Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-05 | Page 11 | Sprinter Sets 5 New Records

SPRINTER SETS 5 NEW RECORDS I SANTA BARBARA Cal . July 5 Charles Paddock, California's super-sprinter, super-sprinter, made five new world's records rec-ords here Tuesday In competition a1 a sanctioned most over a measured track. They were; v. 175 yards,- IT seconds flat. This clipped 1 1-5. seconds from the record. 126 yards, 12 1-6 seconds, a gain of 1-5 of a second. 80 yardF. 7 4-5 seconds, a gain of 1-5 second. 70 yards, 7 1-10 seconds, a gaJn of 1-10 second. 60 yards. 6 1-6 seconds, a gain of 1 -5 second- BREAK WORLD RECORD Paddock also equaled the record oi 0 3-5 for the hundred yard and 7 3-5 for the 75-yard dashes. He breasted the tape first In every distance of every race except the 50-yard distance dis-tance of the first sprint. In which Eddie Sudden led with a time mark of E 2-5 seconds, not a record, and the j ,6-yard dash of the third race which I Sudden abo won. The races were run over a track that many years ago was a favor-La race course and had been worked and built and rebuilt, until, with ih passing pass-ing years, according to Paddock. It has become the best course he ever ran over. TRACK OLDEST. The day was Ideal, there being , only a light breeze and that riuar-terlng riuar-terlng the track so that It did not re-turd re-turd or aid the eprlntors. The offl- , clals wore all men of experience, headed by President Robert Weaver of the A. A. U., who had personal charge of stationing tho timers and the Judges. And in the phenomenal sprints in which Paddock clipped 1 1-5 seconds from the world's rec-ord rec-ord for the 175 yard distance, threa offinal unicrx and two unofficial 1 timers, all experienced men. caught 'U8 tiice alike at 17 seconds flat.