Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made known his new interest. Backed principally by himself & wife, he announced that he was a candidate for Congress in the North Shore district. He has a country place near Milburn, west of Waukegan. Mrs. Simpson said that unless...
...large proportion of new material in the squad has made it necessary that this combination should consist, with one exception, of veteran players, but it is probable that every skater will get a chance to prove his ability before the session will be over...
...tape and bandage around ligaments he had torn away from his left collarbone shortly before the series. They came from behind in the third period of the deciding game with Ottawa, scored three times in three minutes, won at 5 to 2. Howie Morenz of the Canadiens, the fastest skater in hockey, his round, heavy shoulders hunched toward his stick, his strong legs pumping in characteristic gait resembling a shuffle, but matchless in speed, broke a tie and won his team's series by curling a high shot past Gardner, frenzied Chicago goalie, who had stopped everything...
Figures. Figure-skaters should know the 72 recognized figures. Last week at Madison Square Garden the finalists in the world's figure skating championship were allowed five minutes on the ice to show their ability. Sonja Henie had come from Norway and had been practicing in Manhattan for five weeks in preparation for her five minutes (TIME, Jan. 20). As she ran through the gate and started diagonally across the ice in the sprint that gave her speed it was clear that she was nervous. Once she slipped, brushed the ice with her fingertips, caught her balance, smiled and flushed...
...interview last night at the Lenox Hotel, Sonja Henie, 17-year-old girl skater from Oslo, Norway, who has won the world's singles title for women four successive times, and who is to appear at the Arena tonight, said she began to practice skating when only seven years old, first on roller skates, and then on the ice. She captured her first championship for fancy skating in 1924 at the age of eleven. Her father, who won the world's bicycle championship in Antwerp in 1893, then took her to Chamonix in France, where she had her first opportunity...