Skiing, a historical snapshot: ski history snapbook, years 1961 thru 1968

Scrapbook compiled by Alan K. Engen containing materials illustrative of the history of skiing (mainly in Utah) during the years 1961 through 1968. Includes newspaper and magazine articles about ski instruction, skiing competitions, ski jumping, ski resorts, and individual skiers; also photographs by Alan K. Engen; his certification documents; certification pins; and awards. Frequent mention of the Engen family, Snow Basin, Alta, and Ecker Hill (all in Utah); Sun Valley, Idaho and Jackson, Wyoming. Some documentation from Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics.

SKIING • • • • A·HIS TORJCAL SNAPSI-IOT Presented by Alan I(. En~cn SKr brsCORIJ SCRAPBOOK YEARS 1961 Cl)Ru 1968 INDEX IA I I I I I I I I I I I I I IB I I I I I I I I I I ,,,,. I ---'I s· . ~-•· I I I I I I I ACTION PHOTO OF AUSTRIA'S OTHMAR SCHNEIDER RUNNING A SLALOM. S(HNEIDER WON THE 1952 WINTER OLYMPIC SLALOM EVENT IN OSLO, NORWAY. Photo by Bob Bourdon Sun Valley, Idaho - circa 1953 I I I I I I I I I IC I I I H WOODCUT OF OTHMAR SCHNEIDER, 1952 WINTER OLYMPIC SLALOM CHAMPION. Woodcut (1961) by Alan Engen I I I I I I SCRAPBOOK: 1961 through 1968 Mc The following mat.erial :represents selected highlights of events which unfolded during the years identified above. They are only to be considered :representative of some of the occurrences/events (both good and bad), people, items of interest, and humor deemed relevant &om a ski history perspective... most of which are foeused on Utah. Ski Heil! i , . . . ;( 7 :-,, . "'. 1tg\l N Alan K. Engen SPECIAL NOTE: While most of the information found in the Alan Engen ski history scrapbooks focus on Utah, other places outside the state also deserve special mention for their respective contributions to ski history and the tie to Utah through the personalities themselves and interaction of competitive skiing events. Accordingly, as you go through the books, you will find places where effort has been spent to provide insight on selected non Utah ski events, places, and people who were instrumental as athletes and/or contributors to the sport of skiing. 0 .\ )- .. ~ .' ' '.- , ~ SCRAPBOO K STOCK NO. 48014 REFILL PAGES STOCK NO. 48214 IN PHOTO LEIT TO RIGHT: S. JOE QUINNEY JODY LAWSON JANET QUINNEY LAWSON Photo taken at Alta, Utah - circa early l 960s Form #409577 Ory or wet. Temp, lO to 30 ALF ENGEN PERFORMING A GELANDESPRUN G IN POWDER. Photo: Sun Valley - circa 1942 Note: This photo of Alf was the model figure for most of the variety of Alf Engen Ski Waxes used in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ALF ENGEN SKI WAXES Ibo•• CREEN Powdtr . Temp BlUl Wet or corn s• below to 20 • above Above 27 No one knows why Alf Engen Ski Waxes help skiers make smoothe r turns ... except the great, internati onal champion hi'!lself. During his competi tive career he used his secret wax formula s in winning literally hundred s of downhill , slalom, and jumping contests. Today scores of top racers around the World prefer his waxes ... as well as thousands of recreational skiers. Why not? Use a champio n's wax and enjoy the differenc e. It's much more fun! Most of the waxes as shown were developed in the early 1940s by Alf Engen, his wife, Evelyn, and Evelyn's father, Karl M. Pack who owned and operated a pharmac eutical company in Salt Lake City. All the waxes were very popular by skiers during the 1940s, 50s and 60s, including competitive skiers as well as recreatio nal skiers. GOLD Sil YER for any snow. Coes ncht over othe, waxes. Use o~er Red or Blue. Fast! GIACIER Look cut• Putswinu on your Silis And then there's the h•""Y Kol!lbi Kit ONE OF THE POSTER S USED TO MARKE T THE ENGEN WAX LINE IN THE 1960s. The "Glacier " and "Kombi- Kit" waxes were developed by Alan Engen in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During those years, Alan was t he primary manufac turer of the entire wax line. The Alf Engen Ski Wax Line was sold in the late 1960s, primaril y because several of the primary ingredien ts were becoming very difficult to acquire. One of those was a mined wax called Ozokerit e. While people still inquire about the availability of the wax line, those who still have a bar or two in their bag of waxes tell me they "treasure" them because nothing else works as well on some snow conditions. ALF ENGEN "BLUE" For wet or com snow where temperature is above 27 degrees F. ALF ENGEN "GREEN" For dry and powdery Snow where temperatures Range between zero and 20 degrees F. ALF ENGEN "RED" For dry and powdery snow. ALF ENGEN "BL ACK" For dry and powdery snow Where temperature is below Zero F. ALF ENGEN "SILVE R" For any type snow. Excellent over Engen "Red" or "Blue." ALF ENGEN "GOLD" For any type snow. Excellent over Engen "Black", "Green", or "Red.". ALF ENGEN "GLACI ER" For any type snow. Long Lasting. Excell ent over any . of the Engen base waxes. A particular ly good racing wax. Z..:•tW,chtJOwa•a SALT LAK E CITY , UTAH SCANNED IMAGE OF THE "KOMBI-KIT" WAX CARTON. Artwork was done by Alan Engen ALF ENGEN "KOMBI-KIT" An excellent selection of waxes for any snow condition and temperature. Can be used separately or in conjunction with each other. ALF ENGEN PERFORMlNG A PERFECT DOUBLE POLE JUMP TURN. Photo by Fred Lindholm Alta, Utah- circa late 1950s Note: Photo used for the Alf Engen "Kombi-Kit" ski waxes in the 1960s. JIM McCONKEY A member of the Alf Engen Ski School at Alta in the 1950s and early 60s. He Distinguished himself as one of the early "extreme" gelande jumpers and went on ,' lo head the ski school at Solitude Ski Area and then Whistler/Blackholm in British Columbia. Photo taken at Alta, Utah - Circa early 1960s. ' ~VERRE ENGEN - AT WORK WITH HIS MOVIE CAMERA IN THE 1960s, SVERRE WAS NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE TOP SKI MOVIE PRODUCERS IN THE COUNTRY. Photo: Alta, Utah- circa late 1950s. • ( I ' \I I I I I I I J I f \ r_, I I r I I I' I 1 I-f, 1~ I 'I ( I _, I ,- (- r--- I I I ) I ' _) I I ! . . • ... .•. . . • ., !'o, • _, .. • .. • . • . it • •• • • • "' . "' .. ... . -. * .... . ,, .. . - • .. •• f' ... ¥~ . • e OU'TSTANDIN e MYSTERY OF DEEP P e THE MOST EXPLOSIVE DEE Fred Lindholm photo music and commentary with r colo in film m 16m ent inm erta ent iting exc of hrs ½ 1 I - Vation 's Top Skiers Po is e fo r Sn ow Cu Coloraclo U., Denver l'. and Utah U. Ski quads entered. John • choficld, race cochamna n with Don Bentley, said here Friday that everything was 1, ady. The cours i. n fin shape and Is as hard as I a rock. A FAST RACE Is on tap thanks to the t1cld arnl to 1he compa,;-lncss o! t!1e course. 'l'he 37-gate g:ant slalom tra I, which features both speed and turning skill, wu .set by I I Dalebout. Yost of the racf!r.!I we,e here aklef to Friday, looking over U1e course an t ngrn ••• t:le ...,...., now Cup till~ and studvln g It carefully. i:-o after ____ Trophies will be awardl'rl after the eHmt in the Peru. vlan Loclge, accQrding to Scho!ldd. , . O. E OF THE fa, onlcs to cop the big a\\ ard In this !irst race ot the 1961 season ls Burtdy Werner, a "cln h" golcl medal winner ll.l Squaw Valley until he broke jlis lfl In prac ~tlce. He'll be prc~sed by Da, c Gorsuch, the dt{ending chamfax Marolt, another pion; 01:,mplan; Chuql< Ferri , Alan ~ E'ngen. Alan tiller and a Buddy Wrnirr ••• nnd~,•s gl n In ho. ot other comJ>f'titors TEI:' In the toum, v be de Enge are Brad :Smith. Paul Goddard Frank Perri, Terry Moms and Roben N~l son. '!'he Salt L11kc &at~ ha,e Dean Hopkins anrl Mlke Wa • te1s. Gray RPynolds ha s from Pocatl'llo whilr Petti Grar>shammrr and Karl ~urt rlter arc from Sun Valley Gran hamm r I the No l altP.rna e on th" Austrian s uad and \\111 be one of the f THE DESE 8" NEWS A O iELEG AM, Solt Lake City, Saturday, De mber 23, 1961 Ute Slc.i Te m Ue Ip' eTe m One Of Best, ig '62 UNIVERSITY OF UT AH SKI TEAM - CIRCA 1961 . IN PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT:, ROBERT IRVINE BRAD SMITH JIM GADDIS ALAN ENGEN ROBERT NELSON TERRY MORRIS PRES SUMMERHAYS (COACH) The Ute dub will depart for St Ca ID b O II t Spring Colo., Thursday for an lntercolkgia•c meet w th nenve l nlw,rstty, WC'Stern -tate, Air Fo c Academy and Colorado Univer• sit . The Air· Force Ar.ademy is ponsorlng the meet. The mret b gin Saturday and runs through Sunday. ,Ja•1. 7 the Ute team will par tlclpate in Alta's Snow Cup. l• riilay, the l !Ir <'1111, tra,·• eled to now B:1sln \\here It practkC'd fnr the pcomln,: Intcrmountain !':.Id A ~n. con• ti's• Article by Tom Korologos, photos by Fred Lindholm on Jim Gaddis. Title of the article is: "DOWNH ILL IS LONELY " Article ran in SKIING News Magazine Vol. XIII, No. 4 January 1961 Alan Engen shows perfect form bs he enters second gate of Alpine practice run. On the male side of the trophy case, Jim Gaddis, the Universi ty of Utah's fine alpine competitor, wound up a great racing year by placing· first in the NCAA combined. He and· teammat e Alan Engen finished 1-2 in ·almost. every collegiate and ISA .race they enter.ed and·both were named on the All-Am eric~ college · ski .team for their 1960 efforts. SKIING NEWS MAGAZINE Vol. xm, No. 4 January 1961 Trail of powder shows high speed Jim Gaddis r ached while working out. BILL SPENCER - BIATHLETE, CIRCA 1963 Photo from the Mike Korologos Collection A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BIATHLON AND UTAH'S BILL SPENCER By Alan K. Engen BI Spencer ru n ning in the biathlon, 1968 Winier Olympics, Grenoble, Fromce' Pholo courtesy Sill Spencer. The Biat hlon 1 The bia1hlon wmbint' two shills: cros ;country skim, and rifle sh vling. Biathlon cross-c untr · cou1,rs rangejrom 7.5 to 20 kilomerns nnd t_vpically arc Imel out in color-caded loops. rach having a relatively e1·en di tribulion of 111 hill, downhill, and levrl len-ai11. 1n additron. pecial challenges such as slwrp turns put an extraordinary d m nd on th athletes' muswlar and cardiovasculor systems. Bul cro. s-wunt1y rnnning on skis is omly part of the wmpclilwn . After the brathlc:tes; are at or near maximum ki-running effort on dif loops, they must shift into a shooting mode, requiring them to fire a rifle accurat,ely ut a small target fr{ty mclrrs away. The brarthletes fire Ji-.-c shot. within thirty seconds Jro, 111 th time they .hi lo the filing l111c and drop' Lheir 1?1 pole.. For nrry shot Lhat misses tlhe target, on1:: minul is adclt-d lo the biatl1lete s running time. Tli _e facwr_ make the biathilon the mMl dt'mc111ding and physically of all athletic wmpriitions. TAKEN FROM THE BOOK FOR W E LOVE OF SKIINGA VISUAL HISTORY, BY ALAN K. E GEN (1998). BILL SPENCER - PHOTO TAKEN BY ALAN ENGEN AT HIS HOME ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1996. The Salt Lake T:ibune, :...~u:i:\', ,1ii..lln.::iry 22. J:i:n · rj to ic J! _ om al Sl sy Ea to s ay , Sw gs in Sw n ge En Al an _____ ___ ___ __ ___________________________________ __ Utah Sl{iers - -~ ,. , ____: _:.:, __:__.....:._ ll Pick: Up l?our "Wrins ·By Tom Korologo s . Tribune •Sports Writer ALTA - Alan Engen. displaying a swing and sway that :would· have· shamed a Las iVegas chorus girl, swooped to victory. here Saturday in the Interrnci untain Ski · Assn. sla; _ ' lorn_ . champio nships. ... AUN, A member of the .Univers ity of utah ski team, . 's cored his first alpine victory of the ·season. He put together ,two consiste nt runs down 9,1. ins' Face to win going away. 1 His first run was 50 2/5 sec:onds and his second 50 3/5 seconds. That total gave him 101 seconds to beat his nearest competi tor by ;w seconds. This is like winning a football game by 40 points and a basketba ll ·game by 60 points. , _- OTHER WINNE RS were: '. Judy Butler, Aspen, in the , Class A Women' s Division ; !Paul (Fox) Goddard , Ogden, pn the Class B men's; Gary 1Knudson , a former Universi ty ·of Utah halfback , in the Class the Univers ity of Utah, . C men's .and Connie Abeggle n, Paul, (Fox) Goddard, Og~en ,.Ja nship In Alta races. champio slalom B. Class the : Salt Lake City and a m~mber who won of .&.1-..., 1s Talies Giant Slalolll RE O. EV., Feb. 11 {UPI) ~im Gaddi , enter ing his first competition since recovering from a broke n leg, paced Utah to ·ctory Satur day in the giant lalom at the 25th annu al Ne ada Wint Carnival. tandi ng af. er t ' all The only non-ute was Judy was skiing for Aspen here Saturday . Actually 1 Judy hails Jrom Mt. Mansfiel d Vt., and she lives In West Hart'. ford, Conn . The event was no easy test and the snow condition s dirln't help matters either. Sugary, unpackal;>le snow was the order of the day and Marvin Melville, former Olympic team member, set a tough slalom 'j course. Rutll'r who 1 Judy Butler, AsJ)l'n, and Alan Engen or Salt Lake City after the duo won Class A slalom champio nships at Alta. .u_b:11_ ~?1~' t~!I~ 1n thP l'I' n~:Qtllmm plenly of I techniqu e and, above RII, knowled ge of the gates. The slalom ls more of a form and swing and sway type race. Generally the guy who stand.s 11p and who charges down with the rhythmic motion of a , conga line is winner, Engen, But I er, Abegglen , Knudson and Goddard did just that. ThP. ro11l'se 1ook !ls toll of the hotshots . Margo Wallel'S, one nf lhe l'l'al line competllol's herrabou ts, missed a gale on hrl' first slalom run and was disr111aliiied. JIii.i. s1•1•:NCJ~R, Dean Pel'• kins •nrl nave Wilson, three more real, line skiers, got lost anr\ missed gates and also were . disfJllalif ied. For record purposes , Miss Buller will not be allowed to take R meci;,I home for her etforls lll're Saturday since this •s an lSA sanclion rare. Actua lly, Tll'tly Lou Sine of Salt Lal<.- Cily will be the Class A women's winner since Belly Lou finished second. The resulls: Prt par e Members of the Ute ski team will be out to test their talents agains t local ski stars in the annual Usqirebaugh Ski Club Solitud e Cup Race this weekend. The race, to be held Sunday, is open to all classif ied skiers in A, B and C classes. This race is expected to draw some good competition from local areas. fembers of the U e team will be workin g particu larly hard using this race as a warmu p for the Rocky Mount ain Interco llegiat e Ski Champ ionship to be held the following weeken d. JUST FOLLOWING the brillian t Ute team victori es in the Nevad a Winter Carnival, Redski n stars Engen and Gaddis arc expect ed to perfor m in flashing style in the coming events . Nevada During last week's in the first placed events, Gaddis slalom the in third giant slalom and races. Ute Ski ace Alan Engen took the Nevt1da Skime ister title with the best 'combi ned results in the cro's countr y, jumping, giant ll'Olllell'S !"al!e. With E~gen, .Abeggle n: God1lard and Knudson lJtes In one form or snot.her 1hr. hllllo11 dl1l rather well: ' you might say. · THE ..DAILY UTAH CHRONJQL.E ad Q The next item ln this two. d::i y a [fal r, sponsore d by the Salt Lake Ski . Club, will he , the downhill which wlll begin , Sunday at noon. Saturday lt was all sial om . rt also was almost all Univer· sity of Utah. fee,. l~bl \°tio \ - . No ~als enf.,red the Class Clu1 A Men I. A la n Enren. Salt Lake City, :IOI seconds; 2, Art Brells:trech cr, Sun Vallc.v , JJl 2 /5: 3. Dan Hinckley, Oi· den, 112 3/fi; 4. Dean Krlell, Aspen 11 3 :'1 / 5: 5. Dean Hopkins Sall Lak~ ' City, Jl\ 2 /5, Ch.u A l\'oinen I 1, .Tud.Y Buller. Aspl'n, 121 ; 2. Betty Lou Sine, 1:1.1 3 /5; 3, Ev,1 l\'hrconller . (fond, Ore., 14:! ~/ 5: 4 . B1ubiira BNa'. hmcf, AsPl'n, 172 !! /5; 5. Dotti Camp. bell, Sun Vnllcy, 206 Cius B 1'hn l. 'Paul Gndd~rd, O.r.dcn 1H ll~Perri s '.1ll L:il·c Cit;.' F1a11k tie) 1 2. and, Keith Ln1H?r., Sa lt Lake city, 115 315: 4. Terry Monls, Salt Lake City 1 138 1/5; 5. Hurt Temr>le, A1ta, 112 Clu1 0 Men 1 J,--~---:===-===-::::::-::;:::==--- slalom and slalom. Thoug h Utah placed ~nly •second in this meet, the Ute slatste rs are expect ed to perfor m equally well and possib ly even better in the coming events. ALPINE THREAT FOR UTE 215: 1. Gar~· Knudson , Seit L ake CilY 70: 2. Stan Thl'bNi', Pocate!IQ, 1i; 3. Aurldy Feltman, Sun Valley 71 1/ 5· 4, Harold T11r.r:icr, Sall Lake City, 74 : ' 5. Frank Hall, Pocatello, 76 2/ 5, Cius C Wom.-n I . l301111le Abeaalen, S;:r.lL T..;:r,ke Clh• 85 3/~; 2 , Sidney Lindholm, Alla, 118:1 3. Carol Bennett, AHa, 121. The_ Salt ,Tribune, it""_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Lake __:__ _ _ Friday, December 13, 1961 nm DA:aY urAH CHRONICLE Ute Skiers Cop SolitudeHonors'; The Utih ski warriors again showed their individual talents during the weekend bringing home the majority of top honors from the Solitude Cup ski race. LEADING THE Utes to victory was All-American Alan Enge~ with a dynamic win in the class A field. Alan was closely followed by Frank Perri and Brad Smith, both f the -U who tied for the second spot title. place in the Class B women division and was followed very closely by Suzan Flandro who took second, tand wrt!h Ann McKee's victory in tthe class C, the Utes took top honors in the women division. 1 Over approximately the same area the Ute ski team will sponsor the Intermountain Intercollegiate ski meet scheduled for this coming weekend. While the men were busy sewing Tuesday, February 28, 1961 up the victories over the speedi,--:-:=---------~~ -tree lined course, the Ute women were doing their share in capturjng the majority of honors. Connie Abegglen JOhn Engen, ~nter, ~ts plenty of . kling Ins ction from his father, Alf, left, and the I ~•ls brother, Alan. John, only 10, has been 1 Jumping 2 yt"JU'S. (Photo, George Schwart%.) Giant Slalom Engen Ski Victory In S~litude Cup • By RARJT \\JXOH Deseret • ·ews Mrt \\ rift>r SOLITUDEuck Frrri!'s, ma king his f:rsl apprarance on ·tah slopes sine!' "inning the Snow Cup Jan. 8. won again here Friday with a vict ry in By Tom Korologos check ,h pion. Tribune Spor~s Writer SOLITUDE - Alan Engen, lumbering down the Solitude slopes like a fullback buslling through the line, rammed hls way to a three-second victory here Sunday in the Solitude The course was set .,,,-,. ,u,sm Cup giant slalom. Downward and folio ed T~E BIG, LIKABLE Uni• general lme of the C<illegi vers1ty o! Utah slatrnan, cut . . the gates as close as a butcher downhill which is on tap slices ham, to lead a University weekend at ollt de. n1e , or Utah sweep of the first four was mid-way down the No. places in the Class A division. llie and the fini h was n ar ~onnie Abegglen, aJso of the the lower enniflal of hft o. l. University o! Utah, was Class The 1on tuu er · B women's winned Joe McDonough of the Salt Lake Ski Club was C 1 ass B men's I .AIM F.nrtn , •• Ult aee to compete in Solitude Cup. the Rocky Mountain Re,:iionrl downhill. Skiers Poise For Race At Solitude lpeclal 1o TIie Tribun• SOLlTUDE-Otficials of the Usquebauih Ski Club remind· ed Wednesday that Friday wUl champ; Ann McKee of Ute. be the deadline for entering the ville won the Cla s C women's Solitude Cup giant s I a 1 om division and Kenneth Pierce of scheduled here Sunday. I Provo the Class C men's race. Members or the University There were no o1 Utah ski team wlll be com~ - Toal crew will be led vomen competitor DY Alan Engen, the top tour- race sponsored by way Ute who will be one of quebaugll Id Club. the tourney favorites. l!'ap, some Cris Selhe(•k ( right,), D P.n ver U. , wh o hruke Alf J,; 11 gen's L a nd es HIil ma'rk hy 10 f ePI , gl't~ Alf 's ,·ongrnh1laUons, . Sunday, Engen's time a Ion g the DENVER UNOOJRSITY and tricky giant slalom trail was Colorado University 11150 are e11pected to send , quads. I 1:44 3/5. Frank Perri and Rus Downward of Solitude will ~et the giant slalom cour~e and Mt'l Dalebout, Intermountaln Ski Assn. race cour>'e otfl cial, will approve It. • ! I l .I KEN .'ETH PIERCE of Provo showed his heels to the ~~Id again tJ1e C~ass_<; 1~ace. Scrapbook authors note: I elected to include this particular clipping only to show that occasionally even the finest athletes have things not work out the way they had planned. Besides, this is truly a great photo! Alan K. E ngen skier, get~ all ta,u;'led up and 111 about to bit.e the t4? ac cut the gate A ha.de too dose, Jost his, went era hing. Race was run in snowstorm. THE SKIING MILLER FAMILY FROM OGDEN, UTAH By Alan K. Engen Utah ski history would not be complete without including one of the dynasty's of winter sport... namely M. Earl Miller and his three sons, Alan, Dale, and Ray. All three, in their own right, cut a swath in Intermou ntain ski history which will be remember ed for years to come. M. Earl Mjller was a wonderful man who dedicated his life to professional ski teaching and coaching of young skiers. His skiing philosophies both, on and off the hill, set an example which helped hundreds of young athletes honorably compete to their best abilities. For his many contributi ons, the lntermoun tain division of the Professional Ski Instructor s of America (PSIA) organization selected him to be one of the first four inductees to their Hall of Fame which started in 1989. Earl passed away in May 2000. Each of Earl's three son's have distinguished themselves as great competitive athletes. I personally had the pleasure of competing with and against Alan, the oldest, from the time we were pre-teenagers back in tbe early 1950s. Alan and I were also members together on the U.S. CISM S~ Team which competed internatio nally in Europe during the mid 1960s. Like his older brother, Dale Miller also excelled in competitive alpine skiing and was the National Junior Champion in 1963. Ray, the youngest of the three Miller brothers became a member of the U.S. Ski Team and was a collegiate All- . American. Both Dale and Ray have devoted their adult life to coaching other young skiers 6ke their father did. Alan, unfortunately, developed severe arthritis and is limited in what he can do; however, it would be my guess, that given an opportuni ty, he would still give any skier a run for their money! I have personally known the entire family a lifetime and I can say with utmost honesty that they have been among the most honorable of all Utah "skiing greats" in the way they have conducted themselves throughou t their skiing careers. Theirs is a record which serves as an example for everyone. M EARL MILLER (CENTER) SKllNG WITH TWO OF HIS AAy (RIGHT). THREE SONS, DALE (LE FT) early 1960s circa Photo: Snowbasin, Utah ANI? Special note: M. Earl Miller ~rovide~ a signifi_cant influence on the ski teaching and coaching environment m the Interrnountain region during the 1950s through the 1980s. _He was ski school director at Snowbasin _for ?S ye~rs an~ rece~ved numerous awards for his skiing contnbut1ons, mcludmg be1~g inducted into the Professional Ski Instruct~rs - Interrnountam Division Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Qumney Award for lifetime achievement in 1998. Earl passed away at age 82 in May, 2000. Utah, was the . Snowbasin Ski School Director from a resident of Ogden, 1950 to 1985 and was one of the founders of the Professional Sid ln$tructors ofAmerica. He has coached many race-rs including his sons, Alan, Date and Ray, and the Weber State University Sid Team. · Earl was awarded Don Reddish Award in 1965, the ·Ski Director of the Year in 1972, a lifetim.~ membership in the PSIA · in 1977, the Lowell Thomas Award in 198,4 and the Quinney Award i~ t 99 8, ·.... . _, ,·... ,· .. _ CA (PSIA): FO UNDER S OF THE PR OFESSI ONAL SKI INSTRU CTORS OF AMERI In photo front row, L to R: Bill Lash Jimmy Johnston Paul Valar In photo back row, L to R: Doug Pfeiffer Don Reinhar t Max Dercum Curt Chase Photo circa May, 1961 at Whitefi sh Montan a. PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AME RICA (PSIA) PSIA was founded at Whitefish, Montana in May 1961 when the then Ski Teacher Certification Committee of the National Ski Association voted to reconstitute themselves as the founding board of directors of a new organization to be known as the Professional Ski Instructors of America. The members of that committee represented the seven divisions of the National Ski Association and the founding directors were Bill Lash, Paul Valar, Jimmy Johnston, Doug Pfeiffer, Don Reinhart, Max Dercum, and Curt Chase . :• •• ••....--- --- --- --~ - An American Ski Technique A Recollection - By Bill Lash January 2004 AS APPLICABLE TO PROFESSION AL SKI INSTRUCTION, ONE OF THE LEAD ING CONT RIBUT ERS TO 1HE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL'SKI TEACHING METHODOLOGY IS BILL LASH. BECAU SE OF HIS EFFORTS, THE PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTO RS OF AMERICA CAME INTO BEING IN 1961 AND, THROUGH THIS ORGANIZATION, A TECHNIQUE WAS ADOPTED WHICH HAS SERVED AS THE CORE FRAMEWORK FOR AMERICAN SKI INSTR UCTION FOR OVER A HALF CENTURY. BILL LASH IS A SKI TEACH ING LEGEN D FOR WHAT HEW AS ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER AND, BECAUSE OF THIS, WAS INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL SKI HALL OF FAME IN 1983 . ' ' P.ROFESS·tONAL SKI INSTRUCTOR OF AMERICA . . PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTOR OF AMERICA INSIGNIA SHIELD DESIGNED BY KEITH LANGE IN 1961-62. KEITH LANGE - PAST PRESIDENT OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION, PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR FOR OVER FIVE DECADES, AND TI-IE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESIGN OF THE PSIA SHIELD INSIGNIA WHICH WAS FORMALLY ADOPTED BY TIIE PROFESSIO AL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA ORGANIZATION IN 1962. Photo: Alta, Utah - circa 1968 THE PSI. PO \ ER H<)l SF Br/I Lash SEVERAL KEY INDIVIDUALS WHO PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA (PSIA) ORGANIZATION AT WHITEFISH, MONTANA IN MAY, 1961. • BILL LASH - FOUNDER OF THE PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA , Photo: Solitude, Utah-circa 1963 • • ----'--------.-------==-- =-- -----DESERET NEWS AND TELEGRAM, Salt Lake City, Thursday, June 22, 1961 28._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SR:.RIS SCORES EJ.. 5·74?S ROUND ABOU1 by HACK MILLER Deseret News Sports Editor The Engens Got Caught In A Snow Storm-Day Before Yesterday 01' Joe Lundstrom from our City Desk has checked the weather station. One hundred and three at the S.L. airport! That would fry your apple! All Engen sat nearby, wearing a snow burn. The day before, Alf and his kid brother, Sverre, who isn't a kid anymort', had been warming their frost-bitten toes. * * * 'l got off the pw:ne ancl there it was snowing. We had to clig the train out of an avalanche, got stuck and suffered in the cold for four hours," Alf said. * * "' I must have looked at Alf as if he had been hit over the head by sun stroke. Except that he wasn't kidding. Just the day before Alf and Sverre had been skiing in Portillo, Chile. They had got caught in a snow storm; they had help hand-shovel an avalanche off the railroad track; they had been on the train which tried to ramrod the drifts and got stuck; they had waited four hours in bitter cold for the hand-laborers to lay a new section of track. A Little Like Alta Five days before, they went to New York, caught a special jet for Santiago, bussed and trained 100 miles north to Portillo Hotel, which was owned principally by two New Yorkers named Allrlch and Purcell. They Wf're guests on the special trlp--the owners want.ea Alf to try his skiing, wanted Sverre to Include Portillo In his 1961-62 edition of his ski film. The hotel Is at 9,300 feet- llttle l!ke Alta. It ls at the base of !\It. Aconcagua, the highest mountain In the Western Hemlshpere-23,000 feet. Along were such others as Willie Schaeftler, Ernie McCullough. I n s tr u ct or at Portillo was Othmar Schneider, coach of the famous Austrian ski team. And Othmar had his Austrians working out dally to shape them for the next Olympic or winter games. There was Cliff Taylor and his famous ~horl skis. Up To Date On Teaching In three days Alf was able to bring himself up to date on what techniques are being taught around the world. * * • He swamariied, "After looking aronnd the ski world the past couple of years l find that we teach in Utah just as much as anywhere in the world-ancl our techniques are as up to date and progressive as any." Alf made particular reference to the "short sicing" te~hniques-the Wecleln, "parallel" or "reverM shoulder" as it's sometimes called. * * .. "The snow is about like ours. It's real nice powderseems like they came to Alta and got just the right texture. The only difference is that Chile slopes have no trees-not like our Cottonwood Canyons or other western areas," Alf said, The old timer also walked with a little "hitch in his git-along." When asked about it, Alf admitted trying to move a Chilean rock on one of the fast runs-and couldn't. He has a sore hip as proof. When All starts to eg~-beater on the hill then there's hope :tor all of us. Which brings us to summarize: if you can't stand our heat, you can always get chilly in Chile! Just take your skis. The train crews furnish the shovels. INSIGNIA p ATCH FOR THE ALF ENGEN SKI SCHOOL USED BY THE INSTRUCTOR STAFF FROM THE LATE 1950s TO THE MID 1960s. Special Note: Insignia.patch designed by Alan Engen. ALF ENGEN SKIING AT PORTILLO, CHILE. Photo circa June 1961 A BRIEF HISTORY OF CERTIFICATION CERTIFICATES AND PINS USED IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION By Alan K. Engen In the early 1940s, ski teaching methodologies were a "hit and miss" proposition. In essence, every person who headed a ski school in Utah, Idaho, or Wyoming basically had their own ideas on how to teach people to' ski . Methodologies taught often times were in significant conflict with each other. This of course, caused frustration to those wishing to learn proper techniques to improve their skiing performance. The U.S. Forest Service, who oversaw the leases upon which many ski areas operated during winter months, was aware of this problem and started insisting that some sort of standardization of instruction be instituted in the Intennountain ski areas. Accordingly, in the mid 1940s, the first steps were taken to prepare a basic course on instruction techniques, complete with a testing procedure to acknowledge competence. Sverre Engen, Art Johansen and Walter Prager were designated by the Forest Service to be the official examiners. They, in turn, issued certificates of completion, called a Certificate of Skiing Jnstrnctor, to those passing the test. Thi s basic certification process seemed to work better and in 1949, a special brass Intennountain Ski Area (ISA) pin was awarded to instructor apprentices or instructors who passed the test instead of a certificate. This pin was only used for one or two years and was replaced in the early 1950s with a rectangular, 3 inch pin. A blue pin was issued for completion of Associate Instructor and a white pin for full Certified Instructor. Both pins had the words Certified Ski Teach er - lntermountain Ski Association. In 1952, following the formal establishment of the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association, the two pins were modified to read LS .I.A. instead of Intermountain Ski Association. Colors of the two different pins remained the same. Pl S I \Os - ·1t1h ·af I C ·, d_·- 1id 195( s ·nifi ation hy fnlc1nu untain. ki L, tc I 9.-, s o iatiun _._......~- 1t1fkd Full ·er ifi ·d l· ull ( rli Ii s - crtification hv ., ln1 ·nnl unh in , ki tnstructc. . ) iat i lll (] J ) ' c1ah~ Ccrti 1 s I ) ,O. - t.:rti:fic; u )11 t Profcs ionaf • i In. lruclc r '>f , 1 r·ca (P. ·~ hicld d4.: i n ·d h Keith Lan ... • 0 The " Blue Badge" and the "White Badge" as they were called, remained constant until 1961 , when the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) organization came into being. Keith Lange of the Intennountain Division was asked to come up with a design for the new national organization. The result was a two inch shield shaped design containing the words Professional Ski Instructor ofAmerica. This design was formally adopted by the PSIA board of directors in 19 62 and one pin was issued to all fully certified (e.g. White Badge) instructors, nationwide. Contained on the pin was the engraved first name initial and last name of the instructor to whom the pin was awarded. , ·rl ih d ruu PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA PINS COLLECTED BY ALAN ENGEN FOR THE PSIAINTERMOUNT AIN DIVISION DISPLAY AT THE JOE QUINNEY WINTER SPORTS CENTER/ALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FACILITY. PIN CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COLLECTION: ALAN ENGEN ALF ENGEN EVELYN ENGEN MEL FLETCHER DICK FRY SUE RAEMER In 1979, the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association changed its name to PSIA-Intermountain Division (PSIA-1). This became officially adopted in May 1981 . To accommodate the name change, a new Intermountain pin was designed which incorporated a smaller version of the shield design with the word /ntermountain on the rounded top. Silver pins were awarded to those completing Associate (Level 2) status and gold pins for Certified, Level 3 instructors . In 1990, a bronze (Level 1) pin was added with the same design features as the silver and gold pins. • . n It should also be highlighted that starting in 1987, the PSIA-I organization began formally acknowledging twenty and thirty years of service pins. In 1995, a special 40 year lapel pin was added in the shape of the original White Badge of the 1950s. Photo by Dobber-Price- Circa early 1990s . PSIA-INTERMOUNTAIN PIN GIVEN TO CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS WHO HAVE TAUGHT SKIING IN THE ORGANIZATION FOR FORTY OR MORE YEARS . rtir I Frida y, Dece mber 8, 1001 THE DAIL Y UTA H CHR ONIC LE Asp en Meet First For University Ski Team One Of The U's Best By ERN IE WITU CKI Chro nicle Spor ts Writ er as one of the natio n's brst in Utah 's ski comp etitio n. - --- --- - this year. The Utes have five retur ning letter men from last year. They are Alan Enge n, Jifil- Gaddis, Robe rt Irvin g, Robe rt Nelson, and Brad Smit h all from Salt Lake City. In addit ion to these letter men, Summ erhay s plans to get help from Ogde n's Paul G"odfrcy, Terry Morr is from Salt Lake City, and Willi am Drys dale from Mont real, Cana da. The Ute ski team 's first meet will be in Aspe n, Color ado on Dece mber 16. The team s participat ing in this meet are Denv er Univ ersity , Color ado Univ ersity , Wyo ming Univ ersity , West ern State Univ ersity , and the Air Force Acad emy, all of whic h belong to the Rock y Moun tain Interco llegia te Ski Asso ciatio n. JN THf3 lEET all the team s Drys dale is the first out-of• will be parti cipat ing in fom main even ts, that is, jump ing, state siere r that the Utes have cross -coun try, down hill and sla- had on their squa d in over sL-i: lom. Jtlmp ing and cross -coun try years . Alan Enge n and Jim Gadd is are class ified as Nord ic ski event s, while down hill and sla- are the top skier s on the Ute squad . In -1960, Gadd is won the lom are Alpin e ski event s. Ski Coac h Pres Summ erhay s 'CAA Alpin e comb ined cham belie ves that in Alpin e even ts pions hip, while Enge n place d his ski team will be as good as third . Both of the skier s are exany in the coun try and will give pecte d to play an impo rtant part UtJ}h the most point s in Rock y in Ute ski comp etitio n this coming seaso n. M3un tain ski comp etitio n. ON THE other hand , Summ erIN PRE PAR ATIO N for the hays state d that the Utes will onco ming seaso n, the ski team lose point s in Nord i even ts be- has been work ing out so that cause of stron g comp etitio n and by the start of the seaso n they fine perso nnel on other team s will be phys ically fit for tourn ain the ski assoc iation . ment play. Altho ugh the Nord ic even ts Eve n with Jack of have alwa ys hamp ered the ski stren gth in the their Nord ic event s, team, the Utes are expe cted to the Reds kins shou ld place high be much stron ger in these even ts du~in g the comi ng year' s event s. 1 e f am p,• ns ••• s s f J r Skiing F.nge,;i Cui, 1~ ender boYo-l<o I M• • 15 OYer mtO-HC/llf'd lrldshaw ,lln~kre<I! Glrla-Jt nr\ srr1ck11J Instructor Manfred Porker. Lande s )fema. rlnl J unps c1 .., A Men-Gora)! Oo,p1tn1 Closs B -Alan En ""' Class C-8111 Moss; cress countrv, enl0-rs - BIH Spencer; Cross country lunJor - Stev Cl1vt1 Cius A lon,or lumpo-O avld ~enklns, Snow ur, Men-Ch u,k Ftrrieu Women - Mirao Wafters. Maje tic Cup • ClHl n m~n Bud~trn ple Class. e womtn-Sv@ Shaf~r; aas C me1t-&tan Thyberg , Class C wom Mary Cllllr UP. thc:vrove. : ISA Do, nhlll Class A men Grav 1Aevnold1r Cla /i:~~r.,, T~~: womon-M1r1ct Waltert, Cius 8 men- ~:)• c\~~rd'c <:,;,~::,, q the~rave. Snow Bnsln ISA Junlol'll Bov,, hlllh P0,011 Richard Grolh1 Glrls, rilgh points- Darfeno Oosparn. Novad11 \l'lnt<'t Cnrnlvnt Team - Penvl!r Unrv,r,l ty, Gl:int 1l1• tom-JI" ' GaddiS/ Slolorr,- John Koll zow, Jumps Torblorn Yeae eth. ISA Glunt Slalom ,Jtmio n Junior 1 bovs-M lkt II\Cll1 Junior 2 bovs-ChlPt Bar low, J~ilo~ 3 bovo-Jo fnfanirer; Junior -' bq,tw-M lko Janes,e J1Jnlor 1 a!rls-Oa rl!mo O&spaln/ Junior 2 •Karen Korlanta; Junior 3 alrl1 -Jenne Smith/ Junro " girl Karen Budte, Hoover €up Claa• B mtn-Bll d 'l'emol11 Cl• s C mt Ktn P erct; Ctess c women-Donna Per ch. LESSO NS FROJ\I THE MAST ER-A mong the students taking advan tage or free lesson s at Alta Sal~ urday during the first sessio n of the Deser et News Free Ski Schoo l was Shann on l\1cEn tire, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. McEn iire, 2665 Imper ial St. Al! Engen , ski school d:irc-ctor, gives her f>ncom'l\geme nt. I Alan Eng n ••• Solitude winner Solih1de Cup Class A men-Al an E~••n1 B women-connle A~glen ; Clan Clan men• Joe Mc00'10US1h1 Clan C women--An .. MtKPe. crass c mtin-Kct1 Pier~. JUNIOR BOUNOUS FLIES OFF "BOU NOU S' ROCK" Photo: Alta, Utah - circa 1957 DESERET Nl:WS AND TELEGRAM, Solt toke City, Friday, Morch 10, 1961 88. November 3, 1961 Engen To Oversee News' Ski School · Alf ' Engen , intern ationa lly to Ski Schoo l Headq uarter s, known skier, instru ctor and Deser et News, P.O. Box 1257, forme r coach of a U.S. Olym- Salt Lake City 10, Utah. p ie ski team, will head the large corps of instru ctors again this year for the Des• eret News Free Ski Schoo l. Mr. Engen , also a directo r of the Interm ounta in Ski In• struct ors Assn., wlll be In direct charge of the school which opens Nov. 18 at Alta. Meanw hile, only two weeks remai n in which prospe ctive studen ts may l'egist er for this :first session . Regis tration consists of return ing the officia l regist ration form to excha nge 1t for a ski tag and ski skills test card. ALF ENGE N Bns transp ortatio n will be • , . heads skl school availa ble :for $1.50 round trip with buses stoppi ng at last year's locatio ns. A schedu le a lso will appea r in the Deser et News. Person s regist ering should Includ e a s e I t • a d d r e s s e d stamp ed envelo pe when mailin" in registr ation forms . Mall i Juni·or,.Senior Jumpers Go For Trophies Three of Utah' s top junior jumoe rs have their sights on • Lande s Memo rial Hill where they'll go for trophi es Satur• t · sk· The senior s go for Class A, I day in th e Interm oun am Band C trophi es Sunda y. Assn. tourna ment. They are Deadli ne for both junior and David and Lm d a Lee Jenkm s senior s tourne y applic ations is a=n::.d::_J_on_E_n..:g:.e_n_._ _ _ _ _ _ Jt:NIO R SIU JlJ!l1PJ<;RS- Linda Lee Jenkin s, Jon Engen , a nd David ~enkin s, are t ,· t boat in junior ski jumps Saturd ay at La nd es Hill, Alta. Junwr s have a 1 :iar~t e tourne y from tlw\r older counte rparts who 8 will leap Su nd ay. --- ~~ --~ =------.---~---- 5 p .m. Friday . The leaps are slated to get under way 'goth days at 1:30 p.m. The junior jumps - often held the same day as the senior leaps -are br•ing held separately this year to give the junior s a compl ete tourna ment of their own, accord ing to sponsoring ~orscm en Ski Club of1 ficials. Some of the junior jumpe rs are 6 and 7 y<>ars old. How• Iever, all junior s _will compe te on the big hill, same as the senior s, 'NorsP men officia ls said . Many of thP junior s have already sailed 70 10 80 feet in practic p leaps this wePk . Alf Engcn 's 9-~·car-old young• s!Pr, Jon, is figured to place high, as arP David Jenkin s. a I perenn ial junior champ anrl 1 sister Linda Lf'e. The senior jumps wiil lute the usual Salt Lake area jump• Ing aces. as well as some from out of state. There is no crosscountr y planne d with the jumps , accord ing to Norsem ~n officials. Race applic ations ~-hould be return ed to Georg e Jenkin s, 262 S. Main, or Dick Simon , 2040 E. 6200 South. Fourte en entries had been receiv ed as of Wedne sday. AU jumpe rs must h<1vP IS/ classif ication card~. I 10 PORTS OGDEN STANDARD-EXAM !NER OGDEN, UTAH, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 4, 1961 THE SPORTS . HIGHW AY WITH AL WARDEN Ski Jumpers Initiated Utah's Winter Sports Programs Way Back in 1930 Bob Becker of the Becker Brewing Company mailed this corner a copy of the program for the second annual Wasatch Dog Derby and the Pro Ski Jumping Tournament of Feb. 15-16, 1930. Many will remember the capers of the ski jumpers at Becker• Hill in Ogden Canyon and of the famed "mushers" in the annual dog races in Ogden Valle'y. 1 The late G. L. Becker was pres- ·ident of the Western America Winter Sports Association and the writ- I er was the secretary. Lake Tahoe and Big Bear, California and Ashton, Idaho were also members of the association. A purse of $2,500 was paid the dog racers with the winner picking up $1,250. Ogden Chamber of Commerce was the sponsor. Mushcrs were: Roy Stover, Lyd Hutchinson, Scotty Allen, Dwane Kent, Thul8 Geelan, Earl Kimball, Delbert Groom, Ray Peterson, Harry Whitehead, Tud Kent and Charles Kennedy. The teams covered , .1 • 24 miles each day, Becker's Hill was located dn whal is now Eden road . . . The Ogden Chamber of Commerce o f f e r e d $2,000 for a new world jumping record. The record at that time was 229 feel made in 1921 by Henry Hall of Detroit. The jumping field included the following: Einar Fredbo, Stephan . Trogstad, A I f Mathisen, Anders Haugen, Carl Hall, Theodore Rex, Bert Wilchek, Oliver Kaldrahl, Lars Haugen, Halvor Bjorngaard, Alf Engen, Halvor Halstad, Siguard Ulland and Sverre Engen. - I ALF ENGEN (SNOW COVERING HIS FACE) COMING THROUGH THE TREES. Photo: Alta, Utah - Circa 1961 ALF ENGEN Back in 1931 sponsors had to have snow hauled into Becker Hill from Huntsville before the two-day program could be staged. Due to lack of snow the dog races were conducted at the present site of Washington Terrace, then Ogden airport. At Lake Tahoe in 1930 the 14 professional jumpers each jumped three times in a blinding snow storm, and nary a one fe!l. For good measure at the close of the program Al Engen, Svem~ Engen and Halvor Bjorngaard performed in a triple jump, without falling. All and Sverre Engen are still very prominent. in utah and American skiing. Alf just a few years ago was the American four-way champion. The advent of the profsessional jumpers initiated skiing in the good old days . . . in that period the sport was almost entirely spectator. . . . Today thousands perform weekly at Snow Basin, Alta, Brighton and other winter resorts in Utah. Sam Huntington's lifts and rope tow in Snow Basin now rate with the finest in America . . . and attendance during the balance of 1961 and the 1962 season promise to shatter all previous records. Do you recall the skiers of the Thirties? ' . I , ' ALF ENGEN TOTALLY ENGULFED IN ALTA'S POWDER SNOW. Photo: Alta, Utah - Peruvian Ridge Circa 1961 JIM McCONKEY FLYING OFF "McCONK'S ROCK" AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT BALDY'S MAIN CHUTE. Photo: Alta, Utah- circa 1960 • can Storm_y Sky on ~·~~~----- ---"'- -·--.. / Racers Hope l For Breal In Weatl1e1· ,;, By Mike :KorolOl?O Tribune ·poi·ts Wrl1.er ALTA-A tine fl<•ld ot sldets was looking skyward hem Saturday hoping windy, foggy Ieondltim1s t•lear up prior lo 1the noon starting time or the I annual • now Cup rat'e Sunday., i'UtlS tltrough Puni>h Howl, VISIBILO'l' was V<'l'Y poor : . d,;wll t he u per taeo to th Sll"1trday so mt).it or t/lo 11\d 1 , M, tid w, throu cliu. s Gully didn't g()t \ c)ian('e to tun nnd r,ut the bottom ol ColliJ through the praetlc1 area be. I f"llcl". fore the iln«.l course was set The flni~h llnc I~ the up and r~osed to skiing, lift homw. beluw Alta Lodge, But thosf' that dld found the area ln gOOd condition lltld they 'I' course wilt have 50 expect a good test of ski ablllty. ga'trs. Racers and · meet official~ '.!:'he field, spqttoo wlth the sp<'nt most of the day on the be t 1.l<iers In the Jntcrmouncourse. foot-packing and side ta Area, fe11tures Olympian slipping lt. l Jim J\arrler, .a ,;light. silent, Barring bl~ torm over• 1 con (indent lad from Kalispell, night thl'I co e will be In Mont. Barrier p.lUlhed 16th for good sha1w; I the U.S. in the gl.ant slalom In the last Olympics. Biggest problem, o! course, ANOTlUffl BIG favorite Is ls visibility. Skiers who ran John Koltzow, key man behind the course Saturday reported they could see only a couple \ the success of Denvrr Univeror gates ahead due to the fog sity's ,ski team. And Paul Baton of Aspen is another who Utah University stnr, Jim Gaddis, ,.hows racing form that and wind which whipped up could get his name on the fa •orltes to win the big event. the freshly .fallen snow. has made him one ot t giant Snow Cup troplzy. DON CHRISTIANSEN of Alan E ngen and Jim Gaddis, the Salt Lake Jayrees, spons!'nfor stars for the Un1versity sors of the meet, said the race of Utah Ski team, carry moat would be called off if weather or tli l hopes In tho meet. conditions arr. , ueh Sunday G dd reportedly 11t his b st that they cn®nger the kiers. condition, won the dow,,hill "But right now the race comand placed third in the $la.lorn mittee ls very optimistic about In last week's illtl'rcollegiatc the weather. We think it'll m t at Steamboat Spring:;. clear up and we'll have a good nln , race," Don saiil I m this will be fhtl or r of he day 1-iunday in ii running or tbs now Oup raee at Alta. Hf'?'6 'l'he rourse, set by 11 ·ral pro n the bustnos , I h•bout, s r-ts 11top Pet1il!ll0! ltlfl!J<'. I THE 1962 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MENS ALP]Nr: SKI TEAM. 1N PHOTO, LEFT TO RIGHT: ALANENGEN PRES SUMMERHAYS (CpACH) RICH GROTH BRAD SMITH ROBERT NELSON JIM GADDIS TERRY MORRIS I foe last Resort by Mike Korologos Dear Ski Instructor, I have asked several friends of mine who ski when I should start little Junior skiing and I've come up with a dozen difierent answers. I WAS WONDERING if there was a specific age youngsters should start skiing or whether it depends on their physical makeup or what. Junior is four years old and big for his age. He's been walking since he was only 11 months old and is also very strong so I figured that by starting him skiing now he'd be better off. Coulri you please give me some information along these lines. Thank you. A Ski Parent Dear Mr. A. S. Parent, I think the age a youngster learns to ski depends first on the child's desire to learn and second on the family. I! the youngster comes from a skiing family then I think four, or even three, is a good age. BY HAVING l'ARENTS who ski the child will usually have more interest ln the sport and thus be easier to tearh. And he'll probably have more opportunities to ski. If, however, the child comes from a family without a skiing background then I think seven or eight years is the best age to start him skiing. My son, Ray, was skiing the Collins face at Alta and all the runs at Snow Basin at the age of three. Signed, Earl Mlller Director, Snow Basin Ski School Earl JUiUer Jumps Dead? Negative, Says Strand Dear Mr. A. Ski Parent, To keep our ski instructors from merely being baby sitters while the parents ski, I believe seven or eight is the age to start a youngster to ski. t At this age they are over the playing-in-the-snow stage and can understand and comprehend what a ski Instructor Is trying to t.each them. However, i.f the child is well enough developed and can understand a few minor points then I see no reason why a parent couldn't take him out and introduce him to the sport and eventually get him in a ski schooL My youngest son learned to ski this season and he is only four. Signed, K. Smith Director, Brighton Ski School K. Smith By 11ike Korologo_s Tribune Sports Writer You've got to be real careful when you talk about the old days of skiing in Utah with Mark Strand. TO MARK "before the war" means 1914 and "in the old days" means when today's TV western heroes were playing their roles live. But once you get talking with the 75-year-old ski enthusiast you gel to understand his accent and discover he's a vault of ski Information. DPar ASP, Best age to teach a child to ski around here is in the seven-eight-nine year bracket. This is the age where they can understand their instructors and don't just want to throw snow balls. • ALAN ENGEN - MEMBER OF THE U OF U SKI TEAM COMPETING IN THE U.S. NATIONAL ALPINE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Photo by Fred Lindholm Alta, Utah - Circa January 1960. Alf Engen Hi" first love Is ski Jwnpl11g1 particularly at Ecker Hill, 21 miles up l'arleys D' YOU START them much younger they get disinterested too quickly because they get cold too easily, want to play in the snow and would just as soon be in the lodge eating ice cream. However, I've had no trouble teaching four and !lve year olds in the Los Angeles area on plastic snow. There, of course, it isn't cold and the children find the false snow sort o1 amusing and they enjoy skiing on it. Signed, Alf Engen, Director, Alta Ski School Canyon. He master-minded the first jumps there in 1930 when jumping wa.s in its heyday and a Sunday jump would lure 10,, 000 fa ns. Now Mark, along with the Norsemen Ski Club and the , reactivated Utah Ski Club, is planning another jump for Ecker Hill Feb. 3-4 and it's hoped some of the top jumpers in the nation will compete. TO RECALL old memories of the big Ecker jumps, Mark thumbed through his collection of 400 negatives which range 1rom 1915 to 1949, most of which were shot by Pete Ecker, another Salt Lake ski enthusiast. Practically all of the shots are of the jumps at Ecker Hill and Mar k often useR these to prove a poinl wilh anyone foolish enough to argue a ski point. Dix, Shellworth, Barrier and Gaddis Win Class ATitles In S.V. Tourney Gil Harrison Takes Both Class B Crowns FOUR SKIERS from widely separated areas shared the Class A titles in the 14th annual Sun Valley Championships, staged on the local slopes over the week end of January 20th. Tammy Dix of the Sun Valley Ski Club captured the women 's downhill on Saturday, with Sandy Shellworth of Bogus Basin annexing the slalom the following day . For the men, it was J im Barrier of the Kalispell Ski Cl ub in the downhill and Jim Gaddis of the University of Utah in Sunday's closing event . The downhills were held on Baldy Mountain's Olympic Run. Originally slated to start at 11: 00 o'clock, the field was delayed for an hour because of a 14-inch snowfall the preceding night. In fact, it was surprising that the race could be run off at all, and was achieved only through the efforts of the Ski Patrol, competitors and a number of volunteers who worked doggedly all morning to slip the new snow . Another factor plaguing proceedings was a heavy fog which enshrouded all of Baldy and seriously threatened to knock out the visibility. However, conditions providentially improved around JO: 30, and by noon the sun was out and everything in readiness . The only element failing to cooperate was the temperature , which had a to ugh time even getting up to zero. The Class A field of 25 men ran first, starting at the Roundhouse proper and fin ishing at the regular point som e 80 yards below the junction of Tammy Dix River and Olympic. Guarding the line were 26 gates, all but one being located below the Springboard. As such, the descent represented a highly controlled downhill. Barrier, who has always raced well on our slopes, turned in another brilliant performance as he roared down in 2:27.4 for a slim six-tenths of a second margin over Leo J agli of SVSC. The third spot went to 17-yearold Dale Miller of the Ogden Ski Club with 2: 28.4. Many observers felt that the race was won or lost on the cat track funneling into Olympic. Here, the leaders demonstrated superior waxing - particularly Barrier, Jim Barrier who looked extremely fast as he whistled out into the flats at the bottom of Roundhouse Slope. The balance of the field started at the Springboard. In the women's field of four Tammy Dix was way out in front with a great 2: 06.2, more than ten seconds ahead of Aspen Ski Club's Jolan Kozma and almost 15 seconds under Betty Bell of the Pioneer Racing Club. Sandy Sheliworth, who was expected to battle it out with Tammy for top honors, ran into all kinds of trouble and was out of contention. It is interesting to note that Tammy's time was under that of all the B men with the exception of the winner Gil Harrison of Kalispell, who had a~ almost equally easy time defeating his 16 rivals in Class B. Gil recorded the win with 2: 00.8, while Bob Wadsworth of SVSC was second in 2: 09.6 and George Fox of the Lake Tahoe Ski Club third, one full second further back. Extreme cold continued the following day when the skiers moved over to Ruud for the slaloms. Indeed, the racers looking over the line became ,, so chilled that it was decided to hold off for an hour to enable the sunwhich was shining brightly-to move HE HAS picturPS and negatives oI almost every top jumper who competed, beautiful crowd shot!! and action photos or every event held there from 1930 to 1949 when the national championships were held. Alf Engen, pc,pular Alta ski Instructor, holds the record fo1 the historic hill with a jump of 294 feet in 1936. ' ....~.~· Sandy Shellworth onto the course. The beautifully patterned layout contained roughly 45 gates, with the Class A men running the full route and the others an abbreviated line of some:hing like 40 obstacles. Jim Gaddis was tru ly in the groove here, and his identical best-of-day descents of 62 .0 did the trick neatly. The University of Utah lad skis with both power and precision, and his total of 124.0 was an outstanding performance. Barrier gave it everything he had in an effort to take both sides of the meet but his 63.2 and 63.6 could not quit~ match the winner. John Jonas of Bogus Basin , running smoothly in both heats, finished third with 66.4 and 64 .8. Coming back strongly after her mishap in the downhill, Sandy Shellworth put together two fine runs of 51.8 and 57 .0 over the shorter line to nip Tammy Dix (55.8 and 53.4) by fourtenths of a second. Sandy partially missed the line in her second run but a great recovery saved the day for her. In the men's Class B field it was Harrison again with a nicely balanced pair of trips of 49.4 and 50.0. Mike Moore of the University of Oregon gained the second spot with 53.4 and 51.6, while the Eskimo Ski Club's Fred Rogers was third with 63 .2 and 49.0. Jim Gaddi, .&elt...r'ecl>Wi-L•\lla&..dlJiLlreo1. . J;ki cnn1ontit MARK HOPES Alt, along with some of the other snow birds of the bygone days, will perform in exhibitions there to he!;:, boost the crowd. "By golly," Mark said optimistically, "if hard work will do it, we'll have a big jump w·tn & 0()(\ ,·u:.,1.l urAtf'hlna u :T NEWS AND TELEGRAM, Salt Lake City, Monday, February 12, 1962 The ialt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 11, 1962 i Gaddis, Engen Snare Ski Hono B15 ..,.•.·.• 1 . .. Nelson Zooms to Ski .T itle Special to The Tribune SOLITUDE-Bob Nelson of the University of Utah proved Saturday he'll bear plenty of watch/ng in the future as he . swept to the downhill title of the Hercules Ski Club's meet here. NELSON BOOl\fflD down the rugged course in one minute, 41 seconds, well ahead of teammate Alan Engen who was clocked at 1:44.3. Utah U.'s Jim Gaddis, meet favorite, ran into some bad luck on the wellknown bump on the course and did not finish. Meanwhile, competition will be even more hotter here Sunclay as the region's top seniors and the best juniors compefe in a tricky slalom race. Dale Mlller from Ogden, is expected to enter after arriving from Jackson where the ISA giant slalom was rained out. Mille: boasts a victory over Gaddis, Engen and Christensen in the Snow Basin Giant Slalom recently but, of course, the slalom is a different story. TAMl\lY DIX, a real speed queen from Sun Valley, picked off the Class A women's title in Saturday's downhill with Jan Sylvester of Provo second. Stan Thyberg of Idaho Slate College had an easy time with the Class B men's competition winning by some 17 second; over second place Frank Cunningham. Entries for the slalom will be taken until Sunday at 10 a.m., said Art Cartier, president of the sponsoring group. LADD CHRISTENSEN, a Downhill results: slalom specialist from the Al- Clan A (Men>-Bob Nelson, U. cf u ., pine Training School, is ex- 1:.41; Alan Engen, U. of U., 1:.«.3; Frank Perri, 1 3/5; Don Hopki ns. Seit Lake, pected to give Gaddis and En- 1:.481/5; Dean Perkins, Ogden Scats, 1:49; Mike Wl11on, U. of U., 1:49 3/5; Jaci< Eckgen a real run for the money ersty, Idaho State, 1 :49 4/SJ Butch Hoff• ln the big event that starts at m•n, Ogden Scats, .1:55 2/ 51 Bill Soen• cer, AIPlne Tralnln9 School, 1: 57; Paul 11 a .m. Goddord, U. of U , 1:513/51 Diel< Zlm• mormon, Idaho 2:05 '15; Dick And another- junior racer, Grolh, U, ol U., Stole, 2:06 ~/5. Following did 1\ · Class . if I SOL ITUDE - Bill Lalflmer, Sall Lake Ski Cl ub, 70.~. 89.9-160.J; 7, Phil Pitlz, Salt La'<.c S-<I Uf~g,_A;~:.J:f,;~;f;i~;~~_\5:8~!;1/tif Club, 99.8, 73.5-173.3. Alpine Training School, 67 .7, 68.6-136.3. An avenging Class A women-1. Karen Korfan la, Jim Gaddis glided his way to ~;eg1!~· s~X°Val~~;-sr\ J~r.:. the Intermountain Ski Ass n. 142 ·6. slalom championship and Uni- sr~/:•~o~e,:~nir\. versity of Utah teammate Alan f 1"J~ J~~~~'.ni.~~~0 6fs~ E ngen copped the slalom-down- 68.6-138.11 ,. Chef GrandY, Norsemen hill combined title in ISA cham- Ski Club, 71.5, 71.4-142.9; 5. BIii Wahl, . ~• Peruvian Ski Club, 73.8, 70.6-!.-ld4.4; 6 p1onshlp ·races here over the Ken Barn,. 67.4, 68.4-155.5; 7. Kean 1 weekend. r,~~nh~~;k!~, /3'.t'Wt.1:o.J~a~: Saturday's downhill cham- Pa'a'} Sieoer, Soorllorters, 94.1, 94 .4pion, Robert Nelson, also a Ute cta,s B women-!. The lma Salmas, skier was tabbed the two-day Ogden SCATS, 86.0, 99.~185.o. ' , H " Class C men-1. Darrell Wllllams, Alta tourneys hard-luck guy. Ski crub, 10.6, 70.5-141.3; 2. BIii Moss, Gaddis slipped through the 01;}.1k; r~~:i';:1r;;;:'°'u,~~iba~~ t '~1t soggy course with times of 76.:l-152.0; •· Bruce Barker, Ooden c: t 'l . SCATS, 80.0, 75.5-155.0; 5. GarY Jacob1 : 00 .9 an d 1 :02 .-,_ o eas1 y wm son. Ogden SCATS, 78.7, 77.J-156.0; 6. over second place Ladd Christensen, who recorded 1:05.7 and 1:03.1. Jackson Race Cancelled Christensen, a member of the Alpine Training School, is a classified junior and participated in the event when the expert championship races at Jackson's Snow King Mountain were cancelled due to rains which Inundated the popular ski resort's s I ope s. Gaddis "canned" in Saturday's downhill. Engen recorded a 1:44.3 time for second against Nelson's winning 1:41.0 in the Saturday downhill. He finhshed fourth in Sunday's slalom with a 1:04.3 and 1:06.1 clocking. t~t%I !~~Lifltrt i~I~t.· Aisl!~· Sylveit~r, ProYo, B (Men)-Stan Thyberg Idaho Ste.te, l :50 3/ 5; Frank Cunningh~m, un- eH1llilted, 2:07 4/S; Dick Sleger, Sport Lofters, 2:18 3/5; Ron Carlson, Sun Val• ley, 2:20; Chuck Grandy, Seit La ke 2:46 3/5; Terry Morris, u. ot u., 3:33 21s: Old not finish: Bob Burn!!:, Pocatello Clan C , (Men)- B111 Latimer, Sall Lake Ski Club, 1:-42 2/5; Bruce Barker, unaffll• lated, 1:542/5; Frank Hall, Idaho Stale 1 :57 4/5; Larrv Swonson, Usquebaugh' 2:07 1/5; Gary Jacobsen, Ogden Blitz' 2:09 4/5; Jon Moore, una ffiliated, 2:30 1/S; Gordon Rhoads, unafflllaled, ·2:-45'/5. Old not finish: .Darrell Williams, unafflllatedr Wallace Heme, Usquebaugh . Class C {Women)-Donna Perich, Al .. f' Pine Training School, did no! finish Slalom running order : • Class,..A (Men)-John Phelps, Bob Nelson, Richard Groth, Brad Smllh, Jim Gaddis, Dean Hopkins, Ron Funk, AIEln Engen, Frank Perri, Bud Temple, Paul God• dard, John Mortensen, Mlke Wllsqn, Gor. don Dunlap, Butch Hoffma n, oean Perkins, Dick Zimmerman, BIii Spencer, Den McKinnon, Don Brooks, Frank Drysdale ~~:~~er~rolh, Jack Eckers/v, Art Breit: Class B (Men)-Rod Carlson, Manfred Parker, Terrv Morris, Frank Cunning• hem, Joe McDonogh, Stan Thyber g, George Fox, Dean Burnham, Bill Wehl Bob Burns, Dick Sleger, John Lohse, Ken Barns, Chet Grandy. ~lass C {Men) - John Moore, Darrell W1lllams, BIii Mos$, Bruce Barker, Larry Swanson, Bob Crlsl, Bill Laltlmer, Frank Hall, Phtl Pettz, Walllce Heine, Brent Omer, Gordon Rhoads, Andy Ha nsen, Bill Cral9, Gary Jacobson. Class A (Women>-Tammv Olx, Karen Korranta, Jan Sylvester. Class 8 (Women}-Thelma Se lmas Class C (Wome")-Donno Perlth, · Pal Blacker, Lou Blake. ues!~'.cto;:"! ~{;~t~~~;~ter ~mlt not finish: Jim Geddis, U. of u., Ron Funk, Sun Valley; ~ John Pttelps Saven Storts; Brad Smith, U. ot U,; John Mor.. tensen, unefflllated. Clas-. A (Women)- Tammy' Dix, Sun X:~1:e//s. 2: 121 15; Jan 83 Jim Gaddis shows. form he useq _while racing It was a University of Utah tournament if the 'a warded . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ 1trophies are a standard. The Hercules Ski Club sponsored the two-day skLfest. Nelson needed only to stay · on his feet to win the combined , title. His Saturday triumph , gave him .the margin. With only two gates to go to the finish line, the rugged Ule skier • caught a tip on a gate. Nelson Takes Spill He spilled, losing a ski, made a recovery and one-skied to the gate, where he tripped over the dangling board. He lunged into the "endzone" with a hope of saving his chances for the twoclay title. The Jost seconds crealed too big a gap for the"runnersup." He settled for secn,ir1 nlare in the rombine wilh 9:48 FIS (International Federauon of Sl,iingl points againa Engen's 7.81. Frank Perri was third in the combine totals with 14.04 FIS points. Perri is also a U. of U. skier. Dale Miller of the Ogden Scats finished thi rd in the s lalom with times of 1:03.9 and 1:01.5. Class A women's winner was I ,. , Iavored Karen Korianta, who wns seconclecl by Tammy Dix. The two scored 1:07.4 and 1:11.6 anrl 1:12.9 and 1:09.8 respec• lively. Thyberg Takes Tille . Idaho State College skier Stan Thyberg copped the Class B men's 6lalom with 1:07.1 and 1:06.7 times while Terry Morris was second with 1:10.0 and By Mike Korologos Pinedale, Wyo., beat Tammy 1:07.9. Dix of Sun Valley. Tribune Sports Writer Uncontested Thelma Selmas THELMA SALIIIAS o! Ogwon the Class B women's meet SOLITUDE Lean Jim with times of 1:26.0 and 1:39.0. Gaddis and stocky Alan Engen, den was the only gal to com• a couple of University of Utah pete for the Class B women's The course was tricky. daredevils, finessed their way crown but Pat ;Blacker, Pcrnvi'-rhe eight to 10 inches of wet to the top prizes here Sunday an Ski Club, had a little mo1·e !'now which seemed to slow in the Hercules Ski Club's trouble in winning the Class the racers in the .first run ; downhill and slalom ISA cham- C title. She had to beat Joan began to ice as the second rµn I Armstrong, U quebaugh Ski pionships . ended. It caused many of tJ}e , Club, and Donna Perich, who skiers to do more checkingr in , GADDIS, his legs working finished second and third, for their turns - hence s 1 owe r like rubber pistons, zoomed her medal. times. Several falls in the lowto the slalom championship Darrell Williams, a driving er classes resulted as the wet with times of 1:00.9 and 1:02.5 fool from the Alta Ski Club, s now was moved and the ice in his two runs down the had an easy time in winning slushy slalom course. took over. the C men's laurels over Bill The meet was a warmup for Engen, meanwhile, finished Moss of the Alpine Tralnirtg 'the Ute team, which hosts the fourth in Sunday's slalom and School and Mike Armstrong ol 'Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate second in Saturday's downhill Usquebaugh. to capture the combined crown Ski Assn. ski meet slated for l\Iost of the racers found and be the first to win the Saturday and Sunday at this Hercules Cup, a new trophy the course easy to run but Big Cottonwood Canyon ski the snow was wet and slow. which will go to the over-all resort. The course was pa~lrnd. p.rior winner of this annual event. Here are results of Saturto the race and it held up sur,1~v•• n.cnvnhill and Sunday's Bob Nelson, winner of the prisingly well under the rugclownhill, had an outstand· ged travel. Lack of sunshine lug chance to snatch the also made the bumps and ruts l'Olllbinerl title hut fell Oil his difficult to spot. last slalom triJ> Sunday. Combined rcsu lls: l. Alan Engen, Uni• to ISA slalom title. 1 Class C women-I. Pat Blackl:!r, P111ru vlan Ski Club, 85.7, 75.4-161.l; 2. Jo-1,, Armstrong, Usquebaugh Sk i C!ub, 89 l, 99.2-188.3; , 3. Donna Perich. A1pi11n Training School, 83..4, 112.8-1 96.2; 4. Lu Blake, Peruvtan Ski Club, l-48.2. 153.9 - 302, 1. .. Downhil~ Results ' Class A (Men)-Bob Nelson, U of U., 1:41; Alan Engen, U. of U., 1:~4.J; Frank Perri, 1:47 3/ 5; Don Hopkins, Snll LiJk~, l:JS 1/ 5; Dean Perkins, Ogden Sqts, 1:41; Mike WIison, U. of U., 1:49 3/5; J~ck Eckerslv, Idaho Stale, 1:49 4/ S; Bul~h Ho 1 fman, Ogden Seals, l :55 2/5 ; Bill Spencer, Alpine T raining School, 1 :57; Paul Goddard, U. ot U., l ;SB 3/5; Dick Zlm merman, Idaho State, 2:05 415 ; Ofck Groth, ·u. of U., 2:06 -4/S. Followi ng did not finish. Jim Gaddis, U. of U.; Ron Funk, Sun Vallcv; John Phelps, Savfln Slorls ; Brad Sm ith, U. of U.; John Mor• tensen, unafflliated. Class A (Women)-Tammv Dix, Sun Valley, 2:121/5; Jan Svlvesler, Provo, 3:37 3/ 5, Clan B {Men) - Stan Thvbcrg, Idaho Slate, 1:503/ 5; Frank Cunningham, un. affiliated, 2:07 -4 / 5; Dick Sleger, Sport Loffers, 2:18 3/ 5; Ron Carlson, Sun Valley, 2:20; Chuck Grandy, Salt Lake, 2:46 3/5; Terrv Morris, u. of u., 3:33 2/5. Did not finish: Bob Burns, Poca te llo. Class C (Men)-BIII Latimer, Sall La1';e Ski Club, 1:42 2/5; Bruce Barker, un;,ffillated, l :5.d 2/5; Fra nk Hall, Idaho Sla te, 1 :57 .d / 5; Larry Swenson, Usque baugh, 2:071/5; Gary Jacobsen, Ogd;n Blitz. 2:09 M5; Jon Moore, unafll!lated, 2:JO 1/S; Gordon Rhoads, unaffllfaled, 2:45 ~/5. Oir1 not finish : Darrell Williams, unaffi lla led; Wall!lce Heine, Usquebaugh. Class C (WomenJ-Oonna Pe r ich, Atpine Treining School, did not finish. Slalom r unning order: Class A (Men}-John Phelps, Bob Nelson, Richard Groth, Brad Smith, Jlrn Gad~ dis, Dean Hop kins, Ron Fwnk. Alan En~ gen, Fra nk Perrl1 Bud Temple, raul Goddard, John Morlensen, Mike WIison, Gordon Dunlap, Butch Hoffman, Oran rr.r• kins, Dick Zimmerman, BIii Spe r,crr, 0<1 " McKinnon, Don Brooks, Frank Orysdal,;, Terry Groth, Jeck Eckersly, Art Brei!• spec her. Clau B (Men)-Rod Carlson, Manfred Parker, Terry Morris, Frank CunnlM · ham, Joe McDonogh, Stan Thvbcrg, George Fox, Dean Burnh.1m, DIil wn111, Bob Burns, Dfck Sleger, John Lohse, Ken Barns, Chet Grandy. ClilSS C (Men)- John Moore. Darrell Wltllams, BHI Moss, Bruce Barker, Uirrv Swanson, Bob Crist, BIii LatlimH, Fran k Hall, Phil Peltz, Wallice Hein e, Brant Omer, Gordon Rhoads, Andy Hansen, Bill Craig, Gary Jacobson . • Class A (Women)- Tammy Ob:, Kartn Kor fanta, Jan Sylvester. Class B (Womcn)-Thelma Salm M . Class C Jromcn)-Oonna Perich, t'aJ .Blacker, L Blak_a_.-+·- - - - ~-' Combin.e,rResults Combined results: 1. Al a n En~"n, Uni· verstly or Utah, 7.8 1 FIS r,oinl ~; 2. ~,.~1 er l Nelson, Unlversltv of Ul ri',, 9.,rn; .~ Frnnk: Perri, University or Utah, 1.1 1P• ~a.i~k~. 'J!1~~"•e~'g;~l~Y,Tr~~~~~ 18.80. 51 Slolorn , : ~ ; ~lh 1 ; ~~ (:: ! ~:!,~,(f!, ,,, , i run plus to tal llsh:d: Class A men's slalom: Jim G'JrMi<, IJp verslfv of Utah, 60.9, 62.5--123 1; '), I , Chrlslensen, Alpine Train inq SrJ,ritJI. f-J . 63.1-128.8; 3. Dale Miller, Qgd,..n SC '1 1.--. 63.9, 65.4-129.3; Alan ~qen, Unlvt:r-; of Utah, 64.3, 66.1- 130.4; 5. l~ -:i n Fo•11c Sun Valley Ski Club, 63.9, 67 .5 -l3U; , Richard Groth, University of u,,,1·, 1 · I, 65.9- 131.5; 7. Brad Smith, Univarsi!v 1f Utah, 67.2, 67.7-134 .9; e. {lieJ ~11:_t•n_ n:i I Slalom :Title·in S.olitude Meet ( .J.. I~ fl°; \ l .Ult takt jfibunt ,ipnrt~ E11gen Tal{.es Fi1~st Salt Lake City, Utah - l\'.lonclay l\'.lorning - February 12, 1962 Page 23 l11 Combined Tilt -·· versify of Ut ah, 7.81 FIS s,oints; 2. Rob• His skli popped of! In the ert Nelson, Un iversity of Utah, 9.48; ~1. Perri, Un lvc r.sttv of Utah, . 14.0tl; fall and the Utah U. slatster Frank ~. Mike Wilson, Alt,lne Tra in ing School, 18.23; 5. Jack Ecktrsley, Ogden SCAT S, skied the last four gates with 18.60. " one slat to finish, but the lost Slalom 11mes w (lh seconds for e ;Jr h plus tolal llslad; seconds were too many to edge runClass A men 's slalom: Jim Gadd i.s, tJniout Engen. Bob finished sec- versllv of Utah, 60.9, 62.5-123.~; 2. Ladd Christensen, Alpine Tra ini ng SC.hool, l!.5 .7. ond. 63.1-128.8; 3. Dale MIi ier, Ogden SCATS, Frank Perri, another Ute, 63.9, 65.4-129.3; ,. Aten Euen, unrversitv of Utah, 6-4.3, 66.1-130.d; Ron run•. was third with Mike Wilson Sun Valley Ski Clu b, 63.9, 5.67.5-131.4; 6. Richard Grolh, University of Ulah, 65.6, of the Al pine Training School 65.9-131.5 : 7. Brad Smllh. University or fourth and Ogden's Jack Ec- Utah, 67.2, 67.7- 134.9; 8. (tie) John Mi l.. !er, Alpine Training Schoo l, 68 . .d, 67.6kersley fifth. 136.0, and J ohn Mortensen, Uni versity of Utali d'civerslty's Jim Gaddis leans well Into next 1gat.e as he zips down slalom course nt Solilude on way to ·a first place finish. He toured the wet course In 1:00.9 and 1:02.5. - -------'--------- LADD CHRIS'l'ENSEN of East High and the Alpine Training School finally beat his old rival, Dale Miller. of Ogden High after finishing secohd to his foe in two consecutive races. Ladd copped secornj ln tile slalom with times of 1:05.7 and 1:03.1 to Miller's 1:03.9 and 1 :05.4. Maho Slafe College's Stan Thyberg toolt th e Clas~ B !'lrnmpionship for S11111la.y's slalom. Utah U.'s Terry Morr.is was ,second and Ogden's Bob Burns I, •third. Karen Korfanta proved she's •sAnloi- raclng material when she won the Class A women's medal. The junior racer from Utah, 69.0, 67.0-136.0; 10. Kip Har ris, A !pl ne Training School, 67 .7, 68.6-1 36.3. Class A women-1. Karen Korfanta, Pinedale, Wvo., 67.<, 71.6-139.0; 2, Tam- my Dix, Sun Valley Ski Club, 72,8, 69.8- 142.6. Class B men-1. Stan Thybe,g,,..•ldaho Slate College, 67.1. 66.7-133.8; 2. Terry Morris, Alpine Training Schoo~ .70.0, 67.9 -137.9; 3. Bob Burns, Ogden SCATS, 69.5, 6B.6-138.1; 4. Chet Grandy, Norsemen Ski Club, 71.5, 71.4-142.9; 5-1 BIM Wah1, P eruv ia n Ski Club, 73.8, 70.6-1l.C.4; 6. Ken Barns, 67 .4, 68.4-155.5; 1. Kean Burnham, !SIA, 80 .8, 81.5-162.3; t. Manfr ed Pa rker, ISIA, 73.0, 97.3-17.0.3 ; 9. Olck Sleger, Sporllofters, 9H, 1~~-•- 188.5. · Class 8 women-1. Thelma SalmA 11, Ogdrn SCATS. 86.0, 99.0-lR.5.0. 'tr Clc1ss C men-I. Darrell Williams, Alta Ski Club, 70.6, 70.5-141 .3; 2. B111 Mo~s, Alpine 1raining School , 71.0 , 79.5-151 .5 ; ~6.~\~i .0 ;Ar~~ lro~~~ceUs\u:::,ur~h I, oiJ:~ SCATS, 80.0, 75.5-155.0; 5. Gary J,cobson, Ogden SCATS, 78.7, 7.7,J.a;-156.0 ; 6. Bill La llimer, Sall Lake Skf Club, 89.\>-160.3; 7. Phil PIitz, Sa ll Lake Ski Club, 99.8, 73.5-173.3, Class C women-I. Pat Blacker, Peru• vla n Ski Club, 85.7, 75.4-161. 1; 2. Joan Armstrong, 99.2-188.3; USQUeba 1Jgh Ski Club, 8~.1. 3. Donna. Perich, Afpfne Tr aining School, 83.4, 112.8-196.'J:; ,. Lu Blake, Peruvian Ski 'club, 1-48,2, 153.9- 302.1. ALAN ENGEN COMPETING IN THE 1962 INTERMOUNT AlN SENlOR DOWNHILL AND SLALOM cHAMPIONSlllPS. Photo: Solitude, Utah Circa February, 1962 r TIit Fir» Ofllclol N,wipa(Hr AICI ol the Laie Toltocl AIM WS AND TEtEGRAM, Salt Lake Luy, B Ii • Field of 60 to Compete in Snowshoe Th .mpson, Nati•I 4-W y Event South Lake Tahoe and Heavenly Valley become the carnival actfvitf111 this weekend, highlighted by the ation.al Four-Event Combined Championships and the Snowshoe Thompson ordic Com• bined Saturday and Sun ·. focal point of skiing and wint Bill Spencer . . nordic ace A lan Enge n . slalom expert I The two-day competitive will receive a colorful sendofl this evening when the ay, spectacular Torchlight Parade :...