Tuesday, November 14, 2006

From Robert Cox


"Terrell Jacobs on Palomino horse at Peru, IN Winter Quarters."

When I was a kid and my dad was working for Mr. Jacobs at Bunker Hill in the early 1940's, I can remember that saddle. In fact there was something of a big argument over it's final disposition but the details now elude me. Buckles.

Posted by Buckles at 11/14/2006 01:00:00 PM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting that around 1924, 25 and 26 that my dad and Terrel were on the Christy show together and worked under John Hoffman. In fact in Miss Joy's book on American wild animal trainers she lists my dad Milt Herriott as a wild animal trainer there in 26. Christy had a heavy grift show and covered the heat with a Biblical spec, such as Noah's Ark, Daniel in the lions den, [whereby the announcer would say" Cast him among the beasts, and they would throw Terrel in an arena of male lions]. Also they did, [ When the lion and the lamb lie down together and my Dad they ate mutton in the cookhouse during the winter until they got the right lion.] With Noah's ark the back door curtain was painted like an ark with portholes and clown Ab Johnson in a Noah beard would stick his head out the porthole and proclaim, " After 40 days and 40 nights Land, Land, Land and the back door gang plank would open and they would lead animals in sets of two all around the track. Even cats. Christy was like Al G Barnes with all kinds of animals. Thats where Terrel met Dolly, She was in a juggling act or something on the show. I also find it interesting that Terrel being a Peru boy was on Christy while Beatty was working his way up with the Corp. Shows. Both in the same time frame. Roger, got any info on that?

14 November, 2006 23:13
Anonymous said...

Terrell Jacobs said something like this about the two of them: "Clyde and I were born at the same time, came up at the same time, had about the same chances...but when Clyde took off like he did, no one caught up with him." This was in response to certain agitators encouraging the star trainers to feud. They never did.

Jacobs was right. Mr. Beatty was born June 10, 1903, in Bainbridge, O, and Capt. Jacobs was born a son of Indiana, just over 3 months later, in Marion, on September 16, 1903. Both were highly regarded in the profession, and both got reams of publicity. I'm not alone wishing Jacobs had written a book. Look for the excellent two-part article on him, "The Lion King, His Career and His Circuses", by Fred D. Pfening, Jr., beginning in the Nov.-Dec., 1985, BANDWAGON, and concluding in the Mar.-April, 1986, edition.

15 November, 2006 02:53
Anonymous said...

Buckles: It's taken me about 3 days of remembering, but didn't that saddle go to Paul Kelly somehow--and that started the Hey Rube?

17 November, 2006 15:15
Buckles said...

It was something along those lines.

17 November, 2006 15:20

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