Lucille Mulhall, eighteen years old, won the $1,000 steer roping contest here yesterday. She defeated several
of the best cowboys in the wouthwest. The conditions were that three steers were to be roped and tied and the contest
was open to all. Miss Mulhall threw her first steer and tied it in forty-three seconds. The second required
one minute and eleven seconds, while the third was roped, thrown and tied in the remarkably fast time of forty seconds.
Miss Mulhall weighs less than 100 pounds, and can break a bronco, construe Virgil, brand a steer, understand
Browning, shoot a coyote at 300 yards, and her friends say she can make the best mayonnaise dressing and Welsh rarebits in
the southwest. It is said that Miss Mulhall suggested the central idea in Hoyt's "A Texas Steer." [Actually, it was
her elder sister Agnes.]
Miss Mulhall was presented to Mr. Roosevelt when he was governor of New York. He told her that her
exhibition and skill with the lariat which he had just seen could not be surpassed by any of his "Rough Riders."
Miss Mulhall tried for the prize last year, but failed. The rope caught the steer around the mouth instead of the horns,
and did not throw him properly. Her father is "Zack" Mulhall, General live stock agent of the St. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad.
Kansas City Star.