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...cook, whose fame has spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with his dog, lived while attempting to break the record over the measured kilometer, with a 375 h.p. motor...
...certain of a place on the U. S. team last week was Joe McCluskey, Fordham steeplechaser, who learned about distance running when he was a newspaper delivery boy in Manchester, Conn. The U. S. has the world's record shotputter, Leo Sexton, and a huge blond Californian, Herman Brix, who, experts think, is just as good...
...Herman Brix, world's champion 16-pound shot putter, and Coach Boyd Comstock, both of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, were visitors at Soldiers Field yesterday. Brix took a slight workout, putting the iron ball some 50 feet while Harvard weight men watched his form with interest. G. W. Kuehn '32 received an hour's special instruction from Comstock and the rugged Californian. Alfred Kidder '33 and M. J. Finlayson '32, giant Crimson weight throwers were watched with interest by the visitors...
...been after me for five years, but I'll beat him yet", was Brix's comment on his rival, Sexton, who established a new indoor record in defeating 0him at the B. A. A. games Saturday...
...large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium...