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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 24, 1965
Randy Destined
To Join Texas
Olympic Greats
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
There have been 18 Olympic
Games for men and 10 for women.
In those great spectacles Texas
has produced eight champions of
whom three have won more than
one event.
Texas’ first Olympic champion
was Babe Didrikson, the famed
woman athlete who took the
javelin and 80-meter hurdles in
the 1932 games. She also won the
high jump but was disqualified
for diving over the crossbar.
The first men’s champion was
Earl Meadows, who won the pole
vault in 1936.
Walter Davis of A&M was the
next. He won the high jump in
1952.
Then in 1956 Bobby Morrow
became the only Texan ever to
capture three gold medals. He
won the 100 and 200 meters and
ran on the victorious 400-meter
relay team.
Mai Whitfield, a former Texan,
won two gold medals—one in the
800 meters, one on the 1600-meter
relay team—in 1948. He won the
800 meters again in 1952.
Stone Jackson ran on the win
ning 400-meter relay in 1960 but
the team was disqualified for
passing the baton out of the zone.
That year Earl Young, a Cali
fornian who went to Abilene
Christian College, ran on the
winning 1600-meter relay team.
Rafer Johnson, another former
Texan, won the decathlon in 1960.
Fred Hansen was pole vault
champion in 1964 with the most
spectacular showing of them all
—he set a record of 16 feet 8
inches.
Twice Texas athletes almost
made it—A&M’s Darrow Hooper
lost the shot put by % of an
inch in 1952; Eddie Southern was
second in the 400-meter hurdles
in 1956, just .6 of a second off
the winning time.
This is a good showing for the
state, but indications are that you
haven’t seen anything yet unless
you wait for A&M’s Randy
Matson.
This is a most remarkable
athlete and most remarkable
young man. He may win only
one event, although he might take
two if he stays with plans to
also work in the discus, but what
a record he could set!
Randy threw the shot an
astonishing 66 feet 3^/4 inches in
the Olympics last year. He was
only a college freshman, 19 years
old. But he pitched the shot out
like thousands of men have
dreamed about over the years.
Yet Dallas Long, an aging vet
eran, bettered his throw and won
the Olympics.
However, Matson got more
publicity out of finishing second
than Long did in winning. Long
was supposed to; he was supposed
to throw the shot over 67 feet.
Matson wasn’t supposed to get
more than 65 feet and that, actu
ally, would have been considered
a great performance for so callow
a person.
But Matsons showing brought
comment from every quarter that
here, indeed ,was the fellow who
some day would throw the 16-
pound ball 70 feet. Even his
opponents said it. Long ex
pressed pleasure that he was
winding up his competition. He
couldn’t imagine himself beating
Matson any time in the future.
Matson is dedicated to becom
ing the greatest weightman the
world ever has known. But he
also is dedicated to the proposi
tion that you should make friends
along the way and not subscribe
to the theory that nice guys
always finish last.
He is most practical, too. He
realizes that he can do no more
in developing his form—he al
ready has that down to perfec
tion. The only way, then, that
he can hope to continue to in
crease his distance in the shot is
to become bigger and stronger.
The way he is going, by the time
of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico
City, he will weigh about 280
pounds and be the strongest man
in the world.
Randy is going to pay a heavy
price—he’s going to work harder
than five ditch-diggers. There’ll
be four years of it but it’s going
to pay off at Mexico City when
Matson sets the greatest record
in the history of sport.
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OLYMPIAN RANDY MATSON
shown in Baylor meet on his best day ever.
Fish Gunners Set
Duels With Teens
A series of weekly rifle matches
between A&M University fresh
men and the Twin City Rifle
Club is being held on the A&M
range. These matches provide
good experience for all partici
pants, Aggie Rifle Coach Harvey
H. Dayton said.
Coaching the Twin City club
composed of 13 and 14-year-old
youths is Sidney L. Loveless.
Different freshmen members of
the A&M Rifle Team and various
members of the club fire the
matches each Monday afternoon.
Plans call for the series to con
tinue through the spring, Dayton
said.
