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Skiing. Swede Artur Larsson nosed out three fellow-Scandinavians in the 18-kilometre ski-marathon. Oddbjorn Hagen of Norway won the combination 18-kilometre race and jump. In the ski jump, watched by a crowd of 130,000, Norway's stumpy little Birger Ruud averaged 245 ft. for his two jumps, kept the title he won at Lake Placid four years...
...jump, for which grandstands have been built to seat a crowd of 80,000. Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major...
...Kentucky and, I believe, in other States, has never accepted payment, not even expense money. He asks for and usually receives the weapon with which the crime (when murder) was committed. The arsenal in his home is imposing. His most publicized and helpful service: tying the noose on Charlie Birger, Southern Illinois gangster, murderer, executed at Benton, Ill. in the spring of 1928.* . . . A very charming gentleman, Mr. Hanna receives hospitably callers who come morbidly curious, go away disappointed, delighted, mystified...
...Illinois' last execution by hanging, before the electric chair was adopted. On the gallows Mr. Hanna asked, received Murderer Birger's forgiveness for what he was about to do. Birger gladly shook hands with Hanna but refused the proffered hand of the sheriff...
...grooves instead of one, to make them go straight, are judged on form. Ski-jump judges first picked 19-year-old Hans Beck of Kongsberg, Norway for two jumps of 232 and 208 feet. Then they changed their decision, ranked him second to another 19-year-old Kongs-bergian, Birger Ruud. Red-cheeked Ruud, who works in a gun factory, and whose older brother, Sigmund, finished seventh in the same event went 218 ft. on his first jump, 226 on his second, got 228.1 points to Beck...