Show Ashton Classic to la Attract Big Field Bill Trude Will Compete In Canadian Race This Week Interest High hg Dr Ur JACK Special to Standard Examiner A ASHTON Idaho Fob Feb Dual 5 Dual Duall tt settlement of thi th L mooted long q question oa as a to whether er American r racing dogs doc can defeat Canadian n huskies or vice vico Versa Vcr a cach each In their native heath I is promised the tho of this thi leader of or winter sports In the th Canadian races race at Hanff on February 8 S and 9 1 and tn the following American dog derby here hero at Ashton on Wash Wash- Washington's Wah Ington's birthday Dill Bill Irude America best bet with one on of the tho finest teams of or racing dogs bIrd bird river vel produced by the for for- forest for forest est est cat left here her February 1 for Cor Banff to attempt to lift the tho Ca- Ca Canadian Ca Canadian nadian median honors honor Jay Ball Dall president dent dent of ot the American Dog Doc Derby association here has 1108 been ben assured tho bytho bythe Banff that If It Arner- Arner Amera Arnera Amor a a a would send lend a II team there they theP would send tend their winner to Ash Ash- Ashton Ashton ton Ash ton for Washington birthdays birthday's novel no celebration here I For man many year It seems to have been tradition that a e CIl- CIl Ca Cit Canadian nadian champ could not win In America In 1924 Shorty nus- nus tick Rus-tick sick came caine cam all the way from Lies with a team declared to be b Can Can- Canada's Can Canada adas ada's ada boat best bc t and went vent home beat boat beaten en cn jin In 1926 l Ike Mills and liar Har- Harry Harry ry knight of ot Banff came to Ash Ash- Ashton Ash ton Ash ton as did Fred Pepper repper of cal cal- calgar Cal gar gary fary each with his hi team of o Mala- Mala Malamutes Mala mutes and all three went back defeated But Dut not disheartened You fellows send tend a team up and tryout try out miles on one ot of oUr courses coure and well we'll show how you some somo omo fine fin points of dog dos racing was the grinning challenge hurled at victorious American driver drivers b by bythe byth the sportsmanlike Britons from the tho northern dominion ACCEPT By golly colly well we'll just Jut do that was the response and so Trude frude Is oft off to the th north woods to demon demon- demonstrate demon strate It if he can that tho the Ameri Amen American American can sledge dog doff Is a II better animal for any kind of going than his footed footed heavy malamute malamut cousin from the tb north And whether he hewIns hewin hewin wIns win or loses a return match Is promised by the th Canadians In this country on February 22 so that there thre will be b a double double-barrelled double shot at the tho long discussed settle settle- settlement ment of the lIle question Just who the Canadian conten conten- contender contender der den who will provide the tho International International atmosphere to this years year's trail at Ashton will be Is not yet determined He will be bethe bethe betho the Canadian winner at though not necessarily the winner o of the th race for tor Big Bic Bill Dill Trude best best has ha eve every y opportunity opportunity of ot being belne that Whoever ho he 1 Is the tho Canadian entry In Americas America's speed classic ot of the dog dop sledge trail Is going up against some ome tough touch competition and one whole new layout The Th dark dank horse entry for 1927 Is I William Evans Evan Pocatello boy who has ha trained a a- string of large and anI thoroughbred Russian wolf wolfhounds wolfhounds olt hounds to work In harness harnen The only new feature abou Is 13 that Evans vans a new driver hu has ha trained them thern m Both Doth Charlie Causey Camey and John Reber of ot Ashton experiment experiment- experimented ed with hounds hound Neither one of these teams team could ba bo Induced to torun torun torun run In harness and pull a sledge with the Joyous abandon with which they pursued pur fleeing john john- john bunnies through Idaho's sage sage- sagebrush ae brush Evans asserts that he h has bas ha over over- overcome overcome come this thi temperamental trait on the tho part of ot lila his hi hounds bounds lie He H has been warned that It Is against the rules of the th race to dangle danzl a scared cared Jackrabbit on the ground ahead o of his hi leader with a fishing pole and laughingly declares declare that he doesn't need to that his hounds hound will run for the th sheer heer joy ot of tho the thing It they do that's that going to bo be that say ay dog dor race rac who are agreed that the speed peed and power of hounds hound is III I matchless s Well Wll Vell they will i Is 15 the tho snappy comeback of ot Wild William Evans drivel of o the th demon hounds hound And that Is that until the race starts on Washing ton birthday when the th assembled multitude can draw drw Its It own conclusions conclusion about hounds bounds as sledge power IE KENT T HAS IUS IDEA IDE Then theres there's there Kent Kent many times American champion His usual annual reticence has do- do de do descended on the tho gentleman from the tie camp country No dogs dot says ays However ho ha admits ownership of fourteen large larg hairy animals living In kennels and on horse horsemeat meat which cert certainly are not rabbits and whose bark Is nothIng like that of a 0 sheep Some people around here dont don't believe the tho genial Mister Slitter Kent These strange beast beast-a look like dogs dot to them A A few ore are even convinced that they are dogs docs and still sUII till oth- oth othi oth other i era er hold the tho belief that they'll be bein belu in III the th race Bill Trude the th American champ will 1 be back from Banff Band to do- do defend fend his hi title and there are ar twelve more starters In sIght lent besides the thi three I thre mentioned and nd ono one on Can Cana- Cana Canadian Cana Canadian a- a dian which will make mak sixteen n starters tarter In all an equal number I lO 10 the tho record o of 1926 They In- In InI Include In Include clude dude Warren arrell Brown the tho year old year 11 I old youth of ot McCall Idaho who won second In 1926 and Roy noy I Stover of the tb same am place I Cascade another town In the upper Bolo Boise valley Is sending Fred FredI I team Prince Prince with Ith I a classy has cont contested sted on the Ashton course before Tom ot of Bol Boise e Is I another entrant from the theUs big timber country of ot Idaho St StAnthony StAnthony Anthony Is I sending Bending three thre native mush ere Le Les Cottrell Jim Jima Whit Whit- Whit I r and Roy Hoy Peterson and II a i fourth tram t am of ot German police dos doia owned and entered by 0 O V Harris ot of Salt Lake I Is being trained there George Georgo Cordingley I Warren arren y and Cyril Da- Da Daker Baken Ba Baker ker ken are ar the tho title seekers from Ashton and Harry Kennedy from Henrys Henry's Henry Lake which Is I the region that turned Gaston out out a II cham cham- champion cham- cham champion pion pious in 1923 make makes up the th entry list to date Two TI old favorite favorit favorites Smoky Gas Gas- Gaston ton Gal ton and Olcott will not be beIn bein bIn In the race In 1927 1127 but new faces and new teams team will fill till the gaps fp gap they left From Roy Hoy Idaho comes news of ot a woman driver er to take the plane place pla e of ot the famous Lyd Hutchinson a II Mrs Mr Ir N Dean Anderson who ho expects expect to enter but whoso whose plans are still 1111 a bit Indefinite |