News Scrapbook 1958-1961

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EVENING TRIBUNE 1 · Page B-5 ---- 'We Won't Be Stopped,' Says Marine Mentor SAN DIEGO, CALlfORNIA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 , 1959 S port~_~ct ion __:;_ •

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Bull Trometter Reverses Field In Predicting Unbeaten Season B, GY,St; GR £GSTOS EVENING• TIIUaUNE ExtcutiYe Sport:. Editor 110-1! or

58 !l0-2l teams. But I over- looked the fact that desire or a !ew kid~ could overcome the experience of other. that were Jost." TromettPr lauded the inspiration o! :SICRD commanding general Tom Worn- ham who recently received his third tar and as~ignment to command 01 the Pacific Forces with headquarter.- in Ha- waii. And Trometter said he felt the first tour games this season "would make or break our club. They were the toughest opening four games 8ince 1'1·e been at MCRD. But all the time l'1·e felt we could and would do it, but I didn't want to tell any bod~. "We don't haYe the names we'"e had the last two years, but we have desire.' 'l):omettf'r stepped back into character briefly at the end of his talk. "The boys may read what rm saying and this may backfire. They may get o,·erconfident. And if the1•e's a letdown by my people or they feel they're just having fun ragain ·t University of San Diego Saturday), then it could be diJ- ferent." The relapse was anticipated. But it could be e;xcused. Trometter had scored a touchdown witlt the Quarterbacks. They didn't care what he did on thE' "xtra point.

Rubert 1Bull) Trometter reversed his t1eld ye:,tcrday and left th,. CJnion-Trib- bune Quart<-rbac/{ Club audience gasping with surp1 i c and plrasure. Trometter, roarh of tht> undefeated '.larlne Corps Recruit Depot football fori;es, turned from pessimism his stock 111 trade to positive thinking. "Our club right now is ju t a~ good a~ any I'\ r coa<"hed," affirmed the man "hose 1101malh" reser,·ecl attitude has earned him th 0 e good-natured nickname of "Weeping WilliP.' "The bovs have fmal\v found them- selve. ," he added '"111,:y realize their potential From no"' on we wont be ,topped. • To appreciate the tull significance o! these stat mcnt ·. one first must remem- ber that in x-plus sea8ons of coaching Trometter s teams have won 56 games. lo~t only eight and tied one. And that his predicting an undeteated ,.,ason,i, comparable to a politician pre-

Paul Platr, University o! San Diego gl'!cl boss, ~aid the Plon<'l'l'S WIii "pay" Snturd ay night fol' 1he many klnd- n<·:sP~ rr,•nivrct this yt>ar from M;irinc Corps RN·ruit Depot. "The Iarinc a1·c good to us 36-1 da>s a yea1•," Plat.;: l'<'JJOl'ted at the QuartPi·bark Club luneh<'on ye. lerday at .!I-fission Valll'y Inn. "We u~'-" their faciliti,•b and thf'y h,:,Jp u · in l'V<•ry way posslblP. Without l\.Jt'RD, "" wouldn't haw football, But we pay for it In till'<'!' hours on one night.'' That's the II I g h I tllP Pto- Jll'('J"S fae(' llw Hecruils on thP. gridiron. "Payment'' for 19~,9 will be 111,,d

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PREP COACHES GF,'f TOGETHER AT l U:l~'flNG Saints' 1'om Carter, li•ff; . latadors' Tom Wt>lba mn I Senators Coach Blasts