__ _ _ _ _ ___,;.;;._.....;.______ _______,ii held at Heavenly Valley at 7:30 o'clock. At the same time s Snowflake Snal compe- UTAH SKIERS ARRIVE IN IEN9 . on takes place at Hunh's Jim Gaddi~ and Alan Engen are con~rs for national four-way chompiOflship and Snowshoe Thompson title. _ (Gontte Photo) South Shore Room with enter• tainer Sammy Davis, Jr., crowning the queen. Saturday's racing befinJ lrith the Snowshoe Thompaon 10 kil· ometer cross country at 8 Lm. with the start and flnllh near the Camp Richardson poltoUiee. Following at 2 p.m. at Heav• enly Valley will be the 80 ,ate Strenuous Ski Events Feature Tahoe Weekend Jim Gaddis ••• alpine ace Bob Irvine • Ute ski ace ----- ----- 4 Utah Skiers Eye eig Meet Four Gtah skiers will leave for National Four - way ski • . . nl champwnshi ps a t Hea, e Y V a 11 e y near Reno, Nev., \\rednesday morning. Umversi ty of Utah alpine a ces Jim Gaddi~ and Alan Engen will team wit h Ute Bob Jr\'inc and former R edskin Bill Spencer in the national ml'et. Eight unh·etsities trom six s tate's "ill be represented in the two-day m eet. S kt er fr om Dartmouth, s slalom race over a coune which Is declared In excellent eon• ditlon following a week Ion, Ski SPGClal<lrs can see two of the mo:;t strenuous and colorful 1 snow events Saturday and Sun- ' day at Sou h. Tahoe's Hca,·enly 1 Valley resort-the national tout- I way championships and the an- : nual • nowshoe Thompson No rdic combined. , Collegia te i;kiers are 1he lead- I, Ing <.-ontenders for the national ! lour-way title lslalom, dO\\'!llJill, 1 cro.•s•t'OU.lllry and JtunpmgJ , or a skier's decafulon. Nev,1da, : Denver, Utah ;md Wyoming uni. ' versitics and Otko Stale We-stem I State and Sierra t.-ollegcs will be ' rcpre~ented: I Al Vincelette, 2&:ycar-old win•1 ncr o lasl )car·• Snowshoe Thompson Nottlic combined, will defend his li~c. The challenger lo watch may be Sheldon Varney, . meet dir(>c•lor a nd four-time ,1q n•l Colorado, Western State, Den• vcr, "".yomlng, Utah. Ncvad~ and S ierra College of Cal1fornia have contacted race headquar ters. Winners in tl1e four· way meet will be determined by individual efforts. No team trophies will be awarded. A Snow Shoe Thompson cross - country e\'ent will be fea t ur~ i.n t he two-day classic The cross-country event and the . lalom races will be held 1 Saturday . Downhill and jum r 'ing evem are s lated Sunda manicuring job. personally su• pervlsed by r a c e duirman Sheldon Varney. Sunday's competition Includes the downhill at 9 a.m. 111d tbe jumping Crom the 45 meter jump at 1 p.m., both events taking place at Heavenly Valley. The four-way m e e l, beipl held lor the first time ill eeveral years has created a lot eil intere,t from college and amateur skiers all over the natloll. A field of 32 top alat artlltl are sortl entered. '.rhe field Is raised to approx- ALAN ENGEN, Unlvenlty of Utah rJd ,tar, hoP" to 1chleve th• posh,,. of his famed father, Al E119en, by wlnnlnt, th, national wvent championship at Heavenly Valley this WMkend. His fathtr la a form.r 4-,nt tltllst. ner. 1 Thi' SC\'Cll·mile CJ'OSS·country r.l'ce starts at S a.m . • aturdayl and the slalom at 2 p.m. The[ downhill -i!e~....,,~t 9 .m. imately 60 when t be NoNlc aspirant, are added. Many outstanding stan ban made the trip to Helffll)J vane, coming here from as fir 11'11 as ew Hampshire, w,--. Ut h Colorado and other . . . . The entry of Mia - . studect at Denvc 1ive the event a Ina natJonal flavor. Be ._ Oalo, orway and ill 1lli orwegian junior II croa-country and .W.. n!wbrou,,tu llldl inc name,; u Did. Dan 111, Jr se1111tlonal eaptala GI .. Dartmouth ColhJe II I I eam Del son of a f.-. mer national 4-eftllt and Al F.ncen ot Uie of Utah and anotbll' - eC a c -•• former national 4....t . . . lon Engen, like Damae. Is one of this couatr11 ___. £tiers. Last year he won tlle Winter Carnival "'-r bined title and tb.e yur ..,_. was second in tlle Alpine combined, _. 'ill tM =:::::..,...., Jim Gaddll al of Utah bu WOil t sh p thil year. Be . . 1M slalom and the Sun vane, -,.ii slalom. Last year he ,... 6e Reno Winter carnim _..., WINNIR OF two champioNhlp11 already this y,ar, Jim 0-W.. ef the Unlv,nlty of Utah, 90IS tftw the netlonal 4.....t trophy, -bl1mltlc of the i..tt sklmelstwr in the ......_ L'~~'....:===-:::....:::.:.. :. ::.:.__ _ _____ __-:-_4 Engen's 25-Year Record Stands DESERET NEWS AND T~EGRAM, Solt lake City, Monday, February 5, 1962. Denver U. Skier Wins Ecker Jump I By DAVE KADLi:CK decision of the Class A jump- I !'&Use of the mile walk down r Foreign and natloual ski Des!lret News Sports \Vriter ers to hold otf on the big take- the canyon to the jump area. jumping stars want another ECKER HILL (Parleys Can• o~f. "Ther_e 'll be ,f;1ore jump~t 1 The massive l'rowd pen::hed chance at the 25-year-?ld recyon l _ It looks like Al!D1ck,. Sill.II~, maybe this on snow banks throughout the ord set by Al! Engen 111 1937. 1 li:ngen's 25-year -old 294 .footyear. Matk agreed, saymg, meadows below found the Chances are good theyll get ~cker Hill ski jump record "If w~ can f(nd a _date which jump show entertaining de- that chance. will hold for at least one more doesn t conflict with another spite the fact that only the Sunday's Results year • ski meet we would certainly small takeoff was used. B~t veteran Al! can thank a like to give the people a show The gust-type wind caused D~~:; t-::-'-13rni i:f.'it ~~"'f,!~ . . two accidents but no inJ'uries l Jackson, wvo., 139, 145 <209.Jll J. Chris 10-1 ;:>- m.p. h . west wmd which from thP bigger takeoff." Selbeck, 139, 1<6 (206) ; 4. Al Vlnc•l•N•. enforcement officers were reported. Sunday forced thl·ee Of th e Law suoar Bowl Ski Club, calit., 12-<. 130 t Ill th ff ' . . • C194.4) ; 5. Jim Hod•••· Leavenwo..th, world's best ski jumpers to con ro ~g e tra _1c Jam m Tony Gervol egg-beater~d wash ., 129, scratch c69.3l. County hls way 125 feet down the hill · Clan B-1. Reider Peterson, ld~ho a Smaller jump takeoff and the. ,spacious Summit . Falls, 127, 111 (180.2); 2. Fronk Btrd, less distance. s k I Jump a~ea estimated the on a practice leap and Leaven- Norsemen Ski ~lub, 111, 110 (171-0l; J. G . . E . crowd viewmg the Sunday worth skier Max Itlr ~~·,l':£\i'~· 4_uni~~"1I;m%.,~:~ "' r mmngd D ric JUansPn . 01 meet at 7,000. It was estimated took an 85-foot dive Schofield headfirst Idaho State Collaoe, 127, 122 1159.9); s• .-otway an mvcrs1ty that nearly 3 000 w uld be b t th "hi h . ,. the , Chet Grundv, Noroemen Ski Club, 124. copped th h enver . b th d , O · ll gave e g -sign:: 119 m5.3l; o. Garv Eckman, Norsemen . e ono1s o ays. spcctators left the canyon be- moment he stopped. Ski Club, 129, 108 cw.2>; 7. Duane :An estimated tw~-day crowd __ __ _ " - - - ---,-:--:: ri~'. 8L•~~~~"'~!';v01 :a;:,0;..e~!;, of 10,000_ persons Jammed the ..: .!:: bll aoi> '.;j: 8 I 't:l v '9 ,:. >. cl 'g -;j Club, 112, 101 (JJJ.Jl; 9. Max Scofield, Parle~·s Jump hill for th 'Ir t :J +J .S "' .,_; i'j "' u, ~cdrn~CO~ cl, i:: ., '-' ,... :, .... o! ., ..., Leavenworth, Wash ., 112, scratch 151.2). , J e.1. S 0 "0 Clo!QJ,--4 ,Q"O '.,... ~ ::, tunl' in 13 years. , ... i:: 'c, 4i i:: g ,.... .o .,, :> r.--: r.ll P f S .c § Saturday' s Results • • .4J o ::, 111 cu VJ. as~ ci~ co m u s:::; E::, CJ ::>.: Wmds Cut Du;tance S:: 1rl 't:l ,-., 'C ,_, II) <'> 5i: i:: 0 1) f ·r. -:f: _, Closs A- 1. Eric Jansen, Denver u., . - &1.1 J:; rt O cG rl :,... en UJ U '"CS 2'5, 242, 22' (lU. 3); 2. JOhn Cres§, JackJ ansen soared to distances 8_ ::I .... i:: .._.o -~ rd:.>, .._. lO ;>, 8 . O 2! 0 ·- .._. a, ...,, Wvo., 2'3, 245, 222 (112.8); 3. Chris O "' of 245 242 and 224 for a 114 3. ,1, 't:l 8-'< ., <'l _a 't:l c .c:"' :::l .>:: .!<: 0 S.lbeck, Denver u .. 251>, 246. • ' u,, ' • 4> rJ1 tT-t CN .C: «I _..., "O u -a. G>.. .~ 00 QJ L Al Vencelette, Sugar Bowl745Sk1poClub. pomt total Saturday from the :.l.., ,.. "' U.., C/J 5 c :l i:: "' :S i:i 1] ' i :3. ,25. 223, 219 (I05.7l; 5. Dick Zimmerman, b"tg t a k eoff , B t t · c-, ,:: '0 .8 , "" .s.., ., ""' 't:l S:: "' Idaho Stale, Wash 1102.6>; u . s rong wmds Jim Hodo•n , "'- ·- .... .,; c c .._ .c.; "' 1:; • '° .!:, [': Leavenworth, ., 219,6. 218, 208 m o. 8J. cut his distance to 139-148 and "' ""'S .e"' . "' 't:l o t: ;,-, r.ll "'~ en::, < fls:: m E r.ll "' Class B-1. Chef Grandy, Norsomen Ski • . O en i:: en ..... •- 1:1 ::, .. VJ cd Club, 182, 185, 174 {88.5), 2. Mzrx SCofle ld , 214.0 for Sunday's classic 't:l ..!!; :,., ::i s:: .,. £! ~ i:: .., o .!<: '9 "l £m -';l "' j'.: • .c . Leavenworlh, Wash., 198, 187, 111 "5.0J; h ·ch d m O .2 CN O ..... ...... - m N a II) ZC < .:::(1he remainder of the Clas! B 1umper11 Wl rew a t urnaway cro_w d § '0 8 P.,,5 +- t::. 'O.: -o .o 00 ::, ;cl oN "C 1 were ludged for form on their S:: , longest I of 7,000 persons who waited '"1 E ,;1+ +-' o Cll <l.> a, I "g VJ «I f U Jump onlv ) 3. Duane Brown, Leavenworth, a, ::J 41 a3 t-l CJ <J • tn "tj µ .. >, .... . Wash ., 200, 195, 162 (.t5h Garv ECkman, for the somewhat strong westr... ':;j 1,; .c,... ·a • ,!!! ._!:: r.ll g; ..,. i::.; gi "' ] ,'!\ :ii! Norsemen, 191, 187, 11-, Frank Bird, wind to calm. u Ul H (,) 0 a.. C.to""' 0. IN C - M 'C ....., (fJ ~~~=~thl.832'001,,~'951,~6;2,,0¥:ev GB.r<1Wrvon1', Seconding Jansen's effort ~,~"\~h!klF~/~b., 117/,' 1'/l 1~•.1d •r Pet11 off the smaller takeoff Sunday : : , . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - - - - ·• ,.,l,,tl_sJ_'~_ 12 ra:"ov!~1 " 110 _ .... ..,,.. school TT , Wyoming ,o,_ __,_ __ ~•-- teacher -- e .... ,. . J I I "' 7 in 1960 be was Alpine Combll'ied titlist uc1 In l9li!J ... a member ol the All-A.mer• lean Ski tum. Chria Rounds b uolher amt one. He bu 'been u activ sider nee he w.oved. to 1..a\e P l cid, . Y . in 1949. ow en• rolled at the Univ · of Dener where be i:I • cbemi.stii udent. Rounds this wintff f l l l t.be Denver University Carnival 4-ev~t erown. as third ill tbe Steamboat SpriD:IS +way meet. Culished [ourth at Aspel1. Colo. ill the lom. and v.u teeond In the Combined 4-way Aspen iJlvltational. Jim Gue i one of lour Uni• erslty of Wyominl $lien mak• inf the trek to Heavenly Valley. He won recent Steamboat Sprinp Skimeister (4 · Way) crown. Teammate Ole SkiJ:uler •as second in the DeDftf racea. Other leading entries llldude k Scott, Chico state Colle(e'1 jumping record holder, who ed fourth In the Far W em ID u tional dowllhill ,ad fiDished · ~nd in the NC II (Small Co leges) crou countrY; Herb Scott, Jso of Chieo Sta o fmJshed first in the Nat a,untry and was Ulird in , jumpina, He also plaoed fourtlt aad was the first AmericaA in e Reno Winter candnl; • (Continued on Pue 2l m t ~..,; ,r e ui .,J.1unLcr, I 34:U; 2. Alon ,.,,p1no Tntfnlm, School, Enoen, Unlversltv of Utah, 3.C:14J 3. Bob Irvine, Unlver!ltv of Utah, 3.l •JJt • Jim GaddlS, Unlversl!v of Utah :u:~, S. Rldlerd Gnrfh, Unlver-sltv of Utah .. 37:35; 6. 8111 Orndele, University Utah, 38:2-L CLASS 8-(one. lap), Groth, Unlversltv of Utah, 18 "28; Rkn&rd 2. Mike WIison, Unlve,slty of Utah, 21 :25; 3. Olck Zlm• merman, Idaho State ot Colle,ue, 22:41. ,,.L,.-----=~·___,;.......~---'---~ on pi am b . C u i Sk d nc io at -N Is rd ba om B im Vincelette s ture p Reca I s Nordic Title A K II A ll COMPLIMENTARY COPY The First Off/rial Newspa per of the la/ce Tahoe Area ol. XIV - LAKE TAHOE, WEDNES DAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1962 No. 85 1962 U.S. NATIO NAL 4-WAY SKI CHAM PIONS HIP Top finisher s in each plus the overall c.ombiaed. Point Scores-- lst, Jim Bombard Saranac Lake, N.Y., 381.85; 2nd Dick Durra ~. Jr, Aspen, Colo., 373.05; 3rd,Jatne s Guest, Jackson Hole, Wyo., 361.21; 4th, Dick Dorworth , Reno, 357 70; Slh, Jim Gadd! , Salt Lake 58; 6th, QuenUn klnner, City, Pineda! , Wyo,, 355.48; 7th, Jennings Crc.ss, Granby, Colo., 352.71; 8th, Alan alt Lake City, 343.72; 9th, Engen Doug Salter, Reno, 337.75; 10th, Ole Sk.Jnn r, Pinedale , Wyo., 355.18; 11th Dunc n, Bekeley, 327 74; 12th' Pa Glanott , tatellne, Nev., 316.87: Jo o Ric ter. Berkeley , 3ll .65; l3tb., B eno, 311.05; · adsen. • le, Sacram nto, 295.71; ckee, nnan Reams, erl> Scott, Chico, 7 O eru.d, Squaw Z ..-7: 18th, H .53; 19th, Richard Roblnvane,., · 20th, Barn, Ta 1 • 1st, Pete •s=·-::..s,,.-. e Se o , 2 .~· 22nd, e.. f, Laramie Y., l!lke Pia d, ds Chris r 6tt, Chico, Do ell, • .78; 25th, J>eder Andersen , Chico,. eblco. :Z28 70; 26th, Paul Grist. ChesRichard Anderson , ter, 2%1.29· 27 ; 28 , Mike Brunetto , Chico, Reno, 'll0.00; 29th, Harold New.man , Chko. 199..53; 30th, Art Bookstro m, Boulder, Colo~ 184.84; 31st, John Kelley, Chlco, 171,1.06; 32:nd, John Robin· son, Tahoe Valley, H7,29; 33rd, 117.25. S PAID WSHOE THOMPSON Croff-Co untry Results l. .Jennings Cress, Western State, 37:4'.6; 2, John Mattson, Western Stat , 38:19.0; 3, Quentin Skinner, Wyoming , 40:16.6; 4, Al Vincelet te, Sugar Bowl Ski Club, 41:49.8; 5, Jim Bombard , Western State, 41:Sf.6; 6, James Guest, Wyoming , 42:10.6; 7, Dick l)u:rrance , Jr.. Dartmou th, 42:31.8: t, Jim Gaddis, Utah, 42:50.8; 9~ Sherman . Beams. Sierra, 43:6'.8; tu, Pete Mc lff W ming, 43:09.4. BULK RATE Permit No. 5 Tahoe Valley, Calif. SUBSCRIPTION - $4.50 PER YEAR BY MAIL There seem s an excellent chance the National Four-Even t Ski Champion ships arc back on the agenda after a five year lull There also seems a good chance the event might return to South Lake Tahoe 1£ the Winter rarn1~---; val Association desires to pur • ·...=:=:::::...::.._:__:.._____ ___-=:....:=:...:::....:____ ____ _ ...::::_.. ..=__:= sue the promotion This year's affair proved a huge success from virtually all angles, particular ly from the classy field that too k part. Thirty-thr ee of the nation's best college and ski club competito rs undertook the gruelling gr,nd and when it was over 23 had stuck it out to the end. Emerging a s th e national champion through a steady effort in the cross country, slalom downhill and jumping, was 21 year old Jim BombHd , whose home is Saranac La k e, New York, and who is a student at Western State College. Colorado. Born bard put together a fifth in the cross country, a third in the slalom, a second in the downhill, and second in jump ing to emerge the winner. Bombard held a good margin over second place Dick Dur· ranee, Jr., a freshman at Dart mouth College, New Hampshir e, while James Guest of the Uni• versity of Wyoming was third. Rounding out the top ten were Va!ley on JIM GADDIS, Universit y of Utah, star, is shown du ring the jumping at Dick Dorworth , University of champ1onsh1ps and Sunday. Gaddis won both the downhill and slalom portions of the National Nevada; Jim Gaddis, University of utah: Quentin Skinner. Wyowound up fifth in the overall scoring. ming; Jennings Cress, Western State; Alan Engen, Utah; Doug Salter, Nevada; and Ole Skinner, Wyoming. At the halfway point it looked like Bombard' s teammate . Jen nings Cress , was going to be hard to beat. He walked off with the 10 kilometer cross country 111 excellent time of 37 minutes. 49.6 seconds. and second in the slalom and first in the National four-event division of jumping with leaps of 137 and 130 feet However, his hopes went out of the window on the dramatic do·,,n!]jll ,,hen !le took " tumble at abclut the halfwav po .it I,~ the time he could scramble back to his skis he had dropped to . 27th place. A spectacul ar double event winner also was Jim Gaddis. the University of Utah's All-American skier. Gaddis spellboun d . the crowd with a sensationa l downhill race. He covered the mile and a quarter and 1600 foot drop in l:17.9, more than four SAILING THROUGH the air to a new Heavenly Valley ski seconds faster than Bombard jumping re cord is Al Vincelette . He leaped 140 foet to break th e Gaddis also won the slalom won also , Olympian former a , the old mark. Vincelette event with runs of 43.1 and Snowshoe Thompson Nordic Com bined for the second straight 44.7 for a 1:27.8 total. year. -::::--:::-::--=--=-===i Art Bookstrom of the University of Colorado was another victim of the downhill. He wa~ in fifth place at the halfway point in the four-event. but a bad spill shook him severely enough that he failed to finish the downhill and had to forego the jumping altogether . In the Snowshoe Thompson s l competiti on it was former Olym· l pian Al Vincelette who became a repeat champion . He won both • the class A combined trop\w and the special jumping. Vincelette set a new Heavenly Valley jumping record with a leap of 140 feet. He erased the three year old record of 139 feet set by Rolf Funk of Tahoe ' City. The San Francisca n, com: peting for the Sugar Bo.wl Sh Club finished fourth Ill the 1 cros; country, behind Cress, John Mattson, Western States. and wuentin Skinner, Wyoming. • Class B jumping titlist was Sam Bartow of Western State , while Rudv Gottwald of Peer Gynt Ski Club, Los Angeles, was the veteran winner. Cre~s won the Class B combined while John Gianotti. South Cu:dain on the junior and semor nationa l ' ski meets Tahoe. won veteran title. The Results: untain lntermo the ons indicati all Irom rise and 1-..:.::.:..:._ _ _ _ _____ _ _ ___ SLALOM AESULTS 1, Gaddis, utah, 43.1-44.7-1:27.8: 2, estern State. 43-44.S-1:28.5; Cre • s, Bombard , estem State, 43...745.7 th, ~1!!·~4; , ;;....i:,..,..,..,,tr,om, D:i .9 - 1,29.7;5, Guest, Wyoming , .9-47.0-1: 30.9; 6, Rounds, Denver, 45.2-46.& -l:32.0; 7, Dorwort. h, e ada, 43.3-48.7 -1·32.0; 8, Durrance , Dartouth, 48.447.3- 1:33.7; 9, Engen, Utah, 4&.5-47.3-1:33.8; 10, Ole Skinner, Wyoming , 46.7-48.8 -1:35.5. ATIONA L DOW HILL (mile and on ..tent I Gaddis, 1:17.9; Bombard , 1:%1.7; Durrance . 1:21.9; Dorworth , 1:22.5; uest, 1:23.7; Salter, 1:25.9· Anderson , I· 6.4; Engen, 1:27.2; Duncan, 1:27.3; Gianotu. 1:27.6:. ATIONAL JUMPING Cress, 137-180 ft., 204 points; Bombard, 135-133.1200; Durrance , 129-,127lK.4; Dorworth , 129-124-1 93.l; Matt~n. 119-116-1 84.9; Quentin Sltlnner, 118-118 - 178.8; Guest, 112.-109- 167; Round , 114-99-16 4.5; Salter, 116-104 gen, 109-105-1 58. -160.6; f/Je last R~sort /Jy Mike orolofos are about to Region will grab off some of the leading rolt!s. TH,E JUNIO R NATIO NALS in Whitefi sh, Mont.. March 15 16 17 will find one of the best-seasoned field of skiers enter from this area, if the j.uniors continu e on their y;t present winnin g trend. Judgoo on the basis of the jest three of seven Intermounta in Ski Assn.-:sanctioned r ces, juniors leading the td · ~.. . F'eB, 19~-Z.. te Skiers Enter Na tion~l Alpine Uta slatmen \\ ill fac t11gged comp tition thi weeken d from some of the top s lers in the country in the National A,lpine Chump1on8hips a Solitude. JDIMIJ ; HJ•mG. and Bill Marolt. hoth Co!ornclo Uni\·e,-. ity freshmen, will I e leading the FIS (Interna tionc 1 Ski l<"ecleration )' team in the com ietition. Heuga, a 19 iO junior slalom champion, compet d with the I<'IS in the \\'orld Ski Cham• pionshi ps and o her meets in Europe earlier this season. !Ila ·olt. was a nationa l junior l downhi ll champ in 1959 and win- 10:00 a.rn. today. ·Mlllel' i a ncr of the giant slalom in 1960. senior at Denver Univer-sity. Tht> H, c d !-! J, i n ~Int. t<'t' · H grabbed the downhi ll and tr tbo ll!-!t of cnfrles domina last in cup total th!! combin ed in tht1 sf'nlo1• division . weeken d's Hock cup ruces ut Jim Gaddl will lead the Utes pen. the contest. Gaddis took fll'st in of winner n VE GORS CH, th slalom during th1• Rocky· ,place in the slalom in Sunday 's :Mounta in Intercol legiate fott:-- Rocky Mounta in Intercol legiate way meet at Solitude on Feb. 17- Ski Champi onships held at Win18, will be compet ing for \Vest• ler Park, Colorado. Other Utah standou ts comcrn State. a e Alen Engen, Richard epting tied who Miller, Ogden's Alan Gorsuch for th downhi ll n the Groth, Bob elson, Paul Godlaunch th, dard, Brad Smith, and Lynn Solitm.10 ouling, Johnson. t set which g iant sladom, ,,m point parade and expected to co pete at Whitefi sh include , ,Dale Hller of Ogden; Charles M~Williams, the Sun Valley dd Christe nsen, the Alpite Trainin g School' s bright ,flash; hope; John Durham , another Al ine School membe r; and Mike Kirol, the rugged <'ompetito .from Jackson , Wyo. Of thi g roup Uller, Kirol, fcWilli. ams and hristen• en aa-e veteran of the junior nationa l , having compet ed Jill t year at towe, Vt. senior ranks, who stage HE FIELD in t 9, 10 and 11, are Jim arch 1' olitude S at their nationa l meet y of Utah; Miller niversit the of Engen Alan Gaddis and enough to rugged they're proven who've sen ·te and Chri another Groth, Richard d also; seniors the compet e with Ute. Senior gals with the best chance of compet ing are Aarg Wal er , r ecently return d from the ski circuit in Europe · Tammy Dix· of Sun Va ey; Lynn Johnson , top gal slatster on the Utah U. team; a d Karen Kor.!anta, another junior steppin g up with the big 'rls. --..1 five- . Point Scores-1st , Jim Bombard, I Saranac Lake, N.Y ,, 381.85; 2nd3'7~lif . ' Durrance, Jr., Aspen, Colo., 3rd James Guest, Jackson Hole. \Vyo., . 351'21· 4th Dick Dorworth, Reno, • 357·70! 5th' Jim Gaddis, Salt Lake CitY, •355 _58; 6th, Quentin Skinner, Pinedale Wyo., 355.48; 7th, Jennings Cress G;anby, Colo., 352.71; 8th, A9J~ • Enge~ Salt Lake City, 343.72; Doug 'salter Reno. 337.75; 10th, Ole 11th, 355.18; Wyo., , Skinner Pln~dale,. Paul D~ncan, Bekeley. 327.74j 12th! John Gianotti, Stateline, Nev., 316.87 '. : 13th, Bruno Richter, Berkeley 311.GS. :continue d on Page 6) Gaddis, Dix Snare Utah11 Tal{esl Title in Men's Duel I U.S. Giant Slalom Crowns By Mike Korologos Tribune Sports Writer SOLITUDE - Utah University's Jim Gaddis, angry be- " cause he didn't feel he skied well, streaked to his greatest victory here Friday morning when he won the men's giant slalom, opening event of the three-day National Alpine Ski Ch11mpionships. THE SL~-FOOT, two-inch, 185-pound racer said he took the gates too low, causing him to swing wider than he wanted. The race was run in a steady snowstorm. But he showed sparkling rhythm in whipping through the 31-gate, mile and a quarter course in 1 :32.0 to beat a field which included the best ski talent in the United States. I I And pretty Tammy Dix who looks more like a Vogue n,odel than a cham• pionship skier, captured the women's giant slalom title. The Spokane, Wash ., gal, skiing for Sun Valley Ski Club, stopped the watches at 1:29.0. And she won the crown with '. two injured, well-taped ankles. She received an injection prior to the race to kill the pain. Gaddis and Dix joined to complete a surprise sweep for the Intermountain Ski Assn. -Tribune photos by Borge Andersen in Friday morning's National at Solitude. McCoy tied SECOND ROUND of the giant snow carnival at this scenic Big Cottonwood Canyon resort starts Saturday at 10 a.m. with the slalom down a tricky layout in Bob's ' Bowl. ' The downhill is on the docket for Sunday morning. Slight Bill Marolt of Aspen, Colo., a member of the FIS 1 (International Ski Federation) team, tied with Alan Miller, the Ogdenite skiing for Den' ver University, for second place. for eightl1 place In the giant slalom with Jim Ileuga of Reno. Tiley were clocked at 1:34.6. 1 University of Utah alpine ace Alan Engen races through gates on Bowl in warmup session for National Alpine Races. 1962 U.S. NATIONAL ALPINE SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS. Top finishers iirthe Downhill; Slalom; and D.H., Giant Slalom~ and Slalom Combined. This go-for-broke duo was clocked at 1:32.2, two-tenths of a second behind Gaddis, In National Alpine At Solitude Dix, Gaddis Take S/11/oms By DAVE KADLECK respectively with 1:32.2 aruit Jennings Cres also from Deseret News Sports Writer 1:32.4 times. GunnisonJl(::olo. was third with SOLITUDE - Sun Valley's Marge Walters of Sandy, Tammy Dbc raced to the worn- Utah, was sixth at 1:33.8. a l: 33.s. · 'Visibility on the g iant slalom The younger brother of Alan en's giant_ slalom title here Fr!- cou rse is near zero and several Miller, Dale, a junior skler, day in the first event o! the spills and checks by the skiers was fourth in the giant slalom National Alpine Champion- for~ th~m to slower tii:nes. event with a 1:34.0 mark. Bill ships. Umvers1ty of Utah ski ace Th 22 Id I t Jim Gaddis boomed his way to Marolt, a member of the FIS e . -year-o n ermoun- a national alpine giant slalom te~m. tied_ with the younger taln Ski Assn, ace clocked a tiUe here Friday with a l :32_0 l\1ill~r , w 1th 1:29.0 time over the R ace time. 1:34.0. t Course Ridge slope. Gaddis the eighth racer to 1 ,. u~~•• Race standines , ~un =I•, 1::n.o; 2-Alan MjJler, Second was Lynda Myers leave the gate, was seconded •M .,,,...,. Gorsauch, 1,:n.2 mei: '4-b f h IFS b D r' AI il ·Jen1> C=s.. M•rolt, l:3ll.8; $-Oille ' a f ormer mem er o t e y enve s an M !er and l:34.t • 6-lllll 1:3«.o; MOier, 7-Art (International Federation of Dave Gorsuch of Gunnison 8ookstrom, l:JU; Jim Heuga, 1:34.6; 1 30 0 ' 9--Mlke llarr. 1 :35.0; 10-Don Brool<s, . . Sk.ling ) . H er t i me : . . Colo. Alan and Gorsuch tied for l:35.4: 11-C!W'is ROUll<l,. t,JS.1, 128111 Baffier, 1'36.o, 1:hAtan E:ngen, Third place winner was Uni• ·second in 1·32 2 • · • 1:37.8; 14-s,Jack Turturlcl, 1:31'.8; 15versity of Utah ski ace Lynn 1- - - - - ' - - - - -- - - - - -1Ron Funk, l:31'.81 16-Roger Hacktev, 1:'40.2; 17-Peter Wallace, l :40.6; 111J 0 h n500 WI·th a 1 ; 31.2 CIOCk'm g. Mike Golluher, 1:42.8; 19---Ken Miller, Vermont's M'.arsha Fletcher 1:43.21 ~Paul Ryan, 1:<1.1.6; David Engen, J:"6.2; 22-Ltdd Christensen, an Joan Cozma of Aspen, 1 :"6.8; 23-.io,, oarr, 1 :47 .2; 2,i....0on Colo., finished fourth and fiftk McKinnon, 1:44; 25-f'aur Grist. 1,,,.2. Dave Gors uch and Jennings Cress, a couple of Western , State College dare-devils, fin• > ished fourth and fifth. Following Dix down the fast, J powder-covered women's giant "' slalom layout was pre-meet favorite, Linda Meyers of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., who represented the U.S. at Chamonix. She was timed at 1:30.0, a full second behind Dix. LYNN JOHNSON, blonde slatster from the University of Utah gals' ski team, took third despite running next to last in the race order. The likeable, a lways-smiling Miss Dix, a political science student at Washington Uni• versity, obviously was suffering from her injured ankles, 1 hurt four weeks ago. Tammy, who spends her summers schooling polo po• nies, was awaiting some special medicine which her father airmailed. She said the medi• cine is used by Johnny Longden, the jockey, an,;! on some of her father's polo ponies. s "My dad feels that if It 1 doesn't hurt the "horses, it couldn't hurt me," she smiled. Men's gfant sl alom result!: 1. Jim Gaddis, University of Ii . • • something must be wrong," 1 learning she won national slalom. .;- 1 Utah, 1:32.0; 2, Bill Marolt, Asoen, Colo., and Ala n MIiier, Ogden, Utah, ( tie) 1:32.2; "'· Jennings Cress, Gunnison, Colo., 1:33.8; 5. Art 8ookstrom, Denv~r University, and Dale Mill e r, Ogden , Utah (tie) 1 :34.0; 6. Jimmy Heuga, Re no, Nev ., a nd Garv McCov, Mammoth Lakes. Calif., Cticl 1 :3--(.6; 8. Mike Baar, Oen'ler University, 1 :35.0; 9, Don Brooks, Heavenly Valley, Callf., 1 ;35.-4 ; 10. 8111 Barrier, Bozeman, Mont., 1 :36.0. Women's giant slalom results : l. Tammy Dix, Sun Vall~Y, 1.29.0; 2, ' Linda Mevers , Mammoth Mt., Calif., 1:30.0: 3. Lynn Johnson, Universltv of Utah, 1 :31.2; 4, Martha Fletcher, Mlddle berrv, Vt., 1:32.2 ; 5. Jolan Kozma, ASP.eu, Colo., 1:32.-4; 6. Margo Walters, Sane',I, Utah, 1 :33.8; 7. Sha ron Paciak, Aspen, Colo., 1:34.8; 8. Karan Korfanta, P inedale, Wyo., 1:39.6. I National mant slalom c amp, Jim Gaddis of the University DI of Utah, .,ioosens laces after vlct.ory Friday at Solitude. :i " 'l ---~~'l B13 The ~alt Lake Tribune, Sund~y, March 25, 1962 /pine Crown Flu- Weakened Gaddis Snares NCAA Utahn Grabs 2nd Spot In Downhill By Associated Press SQUAW VALLEY, CALIF., March 24 - J i m Gaddis, shaking off the flu , finished second Saturday in the downhill race at the ninth annual NCAA Ski championships and took the Alpine title. The two-time NCAA AllAmerica skier from Utah won the slalom Friday. Then he went r ight to bed with flu. SATURDAY HE finished runner-up to 19-year-old Mike of Denver, an , O!ympic !Baar prospect who has been skiing since he was 3. Baar negotiated 30 gates in a drop from 8,000 to 6,200 feet over a mile and a quarter distance in 1:44.8. Gaddis finished a tenth of a second behind. Denver, which took the lead Friday in team standings, remained out front Saturday. Gaddis was disgusted with his finish. He got off to a flying start, but the wax he used did not help out at the slushy finish. "I JUST didn' t make a good run," he said as he threw hls sticks on the ground before hearing that he IJ.ad been clocked in a speedy 1:44.9. Then he shrugged his shoulders in disbelief at his fine performance. Baar, of Aspen, Colo ., said he might try out for the Alpine School for the Olympics if It doesn't interfere with his college career. H e finished fifth in Friday's slalom. The final event, the cross country, will be run Sunday. Alan Miller, an Ogden, Utah, skier now competing with D.U. finished 18th with a time of 1:50.5. Meanwhile, the Pione_e rs' talented John ~oltzo':"' n:11ssed g_ate an~ was d1squallf1ed. This 1mmed1ately brought on a storm of protest by Denver coach Willy Schaeffler. -n~i,octated Pres1 Wtrephoco Uta.h's Jim Gaddis high steps on bend at NCAA ski tourney at Squaw Valley. Gaddis won slalom, was second in downhill. Ogden, Provo Enter Prep Sl{iers Vie Today In Knudsen Cup D11el s~clal to The Trlbun• BRIGHTON - Field for the annual Knudsen Cup giant sla• lorn here Sunday at 11 a.m. received a boost Saturday when Ogden High and Provo High entered teams. The teams had not entered at entry deadline and it was presumed they would not compete. BUT SATURDAY the sponaoring Silt Lake Ski CIUo decided to allow the teams to compete, but each skier will be placed at the bottom of re1pective seedings. In addition, a flock of Jack• 10n, Wyo., skiers, who al.most walked otf with the entire trophy cache during Saturday's Salt Lake Tribune Ski Classic here, decided to enter. They won't be eligible for the coveted Knudsen Cup, however. that the Tigers will be ready for the Leopards. Saturday, dgden's Dale Miller won the expert boys' division while pert Lorna Miller finished second in the expert gals. This happy bunch of young skiers took top honors in the annual Tribune Ski Classic at Brighton Saturday. The winners are left to right, bottom row: Zane Sanders, Alan Langston, Virgil Ward. Second row: Susie Jacobson, Judy F1emming, Bruce Morley, , Brighton Tourney IN SATURDAY'S jumping competition a quartet of transplanted Norwegians blanketed the field and Oyvind Floystad, representing Denver University, finally came out on top with skyscraper leaps of 201 and 217 feet on the 60-meter Olympic hill. Floystad, a 24-year-old junior from Holt, Norway, captured his cr_o wn on the ,basis of some beautiful form. ACTUALLY, defendin g champion Chris Selbeck, a Nor- H~rd-drivin~ Rick Goddard, wh? 11 be trymg to s~ake a strmg of b_ad luck t~1s season: also will be flashmg Ogden s colors. EAST meanwhile will be anchored by Ladd Christensen who finished second Saturday on the giant slalom course which also will be used (with some minor changes) Sunday. Other Leopards defending the crown will be Gordon Baum b acer, h steve.Ellswor_, th Steve Clegg and Dick Robm• son. The gals' team w111 consist of Shirley Frobes, Margaret Smoot and Carol Shmthers. . . The pri7.e ls presented only Name of the wmnmg school t,o Utah high school t.eams. will be engraved on the huge . Knudsen Cup, donated by Salt With qgden's entry m , a Lake ski enthusiast Art Knudreal dogfight looms between sen, and the winning boy and tlte Tigers and East High, the girl teams will receive tro• defending champ h' · . P ies. . East took the thll"d leg of Teams of five . boys and the _Knudsen Cup last year br !hree gals from hi~~ scho?ls edgmg out Ogden so the Ti· m the state are eligible, Jim gers will be out for revenge. Hoagland, chairman, said. The . cup is presented by Knudsen AND OGDEN let It be annually in an effort to boost "b ' 1n_Th _kn_own __ _e_Tr _ 1_u_n_e_s_r_a_ce_h_i.=g_h_s_c_h_o_ol_s_k_lin__::.g_ . -----1 DOWNHILL-1. Mike Baar, Denver, ::'~r?s 0 Rounds, Denver, 1 :06.2; 5. Jim Bombard, Western State, 1:06.7 ; 6. Mike Buckley, t~i1~;~ ~~~\~n~"~t!f!i~~li~~~·\,efiJ;Bi~I Robert HIiler, Dartmouth, 1: 07 ... ; 9. c . B. Vaughn, St. Lawrence, 1:07.7; 10. Jim Jacobsen, Dartmouth, 1:07.9. ' rHE SACRAMENTO BEE Saturday. March 24, 1962 wcgian from Vancouver, B.C., also representing Denver, had the longest leap-225 feet. He had another jump of 209 feet. But the judges ruled that his form wasn't nearly as good as that of three others and placed him fourth Torbjorn Ygges~th of Wash• t f 209 d 1 1·th 1 or ; eapls o d and , ee , was p ace secon . Tor Fageraas, Montana State 1 College, had jumps of 215 and 214 feet for third place. 1~~B;So~th~~';\'. ~~~~:do,unsl -" ALPINE COMBINED-1. Geddis, 2:09.7; R.• ,.r, 2:16.8; 3, Dick Dorworth, Ne~ .___ " , 10 '7 • ,;- c:,, 11th. Jim Budge. Third row: Karen Budge, PeggY Goddard, Ray Ricks, Warren Flemming. Fourth row: Lonia Miller, Jan Smith~ Linda Lee Jenkins, Ann Erickson, Susan Lang. Top row: Dan apRoberts, Steve Springmeyer, Dale Miller, Ladd Christensen, John Miller. I s Gaddis Wins 'A Slalom, Is ilh1II Favorite By Bill Berry llcClatch;,- 2'~w2i-vu• Sen le~ ,LEY-Jim Gaddis, 22. of the University of champion of the Na tional Collegiate Athletic tourney and was f a v o r e to win today's a2 peak at ~uaw Valley State Park. A lanky six foot 3 inch skiing power• lW bouse he got out of a sick • telbed y~terday to cop the sla-' -== m lorn crovm. He has been ill 'iilwith flu a ll week.. He tQpptd 'l.1 . Ji t ""38 competitors in the contest decided by combined times through two 45 gate courses. Gadd is earlier this season won the National Ski Association's giant slalom and~ got ing all out for the skimeister • four away award of the NCAA • -ln yesterday'!! run he poled the opening round fastest in 44 seconds and came back to top the field again a t seconds for his championship winnmg t oi.al of 86.7. H e was tah goes throuith a gate as he wi n e slalom in the cha mpionships at Squaw Valley. , AP Wirephqt o 42.7~~---------=---f=::=======:=::;::=:--:;.a--:=~•!!"':,---;;;; ars Cinch For inth Comb·ned Title the 11th starter. j • Nevada's Dot-Worth 2nd Second place went t o Dick IDorworth of the University of : evada in darkhorse fashio n, 'He had t wo great runs and cheers followed h im down thei mountainside. His lotal of 90.3 seconds came from a 46.3 opener and a 44 second closing run. Alan Miller took third to ,pace. the ·University of Dent ver into the team scoring 46.61 ... .'° total . 91.4 . .seconds. l ead. He and 44.S went all out for over second-place Colo- headwalls and crested paths of the dangerous slope tried •-1 bad a good race. The many of the world's ~st just held up elL I hope I two years ago. Sat urday's race as lucky tomorrow tSalur- will !ollow the same general ) ," the :;niliog Salt Laker course. d following the ract'.s which I Gaddis, number 11 through • prised 50 and 52 ~tes re- the gates Friday, also ew tivel •• A IJu b,ig which 11th spot for tue downhill d Gaddis apprehensi,-e prior course which h t to the race did 11.0t seem t o vertii: · al d rop. bother the Ute skier. gate ~its on a ! _ Gaddis t~ ~ - aboUt mch base whi &he t resehwaas dO\rnhill downhiller on a 5 ~ f C!Otlrse which an 36 oUler to the finish line below. coJlr~n.., froro 17 colleges Most tr eacherous portion of and tmh-en.ifu!,s. t h rott!!"llou.t the downhill event comtS after tile rountry wiJl be attempt- the fourth gate from 1l1e top. btg w conquer Saml'day. A 300-yard "free !all" wlll face Race time 11, 1 11.m. the raeer at this point. It 1s Action wiH begin on the up- estimatrd by scweral ski vctpermost peak ol lhe 1960 Wm- rra s in the area that speeds er Olymp·csw-omen'sdownhill between 70 and 80 m.p.h. will! r.omose l<T-22.. The cliff-liKe be attained IJy the alpine ace!;, do U. on. Gaiidis placed second in lbe e\t·ent lo .~~:~5 ,,u11,-e rr. un:: u,..,,_. fi ud tltl oBai,nare ced t 1<-;,, .., -~rr thra lH O . 1a :.....,.., rn....,._ 'O"i r: e ,.-mi e to edzc Jun"s 1 ·44.9 .., ~Ba·u • 1:4'.i f;lOpPS. l , I !deal cond1tions ~·ailed for the jumping e ent!i: slated C Saturday afternoon. Official downhill results ar.d combined alpine otals will not be n:lessed un W Saturday eve- I An expe\'ted storin front which was r;chednled over this vaUe ui.rwq; did JIOt materialize and only a li~hl haze and spotty clouds coulll cut ~--islhility somewhat. The jumping event s wilt Ioll,ew the dcrwnhill, w i th the first jumper slated to run the 00-meter takeoff at l :30 p.m. The cross country event, which has drawn the cream oi the nation's crop, will run Sunda,·. Ogden's Alan l\,~Ii1,1!,"'w-£'-•~"•", ior at DU, placed third in F1 idav's slalom with a 46.6---44.8 -9i.4 t otal seconds, whlle Montana State's alpiner Mike BuckJev followed with a 92.3 combined clocking. Slalom events results: 1. Jim Goddl,, Utah 2 mc:t oor:wor1h, Ne..,ad• 3. Alan Miller, Denver ,. Mike Bvcklev, Mo"I. SI. 5, Mike Berr, Denver 6. oon KoUtOW, Oett r- 1,t 2'1d Toi. Run R.un s~c 42.7 61,.7 .t6.3 A4.0 90.3 "'-~ "~-6 .alA.8 01 ..c ,s.1 ,~.2 92.3 .&6.S .46.l 92.4 41 2 -tA.5 _.7 APl<JL J'1b~ Dr11wln.1t show~ route ot Sunday' s Snow Cup race at Alta . The mile and one-halt course promise s to be good test. Richard Groth • , • Ute alpiner ---- ---- --'- •• cup favorite Lynn Johnso n ••• Ute ski ace ., ,Jim Gaddis ••. Top Utah U. slat~ter could w'in title. Sllow Cup: Who'll Be I(iiigs? I By l\!ike Korolog os Tribune Sports Wl•iter ALTA. - Jim Gaddis, the Utah Unlvcr Hy ski whiz Who is enjoying o 1c of hls best seasons, loomed Thursday a a possible upset winner of the now Cup race which , runs here. argo Walters • to defend title Classic O,lympian it was presume d he was in g~od shape, too. GADDIS LAST week finished an Impressi ve first in the downhill at the Rocky Mountai n Intercoll egiate Ski Assn.'s New Year's meet at Steambo at Springs and fi nished third In the slalom. But several other member s of the 35-man entry list were not discount ed as possible winners of the race, first of the year ln the area. Utah Un!versity's Alan Engen is a top contende r. WHILE THE winner Is a big question. one thing ls certain - a new rhampi9 n will be crowned sinre neither nor women's clc!endlng the men' champ will he on hand. Chuck }"erries and ·Margo ½ alters, the champs, are unduy. TALK AlIONG TllE exper ts ursclay prl.'parln g for the giant slaevent which starts at noon, had . .addls and Jim Barrier, Kalispel l, ont,. the former Olympia n, as the a\ ontes. .ll agrPt'd that conditio nlng would • , I the differenc<'. Gaddis ls In top , c,.,nd1l!m1 whllc the eondltlo n ot Bar• former being a_ n but------:.:_ unknow ___~ - = -,.,... _-.=.r-::. .., .,,•ls.,,....,...,,, - rier both in Europe racing in the big International meets. Karen Korfant a, pert Pinedale , Wyo., skier is the favorite to nab the women's title on the strength of her fine showing s last year in several area races as a junior. ELEAN OR BE!\"NETT, Mammo th Lakes, Ca\.i!., who was a member of the pre-Olym pics training team in l!J6Q, is expected to provide Kare with ·au the pushing she can use . Final course lay-out will be Satur• day. The course will start at the top o( Peruvia n Ridge, run through • Punch Bowl, down the uppl.'r face Jnto tho Mt"adow, through Srhu s Gully, and. out 1hC' bottom oC Colllns Face to the finish line near thP lift house. DESERET NEWS AND TELEGRAM, Salt Lake City, Monday, April 16, 1~62 Gad Snares Snow .Cup Utes Gra b Share Of Race Hon ors SKI Conti1me d from Page .B-:l '• shorter gal course wh ich was the sam e gate-wise thougll Ctu · ther down the Peruvian Ridge. Karen Korfanta , Pin<'clale, Wyo., finished thir d. Tim<', 1:15.8. Lorna Miller, Sn ow Basin, placed fourt h with a 1 :25.4. Margo Walter a ppearPd JHsL for t he firs t half of t he ~oursr but experien ced a rnisj udgmc•11t on t he hump above Nina Cnrvf' which required the sk ier to move into a tu rn in midair aft.er m a kin g a short jump. "l j ust sat bac k too soon. lhal:" , all," the pert Sa ndy Jll1ss l<i!icl as she watched t he men rarer,s c-xpN icnce t he sanw diUicu ll) over t,he tricky k nol l. i E ngen's le ft ski left h i~ fool i shor tly after going ov<'r Ihe knoll. "My bindjng came right out of the ski from the pre~, sure I had to place on it lo make a gate," the bull-shou lder alpiner smiled. "I one-skie d the rest of t he cour se with relative ease. Official ,vomen' s Il m, 11 1ts By DAVE KADLECK Deseret News Sports Vi'rlter ALTA- Universi ty of Utah's Jim Gaddis climaxed his 15th year as a skier, his iourth as a Ute alpiner and t he 1962 ski r acing season here over th e w eekend with an exciti ng victory in the 21st annua l Snow Cup classic. The U. of U. banki ng and finance maj or had plenty of company. L ynn Johnson , also a Ute, copped firs t place in the women's race, zipping over th e fast morning course in 1:13.6. Partners Win Gaddis' skiing partners , Alan Engen and Robert Nelson, rsilv of Utah, Lvnn J ohnson, Umve th e Spr ing , 1. All a, 1:1 s .2s, 3: s h ares h onors i n 1 13 _6 , 2. P a t Bla cker, Wvo.; 1: 16,$, e, al ined P ta, fan Kor Karen eon a over race \Vhich was run Lorna Mi lle r, Snow Bo,in, ' :2s.,, 5. and-one-quar ter mile cour se ,. Ma mo Walters, San dy, 1: 27 .6. Official Men's R esnl1s with 40 gates guiding the skier un 1vers lt v of uiah, to the finish line below. 1 Jim Gaddis, Unive rsity of Ut ah, Engen, despite skiin~ the 1;14.l; 2. Ala n E ng en, :17 .2; 3. Ladd Chr is tensen, Al pi ne T r•l~f ·1nal qttarter mile of the 1Ing -4. Robert N~lson, . UniSchool, 1: 18.0; . course on a single ski seconded vcrsilY of uta h, 1 ,21.0 . ,:r,,m1_nq l~e Alprri Be1nap, 5. Legr, ande Ith . rt ff ' , tv Ltn,vcrs, , Pe nk ra F . ; , d school, G w . o teamma te a dis e 1 22 2 6 1.23.o; 1. Mike WIi son, u. 01 u .. a 1:17.2 mark. Jim posted a 1of 2Utah, 12 9 9 ' '·2 ' 8 · Bud Temple, Allo , ' '· ; · 1'.14.4 clocking over the diving John Mor tenson , U. of U., l : J!>O; H) . · Hibbar d, Aspe n, Colo.; 1 :,0. 2. course which was lightnin g Fred 1 1. Brod smith, u . of u .. 1:33.6; 11; · someand hal• ·rst -· fast for the fl Rich a rd Groth, u . of U., 1:-tB.'l: .L what slower as -the r II Ce r T err v Morr is,2 u . of u ., 2; 10.0; 1,. John Mille r, ATS, ' " ·'· neared the bottom. alSchool Training ' Alpine p!ner Ladd Christen sen found the hot morning sun and varying snow condition s to his liking and placed third w itJ-, a 1:18.0 mark. Nelson placed fourth withe. 1:21 mark. Course Fun ... But I , Most racers reported the I course "fun" though the rolling humps and ever-cha nging snow s k ept even the most 1 condition confiden t with an edge work' Ing most of the time. Denver Universi ty ski ace Alan Miller felt the wrath of the ear ly-morni ng ice on the ·upper side of the cour se with a spill which forced him f rom conten tion. His younger brother Dale, from Ogden, also felt the cold snow before finishing over the r ace. Another Ogden skier Dean Hopkins , also fell in th~ "DNF" (did n ot finish) ., ., , category. Gaddis was given the Go sign seconds after Miller left ' the gate. The Utah alpiner was , the first to finish In the m ~n •s division. Miller came boommg down seconds later. ' Secondin g Johnson In the women's class ic was Alta skier Pat Blacker who recorded a 1:15.25 over the somewh at I d dd . un •1vers01ly of Utah skiers Alan Engen, left, Lynn Johnso n, Jim Ga 1s,_an Cl oss1c. Robert Nelson mee t after sweepi ng honors in Snow Cup --~'.=:=~~:~~=:~~==--=~=:_. : : : : ==.:.: :____~---------=======11 t\.t - --- _ipgff~ SnowCnpClassi: -April 16, 1962 Page 21 G ad di s Na bs Sk iin g Title By Mike Korolog os Tribune Sports Writer ALTA - Jim Gaddis, Utah Universi ty's bomb 1 n g · able snowma n, mushed his way to victory in the Snow Cup her e Sunday, capping his collegiat e skiing career and the 1962 racing season. The 6-3, 185-poun d thin man found the slushy course to his liking · and bombed his way from s tart to finish, taking only 1:14.4 to do the job. ' ALAN ENGEN COMPETING IN THE SNOW CUP GIANT SLALOM . Photo by Owen Saunders Alta, Utah ~ Circa 1961 tatlonals , the Western Region• al champion ships, the • Sun Valley open slalom , ·the Nation al Alpine giant slalom, the National fo ur-way slalom and downhill , the slalom in the ANOTHER U. of U. student, Lynn Johnson, c?mplete d the Ute sweep by taking the wornen's competit ion and got her • • on the · name next t o Ga ddis' L calls VhO y ' ENGEN ALAN ynn , huge Snow Cup tr ophy. . . ' . Alta his second home, fm1shed I toure d th e s h orter gals' layout second to his teamma te. Ladd in l:l3 .5. dltlons on the 60Christen sen of t he Alpine Snow S cI10 0 1 eop1ied th'ird . . · g day were T rammg rm d con . d plus egree sp bY th e way, s k ~ E the talk oI the town as the e ngen, ., caug ht several skier s with halfb of the (tace the last • uY ou t "corn • oots pa t1a • t hey should h . . his , one o! of Its binding. "It popped out ziggmg wd .enThi' s elite group have zagge h I hift d n th up. he{e w lte~ ths Ute a ilmd includ ed such "name"theskiers gal e sm e . as Margo Walters, e we1g on ' from Miller Alan ; vorite fa er Speedy Pat BI a.ck Denver U., aod his br other, zoomed dowri the sun-kiss ed Dale, fr9m Ogden. I finlace second-p a. slope for But despite the hour-Jong ish behind Lynn. g, f.he 81-ga.te cow-se pom1din Pineor nta Korfa Karen held up well. • dale, Wyo., a junior com pet!It wa s set by Mel Dalebou t, tor, took thi rd. The victory was a sweet fin- who incidenta lly, received, a is h to an even s weeter season plaque from t he sponsorm g for Gaddis who has been com• Salt Lake Junior Chambe r of peti ng in the Snow Cup for Commer ce for having to set years witl)out mu ch success. the course twice. The Mee wa s· originall y set This was the first t ime he fi n!shed in the race and ironicall y for Jan. 7 but an avalanch e thr e!)-t forced its postponement. he won it. been has GADDIS ' season Impress ive. He took firsts In no less than 12 races includin g t he Denver U., W yoming U. and Air Ferer Academ y Invi- See SIU on P age B-5 J im Gaddis . • . U. of U. ski~r captures Snow Cup. NCAA Unals, the ISA slalom, the Salt Lake Ski Club giant slalom and now the Snow Cup. The r esults: Glr ls-1. Lynn Johnson, Utah Unlver• slfy, 1 :13.5; 2. Pa t Bl&cker, Per uv.lan Ski Cl ub, 1 :15.5; 3. Karen Korf an fa, P meda lc, Wyo,, 1:1 6..d; -4. Lorna MIiier, 09• d en, 1:25.21 5. Margo Walters, 1:27.3 Men- 1. J im Ga dd is, University of Utah, 1:14.-4 , 2. Al an Eng en, University of Utah, 1: 17,1 ; 3, Ladd Christensen, Al pi ne Tra ini ng School, 1 :18.0; ,. Robert Ne1son 1 1:21.0; 5. L eg rand Belnap, A lpine Training School, 1 :27.2; 6. F ran~ Pe rr i, Unlverslty of Uta h, 1:22.9; 7. Mike Wll .son, University of Utah, 1 :24.1; a. Bud T emple, lntermoun taln Ski Instruct ors Assn., l:28.7; 9. Joh n Mortensen; 1:30.1; 10. F red Hibber t, Aspen, 1:30,1 . , SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY , D SECTION APRIL 13, 1962 '• •. / / .. ..........,_..... .... Jim Gaddis Is Beehive State Ski Great A possible operatio n on his\ In 1961? The guy would like Combined title at Bozeman, s, a degree from the \a chance to represen t the shoulder in victories of series A Deseret News Sports Writer Mont. ty of Utah in banking United States in the Winter Universi a ion, competit . Intermo untain . . and a year to \ Games at Innsbruc k, Austria. ' finance, and 185Jim Gaddis ~s to be con~id• broken leg and the 6-3, There's a good chance he'll That's his schedule . ered one of t!1e great skiers pounder was ready for his train. I get that chance. 1963. through , 62. y<'ar-19 biggest from the l!leehive State. March 9 the anxious ankles The Umversl ty of Utah al• the urge. Jim won the Na• got pine ~ce closes his seni~r year with one of t_he races hes tional Alpine Giant Slalom not been_ able to wm-the Snow Championship. Two wee ks Cup-thi s -:veekend at Alta. , later at Squaw Valley, Calif., The '!'hmm~.n of Ut,~- s he topped the cream of the sl_opes will be wide ~pen m nation's crop with a clean his attempt to place his name- sweep in the slalom. Two days ta~ on the !11ammoth tro?hy. later he lacked one-tenth of ~he kid s a competit or, a second in the downhill classic \ won t slow do,"!1 even In .a and placed second. The two workout . He likes to wm places were enough to assure en~ugh _to work." Tha~'s how him the National Alpine ComUmvers1ty of Utah Ski Coach bined champio nship at the Pres Summer hays sums up th e ninth annual NCAA championattitude of his. s~nior a_t;e who ships. This, with "bad" shoulders. began competit ion skung at age 7. Winning local races has kept the lanky Ute 1n good shape for national centests. In March, . 1960, Jim, only a sophomo re ~t the Universi ty of Utah, won I the NCAA National Alpine By DAVE KADLECK 1 1 - The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June 10, 196:! Senior Athletes Reco.rd ~~-t iqb2-· Successful Year In Sports - This year mark ed the end of ••~-,•A-~- - -- e w-as tnent ioncd on every .AllU tah's comp etitio n in the Sky- Amer ican team and captur-e::J the line confe rence and it a lso ende d natio nal SCOt'ing . crown.. ,, His the colle giate athle tic car eers of highe st 'J)O:int tota l of year many outs tandi ng senio r ath~ \vas 00 again st .ij.YU .at P\x)V o. letes. · ·. ·ski · J ' G · · ·,· -~ l:tah•~ football c-hari es ,\·••r·t> 1..-d bJ <'~1ptain Gordy ,I;Itab, ath~~µcs,':~ ~:i~p~~~~ l ,et' a n d a lt..-i-n a t c- ca1•t ain ~n ':tn.e of the t pp t~~-~?! .J.S Ed P in c•. u 1, :·evee y :meet e ~,''.;·:,~ n Th e• Reds kins did not \\7 in the '/,\'a$ . alwa ys " , b e.hi~ /;~ e:on fe rence title , havin g lost to t ~,(O s}{ifors lJt?)sorely U tah St.ate and Wyom ing; h ut 1miss oo· next Y~r -:·-_: · t h e Ut es gaine d na tiona l prestige\ \l'Jff,-;.;'\ SPRJ :SG <.-om menceknoc k ing off ranke d Color ado in 1.11t:nt exerc ises roll aronn o, lost an inler scctio nal dash . Seve ral fron-1 {;tan 's traek te.:a-n ·wfll be · Ui cs · were name d to All-A me ri- Hbi.l1e Lind,gren . I....indg :ren can and Al l-Ccmfere nee tea m..'1 to Jg() ctc,w n as the nnes l hui'd ,vill. •.1 l.er in cl in,e1.x ·th e sea son. i Ut evHle :h istm·y . H~ has l:1eld Seni ors Bill " The Hill'' McGi ll ! every burd l~ mark in l'..00 oona nd Ed H.owe led the Ute oos- i f<}reo ce and ha::: r~ 1.heke.tba ll t e am to anoth er coofe r- 1lthirci fastes t time in the <.'Qfl]nt:ry cn cc titl e, but a NCA A suspe n- in hig h nut"'lfles. this year. · sion bann ed the Utes from a ny l S w h'l'uning. '\vr.estliP:& tennis, post-seaso n tourn eys,. p)ase ball and· g olf will ·also Jose nUR l ~G THE SEASON Mc- 1man y~outst aooin gseru or a~t ~ tt-~~se,. dose· :!1fl 1· Alan E ngen, left, and Jim Gaddis, right, admire smaller Alf Engen Trophies they r e- I ceived for being f;op skiers at U. Alf Engen holds larger trophy which lists winners . Gaddis, Engen See Names Added to Ute Ski T1·ophy Gill re-wr ote Utah 's recor d book i who ·e ont.r' ibuted to aoothe:r' ·ou:fiand ahm made a big dent iti con- I· stand ing year of · .athle' llics at feren ce mark s. ,A t seaso n's. -end, 'Utah. · The Alf Engen Trophy, \on the Ute teams while they where the elite of Univers ity were here. It's fitting both of Utah skiing meet, added two should receive the honor," he more names Saturday. conclud ed. Newest names on the giant 1 - ----silver cup are those of Alan Engen, son of Alf, the Alta Ski School director, and Jim Gaddis. I AL AN WAS N'"IED the 1 U.'s top man on the boards for I the 1961 season and Gaddis, 1 who dominated the region and 1 nationa l ski scene last season, was this year's winner. 1 The honor goes to the out- : standin g skier who displays i "Sports manshi p in skiing at , the Univers ity of Utah." Each , winner receives a small replica of the large Alf Engen Trophy, donated by Alta's Bob Sim-,: mons. I I· The big trophy stays in t he U.'s trophy cases, , "This marks the end of an ' ; era," Ute ski coach Pres Summerhay s said. "Alan and Jim have been skiing with and against each other -for years . and they were, the ~op skiers · G The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, June 19, 1962 L,..Jbt jul t :!1'.nkt §):fibunt _!{ !u IW lo m e n Mi . ss Le arn ed Recites Vows Miss Barbara Jean Learned exchang ed weddin g vows with Alan Karl Engen Mon- · day in a ceremo ny at the Fort Douglas Chapel. The Rev. Donald B. Ward offi. ciated, assisted by the Rev. Maurice McDowell. The bride is the daughte r of Dr. and Mrs. Leland O. Learned , 754-18th Ave., Mr. and Mrs. Alf M. Engen, 2293 E. 6200 South, are the parents of the bridegro om. Reception Fet.es Couple The couple was honored at a receptio n after the ceremo ny at the Cottonwood Club. Miss Sandra Teece attende d the bride as maid of honor. Bridesm aids were Miss Susan Gore and Miss Carol Brickey, Miss Carroll Lee Woolley was flower girl. Best Man Richard G. Shaffer perform ed best man duties. Serving as ushers were George Hemmi ngway, James Gaddis 811d Michael Cullls. Both are attendin g the Univers ity of Utah. The bride h8.5 been a membe r of Phi Mu and Army Sponso rs. Mr. Engen has served as c<Kaptain of th'.'.:e~un::::.:iv~e.:.:rs::it:::Y_:__ _ _ _~ --- - - - - - - - ' - - ' ski team and compan y com• mander in the Army ROTC. Prenup tial parties were given by Mrs. David H. Clegg and Miss Susan Clegg, Mrs. Reed S. Clegg and Alma Ritchins, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Woclley and Mr. and Mrs. Jed F . Woolley ' , III, Mrs. Frank B. Newma n Jr., Mrs. Jed F . Woolley Jr., Miss Susan Gpre and Miss Sandra Teece. OESFPJ:T 10 C 1--1cw<; - - - - - -- .A"-'1'1 Tl'I Fr..R.AM, Tu 0 sdov, October 2~, 1962 Jum pin g Enj oy s Are a Com eback It was a big year for the skier in Utah during the 1961 •62 snow season, But while the skier was enjoying one of the finest winters in many years, one of the oldest winter sports in Utahski jumping-w as getting a shot in the arm at the worldrenown Parley's Canyon jump site, Ecker Hill. And the meet which hosted som e of t he world's top flyers, wasn't a s m all effort by any mea ns . In the two days of competition, a crowd estimated at neal'ly 10,000 persons crowded h ighway 40 East to vi<·w Ute jump spec· taeular: Whipping winds hampered the efforts of the jumpers who came from many points across the country to compete on the hill that made western ski jumping famous. Each of the jumpers had an eye on the hill record of 294 feet. Each wanted a chance to break that mark. There was a chance that many had the ability, but the w inds came, The Feb. 34 effort got the hill buzzing after 13 years. With the interest in such a show, it won't bP surprising ~o see Mark Strand and Dick S imons team to gc-t another classic in Parleys Canyon. It could be this year. • Alf Engen, Utah's skimei.ster , b olds th e 29~-foot mark. T he suntanned Engen set the m ark in 1937. The Alpine Training School has included a jumping class in its curriculum . . Should the Ecker Hill jumps continue and the mterest .m such a meet continue to increase, the ATS could produce a jumper capable of matching or surpassing_ the 294-foot mark. Denver University 's Eric Jansen, leaping from the small launching pad made a mark of 139-148-214_ in his as~ault on AH's mark. The DPnvcr jumper has the fmesse to increase this figure considerab ly on a high jump with a long run. John Cress, Chris Selbeck and Al Vincelette wer<> among the other top Class A jumpers entered in the med. The addition of a 50-meter jump at the Solitude Ski RE-sort is bound to help Utah produce ju mping skiers. San Fra ncisco' s A l Vince llet b ri ngs p ertect ski jum p form to Ecker Hill in revival !)f most pQpular s pec tato r sport of the ski season . RES ORT NEW S Wasatch Treasure H a nson and Leon Brassfield of Salt Lake City, filed mining claims and For nearly a century Alta's two began digging. up the ore. Asriches, first silver, then powder sociated with them in the venture snow, have kept the Little Cotton- is Alton Melville, a former preswood Canyon resort 28 miles from ide nt of the National Ski AssociaSalt L ake City in the public spot- tion, and fa ther of U.S. Olympi an ligh t. Today Alta is enjoying new Ma rvin Melville. booms in both skiing and mining, Oldtime Alta first gained fame continues to add more than its in 1868 when J. B. Woodman desh are of glamor and viole nt action veloped the great Emma Silver to the Wasatch mountain scene. Mine. This touched off a rush fo r Modern Alta is a sprawling al- riches that ballooned into a full pine ski comple x w ith four chair- scale stampede . lifts, t wo major rope tows, four Alta's rich m in es we re so full of lodges a nd a U .S. Forest Ser vice s ilver that initial profits from the ;_ Photos of Alta show original mining· camp in 1873, left, an d th e pr esent day P eruv ian L odge , photograph ed with Mt. Sup erior in the backgroun d. Snow R a nge r g uard station w ed ged nea tly into a valley 8,500 feet up the mountains of the Was atch Nati ona l Forest. There's really not much to do th e re from No vember to May except ski, on snow so good that it's r idic ulou s to waste time doing an:vth ing else. B u t a t one time Alta was a b us tling min ing camp, inhabited by 5,000 person s. It published three ne wspa pe rs, counted the Bucket of Blood and the Gold Min~r's Daughter am ong its 29 saloons, and boasted 100 buildings, s ix breweries and ll0 killings by 1872, four years after the d iscove r y of silver. R ecently t wo Utah Sta te employees discover e d a vein of rich ore a m ile dow n the canyon from P eruvian Lodge. The pair, Charles Emma , the South H ecla, a nd the Prince of Wales mines ran as high as $180 a ton. • The e arly mine rs r awhided thei r ore down the canyon in boa ts made of green cowhides. Then the ore was fre ighted by ox teams tci Ogd en , loa ded . on the new ly comple ted railroad, shipped to San Fi-ancisco, t r ansshipped by wind jammer around Ca pe Horn to Wales, where it was smelted. In contrast, today a skier can board a jet in New York City and arrive in Salt Lake City five hour s later and be at Alta in an hour. After Congr ess demonetize d silver in 1873 the mines star ted closing one by one. Little Cottonwoo d's miners drifted from the canyon and Alta appr oached ghost town sta tus. Those SKIING NEWS MAGAZIN E l'H,2. ·•---.. • ' ·- \. - - The NCAA sk1 Champions hips come to U!uh this year, March, 1963. This show plus another Ecl<i>r II1ll Jump show would go a long way in introducing the publtc lo the thrills of the winter sport. w ho remained decided even na ture w as a gainst them. Landslides and avalanches kille d 140 persons d u ring th e 1870s. Man y per sons killed by landslides and in the saloons w e r e bur ied at the foot of Rustler Mountain. Around 1899 Ge or ge H. Watson wande red into Alta and started picking up defunct mining claims. Before lon g h e h ad nearly 1,800 acres of s urface ri ghts at the old mining camp. In 1935 and 1936 F . C. Koziol, pr esent supervisor of the Wasatch National Forest on which Alta sits, M. A. "Bud" Keyser, Mike O'Neil, Alf Engen and others began explor ing Alta as a possible winter sKi resort. One thing le d to another and before long Mayor Watson donate d all 1,800 of his a cr es to the U .S. Gov e rnment so that the surface could be developed into a winter sports area. Along with other land donated by private companies , about 2,000 acres was given to the U .S. in the late 30s, clearing the way fo r the horde of skiers to come. Salt Lake County and the U .S. Forest Service provided facilities including an all-year highway , and the ghost town came to life. In 1959 Alta catered to 161,000 skiers, an all-time high. The lodges handled the bulk of out-of- staters. Motels also are available on State Street in Salt Lake City, a halfhour ride from the ski lifts. The lodges, with accommod ations for 350 persons, are split into two distinct types. Rustler and Alta handle most of the post-colleg e, marr ied, business crowd. Collegians and high schoole rs gravitate toward P eruvia n and Snow Pine. The mountains jutting 2,600 fee t above the Alta flo or, are steep a nd mostly open. Although ther e are some fine intermedia te r uns in the upper reaches, Alta has a reputation for being expert ski country. With this "expert" tag on Alta , many of the local inte rmediates and novices have been shunning Alta for its less steep neighbors, Solitude and Brighton, in the next canyon north. N e xt yea r , howeve r, Chick Mor ton, manager of the Alta Lodge and operator of the Alta lifts, will have a double chair facility in operation SKIING NEWS MAGAZIN E I I I ! t I I I I Completion Date Set For 1962-63 Season '{91 'µ Alta Ski Litt Is Boon To Skiing Boom :By DAVE KADLECK Deseret News Sports Writer Alta's answer to the everIncreasing ski population is just getting started but should be ready for the 1962-63 ski ,season, Chic Morton, vice president and general manager of the Alta Lodge and lift area announced Saturday morning. ski<'r In that the slopes are protected from the sun and wind. It usually records mo1 e snow than the other slopes, Morton reported. :'\tor to n's announcement was prompted by the !um• dreds of Deseret News Ski School students who flooded area for the first of five meetings. The new ski lift will be primarily for the beginning and intermediate skii,1•, Morton said. The new lift will also be the longest at the resort. It ls 1,000 feet longer than Wildcat and 1,200 feet longer than Germania. It will have 22 towers and 135 chairs. It will move 600 skiers per hour though this figure is expet>ted to he increased by 100 before tao long. A gasoline engine will be on standby in case the electric motor breaks down, Morton said. mining town, is clear of brush and trees and is ideal for beginning skiers. A rope tow or two will be installed at the The Heron Engineering Com• top of the ridge so skiers pany is directing the job while won't have to spend as much most of the work is being done time on the chair lift. by the Alta repair crew. Skiing from the top of the The new-type pipe tower will ridge to the bottom of the be used in place of the webb- basin is ideal. "We've got some type tower utilized on the clearing to do to open some other lifts. more meadows, but as soon The new lift will go to the as this is completed, we'll have top of Never Sweat Ridge. The nearly a full mile of skiing for ridge, named by miners when j the young skier," Morton the Alta area was a booming said. The double chair lift V,,iU 1 rise 850 feet pid is 5,000 feet long-lacking 282..feet of being a complete mile, The new lift will be located about a half a mile ea5t from the Alta Lodge, Its location will tnl'lke it possible for the more , dvimc~d skier to feel more .free on the slopes and provide the begining and intermediate skier with an adequate slope, Morton said. The new lift arra is an Ideal spot for the beginning •.· ~: POWDER SKIING'S GREATEST-Utah skiing great Alf Engen, front, and Junior Benous frolic in mid-November powder at Alta ski area. Three storms in the past week have dumped nearly one and on· -half feet of snow at all three Utah ski resorts. All lifts and tows are operating at the three skiing areas. 0 ALTA'S FIRST SKI AREA Il..LUSTRATION BY ALAN ENGEN - 1962. Commissioned by Chic Morton for purposes of commemorating" Alta's Silver Ski Anniversary." 26 The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, Janua ry 14, 1963 e ac R up C ow n S in ry to ic V to k ea tr S rs te G:addis, Wal Salt Lal{e Stars Master Tricl{y Course at Alta Miller who posted a time of By Mike Korolo gos :43.1. Tribun e Sports Writer ~ille:, in trying to proALTA -A pair of Salt Lake Buthis slim lead, fell and tect to aces-J im Gaddis and Margo missed a gate and he had the up back climb and stop trouwith d Walter s - gamble during ble and won here Sunday aft- hill and run throug h it he result a As run. second the the of pot the split ernoon to final the in 10th d finishe over annual Snow Cup race standin gs. two tricky slalom courses . JilU'S SECOND run throug h Into GADD IS admitte dly ran plenty trouble "just four times" on a course, which require d racing as well as g thinkin of went Margo and run his first :48.2. too wide on a gate and had to techniq ue, was timed at godo a kick turn to get back on And It was obvious he was clipped he as Miller after Ing ride. first her during the course 1 in But both survive d the mis- throug h th!! 40-gate course form. takes and took their second perfect For a few hours after the Snow Cup champi onship s. Margo and Tamm y Dix, a race defendfully Gaddis success !or ed the title he won here last pert Spokan e miss skiing were Club, Ski Valley Sun the the back took Margo and year with crown she won in 1961 after tied for the women 's title total times of 107.0 seconds. falling in last year's event. There was talk that Tam• Both are former Unlver• missed a gate early in my sity of Utah skiers and both, run. s,:,eond her under sklin!I" are lly, ironica Sid Valley colors of the Sun The gateke eper of a near-by Club. gate had to be summo ned to said The long-st emmed Gaddis clear up the puzzle. He the shook off some first-ru n jitters Tamm y definit ely missed with to glide to a :43.5 run, good gate so that left Margo or second behind Ogden 's Alan the title. Miss Walter s had more trouble to overcome. It was In the person of Karen Korfan ta, a rising young star from Pinedale, Wyo., the Interm ountai n Ski Assn.'s numbe r one junior gal. KARE N BEAT Margo by four seconds in her second run last year, Jim Gaddis but that wasn't quite enou.r:h over as she maneu vers far leans s Walter Margo portion of meet. Lake's men's who Salt Margo veteran the to beat ;;=- Snow Cup slalom on Sunday . had chalke d up a big edge in tricky string of gates during =~-~ ~--- --,--- - - - - - - - - - - ; ----==t-== =--- ---- --:: the first run. As a result, the Salt Lake miss won the title by six-ten ths of a second. Utah Univer sity's Mart h a Wethe rill capture d third place in the gals' portion of the Salt Lake Jaycee -sponso red affair. fJ,e last Resort by Mike Korologos Didn't :Follow Form at Unfortnn.i.tely. most of the~c things didn't even get off the on It. groµnd J\nrl this area's skier5 expres sed their views ic .'hat they say ,shouldn·t be held agains t thc-m whPn Olymp =es earn sdect.lOJ'I time "It wa." • wnrth1 -"' wai.--te ot tlme a.!! far u I could ," Gaddis reealled. o. · I had a differe nt coach almost every •st fund a skiers trainin g trust fund put cago b slncssm cn l Jost $10.000• .And the e had to run on this C('rtam rour"" bP· only pla the TV camera s eould get. Gad- J E w om en ' s DEFEN DING champ Lynn Johnso n, anothe r Ute, mistoo k a pair of skis as part of the finishin g poles on her first run. She was granted a rerun on which she took a bad spill and injured her knee. Second to Gaddis in the ""'!al ,. standin gs was Ladd Ch sen, a slalom expert fror· High. He edged Rip McMa , :s, U.S. ArmY, by one-ten th of second for the runner -up spa I POOR visibili ty due to a ligh snow which fell most of th afterno on and some shallo snow spots on the courses r sulted in some spectac ul spills in both divisio ns durin the sub-zero afterno on. Jim Barrier , former Denve U. skier now racing for th U.S. Army; Utah U.'s Ric ,Groth, Alan and Dale Miller o •Ogden, and Ute David Engen were among the favorit es wh went the way o! the sitzma rk went on. "And there were $Orne skiers there ·ho should not have the been and some not there who should have been. One of (Dale skiers who should have been there ls my brothe r, Dale, Assn. . was the numbe r one junior boy m he Intamo untain Sid , ratings last year). I know he's better than ~ e~sk iers C.U. , who were there, especia lly some of the t ~ n from ' and D.U." Tammy Liked the C:nnp The results, with first run, second ru and total times In seconds listed: Men-1 J Im Gaddis, Sun Valley Ski Club, ,3.5,' 48.2-91.7 ; 2. Ladd Chri-.tPn sen, Alpine Training School, ,s.1, 50 95.l; 3. Rip McManus, U.S. Armv, A6.9, 48.3-95.2 ; ,t, Norton Webber, U.S. Armv, 48.3, 49.0-97.3; 5. Pete Karns,. Jackson Ken Hole Ski Clu b, l9.5, 52.4--101.9; 6. 50.9Mlller, Bozeman Ski Club, 52.6, 103.5; 7. Mike Klrol, Jackson Hole Ski Club, 50,4, 53.4--103.11; 8. David Engen, Universit y of Utah, S6.5, 49.8-106.3; 9. Mike McColli,ter, Jaskson Hole Ski Club, 50.5, 56.9-107.,t; 10. Alan Mlller, Snow ee~ln Racing Assn., 4'3.1, 6".B-107.9 , Women-1 . Margo Walters, Sun Valley Ski Club, 4'8.2, 58.8-107.0; 2. Karen Kor• fanta, Pinedale Ski Clvb, 52.8, 54.8107.6; 3. Merlte Wetherill, Universit y of Utah, 67,0, 102.2-169.2. kiers who call the In• termou ntain Area home, , Ion• ~ay got the wot'd hat they've • ••• U. ol U. been invited to attend the i,pe. for workout. dal 01,Ympic Trainin g Camp • ~U'.le David En fl'O!Sh JJaJ1N!4 i - -~- ---- -:-- :--- =-- ---- ---- ---. 1 THE TRIBU NE ~earned that the three male ~k Pl-S aJ.'e Jim Gaddis, who kled 1for the Uni• . . Ex-{; 1-e ,ki versity of Utah lal;t year; ?g- .Jim Gadd!, alle.nd rarnp. to ter speeds skied who den's Allan M1lleq, for Denve r U., las~ season , and David Eng~n. wt;.o won last year's boys' slalom title in the junior nationa ls lmd recentl y enrolle d In the U.!or U. The gals includq, Lynn Johnson, Margo Waltet s, and Linda Meyers , all enro;I.led in Uteville; Sandra S 11 e 11 worth , Boise, Idaho, Karlen Korfan ta. Pineda le, Wyo., last year's top junior gal in thf! Interm oun• tain Ski Assn .. s~din gs; a~d Tamm y Dix of Spokan e wno Valley Ski ,kied for the · ~ub last seaso11. · ~+ u~s 'fllE s~:u:C TIPN8 128 boys ~nd 20 gil'!s\ wr-rt" based on how they finishE'~ in last sea• . on's ·ationa l Alpine, • ·ationa l Junior and Natio,i al Colleg iate t • champion.-,hips. se-1 were ~ome n, ln additio lee_ted from recb. mmend ationsof the seven U.S. Ski Assn. divisions . The top three tinisher~ in the big meets were the first selecticlns. The two-we ek trainin g camp\ ·ilJ be under d~ectio n of the USSA with U . . Olym pic Coach Bob Be ttie, pilot of Colora do U.'s ,ski team, in charge . The ci,.mp is being sponso red by thf:' Skiers Train-. ing Trust, a C~cag o group of ski racing enth1!siasts. .IOll!\ iSO., top gal on the Unh·er sil) of tah's ski t = finLs.bed third in thl' g ant !'lalom rn the nationa l meet, while Karen nabbed a third in tlle Junior • 'ationa l" atom .tor er berth. Tamm y zoome d to a fir~t place tin\iih in the "'ation al g·ant slalom and a third in the lalom to guaran tee her spot while :.rar-;:o. wv ~e rcte<'I on her previou s racing ret·or~.1. .ATLB ALLY, B11w:tv Wer• ner and Chuck Ferries . both oi whom won two events at toi, Europe an races · last winter lead the"ma le pack. Both will be s ·iinl! in collegi ate circles th s year. 1 l-:&eh nf the fCgion' s skiers named boasts fl" impre slve ski recor~. Mi ·s , eve1·s, altendi nv Tht 2 1 Maftt.;_M karbHfl, B•rr\u', Jim _ , ,• , _cm , /4,t llwr. 8ud>llu!, II_,. VJ.: 51<.llo llrYan. ,_., Hawrt'I· M"I~-~ Mike &m.ltY, Y•kltna, l'/a,h,I John C_, H.,., Londo,,. H.H.; Jtnnff'191 Crea.. Grandtw~ Colo.;. Ott.I :···Mlch.;.-j1in Ch~ck.. ''F~r:r:,:- H-;,ohtonGunnl1on , CO:to,; I. Jim I Gaddis: Dave Gorsuch, Heu••· ColO<O<lO u., Blll Kidd, S1owe, Vt.: sandY Liman. Colorado U., Bill Marolt. Colorado U.: Gary MCCOY, Mammoth Mountain, Calif,i Rip Mc• Manus. Mitford, Conn.: Allan Millet', Oa- den, Utah; Jack Mor~. Kell®Q, Idaho, {Untvers lt, Df Wa!hln;t onl; NI or~I, Stockton, Calif.; John Southard, Cototado u , Pat T•rtru:lol , Rutland, V •. ; Webber· Norton, FarmlngtOI'\, Maine; &ud Werner. Colorado U. Tht gtrls' ,eam lncludl$: I MAR GO WAL TERS Photo circa 1963 I Eleanor Bt.n~u,___ ~°'?tan• .~t•!!~ U!'1 4 Tamfn v Dix, a blonde beauty from Spokan e skiing out ot w of the Sun Valley Ski Club, had a compleu.