Charley Paddock

              CHARLES WILLIAM PADDOCK
The Fastest Man of all Time
Said Grantland Rice


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Timely Talks on
The Spirit of Sportsmanship




The Spring for the Tape



Winning a Heat at the 1924 Olympic Games



Berlin Races, 1924



Winning the 100 meter at the Stockholm Games, 1924



A 9 3/5 Second Stride


IN the world of sport, including every civilized country on the face of the earth, Charles W. Paddock is known as an outstanding star of the cinder path.  Newspapers constantly refer to him as the super-athlete of modern times.  Within the past few months sport writers have declared Paddock the logical man to run the 100-yard dash in 9 2-5 seconds for right now he is at the height of his athletic career.  And this in spite of the fact he was not in his best form at the last Olympic games.  The fastest man of all time, is Grantland Rice's description of the blonde-haired Californian.


In Field Array


There are other sides to Charley Paddock that are not so widely known.  He used to spend his summers as a cowboy on a western ranch; he has worked around the movie studios in Hollywood during his spare moments; he saw overseas service during the war, with a second lieutenant's commission, attached to G. H. Q. He began teaching a Sunday school class at fifteen and still teaches that class of young men when at his home in Pasadena.

For several years he has been a special writer for a large group of western newspapers and this work has thrown him in contact with leading personalities all over this country and Europe as well — for he has kept up his journalistic work all through his athletic career.  His articles have appeared in such periodicals as Colliers, Scientific American, Country Club, New York World, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Bulletin, Portland Oregonian, and other papers and magazines.

He made a tour of the world in 1924, in friendly competition with leading athletes of the Hawaiian Islands, China, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, England and Australia.  It was a Sprinting Around the World Tour.

IN our opinion he is the best interpreter of the philosophy and spirit of athletics and competitive sports that we have in America.  He has a much needed message.  Such was the enthusiastic comment of Professor John S. Moore, following Mr. Paddock's recent lecture before an audience of fifteen hundred at Dayton, Ohio.

Harold Dibble, member of the Olympic Games commission, recently wrote of him: Paddock can answer the reason for athletics better than any other American.

Charley Paddock is the product of correct living and honorable sportsmanship, the highest type of American citizenship.  Here is a famous athlete who lives for other things than the shattering of cinder records.  He is the idol of Young America today and the youth of the land have not misplaced their confidence.  He loves the youngsters and his career is an inspiration to them.  It is a remarkable fact that during the past two winters no young man has ever left his lectures.

He discusses a theme that is close to his heart — clean sportsmanship — in the battle of life as well as on the athletic field.  He is an exceptionally fluent speaker with an incisive and thought-inspiring style and with a fund of sparkling humor that adds much to his wide popularity on the lecture platform.

At the last Olympic games he failed to carry away first honors in the sprints, possibly due to a bad foot which bothered him in the try-outs here in America prior to the games.  Immediately following the Olympics however, he outdistanced the fleetest runners in the Stockholm International games and upon his return to America, again tied his own world record of 9 3-5 seconds in the hundred yard dash and 20 4-5 seconds in the 220 yard dash.  A week later at Cleveland, Ohio, he established a new world's record for the hundred on turf, making it in 9 4-5 seconds and also broke the record for the 135 yard dash.



Some Important Interviews
Paddock as a Journalist


Calvin Coolidge
On his election, 1924—White House.

Prince of Wales
In a London Club.

Douglas Fairbanks
In his studio.

W. J. Bryan
Nov. 4th, 1924.

Babe Ruth
Following his first homer, 1924.

Mary Pickford
Hotel Grillon, Paris.

Red Grange
Following his All-American football selection.

Charles Chaplin
On location.

Paavo Nurmi
When he was crowned Olympic champion.

Jack Dempsey
On his acquiring a new nose.





Lecture Subjects

The Spirit of Sportsmanship
The Man on the Mark
No More War
The World at Play



As a Speaker, Writer, Athlete and Man

Paddock is as good an actor as he is a runner, and as brilliant a speaker as he is an actor.—
Warren, in Pasadena, Star-News.


The talk on sportsmanship which Charles W. Paddock delivered before the Long Beach High School Student Body was considered the best speech the students heard during the school year.—
Long Beach Press.

Often have we been told that he who runs may read, but rarely has it been proven that he who runs may write.  In journalism Charley Paddock will achieve distinction.—Opie Read (famous lecturer.)


Paddock has talked in every city of note in Southern California, and his speeches have always been looked forward to with interest and greeted with applause.—
Riverside Press.


Paddock has no equal in the annals of sprintdom.—
London Times.


The career of Charles Paddock is about as strong a recommendation as college athletics could have.  He is a good student, who stood high in his classes.  Success has in no way spoiled him and he is ever the unaffected, wholesome type of young American.—
L. A. Express (Editorial.)


Paddock to-day stands out as one of the most versatile young men in the country Aside from being the champion sprinter of the world, a star debater, editor of the college daily, a writer of great promise, and an actor, Paddock possesses the power to sway people by his eloquence as few can do.—
Southern California Trojan.

The boy has ideas.  His writing indicates a natural talent for story telling.  And literature has high awards; let him strive for the highest.—Robert J. Burdette.


Charley Paddock is the fleetest human being on earth.—
Literary Digest.


Charley Paddock went through high school and college in six years—a remarkable record for any student, and the best of its kind on record for a champion athlete.—
Los Angeles Examiner.


Charley Paddock is one of the most likeable, most deservedly popular boys who ever rose to prominence in this city or section.  Always manly and honorable, clean as a hound's tooth, a gracious winner and a game loser—altho he very rarely loses—and an all-around wholesome, big-hearted American boy, young Paddock has captured Europe as well as America, not only by his athletic feats but by his graces of character.—
Pasadena Star-News, 1920.


Even the ancient Greeks and Romans, with their 500 years of Olympic games and mammoth physical festivities never produced a man who could run as fast as Paddock.—
R. Ripley, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.



PADDOCK'S TRACK RECORDS

World's Records


100 yards
9 3-5 sec.
Berkeley, Redlands, Pasadena, Honolulu, Santa Barbara, Paris, France, and Newark N. J., in '21, '22, '23 and '24.


220 yards
20 4-5 sec.
Berkeley, March 26, 1921, and Newark, N. J., Sept. 6, 1924.


300 yards
30 1-5 sec.
Redlands, April 23, 1921.


100 meters
10 2-5 sec.
Redlands, April 23, 1921.


200 meters
21 1-5 sec.
Redlands, April 23, 1921.


300 meters
33 1-5 sec.
Redlands, April 23, 1921.


110 yards
10 1-5 sec.
Pasadena, June 18, 1921.


125 yards
12 sec.
Drake Univ. Relays, Des Moines, Iowa, April 24, 1924.


130 yards
12 2-5 sec.
Pasadena, June 14, 1921.


150 yards
14 1-5 sec.
Pasadena, June 14, 1921.


200 yards
19 sec.
Pasadena, June 14, 1921.





American Records


90 yards
8 4-5 sec.
Pasadena, June 18, 1921.


135 yards
13 1-5 sec.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 11, 1924.


100 meters, Turf
10 3-5 sec.
Brooklyn, N. Y., June, 1920.


100 yards, Turf
9 4-5 sec.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 11, 1924.






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