Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-10
Eastern Critics
Wanting Paddock
to Run at Newark
Doubt if Sprint Marvel Can
Duplicate West Coast
ClOckings.

east for the appearance of Charlie
Paddock on the cinder path here. One
authority says:
1T is no secret that eastern and
mid-western sprinters are a bit skepti-
cal of Paddock's wonderful %sprinting
feats--that is, to the extent that they
believe that, with all conditions equal.
they can trim him. II Paddock's long
string of records are genuine, and we
have no reason to believe that they are
not, he has nothing to fear from any
Splinter in the world. The California
speed boy has much to gain by coming
east for the forthcoming national cham
pionships. If he does not put in an
appearance at Newark early in Sep
TENDER the cry will 60 up that Paddock
is afraid to take his record smashing
speed out of the California atmosphere
1T is well to give the reason why
Paddock's rivals in the sprint game arc
skeptical of his ability to duplicate his
California speed in the east. 1t is the
method of starting used in sprint races
at the big meets in California. At the
national championships at Pasadena
last July, for instance, the starting was
lone by a close friend of Paddock, Bob
Weaver of Los Angeles. Weaver acted
as referee Of the games as well as
starter-an act which, while denoting
remarkable versatility on the part of
the official, is not in accordance with
athletic ethics in the east and middle
west.
A Crouching Starter
Weaver. it seems, instead of taking
the position behind usually assumed
by the starter-that is, q standing one
with his gun hand held high-crouched
on the track with the %sprinters. The
arrangement led to much talk among
Paddock's rivals. a fellow Californian
inferring that the Los Angeles boy was
being shot off his mark to record per
formances that were not quite u
1T is our belief that Paddock can
outrun even such a fine string Of sprint.
ers as the United States boasts of at
the present time. and it is our belief
also that the record smasher should
come east for the national games at
| Newark if his reputation as the great
est sprinter that amateur athletics has
even seen is to be firmly ~entrenched.'
When the fastest quarter-milers in
the United States line up at Weequahic
park, Newark. to decide the national
44O-y8rd championship. the 1.-the form
Of Allan Woodring of Syracuse uni
versity will probably be found among
that particular group of titular candl-
dates.
Woodring has at last been brought
to the realization that his best and
safest distances lie beyond the 100
yard route that he likes to run so
well. this knowledge coming to him
| through a very bad pull that he
sustained in the recent Intercollegiate
A. A. A. A.. games when trying to step
it with ALI LIE Coney of Lafayette and
Frank Lovejoy of Cornell in the cen
fury dash.
Woodring a Bit PerpIexed
Just now Woodring is a bit per-
picked over what to go after" at the
national meet. If Charley Paddock is
coming east for the Newark games the
Orange Ghost wants to center his at
tentions on the 220-yard dash to prove
to the athletic world that the victory
that he scored over the californian at
the Olympics. at Antwerp, two years
ago. was not a fluke. On the other
hand, Woodring also wants to test his
powers in a championship race at the
quarter distance, and this largely be-
cause of the clamoring of his friends
lOF uil 10 Jake d ling dI tuc suoItcSI
middle distance event on the cham
pionship list.
1t is a strange fact that a great many
star runners are often not overkeen to
run distance at which they are at their
best. It's so with Woodring. He likes
to sprint. but he is not keen for
quarter-mileing. |
Woodring is credited with running
the fastest quarter mile that has been
done this year. AT the Pennsylvania
relays in April the Orange Ghost,
starting something like eight yards be
hind Bill Stevenson Of Princeton in the
final leg of the one-mile championship i
race, amazed the spectators by over
taking Stevie in the fonal 30 yards of
the race and in so doing rated through
the double furling in Al As second, or
a stride faster. Woodring did not
banker for that race. He would much
rather have started in the hundred
special, but Syracuse wanted the one
mile championship. and SO it was that
the Olympic 1OO-meter champion
heightened out his training work to
the end of showing the athletic world
that the greatest quarter-miler in com
petition today is running in shorter
races.
Paddock Not Keen for Trip
Reports from the Pacific coast In
dictate that Paddock is not keen to
make the trip east to Newark. Pad
dock is said to be standing on his
decision rendered in March to the
Wilco A. A. which invited him to make
the swing across the continent to race
on the boards in the Thirteenth Artil-
lery armory in Brooklyn. At that time
the Los Angeles flier was quoted as
saying he would not make another trip
10 the east and that he would prob
ably hang up bis shoes in the near
future.
1t is understood that the officials
of the Southern Pacific association of
the Amateur Athletic union, which is
now one of the ~lustiest sectional or
CARNATIONS in the national body, are
bringing good-natured pressure to bear
on Paddock and that he will be a
member Of the team Of about a dozen
athletes that the Los Angeles Ath-
letic club will send to the Newark
meet.
The Los Angeles officials are par
ticularly anxious to make a good show
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