[News Script: Track meet] Page: 3 of 10
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MEET 2-2-2
(continue..)was serving in the Army in Korea.
MED. GUY IN USA JACKET
flashes across the finish line to beat a
classy field in six and three-tenths seconds.
Alspaugh had worked out only five times since
last June.
The biggest 24Me moment of the night
belongs to Randy Matson, a 19-year-old,
255-pound giant from Texas A&M. With the
big crowd hushed in anticipation, Matson
lets out a grunt that will be heard aroundthe world.
His effort sends the 16-pound
shot pounding to earth 65 feet, eight and
a quarter inches away -- a new world indoor
record.
It came on Matson's first heave and riMED. MATSON
him a standing ovation.
Tonight iatson broke
his own record with tossif 66 feet two-and
a-half-inches.-more-
TRA CK
Now he
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Track meet], script, February 13, 1965; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc969933/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.