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IOWA MENTOR MOLDS GREAT TRACK SQUADHawkeyes to Be Represented By Strong Relay Teams; Dauber to Face Best in Country in Shot PutCompetition of the keenest na ture awaits the University of Iowa athletes who will compete in the annual Drake relay carnival at Des Moines this week-end. The one mile relay squad is virtually the only team Coach George T. Bresnahaa has been able to get a definite line on. The delay in arriving at the Kansas games last Saturday occasioned by the ft reck on the Bock Island kept the half-mile and. quarter-mile squads from participating as well as Mann and Boyles, who were entered in xhe high jump and f pole vault, respectively.} Facing the mile quartet will be i the Michigan team, holders of thej Ohio State meet record of 3 min-j utes, 23 1-10 seconds established j Saturday when they defeated. Illinois and Wisconsin. The Wolverines are regarded as possibly the strongest rivals for the Hawk runners. % Nebraska and Drah§ ill also send teams to Des Moines which are not to be ig-( nored. These two finished in or-i der behind the Hawks at Law-lenee Saturday.Fast Teams in Half-Mils But the half-mile and quarier-mils teams will get into hotter ftater when they toe the mark ftitk stich quartets as Kansas and Nebraska. The Hushers ran the greatest half-mile relay ever witnessed Saturday when they established a new world record of 1 minute, 26 6-10 seconds, breaking * the mark of 1:27 set by Illinois ! at the Drake meet last year. Kansas is also unusually fast in this L event, as are Michigan and Ohio ' State.| Michigan should also present a j speedy quurter-mile team with a \ tiio of dash aces such as Hester, j Kelley and Leschinsky, -fcho finished m that order in the special 1100-yard dash at Ohio Saturday. The 440-yard event is not included on the Buckeye program. In the. shot put Captain Ray,.Dancer vi** un *nois rival, Lyon, and Kuck, flashJ of Emporia State Teachers’ coI-_ lege, who heaves the pellet more than 49 feet, and “Bud Houser of Southern California. Houser won the national meet last year. Rieherson of Missouri and Lovette of Michigan are other stars of the weight delegation.May Win 4 Mile Event The four-mile Iowa quartet will race against less formidable teams. Illinois took 18 minutes, 18 3-10 seconds to win the event ^ at Kansas Saturday, beating the famous Oregon Aggies team m which placed third behind Miehi-q„ gan. Texas alone is reputed to have a fast team. v Potts of Oklahoma, Wirsig of j I j Nebraskak, Carter of the Kansas er i Aggies, all of whom tied for first L.e | at 12 feet, 11 7-8 inches at Law* renee, and Northrup of Michigan, _ i who approaches the thirteen foot I mark also, are among the stars | who will enter the pole vanlt with !jack Boyles. White of Illinois !and Harrington of Notre Dame are other stars capable of better than 12 feet, 6 inches.Sheppasd of Texas, McGinnis of Wisconsin, Poole of Knox, Meis* lahn of Illinois and several others will compete with Mann and Thomas in the high jump.JlP“1S‘k10tye
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Mon, Apr 19, 1926
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