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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1976 Ags go to Drake Relays By PAUL McGRATH Des Moines, Iowa is usually a uiet, conservative midwestern city f about 400,000 folks. Of course, ome of the city’s population have een known to frequent those shady ars in the middle of town. But for he most part, the prime excitement ; watching the local college students ip up the main drag in vehicles right ut of American Graffiti. Every April, however, the city becomes alive with parades and other such hubbub. The Drake Re lays extravaganza is coming to town. Worshipping God is only the start of something great. This year’s version is the 67th an niversary of what is one of the most prestigious track meets in the na tion. Over 60 university, college, junior college and high school teams converge on the one-time French fortress with the intent of sharing some of the glamour of the Drake Relays. Texas A&M captured some of this limelight in 1970 when the 880-yard relay foursome of Donnie Rogers, Rockie Woods, Marvin Mills and Curtis Mills broke the tape in 1:21.7, a world’s record. The mark still stands as a world and American re cord although strangely. Southern Cal holds the national collegiate re cord in the event with a 1:20.7. cord book bears his name six times. And of course there was Curtis, the anchorman of that record-setting quartet. Mills had already been in the national spotlight with a 44.7 open quarter at the NCAA meet, a world record at the time. The elder Mills had also anchored a 3:05.7 mile relay effort in the Astrodome, a globe mark for indoors. That was six years ago, though, and most of the records set by that group are history now. This year the Aggies of Coach Charles Thomas hope for a new brand of Drake glory. Thomas takes a 17-man squad to Des Moines with the preliminaries beginning this morning and the fi nals being run Saturday morning and afternoon. Mark Lawless, Phil McClendon and Arthur Nious. Twice this year the Bears have embarrassed the Ags by winning in more than comfortable margins. The Aggies will also compete in the 440- and 880-yard relays with Shifton Baker, Ray Brooks, Charles Dawson and Chuck Butler handling the baton in each event. The dis tance medley team of Butler, Vogt, Manfred Kohrs and Walter Jachimowicz will also take part in the relay carnival. Baker will compete in the high and intermediate hurdles as well as the two relays. He took third in the 120-yard highs last year to Larry Shipp and Allen Misher of LSU. Teammate Curtis Collier, a freshman, is slated for the inter- A Public Service of This Newspaper & The Advertising Council In running the four 220s, the Aggie quartet averaged 20.4 a leg, -— not exactly a bad piece of running. Rogers was a long jumper when not on the track and still holds the A&M records for indoors and outdoors in that event. Woods was a superb sprinter and hurdler who the year earlier had run a 9.3 100-yard dash in the NCAA meet at Knoxville, Tenn. Marvin was the younger half of the Mills brothers act and the A&M re- Texas A&M’s main hopes lie on the two-mile relay team of Jim Bran- nen, Tommy Glass, Joel Vogt and Tony Wheeler. Brannen has had a personal best in the open 880-yard dash of 1:50.5 and although just a sophomore, is the oldest of the four. That is, if you exclude 23-year-old freshman Tony Wheeler from categorization as “old.” The South African import has the best 880 time in the Southwest Conference thus far in the year, 1:48.7. The Aggies will be hard-pressed by Baylor’s foursome of Walker Lea, mediates. In the field events A&M will have Brad Blair in the pole vault, Ronnie Keys in the high jump, Tom Owen in the long jump. Bill Newton in the javelin, Frank West in the shot put and Steve Stewart in the discus. Stewart had his best throw ever last weekend with a 186-3 foot toss. All Southwest Conference schools but Texas and Rice will travel to the meet with the SWC having top en tries of TCU in the 440-yard relay and Baylor in the mile and two-mile relays. ne day WANT AD RATES 10c per word Minimum charge—$1.00 Classified Display $1.65 per column inch each insertion ALL classified ads must be pre-paid. DEADLINE 3 p.m. day before publication OFFICIAL NOTICE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF ADMISSIONS AND RECORDS X) BE ELIGIBLE TO PURCHASE THE TEXAS A&M UNC, AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT MUST IAVE AT LEAST ONE YEAR IN RESIDENCE, IREDIT FOR AT LEAST NINETY-TWO (92) SEMES- ER HOURS AND BE IN GOOD STANDING WITH HE UNIVERSITY. A YEAR IN RESIDENCE MAY )ONSIST OF THE FALL AND SPRING SEMESTERS 5R ONE OF THE ABOVE AND A FULL SUMMER ESSION (BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND TERMS). THE HOURS PASSED AT THE PRELIMI NARY GRADE REPORT PERIOD IN MARCH 1976 rfAY BE USED IN SATISFYING THIS NINETY-TWO 92) HOUR REQUIREMENT. 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Letters to Steelers bring surprises, strange request^ It s sc abou i flyir Associated Press Kids write the darndest things to the Pittsburgh Steelers. “You guys are so fanatic every time you play I bet at least a $1.00,” Ricky Tuckerman wrote from Elmi ra, N.Y. “I have a beercan with a picture of the Steelers on it, but that isn’t why I changed,” Scott Kling of Yoder, Ind., wrote in announcing he’s now a fan of the Steelers instead of the “ Dolphinians. ” “If you’re still there when I grow up I might become one of your players, Jonathan Reed informed Spring Grove, Pa. “But nobody will get hurt because I don’t like to see that stuff.” The Steelers received about 5,000 such letters in a single month after the last Super Bowl, and they still get more than 100 a week. 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