The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-14
SKI BANQUET WINDS up SEA TOURNAMENT

The l949 Southeast Alaska Six Tournament passed into history las night with award of trophies to tcl Alaskan racers at the annual Ju- neau Ski Club banquet.
 Nearly 200 skiers from Juneau ano visiting teams got together at the Salmon Creek Country Club for the award tanquet.
 Blue Skies and bright sunshine and perfect skiing conditions Sun day in the high Douglas Island Ski Bowl made for one of the best tournaments Juneau has had
 Spectators lined the course for jumping and cross country events held yesterday afternoon at lower levels.
 In yesterday events Jeff Thorkild- sen, Juneau Ski Club member, took top running in the cross country competition.
 Don Flynn of Anchorage and Ed gar Lokken of Juneau followed Thorkldsen for second and third place.
 Edear Lokken, Juneau Ski Club member, jumped to championship in the ski jump meet with l26.4 points. Wes Landis of the Anchor age team took second honcrs with l23.1 points whie Gary King, also
 
 Juneau Ski Club jumper Thor kildsen made the longest leap ot the afternoon, landing 62 feet down the slope in his practice run. On his first official jump he took bao spill on the ice-crusted snow and was unable to make his second at tempt.
 Vincent Broze, Of Anchorage, ski ing in his first Southeast Tourna- ment. made clean sweep of Mems Class A races Saturday afternoon. The rangy Anchorage skier took downhill, slalom and combined events.
 In coveted Moller Cup downhill competitions, Anchorage had the placing field all tied up. Broze ran the course in 323 seconds. Gary King took it in 336 seconds, while Joe Young came in third with 34.f. Broze ran the tricky slalom course set by high school coach Bill Dean in 488 seconds.
 Dean Williams, Juneau Ski Club slalom specialist, came in second with a Is timing Wes Landis or Anchorage skied third on the slalom. Two Juneau High School girls, skiing for the first year in Class A competition, took high honorS in downhill and slalom races.
 Sheila MacSpadden skied the diff ficult course in 57.8 seconds for top honors, skiing to victory 5 seconds ahead of second placing Mary Thi- bodeau who timed l minutes sec ends.
 Kit MacInnis, veteran skier from
 
 slalom, but speeded the downhill course in sos for first place. Mary Thibodeau was only a short sec- onds tehind MacInnis, and almost ? minutes ahead of placing Ann Diamond of Anchorage
 In the combined Women's Class A division, Kit MacInnis took the Buck Harris trophy. Medals went to Mary Thibodeau and Alicia Hoare, of Whitehorse for second and third placing.
 Terry Fraser of Anchorage won the Daily Alaska Empire trophy for comtined event skiing in the Jun for Class A Division. Harland Oberg also of Anchorage. took second place for a cup award, while Boh Sommers of Juneau came in third for a medal.
 Neil Taylor, president of the Jul neau Ski Club, acted as master oi ceremonies for the big Sunday night award banquet. Trophies were awarded by tournament co-chair- man Jim Church and Leonard LowelE
 Wes Landis of Anchorage took over the mike for few minutes te make awards to Juneau skiers who took part in Fur Rendezvous races Thorkildsen was presented with tht handsome good sportsmanship tro' phy and cup for third in Anchor age cross country competition.
 Bonnie Randall was presented with a cup for third place in th' Anchorage slalom event.
 Award of special Juneau Ski Tro' phies was made at the beginning O the program by President Taylo who presented to Ralph Randall the Walter Scott Jr., memorial tro phy for outstanding work in pro motion of ski activities for tn year
 To Joe Waddell, who, Taylor ex plained, had had a rough year o skiing, went the most coveted of al ski club awards, the l949 Bee Slalom trophy.
 Special bouquets were handed ou