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...Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting for him to repeat in the four-man event. Happily hailing U.S. Bobsledder Lloyd...
Minutes later, the four-man Swiss sled, a red-nosed quarter-ton of steel, wire and canvas, started its practice run. Brakeman Fritz Stöckli gave a final shove, then hopped on behind his white-sweatered crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on the icy course, the sled hit a 50 m.p.h. clip as Endrich steered through the tricky "labyrinth"-a series of 16 intricate curves. Pounding into the Bavarian Curve, a 180° turn with a 15-foot sheer wall of ice where Sweden's Rudolph Odenrich was killed two years...
...Brakes. The Europeans, unused to downhill curves and accustomed to picking up speed on straightaways, were at a disadvantage at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Nonetheless, a Swiss sled, driven by 28-year-old Felix Endrich (winner at last winter's Olympics), tore off with the world's two-man title. Average time for the 5,181-ft. course...
...Sweden's husky Martin Lundstroem, who plowed his way to victory in the 11.2-mile cross-country ski race. Nineteen of the first 20 to finish were Scandinavians; the first U.S. skier came in 65th. ¶t]J Switzerland's Felix Endrich, 26, who zoomed down the perilous bobsled course (sometimes at close to 80 m.p.h.) to win the boblet (two-man sled) crown from his coach, Fritz Feierabend...