1959 SEASON IS FORGOTTEN

Skinner Looks Ahead to 1960To Stay

Sport Critics Welbaum Fights to Halt Trend to De-emphasize Br ROB OR'rMAN 1 om Wclbaum, outspokC'n football coad1 at lllount Ml• guel High, yPstPrda) fired a witlwring bias! at tho~" who, 1,,, chargC'd, ha," startc-cl a move toward allJl,:,tic de-em- pha~is in the high schools hN·c "Tlw~e P<'Ople are out of their minds." \\'C'lbaum told the Union-Tl'ibu11e QuartPrlJ:H'k Club. "We are adopting a European plan of education," he said, "You all know that only 20 P<'l" cl'nt or 0tlL' kid~ are qualifi('d !or thi sc1entilic J>rogram. Wl1at about the other 80 per cent? "I believe the athktic- prog1 am. the band, mdustnal art. -11ws<> arP as important as the rest of the curriculum. Death Blow to Prep Athletic$ Predicted ''We will have 450 boys report for athlcties this 1100n (at \1ount .'l!igu1'11," he continued ''in l no.s country, wrestling, basketball and tennis. We ha,e the best equipment money can buy. They're golng lo take 1t all awav from us.' He said the scll(>dull'd withdrawal next :, ear of ~an Diego and Grossmont district schools from tlw Califomia Interseholas1ic FPd<•ration and the trend towards alter- noon football games would deal a death blow to the high schools' overall athlrtic programs. Loss of revenue from night football conteHls would force schools "to drop 1:Jaseball, tral'k. Cl'OHS country and ten• nis," according lo tlw bespec1acled mentor, who, at a Quarterback Club me(•ting last fall, heatedly criticized the deplorable condition of the Mount Miguel gridiron. What WirJ Schools Do With Kids, He Asks ''We'd be back to 30 boys in athletics,'' he i;,ud. •·rt would be criminal negligence if we allow this thing to go on. '"I want to know," he added, "what our schools are going to do with these kids from 2 to 4:30 in the afternoon. They're not going home to study. I can assure you of that. "We've been neglecting the child ever since John Dewey got his philosophy startt>d,'' he went on. "We sl1oulcl have a gifted (students) program but not at the expense o! everybody else. "I think our boyis can compete in athletics and still maintain high standards of academic work,'' he insisted. Welbaum suggc-sted that members 01 the San Diego and Grossmollt school boards be taken on a tour of other Southern California communities. "Thcy•n~ not de-empha- sizing,'' he asserted Fight$ Losing Battle for 18 Years "I think our boys should have the bPst opportumty in athletics that any part of the country can ,offer," he said, "We should have a strong junior high school athletic program, "I've been fighting this for 18 years, but I don't know how to fight it any longer. At the rate we're going, I don't know J10\1· much longer I want to be a part of it. I think I'll get into administration 01· run for the school board so I can fight this at another level. "\\'hat we need is for the good people 01 the commu- nity to come forth and say, 'This is what we want.' The neecl is for encouragement ratheL' than iinancial help. "Envious faculty member:,, the taxpayers' association and those that have large holdings" were identified by Welbaum as critics of his athletic philosopJ,y Inability to Keep Athletes Here Deplored Welbaum also deplored the fact that high school athlete1 are forced to leave this community for their college edu- cations because of the lack of athletic aid available at institutions here. He said Mount Miguel graduates are in Arizona, Utah and Washington. ''They would sta~• here lf they could get help,'' he said. "I don't understand it.'' Following Welbaum's outburst last year, a boosters' group was formed by parents of Mount Miguel athletes. This season the ~atadors at•e performing on a well-sod- ded. well-lighted field. This fellow gets action.

In Capital WASHIKGTO. (UPI) Refu. al of American League club own er s to approve a shift of the V\'ashington Sen- ators to Minneapolis today a • sured the team of at least another year in the nation's capital. I , Owner Ca 11 Griffilh an- nounced late yesterday that the :-cnators would sta) 111 Wa~hington becau e he was unable to get the \'Otes of five other club owners nec-essarr to make the mo\e. He said he had contacted at least three other clubs and they had told him they would vote against the transfer. The i e am s were reported to bP. :Kew •York, o,,1roit and Chi- c.;ago. l c ,rift ilh to )'.(ay But Griffith emph'a..,ized he would remain as head of the club and said he had no inten• tion of selling his stock de- spite the recommendation that he sell out 1! the move to :Minneapolis co u I d no t be made. In l\linneapoli. . the chi e f promoter of the drive to bring major league baseball to that city said he never was "overly optimistic" that the Senators would move there. Gerald Moore, chairman of the ~1etropolitan Sports Com• mi~sion, said representatives of the Washington club came to Minneapolis "on several occasions" to talk over the move and the terms of the proposed arrangement wet·el "entirely satisfactory to them.' :lli.nneapolis Disappointed "\Ve, of course, are di.s- appointed, but the league will not give the Wasltington ball C'lub permis.~ion to move to the rn•in citief!,"' Moore said. ".However. at no time havel about their mo,•ing here.'' Minneapolis had offered, GrUfith a guarantee of 750,000 it;~s1t:\e~:~tt:ii}I:~~~:~ a 1958 guarantee of 1,000.000

