Snow & Ice

At Krynica. On the express trains that run from Warsaw three times a week, Polish sport fans rode out to Krynica, their winter sports resort, and put up at the big grey Hotel Lwigrod where you can get a room, meals and a real bath for $4.50 per day. The hotel was crowded because in Krynica last week was being played the international amateur hockey tournament. The tournament is decided by the total number of goals scored by a team in all its games after the preliminary eliminations, and U. S. supporters were worried at first that their entry--the Boston Hockey Club--could not run up high scores against the European teams as U. S. skaters have always done in the past. The Canadians--University of Manitoba graduates -- had the same trouble. Reason: European hockeyists have improved. They have learned to play a stubbornly defensive game against invaders instead of using the open formations they use against each other. The Boston Hockey Club beat the Czechs 1 to 0, the Swedes 3 to 0, the Austrians 2 to 1, the Poles 1 to 0. They were entertained at dinner by Ambassador John North Willys, who has been a hockey fan for years. Meanwhile the Canadians had gained a big lead by beating Austria S to o. In the finals the Canadians were matched against the Boston team, over whom they already had a lead of six goals by tournament score. The Canadians won the game 2-0, and the championship with 15 goals to the Bostonians' 7. The game was swift, furiously aggressive on both sides.

To the Austrians went the European championship, also Ambassador Willys' trophy for fair play.

Quebec to Montreal. In 1925 little Joie Ray could run an indoor mile faster than anyone else in the U. S. Three years ago, too old for mile runs, he entered the Boston Marathon and finished third on bleeding feet chafed to the bone by ill-fitting shoes. Last week he strapped snowshoes on his feet and entered the 200-mi. snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal, competing with northwoodsmen who had used snowshoes all their lives. Frank Hoey started ahead and Joie Ray was far back in the pack. His cheeks froze; he tramped through deep snow with his face wrapped in bandages. After the third day's lap he was third, with Hoey still leading. At the finish on the eighth day he trailed, a slow & sorry seventh. Hoey won the $1,250 first prize in 26 hr. 43 min. 40 sec.

In Ottawa. Emil St. Goddard, famed musher of Le Pas, Manitoba, won the dogsled derby, as he did last year. Shorty Russic of Flin Flon sprinted in the last leg to come in second. But the watchers at the finish were more interested in the contestant who came in third. A woman was driving the long pung, bundled in furs, brandishing her whip, yelling shrilly to her dogs. She was Mrs. Edward P. Ricker Jr., wife of one of the famed Rickers of Poland Spring, Me., where Poland Water comes from. In addition to the famed Poland Spring House and Mansion House in Maine, the Rickers have extensive property holdings in Southern Pines, N. C. Four years ago Mrs. Ricker took up dog racing. In her first race her team ran after a skunk; she did not finish. That winter she bought a string of dogs from Leonhard Seppala. the Alaskan famed for rushing diphtheria serum to Nome six years ago. She was the first woman who had ever driven in the international race at Quebec. In 1929 at Lake Placid an automobile ran into her dogs and hurt them so badly that she had to quit racing for a while. This year she took second place in the Lake Placid race. She is entered in the Quebec race this month.

P: Also at Ottawa's Winter Sports Carnival last week, Jean Wilson, 19, of Toronto won every women's speed skating event, the title of North American champion.

At Hanover N. H., Dartmouth won the intercollegiate Winter Sports Union Championship with 3 1/2 points, earned principally in the skating races. Second was little New Hampshire University, which had won the meet for four previous years.

At Lake Placid, N. Y., in flaming red uniforms, helmets and masks, the four-man bobsled team of the Saranac Lake Club shot down the new Olympic bobsled run (1 1/2mi.) in 1 min. 52 sec. to win the first A. A. U. championship. The Swiss Nationals finished fourth, and the Berlin Schlittschup Club withdrew after a nasty spill. The event, like winter sports elsewhere, assumed special interest because the winners in most cases will be likely contestants in the Olympic winter games at Lake Placid next year.

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