The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-06
BENNtNGTONIANS
WATCH SMASHING
Of SKI RECORDS
Observe Wonderful Flights at
Brattleboro's Big Jump
CARLETON NEW CHAMPION
Leap of l5l Feet Breaks All Pre-
vious Figures in the
East

Brattlcboros new ski jump came
into prominence at It's first use Sat
urday when the amateur records OF
the United States were broken by ].
~. Carleton Of Dartmouth.
Among the spectators ut the open.
ing we're a Bennington party com
posed Of H. w. WI liams. DR.. y. S.
Braley. Mrs. Williams. Miss Dora
Clark and Joe Williams Messrs.
Williams and Braley and Miss
&c ark are among the planners
for the Bennington winter carnival
and went over 10 see how things
were dcno at the other end of Lot
terry Lane
Brattleboro's new ski jump proved
to be the best in New England and
may possibly prove the best in the
who.e Eastern United States. The
jump Is 50 fast and cree that about
one half the entries did not care 10
try Those woo had the nerve to
ride IT, all easily broke the former
New England record OF lO3 feet.
Andry Dahl, veteran ski jumper OF
Boston, who attended the meet and
assisted in the Judges stand, made
the remark that he believed the jump
had world championship possibilities
in IT,
II. H. Bishop of Dartmouth jumped
l05.10s and 1l3 feet; r. e. Maxwell
OF Dartmouth jumped ll3, ll5 and
ia feet. J. p Carleton OF Dartmouth
torFer New England championship
holder whose record Of 1913 feet was
broken at Berlin, ~ H., Friday Feb
3, by Gunnar Niche son, again won
the New England c.lamp onship and
also that of the Eastern United
States By jumps OF l50, l42 and ISL
feet. Nicholson who so briefly held
the New England record was at the
Brattleboro meet but feeling badly
from severe fall received in his
third jump at Berlin the day before
did not tackle the Brattleboro jump.
C. NJ. Proctor o. Hanover nigh
school. a boy who was said by the
announcer to have begged hard TO
be allowed 10 come with the Dart
mouth Outing club members ana
paid his own expenses, won the sym
pathy of the crowd by hs wonderful
work. His first jump OF ia feet
was in perfect form with wonder
fnl landing and run out, His second
lump a distance Of 1877 feet placed
him next TO Carleton, the champion. !
In this Jump a ski strap broke at the
take Of. and left the boy hopeless OH
a good landing He took q terrible !
spill and the loose ski struck him a |
bad blow in the back Later reports
from the hospital stated that he had
no broken bones and the injury con
sisted OF a severe muscu ar hruise
W. Y. Daniels OF Dartmouth jump !
I'd 100. l05 ana l0S feet, c. w. NJ Her [
of Dartmouth jumped III SO and 81
feet. Y. d. Frost III l07 ana lis 1
,eet. Fred u. Harris OF Brattlcboro I
who has been SO largely instrument /
Al IN thus putting Brattieboroo on the /
world map as a winter sport center /
Jumped IN wonderfully fine form
making beautiful landings and grace I
ful unouts in most OF 's i7m g I
The distances jumped by Harris
were l07. 100 and 90 feet these BE-. I
ing good considering the fact that !
Harris has been " thout practice TO" /
over three years, c. G. Pauson ot B
Arlington Heights, Mass, jumped So,
llO and 1903 .eet. Andry Larson of
Boston spilled rather badly on the
nrst Jump and did not jump again.
Other entries on the program, mos Z
Of Nh0m were present, decided they /
iid not care to try 1t
Approaching the hill upon which
The run and jump are built from n
head on direction produces a start
ng impress on on the inexperienced
peholder. He feels that he is behold
ng nearly perpend 'cular precipice
and that the start which .he can
barely see without g ass, is a thouS
and feet up and half mile away.
The impression while ii eXaggerate'
he true fact somewhat is not tor
lar from the truth Ski jumping Is
arranged rather differently from any
dea that one would he likely to
larry in his mind until 1e had once
seen the proposition The fact that
lump taken by similarly built human
beings could vary from so feet TO
l5O feet when their speed at the
axe off must be but slightly differ.
mt $ exp aimed by the act that
Xxi lump is about one fourth lump
md rN~ee fourths fall Midway or
hereebouts of long and unbelieyao-
Y steep 81 dc a take off - arranged
hat sends the Jumper out into the
lir at the top of the last, and in this
,ase the steepest slope, the jump is
measured along the surface of the
'lope from the take OF a slight diff
erence in efort en- the part of the
Jumper in throwing himself upward
It the take off keeps him IN the air
md going forward by the time neces
;ary for him to rise what his e fort
viii carry him and then to return to-,
he level of the take Off This car.
les him many feet farther down the
very steep landing slope before he
makes contact with It,
Whi'e the jumper is in the air he
must certa My get a sensation of be-
ng suspended hundreds of feet
lhoye q meadow filled with crowds
)f people into which he Is to fall
As he makes contact with the land.
ing slope, however, Il he is in good