Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-25 | Page 16 | Champ Seeks Bid to East for Racing

Champ Seeks See Bid to fo East For Racing ASHTON Idaho Feb 25 iF- iF P Everett Heseman wants to show the east the unorthodox method of dog racing that has brought him victory in nine of 15 events he I has entered since 1935 My one ambition is to race my string in the eastern states said I Ithe the winner of the Washington birthday running of the American dog derby here Dog races in snow resort sections sections sections sec sec- of the east are becoming Increasingly in increasingly increasingly in- in popular and I want a chance to prove that our western dogs are as good as any in the world if not better Heseman began driving his stag- stag Irish hound-Irish setters over snow- snow packed ed western courses in 1935 But the timers old-timers gave him little chance of success They pointed out that he didn't follow the tested fashion of hitching the dogs to the sleds three sleds three sets of two each with witha a single lead dog in the front Instead Heseman fastened his dogs to a single pull line staggering stagger stagger- ing them so that no two ran exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex side by Heseman also new harness cutting the total weight to only a third that of the traditional traditional traditional type The driver credits careful feeding of his animals for part of his success I Besides his nine first firs places I Heseman has finished second in two races fifth in one sixth In one seventh in one and only once has come in last