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THE BATTALION
Thursday, May 19, 1966
College Station, Texas
Page 7
FROM THE
SIDELINES
By
Gerald
Garcia
“Well, I’m all alone now until he throws,”
said Baylor’s Jim Lancaster after he had
just heaved the shot put over the 52-foot
line.
The he Lancaster was referring to was
Texas A&M’s Randy Matson, then a lanky
shot putter who had the track world in a
whirl because all the experts believed he
would someday break Dallas Long’s record
of 67 feet, 10 inches and later become the
first 70 footer.
What the experts did not know was that
their predictions would come true this calm,
cloudless night in May, 1965. It was the
8th day of the month to be exact and it was
during this meet — the Southwest Confer
ence meet in Kyle Field — that Mr. Matson
woul record the greatest weight “double”
ever. The maroon and white giant pushed
the shot to a record 70 feet, 714 inches and
the discus 199 feet, 71/2 inches.
Lancaster must have known something
that night others didn’t because as it turned
out he was still all alone after Matson threw.
The crowd swarmed Randy and left Lan
caster and the other putters just standing
there all alone.
For Matson his dreams were coming true.
The silver medal winner in the 1964 Olym
pics always had dreamed of being the world
champion. His second dream — of winning
the gold medal — will have to wait until
1968 in Mexico City.
Now Matson had one of his dreams so
in the fall of 1965 he again shook the sports
W'orld by reporting to basketball with the
Texas Aggies. Everybody thought the move
was great until Matson in juried a knee which
had bothered him before. Then, the criticism
started.
People who had at first thought the move
was great called Matson’s decision stupid.
They said that the injury would hamper
his shot putting. And how right they were.
Except that it was a multitude of things
that made the world champion just an aver
age weightman this spring.
After basketball Randy had trouble re
gaining his throwing weight, and his put
ting suffered. The criticism grew, and Randy
was not alone anymore as Lancaster had
described him before. Now he was just an
average putter and Neal Stienhauer from
the University of Oregon and John Cole from
Arizona State had better throws than the
Aggie in the shot and discus, respectively.
But Randy and Emil Mamaligia, A&M’s
weight coach, did not lose faith. Both
knew that it would just be a matter of time
before the strength and form would come
back.
“I just can’t do any weight training with
the knee and without the training I can’t
get my strength back,” Matson said after
baseketball season. “This is what is holding
me back.”
But Randy kept pushing and scrapping
until last weekend at the Coliseum Relays
in Los Angeles he regained his old form and
threw 69 feet, 21/2 inches to beat Steinhauer
and in the same evening he flipped the iron
platter 195 feet, 6 inches to best Cole. So
in the same night, A&M’s pride pushed aside
both of his challengers.
Now Mr. Matson has shaken the sports
world three times. First, when he threw
70 feet. Secondly, when he decided to par
ticipate in basketball. Thirdly, when he
came back fv m a dismal start to top the
other challen t > i .T Mamaligia thinks that
another shock is •. ^ming.
“All Randy hi, to do is to get up to
about 260 (what he weighed when he threw
70 feet) and stari; doing deep squats with
weight,” Mamaligia said. “After this, he
should be at full strength and there is no
telling what he can do.”
Mamaligia is not making any predictions
on how far Matson will throw this year, but
the weight coach does think that his prize
pupil will throw 70 feet again this summer
and again shake the world.
What about other sports for Matson?
Even Randy does not know what he is going
to do. “Right now I am just concentrating
on track,” he said. “Nothing else is on my
mind.”
Matson still has several meets this year
in which he could reach 70 feet again. He
will participate in the California Relays at
Modesto, Calif., May 28, the District Feder
ation Meet in Houston, June 4, the NCAA
meet, June 16-18, and several meets this
summer in which the United States will com
pete against foreign teams.
It could well be that at one of these meets
another shot putter like Lancaster will say,
“Well, I’m all alone now until he throws.”
That shot putter does not know how right
he is because Randy Matson is the world’s
best.
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