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SAX FRA.'iCISCO (J>-Bobo 101so11, 31, and now a 'light- crack at the world title b) Archie ).loore. Billy OJ5on's manager, proposed that the two veterans meet in a title bout in Januarv in San Fran- cisco's Cov ..· Paiace. Nev,rnan says he II a:k the California Athletic Commis- sion to sanction the f i g h t when the commhsion meets in ~an f'rancisc:o Oct. 28. a mo\'ie, that he"d be glad to discuss such a bout i! the mone) is J.'ight. Newman, '.loore .said in Hollywood. where he s working In

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LOS .AJ.'\!GELES (UPI) - A U.S. Supreme Court rul- ing opened the door today to construction on the ne\\· Dodger stadium in Cha\'ez Ravine, and owner Walter O':'.llalley said he hopes t11e la\'ish park \\·lll be readr in time !or the 1960 ·world Series. Not even O'\lalley, dis- playing optimism on the Dodger chances of rcp<'at- ing as champions, predict- ed the team eould hope to play in the 15-million-dollar ha eball howplace before

next fall. That meant anoth- er year - either in the Coliseum or in Wrigley Field, home ot the defunct Los Angeles Angels. The court yesterday dis- missed appeals by two tax- payers o[ earlier opinions upholding thP city's con- tract with the Dodgers for la11d in 1he now "famous" Chavez Ral'ine, Attorney Phil Sil\'er, repres<•nting the taxpayers, Jet it be known that he no longer in- tended to dispUlf' the ,•ase in view of the high court's

action. The Dodgel'S hadn't wait- ed fol' the final ruling, tak- ing a gamble on the validi- ty of the California Su- preme Court and advice from cjty attorney R o g e r Arnebergh. The go,ahead was giYen a month ago 10 le, el ground in the ravill<'. O'Malley did not commit himself 011 where the Dodg• et·s Unally ,~ould s e t t 1 e down in 1960. The club is CXpC'C'tf'd to dickPI' with Co]. i eum officials Jor a new rental rnt<'.

The San Franc!~co Chron- they had entered into anoth- lcle 's boxing writer, Jack there should be some way er contract without informing Fiske, today Q u o t e d two to merge these two attrac• the commission. member of the commission t!on. - tennis and basket- Hearing otilcers heard u,1 as a yin g they'd prefer ball. both played on a sim- June 10 that the new agree- .',loore 1ought a ranking light- ilar court," he said. ''I 1 ment left Vargas with only 50 1 ea v) weight·but they think it will be a re~ound- per cent of the pur~e. Cali- ouldn't reject .a n o th e rl ing success and do a lot to fornia boxing regulation. re- Moore-Obon cla ·h 1iromote tPnms." quire that a fighter get 66 2- 0lson. on the comebaC'k per cent of a pur,-e ,rail ior the -econd time, ha~ • Q T Brodosc te.,tilied at th( won five tn a ro..... Four wer\ ~yracuse n Op hearing that the co-manager knockout;, O\'cr unranked 01 , -Ew YORK UPI)-Syra- were to get one-third wit: ponents. The other wa cu~e topped the Lambert Tro- ::;inacola getting 16 2 ~ pe dose decision over Ro1y Cal phy ratings "ith a per!ec cent for promotion and publl houn. score of 10 points today. relations. "For years I ha\'e thought