Drake Relays top off Midwest circuit
By RANDY MINKOFF
DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) — The Drake Relays, the third leg of America's April relays circuit, opens next weekend in Des Moines with five world records and a dozen American and relays marks in jeopardy.
A record field is expected to cruise Drake's year-old tartan track, particularly since it also will be the site of the June NCAA Track and Field championships. Many coaches feel the relays will be an ideal time for a Spring tune-up to acquaint their runners with the track conditions.
The Drake Relays will top off the April relays carnivals, which began with Texas two weeks ago and the Kansas Relays last weekend in Lawrence. The Drake spectacular also sets up the natural event comparison with the Penn Relays held next weekend.
The five world records in jeopardy, which will be compared with the Penn marks, are the three and six mile runs, the 880 yard relay and sprint medley relay and the 100 yard dash.
Relays officials are hoping for their first sub-four minute mile, even without Marty Lliquori of Villanova, a prime favorite to take the NCAA mile title in June. Lliquori will be at the Penn Relays.
Leading the mile field at Drake will be Leonard Hilton, of Houston, and Rex Maddaford, of Eastern New Mexico. Maddaford, who
ISU, OU to meet in showdown
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Iowa State and Oklahoma, the front-runners in the Big Eight Conference baseball race, get a chance to slug it out with each other this weekend.
The Cyclones, off to a 4-0 start in conference play, invade Norman, Okla., for a three-game series with the Sooners, 4-1, on Friday and Saturday.
Oklahoma fell $ \frac{1}{2} $-game off the pace this weekend when it split a doubleheader with Nebraska.
Iowa State, meanwhile remained unbeaten with a 6-5 victory over Colorado.
Saturday's games were all rained out.
Elsewhere Friday, Kansas was dumped Kansas State, 6-3 and 4-1, and Missouri edged Oklahoma State 7-5.
Other games this weekend match Oklahoma State at Kansas State, Kansas at Colorado and Nebraska at Missouri.
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should challenge Liquori for the NCAA mile title in June, helped win the Texas relay mile two weeks ago.
Jack Bacheler, the tall, 1ean long distance champion from the Florida Track Club, will be back to defend his double crown in the three and six mile events. Bacheler was named the most valuable performer at last year's relays, but he is expected to face stiff competition this year.
Gerry Lindgren, American three mile record holder, is likely to make his first trip to Drake, and could give Bachelor his toughest competition in the three-mile.
Another Florida Track Club entry is Frank Shorter, who also gets a nod in challenging Bachelere in the three mile competition. Shorter is the defending NCAA six mile champ.
The Mills brothers, Curtis and Marvin, paced Texas A&M to a world record in the 880 at the Texas Relays, lead the Aggie contingent to Des Moines in an attempt to better their own world 880 relay mark.
Hilton anchored the Cougars to a world record setting sprint medley in the Astrodome earlier this year, turning in a final mile run of 3:59.8.
The Houston sprint medley team, anchored by Hilton, will pose the stiffest competition, particularly if Hilton can provide something near a sub-four minute mile.
Mel Gray, the defending relays champion from Missouri, is coming back to defend his title. But record holder Mike Goodrich, of Indiana, will be here to challenge Gray.
Another world record possibility is the 100 yard dash, but no spinter is listed as a clear cut favorite.
Top challengers in the sprint medley will include Rice and Kansas State.
Gray, a quick tight end for Missouri's Big Eight Conference football champs, won in the rain last year after Goodrich set a relay record of 9.2 in the preliminaries the day before. The
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world mark is 9.1 set by Bob Hayes a decade ago.
Along with Gray and Goodrien will be Ivory Crockett of Southern Illinois, and Gerald Tinker of Memphis State and Goodrich's Indiana teammate, Larry Highbaugh.
Crockett, a sophomore sensation, tied the world indoor mark in the 60 yard dash this winter, and could be a dark horse winner.
In the field events the Kansas squad of Karl Salb, Steve Wilhelm and Doug Knop will be in
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town to dominate the field as they did last year.
Salb is the defending Drake and national champ in the shot put, and his companions have helped Kansas dominate Big Eight track for the past two seasons.
In the college division, Prairie View and Southern Universities, two schools with lightning quick sprinters, are expected to hold away again in the relays. Southern's 440 yard and 880 yard champs remain intact while Prairie View returns to defend its two mile, sprint and mile relay titles.
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