The A&M freshmen emerged as
victors by 26 points in the match
this week. The Fish scored 1125
of a possible 1500 points for the
five-man team. High pointer was
freshman Kenneth Taylor with 256
of the possible 300 points. George
Jackson with 221 points was high
point individual for the club team.
Sophomore Paces
UT Baseballers
Past Minnesota
AUSTIN CP) — Sophomore Bob
Oliver pitched and batted Texas
to a 6-3 victory over Minnesota
Tuesday to square the baseball
series.
Oliver allowed only three hits
the first five innings but gave
up three-good for two runs-in the
seventh when he was relieved by
Dennis Enderling.
But he had left his own mar
gin of victory with a three-run
homer in the fifth.
Texas led 1-0 going into the
fourth when Oliver came up with
two on. He hit a high fly ball
over the fence in deep right.
Frank Brosseau, Minnesota
starter, was the loser, giving up
seven hits and all the Longhorns
runs in five innings. Charilefy
Thoreson finished up.
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Texas 001 320 00x-6 9 2
Quadrangular Meet Ducats
Notv On Sale At 8 Places
Tickets for the quadrangular
track and field meet among A&M,
Baylor, SMU and Texas have
been placed on sale at eight
Bryan-College Station locations.
The Bryan-College Station Jay-
cees, who are sponsoring the
April 9 night meet on the Kyle
Field, have placed tickets
sale at these locations.
Aggieland Studio, Loupot’s, the
Memorial Student Center, the
Varsity Shop in Townshire Shop
ping Center and First Bank &
Mele Question
Quickly Bugs
Billy Martin
Brosseau, Thoreson 6 and Caw
ley, Oliver, Enderlin 7 and Sches-
chuk. W-Oliver. L-Brousseau.
Orlando, Fla. CP) — The quick
est way to irritate Billy Martin
is to ask him if it is true he is
being groomed by the front office
to succeed Sam Mele as manager
of the Minnesota Twins should
the club continue to falter this
year.
“I’m in no hurry to become a
manager,” growled the former New
York Yankee sparkplug who last
October was one of the three
new coaches hired in an attempt
to spark the Twins.
“I’m still a young guy. I can
wait. I don’t think I’m ready for
manager. I’ve got lots to learn
I’m trying to be a good coach
and help Sam all I can. That’s
foremost in my mind right now.”
Battling Billy is fully aware of
the sensitive position in which
he has been placed by club own
er Calvin Griffith, after serving
three years as supervisor of Mid
west scouts for the Minnesota)
organization.
Martin said his ultimate am
bition is to become general man
ager of a major league club.
“Does that mean the Mr. Grif
fith had better look out?” he
asked.
Martin said his chief concern
about this talk was the effect it
might have on Mele.
Should vesfonen
use if, too?
(Theyd probably let it^ofo their beads)
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Advance tickets are priced at
$1 for adults and 50 cents for
students. At the stadium the
night of the meet the admission
will be $1.25 for adults and 75
cents for students.
Proceeds from the meet will go
to the Brazos Valley Rehabilita
tion Center’s Building Fund.
The quadrangular meet will
feature such track and field
standouts as A&M’s Randy Mat-
son in the shot put and discus,
A&M’s Tom Nelson, SWC cham
pion quartermiler; Billy Foster,
great SMU sprinter; top relay
units from A&M, Baylor and
SMU; good distance runners from
Texas; A&M’s rubber-legged
sophomore high jumper, Mike
Schrider to mention a few.
Maroon Nine Bows To Ponii
On Final Inning Miscues, 7-(i
By LARRY JERDEN
Sports Writer
With the temperature in the
40’s, the Aggies dropped a close
;Southwest Conference baseball
game to SMU, 7-6, Tuesday af
ternoon in Dallas.
The Mustangs bombed the Ags
for 11 hits, and the Cadets con
tributed to their own downfall
with three costly errors. The
game was tied 6-6 going into the
bottom of the ninth inning, when
the last of the Aggie errors and
a crucial call by the umpire
combined to give the Mustangs
the victory.
