Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-01
Paddock EXCELS CLASSROOM
AS WELL AS ON C1gDER PATH
Holder Of 100 Meter Dash Championship Aspnes te
journalistic Career-To Stop
Racing

ages past sought to perpetuate in
beautiful letters.
With him. he says, racing is good
exercise" but it is not an ultimate
II run" declares young Paddock.
because 1t seems, and always mas
seemed, perfectly natural for me. MY
father, when he was younger, DID ut
tie sprinting for Michigan. and l can't
remember when wasn't trying to beat
my boy friends to the third telephone
polo or the corner store
In the grammar schools of Gaines
VILE, Tex. where Paddock was born.
the only son of a middle aged coupe,
IL was thought he was going to be a
delicate boy" He was thin and iran
in appearance, but, realizing that stay
ing indoors reading his fathers tasci-
mating stock of books would not help
Matters Paddock says he adopted
running as a hobby primarily as
means of keeping himself part OF the
time out in the sunshine. busy at some
good exercise"
During his racing days. Paddock has
run 100 major races entailing cham-
pionships OF greater or less aeSree, n anu
of this number has won 152, taking sec
ond place in five and third In three. He
won the championship of the United
States at Boston in the 220 yard event
in 1920 and a week after this race, al
Brooklyn, broke the worlds record for
seconds. At the Olympian games, he
won the 100 meter race. In an event
for which $50 runners from all parts
of the world entered. the eliminauons
resulting in only six participating in
the finals.
Paddock has an eight foot racing
stride and uses n sixteen foot leap to
touch the tape. He weighs 100 pounds.
and his training, hc says, consists
chiefly in obeying his trainer, Dean
Cromwell. of the University of South
ern California.
Paddock denies the sports COM
ment' that he is supcrsutious or that
that is why. before race, he raises
his arms aloft three times.
Il do this" he says. mot because
I'm superstitious, butt to I'LL my lungs
with fresh air. | don't raise my arms
for luck-T tap on wood Sprintins is
an uncertain game; II Is so short busi-
ness that anything may happen. Be
forc a race. I invariably tap on wood
chiefly for tho psychology of the
thing. II keeps mo from getting over
confident. and 1 go in feeling squarciy
up against my opponent"
Paddock's athletic record stands be-
hind him. But with his artistic work.
he admits there is a difference. With
that 40 far, he confesses, he has prac-
ticaliy got no further than wearing his
hat on the back OF his head and put
ting his feet on his desk in tho cdi-
torial rooms OF a Pasadena daily pa
per and trying. Intellectually, to look
literary when the boys insist on
calling him Charlie"
People who try to fEurc out exactly
how Paddock wins say that In n dash
of 100 yards he makes a fraction more
than thirty-nvc eight foot strides in
addition to the great sixtccn-foot leap.
which is feature OF his final squirt
to the tape.
I +. w. (Dad) Moulton. veteran train
or OF Stanford University athletes. re-
Gently described Paddock's running
form as very peculiar IA sort OF a
bound or climbing -thc-ropc motion"
After Paddock broke the worlds
record Mt Berkeley by running the
22o-yard dash in 20 As seconds. he went
10 Stanford and smashed the existing
official record again by running the
distance in Il seconds Nat. Moulton
said he never had seen man run so
fast before