-.'y diffe~ nt . _ . the camp. e didn"I «et "I though t It was ,:T(lat," he ,;-rtnnro. much Individual trainin g but l feel you get_ o it _ot me. thing like this J11st whll.t you. put Int~ It.. "Bu( I think they could have spread the coa~ g around tech• and provided ui with some Inform ation on waxmg and nlque:: she said. DA\'ID E. 'GE......,, A C}IA.;,TP m last year's 3umor nationlo! out als, had dl\al emotio ns. "The trainin g was good, I got a the of e camp but there were too much politics tnvoh,-ed, noted. McCall Idaho. native "\Vatch lng Werne r !Buddy} and ferries !Chuck , both a coach former Olymp ians) ski was just as good as hav~g ng them ski with you. I picked up a lot of things just watchi 0 ski." ti "C.U. and D.11. did O!t the. politics angle, Engen e politics ln any• ttieu•r gu I but camp, tJ1e monopc>Ilze thing nowad ays." Lynn Johnso n. Snow CUp champ and trophy winn!r In the 1962 senior nationa ls, put it bluntly : "It was a mes~. ",IOS'I ' OF 'IBE GUU.S there formed their own clique~ the)' and wouldn 't let anv others In. In the race, as a result, part made me run last. it was a big disapp ointme nt on my conhe ' C.U., trlctly was Beattle leave. to •.. I was happy b rought . h' . cluded. RI 11 Groth a ke,· man on the Ute team t 1s ear, said, the1-e," fellow one was "There ag;in. up po~tlcs :en "traini ng on the U.S. Ol~pi c trainin g camp who !sn t er eligible for the .S, team. I hlnk a more deserv ing spot. should have been ln his And Karen Korfan ta, th No. 1 Junior pl in th~ ISA., ln was of tbe opinion of most .•• that a.~id.,. from getting fN'('ted. e she wlult 80 me 5kilng, the cnmp wa1m't Two Sides to tory Beattle was unavai lable for comme nt but Salt _Lake's Marv • leh·ille, an assista nt Olymp ic ski coach to Beat n~~ e that there are two sides to every story. --Orlgmally, the s w.ere ·I were invited with their coache:;. ThO!'e withou t coache to·be assigne d coache s." he !'ollid. "Bt:AT IIB CO JLD. · HAYE coache d all the kids there It - ,_.. :..- .... ~1 1m,t1-u cuonl; some wanted . lY thcm 1 .. · ,ac un.u• 1u..,.. , and give . camp the ' was impossible. It they would have llmtled 10 tl _ up it ~ no~. and invited were who skiers those 48 o \ who wanted to ~y their way, I think 1 would ha\e run _ . _ [better, " Marv sa1d. I 8B The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, January 27, 1963 l Solitude Soaring Today Korfanta,JohnMiller Nab Jackson Slalom Feature Prydz Rates Jumping Favor Special to The Tribune pleted. It is located near the SOLITUDE-Frithjof Prydz, lower parking lot here. a blond boomer from Oslo, The jump was built ac- · Norway, is the outstanding cording to FIS specifications favorite to win the first ski especially for the NCAA jump ever staged on the new championhlps set here for 55-meter jump here Sunday at March. noon. In addition to the jumping Prydz, described as the events, a cross-country race ; best jumper in the country which will find the racers batby University of Utah ski tling a rugged five-mile course coach Pres Summerhays, is also planned. was one of Norway's best THE EVENTS are part of young jumpers which auot• matically makes him the the lntermountain Ski Assn. senior Nordic championships best in Utah. sponsored by the Nord-Alp Ski The Utah freshman is ex- Club, Frank Bird, president. pected to reach distances of But Prydz isn't the only Ute 175 to 185 feet off the new expected to jump off with a platform which was just com- trophy. Jim Chamberlain, Rob- By Mike Korologos Tribune Sports Writer JACKSON _ Salt Lake's John Miller and Pinedale's Karen Korfanta seemed to use the powdery snow cover on Teton Pass as an air-cushion here Saturday afternoon as they floated off with the expert titles of the Intermounta.in Ski Assn's. slalom races. big victory as the se1_1ior ~tu- turn 'em loose" skier, had the dent at Judge Memorial High 1 best times of the day by at School made two near-flawless least two seconds, but was disruns down the ever-twisting qualified for jumping the gun slalom course atop Teton Pass, on his first try. 12 mil_es from Jackson. , Durmg most of last years BUT DALE, KAREN and campaign, the lanky, hand- John, along with Jackson's some Alpine Training School Pete Karns and Mike Kirol speedster was always among will be the favorites to win the top, but was never number t~e expert laurels during the one. giant slalom runs Sunday at Tms WAS MILLER'S first Wyoming's Miss Korfanta, 11 a.m. These will also be meanwhile, almost methodical- staged at scenic Teton Pass. ly too~ another of h~r cou!ltThe race was staged at the less first place trophies with pass due to the lack o! suffi. two rui:is ~own the slalom clent snow at popular Snow course m trmes that bested King Mountain in Jackson. several of the boys' efforts. ROBIN CRABTREE and The top-rated Junior girl In the region was clocked at Karen Budge, a couple of Jack• son gal speedsters, nabbed :38.2 and :39.2. ' second and third places in the Dale Miller, Ogden's "point expert division behind Miss the skis down the hill and Korfanta. -Photo by George Schwartz Alf Engen churns up cloud· of snow on Alta's slopes as he proves case in point. Utah's skl conditions now are tops• .foe last Resort oy Mike Korologos ~, Karen Korfanta . • • Zooms to victory in Jackson event. r I JACKSON, WYO.-After the sub-sub zero temperatures here the last few days, it's easy to understand why most everyone in this technicolor real-live western town has a fever. But this isn't the ordinary stay-in-bed type fever. This is a get out and boost the Junior Nationals type fever. THE BIG EVENT, one of the most spectacular on this year's ski calendar for the region, is set for Jackson Snow , King Mountain, March 12-16. The top 15 or so skiers from each of the seven divisions in the U.S. Ski Assn., their coaches and parents are expected to double the population of Jackson which is around 1,400. Tourney Fever in the Air Everywhere you go here Junior National fever Is in the air. Everywhere, that is, but on Snow King Mountain, site of the event. Reason for this Is that Snow King is hurting for snow this year, as are most other western ski slopes. Jolm Miller ••. Ju1lge student wins fb·st big race. Slalom Results Slalom Results: E,cpert gfrls-1. Karen korfanfa, Pinedale, :38.2, :39.2-1:17.8; 2. Robin Crab- tree, Jackson Hole Ski Club, :43..4, :-44.11 :28,0; 3. Kl!lren Budge, JHSC, :46.0, :-47.2-1:33.4; ..C. Peggy Goddard, Snow Ba!ln Race Club, :50.0, :'6.1-1 :36.2; 5. Linda Bircher, JHSC, : ..2.41, :56.3-1:39,4. Expert boys-1. John MIiier, ATS, ,36.2, :38.2-1 :14.8; 2. Pette Karns, JHSC, :38.3, :37.1-1 :15.8; 3. KIP Harris, ATS, :37.2, :38.3-1: 16.0; LeGrand Bell'll!IP, ATS, :38.0, :38.1-1:16.2. Intermediate glrls--1. Arlene Belnap, ATS, :29.6, :29.2-:58.8; 2. Keren Thyberg, Pinedale, :32.8, :33.4-1 :06.2; J. (lie) Judv Fleming, JHSC, and Pam Street, SVSC, :35.2, :31.3--1 :06,,.; 5. Susan Curtis, KIF!, (Twin Falls) :33.6, :33.61:07.2. lntermedll!ltt boys - 1, Steve Mackev, Pinedale, :25.6, :26.8--:52.4; 2. Sam Tothier, SVSC, :26.0, :27.2-53.2; 3. Mike Lowe, Snow Basin, :28.0, :28.0-56.0; .c. Calvin Ross, Snow Basin, :27.2, :29.0:56.2; 5. WBrren Fleming, JHSC, :27.8, 129,0-56,8, Novice gfrls-1. Paula Kanerva, SVSC, t3i4.6; 2. Penny Street, SVSC, :36.6; 3. 1ohcvrl Saunders, JHSC, :36.B. Novice boys-1. Pat Simpson, SVSC, :29.B; 2, Rolf Belden, JHSC, :32.0; J, Bert Truxal, Bear Gulch, :32.8; .c. Jeff Lowe, Snow Basin, :33.0; 5. David Anderson, KIFI, :33.6. Peewee girls-1. Barbara Budge, JHSC, J29.4. Peewee boYs-1. Denny Budge, JHSC, 1 :19.2; 2. David Owen, JHSC, l :20.2; 3. Steve Webber, Snow Basin, 3:16. So officials of the nationals have packed Snow King's powdery slope down to a few inches then salted the main run. The salt turned the snow into moisture and during cold nights the moisture froze and left a solid base. AU that's needed now is a few good storms to cover the well prepared base. Some of the events planned during the big week are elk barbecues, rides on the hay sleighs when elk refuge groups feed the giant herds in the area and a snow statue contest in which church, school and civic groups mold snow figures throughout the town. ACCORDING TO Frank Ashby, organizational chairman; John Cress, Nordic events chairman; John Morgan, adminis• trative chairman, and Frank Ewing, Alpine events boss, many more activities are planned for kids, racers and parents. \ I c c c Plan Daily Award Ceremonies They also plan a new twist in presenting awards. Because of lack of a giant meeting hall here there won't be a big awards banquet as in other Junior Nationals, but they will probably have daily award ceremonies on the hill and present < the winners of the previous day's events with their prizes. The very contagious Junior National fever was evident during Saturday's rwming of the slalom event In the. ISA race. With Snow King out of commission, the race had to be moved to beautiful Teton Pass, 12 miles due west of Jackson in the rugged Teton Range. All original plans had to be changed, gates moved, new courses set, communication systems put into operation and the countless other things done , that make a race a success. But the races came off without i a hitch. ' ! THIS CAN BE credited to such ski boosters who braved zero temperatures as Jackson's Doris Budge, John Morgan, Mr. and Mrs, Paul McCollister, Ginny Huidekoper, Vaughn Ward, Clint Budge, Doug McClaren, who is better known for his rescue work in the Teton's during the summer; George Fleming, a former 10th Mountain Division skier, and, of course, chairman Frank Ewing, the sponsoring Jackson Hole Ski Club and Jackson Hole Winter Sports Assn. \ t r i I Lift Lines Sverre Engen and wife, Lois, were at Teton Pass Saturday greeting old friends from Salt Lake as Sverre tpok some scenic shots of the area for his newest movie.... Ja,c'k Wilson, president of the ISA, was on hand to watch the races and preside over Saturday's board meeting. • . • Salt Lake's Don Harris and his pert daughter Tana were more than just one of the run-of-the-mill spectators at the races as Kip Harris was one of the expert competitors. • • . Ogden's Earl l\Uller, director of the Snow Basin Ski School, was another proud parent watching his youngsters Dale and Ray whip down the courses.... And Mr. and l\lrs. Bob Allen took in all the scenery at the high, high race site which overlooks Jack• son Hole. . . • Dr. and :Mrs. Reed Clegg were, as always, boosting Utah skiing along with Ogden's Mr. and Mrs. Paul Goddard. ••• Idaho Falls' Wes Diest was proud of the showing his skiers made at the meet as was Pinedale's Al Korfanta whose daughter Karen skied o1f with her zillionth trophy. .., ----=--=-===---=--~----:--===-----===:L JIM GADDIS COMPETING AT SUN VALLEY. Photo: Sun Valley, Idaho Circa 1963 ert Nelson, Terry Morris, Richard Groth, Steve Harrison and Bruce Evans are expected to win some silverware In the other jumping classes and the cross-country. IN ADDITION, several veteran jumpers such as Bird, Dick Simon, Tony Gervol and Gordon Despain could figure in the final standings. VIEW FROM THE TOP OF PERUVIAN RIDGE LOOKING DOWN LITTI,E COTTONWOOD CANYON. Photo by Alan K. Engen Alta, Utah - circa 1963 MOUNT SUPERIOR Photo by Alan Engen Alta, Utah February 3, 1963 Special note: This particular photo was used In the book, FIRST TRACKS - A Century of Skiing in Utah, by Alan Engen & Dr. Gregory Thompson. ALF ENGEN COMING THROUGH THE TREES IN WESTWARD HO. Photo by Alan Engen Alta, Utah - Circa 1963 BILL LASH - SKI SCHOOL DIR.ECT OR AT SOLITUDE SKI AREA. Photo: Solitude, Utah - circa 1963 LOWELL THOMAS Photo: Alta, Utah Circa March 1963 Name......• • Address .... ~ ) . E •... 6200 .. So •................. tEbts is to C!tertifp ttJat Alctt} ~- fxJge1J Alan__ K• .. Engen ··········· ............ . City .. ~ t. ... G!J«te ..... JJ.~........... o·lvt~·-···-···· ·· DSIA.··••· ................................. . ··•········~ - has passed the tests and requirements to be a FULL CERTIFIED SKI INSTRUCTOR of the INTERMOUNTAIN SKI INSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION No .... 590 .......... This card is not valid unless it is accompanied by current insert. ... . . l~M _ President J JI; -{: J C Certification Vice President INTERNATIONAL "PASSPORT" ISSUED BY THE PROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA SHORTLY AFTER THEY BECAME A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. FULL CERTIFICATION CERTIFICATE GIVEN TO ALAN ENGEN. ALAN PASSED REQUIREMENTS FOR "FULL CERTIFICATION' TWICE. THE FIRST TIME TN 1963 AND THEN AGAIN IN 1979 WHEN HE RETURNED TO UTAH. ' . ' J'J,e last Resort /Jy Mike Korologos "Born with the heritage of his faml'd Norse forefathers , Al! Engen of Salt Lake City emblazoned his name across the modern pages of athletic endeavor Saturday with · a 266-foot ski jump at Ecker Hill in Parleys Canyon that awakened memories of t!Jose iamous deeds of courageous Norwegian pioneers of old." THAT LEAD paragraph on a story in The Salt Lake Tribune Dec. 20, 1931, could well be repeated With only a few changes this weekend during the NCAA ,ski jumping championships at the nrw hill at Solitude Saturday and the Western States Ski Jumping Champions hips at Solitude Sunday. Both meets start at l p.m. Both events wlll be filled with Norwegian fliers who are dominatl\Ir. Rasmus$en ing the U.S. jumping scene with Utah University 's Frlthjof P rydz, the North American jumping champ, lavorcd to take the Western meet and Denver U.'s fliers, Oyvind Floystad, Eric Jansen, Phil Shama and Aarne Valkama e:,...'Pected to dominate the collegiate event, with some stiff competition from Colorado U.'s Earle Chandler. The two jumping meets wUI put old-time ski fans under a nostaglc spell. And judging from clippings in a well-kept, !luite complete iscrapbook kept up by one-time competitor and great 'hdvocate of skiing, Frank Rasmussen , there were a large number who followed the jumping sport. It Starts Way Back in 1915 While the J)cc. 20 Engen story is one of the highlights or the book, therP are countless other stories that cover skiing fr(!m arouncr 1s1s·to the prcsen l. QUICK J<'LASH-BA Cii provided by t he book shows that Ecker Hill was completed on Jan. 12, 1929. In. March, 1930, the hill was named Ecker Hill by Gov. George H. Dern In dedic-atory exercises aftN• Peter E . Ecker, president o! the stillthriving Utah Ski Club. Another okl ,,fory with a modern-day ring to it bad Utalm seekini:- the winter Olympic Ga,nes of 1932. Their attempts failed. Al! Engen was the big ni>ws o( the time. He first ·kied Ior the V.(estby, Wis., Snowflake Ski Club and later out o! Chicago. I One of Norway's Best Athletes He was written up as "a marathon 1·unncr, going live and 10 miles daily to keep in condition, a 10-second man in the 100-yard dash, an outstandin g pole vaulter and while in Norway, critics declared him as being one of the greatest hockey players of the 20th Century. "He was also an exceptiona l swimmer, fancy diver, played tennis well, played soccer with the best, excelled In bike riding and trap shooting, and was a musician and singer of sorts.'' JUMPING RECORDS -SOl\1E NATIONA L ones-were set almost annually. Engen went 281 in 1933 and 296 in 1933 1 at Ecker. And in 1937 Al! beat Sigmund Ruud for the national title. Rudd, 20 years before beat Al! in Norway when they were nine years old. And Ogden was hot-bed for ski-jumper s, too, on the old Ogden Canyon jump. Others who dominated the ski pages included Kalmar Andreason , Axel Andreason , Ed Nordquist, Anders Haugen, Halvor Biorngaard , Sigurd Ulland, Einar Fredboe, Lars Hauge,p a)'ld Sverre and Corey Engen. I EVELYN ENGEN AND LOWELL THOMAS Photo: Alta, Utah- Circa 1963 Special note: Pin Evelyn is wearing was the first type of certified pin awarded by the Intermountrun Ski Instructors Association . Remem ber the Ski Train Lo Park City? This also was the time o! ski trains lo Park City, when Carl Hubbell .·igned a contract with the New York Giants for i24,000, taking a n1i~e or $1,500, and the time when Jack Reddish won 1hc Cla!.s C title or a junior jumping meet. die. 'l'hen something happened 11nd kl Jumping started to There"were a few big jumps, but the glamor was gone. The i-port made a few comebacks like in 1947 when a headline read "Al! Wins Ecker Hill Meet with 245-Foot Jump.'' And on Feb. 24, 1948, when a banner yelled "Art Tokle Annexes Ski 1 Jump Crown at Ecker." THE LAST PAGE OF 'l'HE yellowed scrapbook reads "Erle Jansen went 245, 242 and 224 feet to win the Intermountain Ski Jumping Champions hips at Ecker Hill." That was Feb. 4, .1962. The book will get another page this weekend when that same Eric Jansen skis for D<'nver U. Saturday and Sunday at Solitude. The new hill's first big jumps get it of! to a start ' Ecker Hill also got. Chances are Al! will be on hand-as a 55-year-old specta1or-so will Frank Rasmus:cn , so will Steffen Trogstad who I .iumped against Alf and i now a jump judge, so will Frithjof Prydz, and so will the ghosts of countless other athletes who have flown the ski over th<' famed Utah hills. ThPy'll be watching the boys as "they emblaze their names, across the modern pages of athletic endeavor that will awaken l:ncmories pf those famous deeds of courageous Norwegian pioneers o! old.'' ~- -~- Cl/-i. ze"" /11 ~ IN PHOTO, LEFT TO RIGHT: ALAN ENGEN (SKI SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR) LOWELL THOMA S (FAMOUS NEWS COMMENTATOR) CHRISTLE THALHA MMER (FROM AUSTRIA) CHIC MORTO N (ALTA SKI LIFTS GENERAL MANAG ER) Photo : Alta, Utah on top of the Germania Lift- Circa 1963 GRANDS TAND VIEW-Sp ectators at Sun Valley get spectacula r view of finish of Har:iman C~p downhill race, one of better known sk~ ev~nts 111 country, as this photo shows. Fans can !me sides of course. Event will be held March 29-30. Top IS.A Alpin rs F·ield Enters Harriman Cup • By DAVE liADl,£CK 1hls rai:e and oorupt>t.Pd on I fa m.,. and glor~' that 111•1,.-om- ,,1ou Ea. Ion, !ormc-r l<'IS team ! Dcser1it '.New~ Sporn Wt.lier trying European slope!. ilany tile Harriman Cup membr,· and a competitor from OnP o! the fJ:ne. t lntei·moun~ 1!161'~ downhill wim).er Bud, lumph lncluclc Otym pie ,Middlebury; Rip Mr:Manll5, taln Skl A.'isn. dclegatfons of dy Werner will return to de• rn hopcluls Jim Gaddis tu,s. Army; Myke Baar, nm. alpiners dots the rlarrtnian1ondtneDHportionoftherace d "-Inn M'.IUer 1md aces 1vcr University; Tammy Dix, Cup race o~eri; as the te~t f-0r wJ1 ne slalom winner Billy. d Clu-lsrensen, Dave En- Sun Valley and !<aren Korf an.' Olympic poirtts an~ national I{idd, ot Vermont will take a and Rich Groth, Alan's ta, of Pinedale, Wy,:,. Gaddis ski honors gets set for its first raincheck this time around. wiger brother Dale Is eligl• and Miller are given the bei;t race - the downhill - Friday Kidd hurt an ankle while skibut will forego the .race chance to show high in the morning at Sun Valley. ing at Solitude during the runfavor of hls high schll<>I final standings tram ISA en• Five ISA men and three ning: of the NCAA dies at Ogden High School tries. women will compete in tile pionships, ere he ls a senior. The DH should be one of star-studded field that num- . There was no Harriman race G.al skiers representing the the "fastest ot all time,'' a "' bers 91 ot the nation's top m 1962 due to FIS activity in I include :Margo Walters, spokesman said Wednesday. racers- 60 men, 31 women. Europe. I ren KOl·fanta and Tammy Only seven Kates will guide Favored, ot eourse, will be LlttJe Jimmy Heuga, recent ·. the skier atop Rocle Garden Olyniplnns who have nwed winner of . the NCAA slalom ames figured to place high Ridge with • an addlttonal ti_tle at Solitude, was the comthe win order inc1ude Wer- seven 1<et to..- Ute bottom side bmed Winner of the 1961 Sun n or Colorado UnlversitY' of the cou.-~e on Ex:blbition. "'.alle:v race. llcuga didn't win H uga, of n.U.; nave Q.,r$urh, '.C.ralnl11g continued tlu:ough• f'lther t•ac<o but was high stPrn States College; Bill oot Wednesday with the nonnou~h in th. e " place" colu.m n B lcr, Montana State Univer• ,;top run ~et for 'rJtu1'sday. 0 WlO th~ big cup. .si ; Jim Barrier, U.S. Al'my; Leonhard F~rhart<lr will set ISA k I er" ~ef'Jdni. th~ lN O lli, Stockton, Cali(. · .c;orotflclal ..DJL cnur.- I l I r DESEREr NEWS AND TELEGRAM, Mol',c{ay, Morch 11, 1963 . .J et ..' Champs Meet Aga in, In Solitude Race By DA VE KA Dr.ECK Deserpt New~ Sport.• Writer SOLITUDE, Big Cottonwood Canyon • t:tah's OJympichopeful Jim Gaddl., ml,-~ed m aking II clc-an swe~p at the NGAA .ski championship at r Squaw Valley last year beca\lSt> ol one man- Dick Dorworth. i Wasn't At. nt"lt Gaddis wasn't feeli ng hl5 best at the Squaw Valley ski• test. "I got tlred." he •aid after tinishlng the grucli ng race that took hlm o,·er the diving slopl's ot KT-22, the popular Olympic slope. Dorworth admltl~d he didn't fc<"l good race,wlSE> but was proud to have the win and the vllloahle points It netted his Nevada school. / "'"= ShaPI' Nm" Bolh \\ill be 1n tip-top shape Sunday when they meet In the 0t;e and thref'•Quarter mile long, 1,900 vertical drop down, hill classic for a portion of the points nf'eded to wln the Her-I cu.le$ Tropby or the individual awat·d honoring tile winner of the Intennountaln Sid Al<.Sn.f senlor championship races. Tbe grinding course starts atop SolJtud~'s Powderhorn, 1 _ follows a somewhat bumpl· course to the top ot Bob's Row!, I wends down a bit and drops over to the "Bump", Racers thim will SChUS$ to 1he finish 1lne nf'ar tow<'r one. Other Top Talent Other top ta! ent will vie for honors in the two-day meet. Seven classes oI t acers will compete in the Sunday downhill. The ~lalom evt>nl!I were Gaddis Races To Ski Victor lln ISA Senior Downhill Test I By DAVE KAD• .ECK to Moe-GuUy whet"e he t:'Qtrled Ij · · Deseret News Sporls Writer with the iines.<;e of a cfiamSOLI'I'UDE, Big cottonwood _pion, dived down the sch"QSS to Canyon- Former University ot' Uta bump where he traveled Utah ski great .md Uhlted some 130.feet !.11 th.e o;wne and · States Olympic ski team .i\ope-- jz.lpped his way below to the ~ul Jim Gaddi$ raced over a .finish line-three seconds better than second-place Alan vashboard like downhill course J;,liller. 0 t?p I1;termount1?n Ski Assn. 1 The sn(,IW was fast and the emors m a. grmding downhill v:is:ibilit:ir good for the racers! ourse here Sunday. vying .rot ISA !Senior honors ! l T.h,e one-and-three-quarter and the ~ig Hercules Trophy. • m J 1 e long co u rs e that Alan Miller, Ogden, worr. thel dropped 1900 feet in the two-day contest with a, ,..trrst meanwhile' separated llilSt in .tt).e hvo slalo:ms Safilrt!.ay }"ear's Nationn.l AlpiJle CJmm-. ~d a second in Sunda:ts d()Wnpion at the NCU firom Hie hill. rest of the field. . 'lbe 1oTmer Denver Uruversrty ace shared h\'o-day honors cur.ss A WOME~l. Tarnmv Dix, SIil\ Valley, I ,37); :it, N.arvo W~fen. $\In Vlll· . lltr, l;l'.2; l. ShMon Peclak, 1 :-40.6; Pally Gaddis, using an orange-blue with gal s](le.r Tammy Dix Who if., ' f'fee l, CUSSA. l:52.4; 5. LYnrt u. of u., l : Sl.O; ~- Setty e-:n. ;lO/lllsi=,:\. s,m combo on his me:tal finished seoond in the A Wom"boards" was fast on long en's slalom Satu:rday and .ri.rst stretch !rom the Powde.l.'horn in Sundas"s downhill. wrui;: ¥- e<t. 'l~s~.4. CL;.SS 8 WOMEH-l. Ja" AV$lin, . lJ_ of l,l., 1::Qo.5: Connie ~la11, Herc11~ 2:'l3.J: J. M,ar111, Weaver, Us<iuebaugh, :t:21.2. . CLASS. C WOMEN-I. Nantv 1-!oman, U, of U•. 2:2-U; 2.- Oi!IM ,1..IOY(I, 2:.P.P, VETE-RAN MGtt - I. W,n•ne Cas-io, 2:JZ.6: , . •Jll HaoS<:n, AT-S, l:i'.25;l; i NicllOIIIS ~ r , HertOles. f :2U. . Mli:N'S COMBIM&D (Wttb FIS polnis}-6,lan Mfller, 11,(.45; LIia<! Chrislensen, 46,30, Pa.vlct Emzen. u . Of u. 1i Rich• 1,.• erd G•fll.l, U, of U,, S0.79. Wcmen-'l'am-- mtt Oilt. lS.5t; Shat'ql Mar!W Walters, 26.1.S. P<iclak. 1',451 . SIALOl\I ltESULTS t'UU A WOMeli - Sharon· Peciak, SRMSA. 49.1, 54..2-llM. l; Tamm11 Dix, Sun VaHev, :Sll.1, ~~107.2; Karen Kor• fanfa, Pliledllle, 50-1, 54,1-10;4,.4; Margo Walters, sun Valle#, s1.o. 9.0---1oa.o, P;nt\, Ftlll1!, Cl.fflSA, si9-, S(>..o - lll'.51 Bt!HY 1u,n, sun Vaf!ey, ss,e, 10.......u6.U L~n JOl'll1$1ld. lJ, o-! I.I., :.11.9; n!l.7-l i.7. CLASS A MEN - Alan Mil!f!r~ Sno·"' Bllsin, otr.~. Sl,4-98.0; Wi,di:I C::htisM1sen, Nortl•Alp, 51.8-lOI.O; Rl>Cbard GrQfh, U, of u., 47.6, $6.5-Hli.l; David en9,!ln, u. Qf u., ,v.al, ..$11.)-l0S.7; GritY ..R!!Yno~. Pocatello. <l')-.-4, !iM - l~t; Slan Th'(• belll P0<:alello, S2,2, S&.2- l!O.llr Fr ank Perl'f, Hercules, 49.9, 66.9- 116.1: Charles McWilllams, SUI'\ v.,lley, # .5; lil. ~117,01 T>errY Morris, U, Of V., 55.6-64.6-120.ll Oean Ht\Pkins, Heuul~ 54,11. 61.2-1'22. CLAS$ B WOMEN - COODII! Aberiten, J,f~rw~, 6$.3, Jan 1<11$1lo, u; ol u., 67. t, M.4-ln.s, Cl.ASS Mfi'._ - J.oo-n Reveal, USU, , .U, 60..~lll,{t !"&Ul Sdm11Gt, N:.<1ue• ba',1911, .s;:.,t ol,4-U3..a~ ;;teve t1artis011, ti. Of l,L 53,2, sl.s,...;UtJt Sob Burns Nel( SJlQW Sasll'l, Sb.1, 62':l-118.9; Ki,ll BQYd, NRM,5,/\, 54.?, 65.+,.-f'.!U, Larr\/ U : $ ~ 60.S; 10.0-130.51 Ron Jotmson. N~W>A. ,6$.a, 141.2J Frank Cunningham, U, ol U., M_S, 11.1l!S.i; Ray JMt.s, Sncw S;l!sln, ~9. 97..t.:$Oil, SW-anso,,, held Saturday. n, - ldO.l. CLAS$ C WOMEH--Oialle L!ot'd, F'WSA 14.6, JA.>-150.9; v;111r11,a Larimore, i,wl AFB, 112.3, 7,D-156.5: Jan "rms!r-oruJ, ISA, 89.6, 69.9-159.S; Haney H.oman. t), of U_, 89.2, 8l.t,.....l1U. Cl.ASS C MEN-Pete Allt!f\. 54.:Z....lo.ll.27; Nldt Babieh lfS~ Olympic ski teom hopeful Jim Gaddis won 130,4: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, 139.S; ISA Sen ·,or downh'rll at Solitude. • · 63.S-ll2. l; Jim Salmas, usu, . 5,H, NRMSA, 5&.6;, fSA, ~ 4, &1..;l- Mk~:.k~.,J..~tts~ ~t-if;~ 1 nenny,ArlllSll'Oog, Merr,u. tsA. Mike ISA, .?1.?, 73.9, &u,70.()._ !43.9; Ri~rd Bun9,iy, Sportlohers, 66,7, 1'.,._1"6.i; Shuri, O\lncan, Sporlloflers, ·tt.9, a.i.,i:.,..151,3; Don Waite, !SA, 78.2. 7U.,...&7Si. t VETERANSl- AI Haltsen, ATS, 66.J., 7T.O , 131.3; Nick S,,en~ Her~les, 7-4.2, 79.6 i 153.$; Wayne Ca a. l.l~U&1'1, 67.1, ". . I Dick Simon in competition at Alta's first gelande tournament held on April 22, 1963. Tournament was held on the mine dump at the bottom of High Rustler. Winners were: Alan Engen - First Place Jim Gaddis - Second Place Dick Simon - Third Place ALAN ENGEN PERFORMING A GELANDE. Photo taken at Alta, Utah Circa 1961 • MARGO WALTERS AND IlM GADDIS PERFORMING A DOUBLE GELANDE. Photo circa 1963 Sunshine On The Slant McNAMARAS SKI AT ALTA desk. Anyone skilng the Alta sloJ)('s nual trip to Alta for manylfrom his Washingto? The McNamara s first came to • '\ • • Alta when he was a Ford Comeven in the Friday wmds. rrught years. have recognized two familiar Margaret McNamara , better pany executive. known around the ski world as He is an excellent skier. faces. on such ocI They were of Secretary of De- ';largie, came to Alta last year H_is sk_i associate the veter~ngen, 1s cas1ons Mr. when children fense and Mrs. Robert McNa vitb her two Skuneister. Alta an away get couldn't TcNamara an the made have who mara J. Margaret McNamar a, wife of the Secretory of Defense, stands with two members of the Alta Vikings-J on 'Engen, I eft, and Craig McNamar a . Vikings held their annual jumps at A Ito. (See Round About.) Round About . . . By Hack Miller ilc.ing Mc Na ma ra s Top Da\'e Qu innPy <'ame up a close fourth. It was the first majo1 try for Corey Miller and Scott Rice- but they made the big jump without a spill. E\'er heard of the Alta Vikings? Oi, as Alf Engen calls them, the, Alta Wikings! Tht> Vikings held their annual ski jumps Saturday and while there were only a handful of u& jump watn : rs, to the Vikings the1·e was no bigger meet in 1hP world. • • The Lady Was For Flying • Craig's best _jump was 48 feel. The lady beat the men, though. Kathy flew for 58 feet; won &pecial honors for the clay's best reco\'el Y. Next meet i:; April 1961. Course assignmen ts ha,·e already been made. And for that matter, this roulcl hat:e been the fore-rwm er of the Winter Olympics JO 11cars hrnce. Jon Enycm, n-yearold 1:1011 of the old skimeister, is the sponsor, the conductor , the tro7Jhy maker, etc. All summer long Jon mal<'es the trophies. Then each spring ,,,1um an old Hatk ~Illler fl'iend. Craig llfcNamar n, comes out from th East . for a little 1tkiing. the Viking:~ aN.~rmble: ThiR year there 1/"l'Hl Craig, Jon. Enc Ella• .~on, Dai:e Quinney (that's a fwniliar 011n), Rm1d.11 LaChapp elk (that one, too> and a _couple of nri,,comm-s, Corey Miller and Scott Rte('. Oh .vc.~. there u;as one lady in the ,mcctKath I/ McNarnarn. • • • • • Slarter will be Robert JtleNamara, w7to teas scheduled to be on hand this year CJ'cept for the fact that a.~ Secretary of Defen.~e he had to be 011 hand for the hearings scheduled thfa week by the Jl,fcClcl'lan Conimittt' e. . • • • lland it to the kids, they staged a right fine tourney. And out o! such things as thl& come tomorrow's Olympic champions. Robert and Margaret McNamara ha,·e bet>n coming to Alfa to ski for many years now. It's their annual spring , ·acation trip. So have the )•oung McNamara s. Like so ma1w others who come to the \Vasatch Range, they are just pa1·t of our hill. Like our pine 'r<'es. I • Others on the scenP were Margaret McN"amara, the official starter; Floyd Johnson. noted jump judge from Detroit, who judged the form; Alan Engen, official marker · Evalyn Engen, recorder ; Alf Engen, hill packer; Tom PlofcJ1an, Alta Lodge, official photograph er and tlus scribe as official reporter. The skiers of Alta have noticed an old friend back on the Wasatch front, sopping up a little of that "sunshine ," which has slipped in on the hard slant the past few afternoon s. DESERET NEWS, Friday, April 9, 1965 DESERET NEWS AND TELEGRAM, Monday, April 1, 1963 There Will Be less Vehicles • He's Secretary of Defense Robert McNamar a, who by now, should have deserved a day on the staves. Bob McNamara and his wile Margaret, and their son and claugbter, have been comin't' to Alta for many seasons and while Bob would rather come and go as he used to, without the fanfare of the public, (as he did when he was the mere president of the Ford Motor Company) Bob's learned to live with his life. No one should be impolite enough to break up the day, though, with anything about our military postures. It's a little like the late Herbert Hoover said ab o u t PrE>sident Eisenhow er when the two were trying to fish through the crowds in Colorado one day, "There are two times when a man should be left alone. One is when he's praying and the other is when he's fishing." The third ought to be when a man's skiing. McNamara: Best Skiing In World free world has been very favorable." By DEL VAN ORDEN · Deseret News Staff Writer ALTA-"Ut ah has the fi nest skiing in the world," according to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara . · The secretary is no l cxlge skiier. He was the first on the slopes Friday morning. And he was back on the slopes after a shorl lunch break. Mr. McNamara and his wile, Margaret, were at Alta Salurlday for what the secretary termed "a non-military skl vacation." Mr. McNamara appeared relaxed. He laughed frequently and from all outward indica• tions, he was a man without a care in the world. "I have sided in many places throughout the world, including Switzerland, and there is no place that can equal Alta," the defense secretary said. Mr. McNamara talked freely about skiing and Alta, but he sidestepped any question concerning the nation's military posture or world tension spots as Viet Nam and Berlin. " This is a skiing vacation," he told reporters at Alta Lodge. "Please no military questions.'' But he did say tllat President Johnson's speech Wednesday night on Viet Nam was the "greatest of his career." "Reaction to his speech in the As for Lhe 1972 WintPr Olympics. Mr. McNamara claimed it couldn't be held in a better place than in Utah. The secretary, who will return to Washington Sunday night, is no stranger lo Alta. He has skied at the famed resort many times since 1949 when he was a Ford Motor Co. executive. Defense Secy. Robert S. McNamar a and his wife, Margaret, enjoy lunch at Alto Lodge during ski vacation. McN omoras will be at Alta until Sunday. However, this was his first trip since he becamP dcfc>nse secretary five years ago. Mr. McNamara pralsed All Engen, Alta skimeister. who was his kiing partnPr Friday. "Alf taught my three childrc!l to ski and he has been wonderful.'' When I told Harold Crane, Utah Fish and Game Dept. dircc\01 , that th<'rc were 51 vehicles of the tnick, station wagon , sedan-type, parked around his Utah fish and game headquarte rs one afternoon last wePl1 he wasted no lime in finding out about them-in detail. were not the state's-the y Hnrold re(lorts that were tr-.tded In and hadn't bE'f'n picked up. :seven more we.-e specialized 01J.!1ipment, lteld tor special a~~igl)ments. The other 27 were "assigned." "But about six or seven of these will go right away," Harold admitted. "We have kept too many vchict~s for use on a seasonal basis, without which we can pos~ibly operate. "We harn a wonderfu l reco1:d. for economy 1.', For Form And Distance For a week Alf supervised the c-onditioning of the hill and when they could Vikings practiced. At noon on Saturday Margaret McNamara signale~ the hill clear, dropped the warning flag the fore-runner , ho!iting Jon Engen, was off on his first run. . . At the end of two jumps all of the help was d1sm1ssed and went to the Lodge Lo assC'mble the statistics. The Vikings didn't see any reason to stop at two jumps. !'heir day had just begun. · , l.<'orn, and distance figured ac<·ording to the h,•~l of thf' stamlurch. Craig l\Ic-Namara t•amp out l1esl, fol· lowed by Randy LaCha.pellE' (whose mother mls~e•I the m<'f't bctau-.e shP is in a ca1>t from a rE-cent tiff with an avalanche, and who..e fallwr ls the avalanrhe . expert at Alla). · Then came Eric Eliason (who was almost named Sid after his golfing grandpa and his dog-trainin g father>. in vehirle operation," the game di'l'cctor said. ''We hare an OJif rntional cost of .j ½ ccnt:s er mile and trith all of 0111· big equipmmzt that 1s 1·cry rca.~onable. That's for the entire fleet We haPe to pay sercn cents a mile if verson..~ use their own personal t'ehiclcs!' Al anv rate, the director ls on Lnp of the matter. That is ni~e to know! The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 2, 1961 fom-foms Beat /Jy Tom Korologos I Washington , D.C., is a long way from Alta, Utah. And, in between the two there is a lot of everything -including snow. But, not Utah-type snow. And that is why the wife of the United States secretary o! defense came so far last week to indulge in the favorite recreation of the Robert S. McNamara family-ski ing. "I love Alta," exclaimed Mrs. Margaret McNamara . "After all, 10 , inches of new powder. . . ." And wbere was the bossman of the nation's defenses? "He had to stay in Washington ," Mrs. J\icNamara said. ''The defense budget' was submitted this week, you know." And, without doubt the secretary would have preferred to be on the slopes. He's been here before - and lUrs. Robert S, will be again. J\leNamara Marg McNamara brought two of the three children in the family with her-Kathy , J6, and Craig, 10. Daughter Margy, 19, a student at Stanford University, remained in Washington , readying herself for spring quarter at the California college. Ski addicts-an d nomads-th at they are, the McNamara s have skied slopes all over the U.S. and in Switzerland , too. Craig (left), Engen at Alta Freckle-fa ced Craig McNamara, 11-year-ol d son of U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, zipped down a sporty course in 1:22.8 to win the Alta (Utah) guest giant slalom. Young Craig, his two sisters, Margy and Cathy and Mrs. McNamara have been making Alta a frequent stop -over on the family vacations. SKIING NEWS MAGAZIN E AND THE SNOW isn't the only thin" about Alta they like. "It's relatively quiet here," Mrs. McNamara said. obviously happy to take a break from the hurly-burly of Wash, lngton political life. 0 · The 11-IcNamaras made plenty of new friends during thf'ir Alta stay. . And many of those friends didn't realize the friendly, funlo\'lng McNamara family from Washingto n, D.C., belonged to the U.S. secretary of defensn. IN PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT: JON ENGEN MARGARET McNAM ARA (WIFE OF ROBERT McNAMARA, FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE) ARA CRAIG McNAM Photo: Alta, Utah- Circa April 1963 • Army ROTC Awards US Army Instruct or Group Sr. ~OTC (Utah) ... .AMOIC-PUT ro: UNlVER sITy OF UTAH Salt Lake City 12, Utah 10 .1l.DMI 196) Th e annua l R\Vard ceremo ny of t he Army H.OTC was held Frida.v in Orson Spenc er Hall audito rium. Jon D. CnJJ1n s nan •Ch icago Tribun e medals went to Vincent Shephc rcl, . enior; Steven Kohler t, jµnior; D. Mark Larsen , sophom ore; and .John Edwa rds., freshm an. L i:-;te<l a~ disting ui ~h ed miliare D aviU C.-. t<•l'Y >Tad uatc Calder wo , I:ec 0IJdwe 1l, Alnn I,. E ngen, Gordo n J,. ,J cnning s, Theod ore \\'. Kell cl', Floyd · L. Larsrn1, Carl A . .\Iull son. Louis A. Ol lvh,,· D<'nnil-3 Vv. Hkhar d- 1:. &gen John M. Pt-evoat. lhd.ven iiyr of Utah Salt. Lake C1:t;.T• Utah Under the provisi ona Top Cadets or paragraph 12, AR 601-107, the 1'oll.01dng individ llal.s are duigna ted Dtat.bgui.shed Mll1.tar., Graduate: Jon Dau.a ilan.h rl Co) J:Ins ,-on. Kent I!;. Roh:-ion , IH .hard G. Shaffe r ancl Calvin J~. Smoot . i Col.--1.. Ar:1..:t__.1c.t8 7'T Pro.t'easor of Milit&17 At'my Spon;.;or n :ire.Is includ ed· ont~t.i ndlng Hpon~o1·, Cancly An• dc•1•-;on; Knt h k'en M u g I est o Jl, spon srw fr,acler ship award; Knthie 1Ta11r.; ~n, 8 po 1\ s o 1· s c holur~ hip aware]. Scieace • ALAN K. ENGEN -"DIST INGUIS HED MILITARY GRADUATE" - UNIVERSITY OF UTAHR .O.T.C. PRIOR TO COMMISSIONING AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE U.S. ARMY. Photo: University of Utah - circa 1962 W al te rs Is O nl y Ar ,a Skier O n Olympic Team ISA Miffed As Gaddis Is Ignored By DA \"E KADI.EC K 1 .·port~ Wril('r • D ~net ·e Jlm Gaddis W<1n't l-ompete on the 1961 United States Margo Wins SlJot on ·ol ym pi ~. The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday , J'un Salt Lake rNets Only ,., Area Post By A~ socl ;,,,ted Press SAN FRANCIS CO, June 14 - T he United States Ski Assn. sclect<>d teams to represent this countrv in the Winter Olympics in· Austria in 1964 Friday r c :; • ; . , Is ff ppoin ed "fu very dLs.appomted the}; CUSSAl could'n't see Gad<fu a.~ an Olympic rompetttor. Hi:; beat NI Orsi {<::tockton, Caliq in wo ~ts (Sun Valley aj• ~a ior.al Alpines. Alaska I an st~! didn't ge~ the vote," A sud. "Orsi did. Th Ime-nnountaln S kt °'. reptt.entt 'd at the Sa A ISA Ex . Franei~ro meet utlni Director Al HanS('n, w I~ tin pare of Korfanta, a IboaTd members Ray Lan,.."Ston 1Jac:k Wilwn. Rob<-tt Alll-n an ·Unn.·prsit~• 9f Utah ski coac Ma:x jltch1Ue, a formt'r Ohm :,in ,, ho \trill a -i:!<t Co!orad Unh-e.rsity Ii •i coach Bob Beal~ In coaching the ·63 Ya~ alpine tt>am. Gaddis was not selected o thl' ~Best Ever" team. H wasn't even mentiollt'd as a altl'rn&te. In competitio n G ddls defeated Jim Hue$:'ll. Bill Mal' '°It, Rip McManu$. 'i Orsi an Gordon F.aton. an ot wh-0 won selection to the '64 O!ym pk .quad. \ \"a., ·Ci.ht ' \\'hl'n he won the '62 • ·cAi combined title at Squa ilp Valley he was touted a "ctn<;h' , tor a '61 berth. _...,.__ ---..... ----- r.11 .. ..1 _..,. ..... - 15, l:iG3 - - - - - - - - - - -_- _- _ -_- - - Fred Cosotti was named manager of the U.S. Alpine team. These skiers were named to the U.S. Alpine team: l\len's Team Gordon Eaton , Littleton, N. H.; Charles Ferries, Houghton , Mich.; Jim Huega, Tahoe City, Calif.; Bill Kidd Jr., Stowe, Vt.; Bill Marolt, Aspen, Colo.; Rip McManus , Norwich, Conn.; Ni Orsi Jr., Stockton, Calif.: Steamboa t Werner, Bud snririg., ,J :::010. Slii Cl1oices 'Surprise' ISA Cl1ief • ' r: 1 Round About .. . By Hack Miller • ' • • • In my lifetime, I have known three individual s who by all rights should have had the opportuni ty to compete in Olympic ski competitio n but were rejected. The three are my father, Alf Engen; ski champion , Suzy Harris Rytting; and collegiate and national skiing great, Jim Gaddis. Alf was eliminated from the roster of 1936 Winter Olympic ski participan ts because his picture ended up on Wheaties cereal boxes. He never received any monetary considera tion for it; however, as Alf put it, "I got plenty of Wheaties •.. my whole family had a lot of Wheaties to eat." Suzy was virtually "kicked off'' the Olympic Ski Team in early 1952 when it was found out that she was in the early stages of pregnancy . She and her husband, Bill, subsequen tly nicknamed their little girl "Jinx" in remembra nce of the event. ~J ':ii Shou ld Hav e Nam ed Gad dis It didn't rnmc as a shock thal tile United States Olympic ski team selection committee named Margo Walters to the official contingent. It did come as a blow that the commlttee passed over Jim Gaddis. He was not chosen on the eight-man team. Margo Is our only representativ11 in the Nordic and Alpine events-on both sides. ONE OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGIONS SAD STORIES REGARDING OLYMPIC SKI PARTICIPATION by Alan K. Engen • Which is 1w,wr unto Margo and certainly the little lady with the big heart deserves it. And when they count down on the big run at Innsbruck nc.1·t February u;r!ll be pulling , hard for nur hometown gal. We thought surely we'd Ile pulling for Gaddis, too. and maybe thr ~ ,;,::,,l!l,J'M' " Brothers Miller - Alan and Dalr. But. our part of the ski 1corlrl missed it all amunrl. Jim Gaddis 1wd not heard the lmd ,lint Gaddi" news until I broke it to htm Saturday morning. Nor was he gay about it. . .. Jim's a gentleman and it took a good pry to uncover his real feellngs. He made it plain that he wanted to fan no fire with the Olympic selection committee. Ahead Of Three However, in a quiet way he suggested that he .hould hm;e been ahead o1 three of the men chosen-Rip Mc• Manus or Norwich, Conn.; Gordon Eaton of Littleton, N.H.; and Ni Orsi of Stockton, Calif. And Jim had the records to prove his ))Qint. lie llad figure out In all c.-ompetit,on no wor~e than fifth-sh:Hl at 11rthrst. Hr heat ;lk;llmms a" man, tlm"" ns ~lcl\l,. b<'al him. J<;11ttln hod hf>rn on two of thr United ~rntes teams b~fort• and did 1mxt to nothing. lie failed to plact' better· than lSth in the last hrn races-the on~s wb1ch were •really filled a~ the final run~ for the Olympic places. Orsi i,; a youn!?;' ski<'r--nbout 1S ~l'ars <>f age. And it was usull! that r;addi,; rn'<!t Or.-i each time they met. Eorned The Place Last year Gaddis ,vas • ·ationa.l Alpine champion in the NCAA and has been one of the top four or five skiers in the country the past several yea.rs. He had his heart liet on the chance at the Olympics and worked hard to prove bis position in the racing events which were designed to establish the elcctees to the United States team. In the big National Alpine event In Alaska, which tou.mamenL was booked as tbe omo, to settle the dispute for the team po!,ltions, Gllddis cilmo up fifth. 1'et he was l)()t included in t!1e eight team positions. \\bleh bl-gs the question about these trlRI mectswh~ hav~ them if ~-ou·re not ~oiug to pay attention to what Uley prove? Fw instance. in "the National Alpine in Anchorage, which meet wa~ booked for a couple of years as the one in which the final Olympic tests would be made, Jim Gaddis, amouv those pickro for th<- team, came fourt)t in the giant i<lalom and fourth in tl1c downhill That's ~tter than halt way up the laddcr -yet when the honors were handed out the big Ute was sunk to the cellar. Medals for T e Best What better mret could thcrr have bern for the big. testZ And certainly the Olympic is a one-run •lung. You !le\'C'r get a ehanoe to '<ly about your team, "thry wore the prettirst sh!Tts, or ,~·rre the nicest people to WOik else. 'With." Gold medals go to the bt:-st 1-acers ,and for nothing After ~·atching the la~t Olympic Games at Squa,,· Valley, when our skiers didn't do very much, it left one to wonder i! we ha\•en't bet.n a little loose in "picking Qur pets." · • • • The o;e th.ing that seems to slww a little taint to the tea,h 1.<1 the fact that the Great State of Colorado, ju.st in a first oount, shows no less tJta nine members of the 'Ski forces, along with the Coach Bob Brottic of Colorado U. Tu nddition to thfl(. Frrd Co!'totti, 10ho i.~ publ.i.city director jor the Colomdo Uniucr!lity n 111.etfo dcpnrtmcnt 1rri.s ?tamo-1 to mmta[/<' thn trnm. • • • Pi·!'ttY fair Colorado packet, rcaUY. Of C'OUr:<e, , e ha, c l\fan, . ichille, a!< one of the Olympic ski rn•che~. ~fan· was in San F'rancisco ;for the meet• ing. However, perhaps the greatest injustice, in my opinion, was when Jim Gaddis, one of Utah's greatest skiing athletes had legitimately earned the right to be on the 1964 U.S. Olympic men's alpine ski team, but was not selected for reasons yet to be justifiably explained , in my judgemen t. In looking at the entire matter from a historical perspectiv e, during the years 1960 through 1964, Jim Gaddis was among the very top skiers in the United States and was good enough to be an Olympic medal contender . The fact that Jim was left off the U.S. Olympic Team was not only sad for him, but for the entire country. I have known Jim a lifetime. He was, outside of my father, the finest competito r I had the oppprtuni ty to ski with and/or against .•• and I have skied in active competitio n among the best in the world. The saying that "there is no such thing in life as a guarantee for fairness in anything" is especially true in high level sports. Many factors come into play at that level and having qualifying results, sad to say, is only one of them. Jim was basicaUy left off the team because as then coach Bob Beattie informed sports writer, John Mooney, "We.have to secure good balance in slalom, downhill, and giant slalom. In selecting a team, a point system can show only so much. Other factors must be considere d, and it's hard to explain why some are selected and others eliminated ." The next pages of this scrapbook .p rovide a fairly complete snapshot of the Jim Gaddis Olympic team misfortun e incident. For those who are interested , it gives a full accountin g of Jim's outstandin g results leading up to the team selection process, and the aftermath following the decision made. A formal document was submitted to the United States Olympic Association by the Intermoun tain Division in the summer of 1963 requesting "an official review of the 1964 United States Olympic Alpine ski team selection procedure ." A copy of that document is included in this scrapbook . History continues to be made and the IntermouD tain region has a number of outstandin g athletes who have c:ompeted for Olympfr glory ... unfortuna tely, one of the greatest, Jim Gaddis, was not one of them. The 1993 appeal from the Intermou ntain Division of the United States Ski Association to the United States Olympic Association to review procedure s in selection of ski team members. This was in specific reference to the general feelings of unfairness in not selecting Jim Gaddis to be on the 1964 U.S. Winter Olympic Ski Team. ·.~ ~i ' " ROUND ABOUT !9b3 . . . By Hack Miller And Not To The Swiftest, Or Prettiest Round Abo ut siWasn' t it old Abe Lincol n who said, "To sin by ds cowar makes ts protes make should they lence when out of men! " With that justifi cation , this pr otest. ) The Olymp ic selecti on comm ittee (Alpine events done. have n't should and Gaddis Jim passed over Utah's And it raised a lot of dande r around the unoffi cial go for realm. Mostly becaus e the Gaddi s record s eemed toto raise naugh t and people who might have been figured attera little ruckus for our Beehiv e Stater t ook quite a m of-fa ctual attitud e. Or so it' seeme d! • • { So I check ed the r ecords , many t i mes, then called Marv Melvi lle, who, as assistant alpine coach to Colorado's Bob B eattie had more than a squatt er's say about the naming of the eight men and six ladies. The selection was made in San Fmncisco and announced Saturday . Marv was there. Only Margo Walters from our state got it-(ln d Margo Walters she was in by "law" bethe natio n by in 2 No. cause she was r ated . of [ ic ial points • * * Gaddis was seven-tenths of a second out of the automeets matic four- the quar tet with the best times in two Nathe and Valley Sun at an Harrim the ularpartic in tionals a t Ancho rage. Four were in by record s. Gaddis was fifth in 1the rec"age, ords and No. 5, 6, 7, 8 were chosen on t he basis of ." mance perfor and ial potent No Quar rel With first five "I have no quarre l about the first five chosen ," Gadks. dis conceded, even though he had the fifth best mar r, Bill Werne Bud s, Ferrie Chuck itearned men e "Thes others Kidd, Bill Ma rolt and Jim Huega . But the three as I didn't earn, or deserv e a spot, ahead of me as far ned." concer am s A~ has b,,en said before, Olymp ic Games medal the go to the swifte st, not the prettie st nor the sons of chairmen. The other three, Gordo n Eaton , Ni Orsi and Rip McManus are not the swifte st by any stretch of the mind. Way Behind Gaddis Take McMa nus. He was three positio ns behind Gadtwo dis in the combi ned Nation als and Harr iman. H e was He full second s behind Gaddis in these ultima te tes ts.they was two places behind Gaddis in the best four races Roch ran and three behind Gaddis in t he s anctio ned Cups. ado) (Color Vail and ) (Aspen Take Orsi! He was two post8 behin d Gaddis in the combined effort s of the Harri man and Nationa],S. H e was disqu alified in the Nationa],S' giant slalom, five behind Gail.dis in the best two of their r aces, didn't compete i n any of the others. He had so li ttle ti me in action that the point was virtiw lly unproved. • . they • at \"a.11 with no W" -,,prtt; iaSNI' I rf• to . 'BS • • Take Eaton ! Like MPlville said, "Eaton 's ability was Yet seen in Europ e in 1962 before he broke his leg."g and Eaton br oke his leg early in his Europ ean trainin there is little record to prove this point. But what Melville didn't show was that Eaton was an seven berths behind Gaddis in the Nation al and Harrim ments totals. Eaton also started two races in these tourna and never finishe d t hem. 'But He Ran A Fast 'Race' Melville also s upport ed the Eaton choice on the premhe ise that "Eaton, in one of his races, was mis-ti med-t very a ran he tell could you But e. mistak a timers made fast race!" Marvin said he liked the choice of the committee. and He said he though t Orsi was better than Gaddis nwhen he was reminded that the record didn't substa iiate his prefer ence he said that "Orsi has more potential than Gaddis." As to age, Gaddis is the same age a.s Eaton and Mc• Manus -23 years. Orsi is 18. As to potent ial, Eaton had t he last Olymp ics and the any 1962 FIS to prove his talents . And didn't knock off , . ention m th wor marks McMa nus has been to Europ e three times and has done next to nothin g from a placem ent standp oint.with Orsi is 18, untrie d a nd is a shot in the dark. And the Games thr ee trainin g month s away. • • a little MlP we're somet imes like up • half-d rowne d kid in the Ol,ber da~' bea.use "they said they _._ . . - ·: ban-: theto 100k good into sucu Saine o.f 1 , - - ~ care en we'll be tblngs . Otber' \\i, in intern ationa l compe tition the Russia ns got the brush. pain~ red .and •-ende r bow_,_ .... tbl." Mad e It On His Own ed Gaddis never went to Europe. He never had sustain He's ctor. instru l ic-leve Olymp ed qualifi a trainin g under never r eally been looked at for his true talents . Yet he's done well for us, has beaten every man on the team, except Werne r (when Werne r didn't fall). is With none of the help the others have had Gaddis still the nat ion's fi fth best by test. * Jjll • ,cilffl t~" ut.ic, {bod l!le 1st Resort /Jy . --o.s. ....,...__s.;""ill",_- _....... --• ~> kl ~- . . .---------<-to ~ ,.... __ a.t!lt, - at . . U.S.. 4'!6MIW I ski IHm.. ....,. _ _ . ...,.. ... llo _ __ t,o -"" _ _ F_ _ _ _ - • Jim's the fi rst to note that there's a bad ruckus in our local ran,_ks. Margo Walters admitte d it-as aid others who have more than a look-on interest in our Olym pic affair s. "I knew I had to make the first four and get it on points ," Jim said, "or I would n't get it at all. 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D.R. 31>.,q 0,,. $5.60 O.R. D.lt D.lt, OR. °"- e.u °"' S.Ul f 14-IO "-Si D<,. 211.JO nu, Y.AILCU P l)N. O.lt li.O X.14 Sl.92 $5,76 6-.l!I an ~n 41'.3f ----- JO'J 7'.58. ,CU6 '3.10 4U7 .O.GJ DA .n..-s ,u, 12.Jt 76.Sll f4.67 Sill!llo - 73} -.. M•roll "<Ai •E,lfar, er L,.,_ a...,... The 1iery Beatti e replied : 5t,.Q ~19.T7i:1 Jim Gadill ' Olymp ic fi kl team, ooad1f " SJ.GO 53.67 t).5& 5614 st.Cl' "What - ('hances o1 makin g th.a UH <&-8& IJq. DI>. m_n l?..12 ~2_ ...=- °"· 11.ff W-11 ll.Q = 1$.Q o.J5 S.l6 "'" ltA •uc IHI ll.M - n.n S,H '741'! \U.J:I s. \S.S. l>tl. T..S. n.!4 - lfA~ L$ MAW<:U f' ''He's one of the top 12. It all depends on how weU he does in the Harrim an Cup and , ·ational Champiom;hip~:• 11 just happenc·d .T,m was t~e only one of the top It Ol}lU• pie prospei-ts who fini~hed nmong the llrst 10 In evrr; one of the ~ix racci; in the two meetings. The story that Salt Lake's forme r NCAA champion didn't make the Olympic team has b!'en told many times. Its late t chapte r came last week when the lntenn ountain Division or the- United States Ski Assn. filed an official, and length y prot<>st re'!Ul'sting th!' "Unite d St.ate.· . of it~ :Ski Olytnm c ,\,-.VI. 11•\'1PW the team selection proccdu1 ~pproG~cs Com~ itt~Al pine Subco mmitte e, and to take pr1ate corr<'ct1ve action . . . ." has six TH_ I.NTERl\101: iTAIN BODY contends, and It all the not dlarts m hs protes t to back up its argum ents, thatthe team ln l&'(;.."11.ber ot the U.S. Olymp ic ski squad made bv-Jaws accord an ulth roles ,t forth by the constit ution · • of the U.S. Olympic Assn. and gem-n il rul ership Rul •. _ ~tate ~o aUtlc~ :shall be selected for memb ha!: vcn he unless team can Ameri Pan or Pie OJ . on*~ s designated hi., r1gl t to do ;;o ,in a tryout or series of tryout e•• , ." purpo~ that !or ittees comm games by the se\·era l Did Not Follow Rules Sports Affrror /Jy. John Mooney ri~ bun e Spor ts Editor ! .nd fo~ 11te compe titive s&:C .::-h ale d by the 1 snubbe was who skier, erica All-Am twice Jim Gaddis, Winte\i'< the or ! team Staks United .selectors in pickin g 1he } , Olymp ics ln Innsbr uck, Austri a. "I don't know what my future plans will 1>¢." Ga.ddls 1 ittee had Nld after reN\h· lng the word the selection comm 1 not named him. 1 ' "I had a broken leg in 1960 and again in 1962.a nd couldn l when right hit ent ointm disapp this now and com.~ te, though t I desrrv a team berth. the rf'Sult s I was No. 6 1n the compe tition •·1 KXOW he added. team," an !or the dght-m "T nm Vl'ry disapp ointed , natura lly, :;ince I felt all along Austri a. I had qualif ied o repres ent the United States in o( In''This, comin g after two other' setbac ks becaus e competitive juries in 1%0 and 1962, may cau..<se me to give up e I would skiing . Had I 1:JE>en selectl'rl on the team, I bcliev the 1966 have remain ed in compe tition and tried again for • t~am, but now I don't know. mar~1•,,c tini"111'1l my co!lt,ghu~ ~'llmf)('Hfion and r m a. s ried man now, i,o l may ~,·e up compe titive s iding; · Gaddi ~! &aid. bvt en's 1964 Olym pic ski team, ~rgo Wafte n, i~, WO$ name d tc the '\'IIOm 's best, missed a berth. nation of Jim GQdd",s, cammg lh1'0Ugh gates , one t he selecIn attemp ting to analyz e the metho ds used by !elt other ittee comm the e •·:ua~•b said, s Gaddi ittee, comm tion lng scle<'t for t aceoun would whicn tial, potc."l boys had more t\• compe onal .terna i more ha me , or at s ·o n tion. ll!aybe they feel I'm 100 old. reconc ile kl wou.11! hate to say it was politic s, but I can't my standings with their select.ton." at Bob Beatti e, the Olymp ic <'oach Who also Is l:'ki coach Colorado U., told us from San Fl'llncisco Saturd ay: l'd, be"I K~OW liO\ ,fill lJ'Cls about no' being ;:;el<'Ct But the 16cau~ he has been a good ~-kier ror severa l year& fo, ha:< man commitl~'<', in trying to pick t~ bel<l team p<>5sib the with along ials, potent and ag<'.s ' sklcrs to consid er the record s, to insure a good showi ng in the Olymp ics. the NHmnittlle cou...,Jdere,f him "As f · r a.." Gaddi,; ti: o.t ~vend boy'i who had good DP as w a ver.,• g()(ld neer. Be rec.-ord.'l and m:ong biackinJ, auto"But In selecti ng a team, the first four qualif y be sele<:ted matica lly on their record s and the other four must I on potent ial, age and record s. 1 , down"WI: HA\ E TO sc,'4re good balanc<' Ir the 1slalomtr-M can ·rrt•sys 1 :n(, a ... t ~!qloM. In SC'lc-ct~ng a team, a pfl an ,w ' or ) so t IC, <J1'h f:ictcn !I:. must KE.1-;pJ_·G THI<: argum en t close to home Jrt·~ look B two of the at _the Gaddis situati on. Let"s compa re Gaddis with said about e Beatti what forget and team the made who skiers the Jast two races . First, Rip Mcl\Ia nus, U.S. Anny. official ,The two met 18 times last season, 13 times inill, three ~lymp ic tryout races. Ot these, three were downh g1ant slalom and seven were slalom. meet• GADD IS BEAT )IcMANUS eight of the 13 tryout the breakd own per event, Jim won two of the sthree ings. and downh ill meetin gs, two of the three giant slalom clashe four of the seven slalom s. one In the non-tryout races, Gaddis took three, tied on tnd lost one. Compt on . Now, compa re Gaddi s' mark With Ni Orsi but "is a~ rar;; point the in well very rue didn't who CaliI., e's Beatti In " p develo may who ct prospe ill l'Xccllcnt downh ' wo:rds. races. _ IDE Tn·~ ilIBT IN SIX officia l Olymp ic tryout meetin gs <,add1s won live and lost one. Two were downh ill ' h• o . lalom and two giant slalom . both took iJI, downh the in one lost and one won s G_addi the mant slalom and both slalom meetin gs. in The :one victor y for Orsi was by one-tenth of a second the Ha1Tunan Cup downh ill. . Som~ What Next, H Anything? say i.r.i: doubU ul the staid, power ful Olympi<' comons. Others rmttee ~v1~ a~!Tllt 1t erred and alter its initial selecti l are ophmI Stlc that somet hing big will come of the protes aorganz an for and ed follow not . Surely , the rules were the rules tion sucn as the Olymp ic comm ittee to not follow isn't selling too much of an example. In any event, It's a shame Gaddi s had to be t.he victim Olympic Coaci1 Speaks 1 Wl'tt The pro«'· con ' d.'< :or1e member~ of the team l teyout officia than other results raee of ba~1.• on.the 'd sele.·tl g race·,_ a.i;e, ;>erfonn.:mce 1n races conductedp."in Europe, Winnin develo may vho '" ns potent ial. and J)Cl":;o GaJ· 0 \~00 t,· thf' oompl11lnt 1ems from the lad that «Ill t mate the 1964 team. (.'(Jfi. 1. lrrcd others elhninated when places on a sm::ill squad. g a t~. "It ls a t.ickli ·h, and thankl ess, job in namin we want which i.n one and sport new a is but we tee! l\kiing so we to make a good showi ng in internail<mal compe tition, in !uture must pick the men -.;,,;.,; believ e will help us, now and meets," Beatti e said. ot the rules infract ion. ' 1 s But ~hil~ this came as a great .;;etback to .Jim, Utahn com• sport, the with stays he hoping are fans and all his ski to let the :petes 1;1nen a.'ld perhap s enters the <.-oaching end . UJ)COlTllllg young sters benefi t irom his great ski talents not tin The nation al body must do someth ing, ma} that ear. but in the future . to llt..,ure the rising I.Id !>tal's iOf_ymp u makes what ill g winnin and ning i tra. hard work, an. f - , Round About ... By Hack Miller Bea ttie Explains Ski Case Jn this c•olumn Bob BE'attie, U.S. Olympic Alpin" Coach explains why ,Jim Gaddis of Utah was not induded in thP 01ympir team rostp1-ina~1111H:h as ,Jim r,la<·ed no worse than fifth In overall testin,r competition and ypf failed to makP (hp first eii:-ht positions. Tlw lettP1' irom Beattie is r,ublished without deletion. Drar Hack, J havp rrarl wlfh inlerPsl your 1·olumns concerning our rf>cent Olympic Alpine Team selections. Your support of Jim Gaddis Is most commendable, and I feel that you and the Salt Lake City skiing pu bhc are entitled to ;a detailed explanation of our selection procedure and thinking. * • As yon knou;, 1ce picked half the squad f mm points, based on a percentage of t1w 1i;inne-l''S time, from the Harriman Cup race at Sun Valley and the National Championships in Alaska. There were six events r,m dul'ing these two races, rm{i the Join· with the lowest points, (the 1rinner rrceives zero), in lfaC'k Miller the best tu:o rnml..~ of llie .~i.1· were automaticall.11 sclcr.tr.d to the team. Thos!' icho made the team ba8ed on thrn mdomatir selection icerr: Bud Werner, Charles F'errirs, Bill Marolt, a11d Ji.m Heu,qa. Thi.~ gare us four more rnrn to be picked basrd on season's records in all of the tr,11011t rnccs (13 were held throughout the country), in other races where there was an outstandin_ q field, and considering aae, winni.ng potential based on our observations, and the fact that we 1cere picking a squad to compete in three crents: downhill, slalom, and giant slalom. involves hundrPd~ of peopl<> all ornr the eountr,\'. Our goal is to win medal~ in Europe. 111 selPcting a ,quad, we havP fo a ,k ourselvPs th" q11pstion: ls this J)f'rson a potential winnPr in intprna· tional competition·! 0111> of our weaki>,t ev,,nls is rlownhill and WP clPfinitely favorell men who might con•f' through In thP downhill PVent, •ini•.f' it is ,•onsider<>d the premierP r\ ent nationally. How They Rate The Skiers This past winter 1 attended nearly all of thP. tryout raC'es and have had the opportunity to watch all of the tryout C'andidates in training. Following are the r easons for selecting the final four members of the men's squad. BILL KIDD JR.-had the top record of ~ny American male before he was hurt in ear ly March. His record in Europe last year was excellent and he skied himself into the first seed in the international rankings in both downhill and slalom. He is the obvious choice for the fifth spot. • • RIP McMANUS-1.i.:e felt had the best overall record of all of the tryout candidates remaining. He started 68th in the Olympic u:armup at Innsbruck. and finished 24th. He finished seventh in the International Army Champion- • .ships in France. He had sercral good results at thP Harrirnnn Cup Race and the Natwnal Championships. He won the North American Giant Slalom. He had two good results in the Broadmoor Slalom Derby. He won the downhill and giant slalom at the Eastern Championships. He ' tied for second at the North American Championships in downhill. He has pu,l out n tremendous effort, come up the hard way, and is dcsen:ing of a place on the team. • • * GORDON EATON was in my mind the best downhi!l racer on the American team last year in Europe before an early season injury. He is strictly a downhill specialist. We feel he is a definite threat for a medal in the Olympics. Whereas others are consistent in all three events, a downhill specialist has to do it in one. Their rPcords never will look as outstanding. His downhill record this year will place him in the top four in the national rankings when they are published. He finisht>d a wr·y close second to Bill Kidd in the Stowe C'up downhill, he won both tht> downhill and slalom See ROUND AB01JT on Page B-7 • • • The squad we have just picked rrpresents the Olympie squad. Although eight were named, only four will be alJowed to compete in each of the three above men• tioned PVf'nts at the Olympics. It is very probable that ~ome of thf' squad members will not compete in the Olympics themselves. Goal Is To Win Medals WP arP involved in a vl'ry aggressive program which Continuell from l'ai;e B-5 al the .North Americans. In this case we arr picking a man who miwht be able to compete in the Olympics in one event o:er others who are more consistent in all three who probably wonld not start in any event Look Toward Next Games NI ORSI ,JR. has just graduated from high school. Again, he is an excellent downhill prospect. He and Jim Gaddis competed against each other in four downhill ~aces this year (two at the Vail Training Camp, the Harnman Cup, and the National Championships) . Orsi beat Jim in Huee of these. H,e may be the best athlete we have ever had in this country who ski~\\'ht>n wt> get to an Pighth ma11 on the team, I tf'.el ll is sound athletics to go with a young man with unlimited JJOtPntial. I feel that hP is a r<>al kt'~· 1o this Olympic ~riuad and that he may develop by nPxl winter as our lop downhill racer. Condition$' Are Variable Hack. it is w r y difficult to pick an Olympic- ski squad. Wax, the tremendous size of this country, snow problems such as we saw in California _this yPar, and school problems are just a few oi the variables we must contend with and still be fair. I can assure you that fairness is and always has been our only criterion. We want to win, and to represent our country the best way we know how. Jim Gaddis was considered very carefully for the squad, along with Dave Gorsuch and Jim Barrier. All three had very good records, and it was difficult to Jpa VP any off. Ho~ever, we feel that the squad we have selected is the best one. I think it is important lo understand that ,Jim Gaddis is considered by me, personally, to be a fine 11oung lad, an c:ixellent skier, and a great credit to Salt Lake City. Marv Melville rrrnsentC'd a clear ca.~e fn,· him, and frlt that he should have bern selected . The IntPrmountain Ski Association frft that hp, 8hould have been srlectcd and worked hard in his brhalf. The responsibility for hi.~ not haring brcn seler.ted rests with rne. As the coach, I made the recommendations to the Olympic Ski Games Committee, and went over all of the candidates. These recommendations were supported. If I haiJe any criticism of the Inter-mountain people, it would be that they were too outspoken in their support of Jim. _ . This is a national program with far-reachrng 1·ons1derations. I try to answer every problem with fairne~s and to back up the people who work so hard for this program. Thousands of volunteers own this program and I am their agent. They spend many hours at no fee helping thP youth of America. We make mistakes, and are faced with manv difficult necisions, like my !Paving off one of my own Univf'rsity of Colorado girls, who is the national slalom champion. J hope that whPn WP are finishecl with this phase o! the program. WP will hP respected for this. LPt me thank you for ~,our interest in ski rneing. and I will look forward to ~eeing you in the near future. Sinterely, BOB BF.ATIIF:, l'.S. Olympic Alpine Coach f By Hack Miller Ro~nd ·A bout ... If/ Why The Snub At ·Vail! I like Bob Beattie, USA Olympic Alpine ski coach, and I've let him have his say about the reasons he left :fi!th-ranked Jim Gaddis off our eight-man Olympic alpine team. But as far as the Beattie explanation goes there are several things that stick in this man's craw. One of which is the snub at Vail training camp when Beattie, as head coach, was too busy to coach Margo Walters and Gaddis ot Utah, when the two unfortunately turned up for the much-publicized school without a coach of their own. ·. • • ers) and the fifth best of the males (Jim Gaddis) came off without any coaching from Bob Beattie, our head coach. Except for a little help from an Air Force instructor, who had to return to his base, the skiers got no coaching except for what Sun Valley offered them. Like I said, Beattie's a nice guy and a tine coach. But he didn't head coach a very good school at Vail, as far as two of his leading skiers were concerned. Else why were they left to pasture for themselves? From The Lleutenant1 Sir • And this letter today from Alan Engen, now a lieutenant, U.S. Army: "I wanted to say 'amen' to everything y.au have. written about the Jim Gaddis case. Jim is a very close friend of mine. We have skied with, and against, each other since both of us started competitive racing. Gaddis and Walters finally joined the Sun Valley contingent f o r want of a "home." Beattie was too bUS'.11 · with his own Colorado U. Bki team. · If Beattie had been interested in the Utahns, in any degree, according to the facts as they am now fixed, he would have coached them . Hack Miller Like he says, "I was the coach. I picked the team. I'm ·the man to be held accountable!" So we have to hold him so. • • • • • "I have had many opportunities to observe not only the outstanding skiing ability that Jim has, bnt a7.~o his great determination and fine mental attitude. This, in my opinion, has placed him in top ranks in skiing today. "I can truthfully say that in my experience in competitive 'wars' I have never seen a more fierce and determined competit01· than Jim. • • "I am confused as to how the selection committee could have left Jim off the Olympic team. His record shows he's no worse than our sixth best skier-[ar ahead of two who were picked ahead of him. I think Jim should be added to the team on the bal:lis of what the record shows. . "For what else is there but the record?" • There is another thing that Beattie must have considered in the Gaddi's snub. . Took The Kickback Rap · Pinched In The Saddle A letter also came from a feller who had got hlffiself After the Vail training camp, which was the farce of the year, one of Beattie's assistants urged t?e ski_ers to make a protest. A news man was tipped to mterv1ew some of the skiers who were at Vail. , And the skiers, honest folk, said what they thought of the Vall setup. pinched in a saddle. He didn't like the quality of the saddle that the packer put him in-nor the unshod steed he rode. •Then In the final ac<'ount, acconllng to the skiers ·1 tell in the line of fi.t'e because someone told him themselves, these reports were held against them. I was part owner in the place. I wish I were, but I don't own a ranch, nor a sadWhich Is a natural consequence. Beattie told this writer on the phone recently thnt die, nor a barefoot horse. It w~s Jim's attltnde that was held most against him. I do try and pass along the information on those who Obviously the newspaper report, excited by one of do. It is important that we patronize, when we can, our the coaches, came home to rest in Jim's lap. Because dude packers-the men who keep stock for our outdoor a"man and a lady have the gumption to speak out. pleasure. Ho\vever, if I get in a bad saddle, that's my fault. So for all of the fuss we , made about th e v i\l·1, d be k. (Margo Walt If you get in one, that's yours. ~~C-o-lo_._•_c_a_m,._p....•...t....h~e-se_c_on,....,.•_s,..t....,_;o,_o~m~a-n_s_1_e_,;,,.,.,..,..,....,,.,.,..,........,,..,..,....·......,,.,.,,,.,._,,.,.,..,......,,,..,..,....,,,..,..,_ _,....,.........,,,.,.,..,.....,,.,,.,.,..,.......,,,..,..,........._ _ _,.,.,,,.,._,,.,.,..,....,,. 1 I Round About ... By Hack Miller The.Man Asked No Quarter Thr-rP ha\P hPPn ft lo1 of p.-nr,lp roncPrnPrl ahout thP .shaft thal wa~ sl1n,·pd to .Jim t.arld1s !n the rprqnt t 1 OI_, mp1r AlpinP skt s~!Pctio11 . .Jim was ~omf'WhPrP hrlt<'1 tha11 i.J:}J: tu tftp nalinn in Rl'ltrfll aehir\rmcnl. Yet he was no! givl'n onP or lhP Pighl posts. • Whirh lrrt thP man It little stunnPd. Anrl which p11t ,mmr of us to wonder ju.sf how much opposition .Jim got from pPoplf' inpsidp in 1hP !nll'rmn11ntain Tf'alm \\ho might h11vP bf'en in pitching (or ,Tim lnstt>arl o! poking at him. Ifp had no VPrmon t ers to send him 1o Europe, no h::ig of funds from which to draw. • an. • .Jim's trouble, as inrl1 i;id:µal, is that he didn't mak enough of that nasty noise. HP had no dolla.ts in his pocket to mttle. His father wa.~ a paraplegic, uartime polio victim. ,Jim 1ra., nne of five boys, couldn't c.rprr;I ton murh hc1p - 1dth trarrl, 8ki /Pc.~. thP. othrr .~k11-mckcting r :r p r n 11 P whirh nttrnd ski raring. , .Tim'.~ nnly financial hrlp i11 -~kiinrt rmnr in a. .~rho/a,-. .