Randy Matson Returns To Aggieland
As Spring Semester Gets Underway
By LANI PRESSWOOD
Sports Editor
William Shakespeare has re
placed Dallas Dong' in the
thoughts of Randy Matson.
The massive Aggie sophomore
is resuming his college studies
after a one-semester layoff dur
ing which he claimed an Olympic
silver medal in the shot put.
“It’s good to be back in a way,”
he remarked early this week,
"but it sure is going to be hard
getting back to studying.”
The textbooks in Randy’s room
look familiar. One of them was
open to a play composed by some
sixteenth century Englishman.
The title is "Romeo and Juliet.”
His serious face almost broke
into a smile when he said of the
play, “I have enough problems of
my own without worrying about
theirs.”
Matson’s problems are not
easily recognizable. The Pampa
Blind Pupils
Try Knack
At Skiing
SPRING MOUNTAIN, Pa. (^>—
"Can you imagine us skiing?”
asked Anita.
It got tougher when she and
her fellow skiing students laced
their boots and began to walk.
In little over an hour, this par
ticular class of ski instructor Gun
ther Starker had completed its
first lesson. Only one fell.
What’s so great about that?
The students are blind.
It seems an impossible task, to
teach the blind to ski. But not for
Starker, who taught Willi Hohm,
regarded as the world’s finest
blind skiier.
At the bottom of the slope, in
his heavy Germanic accent, Stark-
er’s voice was sharp.
"Left ski . . . right ski . . . left
. . . left ski . . . right ski . . .”
"Wonderful, Mark. Wonderful,”
he said to a tall, 14-year-old boy
slowly completing a semicircle.
Mark Burns couldn’t see how
wonderful he was, since he was
robbed of his sight by cancer at
the age of 3.
Neither could Nicole Spiegel, 20,
nor Anita Hawthorne, 19. They
had lost their sight before enter
ing public school.
Patricia Fulton, a physical edu
cation teacher at the Overbrook
School for the Blind where these
young people study, brought them
to Spring Mountain. She explained
they are used to feeling their way
with their feet when they walk,
but the thickness of the ski boots
prohibited them from doing so.
As Starker hooked Anita’s left
ski in place, she said, “Let me see
how this thing looks.”
She looked with her left hand.
Each student finally skied about
10 yards unaided on a slight hill,
coming to a 90-degree stop.
"The last time down the hill I
though I was really going to slide,
but not on my skis,” said Anita.
Mark said he was glad he didn’t
break a leg.
"I couldn’t afford it,” he noted.
“I have to wrestle Saturday.”
Mantle Agrees
To Yanks’ Offer
NEW YORK (A*)—Mickey Man
tle has agreed to terms with the
New York Yankees for a $107,000
salary, tops in baseball, the New
York Post reported Wednesday.
The report said the Yankees al
so have reached an agreement with
Roger Maris at $70,000, restoring
the cut he took last season.
Both players reportedly will sign
official contracts within the next
few days.
The Yankees said neither player
had signed a contract, and declined
to comment on salary offers.
Mantle reportedly got $100,000
last year. Willie Mays of the San
Francisco Giants has generally
been accepted as the top-salaried
baseball player at $105,000. He re
cently signed for the same figure.
Other $100,000 players were Joe
DiMaggio, Stan Musial and Ted
Williams.
Nisenson Becomes
Cinderella Netter
HEMPSTEAD, N. Y. <A>)_Skin-
ny Steve Nisenson, who couldn’t
play basketball in his own back
yard as a boy because he was too
small, is about to become the third
player in the New York area to
score 2,000 points in a college ca
reer.
The 6-foot 2, 170-pound Hofstra
University senior has 1,994 points
and should hit the magic mark
Thursday night aaginst Long Is
land University.
strongboy now reigns as the
planet’s foremost shot man. At
the tender age of nineteen he al
ready has a hammerlock on the
top rung and doesn’t seem at all
anxious to relinquish it.
His Tokyo blast of 66-3^4 is
second only to the distances
reached by the now-retired Long,
who has a mark of 67-10 pend
ing as a world record.
Matson is already back on a
full scale training schedule which
includes a rigorous, weightlifting
program. He didn’t start lifting
weights until after his gradua
tion from high school. Now he
does repetitions in the bench
press with 350 pounds and in the
full squat with 410.
The 250-pounder hopes to build
up to around 265 after competing
at 260 in Tokyo.
His performance in what is
probably the world’s largest city
capped a year in which his prog
ress was remarkably consistent.
“I improved faster last year
because I was getting bigger and
stronger all the time,” explains
Randy. “I won’t be gaining
strength that fast from now on
so my improvement will be up
and down instead of steady.”
Since his return from the
Olympics Matson has been work
ing in Abilene. He performed in
an exhibition capacity in Lub
bock Saturday and uncorked a
65-6% heave.
Of the throw, he says typical
ly, "No, I didn’t expect it. It sur
prised me.”
Randy has surprised not only
himself but the entire track
world as well with his feats in
the shot put ring. What is his
ultimate goal ?
"I never set myself a goal or
shoot for any certain distance. I
just try to improve.”
Some observers feel that his
greatest potential lies in the dis
cus, but Matson disagrees, say
ing, "I’ll still concentrate on the
shot. I’ve worked on it longer
and enjoy it a lot more.”
His two biggest thrills in
sports have both come from hurl
ing an iron ball over a sizeable
expanse of ground. He ranks
winning the state meet as a high
school junior second only to cap
turing of an Olympic medal.
Randy is a business major who
would like to go into public rela
tions after graduation. He served
as an instructor in a recent
coaching clinic in Houston and
has made other appearances as
a public speaker.
Several mementos in his room
keep the memory of the 1964
Olympic Games alive. One is a
photograph showing Long atop
a platform with his gold medal.
It shows Randy standing on a
lower level, which is symbolic of
second place.
Don’t count on a picture like
that ever being taken again.
A&M OLYMPIAN RANDY MATSON
. . hits the books again after a Tokyo vacation.
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