My memory was a little faulty about the Theodore Gentilz painting that
I referred to in an earlier post in response to a question about chicken
pulls. It is an ink drawing and not a painting, and the horsemen are
struggling for possession of a watermelon, not a rooster. However, I
think that this is just a variation of the chicken game, perhaps one for
people who could not afford a chicken. The drawing is entitled "Corrida
de la Sandia, San Antonio," and it is in the Daughters of the Republic of
Texas Library at the Alamo in San Antonio. It is illustrated in Dorothy
Steinbomer Kendall and Carmen Perry, _Gentilz: Artist of the Old
Southwest_ (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. -Lonn Taylor,
National Museum of American History ([log in to unmask])