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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 417

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ilt out in the snow enables the competitor to XbO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORT [ski spring from its edge, eighty or ninety feet on tothe sloping hill below. The winter saw a hundred and five competi-tors at Holmentollcn ; at the given word a manrushed from the plateau on the hill top. Down whirling… … A Ninety Foot Jump. the hill he tore, the pace in consequence ofthe steepness being tremendous. On he cametill he reached the little platform built outfrom the mountain side; then, making a hugeeffort, his legs doubled up and his arms A man once sprang 120 feet, but he fell afterlanding in the snow…

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