A Book of Winter Sports
Dier, J. C.![A Book of Winter Sports](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/268/26878046/CHSBZCOP0326878046.jpg)
Excerpt from A Book of Winter Sports: An Attempt to Catch the Spirit of the Keen Joys of the Winter SeasonThe friction type of ice-motor first received serious at tention when, in 1911, Fred Waters, of Red Bank, stumbled into a sensation by putting his runabout on runners with a cogged wheel motor driven. It is said that he had no thought of its being unusually Speedy, but simply aimed to take advantage of the better and less obstructed surfac...