News Scrapbook 1956-1959

Pasadena Defeats Pioneers, 93-70 PASADENA Jan. 24 Pasa• dena CollegP ra<'l'd to a 93-70 bailkrtball victory over Unlver- ty or San Di go tonight as Bill Bond Hcored 9 points and nabhed 31 rehoun, Ken Le. he's /24 po 1ti; is1ced the P11 ~ce1 , who i!U••rpd their lo s in 17 start· this year. Pa~ade a 1ed, 42-40, al half. time.

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Why Can't Loyola Hit Hoop Summit?

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small - college All - America basket. ball team. The selection was made by a national pool of coaches and writers a n d was released through the Tablet news- p aper i n

SETON HALL U. baseball coach OWnle Carroll ls expecting big thing's from his squad this year. Faced with one or the stronge t dia- mond schedules in yeal'I', the Pi r a t e s will have a trong

I played tennis Tuesday night rather than watch the slaughter of my fistic friend, Carmen Basilio. I saw the first Basilio-Robinson blood bath-which Sugar Ray also won, de- spite the official verdict-so I hadn't any stomach for the Chicago sequel Sugar Bay, superb boxer with a kayo wallop, Is one of the all-tbne middleweight greats. He has a llght-heavy's height, reach and frame. Basilio ls a blown up welterweight v.ith a hea ·eight's heart. * * * * CYO LINKS HIJINKS IN MAY "Fore!'• The Catholic Youth Organization will stage its second an- nual benefit _gol! tournament at Bel-Air Country Club Friday, May 16 thrl\ugh arrangements tournament chairman Wilbur Curtis M c;,:, pleted with President Charles Nichols and Bel• Air's boan:I of directors. Pro Joe Novak says Bel-Air will be able to accommodate 120 gollers for the CYO links classic A r e 1957 event, former Notre Dame Coach Frank Leah \'.3.S so enthusiastic he chirped: "Next year I'll be back, and I'll bring along 50 friends." (Frank won the No. 1 door prize-a $130 set of matched irons. l Senor Novak, the amiable but business-like Bel-Air starter, snorted: "That's wonderful, coach. And I presµme they'll all want to tee off at 11 a.m." * * * * WHY CAN'T LOYOLA HIT THE TOP? Catholic college basketball on the West Coast certainly is coming fast, gaining its biggest impetus ,, ·th the collapse of blgtime football programs. USF and Seattle, a pair of en• terprislng Jesuit brother institutions, are the toast of the coast In the court sport. Now the question before the house ls- "Why can't Loyola hit the hoop summ·it?" USF won NCAA championships In 1955 and 1956, finished thir;d in 19'. -. Seattle has just surprised by battering Bradley, Wyoming, L'SF, Cal and Kansas State conseC'Utively, before falling "ictim in the championship game to Kentucky in wlldly partisan Louisville. Yet the colorful Chleftans finished second In the NCAA Tournament, which gives the Catholic schools of the West Coast a crackerjack record over the past four campaigns. A few farsighted bell cows In secular dallies are begin• nlng to recognize the lift non-PCC schools are giving western basketba!L Executive Sports Editor Hank Holling- worth writes in the Long Bea.ch Independent-Press-Telegram: "Schools like USF and Seattle are showing the way to PCC teams • • • UCLA and Cal have produced good, but dra'o teams in recent years, while Seattle has presented the O'Brien Twins and Elgin Baylor, and USF has shown Bill Russell, K C. Jones, Mike Fanner and Fred LaCour. Truthfully, would you rather view USF and Seattle this season, or Cal and UCLA? The answer is easy, isn't it?'' 1 * * * * 'LOYOLA IS THE ONLY LAGGARD' "Loyola is the only basketball laggard among non-PCC schools n=," Hollingworth continues. "(San Diego U. need~ a few more years.) St. Mary's easUy could be the 'Seattle' or the 'U · on the West Coast in a lew years, since tl1e Gaeli have ps the best freshman basketball five ever seen ir the W ••• Pepperdine had a fine club this past season and alre .dy has added some former Al!