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...watch this year will be James Laughlin, 4th '38, who showed up as a very pretty skier. He has had previous experience in Austria...
...Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major development in the rise of U. S. winter sports in the last eight years...
...subjects for disgruntled conversation: the cold weather and an eccentric sophomore named Fred Harris who went outdoors every afternoon to slide down the New Hampshire hills on two long sticks. Of Dartmouth's many alumni, distinguished and otherwise, none has served his alma mater more effectively than Skier Harris. From his odd idea of entertainment developed the Dartmouth Outing Club, the legend of a "college on skis" that made last week's 25th annual Winter Carnival one of the brightest happenings on the calendar of U. S. winter sports. There were dances, two nights...
...Durrance went also the somewhat more substantial satisfaction of winning two of the skiing events that are the Carnival's backbone. A Floridian who learned to ski in Germany, considered by Dartmouth's grizzled Coach Otto Schniebs the best amateur downhill skier in the U. S., Durrance won the downhill race-a precipitous mile down a mountain slide-in 58.8 seconds. In the slalom-zig-zag down a course outlined by pennants in the snow -he wasted three seconds going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry...
...trail, while fast enough to give the experienced skier pleasure, is not too hard for beginners. It is a hundred feet wide for almost its entire length. The results of the race will help in the decision concerning members of the skiing team...