The Aggies had gone three-up
and three-down in the top of the
ninth when SMU sent Hugh
Hackney to the plate. Relief
pitcher Tommy Chiles walked him
on four successive pitches, and
Tommy Rubles went in as a
pinch runner.
With Rubles leading off the
bag, Chiles took his toe off the
rubber and fired the ball to
first, but the plate umpire called
a balk and sent the runner to
second, setting up the winning
threw the ball into the dirt, al
lowing the seventh run to score.
The Aggies had jumped to a
1-0 lead during the top of the
first inning when Dennis Wil
liams scored from third on a
fielder’s choice hit by Lance
Cobb. Hq had been moved to
third by a play in which Alan
Koonce got a base hit and went
to second on a fielder’s choice.
The Mustangs came back in
the bottom of the first with three
runs, but their lead only lasted
until the top of the third. Koonce
came to bat with one out at
got a base hit, putting him
first. Billy Crain then connect!
with a double, driving in Koojcr
Craine scored later in the in;
ing on a single by McClure.
The game remained tied
the bottom of the fourth in
ing. Bobby Carpenter, the S’!;
shortstop, got a single and mo:;
to second on a balk called
Steve Hillhouse. J. D. Snj
knocked him in on a double a;
later scored himself on an Aft
error.
Chiles fanned Stan Wetzel, the
SMU centerfielder, but Harold
Richardson sent a blooper to
ward first base for a base hit,
moving Ruble to third.
J. W. Davis, the leading Mus
tang hitter of the game with
three hits, knocked a hard ground
er to Mike McClure, the third
baseman. It looked like an easy
out at the plate but McClure
Stengel’s Art
Of Juggling
Gets Praise
Workouts, Meet
Both Postponed
Two events scheduled for Tues
day afternoon had to be post
poned though for different rea
sons.
The start of A&M football
spring training was delayed a
day to finish the renovation of the
intramural football field area into
a suitable practice area.
Weather permitting, the drills
will begin about 3:30 p.m. Wed
nesday afternoon and will continue
through May 1.
Cold weather also forced post
ponement of the scheduled trian
gular track meet between the
freshman squads of A&M, Abilene
Christian College, and Baylor in
Abilene. The meet has been tent
atively rescheduled for April 10.
TUCSON, Ariz. (A>) — Birdie
Tebbetts of the Cleveland Indians
singled out Casey Stengel Tues
day as one of the great managers
of all time because Tebbetts said
he changed the concept of the
game and taught all managers
how to deal with one of their
biggest problems—complacency.
“Stengel completely changed
the concept of the game with his
line-up juggling,’ said Tebbetts
during a discussion of the great
managers.
“Joe McCarthy was great be
cause he was the most patient
man I ever saw. But Stengel
deserves his place among the
great managers of all time be
cause he taught us if you have
great talent on a club, how to
keep it from becoming compla
cent.”
Tebbetts cited the differences
between McCarthy, former man
ager with the Chicago Cubs and
New York Yankees, and Stengel,
now managing the New York
Mets after a successful reign as
Yankee boss.
“McCarthy was so patient,”
Tebbetts said. “He would get the
team ready and then put it out
there on the field and let it play.
That was his great talent.
“But he was so patient that
way he lost a pennant because
of it when he refused to pull Lou
Gehrig out of the line-up. He
said he’d never take Gehrig out
until he came to him and said
he couldn't play.
“Stengel’s different,” Tebbetts
continued.
In the sixth inning the hi.
gies rallied to regain the !&,
and for a while it seemed as
that would be the ball gat;
The first two Aggie batters
the inning, McClure and Fred;
Carlton, drew free passes to fits
Then Ag catcher Ralph Beckj
hit the 1-2 1 pitch over the lij
field fence, giving the Ags
6-5 lead which they enjoyed g.
til the bottom of the eighth ic
ing.
The Mustangs leadoff hitter;
the eighth, Davis, got a sii$
was moved to second on a ml
and scored on a base hit by 11
SMU pitcher, Born.
The Aggies wound up with si
runs on eight hits. Hillhoia
pitched for seven innings as
allowed one hit in the eighth s
fore being relieved by Chid
The Ags are now 5-3 for the sa
son and 1-2 in conference phi
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