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...Marquess of Clydesdale, the Duke was Scotland's amateur middleweight boxing champion, an excellent skier, one of the first men to fly over Everest. His debut in politics was less successful. While standing for Parliament he discouraged his Conservative backers by giving the same speech at all election meetings, getting booed when he tried another...
...skier feeling himself able to navigate the headwall is allowed to enter; the times of the top 15 men from each college are totaled to find the winning team...
...uninitiated, who take their skiing vicariously from the movies and the newsreels, jumping is the zenith of competitive skiing. But only about one skier in ten is a jumper. Finns prefer the langlanf -racing on the flat. Precision-minded skiers like the slalom-a tricky obstacle race between pairs of flags set irregularly down a steep hillside. For daredevils with a taste for breakneck speed, slashing turns, there is only one sport on skis: downhill racing-probably the most difficult and dangerous form of skiing competition...
...Swiss Skier Andre Roch proposed to lay out such a course for the U. S. He chose Aspen, Colo., in the heart of the Rockies 200 miles west of Denver, in the 1880s the "world's richest mining camp," now a shrunken village of 800 miners. Roch laid out the course on the precipitous north slope of Mt. Aspen before he returned home. Aspenites completed it according to his plan. From a height of 10,350 ft. above sea level, Roch Run has a vertical drop of 2,500 ft. in one and three-quarters miles. It begins...
This year for the first time, the speediest Kanonen will have his name handed down to posterity on a perpetual trophy. The Bright Trophy for the Harvard Recreational Race, has been donated in gratitude to Alexander H. Bright '19, who, a nationally known skier in his own right, has been largely responsible for the formation of the Ski Club...