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...Every skier who ever went to Harvard or Dartmouth has his chance to show Ferner, Meservey, and other top-notch college schussers how to run a slalom course in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom to be held on the Tuckerman Ravine Headwall next Sunday...
Then Ferner placed second to no the last weekend, beating the number one intercollegiate downhill skier, Dartmouth's Bob Meservey, in one run and tying him for first in the eighth annual Appalachian Mountain Club race on the Wildeat Trail In Pinkham Notch Sunday...
...Saturday afternoon, the Third Class Proficiency Tests, one of the pre-requisites to receiving a "C" rating in the U. S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association, will be given by Bungie King and Tom Winship on the Pinkham Notch Practice Slope. To pass this test the skier must make four continuous stem turns, a right and a left stop Christie, and either two jump turns or two telemarks. In addition he must negotiate a prescribed slalom course in reasonable time...
...Kanone is an expert skier, and skiing is one of the few sports at which women become expert. Discouraged from jumping (too dangerous) and cross-country running (too tiring), women have adopted the most becoming ski sport: downhill racing. Even so, whooshing down a mountainside at 40 m.p.h. requires steel nerves, stamina, split-second thinking. Not by seconds but by fractions of seconds are races often won & lost...
Ferner tied the Wildcats' Freshman sensation, Steve Knowlton, for first on the Moose Mountain downhill trial. This is the best that any Harvard skier has probably ever done in intercollegiate competition. Yardling Duncan Reid repeated the fine performance which he gave at Woodstock by coming in seventh...