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...competition next week at Milan, Button is expected to extend his mastery over the rest of the crop of the world's figure skaters, but he will have a new competitor on his own team in the person of Junior titleholder Richards...
...Seattle this year the two skaters were even better friends than before because of Richards' entry into Harvard this fall. Although they haven't been practicing together because of different styles of skating, Button has been "very inspiring" according to Richards. "He really made me work, both by professional advice and by telling me I could do well...
...Before this I've never been so worked up seeing another skater compete," Button said later. He added that while he was down at the end of the rink he "skated that program harder than Richards...
Richards was nine or ten when Button first met him at skating competitions, and since then he has steadily moved up behind Button. Button has been in the Senior competition for the past six years, but Richards has yet to break into the older circuit. He broke his neck in 1947, and was unable to compete for the whole next year, which set him farther behind the older Button. Richards' victory at Seattle, however, will put them in the same league at last...
...Button introduces a new figure almost every year into his free skating program--one of his own invention...