The Daily Telegram

The top section of the Cresta run, at St. Moritz, Switzerland, known as the "Church Leap," is something steeper than the roof of a house, and to see one of the masters of tobogganing negotiating it is, as the Bystander observes, a vision for the gods. But the most exciting place, without doubt, is at the finish. After a longish strip of straight and a sudden dip the course rushes up a steep hill and at the summit loses itself in soft snow on the level. So terrible is the speed of the tobogganer at this point that, although he brakes hard up the hill, he cannot prevent his machine from leaping skyward at the top. To see rider after rider sweep up that slope and fly into the air, landing twenty, thirty or forty feet off in a shower of snow, is to experience an indescribable thrill.