Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Bill Disney, U.S. Olympic Games star, is shown whizzing across the finish line to nip Dave Stevens at the finish in the classic Silver Skate mile. Stevens, desperately trying to stave off Disney's challenge in the stretch, sprawls headlong across the finish in second. Disney swept the three open events in the annual Herald-Express Silver Skates Derby last night at Iceland, but this was the "big thriller" of the evening. Photograph dated January 27, 1961.
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