Show I P I Sports port s I I l' l i e S S SI I I j By Henry j I United Press Iress Correspondent Correspond nt I LAKE PLACID N. N Y Feb 5 UP Mister Webster could do a whole b lo lot I worse with one of his thrills that come once In a lifetime than to depict I young Jack Shea She I tv doing Just what h he t did ye yesterday 5 t e r day p opening the third I Olympic winter games For taken all In ir I I t dl by and large s up and down he hc just lust about won wen went L out and gathered I II I himself himsel the biggest I I thrill hell he'll ever everRet r rI I Ret get et even if it he hC lives to see sec the da day daj that Fanny Ward Ware breaks down anc and F confesses she's 40 Shea When Jack sl shot shot- at cd ed out on the ice yesterday for the I meter speed spin final inal there were gathered in the stands n a thousand folks who had known him since he wore lon long dres dresses es KID AGAINST ST CHAMPION Pitted against him and favored to leave him a couple of ot country blocks block behind was Bernt Evensen mighty Norwegian and champion of the world The race was the first even event of the Olympic competition and each of seventeen nations was ws hoping to send its lIng flag on the first trip up the masthead The gun cracked and they were off A split second later Jack was out in front He was out in front and going away when he crossed the blue finish line What does docs a guy think about when he gains such a moment of ot grandeur I dont don't know for lor the nc nearest t st I ever came to being a hero and a corpse too for lor that matter was when I held a six inch firecracker in my hamand hand ham and let her explode But Jack knows so lets let's let him tell Tell era cm Jack just like you ou told me Well WeIl Ill I'll tell you OU if H I hadn't won I dont don't know what would have hap hap- There was mamma and papa so excited they just about died when we lined up And there was me so excited I was about to die along with 1 them Dont Don't think I was afraid cause I wasn't But all last night I I couldn't sleep for thinking about shout how I just had to lo win so the American flag Ilac could get up that pole first THAT CERTAIN CERTAI SOMETHING SO You know kno Ive I've skated in lots of ol races and won a n lot of ot championships hut but this Olympic stuff tull is different Today when they played the Star Banner and I walked around th that l track with the flag right in front of me I forgot all about everything but America That may sound kida silly lilly but Im I'm telling you it gets you you that that song and the flag Ilac Ill I'll ne never ner r tor forget et tho the way 1 I felt when I Ivas was vas about ten yards ards from the finish and knew I was going to win lin I started looking then to see if Jl the flag was going up I like the kind of ot race where you get eel out in front of a bunch of ot fast skaters and have e to go like hell to stay there there |