Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-02
TenIey Albright
Wins olympic
Skating Title
PIueky American
Ignores Fresh
Ankle Injury

COHTINA D'AMEELLO, 1taly,
Feb. 2 R, LPlucky Tenley AL
bright, choking back the pain Of
a fresh leg injury, and teen-ager
CAROL Heiss won gold and silver
medals with d dazzling perform
ance in woraen's figure skating
today and sent the United States
into sixth place in the team
standings Of the Winter Olympic
Games.
The triumph. following Hayes
Alan jenkins victory in the
m e ms individual competition
yesterday in d I-2-3 United
States finish. gave America the
first sweep Of such honors by one
nation in SO years. Sweden last
did 1t In 1890.
Miss Albright. a 20-year-old
pre-medical student from New
ton Center. Mass, skated q
dazzling ballet to the strains Of a
Jacques Offenbach medley to
clinch the championship in free
skating trials before a crowd of
10000 at the Cortina rink.
Tenley Twists Ankle
The wiilowy New England
girl performed fiawlessly through
a breath-taking repertoire de-
spite the pain OF q twisted ankle,
1.-THE same right ankle she gashed
with a skate blade In pre- iym-
pic training.
She becomes Americas first
queen Of the ice, succeeding
Barbara Ann Scott, q Canadian,
who now is q pro.
Miss 4 Heiss. a vivacious i6-
year-old. also turned in q ter
rife, crowd pleasing program.
But the 5-foot. 100-pound school,
Igirl couldn't overtake the lead
Miss Albright had compiled in
compulsory figures.
In the days other activity
Canada bounced back from its
hockey defeat at the hands of
the United States to whip Ger
many. 100. A rugged, 26-year-
old Swede. Sixten Jernberg,
slogged through the pines of
Ampezzo Valley to win the So
kilometer t31 miles. 100 YARDS
Icross-country. ski marathon in
I2:50.27. the fastest Olympic
time ever.
U. S. Gets 43Is Points
The is points picked up in
women's figure skating gave the
United States a total Of 49,
points. supplanting Switzerland
lin sixth place and moving within
ia half point Of Austria. nth
with A.
Russia picked up seven points
with third. fourth and sixth
Iplacings in the ski marathon to
boost its unofficial team total to
l01 points. q lead virtually i'm
possible to overtake in the anal
three days.
America had no entries In the
ski marathon. Russia didn't en-
ter the figure skating.
Ducks Pictures with TenIey
After Carole stepp of the rink,
she avoided photographers. at
Itempts to take her picture with
Tenley.
There had been reports Of ten
sion between the two under the
pressure of Olympic competition.
| Tenley, after her remarkable
performance, posed readily for
photographers and stayed along
side the rink to watch her Amer
ican rival skate.
| When she finished her turn,
Carole sat on a bench for a min
lutte to catch her breath.
/ Kisses Jill Kinmont
/ Then Carole walked over to the
lend Of the rink at kiss pretty
Jill Kinmont Of Butler, Calf. :,
who had watched in a wheel
chair. Jill. an ace skier. missed
making the American Olympic
team after injuring her back in
training.
Carole, taken In charge by her
mother and others, then went TO
the dressing room area. Photog-
lraphers clamored for her picture
and she posed briefly.
When photographers asked
ITenley to come over so the two
could be photographer together,
Carol walked back into the dress
ling rooms.
The weather was getting colder
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