Curtis Mills leads Aggie super sprinters in record-shattering Texas Relays victory
By CHARLIE SMITH UPI Sports Writer
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) — Texas A&M's super sprinters wiped out another Texas Relays record Saturday afternoon, elipsing the 440-yard relay record with a 39.7 clocking.
A sunshine-sprinkled crowd of 11,000 brought to the track by the Aggies' 1:22.1 world record tie in the 880 relay Friday night, watched as Scott Hendricks, Curtis Mills, Marvin Mills and Rockie Woods ran off and left the field.
Then, in the last event of the day, the Aggies added yet another coup, winning the mile relay, giving the College Station, Tex., school three university relays victories. The mile relay time was 3:08.4.
Four more records fell Saturday, making a total of seven for the two-day carnival.
A&M, which set the 440 relay standard of 40.1 in the Friday preliminaries, whipped off the 39.7 with ease. Runnerup Oklahoma State was far back in 40.6.
Texas-El Paso also set a university relay record, running the four-mile relay in 16:39.2. The
Miners were anchored by Kerry Ellison's 4:09.5.
Ken Lundmark of Brigham Young established a new standard in the high jump when he cleared 7-1 and Rodney Milburn of Southern University ran 13.7 in the 120-yard high hurdles, breaking the old record of 13.8 he had tied in the preliminaries.
Texas A&M was voted the meet's outstanding university team by 21 of 22 writers voting. Curtis Mills, who anchored both the 880 and mile relay victories, won the outstanding performer award. Curtis got 12 votes and his younger brother, Marvin, received 10.
In the mile relay, Curtis ran
the anchor quarter-mile in 45.5 seconds. Abilene Christian finished second in 3:09.9.
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Kansas State won its second straight two-mile relay, but ran a disappointing time of 7:23.5. The Wildcats were anchored by Ken Swenson, who ran a 1:50.2 half-mile with a big lead.
College division relays were won by Howard Payne, 7.33.2 in the two-mile; Southern, 40.6 in
the 440, and Prairie View, 3:10.2 in the mile. Prairie View, which also won the 880 relay Friday, was voted the outstanding college division team.
Two Big Eight Conference representatives, Steve Wilhelm of Kansas, and Mel Gray of Missouri, successfully defended individual titles they had won a year ago.
David Eisenhower to toss first pitch on opening day
WASHINGTON (UPI)—David Eisenhower, 22, right-handed son-in-law of President Nixon, warmed up his pitching arm on the south lawn of the White House Saturday in preparation for throwing out the first ball of the baseball season Monday.
The Senators Saturday confirmed earlier reports that the young Eisenhower would get the nod in performing the ceremony traditionally offered first to the President.
Eisenhower will become the youngest person ever to toss out the first ball at the Washington Senators opener when the hometown team meets the Detroit Tigers to kick off the 1970 season.
Regular starters President Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew had to decline the offer because of other pressing business, primarily key votes on the nomination of Judge G. Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
David and his wife, Julie, 21, his catcher, wore white baseball caps as they played softball on the lawn near the south portico not far from the state dining room where a dinner honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was being prepared.
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