LORD FOX RAMSAY OF FAR
NORTH FAME IS INJURED
The following article concerning Fox
Ramsay written by the facile pen of
J J. t'nderwood while somewhat care
less of the facts, perhaps is neverthe
less interesting, especially at this time
when the fame of Ramsay’s Sweep
stake exploits are discussed almost
dally:
With all but eighteen men out of bis
full regiment wiped out, Lord Fox Ram
say, brother of the Earl of Dalhousie
and well known to every sportsman in
Alaska, has been returned to London
from Soissons, France, Ramsay, who
has been on the tiring line since the
war was declared, is recuperating from
a few trifling wounds caused by the
lodgment in various parts of his body
of stray bullets, odd bits of shrapnel
and other flotsam and jetsam which
permeated the atmosphere during the
progress of the battle.
According to a letter received by an
Alaskan friend in Seattle, Ramsay ap
pear* to like it better in London than
in France just at present. It’s beastly
uncomfortable on the firing line, you
know, wiggling around in the trenches
like a haldy worm, and without even
a valet. Still, he admits that It was
jolly sport at the front, popping away
at the blooming enemy--much more
exciting than winning dog races in Al
aska or hunting polar bears.
The official accounts of the battle
which took place nearly two months
He then entered a team In the All
Alaska Sweepstake dog race, and man
aged to make himself the laughing
stock of the frontier camp When a
few miles out from Nome a man stop
ped Ramsay on the trail.
"Is them your dogs'"' the masher
asked. Ramsay replied In flip affirma
tive.
■'Well, one of them cussed animals
stole a ham offen me." the stranger
stated angrily. He expected compen
sation for it.
Ramsay looked at his team very
carefully. “It doesn't seem to have im
paired their digestion," ho replied. “The
dogs are running all right." His smile
was guileless.
"Nobody home.” thought the looser
of the pork, as Ramsay yelled to his
dogs lo mush on
Before the first day's run was com
pleted two of the dogs escaped and
ran back to town, and. as the rules of
the great Derby of tile North provides
lhat each driver must bring back the
same animals with which he started
Ramsay lost about twenty-four hours
before be got started again
As (lie race proceeded and was re
ported by telephone. Ramsn> fell far
ther and farther belli ml. The local hu
morists began posting_ notices on the
bulletin boards to the effect that the
young nobleman had stopped for tiffin
and for afternoon lea and to make so
cial calls at the road houses The win
FOX RAMSAY AND HIS TWO FAMOUS SIBERIAN LEADERS.
Photo by Lemon Bros.
ago state that not a single man of the
entire regiment escaped without in
jury. Only eighteen got away with
their lives, and every one of them was
wounded.
Ramsay, who had been doing a kind
of scouting and express riding stunt
with a motorcycle, was carrying a dis
patch to another part of the field, when
tho enemy turned loose their artillery.
When he returned ho found his al
ready badly decimated regiment literal
ly shot to pieces. With seventeen
others—all that was left of a fine body
of Scotsmen—he was carried away in
tin ambulance.
Ramsay, in his letter, says he ex
pects to he back on tho tiring line early
in March. Although there are certain
discomforts incident to fighting in the
trenches, he says, it lias its compensat
ing excitements. Once in a while ho
and his companions in arms wore al
lowed to go to the rear, where they en
joyed the luxury of a "bawth” and a
rub.
Ramsay first became, known in West
ern America about 190S, when lie drift
ed into Nome, Alaska, in company witli
t'ol. I,. Stuart Weatherley, a veteran of
the South African campaign, and the
• two engaged in mining. Ramsay was
thought to be a joke until an athletic
tournament was arranged and he car
ried off! the prize for swordsmanship
and fencing against the picked men of
tho United States troops stationed at
Fort Davis.
ning team had covered the return jour
ney of 412 miles before Ramsay bad
reached the turning point. He got
back to Nome about a week after (be
race was over.
Quietly the following summer Ram
say chartered a schooner and went to
Siberia, a country which he had trav
ersed before coming to Nome. The Si
berian coast is only seventy-five miles
from the shore of Alaska. He pur
chased a band of 140 wolf-dogs. For
several months he trained these and
finally selected three teams for the
race the following year. Of course,
after his miserable showing of the
year before, nobody took his entries
seriously and long odds were laid
against him by tho wise ones.
It was going to be another big joke—
another opportunity for tho wags to
display their witticisms on the bulletin
board. But, driving one of the teams
himself, Ramsay managed to carry off
the first three prizes the only prizes
offered that year—and every one of
the teams broke tho previous records
by several hours. Ramsay's first team
crossed the line in seventy-three hours
and a few minutes, a time which, in
cidently, lias never since been equalled.
Then the local sports and bookmak
ers began to take account of tilings.
They found that Ramsay had won more
than $2."0.000 of their money. Ail that
had been wagered against the Ram
say teams had been quietly taken by
one of the Britisher’s sfcMMt friends.
Frank Halt, one of the biggest losers,
expressed the feelings of the wise ones
when he exclaimed. "What a head
ache!”
The Englishman then gate his dogs
to one of his drivers, Johnny Johnson,
who won the race with them the fol
lowing year. These animals, inol
dently, are now on exhibit at the Pa
nama-Pacific International Esposltion ,
in San Francisco.
WEST POLAND
RUINED BY THE
BATTLING HOSTS
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I'KTROGRAH. April 16.—The advance |
and retreat of the struggling armies In
West Poland lias resulted in a complete
state of ruin and devastation extending
over practically the whole section
Nearly all buildings are leveled to tin'
ground, farms are destroyed and the
water supply is everywhere contamina
ted. It is said that the barren condi
tion of the country has done almost
as much to defeat the Germans as lias
i he stubborn resistance of the Russians
RUSSIA INVADES
EAST PRUSSIA
ONCEuAGAIN
PUTKOOKAll, April 16.—The Rus
sian advance into East Prussia again
promises to penetrate into 11 it* Ma/.urln
Lake region where the recent disastrous
reverses occurred owing to the riumeri
cal superority of the (ierinan forces.
The Russian advance at this time
promises to lie more successful because
of the vastly increased forces and
heavy reinforcements of artillery which
are being sent to the aid of the new’
movement.
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