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Matson Performance Tops Tri-Meet Page 4 By JERRY GRISHAM Randy Matson missed setting two more world records by the grand total of four inches Satur day afternoon in a triangular track meet between A&M, Bay lor and Texas Christian at Kyle Field. IN THE SHOT put, the event in which Matson is already the world’s best, the Aggie giant came within two inches of his own world mark of 70-714 as he twice threw the 16-pound sphere 70- 514. A third throw went 70-0. The six throws from the shot put ring were: 70-5%, 68-5, 70- 5y 2 , 70-0, 68-714 and 69-5y 2 . Only five times in the history of the sport has the shot sailed over the 70-foot line and three of those times were Saturday. In the discus, Matson shattered the existing American record of 210-6 with a fling of 213-9%, two inches short of the world record of 213-11%. ON HIS FIRST throw the dis cus landed 203 feet 2% inches from the discus ring and only about five feet from the rope fence which separated the spec tators from the discus-throwing area. The second throw sailed even farther, 204-2. “Come on, Randy,” yelled one excited spectator. “Hit me in the head with the next one.” Meet officials decided that as the Ag gie hurler was getting the range he just might do it, so the ropes were moved back to give Mat- son more room. On the third throw the plate sailed straight and high and then sliced down in a nose-dive, 213 feet 9% inches from its launch ing pad. If the excited fan had remained standing where he had been, he might well have gotten his wish. As it was, several in the watching gallery took to their heels when they saw the saucer diving to earth so close. THE THREE remaining throws were: 206-7%, 195-6 and 200-5. The broken American record of 210-6 was set by Jay Silvester June 5, 1965, in Long Beach, Calif. The unbroken but severe ly bent world record of 213-11% was set in December of 1965 by Ludvik Danek of Czechoslovakia. Matson has owned the collegi ate mark in the discus since 1965 when he sailed the discus 199-7%. That mark stood until this year when the Pampa strongman be gan breaking the records almost as fast as he could make them. In a triangular meet in March he upped the mark to 200-7%. Last week he again set a new record of 201-1 in the Texas Re- Spring Sports lays before breaking it four times Saturday. MATSON’S PERFORMANCE was the frosting on a track meet which took the cake as one of the year’s best. The Baylor Bears won the Sat urday meet as they took both relays and eight other events for a total of 86 points. The Aggies came in second with 71 points and TCU was a distant third with 10. For the second week in a row Henry Rollis broke the A&M pole vault record as he moved to sec ond place in the conference this season with a first place winning 15-3. Golfers Take Lead In Southwest Conference Baylor’s 'Stan Curry set a sea son high of 6-9% in the high jump and Mike Hoffman also of Baylor equaled the conference record of 21.2 in the 220-yard dash. The Aggie golfers blanked the Texas Christian Horned Frogs, 6-0, Friday in Fort Worth to move into first place in the Southwest Conference. A&M’S LEE McDowell was top man in the match as he shot a two-under-par 68. The team’s score was even par. Wade, A&M, beat Steve Smtih, 2-1; John Buffin, A&M, beat Steve Russell, 4-3; McDowell and Wade beat Wheelis and Merritt, 6-5; and Archer and Buffin beat Smith and Russell, 3-2. TENNNIS The Aggie tennis team split with the Southern Methodist net- ters, 3-3, on the Aggie courts illness, to win the number one doubles match against Baker and Parsons, 6-3, 6-4. The Fish netters swept three matches from the SMU freshman squad to push their season record to 8-2. FISH BASEBALL THE FISH baseball team lost a close 4-2 decision to the Rice Owlets Saturday afternoon and then were blasted 10-4 Monday by a visiting Blinn Junior Col lege squad. In Saturday’s loss, the losing pitcher was Boyd Hadaway, while the Owlets’ Ownby was the win- DEWARD STRONG won the 120-yard high hurdles for the Ag gies with a time of 14.4 and Steve O’Neal was tops in the broad jump with a leap of 23- 1%. Both wins were season highs for the two Aggies. Mike Hoffman of Baylor was high point man in the meet as he accounted for 12% of the Bears’ points. RANDY MATSON The 6-6 Pampa athlete added new honors to his alreadj| .long - list over the weekend with a record-breaking disciii throw and three shotput tosses over 70 feet. IN MONDAY’S game the Blinn Aggies Win Third Straight In 6-4 Victory Over Houston Saturday. batters got to the Fish pitcher, PETE FAUST was the leader Dave Benesh, for 12 hits while of the Aggie attack