Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston last autumn, Norman Skelly, 28-year-old Pawtucket, R. I. rollerskating rink proprietor and his friend John Shefuga set out to skate to Los Angeles. They arrived, after covering 4,075 miles, two months and two days later, turned around to hitchhike home. Last week in Manhattan, Skater Skelly proudly exhibited memoranda of the trip. Excerpts...
...thoroughly concerning the North American Figure Skating Championships which were held in Boston last month. It is apparent that TIME has muffed one of the most interesting stories of figure skating this year. When, three days before the opening of the championship, Erie Reiter, America's second ranking skater and almost Robin Lee's equal, was discovered to be the only American entrant who might come anywhere near "pushing" Canada's Montgomery ("Bud") Wilson, Roger F. Turner, 36-year-old Boston lawyer, was asked to compete. Out of active competition for over two years . . . Turner was given...
...Thomas M. Vinson, there to chaperon and applaud her daughter Maribel, who last fortnight won the North American women's figure skating championship. By the time the Colledges left the rink, Mrs. Colledge had been fired with the ambition of making her daughter as good a skater as Mrs. Vinson's Maribel, who had promised to send small Cecilia a pair of skates she had outgrown. The skates fitted Cecilia exactly. In them, under her mother's careful supervision, she began a unique campaign of which last week's victory was the climax...
First move in Mrs. Colledge's plot to make her daughter a world-champion skater was to remove her from school, take her to Norway for expert skating instruction. The next year the Colledges stayed in London and Cecilia's training was entrusted to Swiss Jakob Gerschweiler. He lived in the Colledge home, told Cecilia what to eat, taught her not only skating but also French and German. For eleven months a year for the next eight years Cecilia Colledge followed the same routine every day-six hours of skating lessons supplemented by dancing lessons, exercises, massages...
Figure skating tournaments are divided into free skating, in which competitors execute their own specialties, and school figures, selected by lot from 42 standard maneuvers with which all figure skaters are supposed to be familiar. Experts consider Champion Colledge's free skating repertoire more difficult than Sonja Henie's, especially her double-revolution jump which no other woman skater has ever tried in competition. Her next appearance on ice will be an exhibition at the Toronto Skating Carnival next week...