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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 31, 1965
FROM THE
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By LAN I PRESSWOOD
BITS AND PIECES :
The latest issue of Sports magazine contains a feature
on Aggie weightman Randy Matson. Although the story
provides a good resume of Matson's career to date, the main
concern of author Gary Cartwright seems to be the display
ing of his journalistic brilliance.
An example of Cartwright’s deathless prose: “A&M is
a bleak, remote, austere military school dug in the naked
plains of central Texas, an institution which somehow
manages to suggest that Burt Lancaster is in there some
where whittling a pistol out of laundry soap.”
Apparently it sells magazines . . .
Aggie basketball captain Paul Timmins has been released
from the hospital and is now resting at home. Contributions
to the Paul Timmins Fund can be sent to Box BC, College
Station . . .
Richard Barker, star of last year’s second-place A&M
tennis squad, is putting off his last year of eligibility until
next season. The San Saba product is trying his hand at
baseball this spring as a pitcher ...
All the members of Hank Foldberg’s football coaching
staff have now relocated. AH but Joel Wahlberg, who went
into business in Houston, remained in coaching. Craig
Randall joined the staff at LSU, A&M’s first opponent next
fall ...
This year’s Cadet baseball squad lists only one senior
on its entire roster, outfielder Freddy Carlton of Tuloso-
Midway. He’s a good one, though; his average has been
well over .300 all season . . .
A&M cage coach Shelby Metcalf is currently engaged
in the annual recruiting wars. “This is worse than any
ball game,” laments the likeable mentor. The first day
recruits can be signed is Thursday . . .
The feeling here is that four schoolboy stars really stood
out this year—Ronnie Peret of Plainview, Ken Spain of
Houston Austin, Bill Voight of Highland Park, and Sonny
Benefield of Sweeny. Spain, a mid-term graduate, has
already signed with the University of Houston; the others
are still uncommitted . . .
In Saturday’s spring football scrimmage, there were 28
players who wore maroon jerseys at various times. The
breakdown shows ten seniors, eleven juniors, and seven
sophomores . . .
Javelin hurler Dan Meadows continues to improve in his
specialty. The Corpus Christi Carroll graduate got off a
213-9 toss in a meet in his hometown over the weekend,
bettering his 1964 best by 33 feet. Last year’s SWC meet
was won by Ed Red’s 229-5i/2 effort. Second place was
captured with a 202-41/2 heave . . .
The freshman baseballers have reeled off four victories
against no defeats thus far. One of the Fish diamondmen
is hurler Ken Perrin. The Sherman righthander was voted
“High School Player of The Year” last season by the
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce . . .
Max Mainord, fine center on the Fish basketball team,
is now contributing his talents to track. He was the 3A
state high school champ in the high jump at Greenville
with a career best of 6-5.
Shot put ace Howard Van Loon is foregoing freshman
track this year to concentrate on spring football. He re
corded a 64-5 !/£ heave with the 12-pound shot at Rotan last
season . . .
Advance tickets for the April 9 quadrangular track
meet here may still be obtained at eight locations, including
the MSC . . .
The A&M-TCU football game, traditionally a daytime
affair, will be played under the lights next fall in Fort Worth.
The Frog encounter is the fifth game on a murderous early
season schedule the Aggies will face. Four of the first five
tilts are on the road, including LSU at Baton Rouge and
Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Tulane replaces Houston on the
Aggie schedule after next year’s contest . . .
Tom Chandler has joined R. G. Higginbotham as the
only coach to ever win two outright baseball titles at A&M.
Last season’s SWC champions racked up ten straight league
victories en route to the crown . . .
Sports writers will flock to the A&M campus from all
over the state the first two weekends in May. The SWC
track, tennis, and golf meets will be held here May 7-8 and
May 1 is the date for the Maroon-White intrasquad game,
which promises to be an exciting and colorful spectacle. . . .
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A&M Quartermiler Nelson
Best In School 9 s History
By LARRY JERDEN
A&M’s Sports Staff
One of A&M’s most consistent
point-winners in track for the
past three years has been Fred
die Arnold Nelson: Ted Nelson
to Aggie track fans and to op
ponents who try in vain to match
his feats on the cinders.
Nelson may have come a long
way since his first track meet in
the fourth grade, but one thing
hasn’t changed — he still wins.
In high school, he became a
member of three straight state
championship track teams, set
ting many individual records on
the way.
His sophomore year on An
drew’s 3A championship squad,
he was on the winning 440-yard
relay team, took second in the
220 and third in the 100-yard
dash in the state meet.
The next year he helped set
two national high school records,
one in, the 440-yard relay and
the other in the mile relay. He
ran anchor on the mile relay
team, clocking a time of 46.7
in the state meet.
In his senior year he came
into his own in the 440, setting
a national record of 46:5. He
said that from this time on, his
performances have levelled off
at their present winning stand
ard. He attributes this to “a
good high school coach who real
ly worked me to the top of my
abilities.”
