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In Ottawa. Emil St. Goddard, famed musher of Le Pas, Manitoba, won the dogsled derby, as he did last year. Shorty Russic of Flin Flon sprinted in the last leg to come in second. But the watchers at the finish were more interested in the contestant who came in third. A woman was driving the long pung, bundled in furs, brandishing her whip, yelling shrilly to her dogs. She was Mrs. Edward P. Ricker Jr., wife of one of the famed Rickers of Poland Spring, Me., where Poland Water comes from. In addition to the famed Poland Spring House and Mansion House in Maine, the Rickers have extensive property holdings in Southern Pines, N. C. Four years ago Mrs. Ricker took up dog racing. In her first race her team ran after a skunk; she did not finish. That winter she bought a string of dogs from Leonhard Seppala. the Alaskan famed for rushing diphtheria serum to Nome six years ago. She was the first woman who had ever driven in the international race at Quebec. In 1929 at Lake Placid an automobile ran into her dogs and hurt them so badly that she had to quit racing for a while. This year she took second place in the Lake Placid race. She is entered in the Quebec race this month.

¶ Also at Ottawa's Winter Sports Carnival last week, Jean Wilson, 19, of Toronto won every women's speed skating event, the title of North American champion.

At Hanover N. H., Dartmouth won the intercollegiate Winter Sports Union Championship with 3½ points, earned principally in the skating races. Second was little New Hampshire University, which had won the meet for four previous years.

At Lake Placid, N. Y., in flaming red uniforms, helmets and masks, the four-man bobsled team of the Saranac Lake Club shot down the new Olympic bobsled run (1½mi.) in 1 min. 52 sec. to win the first A. A. U. championship. The Swiss Nationals finished fourth, and the Berlin Schlittschup Club withdrew after a nasty spill. The event, like winter sports elsewhere, assumed special interest because the winners in most cases will be likely contestants in the Olympic winter games at Lake Placid next year.