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Show ALL-ALASKA DOG RACE WEDNESDAY Expert Drivers With Ten to Eighteen Dogs to Start on Eighty-Hour Grind. Nome, Alaska. April 13. The 412-milo 412-milo All Alaska sweepstake race for dog teams will start Wednesday when half a doy.en teams, each made up from ten to eighteen dogs drawing a I racing sled and driven by the most j i expert drivers in the north, set out on the eighty-hours' grind over the snow trail from Nome to Candle and return Tho list of entries is not yet completed, com-pleted, but already four of the most widely known drivers in Alaska have entered the race. These are A. A, (Scotty) Allan, who twice has driven the team owned jointly by himself and Mrs. Charles K. Darling of Berkeley, Berke-ley, Cal.. to victory; Ijeouard Sephala, Paul Kjegsted and Fred Ayers. John Johnson, -whose team of Siberian wolves set the record of 74 hours 14 minute and 20 seconds In 1910 and won last years race In eighty-ono hours and three minutes, will not rae this year, having taken his dogs to San Francisco. The pars6 alroadv amounts to $2000, that sum having been raised at a ker-mlSfl ker-mlSfl held Saturday night. This sum vill be swelk'd considerably, It la expected, ex-pected, bv a vaudeville performance to be given tonight Present indications are against lowering low-ering the record set by lohnson five years ago. Light snow is falling and this will have a tendency toward making mak-ing a slow course. nn |