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Show Tolile,Devlin, Engen .to Be Featured · Ski Tournament Next Sunday Draws Star Field With an abundance of snow assured at Ecker hill, some of the finest skiers in the world already signed to compete and arrangements completed to assure the fans every possible comfort, the intermountain ski jumping championship tournament next Sunday· promises to provide a fitting climax to the 1942 winter sports ac- 1 tivities. - · The intermountain jumps will be f eatured by the three-way ' jumping duel among Torger Tokle, generally rated the No. 1 skier in the country; Art Devlin, who defeated Tokle in their last meet, and Utah's own Alf Engen. The scrap may even be made a fourway meet, with Jimmy Running of the Beloit, Wis., Ski club in the competition. I Sees Chance for Record With this quartet trying to out~ , do each other, Vic Johansen, presid ent of the Utah Ski club believes that there is a good chance for a world record to better the present mark of 289 feet. "If the snow conditions are right . there should be the greatest jumping we have ever seen at the hill," ' Vic announced Saturday. In fact, 1 all the directors of the Utah Ski club are optimistic and enthused over the prospects of this tournam ent and freely predict one of the biggest crowds to assemble at E cker hill since the national jumping championships in 1936. Besides the t op quartet, there will be Roy Mikkelsen of Auburn, Cal.; Gordon Wren of Alta; Sverre and Kaare Engen, along with most of the other outstanding skiers of the state and others from out of the sta t e. _ Tokle and Devlin will leave New York Wednesday and are sch eduled t o r each Salt Lake City Thursday, in plenty of time to try out the h ill and get ready f or the intermountain test. May Change Time Many skiers have said that if the world r ecord is ever surpassed i t will likely be surpassed at the . g iant Ecker slide. Utah Ski club I' officials may change the usual starting time to hold the meet when conditions a r e expect ed to , be most ideal for the jumps. Sverre Engen has been put in charge of the hill and will direct a crew of worl{men at the hill Monday and see that the slide is in tiptop condition by next Sunday. All entries for the meet must be turned in to the Utah Ski club· by Friday night. A public meeting "will be held Friday at 8 p. m. at the Newhouse hotel to draw for places and arrange the definite starting time and other details. _ _____ __JM ~- {"Repair' Hill A group of Utah Ski club mem- 1 bers, under the direction of Sverre Engen, spent Sunday aft ernoon 1 working E cker h ill, where the an- ~ n ual intermountain ski jumping championships will be held Sunday. Vic J oh ansen, president of the 1 club, said Sunday evening that the hill will be in perfect shape by \ Wednesday. He warned class B I and C skiers to get in as many practice jumps as possible before t he meet. The hill has not been in "jumpable" shape for some time, "and the B and C jumpers need all the practice they can get," I Vic said. The tournament will feature a \three-way competition among Alf Engen, Torgezr Tok le and Art Devlin. ,, I I Faces Tokle Battle for distance today . •. Left to right, Art Devlin, Alf Engen and Torger Tolde, three of finest slti. jumpers in the nation, will head field in tournament at Ecker hill. Alf Engen • • • Gets chance to jump against Torger Tokle at Ecker hill. By Ed Haroldsen Three of the nation's best jumpers will head a field of nearly 30 Sunday afternoon at the intermountain open ski championships , at Ecker hill, 25 miles east-southeast of Salt Lake City. The meet will get under way at 2 p. m. The famous three are Alf Eng en, native Utahn and former national champion, competing for the Sun Valley Ski club ; Torger Tokle of Norton, Conn., holder of the North American jumping r ec- · ord and member of the Norse Ski . club, New York City, and Art Devlin of Lake Placid, N . . Y., ''teamma t e" of Tok!e. The past week Engen came in from Yosemite, Cal., where he won the national two-way champion· ship last week end, and Devlin and Tokle flew in from Gotham. Others Entered Sl{_i For Jumpers · Poise Battle Today Engen, Devlin and Tokle Head Top-Notch Field of Riders (Continued From Pil.ge 7 B) tto hold the class A jumps with t h& the hill, the t ake-off for the Class inost f,avorable wind and other B and C jUmpers being approxi- · weather conditions. niately' 70 feet closer to the cr est Out-of-state skier s,, including a of the hill thah thi3 A t ake-off. 1.. • • · - large delegation which arrived . Jo,lansen reported .tha t snow . from the University of Minnespta conditions were per fect .for the for the Alta cup races, will be But the meet looms as no three- hleet. · ' sided affair since a host of others Pa.rti.c!pants will be required to . guests of the Utah Ski club, spon-h :soi:s of the meet. are entered, including sue sea- prove ~heir ident.ificatfon 'to get Positions follow: soned ski experts as Dick Dur- past ticket t a k e r s, Officials Class A-Dick Duri·ance, first (numeral ranee, former Dartmouth college warned. 31)· Sy~rre Engen of Ogden second ('l2 ) • A1f star and instructor at Alta lodge; , P'r'1'or to· To· " le' 's b'r eath-t ak' 1'ng Eng •e n of Sun Valley, thir.d ( 33) ·, Bar~ K fley McLean of Ziptelberger club (Denver), Barney McLean of Denver, present le'ap in Michigan, Engen had held · 's~~f~~5.