Word: kongsberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Norway's Birger Ruud won the U. S. title. The year before, his brother Sigmund won it. This year the Ruud Brothers remained at home but another Norwegian, 2 -year-old Reidar Andersen, from the same little silver-mining town of Kongsberg, crossed the Atlantic to take part in the U. S. championship...
...times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with...
...jumping. The length of a jump on sMs depends largely on the topography of the hill. Ski-jumpers, who use especially wide skis with three 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...