The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-26
CASPER O|MOEN Of
MINOT IS LEADING
EXPONENT OF ART
North Dakotan Last Week. End
CAPTURED His Fourth Ma
tjonaI Title
TAKES COUNTRY By STORM
Thrills Of Norwegian Institution
Capture Imagination Of
Thousands
BY BILL BRAUCHER
NEA Service Sports Writer

New York, Jan. 25.-(P)-When Cas-
per Oimoen hurled his body IT'S feet
from q snowclad slide at Cary, ILL.,. the
other day to win his fourth national
sh-jumping title crowd OF $4,000
brought a new significance to
swiftly growing sport.
The impetus given to the daring
adventure Of ski-riding by the 1882
Olympic winter games at Lake Placid
has spread it from New EampShires
mountains to the icy heights of the
far west.
Colleges, prep schools, towns. cities.
chambers OF commerce, tiny villages
and far flung winter sports clubs
now hold jumping tournaments from
which stars for our future Olympic
teams are rapidly developing.
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Men who wear the flying ships on
their feet are accepting new perlis in
their efforts toward records on the
steep slopes. Back in 1923, on the
sensational hill at Brattleboro. Ver-
mont, Bing Anderson leaped 100
feet. Two years later Nels Nelson,
ar: American ski Jumper, went gliding
on empty air for 240 feet.
Two years ago at Davos, Switzer-
land, Sigmund Ruud established a
world record with leap of 265.74
feet. Last year Ali Engen, Dakota
; daredevil, took up Ruud's challenge
and scared for q distance of 28l feet
down slide In Utal's Wasatch noun
tains.
Engen's speed on the takcoft vas
estimated at more than 80 miles an
hour-and his Jump through space
Appropriated the height Of a 25-story
building!
Engen has taken dozen Jumps of
more than 200 feet. setting up his
"old" American record at Salt Lake
City two years ago with Jump Of
247 feet. That same year he went 243
feet at Big Pines, Calf.
X X \
Norwegian pioneers introduced skis
along the northern Atlantic seaboard
In 1910. Viking settlers took the light
ming runners west to Wisconsin and
minnesota, using them In cross coun-
try travel.
During the gold rush of ~, a mail
carrier named Thompson smashed
records for travel between the Pacific
coast and Idaho and Nevada skiing
across the Sierras and Rockies.
| The first actual ski jumps made in
this country are credited to two Nor
wegian boys-Michael and Torgas
Heimestvet-the nliving in Red Wing,
MINI. Prior to the early sos skis
were used only in cross-country travel.
Clubs were formed in Red Wing,
Minn., and at Ishpeming, Mich. A
national association was formed In
1904 at Ishpeming. This has de-
veloped into . nation wide organ
ization Of six geographical divisions
Outstanding ski centers are at Duluth,
Minneapolis, Canton, 8. D., Steam
boat Springs, Colo, Red Wing, Den
yer, Chicago, Lake Placid. N. Y, Brat
tleboro, VT, and Bear Mountain, N,
II.
Other clubs which have been the
scene Of national championships are
located at Ironwood, Mich, Ashland,
Wis; Eau Claire. Wis: Colerainc
Mimi: Chippewa Falls, Wis: Virginia
Mimi: Qlenwood, Mimi: Ely, Mimi;
Superior, Wis. and Hudson, Wis.
4 \ 4
Last year the first national ski
running championship over q 3o-kil.
ometer course was held at Salisbury
Conn. Magnus Satire negotiated the
,,18 miles Of mountain running In
hour, 80 minutes. "a secods.
The fastest recorded speed i
Iclairned for the Norwegian champion
lKjelland. At st. NORTH, Switzerland
last year, he attained 4 rate Of Isl
iihlometers-alnost 100 miles-an hour
KjellandS meteoric flight was dow1
special 300-meter ice slope, and h,
used skis weighted with 40 pounds o
Head.