Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-01-09
NEW WOMAN INvADEs EVEN
THE ICE POND.
COMING RACES IN ST. PAUL
All the Crack Ice Kings. Including
Olaf Rudd and Donaghue, to Meet
There Wheeling and Skating De-
velop Same Muscles Big Event In
January.

combination this year to boom the
grand old sport of skating and make
II as popular as bicycling or golfing.
The weather sharps all over the skate
able parts Of the country agree that
there will be an abundance Of ice this
winter and the skating sharps say that
this means the smashing OF all records
from fifty yards TO one hundred miles.
The fact that the society folks of
New York have built a fine skating
rink where they can enjoy the fun, pro-
tected by steam-heated temperature
ana sheltered by stone and iron walls
from the rest Of the world, gives the
sport an official social distinction which
1t never before enjoyed.
More than that, the bloomer girl has
taken hold of skating and whatever
that daring young person attaches her
self 20 is bound to be a success. Not
a single, solitary pair of boomers or
namented any of the skating lakes or
ponds around New York last year. but
twelvemonth has worked wonder
full difference. And they are not or
binary bicycle bloomers either, al
though many young women have con-
verified their wheeling toys into skating
costumes with few alterations.
The skating boomers are nothing
more than loose-fitting knickerbockers
made of heavy woollen stuff of any
color A double breasted jacket reach
ing halfway to the knee. a Tam-o'-
Shanter hat and leggings complete the
dress. This is an extreme costume.
The other, and the more popular, is
quite similar to the dress of the cycling
bloomerite. The bloomers are hidden
by skirt which comes within an inch
or two of the shoe tops. Legglngs are
also worn, for the New York girl, no
matter how advanced her ideas may be
on the dress question, will never ex-
hibit the fraction of an inch of her
stocking, though she thinks nothing of
showing to critical world consider
able length OF Logging.
The skating dress Is always cut
shorter in the back than in the front.
This does away with the annoyance of
having the skate catch in The back
OF tae skirt and perhaps cause an ugly
all. Besides. the present mode de-
nands that the edge of the skating
skirt be trimmed with fur, also the
shoe tops. when the dress is not short
enough to demand the use of leggings.
The speed skaters are now in active
training for the amateur championship
matches which will be held in St. Paul,
between Jan % and Jan. 80, under the
management of the winter carnival
committee. The regular championship
races will be one-quarter mile, one
mile, five miles and ten miles, and in
addition theie will be a number of
handicap races to give the second
raters chance against the crack
skaters.
The two great cracks who will meet
In these races are Olaf Rudd. the ten
mile champion, of Minneapolis, and ].
F. Donoghue, Of Poughkeepsie. It win
be the east against the west with
vengeance, for when these two cracks
met last year. the results were not
satisfactory Ky any means, and young
Donoghue and his excited friends and
relatives were credited with desire to
land him winner at any cost,
At st. Paul Donoghue will not have
his own way in everything, but will be
forced to strictly comply with the rules
Of the races. He is grand speed
skater, however, and even without the
ill-advised assistance Of his friends,
should give good account of himself.
Distance skating is more in his line
than the short races on the st. Paul
program, for in anything from twenty
one hundred miles he is almost in
ncihle. At the close Of the "a season
he held more records than any other
amateur skater in the world.
Donoghue is in fine shape this year
and hopes to do well in the short races.
He has been training regularly, confin-
ing most of his work to squirting. He
believes that If he can do as we'll in
the sprint races as he did when he
established his other records that he
will be returned winner in most of
the events.
It is not probable that John 5. john
son, the wonderful cyclist, will do
much at skating this year. as his
trainer does not care to jeopardize his
cycling speed, which is more valuable
as moneymaker than skating.
Johnson Is an interesting illustration
Of the fact that an expert cyclist is in
variably fast skater. both sports
bring into play almost precisely the
same muscles. The position of the
body assumed by the skater Ind wheel
man are much tbs s4ale, except that
the former clasps his hands behind his
back, while the other keeps his hands
III front OF him.
Athletic experts who have examined
the physical makeup Of the cyclist and
the skater find that they both have
comparatively weak arms. small chests
and generally undeyeloped upper
bodies. From the waist down, however,
their muscular development and