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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...
...bobsleds last week were mainly manned by Lake Placid local boys. Since the Mount Van Hoevenberg run is the only one in the U. S. and since it takes an immense amount of practice to become an expert bobber, it is natural that almost the only competent bobbers in the U. S. as yet are sportsmen of some means who live within a 20-mi. radius of Lake Placid. The four Stevens brothers manage a Lake Placid hotel which they inherited from their father. They win so many bob-sled races-last fortnight they took all the events...
...sled driving is a sport of the type which insurance companies view with alarm. Last month a Swiss bobber, Oscar Geier, was notified that his insurance would be cancelled unless he gave up the sport. To prevent novices from breaking their heads, Lake Placid bob-sled enthusiasts last summer formed the Adirondack Bob Sled Club which teaches novices how to handle the sleds, issues licenses for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, maintains a staff of drivers to take passengers over the course for $1 a ride...
...Mistler took it upon himself to find a new Marianne for France. Last week, with a new Cabinet in France, M. Mistler was out of office. To his successors he bequeathed his new goddess, a large, placid pseudo-Roman lady, the work of his good friend Sculptor Pierre Poisson. To the new town hall of Arras belongs the original...
Harvard's first skiing team will make its initial entry in the field of intercollegiate winter sports when it competes in the College Week contests at Lake Placid in the last week of December. The Crimson ski-runners will be entered only in the slalom and downhill races to be held on the afternoon of December 30, and the morning of December 31, respectively. Teams from Dartmouth, McGill, New Hampshire, and other New England and Canadian colleges are expected to provide hard competition for a new Crimson outfit, inexperienced in formal team competition and lacking intensive practice over difficult courses...