-L.A. City stars to iti roster . " Why doell Loyola Ia.g behind other WCAC schools, and e ·en the PCC? There is an apparent apathy on the part of many Loyolans toward taking the trouble to sell prospective basketballers on the old school But primarily too much emphasis may be placed on proselytizing lads whose grades and solids sometimes don't measure up to Loyola's academic standards. An old Lion lament goes: "'\Ve had the kid all signed up, but couldn't get him past the registrar!" Possibly this is the reason! Conversely, not enough care is paid to courting stars of the Catholic, Parochial and Olympic leagues. As products of Catholic homes and parochial educatioo, these preps could be expected to be half-way sold before a pitch is thrown their way. These are boys already exposed t-0 the pitfalls of physics, algebra, geometry and chemistry. They ha\·en't built up sag• glng grades In cinch courses such as cralt, senior problems, Wood shop and physical education. Coach Bill Donovan got a few hot coals otf his chest in a recent showdown quiz before the student legislature. When asked why such a small percentage of prep cagers he inter- viewed, dined and showed the campus sights had chosen to cast their lot with Loyola, he replied candidly: "Loyolans knOCk the school, is the specific reason.'' That naughty word subsidies was mentioned, and induce- ments.were suggested ranging from cars to c 1pus jobs. Coach Donovan's rejoinder was: "There is no point in playing any sport if we have to subsidize." Amen to that, Coach. It was inevitable that Bill be badgered about a possiole :football reviYal, so he recited the Song of the ( Oostl Shirt. Loyola had blown large sums trying to go bigtime on the gridiron, he said. As for a football rene, al a la Oxy, Whittier or Pepperdine, ~•if we were as honest as they are, we would be a.s bad as they are." I Rig t now many Loyola old grads gladly would settle for a !jeCOnd class football club. But nobody's ready to accept a eellar-dweller In basketball. Not with Seattle and USF streak- ing like sputniks across western skies into national headlines d NCAA Tournament glory. * * * ALONG THE SPORTS FRO T Happy item: 'rhough Loyola's varsity captured only a single WCAC game and finished with a 6-17 record, the Lion :frosh posted a 13,3 mark. Johnny Arndt's boys _scored three wins ov Peppe · e 65-43, 72-59 and 63-54, and two over the Trojans 56-51 and 41. Calling all Loyola cage fans! Coach Bill Donovan will dis• cuss his recent t ·p to the Midwest and Louisville for the NCAA tourney and coaches' convention Tuesday, April 8, when the Loyola T/,rln Club convenes for di!lfler at King's X Restaurant. 6&35 Tijera Blvd. The tab will be $3.25. Call ORegon 8-1131 for reservations. The mailbag continues to cootain Dodger Game entries. The number of ou -of-state entries is surprising. Monday's- mail included guesses from Duane M. Esser of Alma Center, Wis., and T. E. Morrissey of Waukegan, Ill. Trust Duane and rr. E. can provide their own round-trip transportation to the Coll urn. * * * * Seattle basketball boss John Castellani, once an ~~stant coach at Notre Dame, is a believer in basketball miracles. "What else can you call it," he asked Jim Kelly o! the San P'ranctsco Monitor, "when we beat teams like Bradley, Wyoming, USF and California in one week!" Castellani's super Chiefs, NCAA Cinderella contender, knoc ed off favored USF and Cal in the Bay Area schools' own backyard. Then they knocked Kansas State silly 73-51 in Louisville, but couldn't cope with Kentucky U in the wildly partisan Blue Grass country. The Chiefs played championship