as he de- the Aggies could garner only feated Craig Parson, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, seven. in singles. Marcus Beleck of the Boyd Hadaway and Ronald Aggies beat Mustang Stanley Foust were responsible for four Baker, 6-2, 6-2. Aggie hits, with each connecting The third Aggie victory came for two. BATSMAN UP! The A&M Cricket Club hosted Dallas and Houston teams Saturday in a three-way match played on the drill field. as Faust teamed up with Joe The Aggies committed two Tillerson who has been out of errors and Blinn was charged action for three weeks because of with one. WILD NEW SOUND! } cntputers By GARY SHERER Scoring twice in the eighth inning, the Aggies went on to a 6-4 victory over the Houston Cougars at Houston Monday af ternoon. THE WIN gives the Aggie nine a 12-6 season record and was their third straight victory. The triumph completed a successful stand at “Space City, U.S.A.” for the Aggies, as they had beaten the Rice Owls 4-3 and 8-6 on the Rice campus Friday and Satur day. The eighth-inning rally came on some charity from the Hous ton defense. Richard Backest led off the inning with a bunt sin gle. Reliefer Bob Sanders then lifted a pop fly to second-base man Ronnie Baker who dropped the ball in hopes the infield fly rule would be called. Unfortun ately for Baker the required two or three runners were not on the bases. Backest was thrown out at second but Sanders was safe at first. AFTER MIKE Arrington pop ped to third, Chuck Malitz walk ed. A passed ball advanced the runners to second and third and Lou Camilli scored Sanders with a single. Malitz came on to the plate and scored when the Hous ton catcher let another ball get away. Sanders picked, up his fourth win of the year, though he had to survive a rough sixth inning. Sanders came on in the sixth after starter Ricky Schwartz had been removed for a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning. In the sixth, the Cougars put men on first and second with a walk and a single. After the next batter flew out to left, Tom Pa- ciorek, Cougar left fielder, hit a line drive to center. Malitz, try ing to make a shoe-string catch, let the ball go through and Hous ton tied the game up at 4-4. WITH THE GAME tied, it was Sanders game to win or lose and he made the most of the op portunity, setting the Cougars down on just one hit the rest of the way. Drawing first blood, the Ag gies plated three runs in the first inning. Arrington was on second base after a Cougar error and came home on successive singles by Malitz and Camilli. An in field out and a single by Bob Long brought home Malitz and Camilli. The Aggies scored again in the sixth, but Houston kept chipping away at the lead and finally deadlocked the game in the sixth, Houston and the Aggies will have a rematch at Travis Park Wednesday night beginning at 7:30. The game will be the Ma roon and White’s second night game of the year. As mentioned, the Aggies top ped Rice Friday and Saturday on the Owls’ home field. In Friday’s game, a two* rally in the ninth inning gavetl Maroon and White a 4-3 victor Sanders was again the stopi* for the Aggies as the Belt junior struck out Rice’s Joir Reed with the bases loaded the ninth to pick up his i win of the year. Backest was the batting k when his third hit of the k scored the two winning rum, Rocky Thompson, who start! the Friday contest almost was! goat of the game. A sever,! inning pitch was a little tool* and Rice pitcher Ronnie Hen* had belted it over the wall: give the Owls the lead at 111 point. THOMPSON WAS relieve the goat horns though by Ed est’s clutch hit. THE DOUBLE WIN puts the Aggies right in the thick of the Southwest Conference race, while the Owls were all but eliminated. The Aggies are now 4-3 in the SWC and only a game and a half behind league leading Texas (5-2) and a half game behind Southern Methodist (6-3). FLORSHEIM SHOES at bo; Sb 3im 5tnrm ^ Vs —^ iin»r men’e lurm 7U/MJJ.SJH • IMYAN. TOW W A<£ the 6:3 at ( Te: Boa A far-out group of Bell Telephone Labs scientists have come up with a great new sound ... a singing computer! It began several years ago by singing "Daisy, Daisy." Hardly a folk-rock smash, but lately its voice has been improving. And even though you may not care for the sound, it's big in the scientific field. Simply put, our scientists study speech and express the way we speak words by means of numbers, then make a computer process the numbers. The final result is a tape of music you could play on your tape recorder. Giving voice to a computer may mean a lot in providing better communications services. 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