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...Leonard Seppalla, of Nome, Alaska, oldtime musher, drove his Siberian husky dogs to their third consecutive victory in the New England sled-dog racing championship, last week at Laconia, N. H. Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas, Manitoba, recognized as Seppalla's master as a racer, finished second with a team of wolfhounds which lacked speed and stamina for the three-day trudge over a 128-mile course...
...Seppalla, resting one knee on his sled and using his right leg to push with, drove his team along the white miles. His little Siberian dogs plunged hopelessly in their harness, jerking against leather, grooving the deep drifts with their bellies. Remembering again the drifting ice across Norton Bay, Leonard Seppalla cracked his whip and called the curious signal to go ahead which made his leader duck and scuttle, guessing the trail with his feet...
...roads lead to Nome, only the dazzling desert of the snow. But last week, Leonard Seppalla was not driving Scotty to a fever-stricken town near the Bering Strait with a cargo of serum strapped to his skidding sled. He was driving a team through the Adirondack woods, near Lake Placid, in the second Annual Lake Placid Sled Dog Derby, which he won with a total elapsed time of two hours and 32 minutes for the two 15-mile laps of the run. Later the most famous of dog team drivers banqueted in the Lake Placid Club with...
Among them was Walter Channing of Boston, Chairman of the Racing Committee of the New England Sled Dog Club, who beat Seppalla's time on the second day's run but lost to him on the average of the two days' time, because his harness had broken on the first lap. Hiram Mason was third. He was driving for the Taylor-Mason kennels at Tamworth, N. H., of which the other member is Mosely Taylor, President of the New England Sled Dog Club, an amateur who since 1921 has helped finance races. Fourth...
...racing is a necessity, not a sport, in Polar regions or across the drifting ice of Norton Sound in Alaska where Seppalla became famous for his five and a half day mush to Nome in 1925 with diphtheria serum, beating the record run for 655 miles by three and a half days. Balto, whom Gunnar Kasson drove on the race to Nome, also dragged Roald Amundsen north when he planned his polar flight...
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