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No electric light poles will mar the setting of the public rink conducted by the village on Mirror Lake this year. Several extremely large floodlights have been installed on the rear of the Garage de Luxe on the lake shore and shed their lights for several hundred feet.

A more brilliant illumination is secured in this manner and the more or less ugly aspect of poles and wires on the rink is avoided. The eight-lap track has proved popular since it was opened and the installation of the lighting system has drawn many to the ice each evening.

Tilting poles each spring have been a menace to those having their last turn about the rinks as well as presenting a neglected and untidy sight as the winter draws to a close.

Usually the thaws come quickly and workmen are unable to remove the poles and they are left to be floated out after the ice disappears.

The six-lap track at the Olympic stadium will not be opened this year, due to the expense of upkeep. As there are no senior skating races scheduled this year, the village board voted against its maintenance.

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Bobsledding begins

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Only one one-hundredth of a second separated the first two drivers in the first bobsled race of the season on the Mount Van Hoevenberg run Sunday.

Harold Murphy, piloting the Sky Tops of Saranac Lake, had a total elapsed time for the four heats of the novice race of 2 minutes, 52.92 seconds. F. Paul Stevens, driving the Four Marx Brothers, hung up a time of 2 minutes, 52.93 seconds.

The novice four-man races were held under the auspices of the Adirondack Bobsled Club from Shady Corner, the half-mile mark. The course included the famous Zig Zag turn that wreaked so much havoc among the foreign drivers prior to the Third Olympic Winter Games last year.

Miss Eva Johnson, prominent woman speedskater of the Middle Atlantic Association was a member of Charles Divine’s Lake Placid Athletic Club team, winner of third place. The course was fast and the weather conditions were ideal, although very cold. There was a difference of less than 7 seconds between the time of the first place winner and the slowest sled.

Among those signing for the competing teams at the arena office were:

¯ Sky Tops, Saranac Lake, Harold Murphy, Robert McKillip, Lee Benson and Harry Duso;

¯ Four Marx Brothers, F. Paul Stevens of Lake Placid and Ed Wells, Aubrey Wells, Watson Fuller and Berkly Partridge of Keene Valley;

¯ Passionate Plumbers, Lake Placid Athletic Association, Charles Divine of Lake Placid, Eva Johnson of New York City, William Alvany of Lake Placid and John F. Hines of Baltimore;

¯ Keene Valley Athletic Club, Ivan Brown, Hubert Nye, Douglas Adams, Elmore Edmonds and Austin Crawford;

¯ Four Horsemen, James Greene, Guy Barton, Charles Goodwin and Irvin Rabib of Plattsburgh;

¯ Keene Valley Eagles, Charles Storrin, Ronald Armstrong, Melvin Luck, Wayne Beede, Gilbert Stone and Frank Partridge.