CRIMSON SKIERS PLACE 4TH IN TAFT TRAIL RACE

Hard-packed snow over an ice crust made the trial both fast and treacherous for the 60 odd competitors in the sixth annual Hochebirge Invitation Ski Race held Sunday on the Richard Taft Trial. The Crimson team finished fourth in a field of 11.

Coming in ahead of the famed Red Birds of Montreal, the Crimson team. composed of Bob Shaw, Dave Emerson, Charley Rogers, and Captain Adams Carter finished the run fourth, with the time of 13.66 minutes, as compared with the winning time of 11.14 minutes of the Hochebirge quartet.

Robert Livermore, Jr. '32, recently returned from Germany, established a new record for the course by winning in 2.49 minutes. Close behind him came A. Eliot Ritchie, Jr. '34. Also a veteran of the Olympics, Alexander H. Bright '19 found the trial too treacherous and suffered a nasty tumble.

Bob Shaw's time of 3.02 minutes placed him in eleventh position, the first Crimson team member to cross the line. The others pressed him closely, and all finished within the first 25.

In the afternoon attention was focused on the slalom race held at Peckett's on Sugar Hill in Franconia. As the results of this are not yet compiled nothing definite is known of the Crimson's final standing in the competition for the Challenge Cup.