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Reprint - Associated Press - July, 1929
COAST'S MIGHTY TRACK MEN DEFEND TITLE
Here is a sample of the competition the east, south and
middle-west will have to face when the west coast contingent lines up
for the national A. A. U. championships at Denver, July 3 to 5 (1929).
The Los Angeles Athletic club, bidding for a second successive senior
title, will send a squad of potential scoring strength to the Denver
meet. It will be founded upon the weight heaving of John Kuck, Herman Brix, and
Clarence "Bud" Houser; the pole vaulting of
Jack Williams and the speed of Charley Paddock and
Frank Wykoff. Brix, former
University of Washington star, defending his shot-put crown for the
club will have the lengthy heaves of a stalwart teammate, Kuck, to
beat. Brix already this year has set a new American record of 51
feet 11 5/8 inches, not far short of the mark established by Kuck
winning the Olympic games' title - 52 feet 11-15 inch.
Houser, now a practicing dentist in Los Angeles will try to win
back discus laurels. The former University of Southern
California athletes has seen his world's record bettered several times
this season."
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Other athletes defending their titles at the
A. A. U. Track & Field National Junior & Senior championship
races held in Denver, Colorado -- July 3 to 5, 1929 were:
Photographs and headline blurb below from an unknown
newspaper source:
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Ray Conger |
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Charley Paddock & Frank Wykoff
Leo Lermond |
Russell Sweet |
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Stars From Far and Wide were
assembled at D. U. (Denver University)
stadium Monday afternoon in preparation for the A. A. U.
championships. (photo reference)
Upper (middle) The old master
and the youngest champ of the sprint world - Left to right -
Charley Paddock (Pasadena, CA) and
Frank
Wykoff (Glendale Jr. College). 2-
Ray Conger, the great Illinois Athletic club miler, formerly of
Iowa State, shown in action. 3 - A close-up of
Leo Lermond of Boston A. A., who ran the fastest three quarter mile in his
life Monday. 4 - Russell Sweet, the big Olympic club sprinter and
dark horse in the 'century of the century.'" |
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