!nkt Wribun.e------..,------Fehruary 10, 1941 13 ]Tokle Breaks Ski Jump Mark

'======::;:::::;::~~~G~~NG;;-E! ~s"'Y;;-s.h~ills -:;can~~ot~"' -==JEngeFn Leaps budt safer than Pme moun tam, pro- I2 67 eet I Th B vided you stay in the limit of its 1 n e ag ~~i~nfn t~~p~.it~: there is !s~rl~ I In MI.Chi·gan that can compete With those _in l ------1 with BUCK ERICKSON Europe, Alf answered: "You .> have it here in Iron Mountain." • • • · Engen says Pine mountain has po- N elv york Ac.e RUDE AWAKENING - Iron dined to believe if Engen had in­ ten tiali ties of being developed in to ~ Mountain went to bed Sunday n ight surance of not over-leaping the ·hill, a hill that will compete with· Soars . 1 273 happy over a ski meet as thrilling you would have seen much longer 1 Europe's best. • , • By excavating 1 as one could ask for. • • • A classic jumps Sunday • • . Engen is the the lower portion, using ·standard l ~ that saw a national record broken ! specifications of course, Alf says the ' In Washington by the mightiest of skiers, Alf greatest ski-jumper in America and we are including Tokle, whom En­ hill capacity can ·be increased to Engen, who soared 267 feet. • • • Ijumps as long as 330 feet. • • • Not With the dawn came a winter sports gen out-leaped twice in competition last year • • • He is the greatest 1 that you'd need that' much distance The jinx that has pursued All hangover that will go down in the to compete with the best in the U. Engen of Salt Lake City and the · local books as the No. 1 disappoint­ jumper that ever performed and probably will ever perform here S., but the landing space would be Sun Valley, Ski club - every time ment of the year. • • . During the • • • He has leaped further than available and a jumper could stretch' he has attempted to establish an night news sifted from the west any man· in America-296 feet in out with the "works" and have con· r-----­ official North American ski that one Tor-ger TokJ.e had le.aped an unofficial ride in an unsanc­ fidence and security, knowing that , jwnping record-worked again six feet further on a Washington tioned meet ••• We s•pent enough > he wouldn't be risking his life by Sunday. slide to break the new record two time with the ace over the week­ over-jumping the hill. • • • Com- 1------­ A few ho,urs after Alf had hours after it was set here . ••• A end to admire him ' as one of the ' menting further, Engen says, the [ leaped 267 feet at Iron Mountain, d•irty Norwegian trick we calls it. most sincere men we know 1 scaffold is plenty high as it is now, Mi.ch., Toger Tokle of the Nor­ too high for the present landing way Ski club, competing at Leav­ COMPETITION-Needless to say, He should know something about jumping hills; on a "fast" day. enworth, Wash., in an official big Pine mountain has competition. :----- tournament, jumped 273 feet, ac­ . • • Iron Mountain still has the SATURDAY NIGHT, we vNorway just work, it's a project and a cos'tly of the ski to see if the liquid was provement on the hill is inevitable; Ski club, made a second leap of one, but the handwriting is on the evenly spread. • • • The three of and the sooner the better. • • • Ish­ . 266 feet, also exceeding the pre­ wall • • • It should be done. us talked for a good hour. • . • peming, incidentally, spent $4,000 on ' viou.s record of 257 feet, established CAN PINE mountain be over­ Engen carried a great deal of the "Suicide hill" this summer in ex­ jumped? , , -. Alf Engen thinks so conversation, not about himself, but cavating the bottom and adding to by Bob RoecKer of Duluth, Minn., and held that fear Sunday on the about skiing-a sport you can see the scaffold-they're out to- beat at 'Iron Mountain, Mich., last year. fast hill , , • The safe jumping he loves • • • During the time we Iron Mountain and won't be satis- ~ Sig Ulland, skiing for Lake capac! ty of the hill is reported to hit u'pon the Pine mountain hill fied until they do .••• Reports we Taqoe, Cal., was second in the class - be 290 to 300 feet, but has not and Sunday's meet. hear say Ishpeming's hill is good A jumping Sunday, leaping 250 and passed an official test • • • Engen for close to 250 feet now. • • • And ' 245 feet for a point total of 218.55. ENGEN MENTIONED the fact says a jump of 290 feet is beyond then in a few years you'll have that J Tokle was credited with 231.79 the transition mark, or where the he was the last -rider in the meet new slide in the Porcupine moun- points . . abrupt change in the land•ing hill and had some mighty fine competi­ tains, which reports say will boast Adolph Dahl of Seattle topped begins and a jump that far is tion ahead of him to set the pace. a hill that will top anything in the the class B jumpers with 127 and i if 1 gambling against injury • . • En- • • • He indicated that one of the business. Charley Larson, 132 foot leaps for 214.8 points. boys leaped around the 275-foot 1 gen did not stretch out all the way Escanaba Press sports scribe, 1 in his 267-foot leap Sunday for that mark ahead of him, he probably stopped in yesterday £rom a trip [ reason , •• The national champion would not try to beat it, even which took him through the Porcu- 22~000 Watc.h says he would be leery of jumping though it cost him the meet.••• pine mountains.••• He viewed anything over the 275-280 foot mark With ringing sincerity in his voice, the site where the slide will be on Pine mountain ••• We are in- the Scandinavian said: "Anything built and commented that he's seen Mich., Feb. over that would be taking a chance. nothing in the U. P. that will com- ~ j ~~~NJ:::~AIN , You might be lucky and might not, pare with it. 9 (JP)-Alf Engen of Salt Lake City, ·but I've looked over that hill and national class A ski champion, bet­ believe you can't letout in shooting AND THAT, folks, is a frank ver­ tered the amateur American jump­ IAlfEngen at 275 feet without a dangerous sion of the problem Iron Mountain ing record Sunday by leaping 267 risk. Jumpers are human too. A faces to regain national supremacy feet on the Pine mountain .slide rider that gives everyt•hing he's got in ski-jumping. • • • Take it or here before 22,000 people. !Wins, Loses in every meet .doesn't last long. !leave it.••• But, remember that However, Engen's record was What if you do lose a meet? There's old bromide. • • • "If you can write l ·short lived. A few hours later, always tomorrow and another meet. a better book, preach a better ser- 1 Tager Tokle of New York's Nor­ way Ski club leaped 273 feet at \Jumping Titl~ __, Your best example of a fellow who mon, or build a better mouse trap 1· gave everything he had in every than your neighbor, the world wil-l e'avenworth,. W11'S'h. . meet was Paul Bietila, a great bea.t a p_a.th tQ ~OJ.U' door," / IRON MOUNTAIN, · MICh.; Feb, jumper----Idaho, 1.2ld a new American !hat time and he, . a man w~o Roecker ·of Duluth, Minn. amateur competitive ski jumping JUmped 273 feet on Pme mountam, Walter Bietila of Madison, Wis.,

record. said: "Yes, 270 feet is ·plenty far. on 1----'------1 placed first in class A and re- While a crowd of 22,000 watched that hili." ceived a special award as the the national ski champion leaped most graceful rider in the tourna- 267 feet yesterday from the f'ine ~ F09D ¥.9~ THOUGIJT-UnJess_ ment, which drew an entry of Mountain jumping · platform here. yOU re gave took the senior class title on him 144.56 points to 143.43 for the leaps of 171 and 179 feet and "un Valley ace, who reached only 118.45 points. ' feet on his first try. The Pine Mountain scaffold i:s the highest artificial slide in the world.