Bobsledding experienced a new thrill when Miss Katherine Dewey set a precedent in piloting her 'four-man' team to victory in winning the national A. A. U. championship on the Mt. Hoovenberg run at Lake Placid. Miss Dewey's crew of Sno Birds included Leo Martin, Pat Martin and Lawrence Straight. The top skipper in bobsledding competition was Bili Linney, of Lyon Mountain, N. Y., who, with John Kerr, William Stackavitch and Angus Clain won the Governor Lehman Trophy, the Lowell Thomas international championship, the Samuel H. Packer Trophy and the North American championship. The Linney-driven sled was a second behind Miss Dewey's for four heats when she won the title.
The dominating figures in two-man bobsledding competition in the United States were Tuffield Latour and Paul Dupree, of the Saranac Lake A. A., winners of the national A. A. U. senior and junior titles, the North American championship, the Lowell Thomas International Trophy and the Adirondack Association title.
Francis Tyler, veteran Olympic driver, guided his four-man team to its second successive victory in the Lithgow Osborne Trophy races. Although competition was keen in all of these events, there were no new records at Lake Placid, the center of bobsledding in the United States.
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