The annual competition for the fastest draw in Amarillo took place Friday afternoon, June 6 at Rex Baxter "corral," with six competitors vying for the title at the TX 66 Celebrity Fast Draw Shoot Out.

Their usual establishment was closed because of the heat, so that left the gang standing out in the open on brown, dead grass smack in front of the white-hot broiler we've been calling sunshine lately ...

With his right hand on his six-shot revolver, Everett Chodos, aka “Speedy James,” lined up next to a gunslinger probably three times his age in familiar cowboy attire with a straw cowboy hat and boots ...