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Show SPORTS Utah Ski Meets Reviewed (Editor's Xote: This is the first article in two installments written exclusively for Bulletin readers by southeastcmer, Frank Riismussen, vice president of the Utah Ski Club and the Inter-moiint.iin Inter-moiint.iin Ski Association. These articles bring to the reader authoritative reviews of the recent national championship and Utah Centennial ski meets held in this area. To those of you who attended the Sunday jumps at Eckcr Hill it is interesting to note that the author, Frank Rasmusscn, was the personable announcer an-nouncer over the loud speaker.) The world's greatest ski artists have trekked through Sugar House this past skiing season to the various ski resorts and hills in this immediate vicinity to participate in Utah's Centennial Centen-nial Skiing Tournaments, These skiing events, the greatest in Utah skiing history, were climaxed last Sunday at Ecker Hill with the superb performance per-formance of the great Norwegian team led by the mighty Arnold Konsgaard, who soared 285 feet for a new hill record, and a mark only four feet under the national record of 289 feet established by Turgor Tokle on the Iron Mountain Hill in Michigan. The Ecker ski hill record was 281 feet established by Alf Engen in 1911. 25-1 and 2G2 feet Sweden took third spot with her 4-times national champion, Erik Lindstrom, who had flawless flaw-less style on his journeys of 2-14 and 248 feet. Try For Ecker Trophy Following the regular com-petion, com-petion, the boys trudged to the top of the hill for their supreme su-preme try at a new record and the coveted Pete Ecker Trophy, The experts consider any ski jump over 210 feet to be superlative super-lative in skiing. There .were many leaps over 210 feet. In fact, every one of the visiting skiers surpassed this mark, as will be noted in the tabulations. Konsgaard was followed closely close-ly in regular competition by his team-mate, Gustav Roaum, who took second place with leaps of presented for that purpose. It was then that the power-hou power-hou s e Konsgaard, national champion and Norwegian champion, cham-pion, disregarded all rules of personal safety, and zoomed out into space for 285 feet. His teammates team-mates followed with undaunted courage with leaps near 270 feet. The B - Class boys came through with their share of honors hon-ors in staging a classy display of showmanship. Our local pride. Bill' Beesley, of the Utah Ski Slub, captured first honors with leaps of 208 and 203 feet. LaVerne Hughes of Portland, was second, followed follow-ed by John Spendiove of Park City. Over 5000 See Jumps There was a crowd of over 5000 on hand to witness the recording re-cording breaking performance. They all were held spellbound by the daring exploits of the ski birds, and as they left the scene of action they were loud in their praise for the sterling exhibition. The weather was perfect for both skiers and spectators. spec-tators. Shows such as this one is a credit to the state of Utah, and will long be remembered by those who were present to see it. The event was sponsored by the Utah Ski Club, the oldest ski club in the state, together with the Utah Centennial committee. com-mittee. Class A 1 A. Konsgaard 267 25S 227.0 2 G. Raaum 254 262 226.7 3 Lindstrom 244 248 220.9 4 R. Baklid 261 257 219.5 5 J. Perrault 249 241 214.4 'IIZ SrZ ZK. sSnBH 'H 9 7 (.-.undersoil. 235 245 211 8 Campbell 199 202 188.2 9 D. Johnson 202 192 185.9 10 Ivan Hall 179 198 185.4 11 J. Walker 166 157 162.6 12 R. Bietila 241 243 15S.9 13 J. Larson 240 225 152.0 Class B 1 B. Beesley 208 204 204.5 2 1. Hughes 178 203 187.8 3 Spendiove 171 162 187.8 4 Winward 179 167 173.7 5 Seth Taft 175 145 165.4 G Fletcher 151 149 163.2 7 Nelson 210 217 156.1 8 Ken Lee 215 211 149.0 9 D. Young 162 170 125.4 10 B. Bailey 147 151 117.6 11 D. Williams 115 127 103.7 Skii-s Liko Utah Hills The group of Norwegian jumpers who were here last Sunday made the remark "Let the Chicagoans have Chicago, and the New Yorkers have New York,1 but give Utah and Ecker Hill." They were told by Sigmund Huud, Olympic champion, just before they left Norway, that Ecker Hill was the most perfect jumping hill in the United States, and after jumping on the hill Sunday, the Norwegian group said it was the hest they have tried any where in the world. The Utah Ski Club is to be commended for their undying efforts to make Ecker Hill what it is today. And the people of Utah should be happy to live as near as they do to this sporting sport-ing wonder. |