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...Reto Capadrutt, who steered with ropes instead of a wheel, and his elderly brakeman, Oscar Geier. Best U. S. bobbers were J. Hubert and Curtis Stevens, of Lake Placid who, apparently beaten by a slow first run, heated their runners with an acetylene torch to make them go faster. Steersman J. Hubert Stevens set a new course record (1:57.68), beat the Capadrutt boblet by 1.54 sec. for four runs...
...Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...
...Dutchman. A famed Norwegian basso, Ivar Andresen, made his debut as the Norwegian Daland, capably acted the jovial sailor but disappointed with singing which, according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high the ghoulish scene of her meeting with the Dutchman, her promise to redeem...
Upperclass coxswains are plentiful this year, both E. L. Belisle '31, first string steersman and former Olympic four-oar cox, and F. S. Holmes '31, jayvee cox, being available. Other promising candidates are A. H. Stebbins '32, L. E. Becker '32, L. L. Wadsworth '30, and Crispin Cooke '32. First-year coxes are also plentiful
Richard Kimball '31, Coxswain of the 150-pound eight, and F. S. Holmes '31, third University steersman, are also working with the squad but it is believed that a Freshman will hold the tiller ropes of the combination eight. L. L. Wadsworth '30 and E. L. Belisle '31 have both been coxing the first eight and a final choice will probably be announced in the near future...