| Show I FIS Jumpers i Waran Up UpOn 1 On k Ice S By Charles Einstein NEW V YORK Jan 20 O INS INSI INS INS- I They're packing ice cubes on the ski slide at Salisbury Mills N. N Y I Friday so that the worlds world's greatest great great- est jumpers will have something besides their imaginations to go goon goon o oon on on Snow or no snow the man- man birds soar over OO tons of crushed ice ice Sunday in the final linal for forthe forthe forthe the following weeks week's world championships championships championships cham cham- at Lake Placid Americas America's s three top hopes hopes Art Art Devlin Gordon Wren Wien and Art Tokle Tokle will will 11 be in action at Salisbury Salisbury Salisbury Salis Salis- bury Mills 1 So will the artistic Olympic champion Petter Fetter Hugsted of Nor a Norway and numerous other Norwegians Swedes and Finns Pending a barrage of broken bones among the visitors tors the Nordic world championships at Lake Lale Placid Jan 30 through Feb 5 5 should wind up just as Nordic as s the word implies Nordic events e Include in include include In- In clude country ross and jumping as opposed to the Alpine program of downhill and slalom events e scheduled for Aspen Colo Feb 13 18 Quito Quite Interesting Americas America's cross country talent is interesting if true In the last Olympics th United States entered entered en en- no one in the tho kilometer 50 race In the kilometer 18 race the first one of Uncle Sams Sam's hearties to cross the finish line was solidly entrenched in place I Things ma may not be much better this time if they're better at all because the Olympic champions in m both divisions are on hand All they need is some snow which the chamber of or commerce at Lake Placid promises hopefully to provid pro- pro vide vid c. c Slight Chance Actually America does stand some sort of minus C-minus or plus D-plus chance in the thc jumping Devlin Wren and Tokle all are considered capable of soaring as far as anybody any any- body It is just that Hugsted and friends frequently are rated prettier prettier prettier pret pret- tier sights and land right side up almost always Norway's Birger Rund Ruml and Falkanger Evert Karlsson Karlsson Karls- Karls son ion and Ture Lindgren of Sweden and Finland's Hasu and Matti fatti are as unpredictable able as they are arc unpronounceable and all could score heavily at Lake Placid This is the first time the United Stat States s has ever hosted the world championships and the first real business of its kind since the 1932 winter Olympics hit Lake Placid I So it w will ll be a sporting headliner from here herc on in beginning with the crushed ice no chaser at Salisbury Mills Sunday I |
