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[[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
26th Day  3rd Sunday after Epiphany  340 Days to come
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enough these days to be on the Olympic team -- but the question is whether I will race as well. Then too I hate my new skiis & am not used to them, & have had no slalom practise. Otto wrote Alice to tell me to "give up my plans for Amerika & [[strikethrough]] take [[/strikethrough]] make plans for Garmisch Olympics instead. I am still undecided, & going through agonies. I see the Olympic Team in the order of their skiing ability as (1) Betty (2) Helen (3) Mary (4) Dot. It is concievable that I might take Dots place there, or anyone's who got hurt, as I think I come next, & would therefore be (5) on the F.I.S. team, & Kathie (6). How much Hannah L. & M McKane will progress from now on is a question, but at present those two are behind, & of course we don't yet know how good the Western girls are, nor C. Heath, but I imagine they will be behind too. There are the squad of 12! Of the [[strikethrough]] 4 best [[/strikethrough]] 5 best -- Mary & I are [[strikethrough]] much [[/strikethrough]] much the youngest -- Dot being 33, Helen 29, Betty 27, Mary 24, & me 23, [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] & as one isn't really [[strikethrough]] the stron [[/strikethrough]] one's strongest until one is


[[strikethrough]] MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
27th Day  339 Days to come
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25, I feel I might have a real future if I [[strikethrough]] took the [[/strikethrough]] spent the next three winters skiing. Maybe all this dope is wrong -- & maybe I have given myself a better place than I deserve, but [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] even if all this judgement is right, it is only temporary, because each week changes the landscape, & I know inside that I am much better at training than racing, & this is what makes me wonder if the Olympics is worth going back on my word about being with Lucy when her baby comes, & putting off work two months longer. Each day I pray that something will decide me, & now it is only 10 days till my boat sails. I will try out for the Galzigg Adler, & see the Western girls, & by the end of a week, should be able to judge. But right now I feel 50/50 about it. 

Since I've been sick my callers have been Alice, & Hermann, & the girls, & Mr. Taylor who came in unexpectedly last night, & most of all John Arbell & his friend Kenneth Payne! It is extraordinary to see John here at last. He wrote me he was coming on Xmas day, so he missed Alice's Xmas Eve