Show Those First Jumps Cause C use Queer Quee Sensations A numb number r f the state ski club members will tr trek k to the giant slide Jn in parleyS parley'S canyon Christmas day to tomake make inake their Initial of the season just st to get the tile feel of the thing in anticipation of the tournaments a week later Those first jumps are tense occasions occa occa- sionE especially when they take one Hashing flashing feet down an i lay icy y path and off oft into space at 60 to 90 miles an hour for lor nearly feet at the I end of which he Is deposited on a still steeper bill hill It Is not ot exactly an ocion oc- oc caslon ion forIt forbear ar as Halstad puts it but just the same one always feels teds better after r the first few rides Ye Yet the intrepid character of ot these of the skis is no better demonstrated dem- dem castrated than in the person p of Ted Rex one one the of-the few native Americans In the pro ranks Ted came here from his native Michigan last lut year o where there had been no snow 1 beca because be- be ca cause se of- of of-an of unusually late winter arv are ar- v riving the night before the big New Years Year's day m meet t. t He had never seen the thc giant slide before He had not as muc much as had ad a pair of skis on his feet for more than six Ix months yet he le climbed top of the giant slide and went hurtling down that treacherous trench trench- cram erous quarter mile for leaps of nearly f feet et apparently as non non- nonchalantly as if he had been doing it for Cor weeks From the Icebound re region on of Revelstoke B. B C. C comes the sad lad news that the skiing career of ot Nets Nell Nelsen bas lias been curtailed by bya a hunting accident necessitating th the amputation of ot his left hand and part of the arm arm As Halstad who relays the news explains the loss 1051 of ot that hat band will viII unbalance ance the star and make Ion long Jumping Jumping- overly dangerous N Ne eI Un sen It will wilt be remembered came caine 4 4 here for a a. special match with Alt Alf Engen last e season and although disappointing In Jn his bis v- v performance over this type of ot proved ved a s fine sportsman and made many friends among local I. I Io enthusiasts t J. J |