was not caused
through any fault of her own. The accident occured in a relay race, at the end of the first quarter. As she jumped from
one horse to mount another, a rider back of her swerved suddenly and ran her down, inflicting very painful injuries, compelling
her to remain in plaster casts until torn lignaments had properly united again. By careful adn skillful attention she
was completely restored.
"Some people," said Miss Mulhall in talking of the accident, "thought I would never ride again, but they failed to properly
estimate the kind of material that constitutes the make-up of a girl reared on a great western ranch of the boundless west.
"I was put on a horse when a wee tot by my father. I always wanted to get on and never to get off. All the western girls
ride astride. From a medical and every other standpoint, we consider it the proper way for women to ride. The side saddle
developes the muscles of one side of the body only, consequently those who adopt that way of riding soon become lopsided.
Dr. Bernais, a celebrated New York physician, said that the only proper way for women to ride was astride. The ancient pictures
show women riding in the same way as men. A member of the Austrian nobility is credited with the introduction of the side-saddle,
because her right leg was short, and a pommel was necessary to hide the defect."