Show Sled Riding Beats Plane For Thrills I 1 LAKE PLACID N. N Y Jan 29 P JP PIts PIt's Its It's Its It's n a far cry from the thc bell flops belly of kid days daj's on a made home-made sled down the nearest hill to the grownup grownup grown grown- up pastime o of bobsledding It is the outgrowth of or course of the fascinating winter sport of extreme ex ex- cx- cx youth where you jou grabbed your sled rigidly in two hands shouted for gangway and took your flopper lop per down the hill in your jour turn whistling for room at the crossroad with the wind in your jour eyes and teeth snow in your our hair The ordinary youngster would never recognize the pound steel and oak contraption with its automobile automobile automo automo- bile steering device side netting lo to protect the legs and the man four crew padded and outfitted in football football football foot foot- ball helmets the Olympic bobsled team The championship is the only title the United States will defend defend defend de de- de- de fend in the 1932 games Just as the sled themselves have na traveled far from the fragile runners runners runners run run- ners of kid days so has the sport itself The teams race down downa a slide that has hos 25 curves and b banks Two of them shady corner and zigzag zigzag zigzag zig zig- zag considered the most treacherous ous on any m slide in the world They race ruce a against time and the world record rec i-ce- ord is 1 minutes 52 seconds for a mile and a half where the kids used to set down a stick at the foot oot of oC the hill to show how who had edged his sled led the farthest Captain Werner Zahn flying ace in the World orld war var noW v captain of or the German squad believes that the breathless plunge through the curves anc and bank at 65 and 70 miles an hour far exceeds the thrills of oC aviation |