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BRIEF'S on Fumous Bobsled,d,ers

at Garmisch'Partenkirchen, Germanyo behind hie old friend Capadrutt,
place
Games

in the '36 Winter

who placed second.

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Francis Tyler, former Lake Placid policeman, is an' other native who took to bobbing when the course was conetructed and became pilot of the second U. S. team

in the '36 German event.

Jamee Bickford, former Placid resident in echool days, now of Saranac Lake, is pilot of the famous Red devil team originated by Homburger. He rode in the '36 Olympics behind Francie Tyler, drove a two'man sled with Bill D'Amico braking, to a mile record of 4M:48.77S for four heats, February 15, 1942, broke
The 7936 Olympic bobsleil squail aboard the U. S. S. Man'

both two and four rnan half-mile records for single and combined heats last year.

Browno

Robet lllartin, Hugh Varno, Cratoloril lWerkle, Alan Washbond, Richaril Lawrence, Jarnes Bickford, John Shene,
Stetsens,

hattan belore sailing lor Gerrnany. Pictured with one ol their two-rnan sleils, from' Ielt to right: Francis Tyler, Ioan Donna Fox, Max BIy.

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Bill Linney, pilot of the Republic Miners four'man
to a new mile recordt both single and 1946. with Stacavitch, Brickey and Hicks, set a mark of lM:05.255 for the single heat and 4M:24.305 for the four.
bobo who drove

J. Hubert

four heats in

Billy Fiske, whose memorial trophy is the much. coveted award for the winner of the National A'A.U. four-man race, won the four-man event in the 1928
Winter Games in St. Moritz, defeating the cream of Europe's daredevil drivers. With the face and body of a boy, but with the fighting heart of a champion, Billy repeated his feat at Placid in'32, paced all.the way by
o'Hanko' Homburger's Red Devils. Fiskeos husky crew

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Bud Waehbond, Keene Valleyo who has held the 2-man eingle heat record of lM:ll.67S eince 1941, with Adrian Aubin as his brakeman won Lowell Thomas International Trophy for two-man eledg last
year. ooTuffy" Latour, from Saranac Lakeo won the North

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included Edward F. Eagan, Clifford B. Gray and Jay O'Brien, Billy took to the air in defense of his country and wae shot down over the English Channel.

American and National Senior A.A.U. two-man Cham' pionships last year with big Dick Morse at the brakes.

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Harold "Bubg" Monahan, Placid boy who proved he was dynamite on the icy track and for whom the National A.A.U. two-man trophy is namedo gave his life in a daring sortie off the Italian coast in the past
war.

fire chief was victor in National Junior A.A.U. two and four-man Championships in 1946 using Howard Crossett as brakesman and Bill Trombley and John Fell to complete his crew on the big sled.

ooStan" Benham, Placid's assistant

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J. Hubert Stevens, Lake Placid civil engineero who had never seen a run until Van Hoevenberg was completedo teamed with his brother Curtis at the brakes, to flaeh out for a win in ih.e'32 Olympics in front of the daring little Reto Capadrutt, Swiss ace. Switching to a four.man sled, Stevens piloted his crew to 4th

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Donna Fox, of Larchmont and Lake Placid, driver of the Number one U. S. Team at Garmisch-Partenkirchen which cracked up previoue to the ofrcial competition, is now representing the U. S. Olympic Bobsled Committee at the Federation International of Bobsledding and Tobogganing in St. Moritz, Switzerlando

February lst.

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