Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-05 | Page 12 | New Sectors Studied for Ski Tourney

New Sectors Studied for Ski Tourney Changing of the Utah Ski clubs club's annual tournament from Ecker hill hillo to o Big and Little Cottonwood canons canyons canyons can- can ons appeared likely Wednesday following a meeting of ot the organization organization organ- organ Tuesday evening Club officials definitely abandoned abandoned aban- aban plans to stage their meet at atthe atthe the ic Parleys Parley's canyon site and tentatively tenta tenta- vely scheduled the j jumping events for or Saturday at the Engen slide in Big Jig Cottonwood near Community park ark and the slalom and down- down mount mountain races for the Alta section in n Little Cottonwood Sunday Engen Engen Plans Inspection AI Alf Engen who recently returned from rom a honeymoon trip to Sun Valey Valley Valley Val- Val ley ey Idaho w was s scheduled to make Inspection trips to the two Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton- Cotton wood sites and make a report on his findings at another meeting of the ski club Wednesday evening At that time the officials will make a definite decision on whether to stage the events this weekend or wait walt for more snow Those familiar with the situation at t Alta reported at the Tuesday evening meeting that there was wu plenty lenty of ot snow for both the down- down mountain and slalom events They believe elleve the slopes there will provide providen an n excellent test of the skiers' skiers ability ability abil- abil ity y in both events More 1 Snow Needed The situation at Engen hill i is 14 not quite so good however In the event the le Jumping competition is held there lere it will be necessary to haul more snow to the hill hIlI There is plenty lenty of snow available close at atland hand land however officials report and the he hill could be adequately prepared pre pre- pared ared with little difficulty Officials of ot the Utah Ski club wish to point out again that the Utah entrants for the tournament tournament tour- tour ament at Sun Valley January 16 will b be chosen from winners in the the coming local meet Two skiers each will be named In the A B Band and C lasses classes Candidates for the team must be able to take part in both the slalom and mountain down events vents 0