Wednesday, May 29, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Wednesday, May 29, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Pigs prep for grind in the grime New story By The Associated Press Will Grimsley, AP's well known sports writer, has written a serie's of six articles on college athletics and its problems, which range all the way from recruiting to the mounting costs of big athletic programs. Grimsley travelled to the Uni- versities of Alabama, Notre1Dame and Yale to get on-the-spot in- formation from three schools each with a completely different ap- proach to college athletics. He saw the nations top collegiate prospects, now finishing high school, in Atlanta and got the story of high pressure recruiting from his father. Interviews with coaches and educators rouided out the picture, The stories will run in The Daily beginning on Tuesday, June 4. 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Perhaps the spirit of the Downer, as it is known to afici- anados, and the loyalty of its en- thusiasts is best captured in the words of Jack"Blue Belly" Burns as he says, "I ain't missed a Downer yet and I ain't gonna never miss a Downer. It makes life worth livin'."c Two-point-three miles of sheer hell. That's what the annual Memorial Day Pig-Down is about. Two-point-three miles of squeal- ing, straining, sweating pig flesh in a desperate dash for victory with no holds barred all alongl the way. 2.3 treacherous miles of1 slippery mud on which races the + fastest pigs in the South. And1 Mad Mountain Tnerko. Tnerko runs for the same rea- son other men must climb moun- tains. "Sure it's lonely out there," he says, "sure it's lonely. You think it's fun out there, wallow- ing in the mud with 10,000 pounds of porkers? You think so? Well, then you're crazy." Eight years ago Tnerko shocked the annual Memorial Day Pig- Down crowd by showing up at the starting line. There was much controversy ofer whether or not he had the right to participate, but after much discussion it was decided that since the rules didn't explicity prohibit a man from participating, Tnerko would be allowed to run. He finished a dis- mal 43rd out of a field of 47. "I entered, I entered for the first time, because I was having a fight with Rhonda Mae Ed- wards, who said to me, 'Mad Mountain, you ain't no better than a pig,' So I got to thinking, 'Mad Mountain, you better than a pig?' And, after a while think- ing, I wasn't sure. So since the annual Memorial Day Pig-Down' was coming up, and I could test myself against the pigs, I decided I would enter. "After I did so bad that first time I was more confused than ever about whether or not I was better than a pig. I mean, I was staying up nights worrying about it and trying to decide. I just had to run the next year, just had to, to find out." There are some who might see Mad Mountain Tnerko as a pa- thetic creature. 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