The Nome nugget., 1921-04-23
LADY DRIVER WINS
 cAMooGAH RACE

"iS 't"'iies J heenans with Ms. w. C. Mcclure as burden and with o time handicap of 4, hours. won ,',c Ca moogan Burden Handicap dnc r.,,e from Nome to Council City. via So,o- mon. Friday morning by driving the 76 mile course in II hours. B minutes. I5 seconds actual running time. The pc tite lady musher and lser companion arrived In Council at l1:4sa. m. after covering the 43 mile lap fror, Solomo,, 70 the interior cal,rp over q new brok. en and heavy trail ip hours s9 min- utes. Clarence Lovegren. with a time allowance of hours. E minutes and With Mrs. T.ovegrcn as burden, car Tied off second honors by driving the fnlI course in 10 hours 51 minutes. an.I Ms. Thomas A. Ross. with a handi- cap of hours. and w. c. Moi:rir; ae burden, was third in II hours, r min utes.
 The race started from Nome early "Wednesday morning with only eight of the original nine entries com ,et.ng owing to the withdrawal of the Wald- helm entry. The start was a go-as- vou-pleasc affair owing to the final de- cision resting entirely on the basis of time consumed in covering the course.
 The Keenan entry was the first to get away stnrtinnr af ,.o7 o n, Ng,. Ross left at ,: 4o a. m. and the cthers at intervals up to 1o:2G. at which .ilnc Hilliey Robinson of Candle, with Mrs Dr. Welch as burden and q .ir,e all lowance of hours. 30 minutes, starsed over the course. F. NJ. Aver scratcH with Mrs. Aver and Mrs. Dr. kitte-. son as burden. departed at 10:05.
 The start was somewhat marred by an accident involving the Erickson en- in driver Louis Erickson receiving a severely bruised knee as q result of the sled coming into contact with a tele- graph pole. Miss Juth was thrown some distance but luckily received no injury. Erickson was able to continue however although his limb was badly inflamed on alufving in solomon.
 Mrs. Keenan reached Safety at s.O2 a. m. with Mrs. Ross and Erickson in close pursuit. both teams arriving there at s:20, a. m. After leaving Safety, Mrs. Keenan encountered bliz- zardy weather and was compelled to break tisuil over q large part of the course to Solomon. Ut which point she arrived at 10: %: l5. Her time over the 32 mile course was 4:33:15. The Erickson team arrived second at 10:- Is. hours. 02 minutes. l5 seconds out from Nome. and Mrs. Ross third cred the course in 1 hours 31 minutes Howaver. all three leaders were dis tanced in point of time by the Ralph Lomen entry. which left Nome at 645 a. m with Mrs I.omen as burden and a time allowance of hour 30 minutes The latter team arrived at Solomon at 10:41:43. after covering the course in hours. 56 minutes. 4S seconds.
 \ severe blizzard Thursday prevent ed the racers continuing on to Council and it was not until 4:15 a m. Friday morning that the first team. that of Hiikey Robinson. got away from Sol omon. The Lovegren entry followed at 4:25 q. m. and Mrs Keennn. at 4:50 q. m.. The former was the first to reach Council. arriving there at 1O.5S after covering the route from Solomon in hours. 2S minutes. As the Love- gren entry had covered the distance between Nome and Solomon in hours 23 minutes. 20 seconds. it's running time for the entire course was 10 hours 51 minutes. 20 seconds. The time all lowance of 3 hours. 15 minutes. how ever. reduced this to hours, 36 min- utes 20 seconds. The I-nnen team. which departed from Solomon at 5:O5, was the second to reach the inland city. covering the last lap of the journey in 6 hours ' minutes. with total running time fnorl Nome of 10 hours O3 minutes. 43 seconds. The of 1 hour. 30 minutes re- duced this to hours, B minutes. 43 seconds and gave the team fifth place in the race. Mrs Ross. starting from Solomon at 4:57. arrived at Council thirh, at 11:33 m after covering the lap in hours. 46 minutes Her total time from Nome was-11 hrs 17 minutes. handicap time hours, IT minutes. Allowing for the time hand leaps, the running time of the remain- ing entries was as follows, Erickson, 8 hours, 19 minutes, 15 seconds: To- men. 8 hours, B minutes. 43 seconds; Weaver 8 hours. 39 minutes; Robin sou, 8 hours, 59 minutes. The ar