~hip at 'the Unil·rrsity nf Utah Olld -~mw trn'rr/ /11 011d frnm thr. hi/1, and rt lifl: to -~nrnr nf /hr tn111·11nmr11ts in a UtP car with othrr rarers. .Jim c;addis asked no quartPr and got nonP. The other night I spent somP time with .Jim, talking ahout such things. T rnC'ntionrd that ir we had laid snmP ground work for the selection committee, a month nr so ago, we might havr got him one of thos(' eight berths. Please, No Giftsl But typically Gaddis. Jim said he wouldn' t ha,•p wanted that. ''I chose lo stanrl on my marks anrl I thought thNP was no riuestion at all that 1he_v would be good Ppougi} 1n earn a position. Bui they wcrpp't T wan1rd no nnP to ,~;· that T got ii through spPd;al patronage. l'rl rather not h11,·e it than grl it as II gift'" ,Jim'• ''h-n11hle'' I• th11f he'• a11 11thlrtP who IPt• hi~ rPror<I •P<'ak for lt~elr. He'• nn f'a••ln~ f'la.1•. for ~nre. Lll<P GPnP FullmPr In ~n "'""Y w•r~. H thP •pnrtln& wor1" ilnt>.~11·1 want hii; tlllent• 1hPll IP1 fhe •PorthIJt 1,·orl,1 he wi1 houf 1hPm. ''.'he l'P-art1011 to tl1P (;arlrhs skip-m rr h;is hrPn 11"rr11I. ~t11n., h"''I' wr illPn JettPrs. or m11rle ,all:,., Asking hn\\ the; c11n hf'lp hring ahoul justicr in nur Olimrirs ski rN1lm. Tt might be ton latP In gel t.11rlrlis nn thP list unll'.<S thrrP is an aecid<'n( in !mining rluty, rtr·. ' Th::it w;as marlP pl11in wh<'n Coach Bnh nratliP nf th" Alpine tl'am nrsherl into $alt Lakp Cit) from Rouldrr, C::nln .. the other night 1o see what lhP rurkus wa.s 1111 ahout. 'No Chance For Gaddis' Bealtil' told Earl Walters, father of ~largo Walters, No. 2 gal on the ladies' Alpine team, that there was no chance for Gaddis now. Beattie also said that the Iirst four W<'Te chosen on points "nd that he took the responsi bility oI naming the next four and he picked them for man_v reasons. Which is true. But what Beattie didn't notP was that the reasons were the Eastern money, the California prestige and the complete f ailnrP nn th1o ])art nf the Intcrmountain ski officials to push f nr a man 1;:hn dPsmTed it on 8kiinq mrrit. An_vway, Bf'attie prrsumabl~· rame to mrnrl som" nr 1hr local fPn<'PS anrl the r.addis gale wasn't nnp or thrm . Rut the Gaddis stor_v will hP (nlrl and rP1olrl th1·n11gho11t lhP ski world 11s the usual c-asp or Ol.1·mplr cnmmittrP plunrlrring . ThP old l'RSP or "j( isn't wh11I you do it is \\'hn ~·011 know'." Jim (;arlrli.s ls still asking 11n riua , 1rr. Because He Ran The Race Wlu,t ,Jim Gaddis has h<'<'n h skiing he ·, h,-pr, hf' rausp o.r tht> way he ran the rare. And not becausp of patronage, by papa or pal. Anyone who wishes to eomplaiu may go top-side to ihP Olympic Committee. Kenneth L. Wilson, rhairn1a11, Address is the Olympic House, 57 Park Ave., New Yo1·k 16, Xew York. The squeaking wh!'PI, at this point , might 1101 get the grease. But the driver will know. at least, that nne of his whePIS Is .S(JUl'Rking. If B<'attie'.s visit did nothing mor e it set somP whePls 1urnink. Jmmedi11trly, Coal'h Marvin \olrlvllle. RPaltiP'.s assi,-t:ant , was assignPd rhorcs to supl'rvise thp ph_,·siral conrlitinn ing nr :vtargo Walters and Unrl;a Meyer., . Until thrn . thP g;a,ls werP Jpft 1n fenrl ror them<Pl\'el'I :,s far 11,; musclP-m11ki111: chores went. t:/_ l, ·Time Now: Right The Wrong . Round About ... By Hack Miller Bob Beattie o [ the C.olorado Uniwrsity coaching staff, who is also the coach of the l 'nited ' tates a lpine Olym pic team. rnay ha ve to look again into the matter of the men he will use for the 196-l Winter Games in Innsbruck. Press ure is beln:: put to reconsider the select:oM b.v lb ~ I nter-moun ta in apter of the • ·at;t.mal Ski A~s.n. Beuer knm, n a.5 the Intermountain Ski Assn. • • • It u:a& this chapter. headca by Al Korfa11ta of Pmedalc_. that u.-a~ tic• cu.~ by Beattie of bcing "'too aggrF.~ire for the ~ 1 He Could Have Been W ~ong In Beattle's mind he might be as 1ight a~ raisin~. His intf'grity an<! his gum pt ion are not to bE' que~tioned. He J!- a man of actit)n. o[ decis10n and all that. • • • But t!d.• doC!m't mean that hr r01tldt1. 1t hare hcen u:rottg ·1, the selection of our Olympic f-"'am. • • • dis, ·ho ro1lked fifth or better m t1,t; ovcr--all official t:t01npdition, 8h<r.1ld Ml'C Oli ll'rte.ad of llr. )Hiler IIOme of th~ others teho failed to r°Mck out a., occn • test is acco.mplishment. Wh at the athletes have able to do. The~ are many honors to comp from making an • Olympic learn. In thl' first placP the parpo,;., of it to have In compl'tition against the other nation~ of the '' orld our hnest i:kiers. Be attic 11:Jto cJuwtil.11 cJw.~t -<l creryont, for thinking ltrtce that Gad- • !) Jn the cre11f he might hai.:e erred. the re- • tictd11g Olympic committee should rcrtuinly takr, anothu good look at thr rhecl, r-harts. el.ection o/ Utah'a ,Jim Gaddis" t.o the eightman ,quad. And rt m1.q thi. high &. Gaddi,~ did. U • In a r~ece which Beattie did for thi writer in which he explainro his whole ~~e. n~ let it be known tha he team was hi~ sek>ction and i! there was aey i;rlory or call it would upon bim only. \\'h1 as we i;aid at the time wa, •'lrt of hra\'e, orash or bra7.cn 11;."td ,;omr>what on the dietatonal ~Ide. Recorcis Tell The Tale Alter ;;ii}, mi:m-ds a the W""f of pudding; 1he_y Mand a~ ti:li.' prideful po4-ntial <11 the pel"$0n. They are what one has acmrnpfu;lted. ,, What h> flttp 00!!' ma In tb,l.. mi ot thin -,.,. from <'1ldd • It iu_., rotdn 1·ou t•oukt stack a pretty tat <f~kIn all ruch ttwlgs. esprcla , th such an importan• P\ t as our O -pie Games, i 15 important that thM"e be revil"' boaro to IOQk upro 1hr, w'sdom of ome o1 our wavs.. ln this. t ere. sbotild bP. one :f',<t. a1< '4e've said before bl bring:mg thl' bad selection IQ the publit: !l;( t. That ft Just Isn't Fair Only way we can test our candidates li1 In compe itlon. To disrei:-ard the ch<'ck charts in the official meets. and hold that one's potential is gft'atcr than another's. i1' neither fair nor honorable. There is another :,airle. To make an Olympie tmm 1~ honor in its(>lf. It is something for which all of our athletPS t<triVE.'. To achlevc that honor the}' strive lo eX(.'t'l in official competitions. And when they head up higher th n all othrN< t:ien tilt' honor should be their,:.. To take it from thc."U,, and ,,,1ve it to a b<>t er athlPti,, is aking away frnni then• omNhin!! they have <'aml'll, nor a~ a mat1£'r of pq_•fprence on someone's part. but as a mattC'r of right: No Reason For Secrecy It ha$ b«-n reported that the Intcrmollntiun Ski As~ has bee-n working "secretly to prove a Cli"I! lll asking for a review or rPconsideration. • ·o l-eason for -.e.·reey in this ca...e. It Ila.~ app,•.an,d f<>r . ome, "·e<>k.<t now that the 18~ had bt>,·omP. a i:-r-,,at sleeping giant. No one <tt"Pmrd t-0 be abl~ «i fire up to:r 11 fight to haYe the BPattie husinrs,i re\'if'WPd by f.b.-· top 01.:mpk commif.1.,.., Now ~omponl' seems fo awake! Herc in the high hill$ we ;are primarily \n1erC'st.:d in Jim G11.ddi$. For he is the one for which a ca5et'an br mad!'. + it z The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 28, 1963 B 17 s n o ti c le e S i k S e in lp A . .S U ts ISA Fires S h o t- P r o te s U.S. Olyn1pic Group Gains Request Here's Team Of 1964 Alpine Stars To Reconsider, Do It Over Again dent t-body, one other Olymplc association presi Inell, The _Interm ounta ln ~ivJ.sion (?lym pic paren prote st points to "the the ol line its in up ed loom e figur . ol Unite d State s Ski Assn Vidual r ights of athle tes earne d Satu rday fired !hf' shot It tin>. man: F .S. Olym pir Ski by virtu e of perfo rman ce." anri hear d a round the ThP association r ule to HerP '• thp lineu p of thP 1964 hope s will be Co~rh Bob Beatt ie, who I~ quot- c-itPs the t. . : world skt squad ski Ptfcc ne that alpi he U.S. Olym pic repo rt as sayin g A N OFFI CIAL PRO TEST Pd m th_r d f JI-An I } ---llnd those considered top con"I fly respo nsibl e for ch11> . \\:as . Olvm 1964 he es r-, t of can tion •er selec a over our n proa _ ds the squa tende rs. & team-nation we s uad and a picki ng whic •~ ski exc~l inp lo al is le says t rrpor thP t h t re . t I1 · q . - State s / "erlu P . y \VPr- 1P ... we mus no . .• D: Budd d J\lEN'S· SQUA not accor ding to the rult?,book · franno •t 1 c o1ora d o,• reque st. that the Unite · nPr, u n1vers or.i;-Pt those rig hts," said , , , 1 y o th • pic Assn .. revie w e pro-) Chuc k Ferri l's, Denv er UnivPr- Olymre . . ;IIE PRO I EST asser ts Beat- Korfan ta. and do !t over again. cedu l'.: ado Color a, HuPg ,Tim ; sitv , ties team recom mend ation s in werP s squad e alpin U.S. '!'he ts show , he said, Riil Marolt, Colorado u.; Bill some cases were based on what ThP rpsul in ~, claim repor t "cert ain nomi nees for this that tial," poten Kidd Mt Mansfield Vt . Gor- ·picke d, thP pic "Olym called he asdisre gard or the not quali fy .. . " don F.ato~ Middlebu~y C~Jl:ge 1.appa rent despi te his earlie r writt en as- I squa d . did offici al r ules. tion's socia : Army the rules . , U.S. to anus, ding McM accor Rip nders Vt.; . sura~~es to team conte THOSE RUL ES provide that th moun taln s prolnter . Thus for and Ni Orsi, Mam moth Moun_speak d woul ,\S. resul "no athle te shall be selected for th at lves m the final selec- test is keyed, not to who shoul d tain, Calif. s he has won his emse be on the squad , but who Cont ende rs: Jim Gaddis, Sun the team unles . in a tryo ut or hons. so do to ight r er d not he on it. Barri shoul Jim s · steer rt ~Ppo the Valley Ski Club wh~e And ut (race s) " - - - -··- verg·1its own ot p1ckm j tl.S. Armv : D~ve Gors uch'' 'serie s of try~ · casP clear ' · the ., · f th US 0 i · was not alwa ys ymp1c squa.., , e . • 'd son o West ern State College, Colo- I Such l t·1011 th '64 t p of lineu hart six-c a s offer it sai , rado earn _se PC In eti and ts resul · race ial offic ,. Wyo. e, 11 · I l\_D1;f~nta, Pi_nedal o' 11 h WO!\IEN'S SQUAD: R rb 8 j·Al t I 1c t. !ymp dcn ra the dt v1s1on pres1 ec , .c _a enge s the a the how Ferries, L" niverslty of Coloshow to at10n 1 assoc Some racer s, he ~aid, were- prese nt squa d was selected. J1 mpl<' poten "Oly on d picke I moth Mam _ ah, Ha~n rado ; Joan THE SHOT SEE!\IS certa in j'i tial." a noble motive ... hut · ·· Moun tam , Calif.; Lrn~ a ; Mey. book the tn not 's that one tain Jean .10 s1n· up a !'ew cnl!c a1 storm 1 rrs, Mam moth MounMoun tain; Saub Prt, Mam moth s1ons ot the U.S. , The prote st - packagP ln a m mos'. d1v1 Marg o Walt ers . Sun Valley; .. Ass~ Ski essed buttr and let book al Stan- Walt on , Mam moth Moun - spPct al upse t of the U.S. , with chart s and figur rs - was An offlc1tion, It grant ed by , tain selec tPam s week relea sed Satu rday after ssociation , rould . . · · the Olympic a .. h' h b m Elean ende • .- oI prcpa ra·t•ton w 1c Pganpic Cont Mor tR<'n ge the make- J M rs . h chan ti y ivabl conce Olym U.S. the aftpr t · secre hm, o~nSa up of the squad. ~" ' · 0a_mmsot V II ey, i ,. P n t . t x, un an; Sandarem , am my 1k, noun an earn ra Aspe on Pecja , •peci 't doesn \VID J.E Inter moun - THE REPO RT , . spots Shell worth , Univ ersity ot Colo- AN D team st requP y Iicall he t tain ·s shnl was aime d at rado. l to Ken- , --- == But in its appea ncth L . Wilson , New York, I I j I I I I I t he • lalolrt Iwant to cor reet It," Allrn said an .J l m r.: Rd d is and pJaccd , tl rat irt •.:etr-r ~k1 I.SA the the ruhn g that was pted prom ing rul l~ mls.s" d Olympic team fourt h /Cone rnlng party rcvir w the mld-Ju11,- sc,lth . action the ptcd pr11m JJy DA\ KAOu;cK two y n<'atl looked. over was "do it action that FIS point!! or obviou~ly ii.. el\'a S port11 Wrlfor lkctl ng proce ss and Gadd! , by thf1 n•cor d book place by five If ht> thoug ht it d 11skl' When th11 ma k ing, In the 11 in d mo11th aerrm a . ag~ln." usM to ~ell'rt ~t>vcn-trntha o! s uiurP on lltld Rnb r aid, hr '"11 ffl lli!tl:m~untaln Ski A~sn thrC'e Allni of la,tt, ittl'e too was A romm of 111" race i•·-a erlt . h 1 he ISA draft holds that "no <la 111 d Al lhe 1961 Olvmplc tc-am, was "bi•st tw~~d to deter mine the 1~ wouldn t hi' too late untll S and Allen rt Robe , Ottum tor rtrd UN sC'lcte 11h11ll be ot can- terlonll d 1 autnm auc first tour • ovl'm t I I llS• fifth hest in" the !lrlcl d 1 th,d team fhaturl l yl' 11 " "ta proteOsl wu athlP h!r brrf wb1-n kcrl .111 s<Hn • v~1100 prtJtC!llt di'd nt('s. II• '"a• ymp1c ran "ll• 0 ,.,, n the rl'd Yan stcs ., prcpa ~r ,c rn1 n 1Ians e •em d di I 3 d Unite b tM 01 th I"'A I f l ns." A . mPmb<'rsh1p on . 1 !I r@rtors. fa,·or of so-~ali@d "you nier••L·kl llopll 1u1 'l oar O s5n,, conc<'rn ng th c ympt c S ta t "~ 01 ympi c Cllm un es~i or " "' mem ber Allen Is candi<lates with "mor e potrn -/ On ly board Alpini' tl'nm e!cct1nn at San Allrn had two hop('s tor the to do so Thi! thrN• are mem bl'l'~ ot thf' tlal." istic, h?,wcv!!t, •~.out the right optim his won . I hn 14 hr . th b l<'nt J :t on" t hat it would not prcsl< t protM pas I F. els Is the by All<'n . IOOk hMrd new ts a r.hancl'B ol ere in tryou t or ~etlP1< of trrou 1111~~rd Tf'am • u, p grou t!'d by the USOA a a tain tan 11 r(I, Ullf! ac·cp moun jhP Jnter lttrc. the comm of d by the Gam es Com, alpin Pr wh~ U~OA team picki ng wv willo TM . group ill b, remA - soml' doub t '~ hf'thc r des1i::natr that purpo,e.." ta mnun ,of the Jnter hPe11 mad/!, i,:rlpe anrl annth rr thnt Gadd m1ty,c 01 19112 NCA A lllpl nel , "If an errtJr hM Al woul d woul d g.-t rrron~ldr..l'atlon. 11nyrhlng will hf' <lonn, the won ' th" b)" h" "1<nu rNlt 11.ppa An V1tlll')' Im surP thry mSO Prornptil I A Adio n t'tah'A romhlnetJ ln e, •1•nr,•. lhn llppl' al a~ks tfent rli~r<',ir11rrl of . "lt>rt!on ,·nmm iftre of 111 111.-. \'SOA tram rk1<l111: Tht1 Tlppl I I I I . Othe r board mem bers wer doub tful a revlt>w or the mld• t June con!ert•nc,. would bn , made, [ not ask"d who ~l, oUJd On,, p!c to be namccl, !elt the Ol~m ,,lection comm ittee would ''bPnd thf! rul,,s" this year but that the prote st migh t help thP 1 commiJtcc rstab lish a m11th,1, 1 matir al crltPrlon tor future. 1· !!'am ~election. Rui,•s that can br bent bPnd j bnth wav1, I l'lb3 Utes Lose Gaddis, But Gaia; For111er Ace N ow Ski Trai ner H l Q&J UNIVE tSIT Y OF U'U..i-i Sr.I ING •. l'IOVE!·lBE :. ! . gl meet s, natio nal and regio nal Sum merhays is r u n n I n By DAYE RADLECK us with a Gadd is gradu ated last year . ·port s \'riie r laround the camp -" ~ on the Ute his face. He's got Big after four years Los1n the natio n"s top col- smile on h is college d close He . squad is back- training his k g.iate. alpin e ace Is enou gh Jimst Gadd being name d by r raree g racin to give any s ki ~ ach t hat up ar ts. top _alpin er. '!he And thou gh Big Jlm',,' lthe natio n's gna~ ng fttlin g in the midfol!a wlng his fi rst came r hono • point dub ·u, too to Sl!diotl,--ibtlt not a t the Oniv er- lost m v1~o ry and secwise, hP's got a good field or place slalo · ,;ity of tall. h1ll , win _in the down place 1ond skl e tor futur cham p1on slups at Fact is Utah 51d coarh Pres talen t to train NCAA h. '· last Marc , squa w Valle yUte's -.ot throu gh 1 ··m The lanky ...,... _,_,_ ,,,,,.. ~-,~· ···-· •'with skiin g, howe ver. Gadd is was selec ted to train at the Unite d State s Olym pic Train- . ing Cam p at Vall, Colo. He'll leave Dec. 20 for the clinic whic h runs Dec. 22.Ja n. 5. Mean while, Jim wm work with the 20-m embe r Ute team . The youn g Utwi- are gettin g most ot his atten tion. Not too much chan ce ol. all the top talen t to get a i0 for point s this year. Unde r NCA A regulatio ns, a college skier can comp ete only three of hill four years. Eigh teen-year-Old Dav e Enge n Is one of the top fresh man skier s t.o grace the Uteville cam pu in years . Enge n, a McCall, Idaho, resl• dent, Ill son of form er ski grea t Corey, and \'1111 be one I I of the !lkieN to wstclt In the ooml ng years . I Enge n can g.o !our ways and prob ably will when he reach es soph omor e statu s durin g the I 1963-64 ski seaso n. The hardwork ing winn er ot last year' s Natio n Junio r alpin e title could I be one of the nation's best 4way skier s befor e his college days are over. ' · Anot her Idaho- ace, Rick Kel• wait a year ler, will have befor e comp iling point s for the Reds kin team . Kelle r hails :trom Idaho Fall8, is an alpin er but accor ding -to Ins truct or . Gaddis, "is stron g; wet.I condi• tione d and a potei(tlal nord ic team mem ber. He shou ld be a • top-notch cross coun try man. " "Kel ler is a willo wy-bu ilt · skier and has the move s to becom e a fine alpin er," Gaddis repor ts. Anot her freshmAn expec t, ed t-0 bolster Utah's ski team is Robe rt Y01mi;, a smooth lllpiner who could become a downhlller for · tl1e Ute i ts .:.":Lrr ;t, · { ng i· r1 . ,. · p~T-~ iear Skie r: - 'ne pa~·•~1• C.L · • J. .i ln.1. 'i'eu:S1~:.:. '.Jtah 1' c t3• si \•er Uni the ks Wit hin a few wee o ~. g va :·D:i.~y me u,:er s lr > ::. col leg_i.ate e ' '.2 t c,rn,. 11Gnsi1;1:.s , . Ju~;:n.ng , S.1.w.OJU. .omp eti tion for th e seas on. Br-ie f h1.ll ete ). The re .:re 1\ nr:-· C' .' ~i1t~, : Dc·,rn tn e bes t thre e Fres hme n are not elig ible to comp _ e, :,:-1:, 1 !J ch o o::!.. . (;om; In edch eve nt fou r m•:;rnbern !'ran; e c.d some of tha ly md Cro ss-C oun try Lous O,b\"". 1:qu a:i. the team scor e . With onl y an S . man 3 cor es cou ntin g tow ard . . . " . som.:: tin10s more eYe~.:.~; ". . tion ocia Ass •. Sk e ~em bers hav e to com pete in two Wld gid lt?.:..n Int. erc olle -i St t . TIn e .,<·ch ools, f Utah oelo ngs to t:ie Rocky NoW. t Uni ·t · t " . • es a Th Uni e,. si ytheo five asso ciat ion s o!" I'e:,gions tnro ug,1 ou·L ne verof ihic h e is one · Sta te Co~ lege :- Colo rado mir!g, Air_ y crce AcadeJ!13•.,; Wes tern 7 ies r of cou:ree~ rhic h belo ng to our regi on are Wyc M ? hli~ht _of t~e ~eas on ~ nct ivit e Th . Utah and it;r vers Uni 1 ver Jniv ersi ty.,, Den reo t.bie y e r,:r is bein g neJ.C\ Jr. New Hrun pshi ·_ s the NCAA Cha mpi onsh ip s " l1hi ch O Jniv ersi ty of Utah Ski Team 1963 ,eni ora Jun iors 3ooh omo res I Robert Young • future alpiner 9quad. Youn g is a Salt Lake r, know s the Wasa tch slope s and non e ono Jilli was trac k.,. maj orir }f; in Phy si cal Edu cati Jim Cha mbe rlain , a lett erm an in C. the Sol:i tudti Cup seco nd j n the tma .es Cup B ,1:id w-on Jun ior Nat iona l rtlp rese nted t.he ISA twic e on the He or~ j ~ s ines bus a ia , dard Fox God ipete bec ause cf s i ckn ess . Te~ . Las t ..yea r was unab l e tc co::: ner ls.s t ,. Steve was the bes t X-c oun try i-un or' maj ng e:-i. ine eng 2.n is , son r1 Stev e Hs.r yea r for the Reds l:in s , His home is Idah o Fall s . & fo-:i t ball star , Rich Gro th , has made hi s mz::1: a s Alp ine Com peti tion . l!.ild plc::.c e d 8th in the CoL1b ined Ah NC thl'.'l n i ed. t iua tic par so~ Las t sea. atic s and en... :l. s , B-1 11 i s maj orin g in ma.t hem Bil l Lat ime r, is a iette rrn.•.r. in t c E com .peti to rs i n the ISA is rate d nU!llber one amou..>1g Cl ass Fres hme n a spo t on is bat tli ng b::_s old er br? the r for Pd.ck God dard ,. hai l s fro'Jl Ogd en rud g in Lav: . the Alp ine teru?1. Hi ck is maj orin · ,..ra1·1.s, Laa t seas on m:ived • i,. ier 1" rom I d a.!10 .• s ing roY irr.TJ ;;l id rap a is . ler Rick Kel w.in.'1:l.nr; t.be l-i£.j e stic Cup " f'rom Cla ss C to Cl~ss E .. f t€~· the Jun ior maj or f~o~ . ~1.c C~l l.- Id~ o o Dave . wo~ , Dav e Er;g en, is an engi nee ring: . alv Tr:i. BO. 1.bt,n l.~ t h e C-lym pic Noi• Nat iona ls in 196 2 ar:.d l &si:. j e ci.l" pl~.C the won he son - th . sh, e:· f rom Korw a'•9",, Las t:, sea. Ch · s c. -f"m iliu- ..i umo · • p f th v... !jas se . :i. " i.ps rvuz 1on io ,- .-.i. Cup an~ Wes tern _S-c.atea .amp u •rewn Ame ri~a n Ch ~io nsh ips , the Lc:.nd es . 1 .,..._,n e r· iC , p_ Qhrm an .., ~orw egi· om:. 1c.r plan s to retu rn to Norw ey tc try- Sal t Lru:ee Lad d Chr iste nse n, ilpi ne skie r from . dic Com bine d man from Oslo ~ Norway Mat z Jen ssen , is a jum per &nd Nor Jack son ., Wyoming " Pete Karn s.:, is a good 4~w ~· nJE.n from o way in his seco nd qua rter at Uteh Bjo ren Lo ken is a jum per from No~ . Sal t Lak e. John Mil ler . is an alpi ne sld. er from elop dur ing the nex t grou p cf ind ivid ual s who shou ld dev All in all we hav e an out! ;ta.T 1din g team in t h e cou ntry . fe11 seas ons into the bes t coll ege 0 Sin cere ly ~ Marv Helv ille Ski Coa ch I CHICAGO TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1963 - - -- -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Technique on the Slopes I U.S. OLYMPICS SKIERS JUSTIFY FAITH INTEAM BY HOWARD BARRY Bud Werner of Steamboat Springs, Colo. , and Jean Saubert of Lakeview, Ore., have been giving performances in Val D'Isere, France, which seem to justify widespread be- 1 lief that the American ski team will m a k e an exceptionally strong showing in the winter Olympics at Innsbruck , Austria, Jan. 29-Feb. 9. Both won impressively during last week's Criterium of the First Snow, a winter carnival at Val D'Isere, where the American team is training . Werner, 27-year-old Olympic veteran who was sidelined by 1 a broken leg during the 1960 games at Squaw Valley, reached peak form in winning the special slalom Saturday after finishing sixth in the giant slalom. Wins Giant Slalom Alf E ngen, chief instructor at the Alta, Utah, ski school Miss Sauber! won the giant demonstrates skill at high speed in powder snow on the slopes slalom on Friday after finishing of this mountain resort. second in the special slalom _ _ _ _ _ _ __ - -- - -- - - - - - - lhe previous day. These events were the first competitive appearances of the American ( stars after months of conditioning and weeks of practice on the slopes. In commenting on Miss Sau- , bert, Bob Beattie, coach of the l American team, says , "She's the greatest woman skier I've I ever worked with." Beattie hesitates to compare the 21-year old Miss Saubert with Andrea Mead Lawrence, who won two gold medals for the United States in the 1952 Olympics in Oslo. Ski Techniques Change " Ski techniques have made ' a lot of progress in the last 10 years," he said. " Mrs. Lawrence beat everyone in her day and I think Jean can do it, too." In winning the giant slalom at Val D'Isere, Miss Sauber! made a terrific run thru the 66 gates of the 1,600 meter Bellevade cour-se, which drops 340 1 meters. She was ti med in 2:01.4. Annie F a m o s e of France, who had edged her out ( by four-tenths of a second in ' the special slalom the previous day, was fourth this time . The special slalom was run in two heats on two courses of the Solaise slope, one with 45 gate-s and the other with 41 gates along a drop of 120 meters. One Fault Enough In commenting on her defeat in the special slalom, Miss Saubert said : "I was bad in one place-and that was enough. I took one gate differently than I wanted to." For the men's special slalom, which Werner won, the courses 1 were laid out with 48 gates each and a drop of 145 meters. Werner made the first run in the best time of the day 39.48 -seconds. He did the second in 41.86. . Two members of the American team fell- Chuck Ferries of Houghton, Mich. and Billy Kidd of Stowe, Vt. Ferries continued but Kidd withdrew. Jim Gaddi~ Claudia Corum • , , Men's Snow Cup Champion 'JANUA.EY , , • Women's Champion 131 1Cf b4 Gaddis Repeats! Sno w ;Cup King!r 1 Salt Lalie Sliier Wins Third Straight Ti1ne By Mike Korologos Tribune Sports Writer ALTI\-S!llt Lake's speed-bt'nt ,Ji Ga<itlls won hls third ~ti t Snow Cup giant slalom ht>re 'undny, 11 foat nnne or the . oth mo1.1s ~kfo who've won the race in its 24-Ycar history sity star and NCAA champion drovP his skis on every ;ate and carved them precisely as he knifed down the precipitous mountain !or a hard-earned vk- tory. . , Alter , tc;imlng with Lynn Johnson 1n 1002 and M11rgo Walters last year, the ln~tructor tor , have been able to do. ' 1he J\lpinP. Training School Sun'Jtf,; f>'O lt~nm Ui h Unlver• tiny te11mctl with Claudlll Cnrum, Sacraml'nto, Callf., who won the wrtml'n •• portion. TJU~ TWO ch11mps will b th1• first to have their names en• 11r1w d on tho i'll"W t:lnow Cu? trophy which rr.plaetd tlwt an• c!ent cup aft r 1t ran out of ip,1 .11 for •ny mor m . '1'11 y e~ Jll'f! nted hitlivldmtl In·ophlcii by tl1r. l!p(lnsot!ng Salt Lalu• ,lut\lor Ch11mt r ot Com- I l nT ,. ..... r l ..... . .. . . . . . W:. '1, CI T ,r, , r c,i lbli Ga.ild.is • • • 'U -1'ttl!h:e for w Cap vidorf. Gaddis ates T ophyfo r Ski , ietorie-_ Thi! Salt :t..ue Jan:ees, in ar llnJ)ft'tOOenttd mm,e,. have de cided to gh Salt Lake . Jim Gaddis • special Saov. Oti; tropZlj: in recognition forwmning the giant salom :aJfair three years 1n a .rnw. Gt.E'l'CBES 'K. Fraser won the meet in 1940, l9'll and 19-14 ( ~ was nil Snow Cllp in ™3) and Jack Ra:idish Wffll it in 1948. 1949 and the 1950 meet whicli was staged Jannary of lltiL · But :ncither of th~ tltree,-tmle charDps rec,eived anything but the small trophy w1iich is given to the. annual winner, Thus, the lll?W Snow Cup which was purch1131!d to replace the ancim tropllj. will be presented to G-1is during the Jaycee; n meeting Jan. 31 at the Temple 5',iuare COllVent.iondining ball.. mE OLD 1tophy, with an the past snow Cap l\inllers, reads like a slde,rs' Who's Who. I1 will be rebm1t with a nelll' base :added -, a modail! m ore names. It 1riD remain as a permanent ~ , aCCl'Jrding to Fon N;tddgx;, chairman. of the Snow Cup Race. G del'l:ated a fire 6eld :it Alta on Jan. ll •for the lille. JIM GADDIS - THREE TIME WINNER OF IBE "SNOW CUP" (YEARS 1962, 63, AND 64). PHOTO SHOWS ACTION SHOT OF JIM COMPETING. Photo: Alta, Utah - Circa 1964 Photo part of the Alan \!ngen Ski History Collection W O M EN 'S BARBARA FERRIES , Mid1 iKitn , ... 19, 5-5, 1:10, from llou~ hlon ro:tdu ... C"olu or y ~rsit Univ soph umo re c:tl ld in 1962 mude fine show in~ rts 17-y ear-o onix , rinis hWorl d Cham pion ship s at Chum m, ~iun t slcdo ing 3rd in dow nhill , 5th in g tl prob uble &nd 8th in com b uu:d !:ind \usin she foll ncctr high finis h in slc,lo rn when after nmk in~ 4th finis h line of seco nd run e spra in in the first run ... seve re ankl Cup kcµt ht!r whil t! lrwin in~ fur llwrr imun Nc1t ionct ls ... out of thut ri' Ct! us wdl cts pir int!d dow nhill al Vc:1il Olym comb won ier et1rl r in com bine rl at Brow dmoo Trai ning Cam p, frnis hed 2nd und 3rd in SQ U A D Th e 19 64 JEA N SAU BER T , Oreg on, ... 2 1, 5-6, 147, from L¥ke vit:w ersit y ... had Juni or .it Ore1r;,on Stal e Univ son, dom inat• trem endo us 1963 r.w. cin" st:a:t marg in as in~ U.S. worn t:n ski~ rs by wide and com• t1he wun t-lalo m, gian t sh1.J om, , sla1;lom, and bine d at Hoch Cup; dow nhill nhill , slalo m com bine d »t Viiil Cup~ dow and the and corn bint: d &t Utin iman cup; s . . . in 1962 ~iMn l slwlo m Yl the Na1i onal onix ahe Worl d ChM mpio nshi ps at Cham m, 9th in dow nhill , Wi:tii 6th in ~i .. nt slalo le rde:d ws Ame ri cu 's top femY and 9th in com bine d ... regiA pics. Olym 4 196 in t threa /' UN IT ED STATES OLYMPIC:t ' AL PI NE SK I TE AM .•. bint! d .,,, ~ och Cup, Sli:tl om DcrlJ y, 5th in com com bine d 11t Vuil Cup. JOAN HANNAH MARGO WALTERS nl:un iH, Nt:!W ... 24, 5 -4 , 125, from Fn:::t Colle t?.c ... Ham pshi re, se nior ol Mill s d in 1900 Olym • wus mem ber uf U . S. :-.qua .lnsh ips ... pi e s .. nd 1962 Worl d ChH mpi\ was 3r-d in g1a11t Ht Cham onix . m 196 2 :she finis h in down slalo m and head ed for high snow i n the of k c lu . .. fell hill until she full sche dule west kept her from l{elt ing a she tied for of com petit ion l1:1st wint ~r but Vail c;)ly mpic 2nd in one dow nhill r-ttce et .und was 8th Trai ning Ctt.mp in Dece mbe r with finis hes of 6th in down in com bine d at Harr iman Cup gian t slalo m •.• was 8th in hill, 12th in slalo m, 11th in gian t slalo m in Nati onal s. City , Utah , . .. 21, 5-3, 122, from Salt Lake... was • etud enl .it Univ ersit y of Utahrace r last cons iste: ntly• high ·fini ::.hin K in co mbin ed at wint er as she finis hed 4th at V•dl Cup, Roc.:h Cup, 6th in coml .,ine d iman Cup ... and 9th in com bine d at Harr both down • at Nati onal s she was 11th in perf orm ance • hill and slalo m ... othe r top m at Sun Valinc lude d a 2nd in gian t slalo 3rd and two ley Cham pion :ahip s, and one by., . this 4th a at Broa drno or Slalo m Der ce on • U. S. will be her first appe aran natio nal team .. LIN DA MEYERS -~ Cali forn i~, ... 26, 5-5, 125, from Bish op, .•. has been junio r at Univ ersit y of Utah s, was a mem • a top race r for seve ral year d and 1962 squa pic Olym 1960 ber of lhe finis hed 7th Worl d Cham pion ship squtt .d ... at 1962 d bine com in 5th and in slalo m on that trip worl d ~a mes in Cham onix ..• delw ald ... sh~ won gian t slalo m at Grin y that stop ped injur same ne, larho col brok en her seve ral lined side , pics Olym 1960 her in •.. befo re er wint last on seas midin wee ks in com bine d dow nhill at Vail injur y she had finis hed 2nd lalom in com bine d at Bro. udm oorS 1st p, Olym pic Trai ning Cam she came y injur after ... Cup Roch Derb y, 2nd in slalo m at d 11t both Harr iman Cup and back to finis h 4th in com bine 2nd in slalo m at Harr iman Cup. of h finis Nati onal s with best STARR WAL TOH jJ nto, Cali !or. .. 21, S-2, 110, from Sacr ame Col orad o... nia, stud ent at Univ ersit y of h on Olym pic cam e from now here to win bert t two with fine perf orma nces in last in com• l'i 6th ing gett on, aeas of s majo r race hes of 11th bine d al Harr iman Cup on finis 3rd in gian t and in dow nhill , 7th in sh1.l om, in com bine d slalo m then goin g on to a 2nd r, nhill , 5th in dow in 6th with •t 1! thes e •.. m slalo t gian in 4th and slalo m, 1964 U. S. two finis hes land ed her onto fi Olym pic aqu11d.. !,' THE SCH EDU LE n they apen t Beat tie sinc e Au&1,1at 25 whe d prac tice unde r Coac h Bob ln& until nize train orga and in dryl ther t toge rwen been unde e they The U.S. Alpi ne squa d has snow at ed to Boul der, Colo rado wher on mov ing they train S. . there U r From thei d on. they com plete two wee ks at Bend , Oreg Mou ntain , Cali forn ia, wher e moth Mam to on ed mov Nov emb er 10 when they that area . THE OLYMPICS, AND FOLLOWING THE SCH EDU LE, LEADING TO Nov. 29 - Dec. 11 Dec. 12 - 15 Jan . 3 - 4 Jan . 5 - 6 Jan .7-1 0 Jan . 11 - 12 Jan . 15 - 16 Jan. 17 - 19 Jan. 29 - Feb. 9 Feb. 14 - 16 Mar. 13 - 15 Mar, 20 - 22 f l ce. , Trai ning Mt Val d'lse re , Fran & Wom en's D & S). 's Men ( re d'lse Val at e R11c (Wo men' s S & GS). Race wt Obe rstau fen, Germ any Swit zerla nd. rjoch , Germ any or Adel bode n, Orn! r eithe at GS & S 's Men GS). S, D, 's men (Wo nd Race at Grin delw ald, Swit zerlw D & S). Swit zerl1 1nd Laub erho m Rac e 11t Wen ~en, men '• D & S). (Wo Rtice at Bad Gast ein, Aus tria D, S, GS). l, Au1 tria H11h nenk amn Rac e at Kitz buhe 1 tria. k, Au1 en's D, S, GS), Wint er Olym pics at Inns bruc lah, Germ any (Men '• & Wom Arlb er~ Kan d"h" r R .. ce at Garm D , S, GS). en'• Wom & ont Verm Inte rnat iona l Rac e at Stow e, (Me n's & Wom en's D, S, GS), ps at Wint er Park , Colo rado Natio nt11 Alpi ne Cha mpio nshi M EN 'S SQ U A D GORDON (GORDI) EA TOH eton , New ... 23, S-11 , 165, from Littl ry Coll •11• Ham pshi re, seni or at Midd lebu c<>od expe with r race nhill dow fine a .. . nal com natio inter in him nd behi ce rien • in 1960 peli tion u mem ber o( U.S. te•m mpio nshi ps Olym pics and 1962 Worl d Cha the 1962 ••. was stop ped early duri nc le& rece ived Euro pean trip by • brok en pete in any in hain lnt and didn "t com had ••. ha• mad e Cine reco very and won both a:ood ee1a on laat wint er ..• rican a, waa 2nd in dow ndow nhill -,d slalo m at Nort h Ame Cham pion a hips .•• got ern East and Cup e Stow hill at both t••• 19th at Harr iman ecl• Coll onal Nati at 4th bl dow nhill a. al ion Nat at 7th for tie Cup, and RIES CHARLES (CHUCK) FER chto n, Mich i- •.. 24, S-10 , 165, from Hou of Den ver 11•n. seni or at the top alalo m ••. one of d mo-m ber or 1960 Oly mpu {~a ... •-4 ~ end .•. at Cham onix in 1962 wa aaeo nd or firat n:n in slalo m but fell' d cham pion run . . prio r to the 1962 worl tWO majo r ship • he M>n the alalo m at and Cort ina Euro pean race s, Kitz buhe l er, winnin11r ... had good aeas on last wint Slalo m Dercom bine d title at Broa dmo or and winn in11 the slalo m by, taldn c com bine d at Roch Cup, behi nd Wern er in hed finis he e wher a at Mati <mal ren. child no ied. marr C<m lblne d ••• oa JAMES (JIM) HEUGA City , Cali ... 20. S-6, 144, from Tah oe y of Colo forn ia, junio r at the Univ ersit r with rado ... fine youn a: alalo m race a• 1S.y ear• 11Ve•t futur e ahea d of him ..• com pete d old on 1962 U. S. team whic h Cham onix , he in Worl d Cha mpio n•hi ps at 12th in finis hed 5th in com bine d with ... on that both slalo m and gian t slalo m Mor itz .. . trip he won the slalo m at St. r win was durin g 1963 seas on his majo Cup with the com bine d title at the Vail nhill .. . he won slalo m at dow in 7th and m alalo ln 3rd a he wa11 5th in com bi ned ... Nati onal Coll e&ia tes wher e were 2nd in gian t slalo m at nces orma perf 1963 top f othf al Roch Cup ... in Nali onnhill dow in 3rd Cup, iman Harr with 3rd in slalo m, 6th in d bine com in 5th was heala slalo m, 14th in dow nhill . WILLIAM (BIL LY) KID D , Verm ont, ... 20, 5-8, 150, fro m Stow e o1 in ri:rad uated from Stow e high t1cho Maro lt iR 1961 ... alon !l with Heug a and pect ... rega rded a• terri fic youn g pros whic h was mf'm ber of 1962 U.S. team fini~ hed 8th comp e-ted at Cham onix and trip he was i.n slalo m there ... on same itz and Mor St. both at m •lalo 4th in t slalo m at Lon zerh eide and 8th in gian t seas on Cou r c hP.va l • .. waft off to grea ined ankl e la!tt wint er ~fo re badl y spra n lon la!H half of the cam paig knoc ked him out or com pf'tit ,:o mhin ed at Stow e Cup, ••• won dow nhill and sl11lom and Cup but fell in gian t down hill and •lalo m al Ro,·h down hill at Vail to 2nd in romb ined • . • won alalo rn to C"'nr, ~,.f'n r,. t,,. w,-!111 tn:nrr or1 . i l·I (i i' :i ', ' co.-114 . ~ •., 1 ed to ch•e the Ualt ed ~ Men tally , they 're dete rmln ever In the 01:,m plca . ·if",?; n tatio . .fr Stat e• 'ill beat repr esen .~. ti,.''j Aae the of Olym pic ln _. ~ • ., «!_ Am u• bltlo "Am the can •" or 1962 are now _...,, . of 1964 . "A-nae TH E ST AF F OLT WIL LIAM (BIL L) MAR A~pe n, Colo rado , .. . 20, S• l 1, 160, fr om Colo rado .. . Juni or at the Univ ersit y of hil1 pros rated a tr"'m endo us youn g down on U.S. peted pect ... as 18-y ear•o lrl C'om . his best squa d at Cham onix in 1962 .. IOth in slalo m finis h duri: ng that tour wa!I 1963 ca mpa ign at Cou rche val . . . had fine dow nhill at high ligh ted by winn inii!: the behi nd the Nati onal s ... finis hed 2nd d at Nati onal .. Wern er in Alpi ne Com bine for 1st in Coll egia te!' whe re he tied . .. was 5th in dow nhill at m slalo in 4th was , nhill dow d at Vail Cup on a 6th in Harr iman Cup, 2nd in com bine dow nhill , 4th in slalo m. US RIC HAR D (RIP ) Mc MAN ord , Con nect i- . .. 24, 5-9, 145, from Milf Denv er, cur• cut, atten ded Univ ersit y of ... was a rentl y mem ber of U.S. Army g the con~ isten tly hiRh finis hPr durin Tlhill and 1963 sea~ on, winn ing both <lo'N pion ship s, gian t ~I al om at Ea~t ern Cham h Ame ri cans winn ing gian t slalo m at Nort d at Harr iman ... fini~ hed 6th in com binP gian t slaCup with 7th in dov.m hill and onal s was lom . 5th in slalo m ... at Nati m ... finis h ed 2nd Ame si can in gian t slalo desp ite ck bru Inns at nhill dow 24th in Olym pi c Warm up f iery com peti t or ... marr ied. start ing in 6&th po~i tion ... ANNIBALE CHI) ORSI kton , Cali for... 19, 5-11 , 160, fr om Stoc mer from nia, just i(rat luate d l ast Rum youn i(eSt Stoc kton hi~h srho ol. _. thP rrl ed as a mC"mber of lhf" team hut rf'i(R de~p ite his RreM dow nhill pros pect ... i5 capa ble y0ut h U~S. nffic iali:: . feel he Olym pic o f finis hinR hiRh ly in his first in romh ined com petit ion ... hf" w.is .Sth Trai ning dow nhil ls at Vail Olym pi<anc1 tiE" for Cam p with rinish E>s o f 4th t at Harr iman 5th ... was 16th in comh inE"c nri in ~ian l slnlo m, and 23rd Cup with 8th in dow nhill . 22 tied for 7th in dow nhill , in slalo m._ . al Nati onal ~ was nuts tan< linp; w:Hr r skie r. 12th in slal0 m ... is Alsn An WA LLA CE (BU D) WERHER hnRI Spri ngs, ... 27, ·" ·8, l~.S. frnm Steam e rsity of Col o radn , spni or Rt the Univ the ~qua d ... Colo rado ... the, ve tPr an nf U.S. nAti1111al h.-s bt-·t-n cnmp etirlR nn ... WRS rnPm her nr tf"Am ~ :c1inrf" I QS4 due In 1956 Olvm pir tf"Rm nnri w.:ts lr~ suf• cnm prl P in \ lJOO unt i I hrnkf "n him ... has ferpr l in train ini?, sidie lin<'d wint N had mRd e fine rrco very and lAsl ... won hoth one o( hi~ fine~ l :,e::1 ~nns Trai ninj( r1nw nhill s RI VAil OJym pic ct at Nati 0n.\l (",il leR,i at e Cam p, won Alpin t" C0m hinc anct N.\ti nnal1-. ... in 1Q62 Chem pion1 -.hip s, Harr im an Cup, hP finis hPd 5th in t(ian l nnhr f'ham Wnrl d ChH mpio n~hi ps Rt trip h,· wo n thr jli.rn t s~mP on slalo m, A1h in <low nhill ... ... manu ·cl, ,rn O:-.ln Hnrl ~lall lm at bnlh Cour chPv RI rhi lrirf"n . THE OUTLOOK pic Alpi ne Sid Squad The 1964 Unit ed Stat es Olym aalt e whic h p c,ou ced rien expe but c ia • youn coun tzy'a llld thia in rt effo ve eaai the moa t accr hiato ry. cond ition ed fi~ ly It'• a squa d whic h has been hi• atafL and ttie Bea Bqb ch Coa by the wom en ~ e d Six of the men and Cour or Worl d Cbam ploo 1962 the l.n n ctio dire • ttie' Bea 1111der ther aa a toce c bel.n or ce rieu eq,e The .,_t itlo a lonal nuot 1.nte in and durf. nc train ln& yeer_ Ihle be or grea t help ·Am erica na" bec -e of Lab eled the the 1962 worl d d a their pea t impr ovem ent d..tn c the nac l- ol the form teu e thea a, plon ahlp pic 1964 U.S. Olym wort t e1ao e· ,herd The y've been toee lher and °"'COG- · ,, • . Bend at they 25 whe n the fine at Phya lcaU y, the team la in HEA D COACH BOB BEA TTI E Univ ersit y • .. iR head ski coac h at the in posi tion of Colo rado , takin g over that Colo rado , 1957 ... in seve n Reas ons at coll egia te he has prod uced two natio nal runn ers-u p cham pion ship team s and three hing expe • .. . his first inter natio nal coac head ed the rien ce c ame in 1962 when he d Cham pion U.S. Alpi ne squa d in the Worl essiv e, ex• ship s at Cham onix ... an aggr a popu lar trem ely able coac h, he was coac h or the choi ce to cont inue as head . .. Bea ttie 1964 Olym pic Alpi ne squa d New is 31, a nativ e of Man ches ter, of Midd leHam pshi re, a 1955 grad uate and play ed bury Coll ege whe re he skie d rootb al 1. ASSISTANT DON HENDERSON teac her at ... is ski coac h and histo ry , New H o ld erne ss Scho ol in Plym outh scho ols Ham pshi re, o ne of the top prep sinc e 1951 , in the enst ... has been there !t inclu dini! : tumi np; out seve ral fine skier Olym pic Gord on Eato n o f this year 's for last team ... ha~ been in Germ any ange year teac hing in Fulb righ t Exch a nativ e Prog ram ... Hen ders on is 39, and a 1949 of Berl in, Nr.w Ham pshi r e, ege. grarl uetc of Midd lebu ry Coll ASSISTANT MARV ME LVI LLE coac h at ... has just becn me heac1 ski an outs tan d· the Univ f'r1'- ity n f Utah a f ter was mem ber ing Ci:tre f'r as a rare r ... he Olym pi c of hoth th~ 1956 and 1960 U.S. team .. . FlS squ;1 rls as well as the 1958 nativ e o f Mf'l villc i.s 28 year s old, a o f the duate 1,1;ra a Ancf , City L.tkc Sa lt was one o f he P whf'r Utah of y ersit Univ ir'\tN co ll c ~dat e skie rs in the the top natio n. MAH AGER FR ED CAS OTT I c tor at thf> , .. is spor ts infnr mHI io n dire posi tion h e Univ c•rsi ty of Colo rad o , a that was has h e ld sin<·t- 1'>52 ... he fore.. has writ• a spor ts writ,~ r fnr] yf>ar s . petit ive phas e ten some puhl i<"ity on com iatio n prog ram of Unil rcl Stalf "s Ski Asso c ed as pres s for pns! iwo wint< ·rs ... serv in Squa w uid nl 10 M) Wint t·r Olym pics of A nativ e VnllL ',· ... C"'ns otli is 40, uAIP n( the i(tRd 1~49 a anJ , J11wa 1·r, Fras lJniv ,•rsi! v of C"nlo r:ldn . INN RUC I 964 ~TEA; HE.AD SKl CO , !,._C , P't-tOTO """° UfttlM•ffl RACER· Alan Enoen ALAN ENGEN FEATURED ON THE HEAD SKI POSTER FOR THE 1964 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES. Photo by Fred Lindholm at Alta, Utah Circa March 1963 · Special note: Alan Engen was retained by Fred Lindholm to do the action shot The racing unifonn shown was the old University of Utah Ski Team racing wind jacket. All items used, including Head skis and Scott poles, helmet, and goggles have been donated to the Alf Engen Ski Museum at Utah Olympic Park. The actual photo was taken by manually constructing a small take-off on the top of the Mambo Bump on Gennania. Speed was obtained by starting high up on Ballroom, under Mount Baldy, and then hitting the bump at a speed of around 60 miles per hour. Lindholm was lying in a prone position facing up as Engen went over him. Engen received a "whopping" $50.00 for the effort BILL MAROLT- ONE OF THE GREAT U.S. SKI RACERS OF THE l 960s. BILL HAS ENJOYED AN OUTSTANDING CAREER IN SKIING OVER THE YEARS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE OLYMPIC TEAMS IN 1964 AND 1968; AN ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETE WHILE ATTENDING COLORADO UNIVERSITY; COACH OF THE SKI TEAM AT COLORADO UNIVERSITY; AND CURRENTLY IS THE U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT AND CEO. Photo: Aspen, Coloradq - circa 1964 • OLYMPIC RESULTS (1964): 1964 INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA GOLD EVENT MEN Egon Zimmerman, AUT DH Pepi Sfiegler. AUT SC Francois Bonlieu , FAA GS WOMEN Christi Haas, AUT DH Christine Go1tschel . FRA SL Marielle Go1tsche l. FRA GS BILL y KIDD AND JIMMY HEUGA, SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALISTS IN THE 1964 OLYMPIC SLALOM HELD AT INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA. SILVER BRONZE Leo Lacroix , FRA Bill y - 1dd, USA Karl Schranz, AUT Wolfgang Bartels, BRO Jimmie Heuga, USA Pepi Stiegler, AUT Edith Zimmermann , AUT Marielle Goitschel , FAA Christine Goitschel, FRA Traudl Hecher, AUT Jean Saubert , USA Jean Saubert, USA - . -. ' ' '• .. .. NCAA ·SKIING 1963 MEET COMMITTEES RULES COMMITTEE Honorary ChoirmanDr. A. Ray Olpin President, University of Utah Director of CompetitionJames R. ··Bud" Jack Athletic Director, University of Utah Tovrnoment DirectorAlton Melville Coordinator of MeetPres Summerhays Alton Melville '· To1,1rn0ment Director Director of Officials-Jack Wilson Referee-Dick Movitz Willy Schaeffler Chairman Chief of Course-Alpine-Marvin Melville Assistants-Walter Schluter, David Engen Sven Wiik Wesrern Stofes College Cross Country-William Spencer Assistants-Bob Irvine, John Cress of Co lorado Chief of Jumping-Corey Engen TE NTH Starter-Dick Simon ANNUAL Hill Preparation-Fryth iof Prydz, Frank Bird Chief Jumping Judge-Gus Raaum Assistants-Mark Strand, Gene Bernson, Stephan Trogstad, Jerry Groswold NCAA SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS Chief Gatekeepers-Les Taylor, Mike Walters_ Chief Timer & Director of Communications-Stan Nelson Assistants-Steve Coffin, Russ Downward Timers-Ned Warnock, Bob Springmeyer, Bob Allen , Dick Ure Alan A. Bovard M,ch ,gon A& T College Starters-Mel Dalebout, Don Irvine, _loe Ringholz , M ike Reddish Donald Wells Washington $tote University Recorders-Jane Allen, Bonn ie Nelson Scorer-Al Hansen Assistants-Margaret James, Ruth Joseph Chief of Computations-Keith Wilson Assistont_:_Bob Irvine Secretaries of Meet-Margaret James, Ruth Joseph Finance Chairman-Bob Allen Assistant-Ted Jacobsen Director of Equipment and Housing-Jim Hoaglund MARCH 21-22-23, 1963 Direclor of Transportation-Ted Jacobsen Publicity and Programs-Harry James Assistants-Rick Spratling, Dick Hendrickson Host School: UNIVERSITY QF UTAH Banquet-Don Reddish, Jr., Jack Gallivan, Berto Clegg Robert R. Sheehan Middlebury College Charles A. Merrill Ski Patrol ond Course Police-Morrie King and Tom Woodward Dartmouth College Medical Director-Dr. Reed Clegg (Willy Schoeffler 1s a well known figure in rhe 1nrernotionol world of sk i ing . He hos been Chairman of the NCAA Rules Committee for rhe pos1 f i ve years and h i s efforts hove been 1nsrrumentol in aiding Amer icon 1nrercolleg1ote slr i 1ng to gain rhe presr ige ir en 10ys today.) 25¢ Host Area Directors-Bob Barrett, Dave and Judy Tschaggeny Page 2 The Outlook ... NCAA SKI CHAMPIONSH IP HISTORY NCAA SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS -- 1963 Several te a ms loom as strong entries in the 1963 NCAA meet. From the Pac ific North west w ill come Montana State College of Bozeman , represent ing the Northwest Intercolleg iate Ski Association . In the association ·s champ ionship meet, MSC took first place easily with 393 points; however, both the Un ivers ity of Idaho with 352 and the University of Wash ington with 350 qualified and w ill compete in the notional championships. role as favorite in the National Meet. Colorado scored 387 to Denver s 381 in the regional, and Western States College also qualified with a third place score of 366 points. Al I three teams carry a number of top Olympic candidates led by such standouts as Buddy Werner of Colorado, Chuck Ferries of Denver, Dave Gorsuch of Western States College, Jimmy Heuga and Bill Marolt of Colorado U. Montana State University , another Northwest school, did not qualify as a team entry, but Msu ·s Mike Buckley won both the slalom and downhill events in the regional go-round aga inst tough opposit ion to qualify for the na t ional meet, and will be a top threat. Dartmouth edged out Middlebury College 580 to 577, to cop first place in the Eastern United States Intercollegiate Ski Assoc iation, and both of these schools ore expected to provide rough competition for the western powers. Also, three other schools from that area qualified for the national University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, and Harvard. Contenders from the Far West lntercolleg ,a te Sk , Assoc iation are University of Californ ia, University of Nevada, and Chico Sta te. In the srrong Rocky Mountain Intercolleg iate Ski Assoc iation , University of Colora do upset Denver U. to take over Denvers Creation of an NCAA Skiing Rules Committee at the Association's 47th Annual Con- establ ishing Friday - 2:00 p.m. - Championships. The recommendarion to establish skiing as a permanent National Collegiate Championship The Committee first evolved a set of ski rules to govern intercollegiate skiing and then event was approved at the 49th annual NCAA Convention in New York City in January, 1955. Entries for the Championship have doubled since its inception with the peak being 111 individuals from 21 institutions in 1956. 0 ALL-TIME CHAMPIONSH IP RESULTS NATIONAL COLLEGIATE SLALOM CHAMPIONSHIP Two courses, 600-foot drop, each course approx. 50 gates Year Site 1954 Nevada Denver 384.0 Seattle 349.6 1955 Norwich Denver 567.050 Dcirtmouth 558 .935 1956 Winter Park Denver 582.01 Middlebury 541.77 1957 Ogden Snow Basin Denver 577.95 Colorado 545.29 1958 Dartmouth Dartmouth 561.2 Denver 550.6 1959 Winter Park Colorado 549.4 Denver 543.6 1960 Bridger Bowl, Mont. Colorado 571.4 Denver 568.6 1961 Middlebury Denver 376.19 Middlebury 366.94 1962 Squaw Valley Denver 390.08 Colorado 374.30 Champion Pts. Runner-up Pts. • --·-·-- ·- ----- - --- COACHES OF TEAM CHAMPIONS NATIONAL COLLEGIATE DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIP Course: 200-ft. drop in 1 ¾ mile; approx. 1 :50 winning time 1954 W illy Schaeffler, Denver 1959 Bob Beattie, Colorado NATIONAL COLLEGIATE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP 1955 Wi lly Schaeffler, Denver 1960 Bob Beattie, Colorado 1956 \Nilly Schaeffler, Denver 1961 Willy Schaeffler, Denver 1957 Willy Schaeffler, Denver 1962 Willy Schaeffler, Denver 1958 Al Merrill, Dartmouth Course: 8 ½ miles, elevation 7000 ft. average Saturday - March 23 1 :00 p.m. ships. Skiing March 22 10:30 a.m. Collegiate The " test" meet was held March 4-7, 1954, Thursday - March 21 - National pionship. Middlebury College is led by Gordon Eaton, a top candidate for the United States Olympic team. However, Eaton was upset in the regional slalom contest by Jim Jacobsen of Dartmouth. -- - ------ -- - --- - - - - -· - -- the laid plans for a "test" national skiing cham- TENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL COLLEGIATE SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS ·- . - vada as host' institution. It was the first in the series of National Collegiate Skiing Champion- vention in Washington, D. C., in ~anuary, 1953, was the first step taken by the NCAA toward ORDER OF EVENTS 10:30 a.m. at Reno, Nevada, with the University of Ne- NATIONAL COLLEGIATE JUMPING CHAMPIONSHIPS New jumping hill, approx. 180-foot jumps '" OFFICIAL WATCH FOR THIS MEET - Page 3 Page 4 LONGINES - THE WORLDS MOST HONORED WATCH . • ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW, Page 8 Salt Lake County, Utah Thursday, April 23, 1964 AV AL ANC HE OF BEAUTY -- Cutting through tt,e night, swooping down the mountain, sprayIng crystals in a turn, Engen shows the thrills of night-time skiing are matched only by its be auty. ' BALANCE, FORM, DISTANCE -- It's a long way down from the take-off point. As a record holder, Alf's way down ls longer than most people's. · WHAT A JOB I -- Alf Eugen's "office", the slopes of Alta, keep him busy practicing what he teaches. Whlle this Isn't recommended for beginners, If they can help it, it's a great way to get away from the boss du ring a coffee break. Alf Engen .Recalls: 'I Believe My Greates t A ccompli shment Was When I Won A ll Four Big S1,ecialized Cliampi onships' Trophy. Awarded each year to that skier for his contribution to the sport of skiing In a niche of Alta Lodge the r e 's a large picture frame. In it is a newspaper clipping about sportswriter s choosing the man who has done most for skii ng, two pictures of a man silting on porch steps with e ach step fllled with tromedals, and sports phies, memorabilia, and some short sentences citi11g the trophy winner for: •winning the American Ski National Ski Championship •1940 Junior •record breaker and record maker over a ten year period of competitive skiing •coach of U, s. Winter Olympic team 1948 gentleman, fair competitor, and sportsman. This man of course, ls Alf Engen, ski instructor at Alta Lodge, and a . Holladay resident. SKI FAMILY Alf's skiing background goes back to his ho me country of Norway. "I got lntereatedln skiing in Norway. I went to schOol and other places on skis." Mr. Engen came to the u.s. in 1929. 'There ls a somewhat apocryphal story that when he first arrived he had no ski boots, so he strapped his regular shoes to a pair of skis, entered a race and won it, . Whether it is actually true or not doesn't matter. The story shows Mr. Eugen's love of the sport and skllng ability. He has two brothers who are well-known skiers too. Sverre lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Corey lives at McCall, Idaho. Skiing runs in the family blood too. Alf and his wife Evelyn have two sons and live at the corner of 6200 South and 2300 East. The younger, Jon, ls a student at Olympus High School and heads-for-the-hills when powder is on the slopes. The older son, Allan, 2 3, ls an officer in the u.s. Army. On the north wall of the Alta lounge is a schematic drawing he did of the Alta ski area wli,h tows and runs. From 1936 to 1948 Engen was at Sun Valley. During this time he took several years out during World War II and worked with ski troops In research and development. In the winter of' 48 he coached the u,s. Winter Olympic P()RTR AIT START NOW SUNTANNED SMILE - - Alf Engen's wind and sunburned smile ls as famllisr to area skiers as his noted skiing form. As ski instructor at Alta, he !!r.ds that a smlle of encouragement Is as helpful a teaching tool as demonstrating the correct form. team. Since then he ha.s been at Alta and ls now head of the ski school. MODEST CHAMPION Alf Engen has won s o many championships that a list of them would look like a sk1 record book. According to most ski enthusi ast s , how ever, his greatest feat was winning the qu adr uple crown of skier s, the natinn<tl championships of jumping, cr oss- ALF AT THE TOP OF P-RIDGE Photo by Alan Engen Alta, Utah Circa February 1964 "The United States team as a whole did very well, really." "I like to think that America will be the r eal threat in future Wint.er Olympics," he predi els. "We're coming to good teams, and we're really getting depth. We have 150 good junior skiers here, and thue are more everywhere. WP are moving up fast. In other countries skiing was always popu lar. Here It Is just beginning, Now we will have more competition. I look for America to be the one to beat. Just wait." country, downhill, and slalom. He ls the only man to have done this. Alf Engen Is modest and matter-of-fact about his winnings. He gives the idea that he enjoys the thrills of close competition and winning, but that it ls the sport and developing the best possible skllls that really count with him. To him his trophies don't represent beating someone else as much as doing his best. When asked what in his career he thinks ls his biggest accomplishment, he says, "I don't know really. I guess there's actually a lot of them. My greatest was when I won speclallzed big all four championships In the United States. I think there was the most thrill in being the national jumping champion." In 1948, Mr. Engen was coach of the U,S. Winter Olympic Team at St. Morritz. The U.s. came in third that a particularly good year, .-tanding considering the near l?Ck of winter sports interest In the country at that time. Of this year's Winter Olympics, Mr. Engen says, "America should pick out good-sized groups of youngsters now for '68," Mr. Engen recommends to improve our performance for the next Winter Olympics, "They should traln together now, a good sized group of them now. By the time the Olympics come, we could have a good team.' ' One difficulty for the u.s. is, "We use the AAU rules on amatui'lsm. Our rules should be mor e lenient to help more people pe on the , team. To help on the problem of paying for the Olympic team, Mr. Engen suggests, "In some way the team should be sponsored by our country. Other countries do it - - Aust ri a, France, and others. They don't need to be professionals, but it should be almost a full; time job. We should f tart rlgi.t now while the last OlyllJIICs are fresh in our minds to train for the next ones, not walt." ALWAYS IMPROVING ' On skiing In general, Mr. Engen says that it Is always changing with new boots, skis, and lifts. The biggest change, he says, is the growth of interest that wlll give us real depth In the Olymples and more people on the slopes. Skiers right now, according to Coach Engen, are missing some of the "very best skiing of the season." Usually, skiing drops off as soon as Easter passes," he says. This year's early Easter has cut the season short, but the slopes are generally very good and not • crowded. 24 . of! I .I The Salt Lake Tri~une, l\Ionday, April 13, 1961 • - - - - - - - -- -- -- - ~- -- -- - - r End of Hard Luck Trail Avalanche Kills Bud Werner I By Associated Pr ess SWITZERLAND'S Terese Willy Bogner Sr. of Munich, a S-'?'MEDAN, SWITZERLAND, Obrecht and West Germany ski relative of ski racer Willy BogApnl 12 - Wallace (Bud) Wer- ace Burgi Faerbinger were bur- ner, on the slopes of this west. ner, one of America's top ski ied but saved by rescuers. Thir- ern Switzerland town near the racers, and a West German teen others in the movie-making Italian border. women's champion perished party also were swept down the . The skiers were crossing a while making a sports-fashion slo~e by the avalanche but dug movie Sunday in one of three themselves out. steep slope when the wet snow gave way avalanches of wet snow that A"',.o th er avaIanche occurred suddenly d • and • roared thundered down Alpine slopes t ht . C tral S ·tz own the monnt.ams1de carry. a essna~ m e~ w1 er- ing them along. In all, 13 skiers were trapped Ian. burymg a ski grou~ !rom , and seven of them, all be- which the seven were m1ssmg. Rescue work began immedilieved to be Swiss, were THE THIRD h ately. Within a short time, helpI . . mJSsmg. d f ava t 1anc .e came t ers free d M"1ss Obrecht and Mi ss , 9 338 00 . _ owp a .' · s ope m ~a.s • Faerbinger who were not ver Killed with 28-year-old Wer- ern Switzerland. Authont1es dee i th' h d d Y ner, who retired from competi- there said seven in this ski group P n e ar -presse snow. l tion in March, was Barbara were rescued. They said the LESS THAN an hour after the (Barbi) Henneberger, 23, a skiers ignored avalanche warn- accident more than 100 policemember of the German Olym- ings. men, Alpine guides and volunpics team at Innsbruck in Jan- The sports-fashions movie was teers from Samedan, St. Moritz, being made by manufacturer Pontresina and several nearby uary. · villages were frantically prob-1 ing the snow with sticks for Werner and Miss Henneberger. ( Miss Henneberger's body was [ found three hours after the acci- l dent, eight feet deep. Werner was found an hour later, 10 feet j deep. Their bodies were flown l down to the Samcdan District Hospital. j AMERICA LOOSES ONE OF IT'S ALL-TIME FINEST ALPINE SKI RACERS by Alan K Engen Since modern alpine ski racing began in the 1930s, there have been many athletes who have gained world wide recognition for outstanding ski performances. Wallace "Buddy" Werner was certainly one who filled that description. I I Officials said they suffo. I Buddy was born near Steamboat Springs in February 1936 and for most of his early life, skiing with his sister, Skeeter, and brother, Loris, was literally a "way of life." His competitive career began in earnest when he won the National. Junior Downhill and Slalom Combined title in 1952. Two years later, Buddy came to Utah and trained at Alta for a berth on the men's U.S. FIS Team. It was there that I first met and trained with Buddy, as a young 13 year old junior racer. I was able to participate with the group only because of my father's influence. Another very young skier my age was also in attendance. His name was Jimmy Heuga, and boy could he ski! I thought Buddy was special because he was somewhat younger than the other "national racers" who were training, and he was holding up with the best of them. Many of the top skiers in the U.S. at that time were there ... Brooks Dodge, Bill Beck, Ralph Miller, Jack Reddish, and Darrel "Pinky" Robison to name but a few. I cannot remember how the final trial results came out, but as I remember, Buddy did very well. cated. HE WAS A hard-luck skier. throughout his career. He made j' his first big splash in the 1956 Olympics, when U.S. skiing was 1 still a joke to Europeans. His failure then to win a medal f · brought him to tears. In 1960, he was considered . 1 Bud W.erner . . . Top us . . s k.1er America's hope. But he broke killed in Swiss avalancne. his leg in training. In 1962 he •- - -- - - - -~ won American ,acclaim by placing fifth in the giant slalom and eighth in the downhill at the world championships at Cha-' monix, France. Werner placed 17th In the. 1964 Olympics in the men's downhill, was disqµalified in the\ men's giant slalom and placedl eighth in the men's slalom. He was senior at the Univer- 1· _. sity of Colorado. -~ I I- Perhaps Buddy's greatest triumph came on January 17, 1959, when he won the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbuhel, Austria. When he accomplished this, he became the first American to step on to the winner's podium. This feat has only been duplicated by an American one other time when in 2003, Daron Rahlves won the Hahnenkamm .... over four decades later. It is sad to think that Buddy's life had to come to a quick ending because of an avalanche. But that is exactly what happened. Following the 1964 Winter Olymp1ic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, Werner was doing a sports fashion film shoot in St. Moritz, Switzerland with Willy B<0gner, Jr. Also skiing with Werner was Bogner's fiance, Barlbi Henneberger, from Germany who had captured a bronze m1edal in slalom and combined at Squaw Valley, California in 1960. While Werner and Henneberger were in the process of making turns on April 12, 1964, several avalanches started at the same time, resulting in both lives being tragically lost It is hard to say what the history books would have written about this outstanding athlete in years to follmw had he not lost his life ... but one thing is certain and that is he left ski tracks which have served as a inspiration and a modlel for many American skiers who pursued competitive ski racing in the latter part of the 20 th Century. Werner was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame posthumously in late 1964. • • WERNER WAS mamed to the · former Vanda Norgren, daughter . of Colorado industrialist C. A. Norgren of Denver. They had no children. ;. Warner's sister, Skeeter, owns ' a ski shop in Steamboat Springs. In February 1957, Werner returned to Utah to win the Alta Snow Cup, considered by many to be one of the top races in the United States at that time. When I next skied against Buddy was at the North American Ski Championships; the Harriman Cup and Roch Cup/National Championships in 1959. All three races were considered part of the Olympic trials for the U.S. team in 1960. In all three races, Buddy was a star, beating virtually the best skiers from around the world, such as Christian Pravda and Tony Marth from Austria; and Osamu Tada from Japan. .l Werner, who made his home in Steamboat Springs, Colo., was ! credited with being one of the chief forces that made the United States a serious competitor in international skiing. But he , never won an Olympic medal. l I t Buddy Werner: Ski Racing's Hard-Luck Hero Th e wunderkind from Steamboat Article on Buddy Werner which ran in The June 2004 edition of SKIING HERITAGE Magazine, written by Matt Hansen. . DESERET NEWS, Thursday, November 12, 1964 4D Lake Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. F. C. Koziol, a memb er of the Salt Lake Olym- 1 the Salt H. Stiles, president of the United t Merrit n Brighi-O at area ski pie Comm_it1ee, points out States Ski Assn., during a tour Thursday. to Max E. Rich, executive secret ary of Area Olympic Potential? Impressive! l • I "Why, it's only about five .first day on a tour of the Salt By Grant V. Messerly between Park City and miles Thurses faciliti ski Lake area Tribune Sports Writer within that area you and Alta, ·th· th day. ed • e WI " I am impress major , ski areas. " four 1 have Checks Facilities tremendous Olympic potential Dr. and Mrs. Stiles made the Max E. Dr. Stiles, a Spokane, Wash., tour of the area with you have in this area ." president vice ive Pxecut Rich, to City Lake Salt in is ian, physic That's the way Dr. Merritt H. Divi- and secreta ry of the Salt Lake Stiles, p~eside nt of the Umt~d attend the Intermountam be· Chamber of Commerce; Gene tion conven USSA the of n hisJsio up States Ski.. As~n·: s_ummed Donovan, Dev Jenning~, F . C. City. - ., ginning Saturday at Park Koziol, members of the Salt • a also is he since However, ittee ; Bob) : directo r of the United States Lake Olympic Comm wM Laker Salt r anothe Allen, les Sti Dr. ittee, Comm : Olympic the. I of nt preside vice also is unity ; decided to take the opport L. Voorof checking in the Olympic USSA; Dr. Richard a past · potential and facilities in the hees; Alton Melville, president of the USSA: Marv area while he was here. ski' : "I knew you had a number of Melville, University of Utah Olympic areas near Salt Lake City, but I coach and assistant of Park had no idea they were so close coach; Tim Heydon, e; , Solitud of k, Bulloc Dean City; together," Dr. Stiles said. Jim Gaddis, of Alta, and Zane A •1 • F our " aJor reas Doyle , of Brighton. "We looked over Brighton and Tremendous Future Solitude Thursday and we intend "The future of your ski area to get to Alta and Park City Fri- is tremendous. The possibility of 1 day," he said. an interlocking lift system bet- 1 --- --- -- ween U1ese areas is fascinating, 1 and I predict that within 10 I years, you will have it," he I 1 said. "I am very favorably Im- ( pressed with what I have se~n, 1 "There are many factors ID· I volved in the selection of an Olympic site, and there are sev- era! plus factors here. "The location of a major transcontinental air route through Salt Lake City doesn' t hurt," he said with a smile. "And the closeness of the ski areas to tile city is a real plus factor. Alternate Courses "In Olympic competition it is , necessary to. have a~ternate courses for all events. and with what you have here, that would • be no problem." But, aside from the ski area, what about the rest of the winter Olympic events? "That new Civic tudito rium is a fantastic deal. They will be able to seat more than 10,000 for hockey match es and figure skat• ing. That's twice the number they could seat at Innsbruck. "One thing that most areas lack, and that costs a great deal to build. is an Olympic-sized speed skating oval. Necessary Size "I understand there are tentative plans to utilize the University of Utah stadium for such a purpose, and although I have only seen It from the highway, I suspect it has the necessary size. I Alf Engen offers advice to "snow bunny" in preparatio.n for session of Deseret News Ski School. 'Ne ws' Ski School Snow Falls As Planned ent Old Man Winter came through equipment. All such equipm I before home at on tried be must sday Wedne time of nick in the assure the with enough of the necessary the first session to white stuff to assure the opening proper fit. be availa- , of the 1964 Dcseret News Ski Lunch facilities will in the lodges ski the at hie g. morrun ay Satur~ Sch~ol may ts studen or area on Bright . First ~f five scheduled ses• . s. lunche own their e provid at t~d cond~c be will ,aons lntop of corps a g Headin at Dg Brighton Saturd~y begiMI .Engen, veteran 1 10 a.m. Inspection of the are~ structo rs is Alf of several holder and ster skimei ski by sday Wedne was mad~ . Engen Mr. s. ionship champ ski were school offI~1als and plans 0 PE;rat?rs to pa~k urged all instruc tors to report to li!t by made 9 :15 a.m. j· an area Friday ID time for t e the Brighton area by Saturday. opener. Saturday The Dese:e t Ne,ys Ski _School , For the first session ced to a ~·ee pu~lic service to Its sub- students will be Introdu of entals fundam basic the 0 of 15 s per~on to i;>en scribers, the hold to way proper skiing, 8:ny age .. Registration will conwalking tinue durm~ 0e week; however, poles, side stepping, terms. ski and t~e attend . to ~rson s _wJShing first sesSJon should pick up their available I ski tag in person at the newspa- Bus service will sbewho do not Saturday for person per office, 33 Richards St. ortatransp own their e provid ttiose of ience For the conven trip is who have their registration form tion. Cost for the round riding the I completed, ski tags also will be $1.75 and persons the exact have should buses ay Saturd on given out at Bright change to pay the driver. The morning. le for Although lessons are free, stu- following is the bus schedu ay: Saturd ski their dents must furnish ., . Schedule oJ Bus Stops ROUTE NO. 1-00WN TOWN 11th west and 5th North (Rose Park! 2nd Wost and 2nd North (West Hlohl Oeseret News (33 Richards St.l $eulh Tem,lo and Sth Eost ROUTE NO. i-sTH EAST 5th EMt and 9th South ( Llborly Park) 5th East and 13th South Sth Eas-t and 21st St,Jfh sn, Eut and 33rd South (Granli. Hlthl Mr. Gaddi s is al so a U. of U, 1962 gradu ate in banki ng a nd finance. He was affiJi. · atcd with Beta Theta Pi. MA'f '1 ROUTE NO. 3-9TH EAST 9th East and '1'h South 9th East and 9th South 9th EMt and 13th South en f'f t,4 I I Miss fth East and 17th South 11th Eut and 21st South (SU§lr Housel ROUTE NO. 4-13TH EAST and 9th East South $0uth Temple and 13th East (Reservo i r Park) 13th East and 9th South (East High) 17th East ancl 21st South (Highlan d Hlthl Highland Drive and 33rd South Highland Oriv, and 42nd South Hlohland Drive and "8th Soulh Highland Drive ind 62nd Souttt Trunnell ROUTE NO. 5-STAT E ST. West Templo and 9th South Stato St. and 17th Soufh (South Hlthl State St. and 33rd South St•t• St. and Vin• St. (49th South In Murray) Sp ea ks Vows II In nuptia l rites spok(!n TuPsdav at the Hollad ay Comm unity Churc h, l\Iiill;° Barlfa ra Jean Trunn ell bec-.ame the bride of James R. Gaddi s. Oilici atlng at the cerem ony was the Rev. Horac e Mcll,luUcn. A recept ion was held at the Flnnla nd,a Rcete urant at which the brld" was attend ed by Mrs. l\Ierrill D. Stillm an as matro n of honor, )1:iss Myrna Ander son, Miss Barbi;ra ~elson , Mrs. Hugh H. Hogle and Miss Karen Trunn ell. Best )Ian Dutles Pedor mlng best man duties tor bl brothe r was Warre n G. Gaddis. Usheri ni,;. were Richa rd Ga ddis, Hugh H. Hogle, John A. Morte nsen artd Alan Tr eharne . The n ew l\lrs. Gaddi s ls the ctau~ h~ ·of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Trunn ell, 5438 ReYere Dr. P arents of the brideg room 11-re :Mr, 1'J1G Mrs_ Glen D. Gaddis, 1766 Monte Vista Cir. (1850 Ea:stl. Colorado Honeymoo11 \'.11cn the newlywed couple return s fro m s, Colo., a wed<U ng tl'ip to Colora do • ·pr1ng they will mnkc- tl,clr home in Salt l.ake Clty Both are gradu ates of the Unive r it pl Utah :vhere Mr, Gaddis was aif!lla t ed wit h Pi , Beta Theta , ·~---L ---- Vint St, and 9th EHt 0 IPECIA L-OLVM PUS HILLS 19th South and Wesatch Blvd, Tlmt 7:30 • ·"'- 7 ;,45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 1: 10 11.m. I, m. 7 :55 • 8 ;05 a.m. 8 : 1S 1,%5 a,m. t :OO a.m. 8 :10 1.m. 1:15 run.. 8:20 a .m. 1:25 1.m. 7:50 7 :55 8 ; 10 8:15 8:«1 8:.tS 8 :45 , I a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. 1 .m. 1:.so a.m. 7 :50 a.m. 1 ·00 i1 .m. 13 :15 111 .rn. 8·30 1.m. t :,t0 e.m, t:15 1,m. DESERET NEWS FREE SKI SCHOOL OFFICIAL REGIS TRAT ION FORM M1--------------------------------NA ADDRESS ______________________________ _ PHONE _____________ AGf- -~--- SEX -----SIGNED _______________________________ _ D I om (Parent must sign ii student i• under 21) a regular Desettt News subscribe r. the car,ier when O legln my ,ubKrlpti on to the Deseret New1. I will poy · Jrle tolls for payment, ng agencies oF oll I here9'y releo,1 tha t>t11ret News and othe r cooperati be tustalned 01 a rHult of liability for do'!'gH by racuon of Injuries thot moy partic:ipotion in the tki s.;hool. form to Ski School lnltrudlo n Ji for beginner , only. Moll or bring this __ __ __ _ J tog. your ski __ receive__ __to__ __env.lope L &tamped lndude Milf-addr•ued, Headquo rt.u, D11eret Newa, 33 Richard, St. U moiled, I ) _ _ _T~HE;;;__UNIVERSITY OF U_TA~H_ __ INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Einar Nlel,.n fleldhSalt Lake Oty I, Utah October 10, 1964 Dear Ski Follower: Dry-land training is progressing well with sessions at the University consisting of rope-jumping, isanetrics, tumbling, soccer and running. I would like to introduce you to this year's ski team, SENIORS: Rich Groth is an outstanding athlete in several sports. Rich is well known for his football prowess, playing quarterback and defensive half. Last season Rich's skiing improved steadily and near the end of the season he placed very well in the col legiate races along with becaning the ISA Slalom and Canbined Champion. fox Goddard has had considerable experience skiing in both collegiate and divisional races, Last year his placings in the collegiate circuit assisted tremendously in the team scoring. Fox is an Alpine skier. JUNIORS : Dave Engen has accumulated an excellent record in all events, Having just participated in the National Training Camp in Oregon, Dave is on his way to an excellent season. One of the bast 4-event competitors in the country, Dave can be counted on in all events, Fri thjof Prydz well known as a, star _tennis player, "Basse" is probably the fines t jumper presently in the United States. Last year Basse missed the Norwegian Jumping Team by the flip of a coin. He also returns as the NCAA Jumping Champion. Basse is a fierce canpeti tor who enjoys winning. · · SOPHOMORES: Matz Jenssen has had a slight problem...,; a freshman adjusting to University life, however, his attitude anc fitness are excellent at present. Matz won two major j umping tournaments in the East last winter. His ability in x-co·u ntry is also outstancing. Matz is a real threat in nordic skiing, and we are counting on him heavily . Ladd Christensen has a rather sporadic record, caused hy mistakes and bad luck. Having wa,ched Ladd for several years, I feel he has the ability to win. Certainly a dark horse who deserves watching, Pete Y-arns maintains his hane in Jackson, 1., yoming; and under their fine junior prog ram, Pete has developed into a good 4-event skier. Pete has indicated both interest and ability in x- country, and he will really aid us in this area. uohn 1/ iller speciali zes in Alpine events. Last season his 2nd in the ISA Downhill proved his abilitv. A native of Salt Lake City, he will assist us in providing the much needed depth, Bjoren Loken was a pleasant surprise last year as he recorded some fine perfonnances in several jumping t ournaments. Bjoren is a potential scorer and a very consistant ju:nper. In addition to the above mentioned 9 Varsity Skiers we have two local Freshmen. They are Steve Clegg and Howard Collins. Also working with us again and representing the University of Utah Ski Club will be Karen Korfanta and Marita Wetherill both outstanding young ladies who will represent the University very well. Sincerely ; -::/'. ·:"'· Marv Melville Ski Coach MM:dp UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MEN'S SKI TEAM (1964-6'3). IN PHOTO: FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: DAVID ENGEN RICHARD GROTH JOHN MILLER UNIDENTIFIED UNIDENTIFIED IN PHOTO, BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT : MATZ JENSEN LADD CHRISTENSEN FRITHJOF PRYDZ FOX GODDARD PETE.KARNS BJORN LOKEN MARVIN MELVILLE (COACH) Photo: University of Utah Circa October 1964 . ' .. Section. H, Sunday, Dec.ember 13, 196 4 This Is Who Iqft> 5 Da ve Ka dl~ck !"'