Nelson was attracted to Aggie-
land by R. E. Merrit, a member
of the A&M freshman track team
at the time and his former team
mate at Andrews. After this
preliminary incentive, he was at
tracted by what he described as
‘‘the educational opportunities
and a good track team.”
He got off to a great start his
freshman year with a 46.6 440
at a triangular meet in Austin
and a 47.2 at the conference meet,
good for first place. He finished
the year by running a 46.4 in
the 400-meters at the Coliseum
Relays in Los Angeles.
Last year he continued as a
standout, setting a SWC record
at the conference meet in the
440 at 46.6. He went on to take
second in the Kansas Relays in
the 400-meters.
This year Nelson has been
plagued with difficulties result
ing from a bad back. His back
has thrown one leg shorter than
the other by about ^4-inch. This
shorter right leg has caused
cramps in his tendons and in
connecting tissue in his leg.
He said he should be back at
his peak in about three weeks.
He describes himself at present
as “in fair shape” but “I have
n’t run enough.”
“I should have run a better
quarter at Corpus (47.5), but I
learned a lot,” the ace-quarter-
miler noted. ‘After six years
. . . you still learn a little bit
every time.”
As to the rest of the year, he
said he will “run what I can . . .
I should really start improving
the rest of the year.”
His workout schedule for the
year consists of running some
in the summer, easing off a
couple months before school
starts. In the fall he enters
cross-country competition, then
hits track in the middle of Dec
ember.
Goal Of 15-20,000
Set For Grid Event
Plans have been set in action ball recruits are
to attract a crowd upwards of to be on hand.
15,000 for the Maroon-White in
trasquad football game May 1 at
7:30 p.m. in Kyle Field.
Attempts will be made to im
port high school bands and athle^-
tic teams within a 70-mile radius,
and a girls drill team such as the
(Kilgtore Rangerettes to privide
halftime entertainment. The Ag
gie Band and A&M’s 1965 foot-
also scheduled
Pistol, Rifle
Teams Mark
Match Wins
A&M pistol and rifle marksmen
won trophies at National Rifle
Association sectional matches held
over the weekend.
A&M’s top four-man team took
first place in a close three-way
intercollegiate pistol match at Ar
lington State University. The Ag
gies and Arlington’s top team tied
with scores of 1072 of a possible
1200 points in regular shooting.
In a rapid fire match to break the
tie, the Aggies scored 374 of a
possible 400. Arlington fired 373
points. Oklahoma State Universi
ty also was entered.
A&M’s riflemen captured the
second place trophy for aggregate
points in rifle competition at the
University of Texas. The Uni
versity of Houston fired 1093 of
the possible 1200 points for first
place. The Aggies scored 1059
points.
Team Captain Carl E. Long was
high pointer for the A&M rifle
men. He fired 278 of a possible
300. As sophomore Marion Thomp
son racked up 274 points.
The Aggies sent five four-man
teams to the match entered by 27
teams and 103 individual shooters.
The Aggie Quarterback Club
has made the game a special
project. In a meeting with local
news media at noon Thursday,
club president Mike Barron spell
ed out plans the organization has
made to build up interest.
The 125 members of the club
will visit surrounding towns and
speak before school assemblies,
civic clubs, and other groups.
Letters will be sent to school
superintendents within a 70-mile
radius inviting their bands and
athletic teams to attend.
The Athletic Department will
attempt to secure the services of
the Kilgore Rangerettes or a simi
lar group and will provide trans
portation for Coach Gene Stal
ling’s new recruits, who will be
presented to the audience.
There will be an admission
price of $1 for everyone over
high school age. The A&M “T”
Association is handling the on-
campus sales and will receive the
proceeds from the game.
Jim Willenborg, “T” Associa
tion president, will formulate plans
for advance ticket sales at a meet
ing of the group Wednesday night.
On the track team as a whole
for the rest of the 1965 season,
he said, “The team should do real
well . . . overall should really
come through at the (SWC)
meet.” He remarked that “we
have as good a chance as A&M
has ever had to win it.”
“What we really need is for
Baylor and Texas to knock out
some of Rice’s points, especially
in the hurdles events,” he added.
“Rice has also been hurting us
in the mile relay, but we should
be up in the money in that event
at the SWC meet.”
He noted the fact that the
“team effort is the best we’ve
had since I’ve been here.”
As to the future, he said he
faces the decision of whether or
not to enter coaching after he
leaves A&M, or remain an ama
teur so he can try out for the
1968 Olympic team. But, he
noted, “having a family does
make a difference.”
Yankees 9 Williams
Sold To Cleveland
TAMPA, Fla. (A 5 ) — The New
York Yankees sold right-handed
pitcher Stan Williams to the Cleve
land Indians Tuesday in a straight
cash deal. The price was esti
mated to be about the waiver price
of $20,000.
Williams, who came to the Yan
kees from Los Angeles in Novem
ber, 1962, in the deal for Moose
Skowron, had a 1-5 record for
New York and did not figure in
Manager Johnny Keane’s plans for
this season.
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