Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

not run of, so eager are they to swing into the
trail. The hitching up takes several minutes.
and Toby Is so anxious to get away that he
strains at the harness and often leaps high
in the air in his enthusiasm
TT is interesting to note that st. GODDARD has
been in the money in IL of Is races. He
won the Pas Derby five years running, and in
Quebec has flashed across the line first on three
occasions.
Year-round training for racing dogs calls for
considerable ingenuity.
Dogs must have as careful attention as race
horses. Diet Is important, and constant exer-
else is necessary. During the past few Sum
mers st. GODDARD used the chassis of a light car
to give his hounds pulling exercise. Emil
hitched his team to light truck Keeping
the engine in high gear he would start out at
ID miles an hour until the dogs limbered up
then he would slow down to Is miles. At that
speed he found that the dogs were pulling in
their harness in manner that was the closest
approach to Winter racing And the cross
bred hounds got big kick out of the truck
Their howls OF delight registered distinct APP
prevail
The Alaskan sleigh and hitch is generally
used in dog racing today, though some of the
old-tmerS, especially the Indians, still believe
that the Single-file team is the most efficient.
Walter Goyne, famous Alaskan musher, intro
duced the Alaskan style of tandem harness
Before that, dogs had been hitched in single
file, and a type of toboggan used as a vehicle
Goyne brought with him the Alaskan sled with
high handles
The superiority of the Alaskan method was
well displayed in the 1920 race at the Pas
which was run over a 100-mile course Goyne
won handiy, covering the distance in the record
time OF IL hours and IA minutes But the next
year, in the 200-mile grind to Film Flon and
return, Goyne was defeated by Manitoba mush-
ers who had adopted his Alaskan harness.
WALTER GOYNE was one of the most popu-
lar mushers that ever called the North
west his stamping ground. He came to tragic
end in 1922. 1t was in the Autumn that Govne
started north on one of his training sortieS.
He was driving team of nine animals with
II more trailing along behind. The beloved
Alaskan. who had showed such courage and
sucn skill In mushing, despite crippled foot
disappeared in the mysterious hinterland
In vain search parties sought the missing
racer. The malamutes he had left in his ken
neis at the Pas whined for their master, but
he never came
Then, one Winter day. a trapper was at.
Sracted by the sight Of nine hungry dogs wan
oerlng about on an isolated northern lake He
tried to approach them, but couldn't
curiosity aroused, the trapper reconnoitered
little. Below the frozen surface of crvskal
IKE clearness he was startled to see full com.
PIGMENT Of dog team, sleigh and driver ala
frozen like silent statues several feet below tIks
surface
The dogs were upright as If in action. The
orlver was sitting on the sled with eiderdown
wrapped around him. Two other animals were
lying beside him
walter Goyne and his championship team
mad gone through the ice some weeks previously.
ana the water had been so cold that 1t had Inn.
mediately numbed him and his faithful mala-
mutes. Death was probably a matter of min
utes but Northern Manitoba mourned for long
time over the loss of the best sportsman that
ever mushed out of Alaska
Weather has always been one of the tickle
factors In dog derby. One racing authority
claims that results of contests depend one-third
on the driver, one-third on the team and one
third on chance-and there is lot of weather
mixed up in that last third
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