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...earnings were $332,250, second to Sun Beau's all-time record of $356.044. His disposition was eccentric but calm. He liked to roll in sand every day, had a special sand pile to do it in. At the post or when traveling, he was intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly...
...become a party to what we believed was a straight hold-up on the part of ... an amateur in sport." ¶ Ivar Ballangrud, 27-year-old Norwegian speedskater: three races (1,500, 5,000, and 10,000 metres) out of four, for the world's championship; at Lake Placid...
Last week's Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid were handicapped by the fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books...
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...
...against, including figures from four unofficial titles not on the regular scheduled. This year's sextet, as a matter of record, has lost only one regular scheduled contest, and early season meeting with McGill, which the Crimson later defeated at the intercollegiate Olympic games at Lake Placid...