Show Bob Sledding Risky Work Scribe Basks in Sun and Thinks of Ice Japanese Skiers Improve B By HENRY McLEMORE 1 United Press Sports Writer MIAMI Fla Feb 1 You 1 You can blame this story on the reporter who filled two columns of the newspaper tod today tody Y 1 with an article from Gar- Gar misch Germany telling of the tho Olympic winter games which H start un in n that n u mountain fastness nn next week We Ve read it with its description of the snow the ice and biting winter winter win win- ter winds while stretched out on the beach under a broiling sun and clothed in just enough raiment to keep keepS inside the legal limit But we hadn't reached the third paragraph before beCore our mind was back at Lake Lale Placid New York and the winter games of the tho 1932 Olympic What a flood of memories that little HUlo town and those games recall The story tory from front Par Garmisch-Par- said the tho bob run for forthe forthe the tho 1936 James games would have Oe turns turn equally as dangerous as Eyrie Erie Whiteface mid tho Zag Dc il corners of ot Lake Placid's Mt 1 Von enberg run Yes but will the they with lih the thc thermometer readIng reading read read- ing lug zero have c n a reporter watchIng watch watch- lug Ing from their hanks banks whoso whose only protections against the cold aro are aroa area a lightweight flannel suit and patent patent patent pat pat- ent leather shoes Wo Wro had just such uch a IU guy at Lake Placid Placid Placid-a a Broadway fellow whoso whose only preViOUS previous pre pre- ious experience with cold weather er had bad been Tex Cubans Cuban's place when the heating system failed They carried him hint off in an ambulance ambulance am am- ani- ani frost-bitten frost and a n bit be be- be Will Vill Garmisch have a tavern to match the now famous Camous Cellar A. A C. C where night after night the thc writers and athletes athletes ath ath- letes gathered to tell long stories I and drink long drinks A dark dank place pitched in the cellar of a hotel hotel hotel ho ho- I tel the Cellar A. A C C. was the scene of or a federal raid nearly every night At first the proprietor when tipped of ot coming raids had tho the reporters help him rush the refreshments outside outside outside out out- side for a hiding in the snow He abandoned this plan when ho he found Cound that the reporters reporters' system of hiding hid hid- ing one ing-one one bottle for the proprietor two for tor the hider was hider was more costly than a raid mid Will Garm Garmisch sch ever be able to match match for for sheer confusion the confusion the scene at the Lake Placid arena on the opening day of the figure skating championship It wont won't unless the reporters assigned assigned assigned as as- signed to cover the skating are arc men who have never seen a figure skating event before Our brave littIe little little lit lit- tle tIe band at Lake Placid included three tennis experts a n pair of ot boxing boxing boxing box box- ing authorities an automobile editor edi edi- tor two baseball critics and a cooking cooking cook cook- in ing page editor But nary a man who knew tho first thing about skating And Garmisch wont won't be able to laugh one moment 1 and cheer the next for the Japanese ski team For the little fellows have learned a thing or two about skiing since 1932 but then even the children children children chil chil- dren of Lake Placid felt sorry for tor them as they shuffled through the streets falling every other stride But it was hard to laugh at their clumsy efforts when you know they were even then on their way to take off oct from the highest and most dangerous ski jump In the world And off they came carne to soar over the tho va valley Jey ey-an ey and land md flat fiat on Jl their faces and backs And wo we doubt douht if Reto will furnish the tho thrills this year car carle he lie le did in 1932 For Reto captain in of ot the tho Swiss two man two man bob team I is 23 now and at 23 ho he wont won't laugh quite RO so 0 heartily at death as M ashe ashe he did at 19 In 32 attempted to straighten out tho the treacherous curve cur of ot the tho bob run rim by riding their rims and each cach time drove e down doun the mountain with a daring which left veteran gasping gapping Those of at us who were there will never forget those zero mornings on Mt when the tho stillness stillness still stUl- ness of ot the mountainside would be split with this call from the announcer announcer announcer an an- high above Clear the track Clear the track The Thc No 1 Swiss team with Reto at atthe atthe atthe the wheel is on the mark Hes He's off otc And then would come the singing of the bobs bob's runners as it hurtled down the icy chute toward and Shad Shady and Zig Here boy hand me m my sunburn lotion The suns sun's getting hot |