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Show Pro Sid Race Becomes Feverish turn the tables on the Austrian. Arnold defeated still another Austrian, veteran Werner Bleiner in the 3rd place runoff. Although the World Pro. Skiing season is 19 races old, the race for the WPS championship title will start anew this week in Aspen, CO during the $40,000 Hawaiian Tropic Pro Downhill (Friday) and Slalom (Saturday) a race being run in conjunction with the first annual John Denver Celebrity Pro Am. A feverish weekend of ski competition at Coppr Mountain in the $40,000 Arby's Cup brought Swiss veteran Josef Odermatt, 25, and Austrian rookie Andre Arnold, 22, into a tie for the leadership in the WPS standings at 445 points each. It was an unusually feverish weekend for Odermatt who raced with the flu all weekend. The result was that he was beaten in the round of 32 in the giant slalom and in the round of 16 in the slalom. "I could hardly breathe," Odermatt cried following the disappointing weekend. "1 guess maybe I was just not meant to be the champion because always something goes wrong." But not everything went wrong for Odermatt. As he returned back to his bed for rest, he was informed that Arnold had been knocked out of the giant slalom competition in the round of 16 and was now 15 points short of a tie in the standings. In Sunday's snowy slalom, however, Arnold did manage to capitalize from Odermatt's "ill" fortune. Arnold finished the race third to move into the current tie. The victories went to a pair of rookies this weekend. Cashing-in on the $5,400 first place check in the giant slalom was Swiss Walter Tresch who left his national team just one month ago to turn pro. The win is expected to give the 1972 Olympic silver medalist the confidence and momentum he was searching for to launch his pro racing career. Tresch beat Tyler Palmer of Mt. Washington Valley, N.H. in the finals of the giant slalom, the second place boosted Palmer into fourth place position in the standings. French rookie Bernard Front skied superbly to score a third place finish over another first year pro, Leif Agren of Sweden. Sunday's slalom saw Austrian rookie Robert Schuchter, 23, capture his second slalom win of the season, edging out Ken Corrock of Squaw Valley, CA in the finals. Corrock had to make up a .820 second deficit in the rematch of their head-to-head battle in the second run. He skied past Schuchter by .670 seconds, just short of the time needed to |