- .-,,~,,esw-,-,.,, '!'""'I" 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Ca n Olympians Be Happy? llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 T HlS AVID sports man, medal Winner and cosme tic ma nufactur er is Alf Engen . All-Arbe'rican skier and directo r or the Alta Ski SchoC1l. He has been a Na tional Cha mp ion 16 time. a nd two of these times, in 1939 and 1941 , he was Nation al Fou r- Way Champ ion which foclud es compl etion in cross-countr·y, downhill , jumpin g and slalom . No one has ever equale d his reL'Ord. In 1937 he was Canad ian Jumpi ng Champ ion : in 1941, he was Classi c Champion, a combination or cross-country and jumpin g. In 19~0. he w as chosen All-Arnerira n Skier and in 1948, he was a c"(lach for the U.S. Olympic Ski Team. Othc>r award s he has received have been Skier or the Year and Utah Skier of the Centur y. He is a memb er of tlJF• Ski ers' Hall of F ame and the Helms Hall of Fame. Guess Who? BEFORE COMING to the United States, this myste ry Norman was a soccer player of some note in his native g playin s beside But s. award l severa g winnin team way, his skater speed , player l)ockey a was soccer, this sports man and memb er of a folk dancin g team. an He came to the United States in 1929 and played on e, Rockn Knute by d spotte was He team. all-sta r soccer d all-tim e great football coach of Notre Dame , and offere the a football schola rship to that school. The Rock liked a way this man played soccer and though t he would make down, great football player . But the myste ry man rurned it can becaus e a t that time he didn't know much al:iout Ameri footba ll. AFTE R LEAV ING Chicago, where he had been emapployed by Weste rn Electr ic Co. , Mr. X ca me to Minne apolis Minne the of er memb ;:i. was he where olis, Minn., t. Male Chorus which won a medal in a nation al contes In fact, this man has more than 500 trophi es in his , home, from sports in which he has partici pated, soccer ting. ice-ska and skiing, hockey and Amon g his other pursui ts, he runs a cosrne tw cospharmace11tical busine ss here, and manuf acture s metics . m Do you know who he ls? Turn to Page 8 to confir your gu~. The Salt Lake Tribune Home Magazine Can forme r Utah Olympians find happiness teach ing future Olympic hopefuls the sport of ski for free? "I think so," smiled pretty Suzy Harri s Rytti ng, an Olympian of a few years back. Suzy was speak ing with experience. She is spons oring one of the free , racing schools in the area. She has for coaching staff forme r Olympians Margo Saube rt , Jean Walte rs, Karen Korfa nta and Marv Melville. "And a lot of great Suzy Rytting paren ts who are makin g our progr am grow. We're not babys itting anyone in this school," she smiies. If a boy or girl wants to race, we ask that their paren ts get involved. Witho ut exception r esponse has been great ." The Rytting Racing School is a departure from other schools in the area. "We couldn't afford the near $200 entry fee each requir ed by most schools. I have two daughters (Jinx, 16 and Robyn, 13) who want to race. We have 23 memb ers in the school. "We're placing some responsibility on the · racer. He has to find his own transportation, own way t,o the top of the mountain and, in the future, . his own wax for racing. We're keeping the individual aspect in racing," she grinned. Her comments echoed those of Marg o Walte rs who said following her tour with the U.S. Olympic team : "I never got to wax my own skis. never knew what I was skiing on most of the time. I'd like to see more individuality on racing teams ." Refreshi ng Change It is refres hing to see the spirit that made junio r baseball popul ar move onto the slopes. Can you imagine what kind of baseball we would offer our sporting public if it hadn't been f or former basieballers who decided it was ti.me to give of themselves for the sake of the sport that · gave them so much? Can you imagine payin g $200 for a summ er o! little league baseball for a boy? There is a place for racing schools. Sundance's Junior B0tmous, one of the big names in Ut.a,h skiing, has latmched a Buddy Werner program. It is designed to create interest in the sport at iµinimum cost to the junior skier. Boun ous has: 13 Wern er Leaguers. That' s en,;:mgh for two six-m an teams and an altern ate. He hopes to have four teams by the end of the ski season. Who Are Former Olympians? • ,.,... Comes this quest ion from junio r racer Dave Berm an : Who are forme r Olympians from Utah? Margo Walte rs, Suzy Harri s Ryttin g, Marv Melville, Dev Jenni ngs, Darre ll (Pink y) Robinson, Dick Movitz, Jack Reddish, Jim Murp hy and Alf Enge n are those on Intermounta,in Division records. I .,,.,.,. . a r SPECTATORS WATCH SKI JUMPING ON LANDES MEMORIAL SKI JUMPING HILL. Photo : Alta, Utah - Circa early 1960s. Special note: Photo shows both the "A" hill on the left and the "B" hill just to the right with a skier completing his jump. Hill mark ers can be seen on the side. Ski Stature On Line Utah and Idaho place their ski racing progr ams on the line this week at Park City West when they test ea.ch other and Pacific North west Ski Assn., skiers in downhill tryou ts. Sun Valley's Pat Simpson and Salt Lake City's Craig Gorder are two of Intermow1tain's fine alpiners with junior national third place finisher Jimm y Simonson of PNSA likely to test both of them, The field is rich with talent with 120 to 140 skiers in exper t A and B competing for honors . "Boise is sending down a team of four boys to challe nge ·Inter mdun taip and PNSA skiers ," report~ Walte rs. "This is the gre;i.test thing that can.h appen to junio r racing. Interest is high everywhere." =-,., k :ers Begin_ for CIS~f ·vs UNITED STAm SKI ASSOCIATIO sa _n, Febr~ary 'l'O WH.OM. rr Gloria C. Chadwick, Executive Se<:rc • BROADMOOR • COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO AREA CODE 303 635 5 1965 ffi.Y CO CERN : This is to cer::ify that Alar,_ K . Engen of the \ SKI TEAM • UNITED STATES CISM S ..::.1. Club (Tea..7ll. ), birthdate 9-20-40 has been class fiec as an INTERNATIONAL CLASS "A" Alpine Competitor for CISM 'THE MiLITARY . OLYMPIC·S' -t·.e 1964: a.:rd 1965 season . He is 1::her entitled to represent the United States Ski Associa~ion in sa.ctioned International Competition . UNITED s=ATES SK:-'" ASSOCIATION ._ +i...J..e , ....T r ., Cnairma.:.~ :n ernaticnal ~itions Com:n.ittee T • cutive Secretary United States Ski Association P. WHAT IS CISM? by Alan K. Engen When the word CISM comes up in print, many questions arise as to what it stands for. My first thought when I heard the term was that since the word ended in "ism" it might have a medical connotation. However, I was not even close! No, it stands for Counseil Internationale du Sports Militaire or, in English, "International Council of Military Sports." CISM really involves many sports, both summer and winter oriented. In each case, it involves competition at an "elite" athletic level. Most countries that compete in the CISM championships only enter athletes who have been, or are, Olympic caliber. As applicable to the U.S. ski team, to even try out, a letter had to be obtained from the United States Ski Association (USSA) attesting to ability of the individual, based on past athletic performance, to compete at the highest level of international competition. In 1965, those who made the U.S. CISM team included three Olympians, and the rest held high ranking at the national level. Because of the intense speed and risk involved in the European alpine downhills, only those who qualified to compete at the FIS "A" level made the final team. Many other countries only sent individuals who were already a part of their Olympic or FIS teams. So the level of CISM competition was, in fact, "world class." This is why the CISM championship events were billed as the "Military Olympics." ALAN ENGEN - MEMBER OF THE 1964-65 UNITED STATES CISM SKI TEAM. Photo: St. Anton, Austria Circa Jamiary 1965 ALF ENGEN CREATING A GIANT POWDER TRAIL BEHIND HIM AS HE SKIS HIS LAST RUN OF THE DAY OFF PUNCHBOWL Photo by Merlin Berg - Alta, Utah - circa .mid 1960s MID 1960s ADVERTISEMENT BY THE USSA SKI TEAM. THE REAS ON I FELT IT INTERESTING TO SHOW w AS NOT THE SKIER, BUT THE SKI BOOT ! BUCKLE BOOTSWERE JUST COMING INTO MAJOR LIMELIGHT DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME AND THIS PHOTO CAPTURES ONE OF THE FIRST OF THE BUCKLE BOOT TYPES. Alan K. Engen -- FRID~Y, FEBRUARY 1 2, 1965 p on Gives Okay To Al~a Slide -Bypass been spent already this year in will be willing to grant right ofemergency snow removal at! way, Gov. Rampton said. Alta, th~ project probably would Mr. Wilbert said the us For" · t s · · pay for 1tseli many times over at work seeking , , e~ ht erfv1ce isl Gov Rampton said · rig o way c earance. · SEEK OKEH Construction would be done by The bypass ro~d- woul_d take l the 115th Engineer Group, Utah ?ff from the existing highway Na'.ional Guard, during its sum- Just west of the Peruvian Lodge, Gov. Rampton 1~structcd Gen. mrr training at an out-of-pocket cross the creek to the south side Watts and Mr. Wilbert to seek cost to the state of only $5,000. of the canyon and proceed west- approval of the Forest Service, ward down the canyon 1.6 miles of the Salt Lake City Health De. . . Three Nal!onal Guard officers before crossing back to the partment and of the Associated and_ Harry E. Wilbert, district north side. Much of it will be General Contractors. ;ngmccr for the Stale Highway hidden among trees on the south Since state funds are not available for regular construeepartment, presented the plan side of the canyon. Maj. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, tion of such a highway, the con- ' to Gov. Rampton. Mr. Wilbert said highway de- Utah adjutant general, said the tr~.ctors probably will have no par1ment employes have sur- 115th Engineer Group has suffi- objection to basic construction veyed the rou te and find it fea- cient m?.npower and eC1uip--,ent by the National Guard , Gov· 1 to builil the graveled road c1ur- Rampton said. . sible. ing its two-week summer camp. Lt. Col. T. R. Kingston, execSTATE EXPENSE Two bridges and some dynam- ... He .~escribed the project as utive officer. and Maj. K. G. Larsen, operations officer, 115 h ite would be about the onlv ex- icl~al for summer camp. Smee. Alta p_roperty owners Engineers Group, showed maps • pense to the state. would be benefited by such an of the area and the proposed , . 'Smee more than $5,000 has alternate highway, they probably new road. A 1.6-mile emergency bypass road. around the worst slide area m the Alta canyon rec~ived thP approval of Gov. Calvm L. Rampton Thursday afternoon. "I I . I ENGEN BROTHERS AND WIVES DONATE PROPERTY FOR ALTA BY-PASS ROAD "In 1965, three acres of land (surface rights) were donated by ' the Engen brothers (Alf, Sverre, and Corey) and their spouses, to the U.S. Forest Service to construct the Little Cottonwood Canyon By-Pass road allowing an alternate access to and from Alta which was not subject to slide impact from Mt. Superior. This donation was formalized per Right of Entry Agreement, Project #S-0152, dated September 7, 1965." Special note: Quote noted above comes from document titled "A Comprehensive TimeLine of Alta History," prepared by Alan Engen - 2000. ALAN ENGEN COMPETING AT GARMISCHPARTINKIRSHEN, GERMANY. Photo circa 1965 FRJEDL PFEIFFER AND ALF ENGEN HAVING A DISCUSSION PRIOR TO THE START OF A SKI LEGENDS RACE. Photo: Sun Valley, Idaho Circa 1965 ALAN ENGEN MAKING A PARALLEL TURN AT GARMISCH PARTINKIRCHEN, GERMANY, ClRCA MID 1960s. ALF ENGEN MAKING AP ARALLEL TURN AT ALTA, CIRCA MID 1960s. Photo by Howard Moore • ALF ENGEN WITH DESERET NEWSSKJSCHOOLSTUDENT Photo by 0. Wallace Kastele Alta, Utah - circa 1965 J1M GADDIS PERFORMING A POWDER GELANDE OFF A CORNICE. Photo: Alta. Utah- circa mid 1960s 1N PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT: SVERRE ENGEN ALF ENGEN CHIC MORTON . Photo: Alta, Utah - circa mid 1960s ATHLETES PIN AWARDED TO THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE de SKI (FIS) - "A" LEVEL DOWNHil,L AND SLALOM COMPETITION AT ORTISEI, ITALY IN JANUARY 1965 . ALAN ENGEN COMPETING IN A FIS "A" SLALOM, PART OF THE 1965 EUROPEAN RACE CIRCUIT. Photo: Ortisei, Italy- Circa February 1965 THE STAAS AND STRIPES I TNCLE SAM'S 1\-IEN-Ilere Is the team ~at will represent the U.S. Forces Jn tile 'o nseil International du Sport !Militaire CISM) skiing championships this week t Andennatt, Switzerland. Kne~H11g (left ATHLETE/COMPETITOR MEDAL GIVEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CISM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT ANDERMATT, SWITZERLAND IN MARCH, 1965. THIS PARTICULAR MEDAL IS PART OF THE ALAN ENGEN COLLECTION. to right) are AlpJne coach Rich Hubbard, Alan En~en, Allan Miller, Bela Sziget• vara, Bu ch Gooding, JJm Bombard, and Jim Barrier. Standing (lelt to rJght) are rifle coach Clyde Burns, Nordic skHng coach s,,en Johanson, Arvil Jlu11ter, Allen Small, John Ehre11sbeck, Victor Prh ratsky, Gerald Varnam, Paul Renne, Bill ~encer and John Bower. The mf'el starts esday. -Army Photo COPY OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPING NAMING THOSE SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AT ANDERMATT, SWITZERLAND AS PART OF THE 1965 U.S . CISM TEAM. Photo: Gannisch-Partinkirshen, Germany Circa March 1965 Special note: Skiers who have been a part of Utah skiing named to this team included John Bower, Alan Engen, Allan Miller, and Bill Spencer. 1 MEMBERS AND COACHES OF THE 1964-65 UNITED ST ATES CISM SKI TEAM (BOTH NORDIC AND ALPINE). Photo: Andermatt, Switzerland Circa March 1965 Special note: Members of the team who have distinguished themselves in Intermountain ski competition include Bill Spencer, Alan Miller, and Alan Engen. • ALAN ENGEN AND ALAN MILLER (USA) RECEIVING HANDSHAKES FROM A SWISS OFFICIAL AT THE OPENi ijG CEREMONIES OF THE 1965 CISM INTERNATIONAL SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT ANDERMATT, SWITZERLAND. Pbpto: March 1965 ALAN ENGEN (USA) IN THE STARTING GATE OF THE WORLD CISM ALPINE GIANT SLALOM . CHAMPIONSHIP Photo : Andermatt, Switzerland Circa March 1965 .·.' Ritz Classic Lures Top Stars, C-2 in lt tnkt jti hu nt iport~ Salt Lake City, Utah-Sun day Morning-M arch 28, 1935 Section C Miller, Smith Win Top Titles • Ill Salt Laker Likes Wild Cars, C-4 Page One Sl{i Classic Area's Stars Pit Speed Sports Mirror /Jy John Mooney At Tourney Tribune Sports Editor By Grant V. Messerly Tribune Sports Writer PARK CITY - It was a day of sunshine, snow and trophies as more than 200 junior racers flew down the slopes of the Trea• sure Mountain Resort here Sat• urday in the 10th annual running of The Salt Lake Tribune's Ski Classic. Light Snow The day started with the sun peeking through broken clouds, then a light snow started to fall as the first racers started down the course. By the time the last racer was off the hill, there was a full• fledged storm in progress. But the kids didn't seem to mind M they sailed through the 37 gate~ of the l¾ mile long giant slalom course in jig time. The winners of the first three places in each of the 10 divisions were presented with large tro• phies by The Tribune. Utah's Winter Olympic BidA Part of Area's Growth United States Olympic officials who visited Utah's ski •sorts last week were impressed by the natural assets of r mountain wonderland. The snow and slopes along with the potential of the state's ski areas drew favorable reactions from Jud Strunk of the U.S. Ski Association and" three members o! the women's Olympic board o! development. All were impressed by these unique features: The accessibility or proximity o! the potential Olympic sites to a large center of population. The excellent transportatio n faDev Jennings _cies, including airline, railroad and highways into the :sible Olympic city, and the short trips to any of the comition siles. The variety and number of nalural ski slopes. The certainty of more than adequate snowfall at all e potential sites of the various events. The natural assets are offset, partially, by the lack o! ysical accommodati ons, which is natural since the big .siness and tourism facets of skiing are relatively new terprises in the slate. Fortunately, too, Utah's bid for the 1972 Olympics inires adequate time for the building of the Sports Arena r the skating events, expanded housing development s for ctators and competitors and construction of the jumpg hills and sled runs. No 'White Elephants' Here Because of the nearness of the resorts, every facility nstructed for the Winter Olympics in Utah would become part o! the over-all development of the state's winter reation area. Frequently, as in the case of Squaw Valley, many of P development s for the Winter Olympics hec;,mP wastPrl ney. The area was too far from population centers to be ed by any great number of people. In Utah, the buildings would fit into the development recreational skiing and tourism. Utah needs many oI se development s now, for the state to take the place in ! winter sports picture its natural assets promise. Dev Jennings, a former Olympian who is executive 1-'retary and publicity director of Ski Utah Associates, ,ints out 1he need ior more physical growth to insure Jtah's place in the ski world: "Our accommodat ions at the resorts can handle between 10 and 15 per cent of the hourly lift capacities. In contrast, at Aspen, Colo., the opera1ors run 100 per cent of the hourly lift capacity. "In olhcr words, you should have housing facilities for eYery ski<'r: that's the way to keep tourists over for several days of skiing. Your hill capacity should be backed up by lodging facilities." l\Jonnf.ain Resort Saturday. The awa ds were given / of the 10 divisions in the race. More than 200 to the winners of the first three laces in each young racers parlfoipaled in tile Classic this year. Here are the winners of tronhies in The 10th annual Ski Classic at · Park City's For Servic eRe,vard at Winners • lll Here's Order Of Finish In Slii Race Slat Classic Special to The Tribune PARK CITY - Following ls the complete list of finishers in the 1965 Tribune Ski Classic held here Saturday on Payday Run. Girls' Resulls Expert A-Janne smith, ATS, 1:37.4; Peggy Goddarll, URS', 1:38.2; Arlene Belnap, ATS, 1:41.3; Kristi Campbell, Tiago, C~rol U2,9; Jody Lawson, ATS, 1:,6.4;Babich, Keevert, Jackson, 1:48.8; Kathy ATS, 1:"9,8; Susan Curtis, KIFI, 1:Sl.7,7 Expert B-Ann apRoberts, ATS,. 1:44 . , Cookie Jacobs, Jack5on, 1:47.7; Chip Hall, ATS, 1:50.6: Grelchen seolar, ATS, 1=52 ,.6: Jenkins, ATS, 1:55,0; Joan curt1S, Undo K1FI, 1:58.2; Wendy Morgan, Jackson, Owen, Jackson, 2:oo.l: Ru th 1:59.7; Trudy Herbert, SBRA, 2:rff.7; Cheryl Stale)', . Jackson, 2:08.5. Intermediate Cathy Savage, Solitude, SpPC'ial tn ThP Trihunp • PARK CITY - It was just 10 years ago - in 1955 - when the Salt Lake Tribune decided to host an invitational ski race for the best of the junior racers in the Intermountain area. l:55.3; Plltti Worley, Tlago, 1:57.8; Wendy Ann Manful!, SB.RA, Observation Ward , at . ,. , Riser, ATS, l :59.oi; Expert. B 1:59.8; Becky Wirick, ATS, 2:00.<: Lmda • Ferre, SLSC, 2:00.7; Kaid1 Morgan, Jackson, 2:01.0, Kathy Dahn, SLSC, 2:01.1, Craig Gorder, a 12-year-olrl Solilude, 2:05.5; Jone Mar- whiz who skies for URS, showPd Judy Tavlor, 2.09,1. , quardt, URS, m Novice- sue Hecllt, Solilude, ua; that he will be h heardh' from 11 ed Susan Bugde, Tracey Brown, KIFI, 1:51.4; a Tiago, 1:55.5; Monica Nance, Thiokol, the future as P W 1pp B expert the in Robbie competition 1:57.3; Holley Deisl, KIFI,, 1:58.I; • . Lynn Beck, URS·, 2:09.9; Linda Lawrence, boys' race with an amazmg run sBRA, 2,10.-1. l 38 .7. T WO f U11 secon d hP• Pee wee-Cindy samesberger, Pinedale, : :55.1; Pam Brennan, Pocatello, :55.5; of Choryl Hun- hind at 1 :40.7 was Dennis Er• HollY Sectiolzer, Tiaqo, :55,6; . T1a90, Larsen, Knsf• :~.O; tr--, URS, :598; Janet StaleY, Jackson, 1:00,9; Kay ,skine, ATS. Brad Langston, Chdstensen, Ti•oo. 1:06.6; Dana Melches, ATS. and Tom Barker, Snow , Thiokol, 1 .06.9 Basin Racing Assn., tied for eays' Result• Expert A-Rav Miller, URS, 1:294; Cal- third at 1 :42.1. Utah Has Definite Realities Boost Physica l Fitness \\ a:\ l'roblems The wax that was right for thP top of the course wasn't so right for the. flat spot not far from the finish. But Ann apRoberts, and ATS entry, apparenlly licked the f b' ti 'th bl a COm ma On 0 pro em Wl waxes and she raced down the . . . . COUrSe Ill a time Of 1. 44,7 to Will air]s' division • the expert B oSecond was Cookie Jacob~, J ackson H OIe Sk'1 Cl Ub , b Ut S hP. seconds. bC'hind was a full three . at 1:47.7. Thi.I'd was Chip Hall, 1 ·50 6 ATS I Some Great Ones During the time since, some good young racers have skied in The Tribune Classic then passed wither to greatness or oblivion into the ski world. But lhere are seven men who were in at the start of the Classic and they are still at it. And Saturdiiy, after the 10th running of the race, The Tribune presented each of the men with a ski parka, complete with Tribune Classic emblem, in appreciation for the timP and effort they have donated during the past 10 years to make the race one of the best on the junior circuit. De\' continues, ''Utah has r!dinite physical assets alGrand Timers ready, or in the planning stages, which would be available Included were Salt Lake City's for the Olympics. "Grand Old Men of Timing," "\Ve have the snow conditions and terrain among our Ned Warnock. Robert Allen, natural resources. Then we have the Utah stadium, which Jack Wilson, Stan Nelson and would need only a sun shield to protect the ice. We'll have Dick Ure. These five have been on the the Sports ArPna for hockey and figure skating by that time. scene for every race to time the "We have lifts and plenty of potential sites for all young racers from start to finalpine and nordic events. But we do need housing devel- ish. In addition, two other men opments." a great As Dev visualizes the Olympic picture, the Ute football who have contributed in on were Classic the to deal stadium could be used for the speed skating events. the awards. "But we could install temporary ice rinks in the footRay Langston and Dev Jenball gridiron area and hold some of the preliminary ice nings have been on the hill each hockey matches, as well as providing space for figure skat- of these 10 years to set the course. i'laul poles, tie flags, fix ing praclice. lines, and generally make finish "The Sports Arena could house the big hockey matches certain things went smoothly. slopes and snow the all have we and the figure skating. And Set Course necessary for the downhill, slalom, jumping and bobsled a former Olympian, Jennings, events. for all of !he course the set has along hills, jumping three "Utah would need to construct with the sled runs. But these could be used before and after races ,and accordmg to the kids !e~ Ray to run the Olympics for recreational pursuits, too, as well as com- ;ho e es took ave een some o petitive meets." ever. Langston has had the tough chore ol being equipment chief, 11!hich involves infinite detail and work to make certain everything is in its place at race time. physical for boost the of think Dev concluded, "But fitness such an Olympic development would mean for our time. But Salurday, these seven own youngsters, aside from the tourism valur. stalwarts had plenty of help. "Utah could become the figure skating, speed skating Paul Goddard served as refand hockey center of the world, along with its ski en- eree for the race: Alton Melville · thusiasts. was technical delegate; Tim "Given the opportunity, there's no reason why Utah Heydon headed UtJ communicaWirick youngsters should not develop In skatipg as they have in tions chores and Gordon was chid f,'atckceper. skiing. 36 u~arty Helpers "Then the Olympics would spotlight Utah and bring thousands to the mountain wonderland who never would Helpin,: Wirick with the gatehave come. In addition, millions would see our majestic keep[n:; chores were 36 hearty lsouls who braved the storm scenery and watch the competition via television. whic-h hit the hill by the end of . , "A nd don t forget, slners from Los Angeles or San th d s(d I ~an~· All<'n, Maxine Wilson Francisc? can come to U:ah by pla!le and get to resorts m less elapsed time than they can go sknng m ·and Bonnie Nelson (all wives of the timers) handled the job of California." recordini:: the times accurately and quickly. and Dr. Louis Tauter volunteered to act as course physician for the day. He had a hand from the Tre-\ Cathy Savage . . . She scored so, It make won't wishing know we us, of Troub/r, with moJt intermediate girls triumph. Mountain Ski Patrol. asure but it's so much ecuier thot way, h:ve Cop Divisions Ogden's flying young expert, Ray Miller, teamed with Janne Smith, from Alpine Training School, to sweep the expert A boys and girls' divisions . Miller, who skis for Utah Racing School, traveled the couse in 1 :29.4, well ahead ot Calvin Ross, also from URS, who was in at 1 :,32.8. Jim Shafer, ATS, was third at 1 :33.4. Miss Smith slipped over thP course in 1 :37.4, with another URS entry, Peggy Goddard. second at 1 :38.2. Arlene Belnap, ATS, was third at 1 :41.3. The snow presented some problPms for the racers. The light powdery snow at the top of Payday Run changed to slightly hPRvier powder toward the bot• tom. I vin Ros.!!, URS, 1:32.8; Jim Shafer, ATS, 1 :33.4; Steve Springmeyer, ATS, 1 :3-4.9; John Taufer, ATS, 1:l5.4; JOiin Bauchman, KIFI, 1:35.8; Tom Olsen, SBAB, 1:2'6.0; Robert Anderson, KIFI, 1:36.9; Jeff Lowe, URS, 1:37.2; Kent Heitz, URS, l\Joves Up Young Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dem Gorder, Salt Lake 1:37.5. has moved rapidly through Expert B-Creig Gorder, URS, 1:38.7; City, of the Intermountain Dennis Erskine, ATS, _1:40.7 ; Brad Lang• the ranks , . ston, ATS, 1:Jf2.1 {hPJ; Tom Barker, SBRA, 1:4'2,1 (tie]; Danny Armstrong, Area Jumor racers. At the start Park, 1:4U; Kenny Louder, of th1's race season he was far Zion Notional Sun Valley, 1 :42.7; Tom Fenny, URS, Ream, ATS, 1:.U.8; Tim down in interme(liate rankings, Bruce 1:44,6; rt B di' . t th Durham, ATS, 1:45.8; John Crane, ATS, b ut move d 111 • o e expe 1:45.9. Val- vision after winning several Sun1:42.3; nt Stoddard, lntermediat.,...<;ra ley, 1:39.5; U~rrv McKa1n, URS, John Neff, ATS, 1:43.0; Randy Smith, SOli· races. He h a d lrOU bl e f'111di ng h'lIDSeJ! 1:43.4; Ricky Jannsen, Jackson, tude, 1:43.6; Barry Higgins, ATS, 1:43.9; George SBRA, with the new division - which veasv. ATS, 1:44.l; Paul POPoler, 1:44.9; Ralph Pettv, URS, 1:45,0; John , 111cludes some 16 and l7 years c1av, Tiago, 1:.s.1. 1:30,5: old kids - but Saturday he ATS,Anderson, An~erson, - Jett Novic.Dye, URS, 1 :31.6; B111 Steve KIFI, 1:32.4; Barrv Hansen, Solitude, showed that he is ready to move 1:33,1; Joe Burt, Thiokol, 1:34.1; Doog even hi gher. Paquette, SBRA, 1:34.7; Steve Neff, ATS, 1 :25.'.l; Fred Anderson, KIFI. 1 :35.6; Top Division Roody Bamesberger, Pinedale, 1:38,3; Kt'lleV Deist, KIF!, 1:19.5. Pee wee-Lou Scarlett, Jackson, :<T,9; Cathy Savage, Solitude Racing Club, won the intermediate /;~d~n~.~:~~; 1\.Y,Rir•';\1,~ 1~!;, kol, ,ss.o: Mark Luddington, sBRA, :ss.4; girls' division with a time ol 1 1 :55.3. Behind her in the division F;."if;, ~:;.; r~}/ 0 2 sif~o:c~~;:.r, SLSC, l ' 1.5; was Patti Worley, Tiago Ski ~lk~ Club, who ran the course in 1 :57.8. Third was Wendy Riser, . ATS, with a 1 :59.4 time. Grant Stoddard, Sun Valley Ski Club, won the intermediate boys' division - the largest divi• sion with 38 entries - with 1:39.5. Second was Larry McKain, URS, wJ10 had a 1:42.3 clocking, and John Neff, ATS, was third at 1:43.3. ;i~'. m~~ te:::, 1/~~i~~' ~w;i·····,r·····•·•··•· r.;./ =i~: \~t Xovice Race Grant Stoddard ••• Intermediate boy's Sue Hecht . . . She was best novice gal in Tribune race. Sue Hecht, Solitude Racing Club, won the novice girls' race with a time of 1 :44.0. She bested the second place finisher, Tra• cey Brown, KIFI Ski Club, by more than seven seconds. Tracey was in at 1 :51.4. Behind her was Susan Budge, Tiago, at 1 :55.5. Jeff Anderson, ATS, won the novice boys' division in 1 :30.5. Second was Steve Dye, URS, at 1 :31.6, and third was Bill Ander• son, KIFI, 1 :32.2. In the annual Capsule Classic •• His time event, which features the best o1 ,Jeff Anderson Soo rage C-2, Column G. was fastest in novice boys. 6.A DESERET NEWS, Saturday, M~ch 6, 1965 It was like old times when Gretchen Fraser and Margaret (Migs) Durrance got together. Both raced as members of the United States Olympic teams. t. Alta had a homecoming for several former racing greats this week when Gretchen Fraser (leading) raced down the runs. Behind her are Migs Durrance,AI Engen, Don Fraser and Lowell Thomas Jr. Gretchen was gold-medal winner in Olympics. FRASERS, DURRANCES, THOMASES Ski Meccci For Sports Gre ats By HACK MILLER Deseret News Sports Editor If you could go back a little less than a couple of decades and look upon the field of ski racers you'd find a willowy little lass on the laths named Gretchen Fraser. "Gretch", as her friends affectionately call her, was the tops. She was the first American to win a gold medal, in Olympic skiing. She had married a tall and handsome ski racer named Don Fraser. She bad missed by I/20th point the gold medal for the combined championship. "Gretch" was America's winter sweetheart. Out here in the mountains we knew the Frasers well. They came to our Snow Cup events, competed in the meets which were worth their while. Gretchen had been racing for many years then. But the war had been on and the Olympics had been off. She had to wait; which she did. With Don's encouragement she peaked for the great run in 1948 and made it. To us mountain skiers Gretchen had sort of become "our gal." She had won our Snow Cup three times, had three gold watches to prove it, had many other medals and trophies she had gathered from our tournamehts. Another skier named Margaret Jennings was Gretchen's running mate when the latter first start.ed. "!'tligs" Jennings bad primed for the 1940 Olympics with Gretchen and then suddenly, be- cause of war conditions in Europe, the Winter Games were canceled. Margaret became Mrs. Dick Durrance, and in the next few years gave up competitive racing to .m other sons Dick and Dave. Dick Durrance had become famous for his raciQg -he started as the famous Dartmouth demon and won everything they offered in his days-rep~sented the United States In Olympic action as o~r best man. All the while, not too much In the backgroun~, was a middle-aged radio man , named Lowell Thomas, who had already taken up skiing as his favorite sport and had become an international fif ure in skiing's scope. · Those were the few people who headlined our winter sports world in their day. I Here at Alta this week these people had a glorious reunion-on skis, of course. The Frasers joined Lowell and Lowell Jr., (from Anchorage, Alaska), Jack Simplot, Bo~ Whipkey and a nice old Wasatch stump nam~ Felix Koziol for a few days on the slopes. They asked me t-0 come along and 1 came. Dick Durrance had to help out with the Army avalanche group which is making a film on the Wasatch mountains. But Migs and Gretchen cut a cute caper when they would go instead of ga9. But like any lady who hasn't seen another lady fqr some time, there were things to talk about; likr - ---~--- ------= --~---- --- young Dick Durrance who heads the Dartmouth ski team and Dave Durrance who is a freshy on Willy Schaeffer's Denver squad. It was fancy fun to follow these femmes down the face of the bowl. Gretchen's been on the Shortski (five-footers) for half a dozen years now and she likes them. They pack nicely in the Fraser airplane, or in the car trunk. Moreover, they get her down the hill gracefully. Hotrodders like Don Fraser, Simplot, Whipkey and &he Thomas two didn't leave the gals very far. AU of them waited for Kozy and me -which has become a way of their ski life. For all of them the runs of Alta brought back many memories. Gretchen and Migs topped out at the head of Corkscrew. They looked up and down the ravine. "We used to race through here," Gretchen said to Migs. Then they went over the many races they had run on the Alta slopes-pointing out the various courses they had cut. Gretchen smiled! "I have three watches to tell me the time of the day-those I won in the Snow Cup-but I couldn't tell you how fast I went in any race. And then, almost as lf the gates were still there, the two ex-racers sped down the mountain. The snows at Alta were never given such a treat as this day. Seldom had those ancient and honorable slopes hosted such royalty from the yesteryears. The fact that he will be 73 years of age next month didn't stop speedster' Lowell Thomas from enjoying the Wasatch Mountain skiing this week in Alta. ! ;~~5! I Dick Durrance, one time America's best, was j heading up an avalanche filming e x p e d ~ ALF ENGEN AND GRETCHEN FRASER Photo by Don Fraser Alta, Utah - circa 1965 " - -- ·young Sl{iers Head _,For National Meet By Grant V. Messerly Tribune Sports Writer Twenty-four of the best young skiers in the Intermountain Area are on their way to Bend, Ore., to compete against some of the best in the nation at the · Junior National Alpine Championships. The Intermountain Junior National team - 15 boys and nine girls - was namea from among the expert A racers who have been participating in junior point races in the region during the winter. ue through March 21 at Bache!or Butte, at Bend. Le~ding the young competitors 1s Ray Miller, a 16-year-old Ogden High School sophomore who ha~. out~lasse~ most of the competition m jumor races this winter. Miller won the Intermountain junior giant slalom and downhill championships recently. Leads Girls . th . L~ading e gals will be fackson 5 Karen B~dge, who won the d?wnh~ and giant slalom champ10nsh1ps. Start Snnday Others on the boys' team are The races get under way Sun- John Sabala, Sun Valley, who day and competition will contin- won _tile slalom championship; _ _ _ _ _ _ _:-. · _ _ _ _ Robbie Bell, Sun Valley; Bruce Hammond, Sun Valley; Mike Simpson, Sun Valley; Jim Shafer, Alpine Training School; Craig Fenwick, Sun Valley; Calvin Ross, Utah Racing School; Jack Rice, Bear Gulch; Warren Fleming, Jackson; Joe Infanger, Jackson; Dannie Bell, Sun Val1 ley; Creighton Wirick, ATS; Tom Johnson, Jackson, and Pat 1 Simpson, Sun Valley. Arlene Belnap, Janne Smith, Jim Gaddis, Creighton Wirick and \ al Championships at Bend, Ore. Gaddis is a team coach and Girl Skiers Jim Shafer, left to right, prepare to leave for Junior Nation- the others are members of Intermountain Junior National ream. On the gals' team, along with 1 : Miss Budge, are Peggy- Goddard, URS; Pam Street, Sun Valley; Arlene Belnap, ATS; Janne Smith, ATS; Kristy Campbell, Tiago Ski Club· Za. idee Hui~ekoper, Jackson;' Fea Jacobson, Idaho Falls, and Dallas Dunlap, Jackson. SUN VALLEY (AP)-A The three coaches accom- dream of Y~_ars has come true pa;nying the team are Earl Mill- and next skn~g ~e~n will ~e er, Utah Racing School; Jim a double chair hft _m operation Gaddis Alpine Training Scho 1 on the Warm Sprmgs run of and J~ck Simpson, Sun Vall:y'. Bald Mountain at Sun Valley._ Announcement that the lift ·would be a reality was made Thursday by Joseph Leggett, I operational manager of the resort and vice president of Janss Corporation, Los Angeles, the new owners. He was 'guest speaker at the 'l'wiu F'alls Kiwanis Club meet: ing · at the American Legion Hall. Leggett said the contract for I construction had been let Tuesday and capacity on the moun- 1 tain would thus be raised to 1,600 skiers an hour. f 1 Resort Plans New Lift ·1 I IN PHOTO, LEFT TO RIGHT (AROUND THE TABLE) : LOWELL THOMAS MRS. LOWELL THOMAS (MARIANNA) DON FRASER GRETCHEN FRASER IN PHOTO, LEFT TO RIGHT (ST ANDING) JACK SIMPLOT (THE "IDAHO POTATO KING") EVELYN ENGEN ALF ENGEN Photo: Park City, Utah - circa March 1965 HEADING FOR JUNIOR SKI NATIONALS Miller Grabs Top Berth By WILBURN G. PICKETT Deseret News Staff Writer S. JOE QUINNEY Photo: Alta, Utah - circa 1965 JACKSON, WYO. - Favored Ray Miller of the Utah Racing School in Ogden fell on both of his slalom runs Sunday during the Intermountain Division, U.S. Ski Association Junim· Championships. But he still Leads the field of young racers heading for the Junior National race. Miller copped the downhill race on Saturday with an exciting run down the steep course and a time of 1.18.0. Danny Bell, .Sun Valley, in second place, could only come up with a time of 1.21.8. Another Sun Valley skier, John Sabala, pla€ed third with a Jim Gaddis time of 1.22.5. ••• Junior coach Both Bell and Sabala also won berths on the Junior National team. ton race are: Robbie Bell, Sun !anger, Jackson ; Creighton Karen Budge of Jackson, Valley; Bruce Hammond, Sun Wirick, A'llS; Tom Johnson, seeded first on the team, Jackson, and Pat Simpson, placed first in the expert A Valley; Mike Simpson, Sun Sun Valley. girls with a time of 1.27.3. Valley; Jim Shafer, Alpine Girls named to the team, in Pam Street, another Sun Val- Training School ; Craig Fen- addition to Karen Budge, are: ley competitor, was second wick, Sun Valley; Calvin Peggy Goddard, URS; Pam with 1.28.5. Arlene Belnap, Ross, Utah Racing School; Salt Lake City, was third with Jack Rice, Bear Gulch; War-1 ren Fleming, Jackson; Joe In• 1.30-1- Street, Sun· Valley; Arlene Belnap, ATS; Janne Smith, ATS; Kristy Campbell, Tiago ; Z a I d e e Huidekoper, Jackson; Fea Jacobson, Idaho Falls, and Dallas Dunlap, Jackson. Coaches named earlier for the Junior Nationals team are Earl Miller and Jim Gaddis, both with Utah Racing School, and Jack Simpson, Sun Valley. TH E "RE AL" FIR ST NATIONAL GELANDE CH AM PIO N - PRO FES SIO NA L CLASS by Alan K. Engen A footnote in national gelande jum ping ski history is that although Keith Lange is officially recognized as the firs t pers on to win the professional class, the real win ner was Jim Gad dis. A Salt Lake Trib une newspaper clipping, date d May 3, 1965, bea rs that fact out. Wri tten by spo rts writ er, Gra nt Mes serly, he states "Jim Gaddis, a Utah grea t in the Alpine events a couple of years ago, and now an Alta employe, put toge ther thre e beautiful jum ps to win the professional division." The reas on for the difference in win ner reco rds is that Jim Gad dis was at that time the public relations dire ctor for the town of Alta, wor king for May or Bill Levitt. Jim was also responsible for putt ing together the first national gelande tour nam ent which he felt would offer a good opp ortu nity to showcase Alta in a little different man ner. Being the tour nam ent dire ctor , winning the professional class put him in a bit of an awk war d position, so he elected to exclude him self from consideration for any awa rds given out. Keith Lan ge, inst ruct or in the Alf Engen Ski School, had also mad e thre e outs tand ing jum ps, accumulating sufficient points by the judges to be next in line to receive the firs t place trop hy .•• and that is how "official" records show the results of the first national gelande tour nam ent held at Alta in May 1965. I KEIT H LANGE DISPLAYING FORM THAT ALLOWED HIM TO WIN THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL NATIONAL GELANDE TOURNAMEN T. Photo : Alta, Utah - Circa May 1965 . --.-- -·-·- s-~ - Gaddis Captures Gelande·1 In Al~ Ski Spectacular! 1 ' - 1 By_ Grant _V--..Meiserly_ the-ahow- while- wlnnln,::._t~ J TribllM-Bp.,rtrt Writ·_,,._--1 amateur..divilion-ol-tM--C!Ont @flt~ I The ~land e contest ls jump- 1 ALTA-A hllh flytnc croup of int, but- the competitors llklera from all over the Wett down a hill and over a bumpride to · put on one ol the m011t spectacu- rtt their «peed and helgth, rath, lar shows of the wtntt t seuo n er than off a 'ski jump. Tiley : Suc,4a y )n the National G@- also use alpine ski.a and - aki ' lande c:hamplonehlps.. poles on the jump&.- - _ ___, I Jim Gaddis, a Utah great In Gaddil aalled 8.1, 88 and \5 the AlpDt evtntl • OOUIW'l"-1 N!t on hl1 thrtt jumpa , and [e-mail] AIO, and now an AJta em- with style points added, came 1 pl~. put top. .., ~bn utl- u1nvttb a '72-point total. · tul JumJ) t to w1D 1111 profNSk>D- Keith Lanre , Solitude ·wa 1 . • c umps But a yoan llttt' from Brlr· 85 and 91 feet. and a 71-polof 81, 1 nt toowe U1dta slt'j, •ho taI ln the profeuional event. ; WU • offldally entere d ln the Gaddis turned down the prizes contest u ''Daniel ~"- but ln that division, so Lanre was who II bette!' Jmown In aiding awarded first place · prizes of a , ctrcleK u Cra11-t1tole pair of alda and $30. Cralr jumpe d 90, 90 and 93 feet ' on hill three jumps and had a 70Y,.polnt total. · Second 1n that dlvilion WU Mike . O'Dell, Alta, wtth • 66½-polnt total. ·the 1 regular jumping tonre-t dlltance-~•tt.bout, count• , tnr ·ltyle - and CNJa I came , throufh qaln . . · :i ' ~He aalled 119 feet down the hill. l - • • • •' 'I . • • WINNERS OF THE FIRST NATIONAL GELANDE TOURNAMENT HEL D AT ALTA, UTAH. IN PHO TO WITH THE WINNERS ARE ALF ENG EN, MAX LUN DBE RG, AND JIM GADDIS . KEITH LAN GE THE FIRST PERSON TO BE AWARDED THE NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL TITLE, IS 4TH FRO M THE LEFT IN THE PHO TO. Photo : Alta, Utah - Circa May 1965 . J The hike too the top ... Marv Melville head tour as he paves way to top of Baldy Peak. Jim Gaddis, Alf Engen and Chick Morton follow Corn snow at its best ..• Engen darts back and forth across snow fields of "corn" as he enjoys spring skiing in Gad Valley runs. Mt. Timpanogos serves as bocl<drop for Morton, left Melville, Engen and Gaddis. "Sa m," the group's pet Samoyed, is talk topic. ts Alta's Party lnspec_ (Corn) Snow Crop • • • Bv DA VE KADLECK Deseret :--iews Sports Wrilf'r ALTA-Every season has its "rorny" phare ! It happens in .1une for kiers. Even the Jollv c:rPPn (;iant can't provid~ · thP kind of "corn" that is thP skiPr's this timP of vear. And tl\ere is no snow Jikp C'Orn snow! Maybe its the hike up that mak0s fh C' run down mC'an that much more to the spring ,. skier. S I o p c s. are empty-lifts arPn't running. The first is the reason for the second. Everybndy who skis plans a spring ski tour. Almost all plans stay that way. ConsPquPntly, few skiprs r·an apprrcialP the spring run that is thPrf'S follm,ying a i::hort hike to the top •Of any mountain. A sc>at'l?h · for an Olympic downhill roursp provir!Prl the probe five skiers nrC'ded during the week. Skies WPI'P blue, 1he morning air rhilled at 40 degrees and the mountain bi>gged us on. · AU Engen, Alta's man o[ the mountain, Chic Morton, Alla manager, and alpine experts Marv MP!ville and Jim Gaddis broke the trail. TakPoff point ,vas the &houldPr of Mt. Baldy-thP top of Germania Jiff. A 7 :.30 a.m. decision lo circle the backsirlP of the 11,068-foot peak of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The snow's crust was hard. Only as the eastern slope warmrd with the morning sun did it break. It took 50 minutes to reach Baldy's windhlown peak. A quick signature in the peak's mailbox to show 'ne had been thi>n down. Only the lips of the rornire remained from the winter's wind; there was plenty of SKI TIP FLOWER DESIGN BY GEORG HARTLEME IR BROKEN SKI TIPS WERE FROM THE 1965-66 SKI SEASON AT BRIANHEAD SKI AREA. Peruvian space. "check" Gulch look lPss than a minute. A short traversP to Hidden Peak openPrl thP massiv<> snow fields or Gad Valley-a favorite spot for a downhill course. A dpsire to dip 1he tips downward wa.c; dampeni>d lest we use up the whole hill in onP fling. Short, quick turns and a stop to 'reflect on the fun. The botiom came up too soon. The trip ended. But never was skiing so great, so late for one party of five which took the tim•! to take a lour. 6A Saturday, June 5, 1965 5 California Paper Has New Slant Park Record .litree~., &t.. nlght." · ter at the bottom of the hill fea.Park City survived two major tures a restaurant, bar, s ports p ARK CITY, UTAH 1 !Ires that v.lttue.lly wiped it out shop and n ot to be forgottena.hd t.he papulatl.on climbed to Ia S tate Llq'llor Sfure. THURSDAY, APRU. 22, 1965 more than - 10,000. 1.ead, Zinc and In town, a s,ton's thr?w a way, ltl1<V8r •.ware . ,tound 1n IIJbuttdanM new hotels are being bwlt as the and j)efore . the . boom we:; over dilapidated structures of the min- a meeting of the minds in regard minerals worth more than $400,· Ing era .are coming down. While to the eventual development of P ark cit y's rapid growth In the • 000 001) had been taken out of the night life in Alta is very the area. W e cannot but admire re crea tio nal fi eld iS attaining na- \ . . the' hl.lls, producing in the pro- , much on the sedent ar_y side, Park t h e vision and drive of the fort ional, even international atten- it does driving to Stowe, Sugar- cess at least 23 milUonairs. Some City jives and frugs with consider- mer. It is to be h oped that the tion . We are indebted to good bush and the other well-k;town clerg~en took a dim view of the able abandon in a number of conservatism of t he latter won't fr iend Mickey Mecham, whose hus- New England ski areas. Its an whole thing. One observed that pi•c turesque beer balls. For rtlhose ki!l the dreams. band Is at Vandenberg AFB in educated guess that at least '.5 Salt Lake City was the wickedest 1 of a more cultural best, the Sil"F ree lhe liquor an d P a rk City California , fo r the foll owing big per cent of the gue~ts at ~!ta s i city in the Unl_ied States and that 1ver Wheel Theat er puls o~ a will be another Aspen in less than LLo ry by H ans Engh in the Santa lodges were from Minneapolis-St. I. ",Park City \V'as only 40 rods melodrama on the order of ' The five years," said one resident. Barbara News-Press. The observ- Paul, New York or Boston. , from he]1/I Drunkard." It's the sort of thinkin g that ntion s on Utah and its id1osyncra- i But for all its wonderful ski- ' Park City is banking heavily breeds su ccess. c1es, fr cm the out-of-state angle, ; ing, voices are bein& heard raising ! PROFITS DOWN on skiing but Is by no means ere more than interesting. quest10ns about Alta's future. The Following a period dt ups and putting ali its eggs in one basket. h fact ts tha t although the s1>ort's \ downs. the massive ore produc- The summer trade will be lured By Hans Eng popularity is wom1ng skyWard, . tion during World War It and with a golrf cou11se, bunting an d \ Alta has changed Utt~e the past : the Korean 'Conflict would ,a p. fishing, and the· lifts also will be News-P ress staff Wr iter 10 years. Some say 1t 1s not get- , pear to have exhaust_e d the ~ark ' operating to give t ravelers a closeSALT, ,LAKE CITY -:; Says our I ting its share of th~ bo~m. ~ust I City mines. In ~dd1t10n, rismg I up look at the verd ant hills. An 1 le ader: . See th~ U .S:A. . exactly where Alta 1s gomg 1s a I la'bor and 11roductlon costs made ' airport ls being developed only So. \\'1th a? m~agmary bO'W . in much-discussed topic these days. 1continued mming an unprofl~- I a mile away .. The city is just off th2 general direction of the Whi~e SEWERS, LIQUOR · able undertaking and the city s j Highway 40. the m ain road beEouse, we hopped aboard a WestDevelopment plans are sub-\ population skidded to under 1,5?<J· tween Salt Lake City and Ch eyj et at Los Angeles for th e st a nltially afifected by 2 such dis- I While the United Park City . enne and Denver. The point is 1 %-hour flight to t h is capit al of pa.rate commodities as sewers and : Mines Co. believes., that future to give the mot orist enough or an , M~rmon land an d a look at the liquo r. Also, Alta Is located in deep-level erplomt1on rw o u_1 d incentive to stop. 1 sknng cou ntr y h er eab?uts. . Wasatch National Fore.st and give pi-omlse of renewed mining I1 S_a nta Ilarl>~ra's s~1ers -: ana therefore has to live within the activity on its 10,000-acre ~roperty, GRAND IDEAS their number 1s growm g_ r apidly- po1Ilcies of tlie u.,S. Forest Ser- mam hopes today are pmned on i The developers have all kinds · are for ced to Lackie quite a pro- , vie• Alta Is in the Salt Lake City skiing in particular and tourism I f Id S re sensible and 1 h ·t es· t o reaching -· ,o eas. ome a , 1 bem wen i ~om lwetersh ed. This makes the dis-· in general. \very much within t:be realm of the snow, par'.1cularly during pos _ al of sewage a major issue. It is interesting to note t~at a reason while others m ay h ave ·. year suc'h a s t his when the weath P r<·3 ent septic t anks are oper- tunnel and shaft from the ~ing little ch ance of becoming reality. ' I erman has r efused t o . co-operate a ting al or near capacity and the days have b~n reoondit10ned, I As Is often th e case in similar a nd lh er e h as been little or no on Y answer Is sewer lines and a cleared and repaired for passen- 1 ·t t· the promoters and a ; skiing in th e. Southla nd, lre e1tment plant. Some apparently ger traffic, making them the first : ~::i~~~:st less excitable City ·, A LONG DRIVE are not ready to give the go- u nd erground ski! life m_th e _Dn1Jted couRcil are trying to come t o 1 Some areas-such as Mammoth, heswoansn ecaaaaa aheher :e t oht States. Skiers load their skis onto Squaw and Heavenly Valley, all ahead signal on that. j specially built ski-rack cars, climb in the High Sierra-are within Travelers from other and more into steel passenger cars and are / week end driving distance, ,b ut liberal-minded parts of the coun- towed by an electric locomotive II get ting to Sun Valley, Ida., and try are appalled a t Utah's ar- nearly three miles Into Treasure Aspen and Vall Colo., top glamor ch aic liquor laws. Mormons- Mountains. . . · w t' m skiing is a and tha t means the Utah Jegisla. At the end of the nde skie_rs t 111 spo s es e ' t ff th train and Into an Ib · frustrating proposition . Driving ture-say tlh at patrons rm~ ge o e.. . ,. i _ or go'lng by tra in ilS ,a t W'o-d·ay; their own bott:le, bua:f set-u'!)t! ~levator, or hoist cage In m n undertaking and their distance an d drink to tlfeir tlarts· con- mg terms,. and are whisked the 1 from major popul~Uon centers tent, but that no establishment ~,800, vertical feet to the surface : doesn' t maike them appreciably shall sell liquor by the drink. m 3 -~ minutes. There they maY 'bl b ·r Ther e Is something c~ude albout catch a double chair lift to the more access1 e Y ai · t f th ntal from which The Utah ski resort s, however, the customers putting_ their own op O e mouth n f Salt Lake City, Page 6B 11 23 are an entirely different matter. bottles on the bar, a less than \descend more. an m es 0 Landing at Salt Lake's new jet• con{pJimentary reflection on the car_efully mamcured slopes aJ;1d I port, skiers climb into a car, bus h ost's h ospitali1y, as it wer~. And tra~ls. . \ or limousine and are on the slopes putt ing it m1ldly, skiers f_md lt \ GONDOLA TRAMWAY . in a matter of 45 minutes. T,h is an irr it ating nuisance having to But this underground racllitY \ puts som e of the count ry's fl.nest bring bb e ingredients t or th at is not Park City's only outstand• 1 snow and ski fer r ain with in the essent;al apr es-ski cup . of _c heer. Ing feature. Another is Ule goneaslest possible reach from SouthAs a r esult of such r~strt<:tions dola cramway, the country's Jongem California . And in case you've neop le go t o Alta to ski, a nd not est that covers 2 ½ miles. It been t hinking that the season is ~ uoh el se. Tho~ who enjoy som.e ca;ries 600 passengem an •h our a bout over be r eminded that Alta, socializing atter a ha rd day 8 In enclosed four-passenger "bubfor exampie, with a pack of more work on the sl'opes - 8nd moot hies" on the 22-minnte ride up I than 10 f eet, kee ps going until skiers do- may well check th eir i the hill from 7,000 to 9,270 feet. \ .'une.. , plan s t wice before departing In, addition, there are several P utting Al ta on th e map was \for Alta. But all hope Is not 10?t. other lifts ranging from novice primarily the work of one man- As on e observer O'f the social J -ba:rs on \he bunny slopes to · an old \\!o rwegian skier, Alf En- scene remarked: "Th: church re- cha~ lifts, the longest of which gen, who came to Utah in sear ch cently ruled that its members goes 1¼ miles. An activities cen- • of good skiing and much like now may drink cokes- Mayl>e Brigham 'loung, his predecessor some day it'll do Lh e s-ame for in a different field, decided that liquor." "This is the plac e." T oday, Alta- ' GROWING Cl'I'Y at 8,600 feet- h as four lodges (all run on the Amer ican plan > While Alta seems more or less located liter a lly at the stai·ting to be r esting on its la urelB, an point of chair lifts that take atm ospher e of enthusiastic optiskiers up to 11,000 feet. mism, charged with the contagious spirit of grandly-conceived V A!RIED SLOPES Gettlll'g d<YWn t h e hill is a plans, prevails at Park City, two matter of ,per sonal pre.t:erence canyons over. It Is a perfect exThere is a wide open bowl near ample of an area calling on tour• the top with a variety of trails ism to carry the ball where the I bran ching down to the va lley community's original r a Ison fl oor . Mu ch of the terrain is quite d'etre- mining-has slipped to steep a nd it takes at least an a 1)0int where r elegation t o gho~t in termediate ski er to do justice town status seemed inevitable, It was in 1870 that the silence to it. There a re areas for beginners direc tly a dj ace nt to th e lodg. of the Park City hills was violated es. Because Alt a som etimes has for the first time with ,the repo,;t l ots of deep, dry snow it has be- of steel on rock and the lusty come known as the country 's laughter of hard-living miners. "powder capital," a favorite Overnight, sha nties and prov~lamong those who pr efer to do wal shacks s prang up. They were their schussing knee-deep in snow. soo n repl aced by more, permanent While Alta last week was thin boardin g h ouses, . stables, bla~k- , on powder, it was the richer in smiths' shops, stores and the in- · skiers from the Mid-west and t he evltable saloons and "madams· ~ now,bungry E ast . N ew Yo r ke rs qu arters," Observed ri':he Park Rec told m e that it d oesn't t ake them ord ln 1884 : "There's too much ,my longer t o get t o Utah than promiscuous shooting on the . on Fun and Frolic in Summit I I i i em I I I II i----------======:: :1 I I I -inlt f nkt ftibunt ipoff~ Utah - Wednesday Morning - June 23, 1965 I -:_:----------======== I ,, Group ent.ered upper reaches of Alta r ecently and found the snow "fa ntistic." Although lifts closed at the popular Little Cottonwood Canyon resort, many skiers are hiking into the area for skiing. Skiers Enjoy Contest At Alta-01' Sol vs. Snow By Grant V. Mes_serly J along. No, straight up the side Tribune Sports Writer of the mountain for him , ALTA - So you thought t l·,e Led th' Pack . skiing season \Yas over? Leading the pack was young Well, the only word for that David Jenkins, followed closely opinion is: HA! ! by Craig Gorder and a couple of • Still Tons Left oth ers f rom th . e yo~ng _racmg set. These kids, still m top To be sure, the lifts closed a shape from the not long gone couple of months ago, a nd true racing season, plowed along enough the warm summer sun with all the ease of youth. has been eroding the tons of The party strung out for quite snow ~hich fell on Utah's slopes a distance, with a few of the last wmter. "older" type, such as Gus HanBut that old summer sun has sen, another racer out of yestera long way to go. year, and Alta's G!'"and . Old The more hardy s?uls from ran, Alf Engen, laggmg slightthe area are still takmg to the y. hills, s kis in hand, to slide down Personally, I wheezed along, the slopes. catching up to take a picf:1,lre Actually, it's surprising just once in a while when tfiey how m any people are taking ad- stopped. vantage of the "summ er " It was early in the morning skiing. Another sur prise is just and Gaddis plus a few of the how much snow there is left in thers, who showed up m shor ts the hills. and c~t off jeans, were feeling the wmd. It was cold. the June snow. Ther e was only one word to describe it: great. After a session of shuttersnapping and cutting fancy turns through the fantastic snow we started down. Ko Picnics We skiied through the picnic areas where the snow is still above the eaves of the restrooms and down across a bar• ren slope. Everywhere there was snow snow and more snow. The su~ has been trying but it hasn't ma de a dent. ' There wasn't a single place we had to detour around pecause of bareground. • ijad to De-ski The group skied all the way to the bottom , then we had to take off the skis to hike back up to the road. By then the snow had softened and as we hiked we sank nearly to our knees. A Short Hike Dave Jenkins summed up the We hiked for what seemed feeling of the group. . like a couple of weeks, but what As I scoot~~ down the hill really was more like a couple of Dave was hikmg back up_ to hours, before the younger ones, make another run . at ' a little including Gaddis, topped out on bump he fou nd on his first t ~1p. a high ridge just east of Devil's " You 're a gl utton for punish• Castle. ment," I offered. Some of us waited a few "Well," he answered ,vith a hundred yards down the slope wry smile, "It's not everyday while they cut loose and tried you can go skiing in June." - - - - - - - -- - - - - - ° . Took a Trip Last week I went wit~ 14 oth~rs to the to~ ,of the Albion Bas. m, near Devils Castle to t ake a ,, look . Actually, we cheated a bit a~d rode part way up the mountam in Chick Morton's tracked snow vehicles. It would have been plent~ high fo~. me, but Jim Gaddis, the sknng great of a couple years past, who has been c This is the way y~ get there ! Skiers put skis 1 over their shoulders and bike into the upper basins at Alta for some beautiful June skiing. The snow is still 10 feet deep in some places. drumbeating fo r Alta, is part mountain goat. It wasn't enough to ski a couple of m iles , nor was it enough to pick an easy slope to wander -------------------- -----1------------1 ' ·- r-' ------------ \ , 5 Salt Lake City, Novem ber 28, 1965 com fort , qua lity and effic ienc y are imp orta nt in you r sele ctio n of ' ") ,i ·r Skis~ Bo ot s A nd Bindings by Gran t Mess erly WHAT does a person JUST look for when he or she decides to purchas e ski equipm ent? That's the 64 dollar question that faces all skiers at one time or another, but the problem is especially acute for the beginning or second year skier. After a couple of years of skiing and discussing eqmpm ent with other skiers a person usually has a pretty good idea just what he wants. The skier's "basic" eqmpment- skis, boots, bindings and poles - is the most important, with the rest of the gear and gadgets thrown in for added comfort or convenience. THE SKIS, binding and boots make it possible for a skier to move over the slopes, and this equipm ent has a direct relationship on how well a skier skis and how well he or she CAN ski. A rank beginne r may not want to invest what he considers to be a large sum of money in skis, but after a year of learning and getting better and going faster, he may find that the original investm ent in "bargain" skis is lost. On the other hand, a skier may have no desire to get any b e t t e r t h a n s ay the stemchristie stage of skiing and his "bargai n" skis may serve him a1imirably. JUST WHAT makes a ski expensive ? Construction is the entire answer. But that covers a multi- #., SKI ALTA J\lta ~nn *** ** *** ALTA, UTAH Swimi111ng Pool Movies (twice e.adt wee•) Children's Nursery Seff Service laundry Ski Shop Ski Rental and Repair Ski School Headquar ters Liquor StON Bar and loun,-i **Photo Shop * Automotiv e Gorog• WRITE FOR RATES AND FREE BROCHURE ALTA INN-ALT A, UTAH 6 tude of built-in extras that can best be explained by a qualified ski instruct or or expert salesman. Generally, however, the wooden skis - usually laminat ed hickory or ash, or other strong woods - are the cheapest. A pair of wooden skis will run anywhere from $25 to over $100. In recent years the metal skis - actually most have a metal exterior with a wooden core have won wide accepta nce among recreati onal skiers. Metal ski prices begin at about $75 and go up to well over $200. A RECENT addition to the market is he epoxy or f 1berglass ski, which again in most cases consists of a fiberglass exterior over a wooden core. The price range for this new breed is about the same as the metal ski. The exact type and size of ski that fits your skiing ability, your size, weight and ambition should be determi ned before you buy. They are availab le in various lengt hs and stiffness, and grades. AGAIN, seek advice of a certified ski instruct or who can give you advice on the height and type of ski that will fit you best. This same advice can be obtained from a qualified salesman who has a thorough knowledge of the subject. Many top ski shops employe ski eqmpment salesme n who are either expert skiers themselves or at least have many years background in skiing. BOOTS present a similar buying problem for the beginning skier. A good ski boot is rather ~pensive, but a "bargai n" boot may turn out to be most expensive in the long run. Boots are available in many different types and varietie s with prices beginning at about $20 and prices to well over $150. (Custom made boots are often a great deal more expensive than that.) Buckle boots - that is, boots in which the feet are buckled into the boot much the same as with rubber overshoes - are very popular now, but the "old'' style lace boots are still widely used. PROBLEMS with making the buckle boots so that they fit and ski slopes. Vetera n skier Alf Engen, left, gives students some pointers, high on are comfortable for all skiers have been many, and some people have found they can't comfortably wear buckle boots. The leather of these boots Is necessa rily stiff to hold the buckles, and this makes it tough on the foot inside. However, some manufa cturers are this year marketi ng h i g h e r priced buckle boots (over $60) with an inner boot that laces - usually with a speed lacing that require s only one pull to tighten it - and an outer boot that buckles. The inner boot is soft materia l that conforms to the foot readily and is more comfortable for more people, while the buckles allow the skier to loosen his boots between runs without too much trboule. MOST MODERN lace boots are double boots - with laces on the inside and outside - and require a bit more time to put on. Also, once they are on most people, unless they are going to stop skiing for a considerable period of time, loathe to loosen them. However, the lace boots are general ly easier on the pocket book. Construction and the quality of the leather are the keys to cost In ski boots. Handm ade boots cost more than machin e sewn boots and quality leather n a t u r a 11 y costs more than cheaper grades. Let your resources and a q u a 11 f i e d salesma n be your gmde here. Generally the rule is to buy the best you can afford. A good pair of boots will last the average skier many years. BINDIN GS are a matter of persona l choice. Gone are the days of the "bear traps," rigid bindings that clampe d the boot onto the ski without much of a chance of it coming off. The danger, of course, was that when a skier fell and the ski twisted, the rigidly held boot and foot twisted with it. "Safety " bindings as they are called, are made to release when undue pressur e is applied to the boot - as during a fall - and they are adjusta ble to various pressur e. Many skiers, however, have been lulled into a false sense of security by the bindings and find, much to their dismay, that the bindings may not release under certain condi• tions, or even if they do release, it is still possible to get hurt unless they are skiing under control. VARIOUS EXPER TS advocate various types of bindings, but basically, skiers can get the "full" safety binding which holds the boot solidly to the ski at the heel and toe and wm release from both these points; the safety toe and lift cable, which utilizes a cable to hold the heel down and also forward into the toe piece, and the safety toe and long thong - a long leather thong which straps the heel to the ski-wh ich is barely , better than the ·bear trap." s tl 0 ,, 0 ie s s .o 0 ;, ie l- n SKIERS ••• ', ;t 9 TRY 8EFORE YOU BUY 1 . i- l e , g e j g e a, e e 2 11 t! y h t ; :I YOUR SKI OUTFIT ** * * COMPLETE OUTFIT S'.AF'ETY 81 NDIN GS 1 SKIS PO'LES from s19s JERRY'S 6100 SO, STA'IIE, MURRA Y B'OOTS PER DAY SPO RTIN G CEN TER AM6-9 620 The Salt Lake Tribun e Home Magazine s y ,, e i :t p ie e g e 0 t, it I) I The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, December 13, 1965 • ., , I I Frithjof Prydz, left, and Dave Engen display the trophies they won Sunday in Landes Cup I ski jumping tournament at Alta. Prydz took a Class A honors, while Engen sua.red Class B. G Soars 174 Feet Prydz Outju1nps Field For 3rd Landes Title By John Mooney ! a FRlTHJOF "BASSIE" PRYDZ - ONE OF THE FINEST SKI JUMPERS EVER TO COMPETE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. PRYDZ WAS A THREE TIME N.C.A.A. NATIONAL SKI JUMPING CHAMPION (1964, 65, AND 66). Photo: Alta, Utah on Landes Ski Jumping Hill Circa 1965 s 1 rjumper in B-2 competition for li Tribune Sports Editor the second year in a row. 1 ALTA - Two-time winner A strong bunch of jumpers < Frilhjof Prydz, a member of the /from Jackson, Wyo., rlominated " University of Utah ski team, the younger divisions, with a turned in the longest leap of the sweep in the junipr expert divi- 1 snow-flaked afternoon Sunday, slon. · · . ',f 174 feet, in winning the annual The Class A jumping duel be- ) Landes Cup ski .jumping compe- tween Prydz and his conqueror tition here. of 1964, Matz Jenssen of the U. Gets Secoud Title of U. failed to materialize when . the defending champion was Prydz, who won the cup m grounded by illness. 1962 and 1963, was joined in the Presses Prydz l. winner's circle by another twotime champion, Dave Engen, But Prydz had close competi- t who won the B-1 class again tion from John Elliot, a mem- r_ after winning in 1962-63. ber of the U.S. Nordic team, a Danny Craig finished top \vho was second by a frosty whisker. Bjorn Loken, also of the Ute team, was third in Class t A. t The meet was sponsored by J i the Nord-Alp Ski Club, which Ipresented trophies for the top 1 three jumpers in each class. 1 t I~ Class A: Frlthiof Prydz, 167-174 ond t 220.5 points ; John Elliot, 159-167 and 216 .S S points; Biorn Loken, 150-161 and 203.2 ' points. '1 Class B-1 : Dave Engen. 151-153 and 203 p oints; John Mil ler, 139-1:39 and 188.4 t points; Chet Grandy, 133-127 and 1n.7 t points. Class B-2 : Danny Craig, 78--79 and 197.5 P<>ints; Mel Murphy, 66-71 and 177,3 points, and Dave Thunell, 66-68 and 169.5 I • points. Junior expert: Ronnie Neal, Jackson, 78-n and 203.6 points; Ray Rich, Jackson, 80-80 and 202 points; Gordon Wren Jr., Jackson, 70-72 and 197.2 points. Intermediate: John Engen. 65-68 and Robert Gervol, SJ..59 and 194.5 points; 168.5 points. Novice: Ralph Bird, 32-31 and 180.5; David Bird, 28-31 and 151.2 points, and O~vld Gervol, 23-23 and 149,3 points. Cross covntry: Class A, Pet~ Korns, exw rt, Ray R.1,:ks, J~cksoA; 1n1ermedlate, Jctm E.ncien and novice Ra h>h Bird. ,. ---' • RAY MILLER- WINNER OF THE 1965 ALTA SNOW CUP (MEN'S DIVISION). WOMEN' S DIVISION WAS WON BY JEAN SAUBERT. Photo circa December, 1965 Special note: During the mid to late 1960s, Ray was one of the strongest racers in the Intennountain Division. He was a member of the U.S. Ski Team from ·1964 - 1967 and a NCAA All-American in 1969. He also won the Alta Snow Cup race a second time in 1967. THREE UNIVERSITY OF UT AH ALL-AMERICAN SKI JUMPERS. IN PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT: FRITHJOF PRYDZ MATZ JENSEN BJORN LOKEN Photo taken at Alta, Utah - circa 1965 I DESERET NEWS, Saturday, December 4, 1965 A5 SKI MAN OF THE YEAR Alf Engen Wi ns Honor ' 1 Deseret News Special ALTA-Hootspa did itself an honor here Friday by naming Alf Engen winner of its first "Ski Man of the Year" award. The presentation was made watched Alta's Alf accept the honor. , The honor was a highlight to Friday's Hootspa celebration and accompanies such awards as "Skier of the by Murray Moler, chairman Century," along with 16 naof the sponsoring Utah Travel tional ski titles Engen won in Council. Over 100 guests, Utah's pioneering ski days. Including 35 travel agents Engen was named "Skier o! from across the United States the Century" in 1950 by the Deseret News with F. C. Koziol, the late Mark A. Strand and F. M. Montmorency serving as judges. Alf was selected as the man who has done the most to gain international Racing Blossoms W ith 6 Tests .. for recognition Utah winter recreation. Dev Jennings, assistant director of the Tourist Council, read off the long list of Alf's skiing exploits. I season with the running of t_he Ap1·!l 1-3 Veterans 1 DLECK £ Championships, a fast-growmg national test. . By DAVE KA 2_-2 a out eked Denver champions ski 5 NCAA Writer Sports Deseret News \ m year last Utah of University over . win point As8?Ski ntain Inter:11-ou the for The spotlight 1 ts . . . . ciation's 1965-66 ski stage 1s focused on SIX college ski wars. pom 400 g cons1derm slim was m~rgin The . races. nationally _ sanctioned I But the six nationally - recogmzed races are were possible. . . SIU HOPES filGH . . but a dabbling of the 34 ski tourneys that run _Dmversny the blazed who skiers the of Many from Dec 12 through April 10. for the "It's got to be the most ambitious schedule of Utah to ski prominence are returmng . . camp~ign. '65-66 preswe've ever undertaken," Earl Walters, ISA While Umversity ski~rs thi:>ughout the state ident said after releasing the busy slate. certain to part1c1~ate 1~ . ISA-spo_nsored are at 12 Dec. opens season ski etitive The com throughout the :"mter7 it 1s cer~am }hat events Alta where ihe annual Landes Memorial tourney Marv Melville will h~ve his s iers · scheduled Both jumping and cross-country Ute Coach the nationally - sanctioned meetsgeared for d · is ;participation !f skiers desire require which many eveni; . 