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Show 1 Paddock Wants Olympic Berth 1 '"t BARLEY PADDOCK has no idea of taking a serious turn at ij j. indoor sprinting this winter, but the blond California veteran is :'z "" fully determined to try out for the Olympic team next spring. ambitious to do something that no American sprinter has ever achieved it n represent this country in three successive Olympiads. . jj j At Cincinnati to attend the convention of the Amateur union, as a Southern California delegate, a role contrasting with the somewha, ?? sharp conflict he had with the A. A U. several years ago. Paddock 8 declared his spiked shoes are still "in the ring." jj 'ii "I'm getting a hit old," he said, "hut maybe there is still a kick left. What I'd like to do is to have one good race say against a man like Chet Bowman, the jational 100-yard champion early this coming spring, either in the East Dr West, to determine what sort of shape I 8 am in. Bowman may consider this a challenge, in fact, if he wants to. jj 2 That would give each of us something to gyt in condition for and make it easier later on to work up to the Olympic climax. My idea would :.n jij be to make the race a feature of a meet In some big eastern city 8 for the benefit of the Olympic fund." :'j 8 Paddock has helped the United States .score 2-i2 points in . the j-j j Olympics in the sprints and relays. This is more than any other Amer- ican star has collected, but Hie stocky Californian wants to set a " higher mark for newcomers to shoot nt Oue of Paddock's most sen- ?j 8 sational Olympic races was a losing one, by a margin of inches. It s: jj was the 200-:neter finals of 1024. when jj Jackson Scholz, former University of Mis- souri star, nipped the Californian at the tape. The notion has always been prev alent that Paddock beat himself by a ges ture of turning his head in the last couple 8 of ' strides and slackening his pace a bit This is his story of that epic finish. however : "It was tight all the way down alts al-ts though I gained and held an edge over jj Scholz going iuto the last 50 yards. Ten 2 yards from the finish, however, I went 3? dead. I had nothing left but momentum, and turned my head and body only with jj the idea of reaching for the tape, gaining 5S an extra inch or two that might mean ; ' riiTi"v!cn between defeat and victorv. ., ,-.., 8 A 1 I Y I w S But Jack had th most stuff and he won." Charles Paddock Sprinter 8 ? |