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Show INTENSE COLD FELT IN RECORD AIR SPEED TEST PARIS. Jan. S. Sad! Lecolnte. in big record-breaking performance over a four-kilometer course recently at Vlllaconblay, when he averaged 194 mile.s per hour, negotiated one of the kilometers In eleven seconds, flat, or a little better than 200 miles an hour. Lecolnte drove tho same Nleuport machine with which he won the Gor- ' don Bennett cup last September. He went the whole distance ten feet from ' the ground, sweeping down from a I great height before crossing the atart- j Ing line each time I "I didn't think one could feel as cold as I did" Lecolnte said when asked as to Jjl Impressions, "the chill wr-r" right rhrouirh nr. bone- The thermometer registered four degress below freezing on the ground." I |