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...institute of Geographical Exploration, under the direction of Mr. McCaleb, has devised a small receiving set specially adapted for sled work. The instrument is very compact as well as powerful, and the model of it is now at the Geographical Institute. A low power transmitter is combined in the field communicator...
...first day's racing on stubby little two-man sleds, the track was smooth but comparatively slow. It took J. Hubert Stevens, who won the Olympic Championship last year, a fraction of a second more than 8 minutes to make four trips. The fraction-.21 sec.-was about the time he wasted steering back onto the track when, on his last run, his sled skidded at the last curve and one runner slid over the edge. Second and third places went to his brothers, Curtis and Raymond...
Next day the four-man sleds were trucked to the top of Mount Van Hoevenberg in softening weather. Six other teams in the four-man championship would doubtless have been pleased if all the Stevenses-Hubert, Curtis, Raymond and Paul-had clambered onto the same sled. Instead, Hubert, Curtis and Raymond each drove a sled of his own, placed 1, 2, 3 in the first two heats. Hubert Stevens made his first run in 1:47.79, breaking the course record Curtis had set a week earlier. His second run-.01 sec. slower-gave him a scant 5 sec. lead...
...natural that almost the only competent bobbers in the U. S. as yet are sportsmen of some means who live within a 20-mi. radius of Lake Placid. The four Stevens brothers manage a Lake Placid hotel which they inherited from their father. They win so many bob-sled races-last fortnight they took all the events in the national A. A. U. champion-ships-that impartial observers might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens...
...sled driving is a sport of the type which insurance companies view with alarm. Last month a Swiss bobber, Oscar Geier, was notified that his insurance would be cancelled unless he gave up the sport. To prevent novices from breaking their heads, Lake Placid bob-sled enthusiasts last summer formed the Adirondack Bob Sled Club which teaches novices how to handle the sleds, issues licenses for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, maintains a staff of drivers to take passengers over the course for $1 a ride...