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])