Word: slaloming
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Last week thousands of U.S. ski fans crammed the sidelines at Lake Placid's Rim Rock run. Like most downhill meets, the races were divided into two sections: the straight-down (popularly called the downhill) and the slalom,* a zigzag course defined by pairs of flags which skiers must thread...
...weeks ago, when practically the same U.S. and Canadian Kanonen met in a tournament at Mont Tremblant in the Laurentians, the Canadian girls lost the slalom but streaked off with the downhill race. In last week's return engagement, Canada's dashing Wurtele twins, Rhona & Rhoda, who have finished one-two in every downhill race they have entered this year, failed to lead their side to victory. Winner of the downhill, with spectacular runs of 1:02 and 1:01.4 (for the ⅜-mile course) was Dorothy Hoyt of Schenectady, N.Y. Two U.S. teammates were clocked close behind...
...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...
With brilliant individual performances by Del Ames and Finn Ferner, the Crimson managed to pull into fourth, place after the first day of racing at the I. S. U. meet at Middlebury yesterday. Ferner took fourth in the slalom...
...slalom, the schussers were only two-and-a-half points behind winning New Hampshire, with Dartmouth's squad barely nosing out the Crimson for second...