| Show 1 Il ng B By Frank K Bal Baker Baiter er Telegram Sports Editor Ski Jumping JustAs JustAs Just JustAs As Easy Oh as-Oh as Oh Well WellAn Well Well- An eastern scribe n aft after t r the intrepid ski Jumpers from Nor Noi Norway way vay in the thc winter Olympic games has decided that 1111 ski sId jumping isn't much h different m u c from driving an 7 y automobile at Z b 1 miles an In hour Ifs Ifs' J just about as cas easy fl fi he writes 4 I Barney Oldfield tj 1 says SAS all the toe driver of a car at tl five iV miles a Ol minute tc I sq would have to dc 1 would t- t Iii f. f be to hold her on the line d In jumping with V those slippery f fastened to 10 Your hI F J T feet feel you you t only ony about Enlen Enen miles an hour hour and and all you ou have hn to todo todo todo do is to to hold the old anatomy on the line and be read ready to swing a Ittle little on landing Lets Let's see see the distance from home plate to first base is 90 feet leet Alf Engen Engen En En- gen gem worlds world's professional champ all aU the way from to feet feel Imagine the three bases base used on a R ball diamond stretched out on ona ona ona a line Une Engen would be able to jump for a three base hit providing he could slide the last 10 feet All Au One Has t to td Do DoIs DoIs Dois Is Just Lean and Bend The other day at Lake Placid Caspar Caspar Cas par pill Olmen of the United States Olympic pic pie team told how easy it Is You just lean forward at the takeoff and when the ground comes up to meet you after dropping the length of a skyscraper you OU just bend the knee to absorb the force torce of the thc impact There you are arc if it you ever happen to fall call off the capitol dome be sure to remember about bending that knee There tricks in trade trade even are re every ery even evento to falling down elev elevator shafts The first phase of ski ki jumping is like the chute Instead of skimming along on water however you simply ride out over some ery very blank space and wait until the ground comes up to meet you and you and that is relatively soon as one is breezing along at miles In reality South high has hs ont only one athlete who Is rightfully lIed called lIeda a Cub lIe He is end on the football team and center for the casaba crew and md his name Is Winston Bruin A. A Nice Gentle Grade Helps Helps' Jumpers Out Of course about time a fellow lellow thinks he ought to land he finds th there re reis is no ground there They have figured fig that all aU out in advance and have taken talen the grou ground d away The off getting-off place is pitched to meet your fall fan and gently graded so you slide instead of landing with a jolt jolL Now then comes the question of how to keep your our feet when land land- Q A I lug ing g on a near perpendicular slope slop with those waxed slats sliding under you at something better than ex express press plane speed Oh yes es heres here's how All you jOU have to do is to sway Just keep calm and nd sway sway sway After Arter that aUthere all aU there Is to do is take of off the runners and carry them back up lip to the top of the mountainside Its It's a simple life Ufe Engen's Greatest Thrill Came at Ecker Hill Engen declares his greatest ski jumping thrill came during durin the midyear mid raid year holidays when he rocketed feet leet down the mountainside on a trial jump Riding oC off the Big Pines California hill hilt in a fog that almost obscured the ground didn't even en hold a candle to the thrill of hurtling off Ecker hill for his longest ride even though he hes s sailed feet teet at Big Pines I had to land before I 1 wanted to at Big BiJ Pines because the hill wasn't long tong enough Alf AU said As Asit it was I dropped perilously clo close e to the flat fiat and my skis dug dUJ deeply into inlo the snow with a terrific jolt Ecker hill Al Alf AU says gives the most tremendous speed of or any he has gone over o In fact tact its it's almost too fast for good skiing for the Jumper must keep fighting lighting the force torce of the wind to prevent prevent pre pre- vent it il from tipping the skis upward and flipping him backward on his head hend instead of forward on his feet ARMY TAKE fAKE UP HOCKEY Two husky members of the Army football team Armstrong tackle and Trice guard arc members of the lne Cadet hockey team Armstrong is la a awing awing awing wing and Trice a defense |
