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Button's point total after the five compulsory figures was 111.4, while European champion Helmut Selbt placed second with 106.7 points. Richards was close behind the Austrian skater with 104.9 points. The compulsory figures count 60 percent of the whole competition...
Button is the only skater in the world who can execute the leap, which involves taking off on one skate going backward and doing three body revolutions before landing on the same skate, again going backward...
Dudley Richards '54, the world's fifth ranking figure skater, who was just nosed out of a berth on the Olympic team, will fly to Oslo shortly to assist the American team if he is needed. After the Games, Richards will travel to Paris with fellow student Dick Button for the 1952 World Championships...
Among the many other attractions of the Winter Carnival, spectators saw sophomore Dudley Richards, fifth best male figure skater in the world, exhibit his ability in a skating show put on Friday night...
Sonya Klopfer, 17, of Long Island City, N.Y., a solid little brunette who is fond of malteds and doughnuts, got her first name, despite the difference in spelling, out of her mother's unbounded admiration for Sonja Henie. Sonya specializes in free-style skating-"The finest free skater of her age in the world today," said the conservative British Skating World, after her third-place performance in the 1951 World Championship. Sonya is the current North American and U.S. titleholder...