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WEIGHT CHAMPION EXHIBITS ABILITY AT SOLDIERS FIELD

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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.

"He's 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.

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