Evening star., 1936-02-12
SWISS CAPTURE
SHEDDING TITLE
Musy and Capadrutt Finish
One, TWo-BalIangrund
Sets Skating Mark.

today as Ivar Ballangrud won his
second speed skating title for Norway
and Artur Larson captured the
18-kilometer cross-country ski race.
Clinging to the advantage they had
gained in the first two heats yester-
day, the Swiss sleds, piloted by Pierre
Musy and Reto Capadrutt, finished
one-two in the four-man bobsledding
championship, j. Hubert Stevens
brought one American entry home in
fourth place and Francis Tyler piloted
the other into sixth position.
Ballangrud Sets Record.
Ballangrud, who tied an Olympic
record in winning the 500-meter speed
skating test yesterday, shattered
another by more than 20 seconds as
he won the 5000 championship in
8:19.6. Bob Peterson of Milwaukee
and Eddie Schroeder of Chicago. only
American entrants in the race, finished
eleventh and fifteenth, respectively.
The United States contingent like.
wise was distanced in the 18-kilometer
cross-country ski race, in which Scan
dinavians made q clean sweep of the
first six places. LARSON was clocked
in / hour IA minutes SO seconds for
the long grind and beat Jorn Hagen of
Norway by IS seconds. Pekka Niemi
OF Finland was third.
Capadrutt Breaks Mark.
With the same reckless disregard
for the hazardous Olympic chute they
showed in the first two heats yester-
day. Musy and Capadrutt held their
own in the final two runs today to
beat a crack international field In
the bobsled competition.
Musy put together successive heats
OF l;22.45, 1879, 1880 and l:l9.02
for the l,600-meter course to win the
championship with total elapsed time
of 5 minutes 1885 seconds. Although
nosed out for the title. Capadrutt
shattered the Olympic chute record
in his final whirl down the course.
Capadrutt was clocked In l:18.6l for
this heat, eclipsing the record of
1:l8.70 held by Hans Kilian of Ger
many, and finished second with total
time of 5:2273.
Third place in 5:23.41 went to a
sensational British team led by Fred
erik McEvoy, while Stevens had to
be content with fourth place and
Tyler with sixth. despite their con-
sistent racing in both Of todays heats.
Stevens put together runs of l:25.61.
1:l9.l7, 1:20.51 and 1:1884 for total
time of 5:24.13. Tyler,s clockines
were 1:25.61, 1885, l:20.22 and
1882 for a total of $4,000.
A Belgian quartet piloted by Max
Houben split the American entries
to snare fifth place with elapsed time
of 5:2892.
Stevens Pulls Up.
Second to Musy's total time of
2:38.62 for the final two runs, Stevens
turned in the fastest aggregate for
today's heats, 2:39.35, to pull up
from fifth place to fourth. Tyler's
consistent performance enabled the
second American sled to slide into
sixth position after winding up tenth
at the end Of yesterdays heats.
Tyler's showing came as q surprise,
for he was q last-minute substitute for
Donna Fox, New York pilot, who was
injured in smash during practice
last week.
The Rumanians. victims of several
serious spills during the trials, cracked
up on Bavaria curve in the only serious
accident Of the day, but the team es-
capped injury.
Tyler's crew had nothing but the
highest praise for his great driving to-
day.
considering the fact that he was
unfamiliar with the course and had q
strange crew behind him." said Jim
Bickford of Lake Placid, the brake
man, II think he did the most remark
able job Of them all in bringing US up
to sixth place from tenth"
LARSON Leads Skiers.
LARSON covered the 1S-kilometer
cross country course in 1:14:3s.
Scandinaviarls swept the first six
places. with Hagen of Norway second
In 1:15:33 and Niemi of Finland third
In 1:16:5e.
Matin Matsbo Of Sweden finished
fourth in 1:17.02; Olaf Hoffsbakken
fifth in 1:17.37, and Arne Rustadstuen
Of Norway sixth in 1:18.13.
Americas entrants finished far
back. Magnus Satire of Salisbury,
Conn, leader of the American dele
cation, was clocked in 1:25.56.
Birger Torrissen of Norfolk, Conn.,,
was timed in 1:29.08; Richard Z.
Parsons of Salisbury, Conn, In
| 1900; Warren c. Hivers OF Dart.
mouth in 1:30.25, and Edward J.
Blood of Lake Placid, N. Y, in 1893 As.
Sets New Skating Mark.
Ballangrud. undisputed king Of the
worlds speed skaters, was clocked
IN 8 minutes 1876 seconds to smash
he Olympic record for the 5000. |
meter skating course, q mark clas
Thunberg of Finland set at S:3s.74
in 1924.
Birger Vasenius Of Finland was
second and Antero ojala, also of
Finland, third.
Jan Langedijk Of Holland finished
fourth; Max Stiepl Of Austria nth
and Ossian Blomquist Of Finland
sixth. OF the Americans, Peterson
eleventh in S:46.b and
Schroeder fifteenth in S:4e.1.
Seien Kin of Japan was twenty.
hrst, Thomas White Of Canada
5wenty-ffth. Yushokucho Of japan
.wenty-seventh, Seitoku ri Of Japan
twenty eighth and Kunio Nando Of
Japan thirty-hrst.
Sonia Henie Is First.
Sonia Henie Of Norway appeared
49, q