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Died. Emile St. Godard, 42, onetime king of the dog-team racers; of cancer; in The Pas, Manitoba. At 19 he won his first major race (200 miles over rough terrain in about 30 hours), later the same year won the Eastern International Dog Derby, so dominated the field for the next ten years that fans referred to the races as "St. Godard against the field." Occasionally he finished tough races with two or three dog-tired huskies riding in the sled...
Born in Paris, Cécile Chaminade started composing as a child, dedicated her first works (a group of nocturnes and "slumber songs") to her pet dogs and cat. She took lessons in composition from Benjamin Godard. Always a facile melodist, Chaminade soon rolled up a list of over 550 compositions, which stand in the same relation to Frederic Chopin as strawberry soda does to cognac. Many of them (The Flatterer, Pas des Amphores, La Zingara, Valse Caprice, Air de Ballet, etc.) got an international reputation...
HARVARD YALE Frankel 118-pound Bigwood Klein 126-pound Shallenberger Johnson 135-pound Phillips Dorman 145-pound Byington Godard 155-pound Haase Whitney 165-pound Knox Ames 175-pound Triest Barrows H. W. Rotan...
...Emil St. Godard had won The Pas Dog Derby every year for five years, and this year in the eastern races he showed so well that he seemed sure to repeat. In The Pas race last week, he was five minutes ahead at the turn at the Flin Flon Mine, 100 miles out. St. Godard's huskies weakened on the home stretch. A dog which had been lurching in the traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through...
Huskies. Emile St. Godard of The Pas, Manitoba, raced his dogs against the famous huskies of Leonard Seppala, the man who took the serum to Nome, beat him in a 123-mile dog derby for a gold...