. Outing. ndstill with an easy, graceful turn. To this day oneof the chief methods of coming to astop is called the Telemark swing. The record jump at this meet, 1879,was 76 feet. It was made by one Tor-jus Hemmestvedt, and it is interestingto note that fourteen years later he wasstill making records, only this time inRed Wing, Minn., U. S. A., where hisscore stood 103 feet. Five years laterSven Sollid and Cato Aal added 6inches to this, which stood until Nielsen and Morten Hansenraised it to 107 feet on Solberg Hill,and at the same place in 1900 OlafTandberg brought it up to 116J
. Outing. ndstill with an easy, graceful turn. To this day oneof the chief methods of coming to astop is called the Telemark swing. The record jump at this meet, 1879,was 76 feet. It was made by one Tor-jus Hemmestvedt, and it is interestingto note that fourteen years later he wasstill making records, only this time inRed Wing, Minn., U. S. A., where hisscore stood 103 feet. Five years laterSven Sollid and Cato Aal added 6inches to this, which stood until Nielsen and Morten Hansenraised it to 107 feet on Solberg Hill,and at the same place in 1900 OlafTandberg brought it up to 116J feet. Two years later Paul Nesjo, a boy ofeighteen years, made the phenomenaldistance of 130 feet, which on February9, 1902, at Modum, Norway, wasraised by Nils Gjestvang to the stillmore remarkable length of 135 stands to-day as the worlds record. But to return to Huseby Hill, Chris-tiania, in 1879; after the inspiring per-formance of the Telemarken boys, thewildest enthusiasm reigned. Everyone. NOT THE SMALLEST PLEASURE OE SKI-RUNNING IS THE GOOD FELLOWSHIP IT PRODUCES.
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