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Show ATHXETE "WITH ONE POOT. Fred Moullen. Is a Cripple Yet One of the Best Track Men. on. the Coast. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21. Nlne-teen-ycar-old Fred Moullen has but one foot, yet he ls the most agile athlete on the Pacific coast, outside of a few 'Varsity 'Var-sity stars. Hampered as ho Is by the loss of. his right foot, this modern Achilles of the cinder path and gridiron ls unlike the Grecian hero of old In that he Is not vulnerable ln the right heel. When but a boy of 6 years of age. curiosity led young Moullen to see how certain cogwheels worked. When he got through with his Investigations his toes had been ground off and the foot slashed in the lingo of the M Ds., up to a line drawn from the Internal cuneiform cunei-form bone to the Interior calcaueosca-phold calcaueosca-phold ligament. Now, with this stub, which has artificially arti-ficially been built up Into a foot, shod with a common shoe, and his left one Incased ln the spike of the cinder path, Moullen is able to pole vault 10 feet 10 Inches, throw the twelve-pound hammer ham-mer 152 feet, and toss the sixteen-pound shot to the forty-three-foot mark. On the gridiron he is the giant guard of the Lick school team, nnd does the punting for that aggregation with his Injured extremity, and with such force that his averages are about fifty yards. Place kicking for goals Is his forte on the football field, and to send the ball over the bars from the forty-flve-yard llne'ls an easy performance. Up to two years ago this phenomenal boy athlete had been content to limit his athletic ability to the football field. Then he was urged to take to the cinder cin-der path. His first performance was In the pole vault, he being able to clear eight feet after some months' practice. By continual effort he has Increased his weight until now he can almost wriggle wrig-gle over eleven, feet. The accident which crippled young, Moullen has had the result of retarding the muscular growth of his right leg to a noticeable degree. Its etllclcncy, however, how-ever, ls unimpaired. Moullen weighs 175 pounds, stands C feet ln height, and has a chest measurement measure-ment of 39 Inches. "Of course, I have often wished that I was not a cripple," remarked Moullen. Moul-len. "I think that If my right foot was whole I would be able to smash a few records In my line, but I may be able to do so anyway. It ls exceedingly hard to split your time between football foot-ball and athletics, nnd should I enter college I would give one of them up and devote my whole time outside of my studies to either the track or gridiron." |