The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-19
ANNUAL. EVENT TAXES PLACE,
 DOUGLAS ISLE
Entrants, Regulations for Races Are Announc-
 ed by Committee

Final plans and regulations were made last night by the race com mittee for the Juneau Ski Club tournament to be held tomorrow on the Douglas Ski Trail
 Five races with 65 entries from Juneau, Petersburg and Sitka will be run in quick succession with a continuous stream of well trained skiers coming over the trail at one minute intervals after the starting gun as 12:50 p. m. when Griffith Nordling starts in the boys race. All races will end at a finish line located about 300 yards up the trail from the Douglas Highway. Spectators are advised that ade- quate parking space has been clear ed 800 yards from the end of the JuneauDouglas bridge at the end of the Trail, and that the best place to view the race is from the finish line where abundant standing room 10 NiOdICN lO BlFC q 1d4l NANW O% the fast and tricky "S9 turn as well as the jumping which will start immediately after the last race. Sandwiches and hot coffee will be available and an simplifying sys- tenn has been installed 10 announce the name, running time and posi- ti00 of each runner
 Petersburg is said to have lost one Of it's best entries when Olaf Wikan, while training for the race, suffered a severe injury by running into a dog
 A charge of 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children will be col lected on the trail to defray the cost of reimbursing the out-of- town competitors for expenses, the pur- chase of ten trophies, medals, emer- gency first aid equipment, ampli- flying system and incidentals.
 Lots were drawn by the com mittees for each competitor to de- tcrmine their starting times and positions All entrants must start in the following order at one min ute intervals:
 Children's Race
 12:50 pm.
 Griffith Nordling, Dean Allen, Jimmy Hammer (Petersburg) Rob- ert Carrouthers, Cyril Zuboff, George Walmsley, Rodney Nordling, Bob Converse, Roy Brown, Robert Shell, Eugene Carrouthers, Erling Oswald, James Johnson, John Low ell, Perry Tonsgaard. Jimmy Trell.
 Wcmen's Race
 1:l0 pin.
 Mary Wander Leest, Mary Simp- kins, Elizabeth Terhune, Ebba Err ickson, Louise Kemper, Mildred Ap- land, Barbara Vim, Lillian Clem- ents.
 Junior Race
 1:20 pm.
 Raymond Paul, George Converse, Bob Geyer, Bud Lowell, Frank Par sons, Francis Doogan, Kenneth Lo- ken, Chuck Notar, Don Wilcox, Axel Nelson.
 "A" Division
 11:30 am.
 Main event of the afternon, the Mems A Division race begins at 1:30 p. m, with the following con- testants challenging the standing trail record of nine minutes twenty seven seconds, set by Al Bystrom of Fairbanks in 1886:
 Bert Caro, Martin Rian, Olaf Swanson, Ed Engberg, Hjalmar Sundquist, Jay Williams, Ralph Mo- reau, Ted Bowling, Sven Saren, An drew Wikan, Dan Moller, Curtis Shattuck, Joe Werner, Peter Lund.
 "B' Division
 l:44 pm.
 Harold Clements Eric Shutte, c. P. Peterson, Bill Hixson, Bob Kimball, Dean Williams, Lu Hud- son, Bob Cowling, Bill Alexander, John Tando, Harold Mckinley, Jack Wilson, Elmer Benedict, Sherwood Wirt, Gil Prucha, Orrin Kimball w. K. Clark.
 The "A" and B" Division races will start from the cabin located three miles above the finish line, and all other races will start from