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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 28, 1964
Matson Has Made
His Biggest Mark
By MAYNARD ROGERS
Young Randy Matson has a long
record of feats of strength that
dates way back to last summer and
makes some people in the shot put
ring look like 90-pound weaklings.
Matson’s claim to fame was at
the National Track and Field Fed
eration Championships in Houston
last June. Randy won the meet
with a throw of 60-6, becoming the
first Texan in history to break
the distance barrier.
Since then, the 19-year-old
Randy, Danny
Win In Meet
Fantastic Randy Matson
paced a field of Aggie weight
men at the Drake Relays Friday
and Saturday in Des Moines,
Iowa, with a 64-1 toss of the
shot put to set a national fresh
man record.
Danny Roberts, the other half
of the Aggie weight duo,
notched a second place in the
university-college shot put with
a throw of 59-214 behind Frank
Mazza of Baylor who posted a
59-1014 effort.
Roberts also finished third in
the discus with a throw of 167-
6y 2 .
Pampa star has moved on up the
ladder of success with so much
progress that one wonders if the
6-6 youngster has a ceiling. From
that first long toss Matson has
reached the ultimate in the nation’s
freshman shot put ranks, and now
holds a national record.
Randy’s record came Saturday at
the Drake Relays in Des Moines,
Iowa. It was a monsterous heave
of 64-1.
The mark broke the national
freshman standard of 63-7 set by
Dallas Long, current world record
holder, in 1959. The throw was
also the fifth best toss of all time
by any athlete in the world.
Coach Charlie Thomas, the non
chalant Aggie cinder mentor,
thinks highly of Matson’s progress.
“I think it’s great. I thought he
could hit 64 feet because he had
been improving every week. Last
week in practice he had over 20
throws past 60 feet. I believe one
of these days he will break the
world record,” Thomas observed.
Matson, however, did not realize
he could produce such a throw at
the Drake meet.
“I didn’t expect it. I was hoping
to break 63-7 though. It was just
one of those throws where every
thing was just right,” he said.
Master Matson must be doing
everything right these days.
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RANDY MATSON IN HIS BEST FORM
. . . holds national freshman record
Houston Skydiver
Wins A&M Meet
Carlos Wallace of the Houston
Sport Parachute Center landed two
first places and was named the
overall winner of the second an
nual Aggie Invitational Parachute
Meet held Saturday and Sunday in
Hearne.
The team with the highest point
average was the Houston Para
chute Club in the competition
which saw 51 entries make over
120 jumps.
Bad weather plagued the sky-
divers both mornings, but the meet
continued in the afternoons.
Wallace, the 14th ranked sky-
diver in the nation, won the senior
accuracy event, one jump from
5,500 feet with right and left turns
with backloop, and he also took
the style event on a jump from
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7,200 feet with the Bragg series.
The novice accuracy event was
won by Bob Walworth of the Hous
ton Sport Parachute Center and
Mike Harnett of the Ark-La-Tex
Skydivers, Shreveport, La., won
the intermediate accuracy event.
The team baton pass and ac
curacy event was won by the Dallas
Independent Parachutists—a team
of John Porter, Bob Crump and
Mrs. T. Crump, the No. 2 women’s
national skydiving champion.
Ag Win Streak At 9
After Decision Of Ric
e
By JIM BUTLER
Associate Editor
A&M put 12 runners on base
Friday night, but could only bring
a pair home. Thanks to Chuck
McGuire’s three-hit pitching, only
one run was needed as the Aggies
won their ninth straight game,
beating Rice, 2-0.
The senior chunker from Dallas
was superb in surrendering singles
in the second, sixth and ninth while
striking out 13 Owls and walking
only two. The win brought Mc
Guire’s record for the season to
6-2.
A&M (2)
Ballard, ss
Grochett, 2b
Koonce, If
aThompson
Carlton, If
Hancock, c
Cobb, cf
Crain, rf
Stark, lb
Hargett, 3b
McGuire, p
Ab
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James King, throwing a jug-
handle curve, kept the Cadets
stymied for six innings. The
Aggies managed baserunners every
frame except the sixth, but King
was able to pitch himself out of
tight spots.
A&M finally broke up the double
shutout in the seventh. Jerry
Ballard picked up his third single
of the night and went to third on
BU Stays In Race
With Win OverTCU
WACO — Henry Perkins
pitched a four-hitter and got two
hits himself Monday as Baylor
beat Texas Christian 7-0 and moved
into a tie for first place with Texas
A&M in the Southwest Conference
baseball race.
Bill Grochett’s line shot to lt!t
field. Allen Koonce then beat ml
a slow roller to shortstop to m,
Ballard.
The Aggies picked up an ins®
ance run in the eighth when Bit
reliever Tex Spear walked Frail
Stark. George Hargett follow
with a triple to deep right centr
to drive in Stark.
Saturday’s game was postps
due to wet grounds. The gait
will be made up Tuesday at 3 pi
in Travis Park. Steve Hilllwj
is slated to pitch for A&M.
Baylor beat TCU, 7-0, Monii
afternoon to move into first plai
in the SWC with the Aggies. Bit
have 8-2 records. Baylor is 15
on the season while A&M is 15-
The Bears and Aggie face off fi
a pair of games Friday and Safe
day in Travis Park.
TOTALS
RICE (0)
Judd, 3b
rf
Waldo,
Tigrett,
Fleming, cf
Longcope, If
Wilkins, lb
Blume, 2b
Rice, c
King, p
Spear, p
Ab
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4
3
3
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3
3
2
1
TOTALS
240-Pound Tackle
Signs A&M Letter
Two more schoolboy grid stars
have inked pacts to join the Ag
gie clan,
Pat Shannon, 6-4, 180, San An
tonio Thomas Jefferson quarter
back, and Doug Rhodus, 6-4, 240-
pound tackle from Findley, Ohio,
signed letters-of-intent to attend
A&M on football scholarships.
Rhodus was all-league and all-
state in Ohio.
Aggie Netters, Golfers Remain
In Contention With Clutch Wins
The A&M golf and tennis teams
shut out their respective opponents
over the weekend to tenaciously
remain in mathematical conten
tion for the Southwest Conference
championship in each sport.
With backs to the wall, the Ag
golfers swarmed the Rice Owls,
6-0, on the A&M course Saturday.
The Aggies were paced by Jeff
Andrick and Mike Higgins who
both fired subpar rounds. The win
over the Owls moved the Ags into
third place with a 22-14 record.
Results of the Rice match were
as follows:
Mike Higgins (A&M) def. Jack
Creel (Rice), 5 and 4; Jeff Andrick
(A&M) def. Dick Anderson (Rice),
4 and 3; Jay Ferguson (A&M),
def. Bill Jenkins (Rice), 3 and 2;
Doug Dyer (A&M) def. Baylor
Triplitt (Rice), 2 and 1.
Doubles : Higgins - Andrick
(A&M) def. Creel - Anderson
(Rice), 4 and 3; Ferguson-Dyer
(A&M) def. Jenkins - Triplitt
(Rice), 2 and 1.
The Aggie netters were busy
over the weekend capturing two
important conference victories on
enemy courts. The Cadets pasted
S.M.U. in Dallas Friday, 6-0, and
blanked the TCU Horned Frogs,
6-0, the following day in Fort
Worth. The two victories gave
the net squad a 23-7 conference
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