Word: hoevenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run at Lake Placid, N. Y. is no ordinary coasting hill. It is an ice-lined ditch 1 1/2 mi. long, twisting down the side of a comparatively small Adirondack mountain. The sleds that go down it are $400 machines equipped with steering wheel, brakes, and seats ten inches above the runners. They weigh 485 lb. and are stored in a garage at the foot of the slide. Such deluxe coasting is a new sport for the U. S. The Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports...
...statement should have been interpreted to mean that unfamiliarity with the Mount Van Hoevenberg Run was the cause of their most regrettable mishap, this accident having occurred at the very start of their practice...
Bobbing. Most elaborate addition to the Lake Placid plant was the $250,000, mile-and-a-half bob-sled run down the side of Mt. Van Hoevenberg. In the two man bob-sled (boblet) races, the best Europeans were a 20-year-old Swiss sophomore at Zurich University, Reto Capadrutt, who steered with ropes instead of a wheel, and his elderly brakeman, Oscar Geier. Best U. S. bobbers were J. Hubert and Curtis Stevens, of Lake Placid who, apparently beaten by a slow first run, heated their runners with an acetylene torch to make them go faster. Steersman J. Hubert...
Peering into the long white trench of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg run, steep and tortuous as a market graph, 20,000 spectators at the more perilous races for four man teams were hopefully horrified by anticipating casualties like those in the pre-Olympic trials. The races, repeatedly postponed by bad weather, were finally run without mishap on a slow track. A U. S. sled steered by William Fiske, U. S.-born Londoner who won the Olympic championship in 1928, won with 7:53.68 for four runs, with another U. S. team second...
...prelude to the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N. Y. was a month of slush and a series of mishaps on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...