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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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THE CROWN PRINCE HAS TAKEN TO THE NATIONAL SPORT AT AN EARLY AGE.
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SKI TRACKS THROUGH THE WINTER WOODS. SKIING, THE SPORT THAT MADE A NATION 297 about the report of his death, has beengreatly exaggerated. The first requi-sites are, of course, proper weather andtopographical conditions, and these Am-erica supplies with prodigality. Next inline come good health, courage, and thewillingness to take a chance. The restis a matter of perseverance. One doesnot need to be a Squarehead to be askier. Probably the great reason for itsrarity outside Scandinavia is the ex-travagant and perverted idea about thesport, not only in this country, butthroughout a large part of ContinentalEurope. Many people seem to think ofthe ski as a poor substitute for an aero-plane, whereby one can take marvelousflights through the air, blithely skippingover such minor obstacles as houses ortrees. It is painful to dispel such anenticing illusion, but truth compels thestatement that the longest jump onrecord is 135 feet, made upon a hill es-pecially adapted to the making of arecord.

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