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...Randy Matson Day" in College Station, Texas, last week, and Texas A. & M.'s best-known student was a little embarrassed by all the fuss. "I haven't felt so much pressure since the Olympics," he said. Whereupon he stepped into the shotput ring and, on his first try, heaved the 16-lb. metal ball 71 ft. 5½ in. - breaking his own world record by a fantastic...
Careful research, meaning a talk with his wife, has disproved the notion that Randy Matson, 22, has a red S for Superman inscribed on his chest. That still may not convince anybody who watched the 6-ft. 6-in., 263-lb. Texas A. & M. senior compete against Baylor and Texas Christian in a triangular track meet. Matson is the only man in the history of track and field to put the shot 70 ft. or more-once in May 1965, and again last February. Against Baylor and T.C.U., he did it three times in a day. In a remarkable display...
...might have done even better if he hadn't spread himself so thin. Besides the shotput, Matson was asked to compete in the discus throw, an event he does not much like. It was probably not entirely accidental that he forgot to bring his discus with him to the meet; his wife discovered it lying on the floor of the family car and rushed it out to the field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever...
Suddenly Randy Matson, the King of the Whales, had a real challenger and Neal Steinhauer was a celebrity. It didn't seem all that sudden to Steinhauer. The son of a sawmill superintendent in Eugene, Ore., he has been putting the shot since he was a junior in high school, stood 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weighed 150 lbs. He is now 6 ft. 5 in., weighs 265 lbs., boasts a 52-in. chest and 18½-in. biceps. Wearing an old Oregon football jersey with No. 70 on the back, he works out with weights for three...
...that he has the indoor record, Steinhauer has two goals left. First, to beat Matson's outdoor world record. Second, to paint landscapes. "Heck," he says. "I was an artist before I was a shotputter, and I'll be an artist after I'm a shotputter...