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...Lucerne, Que., R. L. Denton. McGill University skier, last week won the International Intercollegiate jumping championship, with 208.40 points for his two jumps of 52 and 53 meters...
...race will be held over the new Tuckerman Ravine ski trail from the Mountaineering Club's spur cabin to the Crystal Cascade, just above Pinkham Notch. Competitors will be sent off down the trial at intervals of two minutes to avoid overlapping, but should any skier be overtaken by the man following him he is automatically disqualified. This course has been covered this winter in slightly under seven minutes...
Because Emperor Hirohito saw from the first the basic unwisdom of Japan's Shanghai adventure, Crown Prince Chi-chibu (a daring skier and steady-nerved huntsman) is 'not and never has been with his regiment at Shanghai. The chief sacrifice which Crown Prince Chichibu is called upon to make derives from the fact that his brother, Emperor Hirohito, has no manchild. Until the Sublime Emperor has a son (he has had four daughters) Japanese etiquet demands that Crown Prince Chichibu have no child whatsoever. Four years ago he married merry Setsuko Matsudaira who was schooled in Washington...
First of the sixteen foreign teams ? to arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...
...might be noted that the Arlberg School differs primarily from other schools in that a crouching rather than upright position is assumed, and from the three fundamental crouching positions which reduce the center of gravity of the skier, it is easy to swing into turns and stops...