The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-04
TALKING
ITOvER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

AXE PLACID, N. Y, Feb. A.
IL Up here in the rolling hills
OF the Adirondacks, where a roar
ing blizzard and a binding snow
storm stir the natives to strange
ecstacy, the third winter Olympics
began today.
=, Besides the formalities which included
NC personal appearance Of Governor
EIanklln ID. Roosevelt in a non-partisian
letes representing seventeen mat nattong tbe
yyfoSram onered speed racing. hockey bait
Ties and curling.
st YoET correspondent has witnessed speed
frequency but to him curling is Something
new. At FIRST blush HIS assumption was
tnat IT had to do with finger waving. wind
OF the Ritz In charge.
But It develops that this is not entire
~ correct From what I can learn It is
not even hair raising sport. Broadly.
u consists Of spinning weiRhtv objects. re-
oefmpii Iig stone tea Kettles: from, one end
circle ana the object Workmanship.
sun. there does not seem to be any great
Iauonal feeling about curling. Talking
WIN WIN ny ny colleagues ! can not even, learn
oyershadowing an Others in interest here
are are the bob sledders. These are the fell
runners and 70 whizzlna down an lev
snute with tricky curves at seventy miles
an hour.
time, number Of Germans and swisses
fighting for their lives as result Of Slight
Imagine what slight miscalculation en- an
ICY turn at terrific speed can do for you
wen, II can do you no good.
II n
TINE situation has produced
Il grim form of diversion. Spec
tators gather at the dangerous
curves throughout the day to catch
glimpse Of the bodies as they go
flying out into space, like giant birds
OF the air with clipped wings. It
Is always an even money bet that
one Of the sleds will leave the run
way and flutter off in the moist
direction of Canada.
IT'S Just a miracle that nobody has been
kklteo. Grieyes Mr.. Ed Thorp. the foot
pi give EN- time" adds. the hopeful Mr..
Your correspondent who is a sportsman
Of the first water being a descendant of
morbid circumstances have Contributed
more to public interest In the goings-on
here ere than any other visible factor.
bob sledders. may come shooting out of
the, runway. high into the REFRIGERATED air,
head foremost on IA stone bo4ider 't Of
fallen pine, tree $50 feet below. has agi-
tated the box office sales to point Of
If it were not for the bobrun-the first
TO be built in America. and the only one
reports that the Lake Placid lad adventure
ateFIsli5e AS it Is now each III, Incom
filled. and the little ice-bound village is
pretty we'll damned with curious idiers
where two days ago 1t was virtually de-
DOBBING is a comparatively
ID new competitive sport, like
camelot, marriage tipping and I'M
official Far East wars. Yet I am
told America has the best teams,
and that one of them is cake walk
to win-an ice-cake walk, to be
seasonable.
The Red Devils of saranac, stand out
as the odds-on .favorite.. The team is
made up. of natives INDIGENOUS to the
a bobsled until the mile and half run
here, cut ribbon-like into the face OF
forbidding looking hill called Mt. Hoven-
The four members of the team are, Hank
Homberger. a civil engineer, Percy Brant.
n garage workers. Paul Stevens. man
about town. who boxes with his own black
bear for amusement and Ed Horton the
considering the many accidents to date.
might suggest that his interest IN, the
sport is less sporting than commercial.
1T lust looked as If 1t might oe fun.
so we. got a bob and went at it, explains
Mr. Stevens who appears to be the mead
trials. have already euualled the world rec
ord for the distance of one and nalt
miles which is l minute and 81 seconds.