returning team reaqy for :po t- season Invita- tions. Carroll's record Is 125-53 for a 70

Brooklyn, Leslie, 31, a nat' e of San Francisco, was a two. time rPpresentative to the Pan American Games in 1951 and 1955. Standing 5 feet, 11 d weighing 175 pounds, Lesli scored 421 points in 25 games this last season, an average of 16.9 per game.

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Loyola U. or Chicago. He replaces ing- the IC4A In his collectlo.o Dan Cahill who moved to Mun_t and is expected to be the man delein College's development de- to beat in the various outdoor partmcnt. events that Marquette will enter. Mitchel Air Force Base's quin- · · · A g-roup of upstaters grabbed tet boastc three Holy Cross us during- the Nl'l' and started College ba teers this season, to talk basketball and the topic George K , Joe Liebler and got around to Siena College' Walt sup •lcz•... While 011 gre t co ch and g-r&nd f lier Dan cru a one day recently Ctmha. Dan l5 pre. dent of the Wore Jc ult gym looked middle Eastern Conference and rdmal Hayes High doing a great job. But what we L meeting. Four didn't know was that the Siena w re plalmi: in the coach ls called the "maker of 1 e-Holy Cros. con- two score of

THE SOUTHERN CROSS, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1958 Leslie Named To All-Catholic Cage Squad

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University of San DJego'a Ken Le1!1 e has been placed on the 19~7-ti Catholic All- Am ncian all college bas- ketball team. Ken s ~elec on by a na- tional 'Pt')ll or coaehes and jourm1.l ts wa r e 1 e a s e d through 11'h~ 'l'ablct, newsp0.- per of the Brooklyn dioce$e. The 31-year-old an Fran- cisco-born star was a two- time repre~entatlve to the Pan Ameri<:a Games in 1951 and 1955. Le,;;lie, a\;eraged 16.9 points for 25 games during the past season for Coach Bob Mc- Cutcheon's Pioneers, scoring 421 points in 25 games. No ~tranger to national basketball ' 1 dream teams," Ken gained AAU All-Ameri- can recognition several .sea- sons back. PI.ONEER PATTER By GREG PEARSON The recent selection of USD's Ken Leslie to the 1958 Catholic I All-American am a 11 college I I basketball team t a k e s on greater significance when it's considered how well Catholic quintets fared during the past see.son. While Seattle was a runner- up in the NCAA finals and San Francisco and Notre Dame rated among the top major teams in the nation, such 1 schools as Dayton, Xavier, St. Peter's, Scranton, St. Joseph's, and Regis Coilege nearly domi- nated the play among smaller schools. Leslie was the only player picked who wasn't a I member of a "name" basketball team. Incidentally, the five-foot, 11- inch Pioneer guard holds al- most every individual USD scoring record, was the team captain, and was recently elected president of the Alcala Park Varsity Club. He'll a non- Catholic. • • • Another USD athlete, Lavon Baker, received widespread •rec- ognition recently when he was named to the He!~ Athletic Foundation's Prep .Hall of Fame. The Pioneer baseballer was chosen with 53 other past and present athletes. after six months of research and ballot- ing among Helms' Southern Califomia Prep B o a r d of Sports. Baker was selected because of hi~ feats at Chula Vista High School, where he was a. stand- out in football, baseball, and basketball. He was Mnsidered one of the finest prep athletes I in local history. The 54 stars named to the Hall of Fame represent the top athletes in Southern California high achoo! annals and include such notables as Hugh MeEl- henney, Blll · McColl, Parry O'Brien, Glenn Davis, Eddie Mathews, and a host of other nationally-known performers. • • * USD's too t b a 11 fortunes climbed a notch higher when Jim Frankson recently began auditing courses at Alcala Park. Frankson was a: grid star at San D ego Junior Col- ~ge a few year back and was the first-string fullback at Washington State in 1956. He layed off during the past sea- son but will enroll full-time at USD in the tall. The 215- p_ounder, who possesses excep- ti?nal speed for his weight, also will take part in spring prac- tice, which starts April 21.

players tor orthe1111t C High School in Phl!adelp 'l'he ECAC Is moving Its head- quarters bac)t from Newark to New York. This past Winter must be the rea.~on. ou h on traveling tor B us l and' Schlebler. We are kidding, men.

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Basketball Honor Roll COACH-OF-THE-YE R 1953-Honey Russell, Seton Hall 1954-Dudey Moore, quesne 1955-Ph!l Woolpert, Francisco 1956 - Danny Lynch, Francis (Brooklyn) 1957-Don Kennedy, Peter·s 1958--Johnny Jordan, Notre Dame PLAYER-OF-THE-YEAR ~3-Walt , t-0n Hall, and Tom Gola, Le.Salle 954--Tom Gola, LaSalle 195 -Tom Gola, LaSalle 1956-Bi 11 R Francisco. 1957-El11ln Baylor, Seattle 1958-Elg!n Baylor, SeatUe

Pioneers Tackle Caltech Nine Coach Mike Morrow's potent USD Pioneers pack up their heavy lumber and head for Pasadena Saturday tor a 2 p.m. meeting with Ca.ltech. The USD baseballera will be shooting for their second straight win over Caltech tnd their fourth tri- umph in a row. USD's record now stands at five wins, four defeats.