Word: slaloming
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Inaugurating competition in skiing among the "Big Three", the University ski team will meet Princeton and Yale in downhill and slalom in Tuckerman's Ravine on April '1. Next Sunday the "A" team will race in the annual "Inferno" down Mt. Washington, the most difficult downhill race held in the east...
...Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom-through a zigzag, flag-marked course-in which Allais had finished third...
...were combined with the U. S. Open. Dartmouth's astonishing Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second to his protege in the downhill race...
...Dartmouth ski team: the 27th Dartmouth Outing Club winter carnival (slalom, downhill, cross-country racing, jumping) from McGill, Montreal, a team of Swiss students, Maine, New Hampshire, Amherst, Harvard, Yale; on total team points. Carnival Queen, chosen by three doctors from the college infirmary, was Florence Allen of Birmingham, Ala., who had never before seen snow...
...satisfaction with the worth of Hannes Schneider as an instructor lies in the fact that in 1927, though I had never before seen a ski-binding, I managed to beat all others at Dartmouth except one member of the team in the slalom. Before snow fell I had found a book of excerpts from Schneider's The Wonders of Skiing in the library, had absorbed the feel of his technique from the photographs without understanding one word of the German text...