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Open to all University undergraduates with or without experience on skis, the annual Harvard ski race will draw over 40 men to the Sherburne Trail in Pinkham Notch next Sunday morning. Contestants will run the lower part of the Trail, dropping 1,100 feet in a little over a mile, in this informal race which has become a regular event on the Club's program...
...give less able skiers a chance in the contest, members of the ski team specializing in downhill racing will be excluded from competition. Favored to finish among the leaders this year, along with David Goldthwaite and John Abbot, is Tom Winship, who took first place in last year's event with the time of 2:30. It is possible that Winship may be kept out of the running this season because, although his event is usually the jump, he has done some downhill racing for the team...
...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...
Racking the Taft trail in the downhill, Finn Ferner came through with a third after the Ski Club Hochgebirge's Bob Livermore, and Steve Knowlton of the University of New Hampshire. The other Crimson entrants, Bungle King and Del Ames, finished tenth and thirteenth respectively...
Rankings and times of the individual runners in the slalom yesterday were not available last night, but it was disclosed that the Plymouth Ski Club, who nosed out by a second and and half on their total time the day before, had finished second ahead of Harvard yesterday...