News Scrapbook 1956-1959

Pendleton Downs University, 6-2 Pitcher Bob Bruck h hi the victory of the season, 6-2. University of San Di<'go to usn•s LaVon Baker had three four scattPred hits as the of the four hits. C a m p Pendleton Scouts w~Pen . . . . . t: ggg <:l : i racked up their 14th baseball vrfinchex ond ouncon; Brue• end Ar•-1

1 Pi neers, De ot Win Ball Tilts L o c a 1 service ba. ebal teams split with collegiat toes yesterday with t.rlJt Corps Recruit Depot bea. Bg Loyola in Los Angele , 8-3. and University of San Diego s Pioneers overpowering Naval Training Center, 12-6. USD scored more !I ln the first inning than th Pl• oneers needed for the f u 11 game - seven. MCRD ex• perienced little difficul( with Loyola after the opem ning. Scores. USO 700 203 00-12 14 3 NTS ' _ ___ . . . . 200 400 00- 6 f 3 Shea, Wilbur (S), ~nehez (81 ond Coxd; Wydel, Sarandt (1 ), Swoyne (3) an f{(i't:es. , . 203 101 DlG-1 1l 1 Loyola 300 000 000--3 7 2 Penwoy and Lochemann; Monzo and Boumn. ----• __ ST PAUL-Del Flonagon, 150, St. Poul, dee, ·wait svor~ us,~. Boston, 10. 127 M~~t~o 8~:.~f• 127 1 ft: Los Angeles, 10.

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bas('ball team, w o! its last three games, will engage Call!orn a Institute ol Tech- nolo y t morrow at M i k e ;\,fo o" Field. Tim Wilbur, who alternates at third base, will pitch for the Pioneer~ Hal Mitrovich will move to third ba e trom kft field USD ha a - rec- \ord. 11

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Mee.t NTC In Rematch The Unive111ity of San Diego Pioneers, with a 'two-week en• [ forced layoff behind th e m, eagerly take to the diamond at the Naval Training Center this I afternoon for a rematch with the Bluejackets. NTC holds an early season 6-5 decision over the Pioneers. The Alcala Park "9" has racked up three straight victor- ies since that loss, having dumped Miramar Naval Air StatioJl, San Diego Naval Sta- tion, and Cal Tech in that order. Heavy rams have kept the Pioneers idle since March 28, and Coach Mike Morro has expressed concern o v e r hi.s team's condition. His cha1·ges have had only seven practice sessions in the la t 13 dll . g- armed Tim Wilbur, who alter- nates at third bal!e, viii et ,the starting pitching ass1gnmtnt in this afternoon's contest. Hal 1\Iitrovich will replace him at third. Provided the weather agrees, USD will aee action on three occasions within the next six days. The Pioneers travel to Oceanside Saturday for an en- gagement with Camp Pendle• ton, and on Tuesday they meet the power-laden Marine Corps Recruit Depot at MCRD. Morrow report• that University of San Diego and Cal Poly have signed a two- year, home-and-home football series, beginning here in 1959, USO athletic director Bob Mc· Cutcheon announced r ntly. The second game, in 196'0. will be at San Luis Obispo. the Mustangs are one ot six 1959 opponents already scheduled by the Pioneers. Others are Idaho State College, Montana State College, Pepperdine, University of Nevada and • 'ew Mexico Western. Meanwhile, McCutcheon said he was still trying to finalize the 1958 USO schedule, which has open dates October 11, No• vember 8 and November 27. Two ot those dates v,ill be filled, he said. ] USO opens its 1958 home McCutcheon said that Cal Poly Series Set

The University of San Diego :football team will open spring practice at Navy Field April 21 and will conclude May l7 with an intrasquad game, head coach Bob Mccutcheon reported yesterday. · Mccutcheon, m e a nwhile, Gates, Lavon Baker, J 1 m announced that he has sent a Frankson and Leroy Wether. Jetter to Ne)'/ Mexico Military ald and linemen Bob Padilla, Institute, cancelling a game Willard Linton and Norm scheduled there, Nov. 8, be- Magenoi. cau_se it is only a two-year Mccutcheon said he h a s Jui:nor college-type. school. He lined up about 14 more play- said he hopes to fill th e date erti who intend to enter USO with a team away from home. this tall -three of them being Between 35 and 40 meJl are quarterbacks with junior col- expected to report to Mc- lege experience. Cutcheon and _assistant coach The coach said his needs Pa_ul Platz with 20 of these are two ends, three tackles, bemg lettermen. two centers and three backs. Promising ne comers to USD also reported that it the squad are backs T O m will field a freshman team