1 States ski team., Umted th~ for qualify to nationally West's First of the Mountain Non-local ski talents like Vermont s !31lly 1 tioned affairs is the downhill and slalom i Heuga are ~rtaind ~f~csic of the Holiday Championships on Teton Kidd and Reno's J immy ' o . gure skiers Ute But. spotlight. ,ski the share J ckson Wyo. A I tourna~ents m- : r~ s Jope\_ 9a 1't's AJta's famed Snow Cup Clas- place high in the many national elude NCAA nordic-combined champ10n Matz · . n an. ' , Frithjo~ , SIC.The circuit moves to Park City's Treasure , Jenssen ; . second ~l~ce i~ jumping run I four-way the m fm1sher third-place · Prydz I Annual Second the for 30 29 J · d f th·place finisher , Dave < K ' Moun t ams, an. · , with Colorado's Winter ning, Pete our 1 an arns Lowell Thomas Classic , 1 sophomore _a as . n, Chnsten_se . Lad~ Engen. ChamTeam National Junior the hosting Park showed surpnsmg promise with his performance M h 13 20 · h' na~inal r~c~gnition on the 1965 sched- in alpine events. Rich Groth! John Miller an,d i teams 1 ule is the Solitude Cup. It's scheduled March 27. 1Bjorn Loken added depth pennis to the 1 Park City places the cap on the Mountain West's efforts and each is back for another try. ~1Ji:1; · f pi~e,i~~ Alf Engen, left, receives traveling trophy from Travel Council Chairman Murray Moler. Bill Levitt, left, Alto ledge owner, holds permanent troph y. ,i The ski racing season is upon us. Six notionolly-sonctioned cl~ssics scheduled for Mountain West slopes. Ute Dove Engen will join field for Alpine, Nordic honor_s. row, left to Front row, left to right: Bjorn Loken , Pete Karns, and Frithjof Prydz. Second Engen. Dove Miller, John Groth, Rich en, Christens add L Jenssen, Mah: right: Ma rv Melville, \ 1966 SKIING PROSPECTUS The ski team or I 965 d;.tin,:uia hed itaelr as the finest team .,v.,r to represent t~ Univenity of Utah. EvO'n lhou,.:h thf' season bt-,:an ralher, shakily as IM important e vO'nts drew near. thf' hoys rose to the occasion. In the 1'ational Colle,.iat e Athlfjtic Associatio n Champion ships. behind U tah finished only 2.2 points (of a possible Ch11mpion Denver Outstandi nl! individual performan ces throughou t the season were Frithjol Prydz second place by only .5 of a poinl in the jumpin,:. In the NCAA Matz Jenssen won the Nordic Combined title by a very wide margin. Pete Kams placed 3rd in thf' NCAA 4-way. and Dave Engen In addition Da= EnJ!en and Ladd Christens en ,howed consistrn t skiin,: in Alpine e=nts including the l ntr rmountain Slalom Champion ship by Engen and Intennou ntain Giant Slalom Champion sh ip by Christens en. Addi tional drpth vital •lo team scoring was provided by R ich Groth. John Millrr and Bjorn Loken. These eight men provrd to be not only o utstanding athlete but good cilium repr-nta tive of the University ol Utah and the State of Utah. UTE SKI COACH Man•in Melville. former Olympic Alpine performer , is in hlll th ird .vear as head ski COKh at the University of U tah. Marvin competl'd in two Olympics , thr 1956 and ·so jtames 1..1ville has had J!ood success intnnatio nally and in 1958 plac..d 18th in the World's champion ships at Bad«ute-in. Austria and in 1960 was 22nd in the Olympics at <>quaw Valley. Melvill" was the assistant United States Alpine Olympic roach for competiti on in Innsbruck . Austria . The new Ute mentor gnduated from t he U niversity or Utah in 1960. Whilr a student at Ui.h Melville won th.. NCAA downhill. slalom, and the alpine combined titles in 1959. Melville is one of the outstandin g: alci technician s in the Un ited States and a member or the Olympic Ski Games Committe " of the Uni ted States Ski Associatio n. mf'mber of the NCAA Skimg: Committe e. was Chairman of United tSates Ski Associatio n Coache System, and is 11ctivr in Internatio nal Competit io= Committe e. Marv and his wife, Renee, have three daugh tl!rs. This year will prov!! to be a resl challfttre . • the teams all over the country b,dicate aubsl.&Jltial improvtments. The college ci rcuit will feature the best skiers in the nation includ ini Bill Kidd and Jim Hue~ winners in the Jaat Olympics. Once again our bic,est uset is a well balanced team. Experienc e sboo)d help even thouf!h the rule chanre may change the outlook slirhtly. Our weak point wi thout question is a def inite lack of depth. One inju ry could drop the team placing several spots in any single meet. In anticipati on of the need for mor-e athletes in the futurr, we have 10 rn,w Frahmen from all pans of the country, plus 2 o u t s ~ tra.nsfer students in Rob Kiesel. and Danny Craig, joininc with us this year for eligi bility next year. Though every team bi the country i.s at run atttngth and a single injury could mar our chances for a iood 1eason. I believe th is will be the best season yet by any University of Utah Ski T...m. 1%6 ALTA SNOW CUP WINNERS: MIKE ALSO P (MEN) JEAN SAUB ERT (WOM N) 1966 SKII NG ROSTER ASSISTA NT COACH - Rich Groth.. Rich wi11 cndua.le this yea r from the Universitv or Utah. A 7th place finish in the 196-C NCAA m eet plus aev.ral otMr outstandin g Comperforman ces includinr participat ion in petitions. Also Groth has distin«uis hed hims.elf u an out1eam. standing quarterba ck and captain of the football ,.._,. t ....a N• ~ 100 And.rs.oft _ _ Cl .., _ _ ,f,• shm--. - - -- --,- Race conducted in January W-e ,..__ ,...,._ Gt,~ ......,. .,,.__ .-.. a - - - - · l•, kA..._., '•• ~- -_ - - - -'Juniot Corl l wkl Dncf it Lok.• __ __ __ _ lodd' Chr.St• nH ,. _ _ S•• •• Cle911 _ _ _ _ _ So..+,__.. - - - - - , - S.h L_... City. IIMlo ...... -- - - l.._• loh.o.,. C.Jn O• nnr C,o ;g - - - - ·" •"hmo"...........,. ' • •• Droubay ___ _____ f,••h- " - - - - - - - - aw-.... tdehe o..... 1:no,eft 1-. Oity. Vt.a. $oslhe rno" - - -- loo H09• _ _ _ _ frnh"""" _ _ __ _ a.n.,..,., ._.,.,,.._. ~ .-io, • IHI J.nn"9g'I _ Oa •• .Hn lr.ins _ _ _ _ f r• ~ ---- - Sa.ft loft. C-,, O-Odo. Not-we·, Mo11 J• ru-.n _ __ _ J.,...., - - - - - - -- - lior11 L111 llen _ _ _ Junior _ __ _ _ _ J.cbon.. W ~ - • - -·J".,iof _ _ _ _ _ Pe t. kcwn, ____ _ •ob.rt 10 ... 1 _ __ _ f,.-hnmn. OaN, . _ _ __ _ _ John Mille r _ _ __ Jv.,fOf _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Soh l-4le Ot'J~ ""Od-. Noirw.-r hhhiof ~,yda. · - - - $.enNH' _ _ _ _ _ _ Calit-,nio St• • • aeod _ __ _ _ h•1hmon _ _ _ lill S.l •ag,e _ __ _ fr«sh'"°" _ _ _ _ _ N..-..-li. . ....,_ >tf'Mr trtah Ot,~ lok• 5-lt _ _ _ _ , _ _ fre1hrr-.. __ _ _ _ J in"t Shafer Glr~ l"$M• e $prJ~ . , _, - -· fret h,,....__ __ _ _ _ S... LH.e c..i.,._ . -Oick Sw;u., _ _ _ _ freah"'°" - 14«_._ 19 DESERET NEWS, Saturday, December 11, 1965 A5 It's follow the leader for instructor who paves ski path for his Deseret News class of beginners. Note the snowplow• Picturesgue Albion Basin serves as backdrop for a DeserTt News Ski School session. School is now in its 18th year. Thou~ands of Deseret News Photos bY o . Wallace Kasteler . . . There's Lot To Learr] today's skiers learned the exciting winter sport in such a setting. Lift. line on left side is filled with many "begnners" who learned early. I Teaching 71housands. To- Ski By HACK MILLER Deseret News Sports Editor Instructor Dave Lindsey leads his group of beginning skiers through walking routine. This is important aspect to ski learning process. It's not always s easy as it might appear. ••• Can you imagine anyone offering the skiers of an area 180,000 free lessons? It's been done! The Deseret News Ski School, the oldest and most successful ski school of its kind in the known world, has taught that many lessons through Alf Engen and his faculty. Add or take away a few! The Deseret News Ski School is in ils 18th year. f.ive l~sons a season at about 2,000 l~sons per session! Sometimes there have been more, sometimes less. Because of repeats, drop-outs, change-overs, it's not easy to guess how many skiers have come up through the Ski School ranks. It would be safe to say that most skiers who have learned the tricks and the turns the past 18 years in this area have at one time or another been in the School. We have even had a few sprains, several breaks, and thousands of aching legs. Originally the school, managed by the veteran Alf, was open to skiers of all skills. Even deeppowder techniques and racing were taugh:t. Then the school heca.me so unwieldly in size that it had to be limited to newcomers only. Others had to "lesson" through one of the several staffs of private instructors. Last Saturday, for instance, when the pictures here were taken, there were 193 instructors teaching about. 2,000 pupils-all students were beginners this year. Teaching trends have changed somewhat. At one time there wasn't a chance for the teachers to check equipment. Too many advanced classes took their attention. Now the first lesson is in basic steps, learning to walk, to side-step, or to kick-turn. There also is a first-day check of equipment, for safety reasons, as well as ski reasons. Four lessons are behind us. The fifth and final for this year is at Alta. next Saturday. There's still time to learn the first things in skiing. \ r -· There's more than one "kick" to skiing. Here instructor Ed Pearson demonstrates fundamental kick tutn to his ski group. And A Few Spills In The Process, Too A few falls in the snow are all part of the learning process. At left little Valerie Wolstenholme finds ready helping hand from instructor Don Despain. Fallen skier, below, beckons for assist from one of many school instructors. And Marty Bench, right, will be needing some help in a few moments . • Most important in learning is first trip down slope. Here six~year-old Barton Kadleck slips Alta slope. DESERET NEWS, Saturday, January 1, 1966 AS ' Utes Threaten D.U. 'Hold' In Ski Match week of training at Vail gives all participants an edge when skiing for keeps begins. By DAVE KADLECK Deseret News Sports Writer Holding Utali hopes In alpine events will be steady ' Dave Engen, tour-way •pecialist Pete Ka.rMJ,add 'Christensen and John Miller and sophomores Steve Clegg who goes four ways, (alpine and nordic), and Bob Hoge, an al· pine specialist. Can University of Utah skiers overcome a 2.2 Denver edge and win the 1966 NCAA ski championship? That answer will be known in March when the collegiate champion Is crowned at Colorado's Crested Butte Ski Resort. But a hint, of things to come FMDLIAB NAMES will come to light this week• end when the touted Univer• sity of Utah team clashes with Denver's NCAA champions, Western States College, University of Colorado, Ft. Lewi• College, Wyoming and Air Force Academy skiers in the Intercollegiate Meet at Steam• boat Springs, Colo. Competi• tion is set for Saturday and Sunday. DENVEBWINSONE Denver's Pioneers have stashed away their first ski win of the '65-'66 year. The D.U. club racked up 396.1 points to win Aspen's Colora• do Christmas tourney title. Nordic stars are familiar names: Frithjof Prydz, Jenssen (if he's able), Bjorn Loken and transfer student Danny Craig. Bolstering Utah's depth Ill Ogden's alpiner Rob Kiesel, proving to be a pleasant big surprise to the Hilltop school. Wes tern State College pushed for second place with always - contending Wyoming pulling out a third with a 366.7. Statistics would Indicate Denver is not a.,; deep with tal• ent as It has been. Willy Schaeffler's Norwegian-laden team is strong through the first 10. UTES LACK DEPTH But so Is Utah. The Utes lack team depth, however. "We don't have depth," Coach Marv Melville said before departing with his t ea m to Vail, Colo., where ls it has been training. Injuries could hurt, he added. The Ute team was expected to arrive Friday for Steam• boat Springs competition. Both D.U. and Utah have suffered setback!!. D.U. reports alpiner Rick Chaffee on the injured list with nordic ace Randy Garremons, joining the United States nordie team 1n Europe. He left Sunday. utah is healthy though cross rountrY and jumping ace Matz Jenssen is a doubt• Ute alpine ace Davis Engen is figured to bring Utes some points In Steamboat Springs tourney. ful starter. Jenssen 1s recovering from the weakening mononucleosis. He is expected to add many points to Utah's ski total be~e the winter's out, however, Schaeffler still has Dennis McCoy, who took first place honors at Aspen in the down• hill and third In the slalom; All-America Terje Overland, Mike Allsop, Walt Falk, Don Brook!! and Dave Durrance to handle alpine chores. In nordlc pompetitlon, Denver has jumpers Oyvind Salcuerud, and Steiner Fjeldhelm along with cross country stars Harold Bjerke, Skauerud and Durrance. D.U. narrowly edged University of Colorado in the meet last year. UTE HOPES IDGR Utah hopes are high. A win over Denver, Colorado and Western States would build the momentum champions 1 need. Coach Melville's intense dryland training and early slope conditioning!! places his team in better condition than is usually the ease. The past 1 ALAN ENGEN IN THE STARTING GATE OF ONE OF THE TRY-OUT COMPETITIONS FOR A BERTH ON THE 1966 U.S. CISM SKI TEAM. Photo: Garmisch-Partinkirchen, Germany Circa January 1966 ALANENGEN Gannisch, Germany January, 1966 ,, r-1 •• •r-t ro SLALOM IN& TO H • " ID .H 0 . Q) Photo s by BOB CROSSLEY ·compe ting in inte rnationa l ski meets is a tough, demand ing business . Fo r two weeks, 11 of the lop ski e rs in the U.S. Forces in Europe have been competi ng for berths on the a lpine skiing team tha t will represe nt the U.S. Forces at internat ional CISM ski meet in Hameen linna, Finland, March 10-13, where they will be pitted against teams from 13 other countrie s who are member s of the internat ional military sports council. Training began Jan. 10 on the slopes near Garmisc h. The men had to be out on the slopes by 6:45 a.m. every day for a full day of training . In the evenings, there were two hour workout s and running to get into peak physical conditio n. At the end of two weeks, five were chosen: Rick Hubbard , 24th Inf Div, competi ng captain; Steve Foley, 3rd Inf Div Arty; Dennis Wignall , AFRC; Jim Dwinell, 32nd Arty Brigade; and Alan Engen, Isl Bn, 2nd Arty. The four who will compete in Finland will be picked after a series of tuneup events in the next five weeks. The fifth will si!rve as an alternat e. The nordic section of the team is arriving from the U.S. this week to train for the 14-natio n competit ion in Garmisch Feb. 2-6. +) an 'I ,Q < \_ .-4?~ . \ ,~# ~4f!..&",c_ Dennis Wignall slips onto cha ir lift. The skiers ore corrying slalom poles to set up t~e course. i At top of Housber g, slalom course is set up. Competi tors for berths on the CISM team pock down the snow on the run. ~ - t ;... Alan Engen gets go signal from official timer Horst Unger ( with rad io J. - ,'·· Engen concentr ates on !Jlaking sharp turn. \ Wignall whizzes throug h the poles. Tough course mode for plenty of spills. Page 12 B THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, January 26, 1966 THE STARS AND •sTRIPES t Page 13 THE IDAHO DAILY STATESi\'IAN SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1966 IBogus Adds Chair Lift Of Doubles Now They Travel Two by Two DESERET NEWS, Saturday, February 19, 1966 ,- Growing West lllllllillllllllllllllllll 11111 lllllllllllllllllllllllllll 11111111111111111111111111111111 ' Our Man In Norway Smylie Participat es In Dedicator y Rites At Growing Slopes Bogus Basin's new double- ' chair lifts got the official "Go" Friday from Gov. Robert E. ' Smylie. Smylie, decked out in fur hat and ski clothes, was the fea- ' tured speaker at the formal dedication ceremonies. The governor, standing on a sheet of plywood laid on the snow, spoke briefly, taking his turn with Forest Service officials and Alf Engen, the man credited with discovering Bogus Basin as a ski area. Engen, now head of his own 1 school at Alta, Utah, selected the site after snowshoeing into : the area in 1937. , 800 Acres Opened The new Riblet lifts, completed last fall, opened an additional 800 acres of skiing terrain on the south and north slopes of Shafer Butte. A far cry from the rope tow days of the early 1940s, the lifts can handle 1,200 skiers per hour, giving Bogus a total capacity of 4,440 skiers. Smylie said that no one should have the idea that two new chairlifts are not part of the new progress of Idaho. "What does this mean in the way of progress?" he asked. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 By WILLIAM A. DUNN Associate Business Editor It wasn't the best phone connnection in the world. But, then, it wasn't like talking to your next door neighbor, either. . Late Friday afternoon it was Dev Jennings on the lrne callin_g from Holmenaollen, Norway. Dev, secretary of Ol_ymp1cs for Utah, Icn., is in Norway where that mormng he presented Utah's "credeptials" -:r,roposed Olympic event ski sites - before the executive council of the Federation Internationa l de Ski which is the ilnternationa l ski federation. It will be difficult for the Utah delegation to present its case before the Internatjonal Olympic Committee April 26 in Rome without full endorsement of the FIS. "No decision was made," Dev said from his room at the ,Trust Hotel. "In fact, Hodler, and maybe other members of the executive council have decided to come to Salt Lake April 2 to inspect the sites." Mark Hodler is president of the FIS and treasurer of IOC. May Enter Race "From Salt Lake, where Hodler may enter the ski veterans race being staged at Park City about ~at time, he ~vill go on to Canada and then to Japan to look over their proposed courses, before going to Rome," Dev continued. ''No decision has been made or will be made unlil then,'' Dev emphasized. . De~ has_ found a mixed reaction to Utah's Olympic bid durmg his week-long stay in Norway. "It surprised me that many here are surprised because they didn't think we skied in Utah," Dev. said. "But•they sure in heck do now!" And if I know Dev Jennings you c,.n bet your bot• tom ski they do. From Norway Dev travels south to Davos, Switzerland Sunday to the world figure skating championshi ps. Here, again, United States' leading light in figure ska.ting circles John R. Shoemaker will introduce Dev. arou~d to the major minds in world competition where he will seek further endorsement from this side of the rink, Answers Own Question •.:1 "Quite simply it means more persons coming to this part of Idaho to ski, or even sled. And not all these people will be Idahoans." "In the early days, Sun Valley alone had outstanding recSmylie continued. t ognition," "Bogus Basin and McCall Hill on came along later. Names such' IDAHO GOV. Robert E. Smylie, left, joins with a pair of famous skiing brothers, Alf, leftaftas Pine Street Hill and Emida Friday Basin Bogus at lift chair double new the of dedication in Engen Corey and chair, serve longer appear in the literato no use into facility the put that button control the pushed governor the Later ernoon. put out by the Deboth sides of Shafer Butte. A brief dedication ceremony preceded the actual start of the tow. ture of skiing partment of Commerce and De(Statesman photo by Paul Shanafelt) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - c - - - - - - - - - - , - ~ - velopment. "But there are new names such as Schweitzer Basin, Brundage Mountain, Moscow Mountain and broader recognition right here for the superior facilities of Bogus Basin." Back On The Ra~ge Meainwhile, back on the Wasatch range, momentum ls building lor the Rome presentation. And probably the most frequent question asked of our Chairman Max Rich is "how much is this going to cost?" And Max repeatedly refers to the Olympic games budget as released by OUI Treasurer Gene Donovan Jan. 26. this "prelimiIn nary, bu ct get th a t Gene is still using as his guidelines - it was estimated that it will cost an estimated Utahns $2,400,000. However, if financial figures that Arthur Lentz gave me in a conversation recently, measure up to an licipation it may cost Utah less. Mr. Lentz is exArthur Lentz ecutive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Mr. Lentz said television rights for the Olympic games by 1972 would probably approach $1 million. This money goes to the sponsoring community. In the our budget - because it was not certain at . the time - only $100,000 was budgeted as televison ~evenues, ~or:1e $900,000 less than may be actually real 1zed. If this 1s the case, the financial front looks e, Pn brighter. Mr. Lentz said only one Olympics has ever made money and that was the Los Angeles Summer Games back in 1932. And the profit came from the subsequent use of the Coliseum and swimming facilities. Utah's proposed budget calls for some $1,800,000 in capital investment in facilities that will be used for many years following Olympics. This same type o! facility has helped Squaw Valley regroup many of the millions that was spent in California for the 1960 winter gamei-. This type of self-liquidati ng capital investment gc,e~ a long way in maintaining a satisfying and solvent picture. • .I -· - "'· - -. ( . . . - .. . - ~ . DESERET NEWS, Saturday, February 19, 1966 Alt a's Ga d Va lle y Ha s Oly mp ic Ga me s An sw er A5 ' By DAVE KADLECK Deseret News Sports Writer It's no easy task to find a downhill course that not only mee1s the requirements for Olympic Winter Games competition but has the necessary snow to conduct such an event. Utah went to work and found three. Strange, too, is that each is found in a separate canyon and none is more than an hour away from Salt Lake Cicy's Municipal Airport. Chic Morton, Alf Engen, Jim Gaddis and Marv Melville toke the "long" route to Gad Valley. Baldy, across Peruvian Ridge brought us to Gad Valley. A glacier-like snow field was at our feet. At one time it might have been a valley. But time and the earth's action filled it with avalanches. More time covered it with forestry. But from it came "an ideal course." "It would be a real test," Ute ski coach Marv Melville said. Alf Engen agreed. Gad Valley's floor is one mile below Alta on Little Cot• tonwood Canyon road. It is six miles from the valley floor. Alta's Gad Valley, Park It's western exposure only adds to its attractiveness as a City's Keetley course and downhill site. From its 10,300Snow Basin's John Paul Jones foot peak to the canyon floor are the three sites. Take your 3,000 feet below is an undulating course that is covered by pick. an average 86 inches of snow Alta's Gad Valley was the - determined by a 56-year first site to win approval. It record. happened last June when this Its western exposure is atwriter joined University of tractive in that the sun's heat Utah's Marv Melville and isn't likely to do much melt• Alta's Chic Morton, Alf Engen ing at 21.1 degrees (an averand Jim Gaddis. age determined by 24 years' A quick haul to the top by study) and the snow pack the area's lifts, an hour-and- would lend itself to good race one-half hike around towering "compaction,'' an important item when it comes to preparing race courses on Utah's Greatest (powder) Snow on Earth. The area is accessible by Little Cottonwood Canyon and its terrain at the bottom is conducive to ample parking for race officials, competitors and spectators. Buses would shuttle most spectators to the site. Am p 1 e communications, lodging facilities and shelters are planned. At present there are no facilities. Private enterprise, however, has submitted plans for United States Forest Service permits to fully develop the area with three chairlifts near the downhill line. God Valley has not been developed. Recent inspection tours show diving slopes of this ~~==== ====== = - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Terrain that can entertain I de>wnhill competition is usual- . , ly capable of giant slalom and slalom competition. Gad Valley is no different (see photo). ~ Picturesque field of snow greets Alta's Alf Engen as he begins descent to bottom of God Valley, a drop of 3,000 vertical feet over nearly 3-mile course. canyon con entertain, slalom, giant slalom and downhill competition on Olympic level. A· ARMY TIMES , (EUROPE ) FEBRUARY 23, 1966 IIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlltllllllllllllllllllllllllffffllllltlllllll1lllflllllllffltlHIHllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll111111ltllllfflllnllllllllnlllllllllllllllnllllll!lllllffllllllllUIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRIIIIIHnmm11mnmn lJlllnlllnlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllDIIIIIIIIIIIIHtnHm11 U.S. SKIERS SET FOR CISM MEET ~. GARMISCH , Germany-E leven of the top skiers in the U.S. Forces in Europe trained and competed here for berths on the Alpine ski team that, will represent the U.S. at the XI Conseil Inten:i.ational du Sport Militaire (CISM) championsh ips this yea1'. Fourteen nations will participate in Nordic and Alpine events being hosted by the Finnish armed forces in Hameenlinna , Finland, 10-14 March. Time trials for men from U ,S, Forces· in Europe were held on tough slalom courses layed out by last year•, coach and captain, Lt. Rick Hubbard, on the ·up~ slopes of the Hausberg near here. After two-weeks .uials, four men in addition to coach-captai n Rick Hubbard were selected. They are SP4 Steve Foley, 3d Inf. Div.; PFC ' Dennis Wignall, AFRC; Lt. Jim Dwinell, 32nd Arty. Brigade; and Lt. &_an lllni~. tst l3n.,• 2d .Arty.:.. . . , .,~ · ,\:·•f1d-rbz-t13~ c6iapeting in Finland, the tea.mJ,is participating in a series ,J1:;}11v?.iOll\J ... '_ · · of p--:yents in Switzerland, Austria -and Italy. . ."'06~ r ,,x1J,11.d~ ·1 8,:.i .' - · ' The Nordic section or the Jl~- Forces team arrived in Germany , from Alaska in Janmi.ry. It ,participated in the World Biathlon Meet , against 16 nations 1n 'Garinisdl amf will compete "tn other meets in i, . -, ~urope ,before golng to Finland:: i ·,·:,'t~•J·1 r,i( • J •... .' ,. .•. :<' . \,: ~· '· .:,:: D 1, •l ··:~;_,-. • 'A - - - - __ I ALAN K . ENGEN Member, United States CISM Ski Team COPY OF NEWSPAP ER CLIPPING NAMING THOSE SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES IN INTERNA TIONAL COMPETITION AT HAEMEENLINA, FINLAND AS PART OF THE 1966 CISMTEA M. ' ,Photo: Garmisch-Partinkirschen, Germany Circa February 1966 • I '• i .. FEDERAT ION OF INTERNA TIONAL DE SKI (FIS) MEDAL AWARDE D AT THE 1966 INTERNATIONAL GORNERG RAT DERBY HELD IN ZERMATT, SWITZERLAND. Special note: Medal from the Alan Engen collection I , • I.I CANDIDATES FOR THE 1966 U.S. Alpine ski team that will compete in CISM Skiing Champion;hips in FinlancITme up at Garmisch, Germany. Shown ·(L to Rl are Lt. Rick Hubbard, 24th Inf. Div.; Sp4 Steve Foley, 3d Inf. Div. Arty.; PFC Dennis Wignall, Garmisch; Lt. Jim Dwinell, 32d Arty. Bde.; Lt. Alan Enden, 1st Bn., 2d Artv.: PFC Chris Cantella, 32d Msle. Bn.; PFC 'French" Gagnon, AFRC, armisch; Lt. Steve!ehr, Sambach AB, Germant; ·A2C Randy iilly USAD Hosp., Wiesbaden, Germany; A3C Dick Pierce, Lindsey Air Station, Wiesbaden; md Sp4 Jean 0eBry, 509th Airborne, 8th Inf. -Photos by Bob Crouloy Photo: St. Anton, Austria - February 1966 - ALAN ENGEN ON COURSE IN THE FIS INTERNA TIONAL GORNERG RAT DERBY DOWNHIL L, PART OF THE 1966 EUROPEA N RACE CIRCUIT. Photo: Zennatt, Switzerland Circa February 1966 l~inla11c.l llosC-s ~-:ISAI" Skii1i g HAEM8ENL I.NFA, Finl-,nd. March; 8 ; ((JPJ)-Thu .,11th Con, seil 1nforoatiouul du Sport MHi- talr(' {ClSM) ski, d1ampionships wen~ ofrir-iQlr-'1 nh.etl''IArt' h.n:w.. ..... "',:··-·.. 1 ALAN ENGEN IN COMPETITION AT LENZERHEIDE SWITZERLAND PHOTO CIRCA FEBRUARY, 1966. ' . . ALAN ENGEN (USA) ON COURSE IN THE 1966 INTERNATIONAL WORLD CISM SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS (ELEVEN COUNTRIES COMPETING). Photo: Hameenlinna, Finland Circa March 1966 Finland Hosts ~ISM. Skiing --Engen ALAN ENGEN Phot(\ lnnsbruck, Austria Circa January 1965 Kuch 13, 1Nt Sal.t Laker~Alan picldng up some great racln · experience th.is win~ In Europe. Engen, an Army Ueute,umt s ta.tJoned in Baumf.oldei;. West Germany. has been pui.J-dpating h't races a:ll :ver the continent. Sat urday he . fini«hed 20th in the s!a.lom event in the Internat\0nal Mili• tan• Ski Cham :onsbips: in Baemeenlina, Finland. MEDALLION AWARDED AT ,THE 1966 COUNSEIL INTERNATIONALE DU SPORTS MILITAIRE (CISM) WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD AT HAMEENLINNA, FINLAND. Special note: Medal from the Alan Engen collection ALAN ENGEN COMPETING IN EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. Photo: World ~ISM Ski Championships (eleven nations competing) Hameenlinna, Fmliµid- circa 1966 US CISli SKI TZAM APO 09172 US FO~CSS 28 March 1966 THRU: Commanding Of f icer 1st Battalion 2nd Art i llery APO US Forces 0 9034 TO: 1st Lt. Alan K. Engen Hq Bat. 1st Bn. 2nd Arty A?O US Forces 09034 SUBJECT: Letter of Appreciation 1. As Alpine Ski of J\;t1erica Europe and Finnland. a member of the United States 1966 CISM Team y ou h ave represented t h e Armed Forces in both. International FIS competitions in the CISM Championshi p s in Hameenlinna, 2. At all times you have maintained proper respect and courtesy for the various competitors and officials with whom you came in contact. In addition y ou have strived to perform to the b est of y olli~ ability in whatever competition y ou participated in. 3. Your performance reflects credit upon yourself as an individual and upon t h e United Stat e s Armed Forces as a whole. Con~ratulations and best wishes for your continued succes s~ -~ i__s,~fu,chr:.:__~ef"evlc{_ R.ic'hard M. Hub bard 1st Lt. Infantry ore CIS}1 Ski Team DA YID ENGEN COMPETING AT THE WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES . Photo : Sestrierre, Italy '_ circa 1966 Special note: David Engen was one of the outstanding athletes on the University ofUtah Ski Team in the mid 1960s. He was also a member of the U.S. Ski Team in 1965 - 66 and a NCAA "All American" in 1964. Photo part of the Alan Engen Ski History Collection '2 D DESERET NEWS, Thursday, April, 28, 1966 Utah's Ski Future: . ' Maybe FIS, '76? By-,.AVE KADLECK Descret N~vs Sports Writer Can the Beehive State reco~r "lost ground" that happen, when another United States city gels a year FIS head start? Does it want to? Would it be advisable to go after the FIS (Federal Internationale de Ski; championships AND the '76 Winter Games? UTAH'S SKI HUB The Deseret News went to the hub around which Utah ski wheel spins. Questions that haven't been asked were posed. Answers varied. Alf En~n • • ,'yes, 'let FIS' But all agreed on one thing: "Let's go after anything we can. Let's make Utah the winter sports capital of the world." The FIS World Championships are held two vears before each Winter Olyr,-;pics. The 1966 Championships are slated for Portillo, Chile, Aug. 8-15. No site has been determined for the '70 FIS championships. Salt Lake City has made no effort to make a bid. Jackson Hole, Wyo.. made a hid to the United States Ski Assn., at Spokane, Wash., last year. The Jackson people and Squaw Val· ley boosters are alone. UTAH INTERESTED? The United States Ski Assn., meets at Jackson, Wyo., the first week of June. Any Utah intentions ought to be taken there. Views: -Tim H0ydo11, Park City: "I APl2 t L Alta To Open Gelande Test o . 6;,/ r9 • - ·steigler Cop§ 'fitle In Ski Jbmp Meet · •I • Grant V. M-'r Mitt Loft ot ()pa, 1M ; TribuM Sporta WrltN' e.mattur division with 113.l , _ _ALTA.._ OlJmplc ,old medal poin!J and a Jon,: Jump ot 112 ; winner. ~iclff pat /lll • f..t. TN! Coward, Salt Lake _ dlllplaj ol -.r.....Jll!liegjfa City, ,,.. NCOlld with . 112.4 I Mft &I M aaJl@cl Ip top •. ·I !J0ftOl"I Ill the proteMlonal IdM- longert Jump ol the day - 129 I !bl ol the National Gelande f~t - bat ~n as he , Contat, · and lost most of his st)'\e points. · By .,..._ . . _ 126 • - Third amonc the ama~ wu DII.Y1! Jfflldns, Salt Lab St~. director of tti. 11111 City. 11:u. John LtTtnpton wM .echool at Jaclulon Hole, had !llurth with 109.7, a.n d Sam Medleapg of, 116 ~t. 116 I~ and ford. USU, flfth with 1113.5, fffl to ~out Tunp I--'-,..__ Junior Bounous and than ,._, 20 o ~ Jlffil. H" won nm Th@ junior dlvl<don (13-1~ plaet! money ot $150 1.11d Ii pair YN'ni) WU won by John EDJM of metal w1th 10.1.1 points and a long Hi'' J Bounoll8, with INipa o 119 Jump of 92 ~ - JPlf 'Lowe, fft't, 101 fffl ud-lllWU (>ldm,_wu_RCIIDQ_with_l01J - - 4 and ,.-on $100 &Iii! 11d points; .M.lu Jtn8ell, Salt Lab poles. . ., .. City, third with 99.!l; Randy ~ " ' • wbl! ""1o a told Smith,• Bountiful, faurth with · medal In the 1964 O)Jmplcs Ila- 95.6, and Jim Rowlt!7, Salt Lab . Jom, rolled up 130.11Dta1 pahm. Ctty, fifth with 114.~ . and 1111 form wu flaw~ Hts Gordc, Enptrom, Salt Lan form _points for the thfto8 jumps City, woa the 9e11lor dlvlBlon for averapd nine OI" - r out of a jumpen over 40. He had 70.9 }lOM1111.-;1lt']lolntll; Bounoas had point&fflly other-!lder tn a 127.l ,point total. thl' division, Mel Dalebout. Salt CnN Lake City, bad 67.3 points. r... Ste!rler'• hl&h .__P.leued thl' I_~ fty!n1 tatot'II. A lf'l.andl' I!! actually .the peak of Utah's bid-making. "They (the Europeans) figured Banff, Canada, was a '72 cinch. d They also think the Winter n Game~ should be held in the United States every year be- B cause Americans are more en· ic thusiastic about the games than h, \; 1 the Europeans." -Alf Engen, Alta: On FIS J games: "Why not? I dol\'t see & why not! It brings quite a bit of fanfare. FIS js very good second," the 56-year-old man of v, Alta's mountain said. "FIS should be given a lot of consid- eration. I would like to see Utah go ahead on all ski fronts." All should know. He was on the 1940 and '44 Olympic teams and coached the '48 team. Tim Heydon -Marv Melville, University of 'Ttah ski coach and former Otrmpian: "I think it would be betlb. to concentrate on either the 01.rnpics or the FIS cham- 1 pionships. There is no relation I between th, two. The FIS ha one committe, man on the IO (International CJ=pic Commit tee) ." Melville {\\ vored th Olympics. "It is k•·oader i scope and includes mc,,t tha just skiing. FIS is alpine an nordic (jumping and cm-~ l country) only. The Olympics in I eludes sledding, skating an luge (one-man sled) e en along with the alpine and no di events. , -Earl Walters, Intermountai • • • S.L. top contender Ski Assn., president: "Of cours we should go after both the Fl I capable of being the winter and '76 Games. Utah is capabl sports capital of the world. Now of becoming the winter sport· 1 we've got to prove it. We can capital of the world .. We' d th t b h . . have to show an intense mtere °."IY 0 a _Y_ 0 ~;mg mterna• in all international competitio ·1 honal ~ompel!t1on._ Mr. Wolfe if we're to make a mark on th spent five weeks m Europe at world's ski map," he conclud "I would guess the FIS site _ _ __ • \\ill be determined before the r;-----~---------~-~---_:,~ Chile games." reports ski veteran Tim Heydon, Park City dl'umbeater. Photo circa early 1966. 4._/·111- Cb u, ALTA - John Balfanz, the Entries have been recorded , No. 1 Nordic jumper in the from Aspen, Colo., Missoul 4, United States, will be on hand Mont., and from many locations Saturday as an interested ob- in Utah and Wyoming. Defend- : server for the opening of Alta's, ing champion Pepi Steigler is Third annual National Gelande expected to arrive at Alta Peru-Contest. vian Lodge Friday evening and Balfanz is in Salt Lake City register Saturday morning. on ·business,. representi_ng the Twelve merchandise awards, , Northlan~ Ski Co: He _will com- including five pairs of skis, will m~nt duri_ng the Jumpmg of ~e be presented during the award . Migh_ty-M1te class and also m ceremony. Highlight and top: the frrst amateur class. award will be a revolving troLowell Thomas! famed C:J3S phy, the National Gelande Cup, newsman and avld Alta skier, which will be presented to the "".ill served as master of cere~o- outstanding winner of both promes Sun ay. afternoon . during fessional and amateur divisions. the presentation of trophies and The cup must be won three , r 1 be!ore l·t a.wards. The "big bump" on the mine years con_secu ive y dump near Wildcat Base lift can be retired. will be colorfully decorated when the jumping begins at 11 a.m. S a t u r d a y morning. Gelande director Alf Engen claims the hill is in excellent ' condition for the two-day affairs. I think we could host the FIS games. "We would welcome them," he said for Park City. There's no reason why we (Salt ·Lake City) ),','OUldn't be a too [ contender. The last time it was in the U.S. was ·in 1950 in Aspen, Colo. You get as much interest and'" attention, from a skier's standpoint, as the Olympics. I think we should go alter them (the games) and the sooner the quicker." Reydon is I tuned to big races. The past two i ·seasons have seen him direct three national races in first class manner. ,i I -Elliott Wolfe, businessman - "Heck yes. Let's get them 1 here. It would be just as good to I get the FIS here from a ski standpoint. I think we're /{)ta~\ ' . .. jnlt fakt itibunt iport~ Salt Lake City, Utah-Sunday Morning-April 17, 1966 Page B7 1 In 1l!lmalJflr - • deLd.M! a owr • smaller J11mp, Brad Jen- . tll Jllll'tp, bUt lllflHd of IJ)eelal 11@11, Salt I.aft ·City, WU tint Jumpln( 1ear, th@ u1era UR with n .4points and a Iona: Jump ftllllar 1ld11 and poles. of 33 f~t. 'Second went to Tom Sunday'• julllp'wu off the old J a ~ . Solitude, with n.1; Alfa mine c1ump 11d Matt Walkft', Alta, wa11 third 'Jlll'Olmen had built two apec1a1 6U; William ~ynolda, IIIOW ramp&. Lab City, tourtll at 115.5, IM Judlt'!fl ,nore Alf Enpn, Gftle David Pidcett, Slit ,Lake City, &-nsten and Bob Irvlnl'. fifth at SU. Third - ~ In the profealon- Cloward WU awardl'd tlll' troll dlvllllolfWlllt tG Chat Weatb- phy for the motlt . erill..-tth.113.T'pofllts 1111d (A Joni jump al thl' day for his dlsplay Jump of 125 f8(. -DMa Mberta, on the 12&-foot effort He at Solltudl', wu foarth, with lU.!1, eruhe4 and rolled &wn tti. hill &lid Krith Lanae, 8oUtudf, Ml\, 1prayln1 mow u N ,nnt. He with 112.9, •. wun't jlurt. Tlfe. only Injury fll. tile day WU Cr&IJ Gorder, a younptff from 8aJt Lalla Qty, wtio palled a trndoa In Im foot N his_,. GlldJump. -:-'• - s~,1er stood- up· oii llil. Ia: foot jump, ID hi' ,ot tht · jump of the 'day award. Iona-I , The -tbft' WU p,d for moat of the mttt, bllt u IDIDI of the Jut )'O\lllptl!n Jumplna tt t,epn 1111 mow. °"" - y-aftlr.....,_IIINt-Wu there a ·bu.urd iqln1. Nearly 100 aldl!rll from all IM!I' !hi' WNtern United Stats -~ ------ w (\ I( Did Utah loo. past the 1970 FIS ski champion,,ips when it undertook the Lask h bring the '72 Olympic Games to ~It Lake City? ALF ENGEN AND JAMES "J." LAUGHLIN AT THE ALT A LODGE, ALTA UT AH. Cl He flies through the air! One of the contestants in National Gelende ,Jumping tourney soars through the air with the greatest of ease during Saturday's pr Iiplinary competition. Pro experts wj,II jump Sunda JIM GADDIS COMPETING IN THE NATIONAL GELANDE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Photo: Alta, Utah- Circa April 1966 Photo part of the Alan Engen Ski History Collection PEPI STIEGLER --. FLYING HIGH OVER THE SPECTATORS. Photo: A'l.ta, Utah - circa 1966 Alta National Gelande Championship Special note: Pepi was the winner of this tournament. Photo courtesy of Jim Gaddis. JUNIOR BOUNOUS IN FLIGHT AT THE 1966 ALTA NATIONAL GELANDE CHAMPIONSHIP. Photo: Alta, Utah- Circa 1966. Courtesty of Jim Gaddis PEPI STEIGLER WINNING THE 1966 NATIONAL GELANDE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Photo: Alta, Utah.:... Circa April 1966. DESERET NEWS, Thursday, October 27, lMcS qf It Takes (( Lot --i Work But We're After Olympics When an area decides to fQ after the bid to host the Winter Olympics, just where do you begin? That's the question that faced Utah's civic leaders early jn 1965 when Utah's Gov. Calvin Rampton appointed a special committee to push the state's bid for the 1972 Winter Olympic: Games. It proved to be a monument.al task. Most of the people involved in that original rommittee - seven top civic lef ers - had only a vagUe idea of what was involved when it all started, but a year later, they knew! Cite Facilities They did know when they started that Utah's facilities were among the best in the world. From ski slopes to skating facilities, from bob sled runs to ski jumping hills. No, they weren't all available at the time, bu_t the planners knew that they would and could be before the opening of the '72 games. The readily available ski facilities - hm1dreds of miles of perfect runs within a half hour of downtown Salt Lake City plus the easy accessibility of the city by air, rail or highway, boosted the hopes of that early e<:>mmittee. Maxwell E. Rich, executive vice president and secretary of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Cornm.erce, was named as chairman of the comm.ittee, and he had plenty of able help. Others Pitch In Gene Donovan, president of Prudential Federal Savings and Loan Assn., F. C. Koziol, who had just retired as supervisor of the Wasatch National Forest; M. Walker Wallace, president of the Downtown Planning Assn,; Glenn W. Adams, Ogden attorney, H. Deveraux Jennings, who was executive secretary of Ski Utah Associates, and a former Olympic competitor, and John W. Gallivan, publisher of '.l'he Salt Lake Tribune, made up the select group. From the beginning the com• miltee never stopped learning, promoting, developing. It took time, but gradually the members became well aware of the problems, the needs, the requirements for a successful Olympic bid. Non-Profit Group Later in the year, the group formed a non-profit organization to promote the Salt Lake area bid. They picked the name of Olympics for Utah, Inc., which easily abbreviated · to the now familiar "OUI." OUI became more than a name, however, as the organization pushed for Utah's acceptance of the bid, as well as national and international acceptance. Thousands of "OUI" buttons were sold to promote the bid, and Utahns bought the buttons and began to talk of the possibilities of getting the Olympic Games here. Mr. Rich, who was elected president of our, said at the time: "I think the tough job is to convince our own people that we can handle the Olympics." utah Has Plenty "There is a strange belief that Olympics are staged by some kind of super people, and that Utah has no such people. But this is nonsense. A good, Winter Olympics is fne product Of hard work and talent - and Utah has plenty of both. "I think we will stage the best Olympics ever." The work went on during the summer, and dozens of national and international winter sports figures visited the Salt Lake area. Reactions of these visitors ranged from amazement to pleasure. Some however, wise in the ways of international Olympic politics, advised patience along with hard work. Enlis(s Lea.tlers our enlisted the aid of many other business and commu.'lity leaders for committee work, and by January, 1966, they were ready for the first big hurdle acceptance by the U.S. Olympic committee as the official representative of the U.S. Lake Placid, the well-known NE!\'{ York resort, offered the strongest rompetition, but when the votes were counted 011 Jan. 15, 1966, in Chicago, Salt Lake Ci1y was officially named as the United States' choice for the games. There were congratulations from around the country, and Utahns were pleased. But there was no time to rest on the laurels of having the U.S. bid, because there was less than three months before the cofnmittee Committe e Works For Top Event had 1x> present a bid to the International Olympics Committee in Rome. l\f11ch Opposition There were dire predictions that warned that first-time bidders are NEVER awarded the Olympics. And besides, the warning went on, there was plenty of strong, opposition around the world. The Utah committee just didn't see it that way. And thousands of Utah rPsidents didn't :see it that way either. There was plenty of local support, and national support rolled in. The U.S. Ski A~sn. proclaimed backing for the Salt Lake bid, the Senate passed a resol~tion backing the bid; President Johnson added his voice to the ,backers - and support rolled in from evPry quarter. With only a short time to prepare the international bid, the OUI group did a ph~omenal job. The literature which proclaimed Utah's ability to do the job and do it right was bound into volume that was an eye c-atcher. I[ead For Rome So, in April, 1966, a delegation of hopeful Utalms boarded a plane and headed for P.ome and the "showdown." Banff Canada and Sapporo, Japan, ~emed to offer the most opposition, and dopesters were picking Banff without a tussle. But Utahns weren't to be· left out and before the bidding was ov;r Salt Lake was considered a "d~rk horse" candidate. The trip wasn't without_ problems - engine trouble, misrouted displays - but the Salt 1:ak~ bid was made, and reports indicated the committee was very favorably impressed. Goes to J:1pan But when t ne yotes were in, Sappdro got , the surprise nod. This area, on Japan's northernmost island, had been_ awarded the Olympics just hetore World War II, but the games were cancelled when the war broke out. . The Utah delegation was d1Sappointeil, but vowed _to make an even better showmg next time. "We learned an awful lot about v.;hat goes into an Olympic bid," a spokesman !;aid. So the committw came home, and some people expected things to quiet down for a while. But not so. OUI was back on the trail, proclaiming . Utah ~s a candidat~ for the 1976 Wmter Olympics. "It won't be an easy job," a OUI s po k esm an said. "But we've gotten some very valuable experience under our belts, imd vou can bet we will be at the ~p of the list next time." Won't Be Easy Observers agree it won't be an easy job. Denver, with several well-known ski areas, has indicated it will be after the U.S. nomination. And by the time the bidding begins, several other areas are expected to make strong sho" ings. . But utah's OUI is confident. And there are plenty of the "Super People" alrearly working. So with a lot more work by a lot of talent, OUI backers are ready to watch the 1976 Winter Olympics practically from their own backyards. STARTED BY 'SPEED' Tim'p Resort Real _· Haven BY, DA VE KADLECK Deseret 'ews Sports Writer TIMP HAVEN, Provo Canyon - A sheepherder named "Speed" hu found hlmsel! a haven In which to run 1. aid resort! lt's called Timp Haven and It's located two miles off th• Provo Canyon road 13 miles trom the city's center. "Used to r u n my sheep here," drawled Paul (Speed) Stewart as he pushed a slow-running water hose across his skate pond. "Can't seem to aell any more tha.n half the herd so I'm still ln . the sheep business," he halt-smiled as the weekday afternoon crowd streamed Into his' ski mecca to partake or the winter tun that includes skating, i;kiing and tubing. TI.mp Taven got Its st ".9()methlng like l!K5," Speed guessed. "Couldn't be MY sooner. •• A single chair, pcma, two T-bars and rope tow service the scenic are• that drops from the upper-most slope (Eclipse) 1,500 feet to can~n floor with majestic Maunt Ttmpanogos as its Panl Stewan backdrop. Slopes will test thl': best. "'We haven't given all our trails a name," owner-operator Sll':wart said pushing thP dribbll': off the rreen hose across the pond. "'Haven't got around to it l guess," he mused. Timp Haven has grown up !ast around thl': horseshoeshaped timben that support the area's chair. A taint hum or machinery below breaks the sill':nce o! the forest. Slopes are croomed ror every ability. Speed hu an able sta.tt to help run his area. ''There's Hilda, she's my wife. She's the bullwheel that makes thl.s area. spin," he frinned. "J. E. (a son) keeps the lift ma• chlnery going." . He didn't mention hb daught.ers. But Hilda did. Helping to feed a. dining room ot 200 persons are daughters Kristy, 16, Lynda, 17, and Sylvia. "We start early and work late," Hilda volunteered. Timp Haven is unique in that its owners don't operate on Sunday. "We just don't operate that day," Speed said. Hilda was more specific, "We keep busy !or six days. We work hard. We just don't believe In working on Sunday." Speed doesn't ski. "Don't have the time. Got the newest \n equipment, but don't hllve the time," hi': concluded, kiclclog the hose trom which came a dribble that prepared hill haven called "Timp" !or another busy Saturday. - - . . ~ :1,.•-·--·-- 16 S DESERET NEWS, Thursday, October 27, 1966 = - + - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Slti Patrol Is Now In Its 29th Year Peoplr in the ski world often voice their su1 peise when they learn tlu~t the National Ski Patrol sv+tem is now 28 years old. They are often surprised, too, to Jcriow that about 95 per cent of th~m ~re volunteer. Certainly one reason for this attitud<' i~ the fact that only in the past few years has the Ski Patrol elljplo!ted its own great potential rres to become more producliv and valuable in pro: rooting s i safety to the ski world . f t n FuJI ViP\Y There !ways has been good .,espirit e corps." There always ha~•e been strong local patrols, ~-1-Bl aid courses, toboggan aining and individual effort. B t the recent work by pab·ol m mbers th:?~hout the country has put this uniqul! ;>r· ganization in full view of skil;rs everywhere. , The efforts ha\~ put out in the open the service the Patrol performs to the skiing public. The fact that the growth of ski patrol membership has kept pace with the ski industry is a story in itself. Both the volunteer and professional members of the Ski Patrol have engaged actively in ski safety from the beginning. When C. Minot "Minnie" Dole organized the patrol back in 1938, one of his prime goals was to educate people in ski safety. 10,too Members From a few hand-picked patrolmen in those days, the Ski Patrol now has an active registered membership of more than 10,000 patl'Dl men and women. Each member now must pass a 26-hour course in standard and advanced American Red Cross First Aid, take an 8-hour refresher course prior to each ski season. comp1ete a ski and toboggan proficienry test and take a tough endurance test. Incidentally, the women who seek patrol membership must pass the identical tests the men take. A large percentage of the patrolmen volwiteer for addi· tional training. Skiing is becomlng more than ever a family affair, as Leslie ,Hammond and ---=-=-==:--===== === I I brother Bruce watch activity on Utah .slopes which cat.er t-0 family groups. 1,- - - - - - - - -- - - 1' 22B The ~t Lake Tribune, Sunday, Nov. 13, 1961 DESERET N EWS family ski chalet presents SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Wednesday, December 14, 1966 Bl learn from the pro~ F1'i. November 18 5-7:30 p.m. A(f Engen Alf, prominently known in the world of skiing for many years, is well qualified to ~ns-.yer any of your questions on skiing. He 1s director of the Alf Engen ski school at Alta, and manufacturer of the Alf Engen ski wax. Ask Alf how to wax your skis for all snow conditions. Hack Miller Mon; December 5 5-7:00 p.111 ~111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Marv Melville Incentive For Ski Jumpers Marv ranks with the best that Utah has reared for the world of skiing. An Olympic skier in 1956 and '60-amemberofthe U.S. Winter Olympic coaching staff in 1964 and presently the U of U ski team coach. Ask Marv how to become a r acer. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllll Photo by Tom Plotchan Alf Engen, once upon a time our greatest ski jumper and a former winner of the nation's four-way 1 championship, feels that the use of jumping fac ilities at Alta by the U.S. Nordic team ' last week may lend a . hand to bring ski jumping back in this state. Mon. December 12 5-7:30 p.m. Earl Miller Earl i~ presently Weber State's skiing co.i.ch and director of the Earl Miller ski school at Snow Basin. Earl has made a name for himself in coaching J unior National ski teams. As the father of Dale Miller, two-time Junior ~ational ChaI?,pion, Allen and Ray, also making the nat10nal competition scene Earl should be asked, "When should I start to sk~-w:hat kind of ski equipment should I begm with-wh,en should I begin to race?" There are those of us who can remember the tens of thousands of people who once crowded at the bottom /, of famed Ecker Hill to watch the great snow flights. , Usually the national jumps or the invitationals t ook I place on Washington's birthday. We had our own jumpers in those days, too. Yet when the nine best Nordics came to Alta f or their Olympic training tests, there was none of our local athletes among them. There were five first-team men and four juniors J - and others. Of those nine, five were from Michigan, o Then there are regional athletes to be mixed with them in all Olympic training - so that if a young jumper comes along who can cut into t he front line he will have that chance. t: two from Wisconsin, and one each from Seattle and a a New York. This was our "National Squad." C - .- ! c Alf thinks that the reason we don't have the jumpers now is simply because of the intriguing alpine r uns we have - slaloms and downhill for those ·who wish to try for the Olympics. Yet even these are so inviting for recreational use, and so iimited for racing t hat we haven't been able to develop the potential that appears to exist for racing competition. The national jumpers lil.ed our facilities. They would like to come back, and here again we have not only the "Greatest Snow on Earth," but we have the first snow. Wltich provides them with more time to train at their trade. Frida y, Decem ber 2, 1966 · I11 which event maybe we will have some upcomers 5 Of Skiing's Elite Save Sheep Snowbound At Alta ALTA - Three sheep . found,up to the top, skied down to the / "I never ~aw a group of men · ,, stranded. in det)p snow m the/Albion Basin. picked'up the lost so d~clared Mr. ; concerned, upper Albion Basin Monday had sheep and took turns skiing some top flight rescuers - Alf them down the steep, rough ter- Engen. Mr. Morris, a stern taskmaster as a ski instructor, Engen and four of the finest in- rain to the main area. structors in his ski school at! Surprisingly, the sheep were had refused _to ski any more in fairly good condition and able that day until the sheep were Alta. Eddie Morris discovered thci·to walk. It was estimated they rescued. sheep -: all full-grown young had probably been without any Mr. Engen reported fuat the ewes - m the Glory Hole area food at all for 10 days and with first sheep he picked up strugat an elevation of about 10,500 very little to eat for possibo/ a gled a little at first, but then , month. However, they were "snuggled up" as the vetpran · 1feet. He rushed down to the lodge practically up t.o their eyeballs skier picked up speed on 1he .;,· . slopes. are~ to report tlle find and or- in moisture. gEaruze ah. resculf e hpardtyed. Mr. Mr. Lundberg loaded them in It's probably the first ~e in · the a truck and t00k th em to his fa- history ea unse ngen three sheep ever came • · 1ude d Gene th • h · th all me group, whi ch dbe er s ome m e v ey to see out of the Glory Hole area and Ed p H be M L 00d if they could be brought back to skied down the Ohartreuse Trail 1 ud Mr, Max ~n rg, ' it · hed 90 to - that's what it's called· h ealth . Th ey each we1g r. orris. an ' really is, Thay rode the Germania lift 100 pounds. Cl It's foreseeable that with these advantages the 1- - - -- National Ski Association and the Olympics committees might invest some of its training funds into better hills at Alta-make this a permanent "home". of our own grow up through t he ranks. Cra c~ ski instructors, left, Max Lundberg, Ge ne Huber, Alf Engen, Ed Po nd a ren t really teaching sheep to ski. They ·rescued them from Albion Basin. The Snow Cup: Alta's Venerable Trophy /,. ,BY MIKE KOROLOGOS Early in January the nation's best skiers will converge on Alta, Utah, to fight for a draught from that venerable chalice, the Snow Cup. The dates: January 7-8,' 1967. One of the country's oldest major ski events, the Snow Cup is a race which annually finds the. ski greats battling to become greater, battling to place their names Oil the fourfoot high Snow Cup trophy, next to those reading Werner, Saubert, Barbara Kidder and Corey Engen... .. ., 1967 SNOW CUP WINNERS - RAY MILLER (MEN) KA THY ALLEN (WOMEN) Durrance, ' Pfeiffer, Engen, Ferries, Pravda, and others. Sponsored throughout its history by the Salt Lake Jaycees, the prestigious meet is usually a giant slalom starting behind the sawtoothed face of Alta and ending at the canyon floor. Cornerstone of the historic pageant was placed December 15, 1940, the day Alta's lifts were celebrating their third birthday and Joe Louis brate its centennial by sharing the' cup. They were followed by Salt Laker Jack Reddish, later an Olym!'.)ian, and Skeeter Werner; Reddish again and Katy Rodolph; then Dave '::hristensen and Bonnie Jo Nelson. One of the flashiest names on the famed trophy is that of Christian Pravda. It was engraved there in 1952, along with Miss Grasmoen's again. In 1953, Darrell Robinson and Utah's Manya Baumbacher reached Recent winner was Ray Miller .. , Barney McLean in 1940 . . . ' ·, .' . \... Alta, Utah- circa January 1967 K IF CIT er Spo s Association nc orated ENLARGED PHOTO COPY OF ONE OF ALT A' S EARLy SKI LIFf TICKETS. nns PARTICULAR TICKET BELIEVED TO BE FROM YEAR 1967 was knocking out Al McCoy in six rounds to defend his title again. First to win the trophy (named for the late Herbert A. Snow) were Gretchen Fraser and Barney Mc• Lean. A field of 46 competitors kicked off the meet, each getting the "3-2-1· go" from flag-waving starters at the top and bottom of the long, treelined course. The first field included the three Engen brothers - Corey, Sverre and Alf; Gordon Wren, then of Alta; Si Brand, Mt. Lassen, Calif.; Bert Jensen, Little Kandahar Ski Club; Hannes Schroll, Sugar Bowl, Calif.; Mar'g aret (Miggs) Durrance, and a host of other dashing, daring, competitors whose ski careers were just beginning. Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Fraser won the first three Snow Cup titles to get the meet off to a spectacular . start. Along with fellow Coloradan McLean, Miss Fraser shared the laurels with then-Utahan Dick Durrance in 1941 and Friedl Pfeiffer. After a brief layoff during World War II, Mac Maeser and Donna Howell renewed the colorful tradition, winning the big meet in 1945. Corey Engen won the men's titles the next two years, sharing the spotlight with Barbara Kidder and Brynhild Grasmoen. In 1947, Pat Kearns and Susy Harris (now Rytting) helped Utah celeSKI ING the pinnacle of their racing caree:ns with Snow Cup victories. Hans Nogler and Sally Deaver 1 took the crowns in 1956, followed by Nonie Foley and Buddy Werner; Ken Lloyd and Bev Anderson; and former Western State College star Dave Gorsuch and Miss Anderson again. The title stayed in the Rock y Mountains in 1961 when Denver University star Chuck Ferries teamed with Salt Laker Margo Walters. It stayed in the area again the following year when NCAA ski king Jim Gaddis shared the honor with another University of Utah skier, Lynn Johnson. It was the first of three consecutive Snow Cup victories for Gaddis. He teamed with Miss Walters in 1963 and Claudia Corum, a Colorado U. student, in 1964. Olympic medal winner Jean Saubert polished the glittering list of winners on the cup in 1965 and 1966. Teenager Ray Miller, Ogden, Utah, and Denver U.'s Mike Alsop share the honor with Miss Saubert. 0 In 1967 . . , well, the flag-starting system will not be there, the baggy ski pants will be gone, and the racers r eprese nt Rock 'n Roll instead of the Jitterbug Generation. But the pressure to win and the prest i ge of membership in th e clique of Snow Cup race winners has not aba,.ted . DEC~MB ER 19bb A5 DESERET NEWS, Saturday, February 11, 1967 These three skiers were honored for their contribution to· winter sports at a banquet Friday. They are (from left) Joe Quinney, Alf Engen, F. C. Koziol. Three 'Old Timers' Win Ski Awards By HACK MILLER Deseret News Sport Editor The men were awarded the Koziol was cited for his many ho~ors, with th eir names years as supervisor of the Wasaffixed to a permanent trophy, atch National Forest during . . Three old timers were hon- at a banquet at the Hotel Utah. ored by the ar ea skiers Friday Gov. Calvin Rampton made which _time he headed up m~ny night for their contributions the awards. Selection was made committees and groups for unover the years to the Utah win- by a special committee headed provement of skiing. lter sports program. by Bud Keyser, Qumney · was honore d as th e Alf Engen, S.J. (Joe) Quinney Engen was chosen for his man who organized the Winter and F .C. Koziol were the first many years of teaching, skiing, Sports Association for the con. recipients of the Olympics for jumping, promoting ski events struction of facilities at Alta, mah Committee. in the area, among other things. ,1------------------------=-----------S. JOE QUINNEY AND ALF ENGEN, WHO TOGE THER WITH FELIX KOZIOL (NOT SHOWN), RECEIVED THE "OLYMPICS FOR UTAH'' IN 1976 AWARD. TV Fare, Page 26 THE THREE NAMED INDIVIDUALS WERE GIVEN SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR "THEIR DEDICAT ION TO THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF WINTER SPORTS IN UTAH." Photo: Salt Lake C ity, Utah Circa February 1967 The Salt Business Sat Lake City, Utall Page 2 1 Saturday Morning - February 11, 1967 3 Winter Sports Enthusiasts Win OUI Banquet Awards Sunday, Feb. ll, 1967 Three prorrinent Salt Lake awards by Max E. Rich, Ol!I \none will constill/-te _a "white es'dent elephant " he emphasized. • · 1 ·· were IprThe wmter sports • enthu<1asts ~. banquet, formal opening "We'll ' be able cw. absorb the \ honored 'Friday evenmg at the of the l0-day celebration, was Olympics Games with scarcely \fi rst annual Olympics for Utah attended by i25 persons in Hotel an_ extra effort," the governor lutah Empire Room. Winter Carnival Banquet. said. \ Engen, C. Koziol and ~- Utah Gov. Cal;in_ L. Rampt~n of ptoiula~:t J. ~ui~ney, ~elected for their reasserted Uta~ s mtent to wm Rome last A:il i$ an inaugural ded1eat10n to the promotion and the 1976 Olympics. . . . bid for the 1972 Qlyrnpic games develop!Jlent of winter sports m Utah will have sufficient facil- .1 - , Utah, were presented with ities in place by that time so s1 Teh. e w·mter Canmva . l w1·n co11• tinue with the Alf Engen lnvitational Ski Jum p ¢n Feb: 25 and 26, Dog Sled Derby near KimJunction aid snowmobile \ball races Feb. 18 an 19 and a competition of ice a d snow sculp• ture on Salt La e City's Main Street. Award Prelentatinns . I In presenting t11e awards Fn• 1uay evemng, 1fr. I:,ich_ sa)d, "With a heritage; so rich m wmter sport.s, it's time we begin ,!O \ honor those who have helped rrtake Utah the ~ki center of the West." Alt' Engen. tUrector of AI ta Ski ,School, wa& former bolder o[ national ski jumping distance record ; represented Utah as national champion twice, including cross-country, jumping slalom and downhill; put Utah on national ski jumping map in the J 930s, and through the years has helped produce some of the nation's top skiers for world competition. F. C. Koziol, director of Utah Parks and Recreation Commi5• sion, formerly was superintendent of WasatQh National For• est, president of Utah Wildlife Federation ag~ member of Olympics for '\')tab Committee. He has led t hlway for develop:nent of ski a eas on national forest lands, en ·ed on winter All Engen, S. J. Quinney and F. C. won l<,riday at the first annual Olym· skiing and s rts committees, Koziol, from left, admire award t~ey pies for Utah Winter Carnival Baµquet. and has been instrumental in ___Jc_::~-=----------- -- - - - - - developing aJalanche control measures at regional ski areas. Alf F. G;: ~1f l 1 -A$sociated P r ess Wir On way to world reco d! Lars Grini of N01·way is picture of determinati n as he soars to a record Ski Record Fa ls Again! 492 Fee OBERSTDORF, (AP) Lars Grini, a 22-year-old Norwegian a to-. . mobile salesman, soared 92 feet Saturday and broke he one-day-old world ski fl ing record. The previous mark of 485 feet was set Friday by S veden's Kjell Sjoeberg. he Swede broke a 482-foot re rd turned in just an hour ea ier by Grini. Grini left the jump a a speed of about 65 miles er hour. The sky was cloud ess and a slight wind was blo ing in from the right front of the jump. h o to of 492 feet In Germany Saturday. The you hful skier topped mark of 485 feet set 011 Satu day. ===~~:..___:_______ Sports Facilities S. J. Quinnet, law partner in o[ Ra Quinney and Nebeker, bas een actively de• veloplng .wintrr sports facilities in Utah since he early 1930s. In 1938, he and a group of businessmen formed the Salt Lake Winter Sports Assn. to build ~ki lifts at Alta and develop thearea. He has bee~ largely responsi• ble for construction of the Germania lift in ~953, Peruvian lilt in 1959 and Albion lift in 1962-63,- • P.lus other smaller lifts. · firm , U'f AH WINTER the " Greatest Snow an expert skier plies \ln Earth." • • ALF AND AL TA: A STORY OF SPORTING "KNOW-HOW" I .. Alf Hn ge n greets students at the meeting place for another session of the Ski School. Some of the world 's best powue r-snow sk ie rs have been trained at Alta. ! Alf signs up a Shi School student, above. Below, a skier sets his edges and starts into the deep Alta powder. Alf Engen has done more than anyone e lse in th e sport to popularize powder snow skiing. "Lots of Guys Did It" Alf Engen: An Expert's Expert The Alf Engen Ski School at Alta is one of the few ski schools in the country that carries the name bf a person rather than the n ame of the ski area. F ew men h ave done for any sport what Alf Engen has done for s kiing. Alf came to Alta, Uta h , in 1933 to begin one of the most auspiyious careers in the history of Ame rica n sports. In those days there were no lifts or tows. Alf had to hike up to ski down, an example of the kind of tenacity it takes to become a real expert. So says Alf Engen when speaking of the noted Alta deep-powder technique. The technique has grown and changed for the better through the years, but on the list of "guys," Alf's name is certainly at the top. Alf first came to Uta h in 1930 for a ski jumping exhibition. H e returned three yea rs later as a fores te r with the Forest Se rvice. It was then tha t he first skied into Alta . Alta's first rope tow was built from a min e tunnel tramway in 1937, and the Coll ins c hair lift was built in 1938. Alf coached the U. S. Olympic Ski team in 1948. There were eight members of the team that hail ed from Utah. They won several gold medals . "That tea m still ran ks as one of the best the United S tates has ever h ad," says Alf. Alf sti ll took the jumps until just a few seasons ago. H e was known as a steely eyed competitor, but his brother Swen could shake him simply by telling him how da ngerous it was. Alf did a nd docs a lot of trick and exhihition skiing. One of the most fa mous stories concerns the building of a 120' ski jump at the State F ai rgrounds in the middle of the summer! Alf took over the Alta Ski School in 1950. H e and his instructors are constantly looking for better ways to te1Jch and to improve the powder-skiing technique. "The School has never been better," s;iys Alf of his instructors. "Every one of them, the men a nd women, look great." Alf, who lives at the Alta P eruvian Lodge, is known as the world's foremost a uthority on powder skiing a nd as one of the sporting world's great men. Utahns are truly fortunate to h ave /l man of such rema rkable " know-how." FOUR SK.I PIONEERS: IN PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT: FELIX KOZIOL ALF ENGEN OTTO LANG CHIC MORTON Photo Alta, Utah - March 12, 1967 B"low left, ii's back to the lodge for Alf and Assistant Ski School Director Max Lundberg. Below ri ght, Alf and Max present a well-earned award to the winner of a ski race. Don Brooks' Outdoors There's Finnish Flavor At BYU, B-13 On Page B-14 Page BIO Salt Lake City, Utah-Sunday Morning-March 26, 1967 Craig Gorder, Tina Ohlson Cop ·Slii Honors Top Stars_ Shine at Park~ City " 14 B By Grant V. Messerly Tribune Sportswriter PARK CITY - Bright skies, solid snow and a field of more than 150 of the Intennountain Division's best junior racers were the ingredients for the 1967 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune's Ski Classic at Park City Saturday. Young Craig Gorder, a 14-year-old member of the division's Junior National team, and Tina Ohlson, another Junior National racer who has dominated the gals' division this year, walked off with the trophies In th• expert A class Saturday. The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, Feb. 26, 1967 Idaho SI,iers Snare Do\\r11l1ill Crowns By Grant Messerly Trfoune Sports Writer JACKSON HOLE, WYO _ It all S Vall h at was an . · un ey 5 ow Teton Villag~ here Saturday as two young skiers from t.he Idaho resort beat the field on a tough d0wnhill course. topped a talented field ot Ex• pert A boys and girls. The r_esults of Saturday' events will be used to seed th young skiers in Sunday's div isional downhill championshiJ race here. . _Then Sunday -~g~t 0~1cl~l! will select the div1S1on's Jun10 • Top Fields ·national team to compete al John Sabala, who already Stowe, Vt. , in early March . The owns the IntPrmountaln Div!- team will be picked on the basis . J G' t Slalom cham- of race results during the past sron un1or ian ski season with the winners of pionship, a.9d Eam~ , ~ ee,! the three championship raceg " automatic ~elections. , Sabala swept down the one .and one-half mile long course on the steep Gros Ventre run bi 2 :01.6. He was chased by Danny Bell, also of Sun Valley, who Utah Racing School, a third at 2:02.9. J Easier Time Miss Street, a perennial junior national selection, had an. easier time with the gals. She registered a run of 2 :01.4 over the shorter gals' course while Tina Ohlson, Solitude, was second at 2:02.7. Miss Ohlson already owns the division giant slalom crown. Arleen Belnap, URS, was third at 2:02.8. JACKSON HOLE, YO.-Junior ski racers ar e· The course, which began , an intense bunch of kids. hey are in that rosy area of J three-fourths of the way up R.Pn> life where the problem a the moment is the most imdezvous Peak, was tighter than portant thing in the worl and some are not quite sure expected but In spots the skiers whether to cry or not wh n things go wrong. were traveling well over 60 miles per hour. They work hard, pl y hard and stay awake the Remove Gates night before a race with nots in their stomachs. Officials cf the Jackson Hole The older boys, espe ially, are a study in bravado, Ski Club, sponsors ot the race~ and things tend to get a bit loud as the pressures of said several gates would be re; race day nears. But 11.t , the same time they can be moved from the course for thtj quietly confident. The mist experienced of their numchampionship run Sunday. That1 bers have a technical kn wlcdge of skiing that would should bring thl' time even\ inspire awe and envy in t e average skier. lower than Saturday but it also make the course tougher They all have taken heir share of spills and lumps for the youngsters. and there have been fe . , if any, runs down a race The weather was overcast all course that they are completely satisfied with. day and snow was falling before Their constant aim is·to do a better job of skiing a the last racers got off the hill. race course than anyone - perhaps even themselves - I The snow was Icy, but the course stayed S11' " th throughthinks possible. out the race. They run and rerun, live and relive every race Randy Smith, Solitude, topped course. The night before and the night after the race, the ;Expert B boys with a time they travel the course in their minds. Before , they are of 2;11.1. Fritz Savier~, Sun Valplanning the best line through the gates. The night ley was second at 2 :13.1 and after the race they torment themselves with what they Whitney, GTO, was third at should, or might have done. 2 ;14,5. There are no Expert B And after a winter of work, struggle, good races girls in the division this year. and bad, the top 15 or so youngsters from the InterWlm Promotion mountain Division are picked to represent the area in ' Savlers, who wcm the EJCP:rt national competition. B slalom crown at Park City For most, that is the ultimate step in their ski raclast weekend - his first race in ing careers. A few skiers go to national senior competithe expert classification accumulated enough race points tion, but not many. Saturday to move into the ExThe 15 that were pic:ked last weekend here are th pert A cl,ivision for Sunday best the area has to offer. And it's a deep team. Th~ HJQ/\'y' ·,1.,7 Here 'N There hy G¥nt Messerly ·, Hard-WorkinJ Junior Racers: Full of Brav~do, Confidence I l willr Bob "worst" of the bunch kl'\OWS that on a good day he or she can beat the "best." What's more, even the worst critics will agree. The division has seldom had a better group of representatives. They may not return from Stowe, Vt.,1 with all the national trophies, but it won't be because they didn't go there thi ·ng they would. So What's W11ong With a Tie? It was quite a thin~ around Jackson last weekend to tease Jim Gaddis abolj.t his white shirt and tie. Comments floated down the r ace course, like "Where's your tie, Gaddis?" and "How1um you're in public without a tie?" It turns out that qaddis, a former University ~fl Utah skiing great, insi~ts that young skiers on his Gaddis Training Organization (GTO) team wear a coat and tie whenever they appear in public - off the ski hill, of course. "Every time I catc~ one of them in town without a coat and tie they get ontjab with my ski pole," Gaddis 1mid with a laugh. Th n he added with a big grin, ''There's one boy who h s 10 holes in his hide from my; ski pole. But he's learrti g." Kudos for Jackson Corps The Jackson Hole Ski Corp. deserves a big pat on the back for the way the Intermountain Division's Downhill Championship races came off last weekend. 