Word: torger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a grinning, 19-year-old Norwegian named Torger Tokle landed in Manhattan two years ago, he was met by his older brother, Kyrre, who drove him to his farm in Noroton, Conn. Next day, Brother Kyrre was to compete in a ski-jumping meet at nearby Bear Mountain Park. "I yump too," said Torger. Yump he did-and broke the hill record...
...native Lokken Verk, where every other 12-year-old can jump 150 ft., Torger...
...sensation. Here was a greenhorn who could jump 157 ft. on sea legs. He lacked the elegant style of Olympic Champion Birger Ruud and Norwegian Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack on the nose...
...England jumpers, Torger Tokle was a deep discouragement. Jumping is judged on form as well as distance, but Tokle's tremendous, unpolished power won practically every meet he entered. In four successive Bear Mountain meets, he broke his own hill record, stretching it from 157 ft. to 163 ft. In his first year in the U. S., towheaded Torger Tokle won 15 out of 16 tournaments, broke nine hill records...
...last week, Torger Tokle had become America's favorite snow bird. Ten days ago, in a meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill...