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First event on the program was the parade of the contestants and the ceremony of the Olympic Oath. A crowd of 50,000 gathered in the stadium below the ski jump to watch Herr Hitler, who has never sat on a bob-sled and cannot stand on skis, review the parade...
...Olympic Winter Games last eleven days, include hockey, bob-sled racing, speed and figure skating, four kinds of skiing. It is a truism that the Olympics, instituted to promulgate international goodwill, usually promulgate nothing of the sort. Last week, long before any significant results had been recorded, a series of major and minor brawls in sad contrast to the gay opening ceremonies made it clear that, in competitive ill-will, as well as in size, beauty of scene and dignity, the Winter Olympics of 1936 would outclass all their predecessors...
...Bob Sledding. Before the Games started, major bob-sled controversies concerned: 1) the poor condition of the run, which U. S. Driver Hubert Stevens described as "unsound" and 2) the bad effect on it of U. S. runners, which are sharper than those of European bobsleds. Most romantic casualty of the week was Donna Fox, a Bronx undertaker who, after sustaining a bruised ear when his sled tipped over on a curve, ungraciously blamed the accident on the poor construction of the run. Fastest practice runs of the week were made by Hubert Stevens, who won the two-man event...
There are, however, a number of good men who will be called on to carry the brunt of the Andover onslaught. First is Bob Gammons in the dash who has bested the endeavors of two Varsity runners in the Handicap Meet when all men were running from scratch. He will be ably seconded by Fred Ulen, the son of the swimming coach...
...years of skiing, Bob Shaw has come to be one of the best all around men on the boards in the college...