The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-03-08

tremblingly alert, eager to start
TWO or three men holding each team
Everything from Llewellyn settlers t
Belgian police dogs Irish setter
.predominated. Some Llewellyn
crossed with Shepherds.
One team would go off leisurel,
looping. Another would dash away
held tensely in. Leaving Main stree
and starting out on the course the,
would leap ahead like lightning
'Haw' turn at the end of the street
Crowds on Main street could see -four
blocks Of start and finish. Down al
the end Of the street one could see
several miles.
Rode out in the sled with the mo-
ton picture men. Saw many miles
of the race.
Tud Kents lead dog, one-man
dog, wouldn't drive for anybody but
Kent. Minute his team stopped he
turned right around and ran to Kent
for new orders and was off with
Steady Bob"
Drivers Methods Vary
Drivers kept shouting to the dogs.
Some had a line to the lead dog.
Smoky CASTOR kept twirling and
looping his in cowboy fashion.
Lydia Hutchinson drives with rub
Der hose about three feet long. Earn
boy drove sitting on his knees-his
dogs all black with white harness.
prettiest team of all-came in third
At the spectacular finish at the big
fagpole, couldn't pay much attention
TO finish for watching little girl of
eight or ten, slightly but shabbily
dressed, shivering, but all excitement
her bobbed hair straggly, but
elaborate pearl eardrops reaching to
her shoulders.
Here comes Smoky-tongue hang.
ing out-cap gone-running ahead
of his team holding his lead dog
Everybody cheering at top of voice
Smoky! Smoky! Smoky's first"
Cheering extreme = down the
street came Kent-more cheering
Next the Earn team. Young EARNS
mother rushed out into the course
and clasped her son. He pushed her
off and hurried on to the finish line.
Time keepers got so excited they
couldn't get the figures of the first
TWO straight until Lydia was coming
in. Cheers and cheers for "Lyd"
Just because she was Lyd.
Bill Trude Subsidized
Bill Trude drove team-his
lncle, very wealthy Chicago man
thought dog races cruelty to animals
sent Bill hundred dollars on con-
lition at finish he would blanket
logs and rush them to barns. Bill
lid not finish.
After the race big struggle to see
lydia kiss Smoky as she gave him
he cup and the $500 Crowd kept
cling, kiss him AGAIN. make
stronger" 1t became a regular
morous match.
After the race discovered there
7ere no baby buggies in Ashton IS
oxes on runners for some Artistic
tile baby cutters on high runners :
ushed like baby carriages for :
theirs. horace suicide in Ashton.
Four men carrying a man across
lie street. He was shouting, Hell, +
m not drunk. Put me down"
First Train Into Town il
Started for train. Stopped at
lge of town. Four trainmen sent Il
lead to clear the mob to let the II
ain get into town. Maybe because
was sandwiched between two Saliva "
IN Army girls l was first on the D
ain
Seething crowds on the platform. =
room in rear cars" Those were .,
Y last impressions of Ashton NJ
Establishing an Institution
The Boise Statesman says editor tf
ly of the dog derby: e'
In her annual dog derby at Ash =,
4, Idaho, has developed an institu -
IN comparable in way to such u,
ngs as the English derby, the '"
ympic games, the old New Orleans W.
.rdi Gras, the Portland Rose Festi- W.
and the Pendleton roundup. 1t ~,
a sporting event, which if not in
class. by itself, is one of very. few d,
its class and certainly the only big N
nual dog derby in. the nation. Al
,dy it attracts sportsmen from the d.
Ter side of the, continent. even M M
m other countries. Thus it adj 70,
tises Idaho. .-.s.. :
Che sport at Ashton. is typically bo
1t suggests a, land of
at forests and open trails, a land tn,
ere the ski, the snowshoe and the VIII
!, sledge are still utilitarian and die
sly to continue to be. And it in 4,
YES a sport which .ennobles the ha
st faithful of mans dumb SER fru
is, the dog, companion of all SD
lpanions in the regions of inspir- wo
vastness.
daho should. be proud of the Ash
dog races. Idaho, we think, A
uiu sa1e ahn,,,s LII e. 80 nn ~ TO
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