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Show - - - - V Art Required for Bobsled Speed . I : 1 v' J"''. 'A x h m ' ii:-..:-:....-;-..v; m &V4&uv&. Vs. ft Kcre ;uo iair devotees of win ter i-pjri ;it St. Moritz, Switzerland, paired in the latest fashion of winter tops. They are Miss Letcher (nt left) :u;a Miss Consuelo Miller, two Americans, Ameri-cans, who on their recent trip to the Alps learned the bobsled was invented by an American. "Wilson Smith. They found the Swiss priding themselves un the fact that this American invention inven-tion was generally adopted by them in lS'JO. Also they discovered that in l:c Alps bob-sleighing has become an en aiid that an expert leader, who tan give the command for simultan eous movement on the part i" ". riders at tho proper time, ea i . t more speed out of his sled t!i;a inexpert. Miss Miller doc-lares that there i: is great a knack to riding on a boh:-!. .i as there is In riding a hore. n inuli instances tho driver can get aM t h,i speed they are capnble of from boih the sled and the horse, only if he has both the scleneo and the art of dn -ing at his command. Incidentally racing bobsleds :i'n greatly to the diversion: nnd n ietvjt. at the Swisa winter resorts. |
