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...figure skating championship, the hardest figuring is done by the judges. For contestants, the event falls into two divisions, school and free figures. School figures are six standard maneuvers selected by lot from the 42 that all able figure skaters have at their toe-tips. They count two-thirds of a contestant's total score. Free figures, improvisations selected by the contestants, count one-third. Contestants are judged partly on how closely the patterns made by their skates on the ice match the classic figures they attempt to execute, partly on the patterns made by their bodies moving through...
...music stopped. When Reiter finished, his free figures were a few points better than Lee's but Lee's lead the day before was still enough to save the title for him, 977.09 points to Reiter's 964.92. Perennial champion of U. S. women figure skaters is Maribel Vinson, who has won the title every year since 1928 except 1934 when she went abroad, placed fifth in the world's championship. Last week at Chicago, chic, brown-haired, 25-year-old Skater Vinson. who also rides, swims, sculls and writes ably on, women's sports...
...Million (Twentieth Century-Fox J rates as a classic because it preserves for posterity the spectacle of Sonja Henie skating. Ten times (1927 to 1936) world, three times (1928, 1932, 1936) Olympic figure skating champion, Skater Henie is without doubt the best figure skater who ever lived. For her, the 80 standard figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty...
Centering the third line will be Joe Patrick, sophomore and a new-comer to Crimson hockey, who is a tricky, but not too fast, skater. The veteran John Callaway will hold down the left wing position while Freddie deRahm, another Sophomore, will team with him from the right...
While four German regimental bands tootled merrily in a snowstorm, the march began. First of the 1,600 athletes to appear through the stadium gates were the Greek skiers. Next came the Australians: two officials and a lone speed skater. First misunderstanding of the Olympic Winter Games promptly followed. To avoid confusion in such matters, Olympic authorities long ago devised a special salute to be used on gala occasions: raising the right arm straight into the air. This salute when made quickly closely resembles the Nazi salute. To most spectators, the, acknowledgment which the athletes gave as they passed Herr...