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Show SPECTACULAR RACE TO THE SOUTH POLE. Americans and English to Engage j m one of the Most Remark- I able Contests World hcts j Ever Witnessed A more thrilltAff and electrifying contest it would be almost impossible i-to i-to conceive than the great intemation-1 al rice between the Americans and the British, starting within a tew months for j the South Pole, -the last Objective on the face of the e'aith,- sayf th New I York Times. The race itself, the back-1 ground of it, and the sportsmanlike ! manne'r in which it is to be. conducted ! seize and hold the imagination. It is to be between the two great branches ofj the And"-Saxons, the attitude of each being, "Here's good luck to both sides; may the best man win." The English expedition, leaving home in August, will embark directly fc King Edward Laud from Nev Zeland in December, while the Americans wi:l leave New York in the Roosevelt, Peary's North Pole ship, in September, touching ci-V ci-V ization for the last time in their soutward course at Puitai Arenas, in the Strait of Magellan, also in December. They will enter the circumpolar territory terri-tory at Graham Land, at almost the opposite side 61 the earth from their rivals. Thus both will land aSout the same time and the great trek: fof the grail will begin at practically' the sa'me j moment. , |