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High & Soon. As Casey watched, the French sled rumbled into Shady, its steel blades skitting and chattering around the curve. It came so close to cracking up that Casey made a mental resolution to talk to French steersman Louis Saint Calbre. Two weeks before, the Belgian team's sled had catapulted over Shady's 22-ft. wall of ice in a practice run, killing the driver and leading to Belgium's withdrawal. The Frenchman was driving Shady the same way. Said Casey to himself: "I got to go up and tell him how to take...
Leading among the spectator sports are Sled Dog Races (mush!) and Horse Racing on Ice, a terrifying pastime that apparently takes place every Sunday at Beaver Lake, Derry...
...worked night & day, in winter sometimes making her rounds by sled or snowshoe. For the last quarter of a century she has been practicing in Eugene...
...interested, look for Harvard's Sam Felton throwing the hammer. And you might try to figure out what peculiar from of madness drives a man to throw himself down a twisting track of ice on a three-foot sled at sixty miles an hour...
Winter sports enthusiasts cannot coast down a street on a sled without the mayor's permission, and even pedestrians are restricted. "No person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...