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Show SEVERAL DEFECTS IN MAKE-UP OF PADDOCK California Sprinter Is Not Physically Physi-cally Well Formed. C'linrles PmldooW, University of Southern California and Olympic sprints chnni 'on, is a phenomenon. He is not physically well formed, and his running form is contrary to nil previously accepted rules of sprinting. That was the conclusion of Dr. Rellln da Coteou, a Paris physician much Interested in athletics, expressed ex-pressed after he saw Paddock compete com-pete in the International university games held in Paris recently. "A competent physical director, after examining Paddock, undouhtedly would prescrlhe a medical, gymnastic orthnjwtllc cure," Dr. Coteau said. "One of Paddock's shoulders Is. lower than the other, the result either of a slight curvature of the spine or of a muscular Irregularity. "Ills chest Is round and his houl der blades are too prominent. lie has defective nasal respiration and breathes through his mouth most of the time. "He is plainly fat A ' swimmer might have some excuse to carry excess ex-cess fat, but a sprinter never. A racing horse would not be considered In condition if he carried such excess Weight. But Paddock's arms and shoulders remind one of a forty-year-old matron In a decollette." |
