Sport: Fancy Skaters

A nuisance to small boys playing hockey on country ponds are those solemn, grown-up “fancy” skaters who select the smoothest patch of ice and amuse themselves by executing interminable inside edges, spread eagles, figure eights. Fancy skaters, who prefer to call themselves figure skaters, last week held their championship tournament in Boston.

Best of the lady skaters was graceful, smiling Maribel Y. Vinson of Winchester, Mass., who executed her figures so well that she was awarded the women’s senior championship for the fourth year in succession. An able performer in the junior men’s tournament was 10-year-old Robin Lee of Minneapolis. In the senior tournament Roger E. Turner of Milton, Mass. won for the fourth year in succession. Mrs. D. F. Secord and Ferrier Martin, of the New York Skating Club, won the waltzing championship but lost in the dance tournament to Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard and W. W. Niles.