The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-29
Big Sport Been Greatly Promoted by Borden, Millionaire of
 Chicago.
HE DONATES TROPHIES
New Marathon Divides the Interest With the Sweepstakes of
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SEATTLE. Nov. 2l-With a lot of money already donated, Nome will have mere dog races this winter than during any ether season in tho his tory Of Bering Sea, says the Seattle Times The AllAlaska sweepstakes Race. the srcct sporting classic of the North. will not receive uudiyid- ed attention for premiership honors this year, for a new contest, the dog race marathon. has been inaugurated. according 70 Charles sanford, formed editor of the Nome Nugget, who is in Seattle Go spend the winter.
 John Borden. Chicago millionaire who started north on a sporting cX- pedition last summer that ended when the power schooner Great Bear piled up on St Matthew Island in Boring Sea, was the creator of the Marathon for dogs Borden reached Nome after a wet and chilly eXper- fence in the surf os st. Matthew lsl- and and became interested in dog racing He sent Go Chicago for the Ihandsomest silver cup that the sil- versmiths of uct city could furnish. land donated it for race over a Marathon course. The trophy weighs more than sixty pounds without the ! pedestal
 Course 2s Miles, 300 Yards
 The Nome Kennel Club. with Bor. den's assistance. laid out the rules under which the trophy must be com peted for. The course will be twen- 1 ty-six miles and three hundred yards The event is to be run under the most favorable climatic conditions. it being the desire of both the club and the dcncr of Che trophy Co learn exactly how fast 9 team of dogs can cover this distance. The big cup must be won three times by the same team owner but each winter will be given smaller silver cup. 1, It is likely that the Marathon race will be- held Q few days before Christmas. but the date ig depcnden; on the weather
 Eight teams were in training for The event when Sanford left the North Perry Riley Russ Downing, Grant Jackson. Fay Delzene, Charley Ross. John Erlkson and Billy Webb were getting their animals in shape for the test.
 Only five teams will compete in the All-Alaska Sweepstakes race. from Nome to Candle Creek and re- turn. a distance Of 412 miles. and the contest ig likely to simmer down to a battle between melamutes with pointed ears and malamutes of the lop-eaycd variety. Leonard Seppall has acquired all the pointed ear Si- berian dogs in the country and Fay Delzene has a monopoly on the best lop-eared dogs Seppalo and Delzene each has won a victory in this great event
 Crossed Breed Animals to Run
 Perry Riley is training a team off Missouri bird hounds crossed with the Malamute which may upset the general calculations. These animals are said 10 be very fast, but there is question as to their having the staying qualities as needed in a gruelling race of 412 miles.
 The Ladies Amateur Race this year promises to bring out consider able rivalry. George Bokum, a Chi cago sportsman and who accompanied Borden to Nome, donated a beautiful bronze and silver vase for this event and already the women dog fanciers of Nome are arranging to borrow a few dogs from the crack racing teams. There will be about eight other races during the winter.
 Sanford says there will be more prospecting in Nome this winter than ever before, but he has never seen the time when miners wouldn't take a few days off to watch a dog race, no matter how much gold they were gathering from deep in the earth at the time When a dog race starts ali other activities are suspended.
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