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1119 Trii>uM Sports Editor

• Pioneers Growing Fast • Their Future Looks Good • Schedules Stepped Up

this fall. Games are set with ! Los Angeles Valley and Los Angeles City College jayvee teams while negotiations are underway to face the fresh- man squads of San Jose State and College of Pacific.

G I. 'ING TATURE: It's amazing how fast Uni- versity of San Diego is growing athletic muscles. We were well aware of this fact after breaking brl•ad with the young school's athletic director and head football coach, Bob McCutcheon, yesterday.

THE SAN DIEGO UNION a24 0 Wed., April 15, 19.39 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USD, NTC Tie; Game Off In l0th University of San Diego and Naval Training Center base- ball teams played an 8-8 1.ie yesterday at NTC in a base- ball game called h~ darkness after 10 inning~.

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"Certainly I'm not seeking any personal credit, but in two short years we h a v e gone a long way in building up our athletic program, es- pecially in basketball and baseball," he told us. "We had a 6-3 record in football and did real well in basketball last season with a stepped-up schedule, which really was our first year of tough competition. "And we'll keep building up our schedule. By n e x t year we will be competing in all rour major sports, but right now we participate only in football , basketball and

PIONEER GRID ID u!i~~ity of San Die!! j announced today the opening of spling football practice at N~v, Field April 21.

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baseball. "Mike Morrow is coaching our baseball team and we will hire a basketball coach to replace me, leav- ing me to concentrate on football. " Taki" a look at our football schedule of nine games for next ·eason when we meet such teams as University of Nevada and Idaho State College. There isn't a. breather in the lot. "It's only the beginning. It won't be long until we'll be able to hold our own with schools which right now are out of our class. We are building that quickly. "I've been doing lots of recruiting and I'm sure the results will be great when they show up in the fall semester." FOLLOWING CAA RULES: Some folks are in- dined to look down their noses at the Pioneers, as the new institution is called, because of suspected eligibility of its athletes. "This is a bad rap," Bob seriously told us. "We want more than anything to be officially recog- nized by the Tational Collegiate Athletic Associ- atio., so we follow its rules relentlessly. "Bv the fall of 1959 we will be eligible for mem- bership and we surely wouldn't gamble on stubbing our toes. "We don't take any junior college transfer with below a C average. An athlete must maintain this average to remain eligible. This is within the rules of 'CAA." FROSH PROGRAM: The school's master plan calls for an athletic field and gymnasium to be erected in the near future on the campus. Apartment-style dormitories are being built now and a new grass football practice field will be ready for !nil practice. or the first time in the rookie history of the ch l freshman football and basketball teams will be fielded this year. " 'hen I came to University of San Diego a year ago was well aware of the challenge the job of- Jere , but everything has worked out much smooth- f'r than I anticipated," said Mccutcheon. "We are fortunate to have a sports-minded administration. "There is no telling how far we can go in athletics, for there are unlimited possibilities here. I've heard it said that we could become the Notre Dame of the West. With this fast start of ours, I don't see why we couldn't attain this goal." THEY WANT TO MEET AZTECS: McCutcheon calls Umversity of San Diego a "hungry" school. "The only way we can go is up," he said. "We're looking for tougher competition-not canceling it." The Pioneers' ardent hope is that they'll interest San Diego State College in a crosstown sports rivalry. So far t e idea has received the cold shoulder from the Aztecs. But it appears in the tea leaves that soon or later sports competition between the two local colleges will be inevitable. I[ and when that tran pires, the gen with the big•

