THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Thursday, June 23, 1966
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ANOTHER RECORD FOR MATSON
Randy Matson follows through after hurling the discus
for a new NCAA record in Bloomington, Ind., Saturday.
After setting an NCAA record in the shot put Friday,
the Texas A&M strongboy threw the discus 197 feet.
(AP Wirephoto).
Mighty Matson
Heads For AAU
Randy Matson, the pride of Texas A&M, has added
two more prestige records to his steadily mounting list
and sets his sights on the summer international circuit
with the AAU meet in New York Friday and Saturday.
The Aggie weightman, who holds the world record
in the shot put, picked the NCAA record in both the
shot and discus last week in the NCAA meet in Blooming
ton, Ind. Matson heaved the ball 67-lVk and spun the
platter 197-0.
Both performances were well over the previous bests
of 62-41/2 and 190-11/2. Matson missed last year’s meet
because of a leg injury.
Now Matson advances with the other collegiate cham
pions to the AAU meet where the first two finishers in
each event will qualify for the American team which will
compete against Poland July 15-16 in Berkeley, Calif., and
against Russia July 23-24 in Los Angeles.
“I am looking forward to the National AAU and
want to make the U. S. team for the Polish and Russian
meets,” Matson said after his record-breaking spree.
Matson was one of several top collegians who were
freed to compete by the national mediation board which
is arbitrating the squabble between the AAU and NCAA.
The AAU had originally ruled that any athlete that took
part in the NCAA meet would be barred from competing
in the AAU meet.
But Theodore Kheel, head of the mediation panel ap
pointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, ruled that
all athletes would be eligible for the AAU.
Matson’s most serious competition in the shot will
come from Oregon’s Neil Steinhauer and veteran Parry
O’Brien. Southern Cal’s Gary Carlson and Arizona State’s
Jon Cole will be threats in the discus.
Other top-ranked collegians participating will be Kansas
miler Jim Ryun, San Jose State’s premier sprinter Tommie
Smith, Nebraska 100-yard dash champion Charlie Green
and Washington State’s Gerry Lindgren, winner of the
three-mile run and six-mile run in the NCAA meet.
Ryun, who recently set a world record in the half-mile,
will be aiming for the world mark in the mile against five
other sub-four minute milers led by Dyrol Burleson, Bob
Day and Jim Grelle.
Astroturf Outfield Will Be
Ready For Series With Phils
The entire Astrodome playing
field, excluding the dirt infield
and cinder warning tracks, will
be covered with Astroturf, the
man-made grass, by the time the
Astros meet the Philadelphia
Phillies on July 19, it was an
nounced by Judg Roy Hofheinz,
president of the Houston Astros.
“The Astroturf has really
worked out better than we ex
pected, and I think everyone, with
the possible exception of Leo
Durocher, likes the playing sur
face,” Hofheinz said. “We will
now be able to convert from any
known event to another event in
less than 24 hours without harm
ing the condition of the playing
field.”
right sections get together when
the field is finally laid.
“It’s just like working a big
jig-saw puzzle,” said Red Dozier,
the Astros chief of man-made
fields, bull rings, portable mounds
and what-have-you. “We had to
construct a home-made roller out
of an old electric sweeper in order
to roll these big sections up.”
The grain of the Astroturf out
field will be going toward home
plate which will make bigger
bounces and slower hops than
those on the infield, which has
the grain at a 45-degree angle to
home plate.
A third transition to the Astro
dome field will take place when
the field is transformed to foot
ball.
A total of 90,000 square feet of
the Astroturf is now being zip-
pered together in a Houston ware
house in preparation for its in
stallation during the baseball all-
star break. Thirty thousand
square feet is already installed in
the infield and foul territory.
The installation of the Astro
turf outfield is expected to take
about five days. But first the
14-foot wide sections, some as
long as 221 feet, have to be fitted
with zippers. The sections are
matched with their connecting
section, then coded so that the
Rea to Judge Local
4-H Horse Show Friday
Ronald Rea, show chairman of
the Aggie Rodeo Club, will judge
the 5th Annual Brazos County 4-H
Horse Club County Show Friday
night at the Brazos County Arena,
formerly the Bryan Saddle Club
Arena, at 7:30 p.m.
Rea will judge two halter class
es, showmanship, western plea
sure, reining, pole bending and
barrel racing for the show.
Admission is free and the public
is invited to attend.
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