A few notes from those races:
alpenglow.org/ski-history/notes/ms/tpl-w...html#tsl-1935-apr-14
Tacoma Sunday Ledger, Apr 14, 1935 - Gorrie, Frank G., "Miss Smith, Schroll Win In Downhill" [7]
While beating Dick Durrance's second place time by more than a minute, Hannes Schroll passed five men who had left ahead of him at one-minute intervals in the dense fog at Sugar Loaf at 8,500 feet. Durrance fell once but Schroll "rode her out." Ellis-Ayr Smith of Tacoma won the women's championship, falling only once. "Most of her competitors were somersaulting 5 to 15 times in their do-or-die races against time." A Ledger article on 4/15/35 ("Skit Smith Takes Title For Women") [9] describes the slalom race, also won by that "human avalanche," Hannes Schroll. Skit Smith won the women's slalom.
I especially like the bit about Hannes Schroll passing five previous starters in the fog.
You can never be too sure about these newspaper reports though.
Five to 15 somersaults per run for most of the women? Seems hard to believe.
