Sport: Paddock

Famed among many famed young men at the Drake Relays, Iowa, was Charlie Paddock of Pasadena . In a downpour of rain, racing against three University of Iowa freshmen, he ran 100 yards in 93/5 seconds, unofficially equalling the world's record. True, he beat the gun by a fraction.

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