1 Lew Clark, chairm~n of the race for the Jackson • Hole Ski Club, had plc~ty of praise for the company. ; "They did a great job. They sacrificed a lot so the juniors could race here-it1cluding a lot of money." Clark, and the ski !club, are a hardworking bunch. jn their own right, aqd the downhill championships were probably the slickist, easiest running races of the year. "All we had to do was ask and we had whatever we needed from the esort company," Clark said. " Gordy Wren gave u a lot of help keeping things organized and going, a d it couldn't have been better." Jackson Hole is a reat resort ·with a better-thanevera~e hill. And with he friendly, efficient staff they 11::i.ve, they can't mis.::::s:.. , +---->---~-~ events. This would have to rank as one of the quickest jumps from intermediate racing to E~i:t A in !:he history of the d1vmon. The results: p..,. Expert /4 OlrlS Street, Sun Valle\', 2:0U; Tina Ohl!Pn, Solitude, 2:02.7; Arleen Belnap. URS, 2:02.8; Callas Dunlap, Jackson, ~nd Cher"YI Staley, Jackson, 2:05.0 (t1el ; Don(la Budge, JackSon, 2: DS.9; Cebb,e R-et~ltff, URS, 2:08,9; Janie B@lnaD, UR S, ?;09~; Krlstv OWen, Jack~n, 2:11 .7 ; _z.aidee Huidekope r, Jackson, 2.12,5. Expert A Botts Jcl,n Sabal a, sun Val ley, 2:01.~ ; Danny Bell l Sun Valley, 2:02.2; Calvin Ross, URS, 2:02.9; Bruce Jacobsen , Jackson , 2:05,3; Craig Gorder, GTO, 2:05.51 Jeff Lo~, URS, 2:07.3; Pa t SJmpson, Sun Va lley, 2:07.8; David Lowe, URS, 2: 08 .8; Bracl Len;ston , ATS, 2:08.8. Exper1 8 Bon Randy Smit h, SolHud•, 2:11.11 Fritz ~vlers, sun Valley, 2:13.1 ; Bob Wh ltnev, GT~ , 2: 14.5 ; Jeff Anderson, ATS, 2:1 4.7; Johfl Beesl<'Y, Bear Gulch , 2:17.3: Dave Bar?enhe-imer, GTO, 2:17.1: Stev" FH,, sun Vallev, 2:17.81 Randy Husl<lnson, Bear Gulch, 2:18.0; Tim c~rter, Solitude, [2:111,11 Jeff Hernmlno , Bear Gulch, 2:13.3. j Craig Gorder Tops Expert A Boya Tina Ohlson Expert A Gals' Champ Little Trouble Miss Ohlson, a Solitude skier, had little trouble sweeping up her trophy with a fine run of 1:43.7 down the 1¾-mile long - Tribune Staff Photos by Fnmk R. Porschafi$ giant slalom course. Her nearTina Ohlson, Solitude, streaks down j Ski Classic Saturday. She won expert est competition came from J the giant slalom course at Tribune's A girls' class by nearly eight seconds. Janie Belnap, Utah Racing School, who had a 1 :51.4 time. Linda Jacobsen, Solitude, was · third at 1 :58.0. Gorder had a tougher time, nipping Brad Langston, Alpine Training School, by half a sec'1 ond. Gorder, who races for Gadcl i s Training Organization (GTO), blazed down the course in 1:40.9, while Langston had a 1 :41.4 clocking. Jon Engen, ATS, was third at 1:46.8. The course, set by former )lympian Dev Jennings, was a a-icky affair that ran from the top of Park City's Pay Day run t.o the Activity Center. Bard Snow The mow was hard - icy In spot.s and surprisingly enough, it remained that way all day on most of the course. A bright, warm IJllll beamed down on the hill, but a slight breeze kept the air temperature down, and the snow remained frozen. A tricky, tight gate near the top of the course t.ook some of the top contenders out of the. running Saturday, but Gorder and Langston particularly, nego~ated the icy curve in fine fashion. "The ice at Stowe, Vt. (site of this year's Junior Nationals) was twice as bad as this,'' Gorder said with a grin. "So I didn't have any particular trouble here. I did goof up on the bottom of the course a bit, but I guess I did all right at the ~ - -1top." Craig Day, another GTO ' racer, won the expert B boys' division, and that was no small feat for the youngster. He broke h!1 leg skiing in December, and while the cast was removed a month ago, Saturday was only the third time he had been on skis since. First Place He ran the course in 1 :47.4, with Jeff Anderson, ATS, second at 1 :48.2. Third went to Mark Dibble, ATS, with a 1:48.9 run. The Intermediate gals' first place trophy was taken by Heather Hills, KIFI Ski Club, Idaho Falls, with a 1 :56.4, time down the shorter intermediate course. Second place went to Bianka Iverson, Solitude, with a 1 :59.6 time, and Gurie Gurholt, GTO, was third at 2:06.9. Top intermediate boy was Harvey Pfisterer, Pinedale, Wyo., who recorded a time of 1:41.2. Second went to John Brooke, Solitude, a 1 :42.2, and the third place trophy went to Michael Nowels, also of Solitude, 1:42.6. Novice Girls Liz Ella.~on Ta.kes Novice Li% Elia.son, GTO, won ttie - Girl Trophy ....:,..;:_, novice girls' division with a t"" 1 :37.1 clocking. Second place was won by Holly Seeholzer, Logan, with a 1:41.0 time, and Bi.tty Wright, Park City, was . third at 1:41.7. 1 Fll.!IJ'est novice boy over the , shortened novice course was ' IMark Graham, Solitude, with a 1 :31.6 time. Bill Reynolds, Park . City, was only a whisper bel,ind 1 at 1 :31. 7 and third went to Chet Powell 1 GTO, at 1:32.0. The Capsule Classic - for the • peewee racers - again was a big crowd pleaser. The youngsters - from 5 to 10 1 years old - streaked down a · shortened course with all the determination of the " big kids." Mike Wade, Park City, won the boys' division wit,h a fast '. run o,f :55.1, with Tom Reinerth, ;URS, second at :55.6, and George, Scarlett, Jackson, Wyo., ii third at :56.0. , • • ,, Little Mary Kay Skinner, of I can j"-St get some speed!!" has all the determination of 'big kids Pinedale, won the peewee girls' . See Page offman, Utah Racing School, as he races ln.CaJ),l,ul@ rnassic~!!l'! .,. ...... . .... B-11, Column 11 - I l __ I, l=l~6 h-'t lL{ l: 7~ to l-tC?LLYV~C20l2 SKI LEGENDS ALF ENGEN AND OTTO LANG Photo: Alta, Utah- circa March 1967 DESERET NEWS, Saturday, April 15, 1967 Alta Slates Ski Clinic ALTA, UTAH - A successful test. He will be joined by expert season of skiing at Utah's pre- alpine sj{iers from all over the miere ski resort will be capped West in competing for the $350 · the latter part of April with in prize money and more than three events involving alpine $1,000 worth of merchandise jumping, Nordic jumping and awards. alpine ski ins~cti~n. _ Alf Engen, director of t.l:ie In cooperati,on with Olympics Engen Ski School at Alta and for Utah, th~ Alta Ch3:11ber of Ge!ande director, has selected Coll:111erce is sponsormg the M. Earl Miller, Ogden; Mel National Gela?de Contest April Dalebout, Salt Lake City, and , 22-23 on the mme_ dump near the Mont Murphy, Sandy as his base of Wildcat hft. judges. nudsen Cup ski champs are left, George om Carter, Jon Engen, Tim Durham, Steve Durham, Brad Langston and sponsor Art Knudsen. Cathy Savage and Becky Wirick, front, KNUDSEN CUP SHOCKER Titans Tame Ogden ByDAVEJKADLECK lhas succeeding ln placin~ a,paced by Jacobsen's 1:49.6,1 Ogden's Wlf Christensen Deseret New~ Sports Writer Knudsen Cup in their tr(jphy/topped Ogden girl~ by 12.8 s_ec- couldn't believe it. "That's the, case. The Leopards pulled the ands. The boys missed beatmg way it goes in skiing " he BRIGHTON - Olympus High trick in 1961. Since then 0 9den the powerful Ogden boys team . ed "W t~ N , 1 bee :a~ . School pulled ope of the ski sur- lwon it (62), Olympus grabbed a by four-tenths of a second, ;xp,~: prises of the season here over pair (63-64), and then Ogden re- 401.6-402.0. hall e. a ' e sai SKYLINE THIRD c engmg1y. the weekend as Titan skiers turned to win it in 65-66. came from om of nowhere to COACH PREDICTED IT Skyline placed third ln this Race results: nd upe . Ogden ~nd keep t?e "I could have told you we team classic that had five boys TEAM STANDIN~s l defending cha!Ijpions from retir- would win it two months a<'o " and three girls comprising each Olympus, 663.o ,econds; ooden, «s.l < ing the 17 y,ear old Knudsen 'I ' seconds; Skyllno A, 668.2 seconds: Sen . · · bragaed Olympus Coach George competitive unit. Lomond, m.• seconds: H;ohlend A, 680.1 _p Cup· B " th ed . . , . 'd al f . seconds; Highland 8, 7S2.l seconds; Eest. . arton as e meet progres~ . Wmnmg md1v1 u ast times m.a seconds; st. Morks-Row1end Holl, T_h~ classic tresembled com- "Our kids suspected they could in the classic were Ray Miller, lf;~~~.'.econds. Skyline s, not enough f,n. (· petition three ears ago when do it, too," he said, thinking of defending fastman from '66 with INDIVIDUALS v ::he Ogden tea , unfavored in his three gals Becky Wirick a 1 :34.6 clocking over the diving sovs-Rey Miller, Ogden, 1 :35.0; Tom a' · OJympus, Linda Jacobsen' and Cathy .:,avrl ' Carter, Olympus, 1:39.6; Brad Langston, 1 its mateh •--· with giant slalom course with Sky- 01vmous, 1:39.9; David Lowe end Mark w ·topped the Tit~ns d ho T Cart J Ii , tt T' Ohl · SOderqu;,t, bolh Ogden, 1 :<1,o; Tim Dur- It' -• r • age, an ys, om er, on ne s pre y ma son wm- horn, 0/ym,,us, 1,,1.2, Jon Engen, OIYm- 1 • In both ca~s, the . winning Engen, Tim Durham, Steve n_ing the fastest gal's honor. Her f~k/ Brad Huntor, Ben Lomond, c} earn would ~ve retired the Durham and Brad Langston 1 tune, 1:45.0. G;, 1s-r;no Ollison, Skvllne A, ,,,s.o; _ ~oveted cup d nated 17 years "We were sure our girls coWd Knudsen, as usual, was on ~~1~Tid"bC:J:;; ?J~futn~'f:116,;1u?.•i~~-1go by Salt L e City industri- p u l l th e tr i ck," B a r ~on hand to present the mammoth Lomond, 1 :54.3: Ann MRoberts, Highland · Art Knu sen. Only East explained. · • A, Wirick, 2:01.,, l11st The T'1tan ga1s, traphy to th e O1ymp1ans. JIii 1:57.J; Fronk,Becky Hlohland A. Olympus, 2:03,9. 'll i~ 1 I I Then on the final two days of In addition to tbe professional the season members of the U.S. class, there will be classes for Nordie t.eam will hold a special amateurs, also. jumping contest on Landes Hill. Mont Murphy, a member of Dates for this event are April Alf Engen Ski School who teach29-30. · es the Nordic classes, has And during the National arranged for the U.S. Nordic Gelande Contest the Intermoun- team to hold a special latetain Ski Instructors Association season jump to wind up their will hold their annual conven- competitive year. He points out tion with delegates at the con.I !hat Alta hosted the first jumpvention participating in the I mg con!est of the sea~n at jumping as well as on-the-sceneiThanksgivmg and Alta will also instruction in the exciting alpine have the last of the year. · jumping event. Roger Staub, head of the ski Pepi Steigler, {ormer Olympic school at Vail, Colo. and Paul medalist and presently director Volar, vice president ~f the Proof the ski school at Teton Vil- fessional Ski Instructors of !age in Jackson Hole, Wyo., will/America, will be guest instrue- 1 be back to defend the title he tors for the annaaJ ISIA conven- I won in 1966 at the gelande con- tion at Alta. /' - Ave. 1't'l' 1 The Jackson Hole Ski S hool was born in December 1965 when nhe Jackson Hole Ski Resort opened its sl pes Lo lhe public for the firsl time. Olympic Champion Pepi Stiegler, fresh from his outstanding racing career and a year of coaching the Austrian National Team, direcled the first Jackson Hole Ski School of eight: thre Austrians. one Swiss and four Arneri ns. "The mountain had ust opened with only three lifts in o ra tion, .. recaJled Stiegler. "We had no ki School office. we sold lessons out o the lift ticket office.·· Stiegler also re embered his first year in Jackson Hole for the mountain itself and the clean an~ pure environment that surrounded it. J The follow ing seasop. Stiegler hired a group of Austrians t\corne lo Jackson Hole and begin thetas - of satisfying customers and establishi, g the reputation of the Jackson Hole Ski that the America r ski movement was beguuung and II wa.s only logical 1h.11 Jackson Hole join ll From that point forward we hired pr marily Amencan instruc tors and beg to teach ATM ." Racing was always pan of the Jackson Hole Ski School. Before Joining NASTAR in 1969 (ir b gan in 1968) Stiegler and his instruc1ors ran --standard Races ... --we would have I - - 20 racers." Stiegler s~11d. "a nd all of he records and time~ were handwritten.· The iSk.i School 1 rcw a.s the resort cxpandc~. After st ting up with a staff of eight. Pepi S1icgle1 now directs a staff of 150 in. tructors an~ offers a complete Alpine product line-up as well as a full s rvice ordic Cent r with 25 kilometers of skating and touring trails . TETON VILLAGE AS IT LOOKED IN THE MID 1960s. Photo: Jackson Hole, Wyoming Circa March, 1967. chool as a school ot 4uallty mstructio1] . For its first ix seasons of operation •~c Jack.son Hole Ski School taught its stul!cnts Austrjan ski technique. I DO~ NCOME THE 'EASIEST' SIGNS AT JACKSON MOLE #324 Josef "Pepi" Stiegler Born: 1937 Josef "Pepi" Sliegler was a member of the Austrian ski team during the 1960s and 011e of the world's premier racers. Skiing mant everythi11g to Pepi, and he fell it made him a better Wyoming's giant-sized ski resort finally admits there's no such trail on the bi hill I Last month, as Jackson Hole ski area in Wyoming prepared for its second full seaso of operation, a small but significant step was taken. The area managenient tore down all "easiest" trail signs on its Rendezvous Mountain and replaced them with "more difficult" diarkers. The full impor~ of this decision can only be grasped by those who have been to the area and who, as less:than-very-good skiers, unwittingly picked an "easiest' way down from Rendezvous' 10,466-foot peak - and spent (he rest of the morning sideslipping, falling a d finally walking, or snow-catting t9 the bottom. No doubt about it, Jackson Hole's major hill ( with its awe-inspiring vertical drop of 4,135 fe~t) offers some of the best, and mosti challenging skiing I available. Actually, there fs an "easiest" trail down every moun~ain, strictly according to ski patrol sage of the word . But, as a number f guests at Jackson have discovered, he term does not necessarily mean "easy" at all. The area removed the signs in deference to these ( mostly Eastern) visitors. It probably was not a happy decision for Jacksdn's presidenl Paul McCollister to make. Ever since development of th area began three years ago, writers have been reaching deep into th1ir bag of hallucinogenic aqjectives to describe the immensity ( five squkre miles ) and challenge (sheer ridges, breathtaking bowls, meanderink trails, etc.) of the Lerrain. In point ·of fact there is an excellent beginner slope at the area serviced by its own chairhft - and Rendezvous' sist~r peak, 8,400-foot 1 f Apres-vous, offers beginner and intermediate runs as long as three miles. Naturally, however, the emphasis has been on the most sensational skiing possibilities . McCollister occasionally has been heard talking down his mountain to avoid discouraging nonexperts from visiting the area. Last winter, ~or instance, a Chicago businessman made a trip to Jackson Hole with his two teen-aged children. The boy and the girl were both in the stem christie ranks. After the family enjoyed a day on Apres-vous, the father had a drink with McCollister at the Alpenhof in Teton Village, base camp for the area, and mentioned that "it's too bad I can't take my kids up to the top." "Sure you can!" said McCollister, his respect for the value of public relations getting a little out of hand. "Auyon~ who's had two or three lessons can come down that mountain!" After several more overstatements, and one more drink, McCollister convinced the Chicagoan that there really wasn't a world of difference between . Jackson Hole skiing and Midwest skiing. The next morning went exactly as yo~ might expect. The children fell into what the fath considered an unsettling silence on the 211-mile aerial tramway ride to the top, but they refused the parent's suggestion that they all promp ly take the tram back down. "It must have taken us 15 minutes to negotiate the first 100 feet," the father said later. "At that point my daughter was just standing on a mogul when she began to slip, lost her balance, and went into one of the most ,,fantastic egfbeaters ever seen. ./_ Everyone finally m de it to bottom - via snow-cat but to day the children, think · g of the sode, will turn to th 'r father say "How could you take us I've the this epiand up pO'SOIL ·'Pepi" Stiegler was born in 1937. A native of Austria, he began s.kjing at the age of 6. When Pepi was 15 years old, he won his first title, the Austrian Junjor championships. He then went on to win many key races. In the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw VaOey, Pepi won a silver medal in giant slalom. At the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics, Pep~ was a double-medal winner, taking the bronze medal in giant slalom and the gold in slalom. At the tune, Pepi was a 26-year old photographer who had been twice removed from the national team and replaced by Egon Zimmerman but both times replaced because of public pressure. Stiegler had such a large lead after the first run in that 1964 Olympic Slalom that even finishing 8th in the second run did not wipe out that margin and was good enough to holtl 1st place against our own Billy Kidd, who finished 2nd , and Jimmy Heuga who bronzed. He made appearances at many ski events in the USA, wrote articles for ski magazines, eventually moving to the United States and ending up at Jackson Hole. Pepi reigned for many years as the ski school's director. At the age of60+, Pepi was ready for a new challenge pursing a BA. He enrolled at Montana State University as an English major. English was not his native language, however he has always strived to improve his English. He went on to graduate with a degree in English literature. Josef·'Pepi" Stie~erwas elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall ofFame in 2001. - -"' John Colter was the first man to face the Hole's challenge - on snowshoes. there!" ~henever the !father sees McCollister, he says uch the same thing to him. Visitors from cago are not unusual t Jackson . This summer the area con ucted a survey of last season's guests and found that the average visitor travels 1,100 miles to get !here. The sur ' ey also showed that most skiers lak an airplane to this, one of the more emote places in the United States. A intrnpid scout by the name of Joh Colter discovSKIWEEK • Octa er 24, I 967 15 WRITE-UP ABOUT PEPI STEGLIER FOR THE U.S. NATIONAL SKI HALL OF FAME. • Salt Lake City, Utah - Friday Morning -April 21, 1967 THIRD AN NU AL Sports Mirror /Jy John Mooney1 N A TI O N A L G ~LAN D~ C O N TE ST Tribune Sports E<litor Anyone for Gelande? Engen Sees New Sport on HiJls 1 11 ALTA - Alf Engen held national champions hips I before many of the current ski addicts were born, but • The Old Man of the Mountain never looks back when there's a new horizon over the next ridge. Few sports have gone through the transition s skiing has in such a short time, and Alf has been a driving force in each new event. .. l Thus, it's fitting that Alf helped · r] pioneer the latest ski rage ... nationa "gelande," which will stage 1" al champions hip here Saturday and Alf Engen Sunday. Gelande means, literally, "terrain jumping," and is a competitiv e form of the old sport of "cornice jumping." "Alta always has been a hot bed of gelande," Alf laughs, "but I think this is the last season we can claim it exclusively. After Sunday, when the name skiers , have finished, they'll take the new sport back with : them, and gelande hills will be cropping all over the '. \ nation. l gelande that , eventually , "There is a possibility years, For program. Olympic thP of part a may berome ski people have been lookmg for an event that would,s \ give the alpine events spectator appeal. 1 "We had spectators for jumping, it's true. But , to swung with the advent of the lifts, the emphasis downhill and slalom racing. This was easier on the can- 1 testants, probably, than climbing the jumping hill and ,1 packing it for the meets. "But slalom and downhill offer little opportuni tylj for the spectator to see much of the action. You may J see a brief flash of a contestan t across the face of the E mountain, then another flash, and finally, the schuss for t the finish line. , ' j Sport for Masses "Jumping was for the chosen few, perhaps the elite of the skiers, in its day. Even today, few lads are interested in jumping," Alf admitted. "But gelande offers the thrill of jumping, and it will sweep the country because it's fun and it's spectacula r. "Whereas it costs thousands of dollars to build a and untold man hours to pack it into shape for hill, ski one week end of jumping, a gelande hill can be conI structed at little cost and not much labor. "You can pick a small 'bump' or 'mogul', or you can ; pack a small knoll for the jump, and you're in competition. A couple of skiers with a shovel or two can pack a gelande jump in no time at all. "The gelande hill has one vital difference , which makes it a new sport from jumping. The normal ski jump 'slants' and the jumper slips down off the jump. : "But the gelande bump has an upshoot, the skier : goes down through a dip and up. This shoots him in the lt air, sometimes to great heights, before he drops. "It's very spectacula r, and a great thrill with very t I~ little danger involved," Alf laughed. Photo by Tom Plofchan. Alta P<-ruvian Lod ALT A, UTA ~ • • APRIL 22-23 CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONALS AND AMA T~UR S AWARD S: First Professional - $200 - Rosemount Boots Second Professional- $100 - Head 360 Skis Third Professional - $50 - Fiber-Glass Pol es Entry F 5 Prof TROP HIE I i nal - M TEl R For Information and Entry Form s Writ e to: Alfa Chamber of Commerce, Alfa, Utah 8407 JON ENGEN FEATURED ON THE POSTER wmcH WAS USED TO PROMO TE THE NATIONAL GELANDE TOURNAMENT HELD AT ALTA IN APRIL 1967. I; that. , Observation Ward · ShudcJ, you can get the thrill al tlle gelanda ;u5t driving th city r,nd country l,1for1 th• road rt-pair craw orrivlJo Event With Appe al for .Masses l/.,,,/5'-&-J pq .V4 ·Alta Wai~ National Gelande Contest I j 2. 0 A1nal ur L SPECIAL LIFT RATES AND 20 PERCENT REDUCTION OF LOW-SEASON RATE AT THESE ALTA LODGES : ALT A LODGE , ALT A PERUVI AN , GOLD MINER 'S DAUGHTER AND RUSTLER. Look, l'1n Flying "The first time a skier hits a little bump and is airborne, even for a second or two, he's sold on the thrill and ready to join the gelande jumpers," Engen said. "It's a thrill even a novice can enjoy, and you can . ' adapt the hills to the caliber of the skiers. "And it's spectacula r, certain to appeal to the con- ) . testants and spectators alike. we and sport, "We are just pioneering gelande as a 1 are making the rules as we go along. Now, we are seek- 1 ing a combinati on of form and distance. Form is the J opposite of ski jumping, in that instead of, the stiff legged, leaning forward form of the jumper, a ~elande 1 form specifies either the knees bent up under the jumper, or the feet wide apart. We also use the shorter, reg- I 1 ular ski, not the long, heavy jumping ski. "Now, height, form and distance are vital. In an- 1 other year, we may add a new class and give po~nts for ' the shortest jump, the ability to get over the hill and l on the sqow again fastest. "The field of possibilities is unlimited, but I wish you'd come up Sunday and try the sport," Alf invited. t Alf is a wonderful skier and a friend of many . years, but Engen will hr a lot older Old Man of the Mountain before Old John does any gelande, bet on • . "Alplllfl' 11 kltnc Cffl'TlpetitlOfl as trom the Nordic- jumpinit corr:- and a ~htl 11ttorlvnamlc .tyl; I.,_,.. know It t~ In nN!d (If an ~Ilion. In II gefande, 11n Alpine lhllt KIV('11 him di"tiince. f'kler Ull!'!I !he natur:11 l('rrain'F The iel:1n~ cont~t at Alt& • overhauJ, And rlande An amateur 11nd «rt' .~. Stt'p In the rlrht din!c- "bum~" to )('ap through the 11 ir will Include with the- tllvlsion l prol~iona Nordic, In !<ki.-s. Alpirwlight on , lion. . the L'ld 'orr do™? be to : Thi" wu the vi~ Friday or 1rnmpetition, 11 jumper l<-ap5 off . ! umpini: bottom the near dump mine spe-a And Mis built ,All Engt'TI, dl1'1'ctor or the i:kl 1 ~ially AllA, and world- c,ally built hill, "'ith no pole!: the Wildc-11t lift. ' l'Chool · at a mf'Cting spon- , r11mou~ 1 · Oiam~ uike SAit e , !ION"d by 1 ct Comm l't"I' and OlymplC!! for • ' Pt111h . Inc., at the Unlvernty I Cluh. "Thf' ~t.ndf' c:ontM la !IOm!'- I ' th ing that will Appe«I to the 1 1 1 'm11.~ · or s ~ in this c:oun: try, and th111'1! tmport1111t. Th~ .• popularity ,. o1.. thi11 ewnt m"· I : I for~ it into the Olympias in ,hort tl~," Engffl told the : 1 Informal meeting. A gelAndet ):>rung rortfel!t , 11~ • mattl!'I" or ri1ct, t11e N11tional Gelande Contest - J11 11ehedulf'd C'!ln!I'!!~ ,,r ster ,H a. 1 '. April 22-2.1 at Afa. And A f~11 , of lnt~tJon ally knnwn sldtts on h11nd to com~t! foe: will th~ top prizes. nr I 'The gel11ndes prnng -nidic.111Jy • 1 ; 1uln jump - d !rfel'll ft"f', , - - - - - - - - - - - . : . 'I t-- -- - Alta"s Gelande Tltnifb. AM gpilh • Renley Is still In flight, but ~earing crowd. T om P lofchlll ph oto• . Bill Henley begins historic fall at Gelande, Gelanrus crowd beicln to J;C11.tit•r, ACTION PHOTOS TAKEN DURING THE 1967 NATIONAL GELANDE CONTES T AT ALT A AS RECORDED IN THE AL TA POWDER NEWS. THE GELANDE CHAMPIONSHIP WAS WON BY 19 YEAR OLD SAM.ME DFORD AND THE PRO CLASS WON BY PEPI STIEGL ER Photos by Tom Plofchan Alta, Utah - circa Aprjl 1967 - -, , D~SERET NEWS, Saturday, December 16, 1967 A5 ite Of ~7 6 Al pi ne Events, f ... Other Sites • Also Picked For Olym pics By HACK MILLER Deseret News Sports Editor Where will Utah put its 1976 Winter Olympics if it gets the . bid? The bidding committee for Salt Lake City, which will present its pitch for the United States nomination Sunday morning in New York, has • decided upon certain sites. These were the same as presented to the International Olympic Committee in Rome a year ago. This Little Cottonwoo d Canyon valley is likely site for alpine events should Utah host the 1976 Winter Games. The Alpine events for both men and women would be held at Gad Valley, ihe site of the present Snowbird development. This is about one mile below Alta proper and, while it is in a rather narrow part of the canyon and between avalanche areas, it Is considered by the Utah delegation (after much study) as the area which would satisfy what is required in the way of runs. PARLEYS CANYOY The bobsled and the crosscountry ski events would be held in Parleys Canyon near Mt. Dell Reservoir. There is also a jumping site selected in The "up" side of Gad Valley is ma ssive snow field for alpiner Alf Engen. that 'area - which some or the experts claim is better than even the famous Ecker Hill site. Indoor events, such as figure skating and hockey, would be held at the Salt Palace and at the University of Utah's new athletic complex. The opening ceremonies would be held in ·the University of Ulah Stadium and it is projected tha t by that time the ute Stadium would be enlarged to seal 60 ,000 people. Officials, press and visitors could be housed in Salt Lake City and neighboring cities. The "down" side of Gad Valley is steep and enticing for Engen on recent holiday. Athletes would have access to the dormitories at the University of Ulah - because the Olympic Games dates in late February are during vacation. runs - the conditioners for those athletes ai;riving early. Some of the housing in these areas might be ,included for Olympic Games use. As for using existing lifts and facilities at Alta, Brighton, Park City, these could be used best for the warm-up If Utah gets the USA, and later the International okeh, it will have more than six yeaTs to get ready for the big show. _,. · Alta's Cielande - Action blished four time yearly Pepi Steigler, the 1964 Olympic gold medal winner, proved Sunday that he has lost little of his skiing prowess as he repeated as professional champion in the National Gelande Contest at Alta. Steals Thunder But while Steigler picked up the $200 first place money among the pros, it was Sam Medford, an amateur from Logan, who stole the thunder and walked off with the new revolving trophy for the best performances. (See photos on page 3.) Medford, who had the third longest jump of the day at 142 feet, displayed flawless style in all three jumps and racked up 225.6 total points (form and distance points combined). Medford won the over 19 years amateur division easily with that total. Steigler, meanwhile, had 218.4 points for his efforts. Longest Jump The longest jump of the day was a reasonable price. For this year at least we will have ho advertising. We will concentrate primarily on passing on information through our columns of news of the lifts, ski school, ski patrol, lodges, Forest Service--and guests when they begin to arrive. You will be able to find the Alta Powder News anywhere skiing is talked. turned in by Jim Gaddis, the former NCAA champion, who sailed 145 feet on his last effort. His first two jumps, however, were comparatively short at 122 feet and 119 feet. He finished second behind Steigler among the pros and picked up $100. Steigler's leaps were 133 feet, 132 feet and 125 feet of the big "bump"on the mine dump here. He displayed excellent style, and only on his last jump did he seem to falter. Jtidging Bas1s The judging was done on the best two out of three leaps. with form counting half and distance counting the other half of the total points. · In the third division jumping Sunday, Randy Smith, Solitude, won the 16 to 18 year division easily. Smith got off a tremendous 133 foot leap on his second effort, and with good style he walked away with 218.1 points. Marc Laventein, with 210.5 .points and a long jump . of 119 feet, finished second in that division. David Jenkins. University of Utah skier, took second in the over 19 years division with 217.9 points and a Jong jump of 124 feet. Jim Shafer, Alta, was third with a 123 foot jump and 208.4 points. Steigler, who won the meet last year, seemed unable to get off the Gelande Action ... (Continued from page 1) "big jump" here Sunday, but few of the skiers did. The second longest jump, 143 feet, was registered by Mike O'Dell, Denver, Colo. But O'Dell's form suffere as he stretched for the distance, and he finished a distant seventh in the 19 and over amateur division with 193.3 points. One of the most spectacular leaps-or falls-was made by Bill Henley, a Solitude ski patrolman. Henley lost his balance as he approached the top of the 17-foot high takeoff, and actually vaulted into the air with his skis pointing upward. He crashed into the judges on the side of the course, knocking Monte Murphy down and hitting several other spectators. Murphy slid to the bottom of the hill-along with several of the spectators. Ski patrolmen quickly checked both of the men, but within a few moments both were walking around, and Murphy came back to continue judging the envt The weather for the jumps ranged from good to horrible, as the storm clouds kept moving across the sky. lt would be sunny on the hill one momeJ\t, and a second later snow would be falling. The wind caused slight delays in the meet several times, but general1y thP- meet kept moving. More than 80 skiers-from New Jersey to California - participated in the meet. There was $350 in prize money, plus $1 ,000 in merchandise prizes for the pros, and trophiess for the top three amateurs in ecah division. Placing third in the professional division was Ted McCoy of Boise, Idaho. Fourth was Junior Bounous of Provo, Utah; fifth was William Shorter of Alta and sixth was Dean Roherts of Salt Lake City. Third in the 19 and over amateur division was Jim Shafer of Alta. Fourth was Mike Rice, University of Utah; Jerry Warren of Provo, was fifth and Dick Bench, Solitude, sixth. In the 16-18 amateur division Jon Engen, Salt Lake Cfty and Doug Paquette, Ogden, tied for third. Mike Jensen of Ogden was fifth and Randy Jones of Salt Lake City was sixth. Merchandise awards presented in the professional division were~ Rosemount boots, Hart skis. Head skis, Kaestle skis, Fischer skis, Tony Sailer skis, Roffe parka. Browning poles, Scott gloves, A&T bindings and Peter Kennedy poles, Salt Lake 'ffibune. (Continued on page 4) These "flyers'' were the blit winners in Alta's 1967 Gelande. f rom left, Junior Bounous, Ed Ferguson, Peppi Steigler, Gene Christiansen, Tom Woodward, Dean Roberts . In front, Ted McCoy. Amateur winners in '67 ~lande were. from left: Jon Engen, Ra ndy Smith, Sam Medford, Jim Shafer and David Jenkins. SAM MEDFORD (CENTER) RECEIVING ' CONGRA TULA TIO NS FROM cmc MORTON AND ALF ENGEN FOR WINNING THE OVERALL 1967 ~A TIONAL GELANDE CONTEST. Photo by Tom Plofchan Alta, Utah - circa April 19~7 BJORN LOKEN - MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY QF UTAH SKI TEAM IN FLIGHT OFF LANDES SKI JUMPING HILL. Photo by Tom Plofchan Alta, Utah - circa 1967 .' , . 10 8 D~SERET NEWS, Monday,, December ,4, 1967 Hack Miller a1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 • DESERET NEWS, Friday, November 10, 1967 F3 Like In The Gold Rush Days IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Alta had its biggest boom Saturday since gold town! Maybe its boomiest ever. The Deseret News had an estimated 3,000 in its Ski School Saturday and these snow bunnies never : occupied the lift areas during the peak morning rush. With these skiers on the valley bottom slopes the skiers jammed the lifts like Alta's never had them jammed before. It took about 38 minutes to catch the chair at Germania - shortened during lunch. Chic Morton sat in his office window, at the bottom -of Collins Run, and shook his head. Never had the Cllicker seen a day like it - and he's been running the lifts for a generation. Alf Engen has seen them all and the old Yumper said he never saw anything like it. Pete Carlston, who has been taking his Pete Carlston Ski School kids into the mountains, for many years now, just shook his head and dodged the skiers. All of which made a wonderful day for every• one who could wait out the lines. les Just The Beginning It all proves one thing -maybe many things. Skiing is growing by leaps and runs. Our facjlities are not enough to patroniz.e the peak loads . .Businessmen have sensed it. For instance, Alta has built one new lift for this year and is thinking about others. There's the Snowbird Development just below Peruvian - in what is called Gad Valley. Over in the next canyon, at Solitude (now Mountain Empire), Paul Hunzlcer and his partners, have big plans for the development of that -area. We went over those premises-with Paul and his ,associates Friday, looked at his layout as he has already improved it. You can bet a biscuit that Mt. Empire is on its way. Who soys age is a barrier to skiing? Alf Engen chat$ with John Angerbauer, 85. They have already spent $100,000 on it just to get things operational. The Potentia'f Is There Saturday should have proved to everyone that the potential is there - that skiing is in its infancy. Let those multi-thousand newcomers in the Deseret News Ski School get their ski"legs and you'll have that many more on the slopes, and so, ad infinitum! 2F DESERET NEWS, Thursdo)'; December 21, 1967 Alf Engen had 115 ski instructors available Saturday, for instance. When Alf saw the turnout it startled him. "I never imagined there would be so many. But it went like clockwork - everyone want.ed to learn to ski and we think we have them started all right." }::EC· ICf(o7 Dave Kadleck llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!111illlllllllllilllllllll! 1 The sun was sinking behind the west mountains when Alf got his breath Saturday. But there was urgency to get more instructors for his own Alf Engen Ski School. Alf, for instance, must have 100 instructors for Alta alone. There is that much traffic on the hill, and more, expected for this year. It's a constant schooling and replacement matter. To Be Young And Reckless .. · 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 "Only the young and reckless win!" It was University of Utah's nordic ace Matz Jenssen talking before departing for his native Norway ' where he hopes to land a spot on the "favored" Norwegian jump team. "Yah, I think they're favored, but they better watch out for that Austrian Reinholt Bachler who beat the Nonrngians last year in Norway. "Yah, he's a good one." "Yah, I think I'm young and reckless enough to be a good jumper," he said explaining his nordic philosophy. Maybe not young enough," he grinned. Matz explained the rec kl es s n es s that Matz ;Jenssen makes for good ski jumpers. "It must be a weird recklessness that is tempered with a cool head. And that's a hard combination to come by," he said, adding that a schoolboy companion Bjorn Wirkla was presently the best Norwegian jumper. ''Yah, I beat him several times when we were boys," he said matter of factly. "But he's been on the big hill for some time now," he added. Matz, his Swedish wife Andrea and their young son Lars, leave Salt Lake Friday and depart for Norway via New York and Iceland. Yeah, I'll Be Back "Yah. 1 want to come back and jump for Utah. I will be back for spring quarter - after the Olympics. "But maybe I'll get drafted while I'm home. "l"ah, they draft yon for a year and th<"n keep :1ou in the reserve for 15 years. "They never stop taking you until you serve," he said, again matter of factly. Matz has added prestige to U. of U. skiing. We wish him well in his Olympic bid. It is the same for Woody Anderson at Pllrk City K. Smith at Brighton and Keith Lang at • It. Empfre, Earl Miller at Snow Basin and the others around the mountain scene. Instructors not only come and go, but there are more skiers to fake more professional help these days. More people want to learn how. • Alta Ski Litt. Pllaw .Keid Cedr.rlo! noml.nated for hlgli tlwanl . Two Alta Patrolmen Awarded High Honor Two Atta. ski patrolmen ha'lt! , bff.D nominated for the highest honor pouible from the Nation- .. al Ski Patrol-the purple Verit Award-for saving' the life or a kier late in Decem~r of 1967. Aasista.nt Patrol Leader ~id I' Cederlof and weekender Lee teamed to save akier Joe Herman, 18, of Kayaville, Utah, from bleeding to death after he had accidentally cut his throat on his ski A.t noon on Dee. 23, Cederlof was informed of an accident on 1 the Sunnyside run on the Albion · Lift. He was asked to stand by at Wildcat Lift to assist in any ' ' problems which might arise from the case. Cederlof decided to check on the case himself, and when be reached the top of Albion Lift, the operator said the case ·u extremely urgent. When he arrived at the scene of the accident he found Long• son was having difficulty stopping the bleeding on the skier's neek,-whlch was lllter found to be a severed jugular vein. Cederlof immediately took charge of the case and after examining decided the bleeding probably could not be stopped, but that it should be curtailed to a degree. A sno-cat was in the vicinity, so the patient was loaded on the back and hurriedly ruahed to the bottom of Wildcat Lift. where Dr. Bruce C-Ollina waa waiting. An ambulance had been caUed earli r, o tber was hardly any: waiting until the skier was oa his W1\)" to the hospital. A knowledge of first aid, presence of mind and dedication to their jobs as ski patrolmen combined to save the life of young Herman. Alta patrolmen also assisted in the rescue of a skier travel- ing cross country who fell and injured his hip early in January. Patrol Leader Bill M068 and Cederlof were two of the patrolmen who hiked up the shoulder of Mt. Superior to assist the skier who was stranded in the Cardiff Fork area northwest of Alta. Later in JI\Iluary, a group of Alta patrolmen joined ski patrolmen from other areas who drove to Brian Head Ski area in an effort to rescue five skiers who had become Jost. The late start might have pent up some Emel'• gies. And maybe not. But this for sure, with a little ""Ore snow skiing should have its biggest boom: And the excitement that the Winter Olympic ,rofile will offer this year should only add to the nterest in it! WJNfER 1968 J3~ior Aces Threaten Snow Cup Vet Field 1 Deseret News Special ALTA - Can 15-year-old C r a i g G o r d e r w i n the 26-year-old Snow Cup giant slalom classic that moves into second-day action Sunday? "He'll win it," says Jim Gaddis. matter of factly. Gaddis kno1vs the· course and the competitien - having won three straight titles. ' "He's skiing well enough and gets my vote," he said ol the 5-6, 135-pound sophomore of Skyline High School. But the skiing sophomore of • the hilltop school faces a tough field of veterans in bis quest for an engraving on the 26-year-old mammoth trophy +~t gives an engraving to the 'nn-f!r of the two giant slap•· scheduled to be run JOWn Race Course, at 11 a.m. Sunday. No 15-year-old has ever won ' the coveted engraving that will be placed along side ski greats Gretchen Fraser, Jack Reddish, Christian Pravda, Marv Melville, Andrea Lawrence, Buddy Werner, Chuck , Ferries and Margo Walters. Defending champion Ray Miller is back to defend hi~ title he won last year. Miller Is skiing strong and Is favored on most fronts to win the two-day classic. Miller will get tough compe:tition from the likes of junior ace Lance Poulsen, Lak, Tahoe Ski Club; former University of utah ski great Dave E n gen, Montana State's James Lenon, Wayne Berg and Charlie Meaker. The women's field isn't as big as fields of years past •with such big names in skiing as Jean Saubert, Margo Walters and the many Olympians competing in Europe missing. · Vickie Jones, also of Lake 'l'ahoe Ski Club; Donna ~udge, Jacks.on Hole, Paula J(anerva, Sun Valley; Maney t,1:aresh, Crystal Mountain; ran McIntire, Aspen, and iane Faurner are outf-staters certain to provide ocal gals Janie Belnap, )onna Cutter, Peggy Goddard md Brookie Giddings with ·ompetition capable of rivalng .the men's giant slalom /imes over the mile-plus fOurse. Seedings were to be selected Friday evening. Skiers representing teams from Montana State Universtty, Weber State College, University of Colorado, Bob Greenwood's Ski Haus, Alpine Training School, Gaddis Organization, Sun 1 Training Valley and Western States College will compete for the e Course Setter Keith Lange has selected this course for the annual Snow Cup at Alta Jan. 4-5. . Snow Cup Course A Challenge ; A top contender for Snow Cup honors will be former U. of U. ace Dave Engen. four individual trophies that will be presented to each winner of each giant slalom with the engraving on the perpetual Snow Cup trophy going to the combined winner in both men's and women's competition. Individuals competing for the first big prize of the '68 ski season include Ken Corrock, Fat City Athletic Club; Chris Landry, Buff Ski Club, Colo.; Chris James, Bogus Basin; David Jenkins, U. of U.; Dan Craig, U. of U.; Randy Zoesch, U. of Nevada; Russel F. Wohlers, independent; David A. Reiman, Sun Valley; Kim Graham, U. of U.: Steve Chandler, Bogus Basin; Tom Malmgren, U. of Denver; Jeff Lowe, Utah Racing School; Michael W. MaM, U. of U.; Louis Missel, Casper Mountain Ski Club; Marty Walker, University of Wyoming; Bruce Hammond, U. of U.; Larry Wilkins, U. oof U. ; Mark Soderquist, URS.; Tom Gates, Ski Club Vail; Terry Bartell, independent; Richard The Alta Snow Cup, the next to the oldest ski race in America, is scheduled for Jan. 4-5 down a course which will test the nation's best. A giant slalom will be held each day. Only the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley has been an established race for a longer period. The Snow Cup is sponsored by the' Salt Lake Junior Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with Alta Ski Lifts and Alta businesses. This year race offici.Us promise a race which will he technically perfect from the course ~tandpoint, • it will start exactly on time and results will be available in record time after each day's race. The Snow Cup is a Class I nationally-sanctioned race and will be run this year beginning at the top of Punch Bowl, down over the top of Collins Face and either down Nina Curve or Schuss Gully. Keith Lange, former r a c i n g schopl coach and currently a• member Qf the Alf Engen Ski School at Alta, has been ,a sked to set the course. Chief of course will be veteran racer and race official, Mel Dalebout of Salt Lake City. Peter Kennedy of Seattle, Wash., manufacturer of skiing equipment, will serve as forerunner. Last year ski mal<er I-toward , lfead . .s~ed as forerunn.er. The race will 6e efectronica)Jytimed in accordance with a new regulation of the United States Ski Association. Longine equipment and technicians will be used. Other race officials include Dick Potter, chairman; Walt Collett, timing; Terry Hoffman, housing; Joe Martindale, banquet; Lloyd Mybry, chief gatekeeper and Donnel Murphy, transportation. ' • , ' I Snow Cup, Jan. 6-7 ' l'f/:S Craig Gorder • , , junior ace Rodarte, Western State Col- , Vail. lege; Richard Beesley, Bear Gulch; Richard Holmes, Bear Valley Ski Club; John Frank, U. of U., and Rudd Pyles, Howard Head, the world's the first time electronic timing leading manufacturer of skis, equipment will be used. Lonwill forerun ,.,t he nationally sane- gines Company will donate the in ricate equipment. tiont!t:r'':-ittuw (Jup a Alta J' 6-7, accordin to ?,n announceNine members of the Canament by Russ Liston, chairman of the Salt Lake Jaycees-spon- dian National Ski Team have already announced that they sored giant slalom race. will enter the race. Even though Mr. Head, who is a wellknown figure during the winter most of the U.S. Alpine Team at Alta, wrote to the Jaycees will be in Europe, there will be requesting permission to fore- a large number of top American run this big race. racers entered hr the two-day Dev Jennings, former Utah contest. Olympic racer, and currently Last year, Ray Miller o~ working wi h the Salt Lake Ogden, a 17--year-old high school County Promotion and Conven- senior, won the Snow Cup on a tion Bureau, will set the course course beginning off Peruvian on Alta's tricky Race Course. Ridge and down Collins Face. The course will probably begm. Mammoth Mountain skiers at the top of Race Course and Cathy Allen and Lee Hall tied end at the base of Wildcat Lift. for :first place honors in the . -- Liston also announces that for women's division Ji:> LEGENDARY SKI MANUFACTURER, HOW ARD HEAD, FORERUNNING THE SNOW CUP RACE AT ALTA, UTAH IN JANUARY, 1968. 0 ,.. - · '• ......_ DESERET NEWS, Saturday, January 6, 1968 '/ K. Smith •• . Brighton Ski Bowl Woody Anderson VETS GIVE SKI VIEWS: Alf Engen ••• Alta Earl Miller ••• Snow Basin • Park City .. Beginners Get 'Key' i By DAVE KADLECK Dt'sPret News Sports ·writer .; you're a beginning skier and wondering which way is down an intermediate skier 'Ii ho ~ould like to learn which wn Is up or you're past the 40-yPa'.r mark and just wondering •.. 'I .e answers to this wonderment is simple - ski instruc• ti<1t I •That's the opinion of Utah's rour veterans of the mountains. It is based on the knowledge that Is compiled over· 160 years of skiing of thesl> four men and the 81 vears of ski instruction that they've offered the Mountain West winter sportsman for the past two decades. Alf Engen of Alta, M. Earl Miller of Snow Basin, K. Smith of Brighton Ski Bowl and Park City's Woody Ander1 son are the sages of Utah ski. Their philosophies are similar though are different enough to write about. Opinions about mass ski clinics, si?A! of ski, age of skier and general future of skiing differ somewhat though all favor anything that will I expose skiing to the non skier' jM I L L E R'S philosophy comes in the form of a motto: "Safety, Fun and Learning." The 50-year-old Snow Basin ski master favors mass ski clinics but feels a need f,or professional instructor guidance. He thinks a child should begin skiing the minute he shows an interest. "This differs with family background, natural talent and accessibility to ski slopes,'' Miller said. Ski size for a beginner can be as short as the person Is tall. He feels women should begin o0n a shorter ski. ANDERSON: "Ski le ·ons are a must not only for fun but for safety reasons. For total enjoyment of the sport. Skiing is an Individual sport that brings families together. "Great,'' Anderson says of mass ski Instruction. "I'm in favor of anything that will get people on skis. I hope new skiers realize after their exposure to skiing that instruction can serve an Invaluable service to them and those with whom they ski." His formula for age: "As .' soon as a child can take care of himself." But formal instruction age was placed between siic and eight years old. Anderson felt a 3-6 inch taller ski for the experienced woman skier with maybe a longer ski for the experienced man. For beginners ski length he said the shorter ski is easier to turn with the longer ski offering greater stability at high speeds. 81\fiTH: "Ski Instruction makes skiing easier, more enjoyable with sophistication of equipment. You can learn by yourself but it will take a skier a much longer time to achieve a certain degree of skill. On mass ski schools, he said: "Better than nothing and provides a lot o! people with an opportunity to a cheaper means of acquainting themselves with the rules of safety and area of behavior and, just as hnportant, the skiing skill. Age: "No criteria. A youngster is ready for ski school when he can put on and take off his own skis. Ski size: For girls 3-6 inches taller, for men 6-9 inches tal• .-- !er. Factors are weight, height and skill. ENGEN feels every skier needs instruction. "You've always got to study. Even instructors need instruction." Mass ski schools: "I think the Deseret News ski school has been a tremendous thing for Utah's ski growth. Size: "Shorter nowadays. If you want to constantly turn the ski, it is the easiest to turn. As short as the beginning skier is tall." Alf continued: "The size of the ski can vary in many ways. If you compete In slalom events, you want a short• er ski. If you compete in giant slalom, you want a longrr. The same goes for recreation. It's a very personal thing," he concluded. Engen has skied 56 years of his 59 and instructed skiers for the past 27; Smith has 40 years skiing to his credit with · 25 years of that time devoted to skiing; Miller, at 50, has 40 years of skiing under his feet with 20 years devoted ta, ~ e ; area of ski instruction W'\\te'., the 36-year-old Anderson !l:is' .,. skied 24 of his years with 19 years ·given to instruction. GENE CHRISTIANSEN GELANDE JUMPING OFF BOUNOUS'S ROCK. Photo by Merlin Berg Alta, Utah - Circa 1968 • Special Note: This particular photo was used on the cover of the book, FIRST TRACKS - A Century of Skiing in Utah1 by Alan Engen and Dr. Gregory Thompson. Cup Results California a nd Montana enfor A race dominated the top place in the annual Alta Snow Cup Jan. 6-7. o n ta. a Stat e Un iv rsi.ty a_:~ r g compil ed th<' ·mes of the two-day ra ..• o win a pot on the co1,eted Cup. rry Cox, skiing for rnmoth Moun tain. Calif~ led th~ women 's division with a first-plac=- win on Sa t urda · and a hird-pla.~e on Sunda ,·. Berg di 't ta ke first plac r day but his total time Lanc-c P oulsen of Lake Ta Calif., first day winn er , and fellow SU skier James Lenon, firs place winner on Sunday. ~crgy Goddard of Ogden , Utah, ,;kiing for the Uoiv~rsity • of Colorado, was second pla< on Saturday with Paula Kan,'1va of Sun Valley placing thir,r on Saturday. Sherrie Blann of MammoUJ placed first on Sunday, follow ed by Jane Rawlins of Mammoth and Miss Cox. Hank Kashiwa, skiing for the U .S. Anny, placed second on Saturday, followt'd by Wayne Berg. Berg was second in Sun- day's race with Ken Corrock of Seattle, Wash., in third place. Howard H ead, veteran ski manufacturer, foreran the race on Saturday, along with Ol~·rnpian Margo Walters, exec• uti\l'~ s~cretary of the Inter~ mountain Ski Assn. ex. • RUSS LISTON, HOLDING THE SNOW CUP TROPHY WITH 1968 ALTA SNOW CUP WINNERS, WAYNE BERG AND MARY COX. Photo: Alta, Utah - circa January 1968 VOL. XXXI SU N VALLEY, IDAHO FEBRUAR Y, 1968 NO. 1 REUNION FUN The opening cocktail party had wall-to-wal l guests. Who cares, when you are rubbing elbows with people who Jove to ski• Jack Graham's old movie-he plays the part of Gretchen Fraser's father- was great; so was the lecture on Norwegian skiing by guest of honor Finn Seyersted, consul general of Norway, Minneapoli s. The most fun was the arrival of Snowshoe Thomson, authentic a II y dressed, traveling right into the Ram on ten-foot skis. Snowshoe (Peter Strong) passed out the mail while Mette Strong passed out the "akvavit" from a bottle coated with the snows of the Sierra. In our first cross-coun try race in years, Wolfgang Lert and Mette Srong guessed, almost to the second, the time they would make. Gustav Raaum and Ida Theodor made low times for the day. In the Norwegian Challenge slalom, Stein Eriksen's team beat the Amerionly by 2.1 seconds. On = HERMAN SMITH JOHANNSEN cans. But course, the Norwegian s the long Stein Eriksen, 29.0; Kalle A Skier at 92 were: Nergaard, 30.8; Sigrud Rockne, 31.1; When Herman Johannsen recently Trygve Berge, 31.3. Short course: laid out a mile cross-coun try ski tra il Mette Strong, 26.8; Hjalmar Hvam, for the Governor General of Canada 27 .5; Sverre Engen, 27.8; Olaf Ulland, on the grounds of Riedeau Hall in 28.3. Total courses, 232.6. Ottowa, he gave him this adv ice, America n team, long c9urse: "Run this course twice every m ornIng and you'll still be skiing at 92." Christian Pravda, 27.7; Danny Bell, 30.1; Pat Simpson, 32.5; Dick BarryProof of this is that "The Grand m ore, 33.7. Short course: Ronnie Old Man of the Laurentian s" is st ill Balcom, 25.8; Hannah Carter, 28.1; skiing and skiing well. His strid e Joe Moran, 28.2; Harry Gilmore, wM something for other cross-coun try 28.6. Total courses, 234.7 skiers to admire when he came in sixth in the cross-coun try race at the Sun Valley Ski dub reunion. Mr. Johannsen, a guest of honor at this year's get together, was born in Haken, Norway, in 1875. He was winning local races long before s k iing was known as a sport in Europe. "With the boys from Telemark I have run what we called slalom around natural obstacles- boulders and trees- not ballet dancing aro und flags. I did a lot of jumping and cross-coun try running a n d learned from Nansen to run 'rubber ice' a nd I have skied with Amundsen. " He graduated from the University of Berlin in 1899 as a mechanical ,· engineer and came to this cou ntry He is served breakfast by his shortly afterwards . His skis too k Pet er Austin, working in him into the real wilderness, wh er e grandson, Room-Serv ice this winter he was instrument al in persuading the Ogibway and Cree Indians t o use skis instead of snowshoes while t rav eling. He has skied in the Rockies at Mt. Assinniboin e and in the Sl<o ki valley. "Wonderfu l ski country," h e says, but it is the Laurentian s which he loves most. There is little in the early develop ment of this region in which he has not had a hand. He cut and m a r lscd the famous Maple Leaf trail, hel ped lay out ski areas and build jumps and tows. "I did not expect, however, that it would develop into a craze for tow-hill skiing only," he says sadly. "All this was done with the idea of teaching people to sl< i under c;ontrol and then go touring ." "All good things in moderatinn, " is the • philosophy that keeps hi m young at 92. This philosophy , got him into trouble, however, on a re - ' cent visit to Norway. In a TV in'., rview he said, "If you feel li ke a smoke or a drink, I say_ h'.3-ve one ." I I I Sun Valley's "30°1 Year Reunion" Norwegian Racing Team, January 18, 1968 In photo L to R: Trygve Berge Sigrud Rockne Stein Eriksen Kalle Nergaard Sverre Engen AlfEngen Olaf Ulland Hjalmar Hvam SVERRE ENGEN IN COMPETITION AT SUN VALLJ;Y' S 30TH '(EAR REUNION JANUARY 18, 1968 THE ENGEN' S AT SUN VALLEY - January 18, 1968 In photo front L to R: Sverre Engen Lois Engen In photo rear L to R: Evelyn Engen AlfEngen Norma Engen CorevEng en OLYMPIC JEAN-CLAUDE Kll..LY TRIPPLE WIN TER LE, FRANCE. GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN 1968 AT GRENOB lEA' - · CLA UD, KI LLY. FR A Frmtce\- .rJ:iing mp,•rslar Jean- C/mu le Ki/Iv repealed Toni Sailer's re111ark11hlc tripl,•-1rold sweep in I 96/1. Wi1h his glamorom .rtyle, bre11k11;ck .,peed, a11d techniml ;virtuosity, Kil~)' do111i11t1led th,· 1961{ (:n•110/,/e Games. J• I~~: . 'J, J. I)/ '/' ALL THREE ALPINE JEAN-CLAUDE Kll..LY- AFTER WINNJNG SLALOM) AT EVENTS (DOWNHrr,L, GIANT SLALOM, AND AT GRENOBLE THE 1968 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES HEL D R TO ACC OMP LISH FRANCE THE ONL Y OTHER PER SON EVE PETITION WAS THE SUC H A FEA T IN WINTER OLYMPIC COM . 1956 IN ER !}REAT AUSTRIAN, TONI SAIL OLYMPIC RESULTS (1968): I 1JGa GRE NOB LE , FRA NCE GOL D EVE NT MEN DH Jean -Clau de Killy. FRA SL Jean-Olaude Killy. FRA GS Jean-C laude Killy, FR~ WOM EN DH Olga Pall. AUT SL Marielle Goitschel, FRA GS Nan cy Greene . CAN SILVER BRONZE Guy Perilla! , FRA Herbert Huber, AUT Willi Favre , SUI Jean-Daniel Daetwyler. SUI Alfred Matt , AUT Heinrich Mess ner. AUT Isabelle Mir. FRA. Nancy Greene, CAN Annie Famose. FRA Christi Haas, AUT Annie Famose, FRA Fernande Bochatay, SUI \. I THE LA TE SEN ATO R ROB ERT F. KEN NED Y'S LAS T VISI T TO ALT A IN MAR CH 1968 by Alan K. Enge n Most every one remem bers, or knows, of the tragic assass inatio n of Robe rt F. Kenne dy in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968; however, not many people know Senat or Kenne dy skied at Alta not long before he lost his life. Kenne dy, as a presid ential candi date had made a quick stop over in Salt Lake to delive r a speech in the evening. He decided on t4e spur of the mome nt to make the day a "ski day" with Alf Engen who he had heard about by forme r Secre tary of Defense, Rober t MacN amara , a frequ ent visito r to Alta durin g the 1960s. With armed guard s, Kenne dy met Alf at the Alta Lodge and after gettin g the neces sary ski gear round ed up, said to Alf, "Let's see if Alta really does have the "grea test snow on earth. " So off they went, guard s following as best they could. Howe ver, Kenne dy appar ently did not like havin g them following him ... so on the lift ride up Germ'a nia, leaned over to Alf and whisp ered, "Let's ditch them! " Accor ding to my father , Kenne dy was a fairly good skier but also liked the thrill of speed. Tryin g to keep up with Kenne dy was not easy and both Kenn edy and Alf quick ly left the armed guard s far behin d. A coupl e of hours later, after a numb er of fun filled runs skiing, Kenne dy said it was time for him to return to Salt Lake so he could delive r his speech. Befor e leaving Alta, both he and Alf had time to autog raph a guest 's leg cast which was a high1ight for that person . As Kenne dy was gettin g into his chauf feured autom obile, he told Alf that he had the most wond erful ski exper ience of his life and would return the next year for anoth er "lesso n with Alf." Of course, that was a lesson which never had the oppor tunity to be played out. THE LATE SENAT OR ROBE RT KENN EDY AT ALTA JUST THREE MONT HS BEFOR E HIS ASSAS SINAT ION. • Photo by Tom Plofcha n Alta, Utah - circa March 1968 Photo part of the Alan Engen Ski History Collection . ',. ,... ,,. - --- , ..._. DE SER ET NEWS, Thursday, March 28, 1968 ~:::;(:.. PhOfo by Tom Plolchan, Alta Peruvian Lod!M Se n. Robert F. Kennedy enjoyed slopes with Alta's Alf Engen. Alta Skiing More F~n Than Campaignin g-RFK ALF ENGE N (LEFT ) AND THE LATE ROBER T F. KENN EDY SKIIN G BALLR OOM TOGE THER ON THE GERM ANIA LIFT THIS WAS KENN EDY' S LAST TIME ON SKIS, OCCU RING MONT HS PRIOR TO BEING APPRO XIMAT ELY THREE I ASSAS SINAT ED IN CALIFORNIA. Photo: Alta, Utah - circa March 1968 "It's more fun lo ski at Alta than it is to run for the presidency of the United States," Sen. Robert F. Kennedy reported Wednesday. The Democratic presidential hopeful, in Utah for a campaign trip. made an unexpecteel appearance at Utah's famed ski resort Wednesday afternoon and zipped down the slopes in bright sw1light. Kennedy's Alta trip was, apparently, a .purely impulsive decision . Driving back to Salt Lake City from Provo, where he ad- dressed the Brigham Young University students. Kennedy saw a road sign pointing the route to Alta. "Let's go skiing," he said. So he and two sisters, :rvrrs. Jean Smith and Mrs. Pat Lawford, hit the Alta slopes for a couple of hours of afternoon skiing. Originally, plans had· been for Kennedy to ski at Park City, but these plans had been by canceled" "reluctantly staff members. But the urge to try Utah ~now became too acute for the candidate himself, and he made his own decision. · · - 1 1 ! ,I 1 //ere 'N There by I , Here· Wfhere /Jy Grant Messerly Gra~t. ·M,esserl~ f rofessional Ski Racing l\iay Hold ~. Answer to Amateur Strength Ques tion of ear in Ski World: ~What About Beattie Now?' . ., I t The questio n of the yea.r in the skiing world see1 : to be: "Can Beattie survive ?" . , And it's a fair questio n , because Bob Beattie, t 1; dynami c young coach of Americ a's Olympi c Alpi skiing tei m , is bound to be under a lot of f ire in t 1ext lit tle while. The Winter Olympi cs a.re over and done, ai . Americ a's Alpine skiem have four years to lick th, , wounds a.nji p r epare for the 1972 Winter Games , J apan. There is a decided lack of optimis tic Rrattle beii b antered about by U.S. skiing chiefs at the momer and perhap s it's best because n o ' one would belie' t hem anyway . ,, , . , , Too many people rememb er the words of fo1 yea rs ago when Bill Kidd and Jim Heuga won s ec01 and t hird place m edals in the slalom at I nnsbruc k. ' , There is a growing school of thought in this country that ti,S,j;ional ski racing-s kiing for big money-could develop as prothe \,µ-gest single factor in produci ng winning amateur ski teams. And you can add my name to the roster of that school. Presently, competitive skiing in the United States is a dead (nd fo r young athletes who must eventually give up competition _!!nd turn their efforts to surviving in an extremely materialistic world. When a young man- and in some cases young womenreaches that point there ls little to look forward to as a direct result of skiing. Some of the best get ski area or ski school · ;pr perhaps a "technical" post with a ski equipment manufa jobs, ctur- E\c, .,_ ·!• But when you consider the material returns al America's "glamou r" sports, skiing offers very little. ' It's very idealistic to laud the virtue of amateurism for the &ake of amateurism, but it's not very practical. . 'Why we ask ourselves, shouldn 't the Ud(ed States' pcoduce , aj teams that can win world events? .: • . It's rather simple, really. We aren' t interesting our b~.st ath, letP.s in the sport. . Figure 1t tins way. Assume that a young man in Salt Lake 1 City (or Denver, or Minneapolis or Podunk Falls) is a star quarterback on his high school foot ball team , the star shortstop on the baseball team, the star center on his basketball team and the best junior ski racer in the sta te, I We'r e Still Waiting "W ait'll next time, wait 'll 1968," ,th~ cocky p re nounce ment went. Well, we have waited and we are still waiting . Hundre ds of thousan ds of dollars wer e spent '. the -four years betwee n· 1964 and 1968r on - t h e skiin program . But someho w , Americ a's challen ge to the E1 ropean domina tion of Alpi!)e s kiing never develop e< I njuries galore, a oit of russens ion here ' and then and of course Jean -Claude Killy, all conspi red to put u • comple tely out of the picture . Bill Marolt, the t hir d of the 1964 Olympi c " Whi Kids" with K idd and H eu ga, didn' t make th,e 196 s quatl. Kidd spent half the . four y ears in. casts an , never r eached full potenti al, and l).e was further . ham pered by a spraine d ankle during a practic e run at Gre noble. H euga diq.n't re:i,ch _].,is pe~~ for the Olympi compet ition. A mong the gals it was intich t he s ame story I n juries, bad luck, etc. The only bright momen t came when young Jud: Nagel, a last-mi nute choice for. the Olytnpi c squa d , le< after the first s lalom n m. But t he t eenage r succwn be, to the pressur e of the momen t during t he second run o· the slalom a nd skied off the course almost before sh, g ot started . So, w here do we go ~ram here? The best bet is that Beattie will not survive . There a re a number of reasons , 'but It all boi!.s down to th( f act that his charge s haven'.t_P:.oduc_e d. .. . I t oten tial Rewards Sway Thin king . While he's still a high school student, he has no problem. He c:"a!i, conceiva bly (though not logically) compete in all these :m2rts. When he graduates and heads for college, it's a different ltory. Now, H he mak°es it as a collegiat e star on the gridiron 1 on the diamond or on the basket\lall court, you can bet your last dollar that he's not going to ski competitively. The potential rewards as a professional football, baseball or bisketball star will indeed sway his thinking. Skiing? Oh, that's fill), and maybe some day when he retires he'll get back to it. True, there are exceptions. Billy Kidd is one of them. Though, •mall. in stature, he's a great natural athlete. But the fact remains , we are not attracting any number ot the very best young athletes to skiing as a competitive sport. · · Why? Because there are no real (financial) rewards at the end of a long, lonely and very tough road. Mea nwhile, in France and other top skiing countries , great prformances on the slalom course bring immediate fame , wealth and security for life. Jean Claude Killy is probably the greatest athlete in France - in any sport - and he has several teammates who aren't far i.Jehincl . They are all heroes in thei r coun try , a nd it's no secre1 that Killy, a young man fro m humble be ginn ings, is very weal l ily. "'Their. Atlilete~ A1·e Better . ' • ·· , This is not 'lM otd sob story that those nasty professionaJ. runateurs are giving our Simon Pure .amateur skiers. Their belier athletes are beating our athletes. . .-·Now,, back to this professional ski-foi.:.-dough idea . There is already a pro racing circuit in this country. J oh n Clough, Waterville, N.H., picked up $1,500 for beating such people as Erich Strum, Ander i Molterer and Helmut Schranz in a slalom race in Waterville Valley, N.H., a couple of weeks ago. l:l'lte professional skiers have been trying to make a go of this taclng circuit for several years with !imlted success. There ls 11pparently some obscure aversion to these "money-hungry pros" getting into a "pure" field like ski racing, , ,.' Baloney ! • ·,. . -These pros put on a good show. And they are all great, great ! kiers. In addition, they are not afraid to try different a pproach, es In thelr racing-that will appeal lo the spectators. In their Waterville race, for instance, there were parallel slalom courses set fin the hill and two pros raced at the same time, providing a ftead-to-head battle that provided excitement for on-the-scene ~!~/q_ rs~a_n_d a ,!(tlev.isi_op_aud_ience . .....- '-"-' __ ,........_. .. , i -':t~. ' the . ' J ,¼orn .thin~@d,;as witli· Coache! ,(\~J • rj-/ .,,~•··• ···:-- •·· \ . Qr would like-to have:. ; .,.,_ ,.,,b,il{ , -1 , ,, , :. ~••· - • . _, ., There ,may be, ah attemp t to.,reta ln.,Bea ttie i!l,the •:organization;:;JlecaUJle he1is. a -p_romoter., Bu~ woull\-l!e remain if remove d.ft'oi:n .the head ~oa.ch job,? . ,, , 'Actual ly, lt's '.ha:rd to predict what will happen in the P?litic~ ~~Hd.!'o f big-tim e -~ teur skiing. But t.lie specula tion will' clmtlii.Ue untll 0the1 decisio n on'B'ea ttie s fufu~' Is n'!'.Kde!: ·l ·" •- r,''. ;, ·•" '. Jean-C laude •Kfily,:'dtilJib'f fli~ iMlr-t'.la'ines, joined Austria 's TQnl Sailer in the' elite cate~ro /-of three-way winner in the Alpin~: skiing' events. · ' : -·~· ' ThJ N~~cfunrui woh th~ ciownhili1anii giant slalom easily, but In the slalotn sb!n~ g hf cloud developed. And 1 fai,l to·und°ei'.sta,nd ~UY :'~~¥,~ ·' . BO~~ti'¥,es -~!~F;r• 1 :a Few-~6 ple who -J i:~ei r·~s~ race s for a ~f -· !fhile, ' and;pa rtlcula .rli~ai ~ fu~ lln~al- foria ra~r1to~ or Of' ~e. gates ajld tlfen. c0nt1nue dM .the hill /w{thout ·, raruiig ---• -. - - - ,•.r. -, 'I ~ • f' the~,r and 11 can't gay for sure, but even In the log, there were · undoub1!-b)~ several persons who saw the In, fractions called on Karl Schrarlz ol Austria, '· , -~ Y ,won the slalom, and 111ere's no doubt he's the best • ht the ·world. .It ,will' be ,Wlfor- J mote -1-; ttinat:e If it doesn't . ·.. well, a; young man may eventually come out , ~;the pac)<: who is i~eallstl ~ enough, alrea,dy --:eal!h~ enough, \ ~no~g~ to wm the _tJ.S, IIJlAlpine,go!d medal mtl97&. or: u.~ But the lustre haa tough to ina.inta inl L..) primii.t'ily <throug h donatio n .the $500,000 ao 1& yeal' blldget -itlfe U.S. Alpine squad . :. th, In every port; _h is teams hav:el\' t w9n .and the .~ns are dillllus ioned. · -.,a: . ' . program mavlft,•hfrf6 n.~iri orth'n oney for TM poyiers -that-be, ·realize thatt it'11:s-"go ing' to • • . . ;f team t h a n ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ He go· things off dead ~titer and roliing lLnd ·u't1qut. 11. result beP,8.llle •aometh ing'oh , .Jiero-; i: 1• .;.1,~, \ ~: - _ • . , ,,, ' Molterer , an Austrian who in his 16 years of. racing has cquired an iro. pressive list of wins in add\tion to a big name, is uoted in the current issue of " Ski Week" .magazine on his views. • "America ·cannot have .a 'truly great national amaieur ski lteam until the sport ceases to be a vocational dead ,end. TOday, :,.nterk:an racers must divide thelr time between studies and racng if they are to make a future career for themselves . .This. is ot so with the European racers, who devote themselves com. !Nely to the sport from the time they are teenagers. For this eason it is very importan t that we in this country have a stable\ ntinulng professional r acing circuit where a man can earn nt living•once he grows too old for amateur competition," erer said in "Ski Week." " , , · .• .'may be tlie "make or:break;, year for the ·current leadof Amerlca's ·Alplne skilng team, Odds are, it wilt be ·a • year; Proclamatlofts ol 'the U.S. ski team's " pot~ntlli.l" "Sl)lrit". and "improvement" nonyltl!standing, have. mea, llt;.liopes of pulling any upsets at, Grenoble in February's Olympic Games. . But the future does indeed look brighter. We,have and .-11l6~ skiers on the hlll.s all the time, and ii the pros more and their ·-for-doui;h" _Idea catch on we may hit a magic combina. • ' .A~y ,.Pe.a,t1ie" J:iff..,9,,p)W,l.'I"fqr the U.S. Al• pine program m·~ ~ · ,~yone ~e. He go' r:S'k i Raci ng: Voca tiona l Dead End I I ,. .Co T~ {f ·Rolluf - -·- · b '-• . A ··. ,._, ;,t~H-1.:;~ -- , • ~ l! the-cloud contlm!w to 1 V IJll7 l" momlinent:a! ' t!/ l • "1 , . - !- . :qi) ·• - · -· Ifuow [that it's ·not 2D DtSERcT l>liW-5-, Thursday, January 25, 1968 Da ve Kadleck : Ullllllllllllllllllllllllllll111111111111111111111111111111111Ulllllllllllllllllllllllll Can Do llars Buy Sk i Wins? 