<3JJ1b.,G~ffft'!,n (Vj~~~ Ua~r~ea~~~g0fi n a tional amateur combined champ; ah unoffiCial record a t 285 feet, : t o d th ( T · Alf's ·two brothers, Sverre and set last year at Ecker. In 1937 Alf ~ortoif,.•'bo;,;~ racrn~ ;for 0 [N;r N~~~:e Sk~ d G d W club, New York, sev~nth (37); Si Brand Kaare Engen, an or on r en went 242 f eet at the Utah jump- of Alta cJub, eighth (38) ; and Art Devlin of Steamboat Springs, Colo., wh.o J ing site and stretched the distance br dr~:; E~'if.~edNiuih'a~J~,i~ ~r9(ftah Ski won third In open slalom eompetl- to 251 feet in 1939 a t Big Pine, club, first (401; Dewey Jensen of utah tion at the recent Yosem1te meet. • Cal. ~l~g:· ~'h1~dd <~'W;; J?,=:;1e rJ:~:.~~~ ~i 1~.\t~ The take-off for class A jump· The same year Bob Roeck er club, fourth (43) ;Curtis stevens of Utah !Big Ski Meet Plans Drawn ers Saturday had been moved back · sailed 257 at Iron Mountain but ~l'~g; ~\itR, <Ud/; B&\i1t-~kinii'i~n~~r~Jt';,~ 15 feet, the starting point set back ·early last year Alf boosted the Ogden, seventh (46); Bob craig of utah and excess snow scooped out from 1 distance to 267 at I ron Mountain, ~t,t1 ~~t~:h ni~i~) ;( 4~l.w~ndd ~tr':.sehya'Ta1f 'relinquishin'g it two hours later to bf CUlatassh Cclu-bB, iltle nBtahl )e(y4 9o)f. Park City,. first 1 Tokle, who jumped 273 feet at &~2fl. iB:i'r~~/~elSn:de~~- t~l~~· <~ez")~'funig,teH Plenty of Time Contestants and fans attending the concluding event~ on the A lta CUJ> races Sunday morning wil~ ha ve time to maliC It to Ecker lull for the intermounta.in ,jumping c ham~ l>ionshlps, President Don Reddish nf the Intermountain Ama teur Ski assnda tion asserted Sa t urday, Leavenwor th, Wash. PaJker of . Ogden, fourth (53); Kent . Only 12 days la ter, on F ebruary Wi:!stroln of Ogden, fiffh (54) ; Jack 122, Engen sailed 285 at Eck er, the Reddish of Alta, sixtli (55); Dev Jen· 'record r emaining until Tokle's r e- ~~ni"a~~ ~~~th "(5~)t~ ~~;,~h ~~~r~.ovJ~~ cent 289-foot leap. p11e-utta .cohfe dU. tat\h!u, thte n(t5h 8)(.5· 9a)n, d Eugene Bernt· The Utah Ski club board of dir ectors put its stamp of approval on the Ma r ch 22 intermountain ski jumping tournament a t Eck er hill Monday nigh t and immediat ely mapped plans for one of the big gest meets in years. Torger Tokle and Art Devlin were notified by wire and arrangements were made for the brilliant pair to appear here. The directors also made plans to bring Jimmy Running, Roy Nelson, Walter Nelson, Tommy Nelson and Knute Johnson of Beloit, Wis., Ski club. They also r eceived definite word r that Alf Engen, Sverre Engen and , Kaare Engen would participat e, along with five entries from Steamboat Spr ings, Colo. The feature of the meet promises to be the battle between Alf Engen and Tokle and Devlin on the Ecker slide, which is home to Engen. A meeting open. ta the general public will be h eld Friday at the chamber of commerce at 8 p. m. to work out further details on the meet. , Utah Ski club ,offi, cials reported •o f O,Aflftiac,i asltsa rwteilrl; .I ¥n c..l, uAd. e SGtreaonrdg,e JHoe. QWuaintsnoeny Jumpers comvetin;; at A l ta will be sent tlown the l'Ottrse f irst , a l· though the meet wHl get under way a t 9:30 ·•sha rp," and should be throu..,.h in ample time f or t he Ecker, bill c lassic, which begins at that the spur leading from high- ~"1ct~1~~f6'n T~ftf"~!d$ri.fresadults and 25 : way U. S. 40 to the hill had ·been hent• for service men in uniform, childten cleared of snow, and that an aban- !urd studeilt~: doned road which parallels t he 1 _ _ _ _ _ -.:. ____ .:__ half-mile sp.ur and lanes which ad~ 2 'Th~·crowded week end of winter sports events will be _climaxed Su n· da.y ni gh t b~· a public banquet at Ne"wholHJe hOtel, bP~innin g at '1 ::W o'clock. Fielding K . Smi1h of Salt Lake Cit~· will bP toa ~tmas{ er . ·Features or the eveniu;; wtll be the pl'esent atiQn of thf" ~ix touring So1_1th Ameriean sJlierR a nd t he a.wa.rdt ng of med31s to winne rs at the two big, meets. j oin the spur would afford ample ' parking space. The highway froin Salt Lake City to the spur is dry, it was r eported. The order of the three classes ·-win be detertnin'ed ·according · to the weather, ~n effort being made the base of the hill to make possjble a record-breaking 300-foot jump, but Tokle and De:'lin were conserva tive in forecastmg what they could 'do. Predicts Jump. Asked F r iday night what he though t he could do on· the .Ecker s lope, Tokle, not elaborating or giving a lot of reasons for h1s answer, replied "about 245." How· ever, with the course in good shape and weather conditions r ight Utah Ski club officials expect the brilliant t r io to hit much near er t he 389-foot r ecord set at I ron Mount ain, Mich., earlier this year by Tokle. But after spending the after· noon on the hill, the two east ern skiers were more enthusiast ic and opined that they might be able to hit around 260 feet come Sunday. P resident Vic J ohansen of the Utah Ski club r eported late Satur· day that the pair would like to have t he jump and take-off moved back still further. At present it is about 350 feet f rom the A jump to the bottom of ( Conti nued on Pa g~ 10 B ) 1 f |
