Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-19 | Page 12 | Ski Tournament Preparations Made

jl KJW j SKI TOURNAMENT I PREPARATIONS MADE MINNEAPOLIS,, Minn.. Dec 10 I "Work has begun on the 140-foot steel jl ski slide at Glenwood park here, on which skiers of the country will participate par-ticipate in the national ski tournament to be held In Mlnnea polls. February 10 and 11. Co-operating with the herd of park i commissioners, the Municipal Ski club I of Minneapolis and the lln club, an- j other local organization, have SUb- I scribed toward the erection of the slide The tournament will be conduct- j j ed under the auspices of the three J bodies. I The outstanding event on the open- Ins day will be the bovs' national championship meet, in which all boys Jl under 16 years of age are eligible to j participate. In addition, dual meet j between the University of Minnesota! and University of Wisconsin ill be , I held tliat day. 1 1 On the following day, Class A and J B skiers from all parts of the l.'nlt- ed States and Canaua will ornpi t "The Minneapolis tournament will be tho biggest in the history of the sk: sport and will take on an International J aspect with entries coming from 'an il ada," states L. J. Sverdrup. s i irj of the National Ski association 1 Among the list who already hare 4 made arrangements to attend are del- c gations from Dartmouth college, jl lronwood. Mich ; Grand Beach club, 1 Michigan, Denver, C oio. , K , l.s Stoke, I B. C, Canada; Winnipeg, Montreal. Toronto and Quebec, according to Bec- retary Sverdrup. jl "There is a revival In skiing and j more clubs are organizing now than ever before in the history of the nine- j I teen years of the existence of the Na- 1 tional Ski association," Mr. Serdrup J oo