The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-01

| the BrattleborO Outing club declared That
next year they would change the grade OF
| the landing hill, making it five per cent
( sleeper, and so after the national amateur
record again. All the jumpers are en-
/ thusiastic over the possibilities of the
| BrattlebOro jump and believe new ma
tional record can be established here. The
| excellence of the jump is shown by the
fact that out of 43. jumps yesterday there
were but IL falls, or little more than -
per cent. while at the meet at Lake
Placid, y. u, last week 80 per cent of
the jumps ended in spills before the dead
line was reached.
There were no accidents yesterday be-
yOnd the breaking of several skis. The
crowd was on edge several times, how
ancc and rolled or slid to the bottom of
the hill, raising cloud of snow. and fill
ing the air with arms, legs and skis.
The four members of the Cliffside Ski
club of Ottawa, Ont, whose names had
been entered. did not appear for the con
test, and the cause of their non-appear-
aance has not yet been learned.
Charles n. Proctor. the Hanover high
school boy who was injured slightly in
the Vermont championship contest here
Feb. 4, established new standing record
for himself three times yesterday with
marks of lit, 1872 and 124@. He
jumped 137 feet Feb. 1, but took spill
=
a professor at Dartmouth, was on the
Judges stand yesterday.
The NorSemen Ski club star. Rolf Mum
son of New York, IS a brilliant performer
on skis He has had experience in Nor
way, where his best record was l3S feet,
or four feet more than his third jump
yesterday.
Hard luck followed It. d. Frost of the
Dartmouth Outing club On his first
jump he broke one of his skis. and on the
second one smash went another. AS no
ether skis were available he did not try
again. Emmons Dahl Of the LacOnia
Winter club also was unlucky, smashing
a ski as he rolled down the hill on his
first jump. lie made only that one try.
Adolph Olson, the Portland contestant.
attracted much attention by reason of his
jumping toys, conspicuous being a bright
red sweater. His first and third jumps
were spills
Frank NacKinnon of the Montreal Ski
club had a mark of 40 feet made at
Ottawa until he came here. lie exceeded
that mark in his second turn with III
feet. He put it far in the background on
his third try, with 132 feet, but a spill
directly after landing spoiled the mark as
Il record.
Through the generosity of the New Eng
land Telegraph & Telephone CO., a field
telephone outfit was in use between the
Judges stand and the start of the. course.
BY this means those at each end of the
wire knew just what jumper had started
and when, also knew when the course
was clear, and exchanged other informa-
ton.
Peter LatchiS of the Latchis & Son mo-
ton picture theatre attended the meet
yesterday with his new United States
signal corps camera. The international
News service also had a movie camera
man on hand
Music was furnished by members of the
BrattleborO Military band before the COM
petition jumping and at the close of the
first and second rounds Of jumping.
At o'clock last evening. the jumpers
and officials were served supper at the
Vermont Wheel club cafe.
While the crowd was going down
Cedar street to Linden street. homeward
bound. there came a sudden halt in the
line. One car after another stopped. and
the drivers and pedestrians wondered
what had happened. 1t was nothing more
serious than a balky pony-one of the
bay and white pair owned by y. Loven-
berg If PHtReva Saue of this automobiles
were driven past. but others calmly re
manned in line for 10 minutes or more,
when Mr. Pony decided he would allow
the procession to proceed