Aztec Nine Readies for CCAA Foes San Diego Slate College took time out f rom the Ca li- fornia Collegiate Athletic As- sociation baseball race yes- terday to blank Naval Train- ing Center, 11-0, on the Aztec diamond. Marine Corps Recruit De- pot edged University of San Diego, 3-1. at MCRD . The Aztecs, who will face conference foes Fresno .,State and Cal Poly here Friday and Saturday, respectively, got four-hit pitching from Bob Imlay and Dave Cavallin . Cava11in, who came on iu the seventh, faced only nine bat- ters over the last three in- nings. 1 Ted Ellis went (he route 1for MCRD and had a shutout until the ninth when t;SD I scored its ldnc run. Scores: ~.1<: State 'ff3 °~o °l't:..f 1 ~. f 1 <7f 1~°n"ctsc°h~~P?,'e~~ing1 'c~~, U, " ~fJlD · • 010 010 100-3 7 l I . .. 000 000 001-1 • 21 Sa~~l~~z.ond Lachemonn; Wilbrose and

THE SOUTHERN .CROSS, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1958.

By GREG PEARSON The recent Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen BM1l o champion• ship ~raw! iii Chicago temporarily brought boxing into the nations limelight. Although the light has now faded, the after• effects of the bout still linger. Among the most predominant of tlrem is the questio~, why do men choose sych a perilous profession? There certainly are much easier and less dangerous ways of earning a livmg. • * "' •

game schedule here September 20 against University ot Mex- ico. I PIONEER PATTER By GREG PEARSON Conch Mike Morrow is hoping viewing applicants for a newly I that the rains which have re- 1 created position on the football cently de I u g e d San Diego coaching staff, Bob McCut• haven't dampened his baseball cheon reports that USO also team's muscles. In their last 38 will hire a new basketball innings of play, the Pioneers coach before next year. Mc· have pushed 36 1·uns acres Cutcheon then will be able ·to home plate. devote full-time to his chores as • • • athletic director and head foot- USO athlete Charley Frank- ball coach. Jin is a busy fellow. He played . . .. tackle on the football team, USO catcher Bob Duncan has

the polished veterans and the hungry beginners. They see a highly-touted young fellow come along, grab the spotlight, then shortly sink into obscur- ity. They see the old battl;r swinging his way from ring to ring for years. Sometimes he makes his way to the top. In most cases, he doesn't. The fans see · them come and go, just as they come Md go, Just as life comes and gues. * • * The few bruising minutes of conflict In the ring are pro- jected into a lifetime of strug- gling for survival. It may be a skillful battle, it may be duH, or gt>ry, or exciting. But that's life, too. • • • Why do men box, and what makes them contm'ue after years of painful campaigning? Replies Moore, "I took up box- ing because of the money. Dur• ing the depression, jobs were scarce and money WM more scarce. But I noticed, that peo- ple continued to turn out for fights and some of the fighters were m a k i n g pretty good money. I decided to try it." • • • Why does he keep at lt? "Different fighters have differ- ent reasons," says Archie. "Some of them love it for the' color, the competitive action Some work at it just hard enough to make a living from it. Others do it for the sheer love of fightil)g, some fo1· the prestige. It's hard to nail down just a particular reason. • • • "Boxing is so different, so much more strenuous than any other sport," continues the old warrior. "The penalties are se- vere, for the winner or the loser. A man can't continue to get knocked on the head year after year without suffering some of the effects. But it's the only thin we know. We stick with it Ing fo• the breaks, the ri hances." • I Archie Moore ls •a veteran of 23 ye ring warfarp. He's had 150 tights, and is I over i0 of age. How Jong will h u e in the game? • •

After viewing the gory bat• tie man;)( of the avowedly more humane members of our soci- ety also wonder why such a spectacle I permitted, and they condemn : ose who enjoy watching s lethal type of entertainm nt. * • Is this a sport for sadists? Not in the eyes of Robinson or Bastlio, nor for the great ma- jority of the thousands of fans who turn out weekly to witness boxing events throughout the nation. * .. • In 1947, Robinson knocked I out welte,weight Jimmy Doyle. The latter died the next day. When the coroner's Inquest was held, Robinson was asked why he kept raining punches on Doyle when he knew his oppo- J)ent was hurt. Replied a sad Sugar Ray, "Hurtin' people is my business." But that doesn't mean he enjoys inflicting in- jury. • • • A few months ago, while pre- paring for his title defense against Robinson, Basilio was asked why he prayed before each fight. Said he, "I pray that neither of us wnt get hurt and that we will put on a good show." And Carmen is one of the most rugged mixers in the business. • • • What ls it then that causes them to fight, and what causes people to enjoy watching them? San Diego's Archie Moore, the light-heavyweight cham- pion of the world ad undoubt- edly one of the most proficient practitioners in the fisticuff trade, offers the following an- swers: "Fii:-htlng," says Archie, "is as much a_ part of life as eat- ing. Since the stone age man has had to fight to .exist. It is Inevitable that he witl have to continue to fight, in one form or another. Boxing Is just one manner of doing it." • • * This, then 1s what the fans see ill the rilJ Tney see life. They see thenu,el,...es and their en mies, their heroes and their ictim~. They eagerly watch

