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Show JOOAIAETEfL RECORDS TODAY Final Drake Relays Scheduled Sched-uled This Afternoon PES MOINKS, Iowa. April I Jol Ray. who, when h la not attempting to crack world's running records, drives la tailr&b in Chicago, hop to achlav 1 th ambition of hla athletic career today to-day when h meets Ray Wataon of tha Kanaaa Aggl. In a apodal match one-mil one-mil race ataged aa aa added attraction attrac-tion to the thirteenth annual Drake re I aye. Ray, the holder of seven world's records In the middle dletanc run, will attempt to shatter the world mark of 4:14 1-1 for the distance. dis-tance. He ha stepped th mil within on and four-fifth seconds of the record. rec-ord. After a trial spla yterday, Ray pronounced the courae to b In remarkably remark-ably fast condition. Th dlmlnutlv Chicagoan haa raced Watson In previous pre-vious vnts. and always haa been pressed. With the preliminaries decided In seven events yesterday, the tracks were cleared for the finals this afternoon. Today's program, which will open at 1:20 o'cWck. comprises thirty events, and will bring together a record breaking break-ing lint of 5 athletes, representing forty-eight colleges and universities and ninety high school Narly evry university In the Big Ten and aUaaourl valley conference will be represented, with an Imposing entry list from the minor colleges In the Midwest. Occidental college of ts Angeles will represent the Far West. Moat of the track coaches of Midwestern Mid-western Institutions entered their stars la th Draks meet Instead of com- Settng In th Penn games at Phlla-elphTa, Phlla-elphTa, which also will b held today. |