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Show ItJte. WAG Athletes In Relays Track coach. Marv He, took full squad to Freno, Cwifor-nia Cwifor-nia Friday od Saturday no NEW MEXICO won two relays, re-lays, the 440 and the 880, In meet setting a new relava m,T of 40.4 in the 440 W hi the 440 relay and fifth In the two mile relay. Western Athletic Conference schools and turning in outstanding outstand-ing performances were Cavl Hopkins of Arizona who railed down a fir in the broad jump with a leap of 25-11 V. competed in the West Otxart Relays Re-lays which attracts most of the nation's best. The nearest to victory vic-tory the Redskins came was in the distance medley relay . in which they grabbed off fourth place. , HOWEVER, former Redskin star, Blaine Iindgren won his specialty, the high hurdles, with a higMy creditable 13.8 seconds, iindgren has developed into one of the really great hurdlers of the nation tins year and is, indeed, in-deed, a promising Olympic hopeful. hope-ful. Recent release of official NCAA statistics show that WAC track and field stars hold the best collegiate marks of the year in four events and are second In four others. These statistics add interest to the WAC meet to be held in Salt Lake on May 22-23. B2g YaM celtent quartermiler was clocked in 4615 Saturday which was four-tenths of a second better than his best time of this year and the best time turned in by a US col legian in 1964. ' BYU's MILER Dick Krenzer finished second in a sparteine run timed at 4:04.1 In a fine field of competitors. Track and field notable Dallas Long set a world record in th shot put event with a toss of 66 feet, 7 inches. Long nearly passed up this outing because of a foot injury. I |