The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27
Ski
DaddIinS
Along
By ED MEAGHER

Paul sonny" Sceva left to-
day with the University of
Washington's ski team for
Sun Valley, where he will
compete in the annual inter-
collegiate championships next
weekend.
Sceva, along with Carl Neu, Otis
Lamson, Reidar (Tid) Gjolme and
Tom Cushman, won the trip, ex-
penses paid, in competition with
dozen or more contenders at a
series of time trials held last week
at Paradise valley and Snoqualmie.
Sad to say, Bob Barto, captain
of the Husky ski team, does not
get to make the junket. Just why
is not disclosed.
The Huskies placed second to
Dartmouth last year and Neu won
the slalom championship.
Off to Mount Hood next week
end will go several Tacoma skiers
for the Arnold Lunn downhill race,
which has been postponed three
times.
The race, Of gruelling length, Is
expected to test stamina of the
boys and girls as well as their
skill. And, as is usually true In
the long races, waxing will be ex-
tremely important In determining
the winner.
Chuck Fischel, coach of the Col
lege of Puget Sound ski team, has
entered the mems event. So have
Bill Taylor, another Logger skier
and HOWE Peterson, of Puyallup
Last but hardly least, inasmuch
as she is one of the fayorites ia
win the feminine race, will be
Shirley Mcdonald, who did so well
In the nationals at Hood last
spring.
| mas DCCH soillt
of brows and scratching of head,
by Washington Ski club official.
as they try TO find room on the
March and April ski calendar fol
the national four-way combined
championships and the Silver Ski.
race.
!
Best bet among solutions is that
date swap will be engineered
with Sun Valley. The WSC already
dispatched a letter to the Idaho
resort, asking that the nationa
championships, scheduled there fol
March 21-24, be held weel
earlier.
If the Sun Valley bosses accept
the revised tourney lineup would
go as follows: March 14-16, ma,
tional downhill and slalom com
hined at Sun Valley; March % anc
%, national four-way combined
championships at Paradise vale,
and Snoqualmie pass; March 81
and 81, Silver Skis race at Para
disc valley; April 6 and z, Fal
West Kandahar at Mount Hood.
1t would seem, too, a good ide,
to combine the Silver Skis rae,
with the downhill and slalom por
tons of the national four-way
meet. Otherwise those two event!
will have to be held during tn,
week when not many fans would
be able to attend.
Polling Around-The competitiv,
skiing season gets under way thi
weekend with the staging of tn
Arnold Lunn downhill at Hood an,
the national intercollegiate cham
pionships at Sun Valley. Mex
exent on the program will be tn
Penguin Ski clubs second annua
giant slalom race at the Snoqual
mic Ski bowl Jan. 81. =. In thos
Husky ski team trials Neu an,
Sceva, both best known for prov
ess in slalom and downhill, sur
prised by placing one-two in
three-mile cross-country race.
Sceya, barring the jinx which ha
bounded him for several years
should have his best season
he's Tacoma's only really top
flight skier. A Seattle man
Hugh Lohrer. is trying to max
arrangements for an economical
bus service to Paradise valley.
An exceedingly good ski team
could have been picked from
among those attending the Clul
of Hearts Christmas dance at Ho
tel Winthrop last night Sceva
Shirley Mcdonald, Burr Anderson
with his bride, the former Lor
raine Morris). Jane Carlson, Howl,
Peterson. Chuck Fisehel and dOz
ems of Others. :.