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Show U.S. Jumping Season Opens we are very pleased with the progress of the Team at this time of year. Everyone is training well and we've trained with the Austrians at Hintertux (Austraia) and with the Swedish team, including Ingemar Stenmark, at Val Senales (Italy)" Tauber declared. Under cloudy skies and blustery blust-ery autumn winds, the U.S. ski jumping season officially opened last weekend at the Blackhawk jumping facility in Madison WI. Kip Sungaard,"21, St. Paul MN and member of the national Development Team, led the field on the first day of competition to score 219.3 points. White Team member Terry Kern. 24, Duluth MN, won the event on the second day of soaring. Top U.S. jumper Jim Denney, 20, also of Duluth and a national Red Team members, suffered mishaps both days, falling on Saturday and missing his takeoff on Sunday. U.S. Nordic Team Director John Bower and his wife, Bonnie, became parents of a son on October 20, 1977. Eight and a half pound John Heinrich Bower is the couple's first child. U.S. Alipine Director Hank Tauber discussed today the progress of Alpine Team on-snow training in Europe. "In general, |