Show EIGHT SLED irm TEAMS TAMS REM REMAIN IN A-IN ELIGIBLE ELLE FOR 1924 1 ASHTON I Canadian First to t I Start Off on n Snowy Trai i Canadas Canada's Ailing Dogs Show Full uIl Team May Be Entered in Big Race ASHTON Ida Feb 21 After After elimina eliminating ng weak teams eight remained to draw for numbers at drivers' drivers t tries ries meeting last n Starting positions drawn a as as follows One Montreal Winter p team eam two Kent Buffalo River three Olcott if Ashton fd Ashton i l G Gdorge dorge orge Pilcher Trude Ida Five Rive Howard Salley Ashton six S Young oung Shelley seven Smoky Gaston West Yellowstone eight W WJ C ren en Cordingly Marysville Teams will start five minutes apart first gun at 1 o'clock sharp Friday I I it May-a-gan May and two other ill dogs of the Canadian team sio sho I II I marked improvement last ni night ht and high hopes are held out of st rt fn In n desperate dash for championship with probably six of the North 1 champion team in the running None of dogs will be removed if II training raining quarters until timo time to go to starting line according to Trai J. J B B. Bacon fc By Eyre Powell A Ida 21 Ashton Ashton is made ASHTON A I a. Total stra strangers descend from froth incoming trains do don n t the U. U J I V. dep depot t in n a perfectly lucid state of mind and b bf f I they manage anage to get up to Hugh Hanl Rankings i s hotel they ar j jas as wild as all the rest of the rapidly filling burg and cal n t be seen with one of or the groups In an eager ager even evert though futile effort to dope it out They all dope out ono sure one sure thins thing that the start elart of the American derby on Wash Washington's birthday Is la go goig ie to usher in the most spectacular r contest ever seen Been on an American I Isnow snow trail but from there they go SNOW Ann nE GOOD coon The loop trail i is Just right snow conditions are good and nd it is in harder faster shape than the noted notes race has ever seen And while halt half haltof of the drivers and their pa partisans are down on their figurative nar- nar praying that It ft remain Just as ns it is the other half backing teams that make make a a. better showing over a heavy pleading with whatever department of Providence looks after sledge drivers to shoot along Just a little bit more l May a gan ay-a-gan the celebrated d leader of the Canadian team is under the care of the Idaho state veterinarian and the Montreal winter sports training r camp P has been turned u into rJ a hospital in which I he l la is receiving I every attention that could be given givena a human patient in an effort to put him back in the international chal- chal lineup The long trip In a crate from up near the arctic circle the altitude and necessity of startIng startIng start start- Ing workouts immediately on ar arrival arrival ar- ar arrival rival are responsible for the illness All AH of which adds to the acute tension IX IN SECRET And when Kent proceeds to lead his entire team into a a- box boxI I sleigh h and sneak em far out of I town for private workouts on deserted deserted deserted de de- de- de trails when when Smoky Gaston Gaston Gaston Gas- Gas ton avoids the loop trail tran of the derby course when course when dark horse e en ep- ep trants like Slim Young from Shelley Shel Shel- ley icy Warren Cordingly George Pilcher Pitcher Pit Pil cher and others do all of their final training far off of or the regular trail and only show up running under heavy wraps there is only one ono In n ference to be made hythe the sidelines that that this derby is to be e a arace arace arace race for blood one in which the crack and fastest teams of two countries are out to win re regardless re- re In in short a tailed ring-tailed of ot a trail b battle that is getting Ing better and better up to a point where the lid will finally blow off on Washington's birthday with witha a pop that will be be- heard from Frisco to N York MONEY O HANDY I VOH OR Olcott the youngest contender contender con eon tender ever to enter one of the famous fa famous famous fa- fa derbies is Ising using the loop trail but fooling fooling- em along with the rest of the bo boys bors s with craftily timed stops I along on back portions of the course The Canadian team is due Stor S for tor a time trial o over or pr th the loop 1 sideline rumors ha haIt have It t that on come off oft sometime in ill the wee at r Just hours r e r the dawn f the brothers up in hi n Montreal o i and Pas can have c eX informal l mt A. A Rumor Humor also h has it t that m many thi th sh F r rt sand a dollars s of Lo Pas mone money jJ waiting t f for the v or 1 ro ngn h of down on the chall s pi In the hit hit- odd are are chi ch ing themselves up lip and each new development like I sw st exchange figures In a panl aT t there is Just one mor more thing th that tha certain When 1 th h. h winner winner I flashed over the s finish I J i the boys boya who ho ha have hac c guessed wr wro ji 11 jwill j- j will be likely to walk homes shirt sans sock socks sans cans dough s a a anything else elso that can an go to Unit b I C Ithe the respective cho choir ps s |