Evening star., 1936-02-17
MILLION ATTEND
OLYMPIC EVENTS
Riotous Scene Marks Last
Day as Crowd Strives to
View Hitler.
BY the Associated Press.

by tuc hSSOCihbco EIcos.
- ARMISCH PARTENKIRCH-
EN-, Germany. February IL
The twin villages of Garmisch
and Partenkirchen. mecca for
a million Winter sports enthusiasts
during the last 10 days. were recover
ing today from what was probably the
biggest day in their history at the
conclusion of the fourth Olympic Win
ter games.
Attracted by the closing events and
the presence of Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler and other high Nazi officials,
10000 people crowded into town yes
terday to stand ankle deep in the
mud caused by sudden thaw, struggle
with Nazi guards in riotous scene at
the ski stadium after they had seen
Birger Ruud add to Norway's numer-
Gus triumphs by winning the ski jump
and finally to see the colorful closing
ceremony at twilight.
The ski stadium was the scene Of
widest excitement when members of
the Nad Labor Service Corps blocked
the exits for two hours until Hitler
and his official party departed. The
milling crowd. struggling to leave or
to catch q glimpse of the leaders,
moved and screamed and was held
firmly but roughly in check by the
guards. Two persons were injured,
several tainted and many were bruised
and scratched in the jam.
Attendance Reaches Million.
OFFICIALS estimated the total at
~ tendance during the 10 days Of
the games at about one million, OF
whom 100000 paid admissions to vari-
Gus events. No estimate was available
on gate receipts. but they were be-
lieved to have been ample to cover all
expenses.
The games themselves, In which
Norway's sturdy ski runners and
jumpers and polished speed skaters,
swamped the opposition to the tune
of 146 points in the unofficial scoring
furnished a sharp contrast to the
Olympics of 1892 at Lake Placid when
the United States swept the boards.
The Norwegians figured prominently
in every event but bobsled racing,
the only branch in which the Amer
leans managed to retain some of the
honors they won four years ago.
In place of Jack Shea and Irving
Jaffe in the speed skating, the big
Norwegian ace, Ivar Ballangrud, and
Charles Mathisen made clean sweep
of all four races. Ballangrud, smash
ing record after record, performed an
unprecedented feat when he took
three of the speed skating titles.
Ruud Is Standout.
R1RGER RUUD, Norway's king Of
the ski jumpers, took first place
in two events; Sonia Henie, incom-
parable figure skater, had some close
competition from Tall Cecilia Colledge
of England, but retained her title.
Ruud gave the outstanding perform
ance of the final day when his per-
feet ski jumping form gave him 1922
points, near maximum, although his
longest jump was only the fourth best
of the day. Previously he had cap
tured the downhill ski race.
America managed to retain only one
Of the six titles it won at Lake Placid,
the two-man bobsled championship.
Ivan Brown and Alan WaShbond of
Keene Valley, N. Y. skinned down
the icy chute Saturday to win that
event by bare fraction of a second.
All Amicable at Finish.
A N EVEN greater upset came in the
hockey game, where Great Brit
ain Sheared Canada of the laurels she
had won in every previous Olympic
competition after q bitter series of ar
guments over the eligibility Of two
British players.
Conquering Canada in the second
round, the British team virtually
clinch6 the title by holding the Amer
leans to a scoreless tie Saturday and
was assured Of victory yesterday when
the Canadians turned back the United
States in one of the most exciting
games of the series, / to o.
Another contrast was the general at
mosphere of good will which sur
rounded the closing ceremony after
the disturbance earlier in the day and
the various arguments that had dis
turbed the progress Of the games from
time to time.