Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cablegram from Austin R. Edwards, President of the Ski Club Chile in Santiago and leading organizer of the sport in that country, states-that the Chileans, who sailed from Valparaiso on January 10 on board the Grace Liner "Santa Elena", are scheduled to arrive in Now York today. The group will probably include five competitors and one manager yet to be selected from among the ranking skiers of the country...
...visit of a Chileau Ski Team to the United States at this time will serve to renew a friendly sports relationship of several years standing," Mr. Palmedo stated, "and at the same time bind closer the tics which unite the Americas, North and South. We hope that through the tour which we have planned for the Chilean skiers during February and March we may be able to repay, in part, the generous hospitality which has been extended to our United States skiers by the Chilean Government, the Chilean ski clubs, and the individual Chilean skiers...
...tour of the United States will be directly under the sponsorship of the National Ski Association of America, through its Committee on International Competition and a special sub-committee which has been appointed to carry out the details of a 6,000 mile trip that will include many important skiing centers in both the East and West...
...Chilean Team Committee will be headed by Eugene Du Bols, of New York City, manager of the U. S. Ski Team in Chile during 1937, as chairman. The other members will be Warren Chivers, of Hanover, N. H.; Donald Fraser, of Denver, Colo.; Peter Hostmark, of Seattle, Wash.; John C. Jay, Jr., of New York City; David Judan, of Otis, Mass.; and Alfred H. Moorhouse, of Boston, Mass...
...first Pan American Ski Championships were held in Chile in July, 1937, with the United States Team comprising Warren and Howard Chivers, Ed Wells, Ted Hunter, and John Litchfield, then all students at Dartmouth College, and Don Fraser, then of Seattle, carrying off the team and individual prizes...