Word: slalom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After trying unsuccessfully for three years to beat Harvard in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom in Tucker man's Ravino, the Hanover skiers yesterday gained a decisive victory over the Crimson. This race marks the end of the official ski-racing season, since the inferno from the top of the Headwall has been canceled for lack of snow on the Sherburne trail...
Winding up the official ski-racing season at Pinkham Notch when most students are already tossing baseballs or rowing, the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom on the Tuckerman Ravine headwall will attract an estimated 50 or more racers from both colleges next Sunday...
...uninitiated, who take their skiing vicariously from the movies and the newsreels, jumping is the zenith of competitive skiing. But only about one skier in ten is a jumper. Finns prefer the langlanf -racing on the flat. Precision-minded skiers like the slalom-a tricky obstacle race between pairs of flags set irregularly down a steep hillside. For daredevils with a taste for breakneck speed, slashing turns, there is only one sport on skis: downhill racing-probably the most difficult and dangerous form of skiing competition...
Busiest spot in Aspen last week was the barbershop of the Jerome Hotel. Thither small boys carried trays of beer, as spectators watched with telescopes through the wide windows Aspen's first running of the national downhill and slalom championships. On Saturday they saw stocky, Austrian-born Toni Matt, of North Conway, N. H., whoosh out of the steep pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National...
...Cantabs were in third place after the langlauf, slalom, and downhill events had been run, 15.947 points behind Dartmouth, only 6.033 points behind New Hampshire and well ahead of the remaining competitors. Greatly instrumental in this good showing were Finn Ferner and Bungle King, who finished fourth and fifth respectively in the downhill, and Captain Del Ames, who finished third in the slalom...