been treating opposing pitchers unmercifully. The stockv back- stop is now walloping the ball at a prodigious .571 clip. He has also belted three home runs, all of which have cleared the fences with plenty of room to spare. Duncan formerly played for Mo1Tow at San ego Junior

has taken part in two Alcala Park d r a m a t i c productions, served as lower division re- presentative in the Fall semes• ter and was recently elected student body treasurer. He's an officer in the Masquers and the Circle K club, and ia also in charge of the campus book- store. To top it off, the popular Negro athlete got married last week. In appreciation for his I

r USD's baseball forces return to their home field this week- end for two important games. They engage Cal Poly of San DJJnas tomorrow and on Satur- day they take on Camp Pendle• ton. Both Morrow Field con- te~ts start at 3. A four-game Pioneer win• nlng streak was brought to a halt last Saturday, and USD will be battling to stay above the .500 ma.rk in the won-loss column. Morrow's charges be- gan the week with a 7.5 rec• ord. In la.st Saturday's action, Hector Sanchez tossed e. six- hitter aga1nst Camp Pendleton but the Marines emerged 6-2 Victors. Two days earlier the Pioneers had shellacked the Naval Traimng Center, 12-6, for

their fourth straight win. Heavy-hitting Lavon Baker and Bob Duncan have led the Pioneers through their first 12 games. Baker is riding high on a .477 average, while the flU;- stricken Duncan has maintained a .464 batting mark. Bob Keyes (.350) and Dave Harr ( .333) are the only other Pi- oneer regulars hitting over .300. Duncan, Keyes and Hal Ml· trovich are tied for the home• run leadership with three cir- cuit blasts apiece. Mike Morrow's pitching staff suffered a setback la.st week when southpaw Ron Roth broke a toe. Roth had won two deci- sions and was the only USD rnountlsman without a Joss. Dick Shea, with a 3-2 record, leads the mouna rack.

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services, 11 be one ot the Council paid for his marriage most colorflfl quads n t~ 'na- Jicense. tlon. A complete set of new • • • game uniforms with the follow- The USO athletic depart- ing colors has been ordered: ment is in a quandary. With White helmet.a. Co I um bi a spring football practice ache- blue jerseys Wlth white numer- duled to begin April 21, the als on a red outline and red and Pioneers have as yet failed to white shoulder stripes, white locate a field where they can J trouse 7 s with blue and red hold grid •essions. trimming, blue sock~ with • • • 1 white stripes-and blue shoes! the US D Student undoubtedll'

When Eddie Preisler's Cal Tech baseball team dropped a recent 11-8 decision to Mike Morrow's Pioneers, it was a case ot the teacher mastering his pupil. Preisl~r played under Morrow San Diego High School bl.Ck in the 30s. • • Jim Mulvaney, president of the San Diego Padr s, and gen- eral mall\l'er Ralph. Kiner are due to huddle with USO ath• letic officials to ~scuss the possibilities ot the Pioneers using Westgate Pa.t·k for their home f,ootball games next Fall. USO has maele tentative ar- rangements to rent Balboa Sta• d1um for the games but there have been strong overtures in favor ot using the Padres' new field. Howeve1, roller derbies, rodeos, and circuses scheduled for Westgate Park may prevent a suitable arranrement. • • • Still In the process ot inter-

iest smile will be Bob Mccutcheon. He's a go-getter, that young man.

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That's Archie Moore. boxing. And that's life.

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