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Previous to his coming to Dartmouth, Schniebs had had considerable success in coaching the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Harvard Mountaineering Club. He hailed from the Black Forest region in Germany, and he was a famous skier of the Arlberg School. He had a lot of new ideas about skiing methods, and he proceeded at once to put them into effect. His Arlberg methods changed entirely the technique of skiing at Hanover...
...club has for its instructor an internationally known skier Otto Schniebs of Bavaria...
...Sweden. Over from Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce Crown Prince Olaf. This time he came openly and gaily, not as he clandestinely used to come (while courting Princess Martha) with his hat turned down, his coat turned up, and his eyes masked behind a skier's blue snow-goggles. So successful was this disguise that until the official wedding announcement was made not 50 people in all Scandinavia knew of the romance. Last week, after dancing until well-nigh dawn, Prince Olaf rushed back from Stockholm to Oslo, in order to be there to welcome...
...Sportsman. Big, powerful, restless, Doyle is first of all a man of action. He is proficient at most games. Brilliant cricketer, masterly billiard player, fisherman, footballer, horseman, skier, first-rate boxer (he was asked to referee the Johnson-Jeffries fight), golfer - he has at least dabbled in everything...