| Show A THOUSAND ACRES OF ICE Halbert Greaves 1904 Herbert Salt Lake City Professional Avenue UT 84108 Division Second Place Anecdote When was young winter was The Time hard freeze in December or January would createthousand acres of ice west of town thousand acres Shucks had skated from Chester to Manti--about Some fellows 12-15 miles said they The Sanpitch River was more likesheet of water thanstream No matter that there were dilapidated fences here and there and patches of dead grass or bullrushes sticking through the ice there were enough expanses of clear ice to accommodate many groups of skaters playing hockey stealsticks pop-the-whip or other games Pop-the-whip was the game for dare-devils Some boy would maneuvermodel-T Ford ontobroad expanse of ice anddozen or fifteen teen-agers would string out behind it holding hands The first one would cling to the back of the car The driver would get the car going 15-20 miles per hour then cramp the steering wheel right or left and slam on the brakes sending the car intoswift spin This made the boys strung out behind whirl around ingreat circle with the last one going so fast he would sometimes go spranling on the ice One Saturday during the winter of 1924-5 rear wheel of the model-T broke through the ice Fortunately the water under the ice was not deep and the wheel touched ground Several of us managed to 1ift 1t up and push it ahead far enough to get all four wheels on solid ice and go on with our game But some of us had to wade in ice-cold water up to our knees to 1ift and push the car onto solid ice was one of them butcannot remember what my mother said whenarrived home with icy pants |
