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Show MAY BAR PADDOCK FOR BEATING GUN HONOLULU. T EX., Aug. 9 (By the Associated Press.) That Charles W. Paddock, sprint marvel of Los Angeles, An-geles, would be liable to disqualification disqualifica-tion by the National A. A U if the Hawaiian A. A J sent an official record of his times In th- competition here last April, was the basis of the loi il body's retusal today to comply with a request to that effect made by Robert Weaver, president of tho Southern Pacific A. A. U. The Hawaiian record committee informed in-formed the Hawaiian A. A. U. that Paddock had "beaten the gun" in his Honolulu rnces, that he ran in an unsanet Ioned meet against three un-reglstered un-reglstered sprinters on the island of Maul. T. II where ho also performed, the committee said, on a track that did not conform to regulations and ran ovrr unrecognized distances. The report on Paddock's times askod for by Weaver was for distances from one hundred yards to a furlong. The runner's best time in the disputed races was nine and three-fifths for the hundred yards, which equalled his ow n former makr. The Hawaiian A. A. U. upheld tho record committal ' refusal to transmit a report on Paddock's tiroes to the national body. LOS ANGELES, Calif. Aug 9. The Hawaiian A. A. U. does not want the (records made by Charles W. Paddock to become the official sprint records of the Hawaiian Islands, and for this reason It has refused to embody thern in an official report to the Southern Pacific A. A. U., according to a state-1 ment made by Paddock here today. I "One of the boys told me before jl left the islands that if the records I made oer there wre ever officially1 established as the Islands' records itj would prevent the local runners fromi ever cbtabilshing i Hawaiian record, ' Paddock said. Paddock pointed out that he brought back with him nMdavlu M , lime he made rares 1 trip. ,Rli ,'1 I Southern Pacific A A ujl m-Mlc the Hawaiian reeon i io ho 'aui I didn t beat i he gun dopV one else in the Honolulu nj t dock said |