Show YANKEE BOBSLEDDERS BOBSLEDDERS' SET DAZZLING RECORDS RECORDS' A 4 k T 1 s f f 4 Flash Down Hill At Pace Thought Out of Question United States Slates Gains Fifth Championship in Winter Win Win- ter Olympic Games LAKE PLACID X N. Y Feb 11 UP Start UP-Start Start of the man four bobsled bobsled bob bob- sled competition of the thc third winter win win- ter Olympic games scheduled for toda today was postponed because ofrain of ofrain ofrain rain and temperatures which ranged between 35 and 40 10 degrees above zero Weather permitting permitting- the postponed postponed postponed post post- heats heal will be run tomorrow with the third and fourth heats on Saturday If the track Is still stilt unsuitable unsuitable un un- suitable ble for racing tomorrow the first and second heats will vIll be run on Saturday and the finals on Sun Sun- Sunday day Under the Olympic rules an event ent may be postponed two days das but the games proper must be ended ended end end- ed d no more than one day after their scheduled termination By BJ Edward J. J Neil leil Associated Press Correspondent LAKE PLACID N N. Y Feb 11 11 There was tension in the air today and nd a hint of foreboding a premonition tion ion of oC disaster as the winter pica ics entered the final stage where the he danger of death or grave injury on n the jagged sides of Mt Van Hoe Hoe- transcended the nerve wracking exhilaration of the Olympic championship The first half of the competition was ended and in a measure the treacherous mile and a half hall sweep through ice banks and dizzying hairpin hair- hair hairpin pin in turns zigzags and crossovers I stood tood humiliated its dangers scorned t I L and nd spurned by riders who slashed Its I sides des at dizzying speeds of 65 and 70 miles an hour to set records that 48 years ears ago were ere considered not only an n impossibility but absolute in in- sanity anity FEAR EAR ACCIDENTS TS There has been a universal feeling among mong the steel nerved international sportsmen who drive these pound meteors at such speeds down the ice chute jute on the mountainside that the luck uck of the thc riders which has been good since eight Germans crashed within two days in practice sending si six x to the hospital two in critical cond condition con- con d tion would end before these races were ere over oer and that grim Mt l Van would take its toll again The feeling nearly faded out yesterday yes yes- as Hubert Stevens as iron and frosty nerved a giant as vcr ever piloted a sled whipped disdainfully disdain disdain- fully ully through such paralyzing obstacles obstacles ob- ob acles as White Face Cli Shady Corner and nd Zig Zag to literally fly ly down the mile and a half hal stretch retch first in then in to win the fifth Olympic champion champion- championship ship lip the United States has captured in the 1932 games and set a two-man two bobsled record that should last for many any years Handicapped by a second deficit deficit def- def cit he conceded Reto of Switzerland in the first two heats I due ue to a slow start Hubert and his even ven larger brother Curtis had to tomake tomake make ake it up In two final heats heals while himself himsel was as turning in phenomenal time They took ever every chance lance that a team could take bob bobS bing ing heaving the sled ahead every inch of the way except when gasp gasp- ing g for breath and holding holdin on for life liCe fc in the curves and then came down own in time lime that would have been exceptional for the heavier swifter more ore dan erous sleds At the end th the Stevens boys join join- I ing ng Jack Shea as Lake Placid's own Ol Olympic heroes had whipped the 20 old year Swiss Sv university student by bya a second and a half a wide margin margina in i n a game of such terrific speeds The r remainder of the field of or twelve representing rep- rep r resenting eight nations were distanced dis- dis t and the defending Olympic championshIp pair Jack Heaton and Robert Minton Minion likewise were lost Inthe in inie t the he ie rue ruck of such opposition although t hey they did take third place I Yanks anks Conceded Little Chance hance in inThis This Event Br fly United d Press Prest America has little or no chance to finish in today's ski sk jumping This affair however is not to be confused with ith the bi big jump on Friday Today's jumpers arc are members of what hat is called the combination brigade bri- bri gade ade and took part in the 18 eter cr ski running race yesterday They arc lre half runners half haIr jumps jump- jump jumpers ers s and their competition is a closed affair fair eligible only to men who compete com com- pete etc in both specialties John of Norway who vho ho finished sixth in the kilometer 18 yesterday is favored to win the combination corn corn- nation event The kilometer 18 was wason won on by Sven of or Sweden I |