Good weather and fast tracks helped make this year one of the most successful years in the history of American Bobsledding. Four records were established during the season. In the National A.A.U. two-man Bobsled championships, held at Lake Placid, Ivan Brown and Robert Washbond, Olympic champions in this event, undefeated since 1925, set a new record of 4 min. 52.63 sec. for the total of four heats of one mile each to win the National A.A.U. title. The Brown and Washbond combination continued to prove invincible during the year. On Feb. 20, at Lake Placid, this team also won the North American two-man Bobsled title in the fast time of 4 min. 53.60 sec. for the total of four heats of one mile each, and on Jan. 15, on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg track, it captured the title in the Adirondack A.A.U. championships, breaking the one-mile record with a time of 1 min. 10.51 sec.
The four-man Bobsledding championships were dominated by Aubrey Wells and his Keene Valley Mountaineer team. On Jan. 23, at Lake Placid, Aubrey Wells's crew broke the single heat United States record for the mile with a time of 1 min. 09.50 sec. and with a total for the four heats of 4 min. 39.22 sec. won the Lithgow-Osborne four-man Bobsled Trophy. On Jan. 30, Aubrey Wells's team again scored the fastest time of the meet to capture the Governor Lehman Perpetual Challenge Trophy with a time totaling 4 min. 39.75 sec. In the National A.A.U. Senior four-man Bobsled championships, on Feb. 13, the Wells crew climaxed their record-breaking season by establishing a new mark for the total of four one-mile heats of 4 min. 36.64 sec. and further breaking their own record in the one-mile heat with a time of 1 min. 08.83 sec.
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