Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1911 — Runs Down a Deer on Skis [ARTICLE]

Runs Down a Deer on Skis

Norwegian Overtakes Scared Fugitive A'nimal and Saves It From Savage Doge. Montvllle, N. J. —Residents of Undercliff road, which skirts the foot of Hock mountain, saw one of the most exciting races ever run In that section. The participants were Larz Koppang, Norwegian ski runner; a pack of dogs and a pet deer belonging to Harold Rutgers, by whom Koppang is employed. The deer got out of its lnclosure by breaking the fence, and a search was made for it by Rutgers and his employees. The barking of dogs caused the men to look out on the Big Piece, a flat meadow land about a mile wide and 'five miles in length. There they saw the deer, pursued by a score of dogs. Koppang ran to his employer’s home for hla skis and soon took up the chase. The deer and the dogs had at least a mile start of the Norwegian, and were headed due north on the fivemile stretch. The snow bad a good crust, and Koppang glided along at a faat rate. It was not long before the entire neighborhood had turned out to witness the race. The deer held Its own with the dogs, and it waa seen that Koppang was fast gaining on the pursuers and pursued. It was a question of whether the Norwegian could overtake the deer before It got to the end of the meadow. If It did not it would he hard for him to keep up the chase, as he would have had to climb flenses. The dogs began to tire, and one by

one he passed them. He caught the deer near the end of the meadow. He slipped a rope ground Its neck and led it to its mastertfrhome. The deer, usually tame, was made wild by the dogs, and the man had much’trouble In leading it.