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Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-13 | Page 18 | Backseat Driving

Type issue
Date 1934-04-13
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Backseat Driving
Type article
Date 1934-04-13
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 18
OCR Text Indoor Ski Jumping t hij FRANK K BAKER Ski jumpers seem never to thrills to satisfy them Ma Mans ot of these Intrepid riders of the greased have ha been known to th u strAw when they run out of snow Now several of them IncludinG year old Lars Haugen have rIgged up an indoor skI Jump at Mm Min The jump towers approximately 90 feet above the floor loor of the Min Mm neapolis audItorium and is the biggest indoor ski slide ever cr attempted Ir In Inthe L the world Jumps or of 60 feet un under conditions Of course 60 feet probably seems tame as compared to what Lars and the rest ot of the professionals have done off Ecker hm hIlt here in Utah but 60 feet Indoors with the walls looming up on every hand undoubtedly transforms transforms trans trans- forms 60 feet into a prodigious leap The slide hal ba a loot foot slope covered with which ice the safest kind of riding since It Is so slippery the rider has difficulty holding hI bli skis In order The skIers will land on specially prep prepared d waxed canvas canns pads slide about feet alter after landing and bring brine up against t a bl big life net Lars has had many thrills In the course of 01 win win- in seven en national championships and competing with All Engen Enen and the rest but I Imagine that few outshine that of 01 being jerked suddenly to a halt after a wild rid ride and caught In a n net t much as asif It if he were a fish 0 CLOSE BUT STILL SO FAR Two bids for perfect bowling scores have been made In Salt Lake during the past week R. R Verne McCullough who is accused of being an attorney a merChant merchant mer- mer chant a wrestling promoter and a and bowler will ill admit to the charges on all n counts WaS war responsible for one noble effort at the Orpheum alleys when he rolled 11 strikes and a spare in one game for a score Verne toppled six strikes in a row roy and had to be satisfied with a a spare in the seventh frame after the No 10 wobbled but stood on a Brooklyn kilL hit Clayton L. L Baune turned In the other fine bid at Fort Douglas when a single pin stood on him in the tenth frame As It was he rolled 12 strikes In a row finishing il a previous game with three and getting nine lii his big game before the single incle pin stubbornly stood I its ground I The Fort Douglas b bowler missed the spare pickup but still finished with a a score He had In the previous game and turned in in the thc third game for a total Mall Mait 0 War who never rall ran in ill he the Kentucky Derby himself is still a pretty relt big 1 ilaine ame when it conies comes to 0 the classic Jes despite i c the passing years ears since si he be was so active ill in turf tur R Red d has lias I three sons SOilS and nine grandchildren grand ld children in 11 this years derby I ros e ts The sons SOIlS are arc Fighting Mike and Identify The grandsons are Bla Black k Budd Buddy Vicar Billy M. M Norman 1 D. D Naval Cadet Chasar and War pledge The granddaughters are arc Mata Tan 1 the he winter book favorite ad J Jabot Odds Ends of Interest Here and There From Sports W World orId Babe Ruth wants to add two more marks to hIs record along with his twenty years of major league play and ten world series He le needs Ii 14 homers and 87 67 walks to realize records of 2000 free tickets to first base and ZOO d. Detroit has a corner comer on the Jewish ball players with Pitcher her Isadore A. A d. d I I Goldstein l and First Baseman Henry Greenberg Isadore springs from fromIn froman In an East Side family In New York with moderate means Greenberg parents are wealthy residents of the Bronx Of the unfortunates whose Injuries nipped their major league careers h In the bud Dusky Cooke Cook Red Sox outfielder looks most impressive in Inthe the opinion of 1 m Braucher N. N E E. A. A sportS writer Another fellow expecting to make a fine comeback this year Is Henry Johnson Red Sox pitcher Vance yance announced he expected to win 20 games for the Reds this year and the very day was unable to report for practice because of a a. pain In that old year ba back k J Nate Lewis managed some lome of the greatest In the game but never had a champion The closest he ever came was at Tonopah Ton Ton- opah Nevada on January 1 1907 when Joe Gans knocked down Kid Herman after the bell In the third round of a a. lightweight title match Before the referee could call caU a foul Herman jumped up patted Gins Gans on the shoulder and said all right Joe I know you didn't mean Jt It Gans then knocked out Herman In the eighth round as he had promised and bet
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