The Washington times., 1936-02-07
Switzerland,
Fdvorite, Is
Defeated
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Americas victory in the hockey
series, assuring it Of a place in
the semifinals, was not so impres.
sive after the champion Canadians
had taken the ice.
The Canucks, skating beautifully
and handling their sticks like
'wands, completely bewildered the
SLIatvians to win by II to 0. 1t
was the second walkover for the
champions in two days.
It was fairly close for one pc
riod, the Canadians scoring twice,
but they rained in six goals in
the final period. At this point.
they had the Latvian goalie talk
ing to himself. He had made 20
saves as against the rival goa1ie'S
IL, and still couldn't stop the
champions. ,...
Another match saw Czechoslo-
vakia defeat Belgium, S to 0.
The American ski racers, both
men and women, were hopeleSSly
outclassed in their specialties,
Dick Durrance, Hanover, N. H.,
being the first of the Yankees to
finish.
He was far back in eleventh
place, being considerably handi-
capped by a binding snow storm
that blew up suddenly out Of the
north. The early starters in this
event thus got q break, with clear
going +s-
Robert Livermore, jr., Boston,
ard Albert Washburn, Hanover,
NJ n, finished away back among
the also rams.
George Hugh Page, New Yorker,
finished seventh; Livermore,
tWenty-eighth, and Washburn,
thfrty-fifth.
q. 9. Girls Injured
Likewise, the American girls,
gallant, daring. but not at all able
to match blade work with the
Europeans. The Yankee misses
continually fell on the sharp,
tricky course, Mary Bird, Of Bos-
tom, Sustaining a painfully lacer-
ated face. She arose from the ac-
cident, however, and .pluckily fin
ished- the course.
Clarita Heath's run over the
course also was marked by a series
0f falls. 4 80
Elizabeth Woolsey, Of New Ha-
ven, Conn, ultimately made the
best showing Of the Americans,
tieing for fourteenth place. Helen
Boughton-L leigh. who lives in Lon
don, placed twenty fourth, .Clarita
Heath, with an address in the
Tyrol, Austria, was twenty-nfnth,
and Miss Bird eventually finished
thirty-Eecond. >.
Meanwhile, Austria advanced
beyond the second round Of the
hockey eliminationS by defeating
Poland in first real match Of the
day, 2 to /, while Hungary sur
vived at the expense Of France,
3 to 0. a4..
Three Boston lads were re-
sponsible for all the American
goals at hockey. Frank Spain, who
hurt his knee in yesterdays t-to-0
victory over Germany and was
carried off the rink, scored first
on a pass from Frank StubbS, also
from Boston. Spain hooked up
the puck and cut across for a
clear shot at the cage.
Passing Ragged
"A minute later Eldridge Ross,
unguarded for a second, slipped u
clean shot into the net. And just
three seconds before the period
ended, Jack Garrison, who has
been playing an outstanding game
at right defense, scored a long
one from the center of the ice.
The Americans weren't so GOOD
in the final period. Their passing
was ragged, but they were content
to defend their lead.
Tomorrow Canada plays Austria
in it's group. There are four
brackets in the preliminarieS, the
winners Of each meeting in the
semifinal playoffs, with Canada
and the United States certain to
fight each other.
The blizzard that made yester-
days hockey matches almost in.
visible was all over today, and the
weather was cold, clear and sunny.
Complain of Ice
Americas speed skaters took
their final workout on the Deis-
sersee today. Conditions were ex-
cellent except that the Americans
complained because part of the ice
on the lake had been cut away to
prevent cracking, with the result
that the Speeders were in danger
of falling in when they rounded
the curves.
Tomorrow's events, besides
hockey, include the ski race for
women. and the four-man bob
sleigh race. ....
The United States, with some
speedy times in practice, were
favorites for the bob event. Two
teams. the Dutch: and the Ru-
manian, blinded by yesterdays
blizzard, went over the top at the
Bavarian curve yesterday and the
whole aggregation was taken to
the hospital. The Rumanians
were less seriously hurt than the
Dutch, and probably will be able
to compete.