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Amate ur sports should be a. give-and-take thing. And so it should be with skiing. Young men and women who matured in the ski sport, won fame in the ski sport _and have_ established thems elves in the sport, might consider replacing some of the "infts" given them in the past. While we talk of Europe's "pros" who are certain to dominate next month 's Winter Games at "• Grenoble France we embrace racing school s wherein ~oung ra~ers are being gouge d for consid• erable fees. Preps Banned Clini cs While high school associ ations across the countr y ban "clinics" where in $25 fees are charge_d for profes sional instruc tion, hundr eds of Moun tam West i;ki families are paying nearly $200 per child t o·enroll them in trainin g progra ms. ' H ski clinics are the key to moldin g a. "world ski po\\'er" and that is what we want, then they a re good. If it is a J)latiel' of paying a. "baby ,_s itter'' in the mounta.i,ns that is good, too. ·But a quick look at the Interm ountai n Ski Assn., area would indica te the "clinics" in the West aren't the winnin g answe r. The area includes Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Utah's junior s are "racin g school conscious." Idaho (Sun V.alley) and Wyoming (Jacks on Ho~), however, ar~ ,domin ating the "winn er's circle." Winn e rs Ski 'Free ' Both Sun Valley a.nd Jackso n have f~e ski «'lioics competition. There are no burden some $150-200 fees attach ed to their "belon ging." Sun Valley pays Christian...r_ra~I!- _to handle their junior ski progra m. J ~ as a dozen or so vol_un• teers aiding their juniors. And the "unpro fessio nal" talent s of th'ese booste rs is produ cing the winne rs in the ISA. 'l'IH'.M ob~rv a.tions hav~ facts to back then? np. ,lack;.o n, llole won all 10 ,itmior nation al !lordic u-a 1 , t last ypiir. The Idaho and Wyom ing al pinf'rs won of the 15 spots for jhat ~,rea of <'Ontr,rt ltion. B1»;id{'s ,_ Sun Valley won the rlean• up" trophy as the resort with the most winne rs during the yeu. · And consider, Salt Lake City's popula tion should be repres ented by many more skiers than these two ski resort towns. . The Key Is 'Free' "It's their free progra ms," says forme r Olympian Margo Walte rs. "We never had to pay anythi ng to lea_rn the finer points about compebfaon. 1rhe older skiers on races. " races. But Margo ls quick to salute those many booste rs who give freely of their time. "They are the ones who we feel we should pay. Those w o you would think owe somet hing to the sport for what it has ~en them are t6.e ones exploitin,,. It," she siiI<r roin her official sf.au as execut ive secretary of ISA. :UN- VALLEY - France, on "IL would n't surpri se me if some of our jun• !or s in Utah aren't spendi ng over $50,Q..a. year just to have ''THE ski, THE boot or other "IN" equip· ment that marks · Utah junior s racers who are experiencing difficu lty winnin g in their expen~ive equipment. That doesn 't include travel , lodging, lift passes and wax," she concluded. The most famou s Utah _ Ql.Y,IDP.ia,ns in my memo ry didn't attend hlgn-p riced clinics to learn their sport. That includes M~rv·•-~!elville, Margo Walte rs, "adop ted" Utahn Jean auber t and Bia• thloii aces Bill Spencer, his •nm n-ii,g mate Ralph Wakley, Dev Jennin gs, Suzie Harris J'.yttin g and Dick Movitz. ~y, In the··giant slal~m r un nd.8.y,.-i-.WOn the fourth interna• Buddy Wer ne r's Cont ribut ion leseret. News ,Sports Edltnr , run .'by Jean-Claude ueat ,if aal team cham pionships on a Sun Valley cours,:. rtance ,iJlts finish ed with 234 to beat out contesting 1,1tria. with 210 . .The United ~tes moved into third place <tb 137, Canada followed with ,. Switzerland cellared up it]l 112. . This is the third straight team iampionship for the French.en. rn' Sunday's race, in which a 1vple of dozen racers fell, It as the same story with Killy . ~ (?ne in the men's .event ~ G r eene of Canada tding the ladies. ruly beat America's Rick affee by hvo-tenths of a place was .:ond. I n third 'Orge Mauduit -of France . folved by Gerhardt Nenning, ,stria. Billy Kidd of the Unit- ; State~ W3ti fifU1 in men's , al- ost tw~ seconds behj nd .Killy. The· ' ~ond ~e~ican wa ~ 1ider · Sabich, who fin ished ·~th. Maybe Buddy Werne r's name c8.n be used to expose mass compe titive skiing to ,our young -people . . . It would be the bigges t boon to ci;;mpeU l 1\'(' skiing this countr y has seen. . Briefl y, league s would have four 10-me mber teams of skiers up to the age of 13 years old. Com• mercia l firms would pay the bilL (A_nd tlw.lL.,are severa l this corner k...!lQ.lU of illtei:e sted in gettin g competitive""°skiing off the dollar.. block.) Purpo se of the league would be to introd uce young sters to skiing throug h comoetition. Ski .areas would be certain to suppo rt such a P gram. Such a.,r>ro~am deserv es a chance. imilar progra m is warin g in little league bas foot• ball and basket ball. € ( • 1rCl ir fJ - ,J .. INSTRUCTORS / INSTRUCTION I L A SHOR T COUR SE IN POW DER SKIIN G BY ALF ENGE N Alta's famous ski school director . offers a few tips on mastering the gentle mt of skiing the soft stuff - east or west 16 SKIWEEK • "P owder skiing is nothing to be afraid of," Alf Engen gent ly rea5sures first-time visitors to Alta, Utah, America's premiere powder paradise. "It's like skiing any other kind of snowonly different." Engen, for 17 years director of the Alta ski school, is a "specialist" in powder instruction in a way that instructors are "general practitioners." As is often said of his area, "If powder snow is gold, then Alta is rich." No idle boast that, for on a good day at the Wasatch Mountain Range area, you don't see your ski tips from the time you debark at the 10,300foot summit until you make a breathless anival some 2,000 feet below. Engen, like any good doctor, takl!s pains to describe the nature of the condition to his patients. "There are two extremes when you're talking about powder," lie says. "At one end is the kind we have here, drv, fluffy and weightless. That's because we're far away from any large body of water which would give oft moisture to the clouds and ultimately make the snow l1eavy. At the other extreme are the areas near the oceans which have heavier powder. "But no matter which kind you're faced with, you ski them basically the same. The difference is in degree. "For example, on hardpack you have a firm surface on which to turn. Therefore, you edge your skis, unweight them and set them again on your new track and let them skid through the fall line. But in powder it's as if you have a surface all around your skis, not just beneath them. It's a soft surface. So instead of the violent unweighting and edge-setting, we change our course gently. "You do this at the beginning with a small, unweighting movement accompanied by a iOlling of the knees in the direction you wish to turn. This, so to speak, results in establishing a new surface on which to slide. The upward curve of yonr ski tips steers the skis in a new direction. A second important difference between skiing hardpack and powder is that of weight placement. In the former you use the forward section of PROPER SHOULDER POSITION in a tum, whether skiing powder or hardpack, is with the downhill shoulder slightly back and with both shoulders parallel to the surface of the slope, as in the illustrated figure. In the outlined figure, skier has dropped his inside shoulder and has held them "square" over his skis which makes proper weight distribution impossible. your skis to cut the new turn and the tails fo llow them around. "In powder," Engen explains, "it's almost the reverse. Since yo u have this soft surface, concentrating your weight on your ski tips would cause them to dive too deep. So you must keep a much more even balance. Instead of making your ski-snow contact through the balls of your feet, you make it all along the foot. But this doesn't mean you sit back on your heels . In powder we still keep a good knee and ankle bend and a straight back. But you ride somewhat farther back on your feet until you plane through the powder at the proper depth." In that sense, as one of Engen's instructors says, "your skis are used like a slalom water-ski in which you use the weight on the rear of the ski to make your turns." Also as in water-skiing, you keep your weight equally distributed on both skis. "Since the surface is so soft, if you weighted your skis as you do on the hardpack, the weighted one would sink immediately and throw you off balance." One of the most apparent signs of being off balance-whethe r in powder or hardpack-is the dropping of the inside shoulder. "This is both a cause and an effect cif bad turning," Engen says . "If you drop one shoulder, your weight can not be distributed properly. Likewise, if your weight is not distributed properly the chan ces are your inside shoulder will drop. " Beginning powder skiers-whether they are plain novices or just new to the fluffy stuff, tend to start with a fairly extreme unweighting. "When you first start skiing powder, it is difficult to understand that it requires as little unweighting as it does. So for our beginning powder classes we let the students use the down-up method of unweighting. This makes it very easy to change direction, easier than using the same amount of unweighting on hardpack. It does not take them long to realize that the violent unweighting they are accustomed to is too extreme for powder snow. So then they cut back on the unweighting and add the 'roll' to make their turns. What we call the 'roll' is also known as 'banking your turns.' For this you make a little unweight and then shift your hips and knees in the direction of the turn. But you must remember not to drop your shoulders or the ro II is impossible." Then the instructor who has developed some of this country's oustanding powder skiers, like Jim McKonkey, Junior Bounous and Gus Weber, grins and says, "Of course if you have to drop your shoulder, it's better to do it at Alta than anywhere else since when you fall, it's much nicer to h;vc half-a-dozen feet of soft pow- ' der underneath you than that hard, cold boilerplate they call 'loud powder' in the east." SKIWEEK February 13, 1968 • February 13, 1968 17 thirty years of dedicatio n to a cause I \,_ INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION ANNIVERSARY by Jon E. Putnam structor's technique was individual, and '"'"'--; 1a . ......... , ,..,,...,...,... .... ,,..r t-hn<".r\ 11 in,.,.tr ...... t-,., .. ,.,... a solution. On the first certification com- mittoo u,oro Fnrrl S~vrP Rieger or.r.is- ARTICLE IN THE MARCH, 1968 ISSUE OF SKIER MAGAZINE, BY JONE. PUTNAM DEALING WITH A IDSTORY OF SKI TEACHING CERTIFICATION. • • Second Section Salt Lake City~ Utah - Monday Morning- March 25, 1968 Olympus Cops • Sl~i Title Ill l(nudsen Duel Page 22 By Grant V. Messerly Tribune Sports Writer six gates from the fimsh, in full view of the crowd waiting at the bottom, he caught his ski on the BRIGHTON - A talented snow and tumbled down the hill. , te_am of skiers from O!ympus Olympus had the title sewed High School Sunday won its sec- up and the Tit8ns knew it. A ond s!1'a1ght Knudsen Cup race cheer w~nt up from the Olymat Bnghton. pus fans while Skyline parti- .. The youngsters, including t":o sans could only groan. members of th!! Intermountam Skyline's total time for the ; Division's Jm,ior National team, seven best runs was 584.3 secrecorded a total time of 578.8 onds just over five seconds seconds for the runs of four· slow~r than Olympus. boys and two girls. Hillcrest finished third with Racer Tumbles €43.3 total seconds. Rowland . smce . Marks was fourth win It wasn ,t an easy wm an Hall-St. 675 9 ·· equally talented Skyline High crew was leading and until the final Skyline racer fell within sight of the finish line, the Eagles could have won it. The Knudsen Cup trophy, provided by Salt Lake businessman J. Arthur Knudsen, is a traveling trophy which recognizes the team effort of the high schools. The oig trophy goes to the high 1 school for a year, and any 2 C · DESERET NEWS, Monday, March 25, 1968 school winning it three straight times can retire it. Great Chance ii Langston, Ralph Petty, Becky Wirick; back, Tim Durham, George Barton, Jon Engen, Kathy Savage. IBrad J. A,tlm, K••""'•• front, displays kop Olympus High skiers. Left, kneeling, Jef ------------, Last year Olympus won the trophy, thwarting the hopes of Ogden High School of retiring the trophy. Now Olympus has two wins in a row and a chance next year to take permanent possession. There were 14 teams in Sunday's giant slalom. The Titans were led bv Jon Engen, who had the second best run of the day at 1 :27.1, while Brad Langston had a 1 :27.3 clocking. Jeff Anderson had 1:31.2 and Tim Durham 1:31.3. The fifth boy, Ralph Petty, had 1 :32.4, but only the top four runs were used. Leads Olympus The Olympus gals were led by Becky Wirick with 1 :43.8, and Kathy Savage had 1 :58.2. The third gal, Jinks Rylting, fell and was disqualified. Skyline jumped off to an early lead with Junior Nal.ional 1ea'll1,/ member Tina Ohlson recording the best gals' run oi the day. l:32.5, and Liz Welti adding , 1:50.7 run. Vickie Hanks, the third gal, had 1 :56.8. Then the boys took over will 19-second lead over Olympus, aig Gorder got things goin& for 'he Eagle boy,; with the- bes, boys' run of 1 :2~.8. The secon, boy Tom McGhie, fell but still tur.~ed in 1 :48.1 and John Nell added 1 :32.1 and Steve Nefl. 1:35.1. . DESERET NEWS, Thursday, Morch 28, l 968 I Dave Kadlec1c;·· 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111r111111111/1111111111111111 1 Prep·Skiing On Its Way? }'inal Racer It wasn't enough, however,' and Skyline's hopes rested on the final Eagle racer, Steve Leonhart. The youngster had a: good run most of the way, but 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 irst Step Complete Team Standings 1. Olympus, 578.S seconds; 2. Skyline A Ss.1.3; J. Hillcrest, 6~.3; 4. Rowland Ha ll-St. Marks, 675.9; S. E~st A, 70 1.3 ; 6. Ben Lomond, 709.J. Teams ~ntered bul without enough finishers: H19hla,:id A Highlimd B, Skyline 8, Skyline C, East B, W.!lsatch, Park City, Davis. Top lndlViduals tt was 17 years ago that Art Knudsen conceived the idea of ski competition hetwt>en high schools. He established a mammoth trophy symbolic of prep supremacy in Utah's ski circle. It is one of the state's most prized trophies. Bovs' 1. Crala Gorder, Skytlne A, 1:25.8 ; '1. Jon Enge-n, , Olympus, 1 ;27.1; :3, Brad Langston, OIYmPUS, l :27.3. Gins' 1· Tin,s Ohlson, Skyline A, 1:32.5 : 2. jayne Se Inap, Highland A, l :32.9, J, Becky Wirick, Olympus,_ l •4J.8:_ _ - That "favor" has riot been shown skiing in ~he past isn't important. What superintende1 ts 11 of school districts supp rt , is important. For it is at the district level that p skiing must begin to grow. . U~SAA support will come when enough districts 111 the state support the winter sport to · merit state-w de control. 'We Want To Cooperate' Says Kn coop~rate. B provide a m men and worn "It is too dsen of school support: "We want to working with the schools we C!J.U h grander program for the young n during the winter months. bad we have only one race for the~e ronng people ·he11 skiing is so close and interest Is M high. I'd li to see a ski season - much film a baskPtball sea on," he said. To date, igh school area teams have competed for Knuds n Cup honors. Volunteer faculty members of c mpeting schools have provided the leadership tha makes for a good program. he 'Real Value' "Ski club are the best attended and larges clubs in any sc ool that has one," says Intermountain Ski Assn. Executive Secretary Margo WaHtcrs. Skyline Hi ·h 8chool's Ski Club numbers 245, T~n Utah hig schools are registered '\\itlt ISA, Little Idaho h s 17. Wyoming recently formed a "Ski Section" its high school activities association. Skiing is o 1 its way. "Th_e real alue to high school support is the leadership that can be provided. Getting a11 advisor to ~rgani.ae and bring these young people together 1s what we need," says Margo who went from her Olym us High School ski team to the United States O ympic ski team. ~--------i----- 1 _,t.. ' Olympus ski champs are left, Cathy Savage, George Barton, Coach, Art Knudsen, and Becky Wirick. Back, left, Tim Durham, Brad Langston, Jeff Anderson, Ralph Petty and Jon Engen. WINS KNUDSEN CUP Olympus ,Ski Champs By DAVE KADLECK Deseret News Sports Writer ski in a rut five gates from the bottom and kill any hopes the Golden Eagles had of pullBRIGHTON Olympus ing off a win. High School's Titans were "All he had to do was kings of Utah's prep skiing finish," explained Craig GorMonday following their team d e r o f S k y 1 i n e's team. victory here over the week- "Steve's one of our best and ened in the 17th annual Knud- we put him last because ·he sen Cup competition. could ski the ruts." It is the second straight vicBut the ski dropped. And ~o tory for the George Barton skiers who pulled the same did Skyline - to second place. trick in 1963-64. Olympus rates a top con"We're going for No. 3 next tender role for the 18th prize year," grinned pretty Becky with the Titans losing senior Wirick after watching Sky- Tim Durham to graduation. line's Steve Leonhart drop a Olympus' team time of 578.8 seconds came on the strength of team members Jon Engen, Brad Langston, Tim Durham, Jeff Anderson and Ralph Petty while Beck Wirick, Cathy Savage and Jinx Rytting comprised the gal's team. The four best men's times and two best gal's times were used. Engen and Langston paced the Titan men with 1 :27.1 and 1 :27.3 respective clockings with Miss Wirick pounding the course for a neat 1 :43.8 time for the best women's effort. - Skyline's Gorder posted the fast clocking of the day for the second place Eagles with overcame a second-place Mt. Millicent Cup effort for first place, 1 :32.5. Race namesake Art Knud- J sen was on hand to present the I mammoth prize to the Titan team. "I've retired one of these al, ready. It loQks like I'll have to get a new one next year," he grinned under the afternoon sun. The last team to retire the symbolic cup of prep ski supremacy was East High's 1961 team. Since that time the Titans have won it thr~ times, '63-'64-'67, while Ogdeh has won it in 1962-65-66. Ogden's team was ruled Ineligible for disciplinary rea• sons and didn't compete. Granite skiers were not allowed to compete by their 1 principal Leland R. Bird. An 1 attempt to enter under the "Etinarg'' (Granite spelled backwards) tag also was disallowed. Principal Bird explained lt thusly: "Our ski club at the ~ I school is for on campus activities only." He said a Tuesday , meeting of Granite School 1 District principals would ana- 1 1 lyze the problem. Both Olym- i 1 pus and Skyline are in the t Granite School District. 1.: Utah High School Activities Assn. Executive Secretary ll Horace Rose said there is ..: nothing prohibiting ski competition in UHSAA rules. "We have nothing to do with ski 1 ' clubs in schools. That is a school or district thing." He added: "There is no intent at i' 1 present to recognize skiing on an interscholastic level." He said skiing in Utah's prep realm won't be recognized until approved by school l:!.tperintendents and the Uf!SA/(I.iegislative Council. When asked if recognition of Interscholastic skiing was in the near mhITe, he said, "I don't know." Here are team and individual results: Triu'.mp By DAVE KADLECK . Deseret News Sporra Wri(er • BRIGHTON - Little Jayne Belnap and Ogden's .explosive Jeff Lowe won Mt. Millicent giant slalom victories here over the weekend in one • of the busiest days of the ski season. Miss Belnap, a 16-year-old Highland High School student, and 17-year-old Ogden . senior Lowe bombed their way down the diving Mt. Millicent slopes in respeotive 1 :31.5 and 1 :23.3 times. The blond Salt Laker wasn't pushed in her winning time down the 37-gate course. But Lowe was. Miss Belnap edged second place finisher Tina Ohlson by seven tenths of a second. Lowe had three tenths of a second over Skyline sophomore Craig Gorder. "He's really coming on in competition," said a wet-eyed and disappoif1-ted Craig Gorder. "He's always been great in practice races," he allowed of his skiing companion of Ogden High. Th e 15-year-old Gorder might have dropped his margin atop the mile and onequarter course. He appeared fast as he pumped and gouged his way down the mountain. But it was Lowe's carving sweeps that netted him the victory. Both boys are members of the 1968 Nationa1 Junior Alpine team. Class B racing wasn't close for Robbie Lynn Beck who outclocked her nearest competition by five ·and eight-tenths seconds. Miss Beck had a 1 :34.9 to second place Jerry Hayes' 1:40.7. f · a -'1 ;25.8 while Tina Ohlson 1 Jayne Belnap won Mt. Millicent ski honors. Tom Hofer won B Men's competition with a 1 :28.0 clocking down the mountain with Kaysville's John Phelps posting a 1 :39.0 for the veterans' title. Brighton Ski Bowl co-owner Zane Doyle furnished the t;ible of trophies presented to th!! winners. Miss Belnap and Lowe will have their names engraved on the permanent Team Standin!H ,. Olympus, 578.8 seconds; 2. Skyline A, 584.3i J. Hillcrest, 643.3; 4. Rowland Hall-St. Marl<s, 675.9; 5. East A, 701.J; 6. 'Ben Lomond, 709.3. Teams entered but without enoogh finis hers : Highland A, Highland 8 1 Skyline B, Skyline C, East B, Wasl!ltch, Park City, Davis. Jeff Lowe posted fastest Mt. Millicent men's time. Mt. Millicent trophy for their fastest times of the day. The results: Hall/es, I :40,7; J. Sandra Bowerbank, Us• Quebaugh, 2:26.5; 4. Margie Ho.wells, Salt Lake, 2:32.2. senior A Women senior B Men TOP fndlYlduals Boys' ,. ('.r• l~ Senior B Women Gorder. SkYlino A, 1:25.8; 2.-JOf\ Engen, Olympus, 1;27.1; 3. Bract Lengsfon, Olympus, t :27.3. l. Robble Beck, GTO, 1:34.9; 2. Jerry 1. Jayne Belnap, GTO, 1 :31.5; 2. "Tina 1. Tom HOfer, Junior Bounous Rac:e Ohlson, GTO, 1 :J2.2; 3 Leslie Ruscitto, Team, I :28.0; 2. Ralph Petty , GTO, Sun Valley, 1:56.2. 1:28.6; 3. Ralph Rigby, Westmins ter Col• lecie, 1 :29.4; 4 Dick Robinson, Westr,,in• StniDr A Nien ster, l :29.9; 5. Tom Trig gs, U. of U., T. Jeff Lowe, URS, l :23.3; 2. Craig 1:37.8. Gorder, GTO, l :2~.7; 3. B rad Lan9ston, Veteran Nlen ATS, 1:26.2; 4. Jim Shafer, Alta, 1:28,2; 5. Jim Ruscitto, sun Valley, 1:28.5; 6. 1. John Phelps, Kaysville, 1:39.0; 2. (tie} Brent Elliot, u. of U., John Frank, Jim Wilklng, Usquebaugh, 1:46.l; ·3. Lynn U, of U., 1:28.6; a. (tie} Ge-ne Timmons, Floyd, Usquebau;h, l :55,2; 4. Wayne URS, Jon Engen, ATS, 1:2:8.9; 10. Mike Casto, Usquebauoh, 1:S6.2; S. Ray Show• Rice, U. cf U., l :29.J, elt, Usquebeugh, l :56.9, I ! Girls' t~ TIM Ohlson, Skyline A, , :32.5; 2. f,tVM Be lnap, Highland A, 1:32.9; 3. ~ecky Wirick, Olympus_,_1_:-1_,.,_.- --1 tr) 1 l - .. AUTUMN' 1968 AL'l'A Tll\flt~S Moss Wins Instead, th award went to Head ski patrolman Bill Moss StEve Allen f Crested Butte, returned the professional class Colo., who Si gley had coached honors to Alta at the National during the w ek in his dangerGelande Contest April 20-21, but ous and beau ful "daffy" jump. the National Gelande Cup went Pepi Steigl r, Teton Village, to Treasure Mountain Ski Resort Jackson, Wyo, who had won top in Park City, Utah, in the cusmoney and a ards at two pretody of Bill Latimer, ski patrolvious Nation 1 GElandes, could man at that resort. get no better than fourth place Latimer, jumping in the 19 in the profess onal division. Steiand over amateur division, gler totaled 1 2.8 points, slightly amassed a grand total of 202 under third- lace winner Jim points to win the National GeGaddis of S t Lake City, who lande Cup, with professional had 193.7 poi ts and third-place winner Moss getting a total of money. 196.3 points as runnerup. Contes t di ector Alf Engen 's Cody Clark, winner uf the 12son Jon aga n scored high t o 15 amateur class, was third high win first plac in the 16-18 amain total points with 195.9. teur division wit h 185.3 points. A large contingent of ColoSecond high n t his division was rado jumpers from Winter Park Craig Day of alt Lake City with primarily, helped to make the 183.4 points, and in third place contest a resounding success. was Craig order, also of Salt Second-place winner in the proLake City, w th 183 points. Gorfessional class was Bob Singley der, howev , jumped the longof Winter Park , who had be€n est dista:qce f the contest with pic ked to win the bea utiful tro50 feet. phy in t he Most Spectacular on Page 4 class. Craig's younger brother, Brett Gorder, won the 11 and under class with 180.3 points, a n outstanding form for one so young. He attempted and completed an almost perfect split his second jump to put him way ahead of second-place winner Karl J acobson of Mountain Empire, who ha d 172.8 points. StevEn Bounuus, son of famed skier Junior Bounous, was in t hird with 172.4 point s. Fifth-place winner in the pro-. fessional division was Gene Christiansen of Alta with 190.2 points. Sixth was Jim McConkey of British Columbia, Canada, with 188. 7 and in seventh was Al Ellis of Pocatello, Idaho, with 186.8. Two other Alta skiers, Malcolm Stebbins and Jim .Shafer, won eighth- and ninth-place honors with 186.5 and 182.9 points, respectively, and placing 10th but still in the awards class, was Bob Ireton of Snow Basin, Utah, with 180.2 points. Placi11g second in the 19 and over amat!jur division was Jerry Warren oti Timp Haven, Utah, with 170.1 point& and in third was Jay 0 . Emer y of Sherman, Tex., wi t h 167.6 points. Except in the 19 and over class, the entries more than dou. bled in all divisions. Tournament officials are considering the posFibility of holding qualifying jumps in all classes two days prior to the 1969 contest, since Lhe field continues to grow each year. Professional winners at the National Gelande Contest jump for cash awards for the first three places, and merchandise awards through 10th pla~e-Bill Moss won $200 and his choice of merchandise, Singley $100 and merchandise and Gaddis $50 and merchandise. Singley chose a pair of CPM 70 Kaestle skis, Christiansen chose Toni Sailor skis, Steigler took an Alp Sport parka, Jim Sh~fer a set of Earl Miller bindings, Bob Ireton a set of Miller bindings, Gaddis a pair of Head skis, Moss a pair of Hart skis, McConkEy took Scott Gloves, Stebbins, Pete Kennedy poles and Al Ellis chose a Roffe parka. Alta's Gelande Tlt,,ifb AM !pilh ©© Photos by Merlin Berg, Bob Davis Peter Wither trying for most spectacular win . I • '~---,--.:.JiJY~ ··~ - Alf En~en, National Gelande Cup winner Bill Latimer, Chic Morton. Winner of professional class, Alta's Bill Moss. 1f • , • ( • Dan Thurston, executing an almost perfect Sl)llt. , THE ALTA NATIONAL GELANDE TROPHY • 0 The National Gelande, getting bigger and better. The Sa.It Lake Tribune, Friday, April 19, 1963 .Huge Field A.waits Gela11dc SJ{i Duel jumps Saturday with · By Grant v .. Messerly 1Sunday. 'rribw1e Sports Writer ALTA _ A huge field _ the ( Final Action biggest in the fou r-year history Sunday at noon the final acrrf the National Gelande Contest tion gets under way. The profes- is ready to go Saturday and sionals and older amateur) Sunday at Alta. classes will each make two By Thursday there were 1°2 jump~, with form and d_istance skiers signed up. for the mee , counting toward total pmnts. including 110 amateurs and 22 The pros will be jumping for pros. I$350 in prize money, and i1,ooo Champ Return~ . Iin merchandise. The amateurs . ,. · . will receive trophies for first, Pepi Stiegler, . head of the ski second and third places. ~thool . at Jackson. Hole, and ! Con tes tan ts w1.11 be ma ki ng defendmg profesRional cham- practke jumps Frida v and pion of the meet. will be back to early Saturday. The hill ·will be • defend his title. Stiegler, a 1964 closed after the qualifying and Olympic gold medal winner for finals Saturday afternoon . Austria, has collected top Younger Classes money for the past two years in l The two younger classes will the Alta meet. be jumping on a special bill just The action_ will sta:t Sat~ rd aY (west of the mine dump at Alta. t. at 11 a,m. with the fmals 111 the . . 11 year and under class, and the IThe mme dump will be used for I J2-15 year class, Two o 1 de r lthe older amateurs and profes- 1 •I amateur classe~ - 16 to 18 sionals. years and 19 years and o~er_ There are no special classes w,ll compete in quahfymg for girls or women this year, but they may compete in any of U1e age classes. , In addition to Stiegler, there are pros entered from Alta, Mountain Empire, Snow Basin, Winter Park, Colo., and several \' other areas. Jim McConkey, Iformer Utahn who heads a ski I school in Canada. is also signed . . •· up to compete. · · · The jumps will be judged by \ Up e goes! This was a sample of the P_at Prestpn, Logan; Mary Mel- a4ti l1 last year in National Gelande ville and Mel Daleabout, Salt --· Lake City. Alf Engen is Gelande director. F.C. Koziol, Jim McCo,:ikey, ~ordon Ha rmston. The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, April 22, 1968 -· Jim Gaddis, of Salt Lake CitJ, sails toward a landing after his jump iu the pro divisi n of tl1e Nation a] Gelaude Contest a Alta. Gaddis, a former NCAA Alta Star Captures : I · P1·0 Division of 1 I In the amateur competition another ski patrolman, William Latimer, Park City, won the 19 years and over division with two excellent leaps. He had the i won ~200 first priz~ moner .s~n- second longest jump of the day, •. day m th~ professional division 148 feet, on his first try and , of t~e_National Gelande Contest. came back with a 120 foot jump. . Willi Moss, who ~as not pa:: He had 202.0 points, while Jerry ticul°:"ly long. on either of his Warren, Timp Haven, was sect two Jumps, displayed excellent ond with 170.1 points. Warren's h_e topped large group form proasskiers froma all over the longest jump was 134 feet. of :1 By Grant V. Me,serly I Tribune Sports Writer I . I ALTA - An Alta ski patrolt man, skii~g on ."home snow," i ' west. -Tribune staff photo by Frank R. Pcrschatis I ski c h a m p finished third amo11g pros, with Wil i Mo,ss, .Alta, win~.iJJg top money. +-' - - - - 1 --+- - I . Alta Ski Ace Tops Field nJumpTilt BILL MOSS IN FLIGHT WINNING THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS IN THE 1968 ALT A NATIONAL GELANDE CONTEST. Photo: Alta, Utah-April 21, 1968 t phy for being the most graceI jumper. The field was the largest ln t1 e four-year history of the et. There were 35 pros enter~d.: a d the field of 16 to 18-year l¼ld s ·ers was pared Saturday from skiers to 24 for Sunday·g ounger skiers in two divisi ns under 15 years won tr phies Cops Trophy Saturday for their 1: Moss had leaps of 136 feet and Latimer also won the allju tie.big gelande hill was built 124 feet and ended with 196.3 around traveling trophy for the the old mine dump near the O • points (combined form and dis- best performance. I !b e of the Wildcat lift at Alta. 1: tance) to edge Bob Singley, In the 16 to 18-year division, j It was a scary run," one \ 1 Winter Park, Colo., pro who had Jon Engen, Alta, proved that yo ng competitor laughed after 1 · 194.2 points. Singley had the form is everything. I hi first jump, but he went back I ', longest pro jump in the first The Alpine star, son of fo his second. There were sevround - 145 feet - and his sec- gelande director Alf Engen, had ler spectacular falls _ and ond effort was 117 feet. two fair jumps for distance, but se ral spectacular recoverie:Takes Third his form was super, His leaps : -- on the hill, but no serious I "I 0 ,, , J' were 126 feet and 113 feet and j , uij ies were reported_ , th ?al . PI o, im 1185.3 total points. Craig Day, ' , An~ er Gaddis, took third with leaps of, Gaddis Training Organization / T results: . .. 13 " ' d 119 f t d 193 7 '/ PrDfHs1on1I Dn,islon 1 :> an ee an a · ·was second with two 122-foot 1. 1111 Moss, Alta, 196,3 1>G1rts 11'.!4• : poi~t total. . jumps and 183.4 points. . .~i:'5/:d1~~"/J4} ~i~j Smgley won $150 and Gaddis But the youngster "'ho had Ga ,., sa1_1 Lake c,ty, 193.7 ms le<!Hi $5 0 I dd'tion, a U tl1'ree s k"iers the longest leaps of then day •· P •• Sle,oler, Jackson Hole, 191.8 (140 feetJ s. GOfle Christiansen, Alta, 1911 ; Won.' an apa1"pI of ski' s There was , . . (138 feel); 6. James Mcconkey, Kan,. • · lin any division fimshed only 1000, s.c., 188.7 m6 feetJ; 1. AI ew, I 11$1,000 in merchandise distribllt- th" d Poe tello, Idaho, 186.8 (136 feetJ; a. 1,~ ed th 10 I 'col St•bbins, Alta, 186.5 (120 reef], Ir , •h f. among e top pro mis · Lo J 9. Ji Shafer, Alla, 1&2.9 C140 f•otl • ers ;n addition to the $350 in ng umps )~J ob Ireton, snow eas,n, 1so.2 (1< 1 prize money. I Craig Gorder, another GTO Amat..,.., 1, YHrs and Older Last year's champion, Pepi skier, went 150 feet on his first c1~i, .~\~'11::~'wa:O':tr1~'Ha~°.;:0 170-1 034 feetl; 1 Jav Emerv,.shermao Stiegler Jackson Hole could i·ump and came back with a f ' Texa , 167,6 (122 feet}; 4, 81II Dezel, manage' only fourth this year fantastic 133-foot effort - conf'.•rk Ci!Y, 163., m... teetl; 5. Roger Ma. · Jumps · · · the fact the mrun • rill,G eaver Mountain, with of 140 feet an d 121 Is1dermg was 6. Williams, Alta, 156.8 15?.S (!CS ms feet); teeH; feet and 192.8 points. Stiegler shortened and it was snowing ~~~-y'o1~lt BLe~~~, Cl%~;.;,~ 1 won the contest last year on I on his second leap E,np •· 151.s (!14 feetJ; 9. Brent Bain. · M Bin Empire, 14'.0 ClOO feet); 1 form, but he wasn't as sharp The judges decided, however. Wint... Park, Colo., Sunday.. that he lost pomts on form and Amateurs 1, to 11 Years A huge crowd of spectators he took home only the third1. n Ensen, Alta, 185.J nu teer•· , watched the event, wluch . Cc lg Day, Salt Lake City, 183.4 cm went place award. I, 2.t<erJ 3. craio Gorder, Sall Lake cav. 1 like clockwork most of the day. Steve AlJen, Crested Butte, <~soMm;i, Mo~~J';:?~t Intermittent snow :hampered the Colo., won the award for most fiitf f;,~9 •~~]j I s k1c,s at times, and for the last ~pectacular jump, a special Lake Clly, 167.1 1122 ~<>tl; 1. 0courtnev · - t he VlSI · 'bil"1ty was very event this . year, Wa1111 e, Sall LakeLosc,ty, 165.8 cm feet); Jl!rnp. 8. Kerton, An9eles, 165,0 (116 ,. t<:Or. The in run was shortened Young Engen won a special /f~J; ~i~10f8 ~\r' event injuries. I See Page 25, Col. 2 criy, 02 1 021 1...1, • . lo. .::::.:::.... _-, ! I 1 l r,~~ ~!~rt\ ri~ .. l~:z.f m~·te:r:ar, f·3 m\ ~.J\"." e°,;,e!~:. 'm:; ~~~ ~~"°+~~".' Alta ho~ted the annual 1·011ve11tio11 o \'ian Lodge I Ski Operators l11temv·1111tal11 Sk" ear end vof season. 1 Alta photo by Merli'! Berg Arl'a Operators' Assn. ut Peru- DAN THURSTON IN FLIGHT. Phot0: Alta, Utah Circa April 1968 DESERET NEWS, Thursday, June 6, 1968 Bobby And Ethel No Strangers In Utah .•_ By M. DeMAR :~USC~R · ~seret News Political Editor 1 Robert F. Kennedy was no stranger to Utah. He spent part of his honeymoon here . · That was back m July, 1950, wp.en _24-y ear-old Bob Kennedy and his bride of two weeks, the ':m,:'~onn., E<hel Sirak~ of G,eeospent three or foUr Jc ' ays on a ranch near Moab and Salt Lake City for 10 a ,ay or two. 'Those were good days," a s '11 n-b r on zed Bob Kennedy recalled on another _July day_ in 1965, when he, his wife, and five o e1r I ren came back to · c h.ld f th to do a little river-running Uiah own . th e y ampa and Green d rivers. .From those 1950 days on one or. _another of the Kennedy' clan tll~.n came A3 . t was in Utah frequently. John F. Bob ~enned)'.. slipped away to going down those last r~pids," Canyon. With him were Ethel But he had a dee well of Irish .a . · • • Kennedy came lo Utah from try, a little skn g at Alta. recalled tr detimi:nark He ca1:1e despite Salt a bomb lS-4 d . Do H hveteran river-nmner Kennedy and' seven of his chil- compassion and t~nderness · some es even asarsdpo~taneous, omc, sense threat which caused Lake 0 :i on, an , one month before . 'This is m re fun than runn a IC • dren. They stopped at Moab, One has only to remember the of humor. police to plead with him tt he was assassinated in Dallas, mng for ptjesi ent," he told Alf A year later, the Kennedy apd recalled the 1950 days of casual, but loving way, he gath. go into the building Th nooi;Q he spoke in Salt Lake City and Engen. "I'~ b back to try this clan was back. in the Mountain their honeymoon. ered the young members of the This March, at Weber State stayed even tho the pe . e then, with a promise tp return, again." West, this- time to try Idaho's Had an assassin's bullet not Kennedy clan to look at an ex- College, when Rob~rt Ke~nedy warned there t~t b ey ;er~ left. That's a dat h ·11 t k turbulent Salmon River. 4\nd cut short his life at 42 Robert hibit at Dinosaur National Mon- paused for en:i-phas1s durmg a in th h 11 mg e a om Robert Kennedy's last Utah On July I 4, 1~t1I :~oodee~t the se:1ator again proved his Kennedy wowd have 'been in ument Visitors Center or "ar- speech on_ V_1etnam, a baby " e a . visit was March , when he Split Mou tai on the Green skill with a kayak. Utah this July also _ but as a ranged" the family for an air- wailed lustily m_ the rear of the . If I ha:7e to go, I cannot th um, hm as 27p,esideotiaf Ri= wat hi g lwo i,,g, mb- JMe ~, J"1y P'°'"' lo be pmid~lial ,~dida1' sees,, port p f - ,t <he "'l=I of • "'.'."'' <hmk of_• '''"P of P">Ple O candidate and spoke to a large her boats b bbing down the "see the West" months for the support from Utah delegates photographer. That sounds like church," to go wi , a smilmg Bob Ken: and enthusiastic audience at stream. Tills as the terminus Kennedys. He had planned to attend the Nor will one ever forget that quipped _the senator. "If not nedy. told the cheering . crowd. Weber State College, Brigham of the K~nn y river-running In late June 1967, Sen. Kenne- July_ 26-27 Democratic state con- night in August, 1964, when Rob- 11 ;yours, mme. And m my church, A httl~ lat,~r, he apologized ,Io_r Young University and the Ter- trip which . a started two days dy came ba:k to utah_ t_o talk at vention. ert K~nnedy, his f~ce drawn woul~ probably be a not ?,avmg Kennedy for PresL. race Ballroom in Salt Lake before at st Park, Colo. a Democratic fund-ra1smg rally There were winier trips to the and his eyes tear-filled, stood Kennedy. dent . buttons to pass out. City. He, too, promised to come The rubbe rafts landed, markmg the 1750 anniversary Mountain West, al!lo. before ~he Democratic national That night,_ in Salt Lake City, explain~ that "we ran out 1~ back. spilled ou~ ennedys. But no of the Democratic Party. But Although Bob Kennedy skied convention and.accepted a ~mn- Robert K~~nedy_ mad~ some Oregon. , Th. h' senator that was only part of hJS pur- Alta only once, he was a fre- derous, emotional 12-mmute sort of political history m Utah. "I wired my brother Teddy to litic it Th1s on1y pure• . "Are · k" f ,. pose for commg. quent vmlor to Sun Valley. The spontaneous ovation that was Upwards of 2,000 Utahns, mostsend 10 000 more to Salt Lake 1s rea11 y. was • . . . . 7 The next day, he and part of Kennedys were at thii , Idaho partly for him and partly for his ly young people - for whom he City H~ did but I cannot u·se IY poi'th tha1 vis · t· e otfhbe: trhips came a YO e 0tromg thor ~e ·, .e_excep 10n o 1s on- edge It 4 . r b Km ed d . s h.is f am1·1Y t ook off d own th e resort durmg season martyre d brother. had a special his picture on -eymo w e river · the hohday • · magic · - had to them. · They have ' cerneodn wJithourney - wtasf cont- pi·n ·wetw<\sul 0n enkn Yk, rip• Colorado River, shooting the in both 1965 and 1966. Both Robert Kennedy and his be turned away from the Ter-1lhem " said Sen Kennedy "' · · · . . door activitysome sor t1 o . 0 u . th/shore, P g a a Ya o nto rapids and wmdmg up below , There ar~ those, mcludmg brother Edward (Ted) Kennedy, race. Inside, there were 5,000 told ' him that ·it wasn't · his• running And ~ve:1°tti; ~;~e~- "H h · L i lik _ Lake Powell at the Phantom this writer, who have termed the senator from Massachu- more people, again mainlylturn." c , e an(!1e t e a veteran, Ranch at the bottom of Grand Bob Kenne.dy "tough, ruthless." setts, had another Kennedy young persons. Now it may be. I h I """'""=· 1 • !?"~ i ... s,a~·s Firm Buys ~liq RFI( Visit to Ar.ea Always Exciting By Douglas L. Parker Tribune Political Editor Tinip Haven Resort Timp Haven Resort in Provo : further developr:icn1 nf llw _ski _Officprs_ of ~r. Redlord's - - - - - -- -- - - - - - -- - - - -~· ·tl.,) 111 Canyon was sold today to , areas which will offer ,;k11ng \ firm , Wildwood Development I• -ece: Broadway and Hollywood star I conditions comparable to Alta i Corp., are Mr. R_edford, pres,: Robert Redford a11d four other \ and lodging and recreationa I_ fa· dent; Stanley Collms, Salt Lak~ dlities unique to the U111ted ,C1ty , vice president and treasur backer for $1.8 million. 1 df d d h h new lStates ., ." The resort ~rea wi11 ' Pr: Hans Eshn, Boston, Mass., 1 , Mr. Re or an I e ot er I d vice president· Robert M. ·! owners sa1·d in · a Sta t e T r ave1'be ,, Gottschalk, vice , president, and . ,• , open Sun avs. ·· Council press conlerence that ! _NEW NAME_ . ' Michael P. Frankfurt, both New I I he resort area will be devel- rhe property mcludes approxi- \ York City, vice president and oped during the next three to mately north secre 1ary. _ . · 2,400 acres C on the T" five years to transform it mto a fork of Provo anyon. imp I, year-round resort of national ,Haven will be renamed in the STEWART SOLD : ;·eputation. !' future. but a new name has not , The firm was purchased from ·-· _;' Cont.inned trnm Page R-1 •News Saturday , Mr. Red tor:, rd Mr. Redford said that his and yet been selected, Mr. Rcdfo s. raul Stewart Enterprises. ··. will also establish a Utah offlcl th nd rnd Provo owner ol the propert) school, epe ent ot e of his "Wildwood F ilms" m thE lwiJdwood's rlans include "the said . ' - lor th~ past 40 years. ;- I Iresort itself, _will be operated to near future. The company will - _ , tram professionals for Olympic produce feature productions , Mr . Re d !or'd - - o an d for sk-1 SIU• 1' with an emphasis . on education• '1 d an da· t he othher . ,11 competitio I . s I . new owners d J _not 1sc 1ose ow .- :- idents . : mu ch money will be required to • l _ _ __ al film... • ·develop the property. · • ' Mr. Franklurt said the m1t1_al FILMS SIDELINE · pha,e ol the proJect will also m1· d . t o f res t au- The Hollywood , They did say, however that r I ude 1mprovemen •a 1- star f exp h ame 1 . they will "spend as much _as ran t fac,.11nes a t r·imp Haven. that one s1 c me ct d o I t eDmov ie , ; necessary" to _ make T1_mp .. Snow -rnakm equi ment will \company, !oun e ast eccm- 1 \Haven an attraction for tourists · r ve ntua ll ;e mstafled to ro- ber ,_will be production of pro· : from throughout the U S , d k p I mot10nal films for the state of. Y v1 e ear1v season s ·1mg. Utah ! Engen Three phases of the new de- :. · " Land sales are a part of the , A documentary on the Ameri• • i velopment will include improve-· • ·1deve lopment program. but are can Indian is alreadv scheduled. ' - ment of present facilities in •, . no t n_ecessar • 1 ·1Y a P,,art of the 1 ·m · \ Initial productions · will be 1·i1 . order to attract more local cu~- . R df d . tomers (to be completed thi~ _ mediate program, Mr. e or nanced by his firm . John David Rose, Utah Travel l · - said. 1 1 ; year) : building of a lodge. a nd ;--; ! SELF~5USTAINING ' Council director, said he will ,I construction of a Swiss village , to attract tourists nationally. : I, Financing wil1 be self- request funds from the 1969 . 1 1 FAMILY RECREATJO'\ --.~: sustaining in t_he beginning. The Leg-isla ture for addi t ional pro, ~: \corporation will work with local motional fi lms Jen- the state. I 1s " E:mphasis of the new resort · , ) banks m the future. He cannot, however, make \ \w11l be on family recreation." "The 2,400-acre development commitments to aqy specific I Mr. Redford said. "We will ._. _,. site is presently all private land producer as yet, he said. 1 catt>r to guests the year-around, , ~I .and is not expec_ted to exten~ , The new owner_s _of the Provo ' :t \onto Forest Serv_1ce property, Cany_on _resort said they are not JUSt 10 the wmter." 1; H al announced that a ski · , i i \1r . Frankfurt said. 1cons1denng several local cand1- 1 O ~e sREDFORD on Page B---1 , As disclosed hy the Deseret ,dates for manager of the area . . \ ~I _ ___ ' I Redford Bu:ys dience about the bomb scare, ' "This is what you call open• ing your campaign In Utah-v.ith a bang - or almost," he laughed. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a frequent visitor to the Inter• mountain Region, always seemed to add an advcn,ureFirst in Utah some flair to family skiing Sen. Kennedy, with most ot ' and river running vacations in his family and friends, spent· Utah and Idaho. many holiday skiing vacations. Even on his most recent at Sun Valle . tl.'ip to Utah, nearly 2½ . ~:.::.Al.;:;;f~E=-n::..:g~e:::n,'.'Ld~il-·e-c-to-r--of_a_s_k..,....~months ago while cam- sohool at Alta, recalled fl:iat paigning for the Democratic the senator, "a strong skier;• · presidential nomination, he remarked that this spring"1 left his entourage for a brief visit was his first to the Salt skiing jaunt at Alta between Lake area resort. f--;;rii:::-==-~;:,.,,,=-=-.,.,..;:.........; speaking engagements. He was faced with the prosThe New Yor er spo e pect of danger while speaking March 27 in jam-packed audiin Salt Lake City that trip be- toriums at Weber State Col• cause of an anonymous tele- lege and Brigham Young Uni• phone call to police saying a versity in addition to the Salt, bomb had been planted in The Lake City appearance. 1-r:e· Terrace, which held an over- recalled at BYU that his ae• flow crowd for his address. quaintance with Utah extend• l ed back to a 1950 honeymoo)l Crowd Didn't Budge trip in the eastern part of tlHi' "If the people are In ther.e , state. .. • I'm going in," Sen. Kennedy In July, 1965, Sen. Kennedy, told officers when they his wife and five of his chi}• warned him of the threat. In- dren took a rubber raft float side the ballroom, the crowd trip down portions of thl'l didn't budge when told a Yampa River in Colorado an4 bomb could go off. the Green River in northeast• The senator hoarse from ern Utah . dozens of speeches during his The next year, he was join~ whirlwind Western stales' by his wife and seven cl!il• tmu:._joked easily with his au- drcn, plus former astronaut John Glenn Jr., to float tha middle fork of Idaho's Salmon River, known as the River ot No Return. In 1967, he and a party n! some 40 persons, including singer Andy Williams and columnist Art Buchwald, speot four days shooting the rapid'! on the Colorado- River ill southeastern Utah. Timp Haven I I I' THE YEAR TIMP HAVEN SKI AREA BECAME SUNDANCE by Alan K. I , • 1 • .: 1· Questions sometimes arise in conversations with Utah ski . history buffs as to when Robert Redford took over ow_nersh1p of the ski area now known as Sundance. The answer 1968. Below is a excerpt from my book FOR THE LD_VE OF SKHNG -A Visual History which briefly discusses the history surrounding the old Timp Haven ski area and the subsequent purchase by Redford and several other investors. >; 1 I_ : ?\ ., l\lixes Politks Occasionally he mixed· hii Western vacations witi1 political haymaking. Just before embarking on his 1967 sum: mer Colorado Rivel'. trip, M appeared in Salt Lake City at . a $100-per-persoa reception:, and Democratic rally. As far back as the late 1950s 1 when he was counsel for the ' Senate Rackets Commit!~, , Sen. Kennedy made Sun Val• ley almost a vacation home, fr e q u en ti y spending the Christmas holidav season there with his famiiy. Never Routine Il appeared nothing w~ ever accomplished routinely or without relish. There was the time a plan& airlifted and dropped four · sleeping bags over a Colorado River camp of the Kennedy family because some equip· ment was left behind. Once a single-engine plane~ was used to shuttle the family members to a sandbar in t!Je Idaho wilderness, the pilot making hairpin turns to des• . cend deep into a canyon. • .' • ~,mp Hoven [now S undance! ond Mt. Timponogos. circa 1960s Sl rnl D \ :\LE. CT/\ 11 At time Be:ner l\lountain wa:-. being dc,•dopcd in the mif l94Qs. another mall area neJ r T'ro,o. Utah, \\.t., also "etung started. Called Ttmp l la,-en after the piclltt - pcrfecl Mt. Timpanogos towering nearby, 1h1s ,lrea ivas started by hrot hers Ray Jnc\ P:rul Stewart .md their wiws, A\ a ,u,d 1 ltlcla. T'aul. nicknamed Speed:· [as also in the sheep husiness. Se\-cral gcner.mon. l' ~te\-\, ns had grazed their sheep on two thou,,_,ntl acr\:JJs up Provo Canyon He beu:ime particularly mtcn:-stc m the open slopes near \\l. Timpanogos, lor gra;:in~ sheep and for dc\'clt,ping a ,vinter ~p,.·u1s nnca11onal are.i The first lift to go in was a n..1tx !OW, fc,\l ,wed by a T-har. a fony-meter skt-j umpm1; lnll. and a twent\, two-hundred -foot single chairlift. I htlth .::.: wan c11ntinued lo run his small ski operauon dur111r, ~v1mcr months c,·ery da 1 cx,ept for Sundays. T mp J l,1,-cn llounshec.l, supported primarily hy local .:,:;;xP.> I ,·mg in the Pron) ,111.:a. In Photo by M i ke Korologo~ 1.1gus1 1968 the T1mp Hawn n.:sort. 1m·oh-ing. approxnna tely twemy-four hundred a-:rcs of prrhllc land, was sold to Hollywood a<.:1or Robert Redford and four others-Stanley Collms, Hans Estm, Robert I. Conschalk . and Michael P Frankfurt. Not long. ftcr purchasing the properl)", the ow11ers changed ib m1m.:: Lo Sundance . \llany improvements ha,·e hecn mat:e to this area sim:c Lhc late 1960s. and Sundance 1:.110\\ constdcrccl Lo have some of the finest resort accomm<Klat1ons in the lmcrmountam \Vest. INTERSKI .. . - , DESERET N~WS, Wednesdc~ May ?, 19"68 Hack Miller 111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The Exchange Of Ski Ideas 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111u "Interski" is the world conferepce on the exchange of skiii;ig techniques and teaching basics. It was held last week at Aspen, Colo. By t h ose who attended it Interski was said t o be the best convention of its kind ever held. Thl'ee men have already reported that to this corner. Lou Lorenz said so - he's president, Intermountain Ski Instructors' Association. Alf Engen said the ,same - he's one of the oldest teachers in America - in length of service. And there was Lowell Thomas, who flew t o Aspen from New York and was caught up in t he event as speaker at the final awards ceremonies. Then Lowell came on to Salt Lake City t o finish out what bas been a great big ski season. When t hese t hree say that the event was ter believe it . believe it. E i g ht countries sent demonstration teams, including three children's teams America, Austria and Norway (8 • years to Lou Lort>uz 12). There were delegates from more than three dozen countries including the world's smallest nation - Lichenstein. Lowell told how the Italian team prepared for this Interski event by sending its team to ballet school for six weeks prior to training for the event - to learn whatever ballet can leach skiers. COLJORADO BB l • SPECIAL COLORADO LICENSE PLATE MADE IN HONOR OF THE 8 TH INTERSKI EVENT WIDCH WAS HELD AT ASPEN, COLORADO IN 1968. Special note: License plate given to Alan Engen by Bill Lash in the Summer of 1998. TA POWDER NEWS - Spring, 1968 ISIA President Max Lundberg &- - •·---· Init iated as a sk ier by his non skiing fath er in 1948 . F irst ski ru n taken down the old sc hoo l hill on a pai r of wood slats wit h ru bber inn er t ube fo r bind ings . Tru e initia t io n in 1950 as a part icipant in t h e Deseret Ne ws S ki Sc hool. In 195 1 participated again as a student and th en in 1952 , at t he age of 1 4 , I.a ught first class. Contin ued t each ing in t he Salt Lake T ennis Club progra m under Wa yne Nichol. Left s kiing fr om 19 59 to 1961 to serve an L. D .S. mission in E ast ern Ca nada . . Certifi e d in 1962 after ta king instructio n m Greate r Salt Lake Ski Sch ool. 1 962-6 3 ta ught at Alt.a . 1963-64 b eca m e assista nt to Alf Eng en . Interest in skiing e xcited by un cles Rulo n , Way ne , Mar k , Vern , an d R oyce wh o a ll taught in th e Alf Engen S ki School. Most m em orabl e ex peri en ces in s kiing: Trym g t.o pile 10 ki ds in Lou Lore n z's '4 9 Ply m o utb co nverti ble ... R id in g to Snow Park o n th e back of Way ne's fl at bed to teach for t h e Sal t Lake Te nn is Club . Treas ur er 2 years , m ember e xecut iv e co m mit. tee and b oard of dir ecto rs 2 years. Me mber Uni te d States Demonstration t eam Aspe n 19 6 8. l.S.l.A. NEWS AND VIEWS - December 1969 ~# r• ---- ----... - Max Lundberg, Bonnie Pond Posts On U.S. lnterski Team Max L u n db erg, assistant director of the Engen Ski School, and Bonnie Pond, a fulltime instructor In the school, nave been selected as two of the group representing the Intermountain Ski Instructors' Association during the April Interski at Aspen, Colo. Alta Ski Llfta Photo Lundberg and Bonnie Pond will head for ln~rskl. For The Host Country America's team was represented by four Utahns - Bonny Pond and Max Lundberg (Alf's assistants at Alta), and Robin Locke and P hil Jones of Park City. These four trained for several weeks at Aspen - shaping for their demonst rations. and Rosemount, Inc., furnishing the boots. The host country always has more presentation than any others al1d these people more than filled the bill, according to our report.ers. Lowell's seen a lot of ski shows over the years and said this one, in many ways, beat the Olympics for intrigue. The world's best pros - they should make a show of it. All instruction and demonstration were ex plained by interpreters; everyone knew at all times what was going bn, despite t he language barrier. Max and Bonnie will ski on . the U.S. demonstration team during the three-week conference of wor ld ski instructors. There are 35 U.S. instructors on the team. Cost of the Interski is being underwritten by members of the Ski Industries of America with l{ead Ski Co. furnishing the 11kis Wasatch Is Not Behind The demonstrations thrilled Alf Engen for more ways than just the watching of them. "When I saw the latest French racing techniques," Alf said, "I recognized the same method of makmg the high-speed turns we taught the American Olympic teani in 1948 (Alf coached that Olympic team). . Page 8 Max Lu ,dberg Tells Values f lnterski Max Lundberg, assist nt director of the Alf En n Ski School, described the Eighth International Congress of Ski Instruction as a "winte Olympics for ski instructors.' "It's to the ski instruct r what the Olympics are to th competitor and fan." Max was one of six Idt tain ski instructors re the U.S. in April at t h at Aspen, Colo. Bon another of Alta's to tors, also was on t h stration team. Max was chosen as o e two Americans to demo the American teaching techniques during a session in vhich 18 skiers from nine di eren t countries demonstrated th ir respective techniques. On the final day of In erski he was the lone American o ski in a special demonstration ilined for a movie concerning the Interski event. "There were a number of different languages spoken by the instructors attending Interski but skiing and ski instructio~ proved a good common denominator for them al-I," Lundberg said. "Participating in Interski was one of the greatest EXperiences of my life. It was one of the most important contributions to ski instruction in the United States fo r a long time. Aside from learning many things which will be tremendously valuable to me as an inst ructor, I gained deep friendship for t he skiers from other na lions. " Altogether, 23 skiers represen ted the United States at Interski. Held every three years the congress is scheduled next for West Germany. This was the first time it has been held in the United States. - "As for the recreation t urns - we have been doing for several years the t hh1gs t hey showed to be the lat.est in French and Austrian techniques. It was good to know just where we are in the W asatch way of skiing." . . Lou Lorenz, wl10 taught so many years with ALTA POWDER NEWS Alf, agreed on these poh1ts. AUTUMN 1968 Lou said he thought there might be a world method of teaching adopted at this convention. "We came close to it," h e said. "But they didn't vote for it. We were that close together ill our basic teaching methods. "While we are together in the basics, this doesn't mean that each wouldn't have his own ad- , vanced styles and tricks. It wouldn't be computer teaching. It would be individual, of course, after we learned the basics." "What Can We Lea rn?" I asked Lou what he learned from the others that we didn't already have in American .teaching? "Through the parallel program all seem to be agreed. Beyond that, when you fan out to different styles, you pick up a lot of tricks from· t hem and we believe they picked up some idea~ from us. ''And another thing impressed me," L orenz said. "The basic techniques for both racing and recr1>ational skiing are about the same. Yon don't have attend a different school as a m •er. Aud when you are through with the s11eed you have t he proper background to ski j ust for the fun of it. "Or if you want t o turn to racing you are your way." '' . The next Interski is three years hence, West Germany. Th!iY are already talking.about illax Lundberg, Susumu Sugiyama, Alf Engen, Chic Morton visited u t Alta in ,spring. , Yasii Alta photo by Merlin eerg Nishizawa. Japanese pair .\ on . m it ! - I I I' I i WINTER 1968 Members of U. ISIA offleen, from left: Phil JonN, Mu Llmdber& Adrien Seall, Clar Park City, is a lso a full-time professional instructor. Named treasurer is Adrien Segil, also of Alta, and Park City's Clark Parkinson will serve as secretary. Directors include Lundberg, Ed Pond, Keith Lange, Bill Haskins and Gene Huber, a ll of Alta; Alan Miller, Snow Basin; Glen Evans, Skyline, Pocatello, Id ah o; Lou Lorenz, Gorgoza; Woody Anderson, Park City; Kirby Dawson, Kelly Canyon, Idaho; Clark Parkinson, Top U.S. Jumpers Again Choose Alta For Camp Members of the U.S. Nordic Team spent a week at Alta late' in November as part of their National Training program - the first onsnow camp for the nation's best. The camp was under the direction of Gene Kotlarek, Minneapolis, Minn., a former U.S. jumping star. He was assisted in the coaching ranks by Art Tokle, Lake Telemark, N.H.; Lloyd "Snoball" Severud, Chetch, Wis.; John Balfanz, Denver, Colo.; Jon Elliot, Jackson, Wyo.; Robert "Butch" Wedin, Iron Mountain, Mich.; Ri chard Haugh, Levenworth, Wash,; and Joh n Bower Middlebury College, Vt. Fiv; members of the 1968 group were back from the team that trained at Alta in 1968. Jay Martin, Minneapolis, a University of Wyoming star, and his brother, Jerry, were back, along with Adrian Watt, Duluth, Minn., David Lundmark, Steamboat Springs, Colo., and William Bakke, a soldier stationed at Richards-Gebaur AFB, Mo. Three teams actually trained at • - - - - - - - - - Max Lundberg New ISIA P esident Max Lundberg, assistant director of ·the Alf Engen Ski School, was elected president of the Intermountain Ski Instructors Association at the group's annual meeting in Idaho Fa lls, Idaho. He succeeds Lou Lorenz, who held the post for almost a decade. Max Lundberg is the first full time professional ski instructor to head the group in many years. In fact, his vice president , Phil Jones of Treasure Mountains Resort in s. Nordic Team pose durlJ\8 training camp at' Alta. ; Ilave Parkinson, on Rhinehart, Sun Valybee, Kelly Canyon and , Park City. g and his new officers pt to communicate more ublic during the next few n Dean of Salt Lake City e publicity for the in- ley; Bob Phil Jone Lundbe will atte with the years. Le will han structdrs. The a sociation includes ski areas In tah, half of Idaho and the w ~st rn part of Wyoming. B9 DESERET NEWS, Tuesday, May 9, 1967 Dave Kadleck -• -Alta. Thete were 27 members of the jumping squad, 10 members of the "A " cross-country group and Matz .Jenssen Is shown after setting a new Landa five members of the Nordic ComHill record at Alta. Jump was 200 feet. bmed team. . Kotlarek conducted a camp which w as a far cry from the stnct condition-jumping type camps in the past. The jumpe rs and cross-counMatz Jenssen, a Norwegian jump- points with jumps not quite as far. try teams worked on their specialThe hill was in excellent condier w ho is also assistant ski coach ties in the mornings, V.:hile af~erat the University of Utah, set a tion and jumpers were able to get noons we~e spent Alpme sknng new hill record Dec. 8 by jumping tremendous speed in the inrun. when possible. . . . In class B-1 competition Art 200 feet on the big hill at Alta Kotl~rek says 1t 1s v1~l that during the ;mnual Landes Memorial Sleeper took first place with jumps g ood 1umpers be good skiers so of 117-114 feet on the 40-meter contest. they can learn proper balance. Jenssen set his record with a hill to set a new record, while The coaching staff were apprebadly-sprained ankle, injured just Frank Bird placed second with 102ciative of the help and cooperation minutes before the contest began. 103. Chet Grandy was third with a extended by Alta officials and Salt He fell during practice and it was best jump of 106. Lake City busin~~ int~rests. Due Robert Gervol, a young comer of felt he wouldn't be able to comto crow ~ed cond1t1ons m the ca~pete, but he asked the sponsoring 16, won Class B-2 with jumps of yon dunng the camp the Nordic group to allow the Class A jumpers 103-109. Cory Bailey, just recoverteam stayed at the North Temple to compete early so th;,.t his ankle ing from a broken leg last year, Travelodge ~d- commuted. would support him before it be- was Gervol's big competition. Snow C?nd1t1ons were _ ~ood on Junior intermediate winner was came too badly swollen. Landes Hill for the trammg sesOn his first jump he soared 200 Ralph Bird with a pair of 90-foot sion. feet, breaking the old record set leaps. Some of the jumpers who had Dave Bird, Dave Chavez, Tim by . another Norwegian, Fritzjof been at Alta in previous sessions Simon and Doug Olbert finished in Prydz, three years ago. said the snow conditions were at He fell on his second jump after that order in novice competition their best, even though more fell another spectacular leap of 201 while Neal Bird won peewee first than anticipated. place. feet. Kotlarek said the jumpers showed Sponsor of the annual contest Two other University of Utah . real promise as a result of the Alta jumpers finished second and third was the Nord-Alp Ski Club which training. to Jenssen in the Class A division. prepares and maintains facilities at "Our real strength lies in the 19- · Ole Kolderup, a civil engineering Landes. 22" year age group, where the boys Judges were Mont Murphy, presstudent, was second with jumps of are working hardest. They have 179 and 176. Nineteen-year-old ident of Nord-Alp, Gene Bernson conditioned themselves during the Fredrik Bjornstad compiled 195.9 and Tony Gervol. fall months and were ready for jumping. "The older fellows are jumping about the way they always have, and the young jumpers are getting some very necessary experience." Alta Ski Lifts and Alta businesses extended a welcome to the Nordic team for next year. 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World's Ski Jump Capita'I Don't be surprised to see Utah become the ski jumping capital of the world. If Alf Engen has his way, it won't be anything but. Landes Hill, currently a 60-meter area would be the site of the nordic complex that would make Utah a ski jumping mecca. , A 40-meter hill on the left of Landes and a 20-meter hill on the other side of it would make Utah a most attractive site in the nation for U.S. nordfo training. "We would make the 60-meter bill a 70-meter area," reports Engen. "That would provide jumps between 233-250 feet." "Your snow. conditions would make it the ideal spot in the country," reports John Balfanz who competed in last weekend's season-ending competitwn. U.S. _Nordic Coach Al Merrill is working to get the nord1c team here for training in the fall. He has his letter-writing completed. Now is the time for Utah to prepare for its training ground role. T~e proper_ preparation between now and August will determme how ready we are in Utah for bigtime ski jump competition. •. Alta's fulltlme ski patrol, front r~w from left; Robe~ .J. Landry, BmceJ ~llelke, Ted Mitchell, Reid ·1111, BW Mou. Backt from left: Jim Head, Bob Brentson, Bob Kem, Doe 11111th and I ~=- ·Page 2 - ALTA POWDER NEWS Hack Miller AUTUMN 1968 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i1111111111111111111111111111111111 · For 30 Years He Missed It r11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111m11111111111111m1111 Art Linkletter started skiing when he was He's been at it for four years now. He skis m hke he had stal'ted at 20 and has been at it f H, f. or e.s a nendly fellow to have on a ski Takes along his best sense of humor and lliles . He _doesn't ski as much as he would like :}•rars With the same television-radio programs 50 r~ 0 . 'JJ ~t. 5 Sen. Charles Perey of Illinois, Alta's All Engen. Photo by Tom PIOTchan Movie and television star Donald O'Connor learning his snowplow tum from Alt Engen. O'Connor, . his wife and three children spent a week at Alta Peruvian Lodge. Celebrities Enioy Alta A number of well-known persons enjoyed the outstanding Alta skiing last season, notable of whom were the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. and Mrs. Art Linkletter. But Sen. Charles Percy Illinois also found Alta to one of his favorite ski areas the future. The senator and skiing family spent a long weekend at Alta of be for his ski Sen. Kennedy, in Utah on a political tour, made a rush trip to Alta in company with two of his sisters and spent two hours on the slopes. He had made plans to come back this season. Strong and enthusiastic, Art Linkletter just couldn't get his fill of the long runs on Sugarloaf. He and Mrs. Linkletter kept Alf Engen, Max Lundberg and Alan Engen pretty busy all one Sunday since the group was "on camera" for Tom Plofchan. Jim M u r r a y, syndicated sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times, was a guest at Peruvian Lodge for a weekend, and although he didn't get much time ih since he is learning, he was notably impressed with what Alta has to offer. Art Li.ukletter ancl Alf Engen five days a week ~eeps him busr, of COlll'sc. With other shows, too. Yet: he has as many first-name friends Alta as if he worked on the loading ramp. ~rt and. his wife, Lois, \\ere he,·e fo1· some Speakm_g assignments, broke away for a couple ot days ~Hth old friend, Alf Engen. Edwin Gibbs of ~eruv1a11 was hosting Jim .iUunay, sports writer for tl1e Los Angeles Times, and his wife Gerry . daughter Pamela and sou Eric. ' ' Photo by Tom Plofchan Art Llnkletter, fanious TV and radio star, is shown with wife and Alf Engen after a fun nm on new Sugarloaf. Jim and Art were old cronies in show business - Art_in lhe performance end and Jim the theate1· cntic .. They all got together for a few canapes and olives Saturday night at Alta. It's Never Too Late That'_s when Art Linkletter warned Jim Murl'ay tlrn l 1t wasn't too late 111 life to slide on the slats. ~d taking his friend 's advice Jim gave skung 111s first whirl. . . Wayne 1\"ichol showed Jim the first tums. But there were the usual bumps and bruises _ rope bu_rns on t11e tow and those things which first-da.)' skiers must learn. , Tl1at's "h~n Art told about hi!> start in skiing, 8omeo~1e mentioned short skis aJid his ears stif. fened like a hound dog 011 a scent. CJ j- DESERET NEWS, Monday, March 4, 1968 ---- - .. Art had been at his annual encampment at Continued From Page C-' about some of the tricks in skiing. Linkletter listened. Then Lowell (according to Art) made Linkletter a proposition. If he would get with Clif Taylor, roponent for the short boards, and take some irst simple lessons he would short-cut his ski earning process considerably and would soon be kiing with the best of them. "I thought if Lowell Thomas at 72 could tell me ·hat I should be doing at 50 I had better get with t," Art said as he and Alf led me down the mounin. "It was a matter of no time at all that I earned. I started at least 30 years too late, not beause I couldn't learn, but for the fun I had never nown." Art must have shortcut his learning. He skis ther parallel, showing just a little ankle light on e Sunspot moguls. If he had one day a week he could call his own r skiing, he would pick up those 30 years he's t - in the next five. Came The Batman Adam West (Batman) at Alta Bohemiam Grove, near San Francisco. It's where · the cultured men in many fields meet for exchan?'es of ideas, a little social companionship. It's an elite club, The late Herbert Hoover was one of the stalwarts and he tented with Lowell Thomas and a host of others of equal fame. The Tricks In Skiing 1t was one night around the cracker barrel (if the Grovers had such things) Lowell was talking I / See MILLER On Page C-4/ Adam West (the Batman) joined us for a uple of runs. Adam was a little slow getting o to the slopes, he is sony to say. He and Art reed that they spent too much time "rmu1ing ose surfing boards and water skis" and didn't go ith the snow soon enough. That Batman goes, though. Like Jean-Claude illy. Rather looks like Killy in a wa.y. Adam was s iing with his son, Hunter, who someday might b lining up for our Olympic team. Anyone who likes perfect spring skiing would in the Wasatch Wonderlands these days. Like Murray says, "Everyone I've seen in here the t few days thinks he's a bird." Jim <lidn't feel like a bird the first time. May- .. not the second. But come the third and fourth m ybe a little like a turkey bird at first - and th n he'll fly. PHOTO OF SOME OF ALF ENGEN'S "CORE" INSTRUCTORS IN THE LATE l 960s. TN PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT (FRONT ROW): KEITH LANGE BOB "PEPI" SMITH D.WAYNE NICHOL RULON NICHOL ALF ENGEN ROYCE NICHOL TN PHOTO LEFT TO RIGHT (BACK ROW): ADRIEN SEGIL DICK FRY STAN FRY MARK NICHOL WALLY MEARS Special note: not shown in photo were: Sverre Engen Dean Burnham Vern Nichol Photo: Alta, Utah - Wildcat building ski school office Circa 1968 . Geo. WatsonThe Man Who Founded Alta How many of you skiers have noticed the tumbledown shack located to the west of the Lifthof? Not many, we'd guess. In fact, if you don't hurry and get a look in this next week or two, you won't get another till spring since snows will soon cover it completely. This small shack used to be the home of Alta's most famous man, "Mayor" George Watson. The projection still sticking out of the snow was the method by which the mayor reached •his living quarters under the snow. Mayor Watson died in April of 1952 at the age of 69. The colorful mining man is almost 100 per cent responsible for the early development of Alta. Much of the land on which skiers now cavort was given to the Forest Service by Mayor Watson for the express purpose of winter recreation development. Mayor Watson was a familiar figure to western mining men. He had long been identified with mining activities in the upper Little Cottonwood area. His greater fame came, however, through his promotion of the Alta area as one of the nation's top winter sports resorts. Due to his efforts and generosity in this endeavor ski enthusiasts gave him the title of honorary "Mayor of Alta." He was the self-styled "King of the Prospectors" and yearly mailed 2,500 membership cards in the "Great American Prospectors' Association" to notables throughout the U.S. He was especially known the world over for his individualized handshake and his battered hat covered with badges and medals and various ski club emblems. Mayor Watson delighted in inviting skiers to his "office" and after a precarious trip down the shaft, he would c o n c o c t some if his strong drinks for his guests. No one who ever partook of the Mayor's libations ever forgot the drink or the mayor. Mayor Watson left few survivors, a daughter, Mrs. Agnes W. Moffatt and two grandchildren, but he left a skiing heritage for which every skier who enjoys Alta can be thankful. { ; 1 - --.. . . . - When the heavy Alta snows covered Mayor Watson's office home, he had to dig down to find the shaft. GEORGE H. WATSON Photo circa 1923 at age 40 Born April 30, 1883 in Michigan Died March 31, 1952 at Alta, Utah