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...Mount Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run at Lake Placid, N. Y. is no ordinary coasting hill. It is an ice-lined ditch 1 1/2 mi. long, twisting down the side of a comparatively small Adirondack mountain. The sleds that go down it are $400 machines equipped with steering wheel, brakes, and seats ten inches above the runners. They weigh 485 lb. and are stored in a garage at the foot of the slide. Such deluxe coasting is a new sport for the U. S. The Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports...
...years these coaches have been summer visitors ... at my Adirondack camp where they have trained boys in both competitive and health exercises. One result is competent medical opinion that if we can give school children spiked running shoes and a place to practice . . . 80% of leg troubles will be straightened out. . . . Simple Delsarte exercises will do much the same thing for the body above the waist line. . . . They will learn the lessons of fairness of the sports field. I think a generation so trained will carry into business some moral principles...
...winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...
Perhaps it is not generally known that the book of the same name, written by Mr. Theodore Dreiser and purporting to furnish the plot for this cinema, was conceived from an actual murder case occurring on Big Moose Lake in the Central Adirondack section of New York State...
...which the public unaccountably transformed into a hit. It is a better movie than it was a play, for the sequences showing the dissipations of very young and very rich characters do not suffer the stage's three-walled circumscription. Meighan does no sinning. He is an Adirondack guide entrusted with the job of making a man out of Hardie Albright and keeping him off liquor long enough to be a respectable groom for Dorothy Jordan. She is the poetic, crinoline type of heroine whom no one can associate with sinful doings. Meighan is all right in his role...