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Show DOG TEAM RACE NEARING CLOSE Nome. Alaska, pril 17 With the leaders les than 100 miles from the finish line at Nome, the 112-mlle all-Alaska all-Alaska stake dog team race has developed de-veloped into a contest of skill be tween Leonard Sepalia and a ( Scot t v i Allan and ol endurance h--tweer. Sepalla's sixteen Siberian wolves and the Allan-Darling team of sixteen malamutes i 7 15 o clock last niht. Sepalla, who was leading, drove into Council, eighty-five miles from Nome, having driven a total of '''27 miles in fifty-eight fifty-eight hours and fifteen minutes. t that hour Allan was forty minutes i out from Boston roadhouse. twenfv miles farther from Nome. Allan was in the lend wlr n Boston was reached. At 2 17 p m. Seppalla .irrived there thirty three minutes er hut instead of resting his iIok as Allan did. he look to the trial again after o stop of only twenty minutes Allan paid no attention to Sepalla -haste for several hours but when th--time passed that Sepalla should have arrived at Council. Allan became u j plcious that his rival was camping just outside that station to mislead j his pursuers concerning the condi- i tion of his dogs. Allan Immediatt ' put his malamutes into harnes started off at full speed toward Conn cil lie believes the four hours' resl given his iIok! at Boston would en able him to outdistance Sepalla on the lasl eighty-five miles of the trail. Eskimo John, driving the Council Kennel club's team, is In third place and has been driving hard to overcome over-come Allan's three hour lead. Paul KJegstad's team oi slztet n bird dogs, is running a poor fourth whl'e Dr. Kittllson's eighteen Siberians ap-peai ap-peai hopelessly out of the ra a Uex Holmson, driving Dr Kittll sens team, arrived at Camp Haven, twenty-four miles behind Kjegstad. at i .',d p m yesterday, with eight of his docs down. After resting two hours he started again, carrying the used-up doss on his sled The race probably will be finished late today. no - |