3/5/2023 0 Comments Wetter san diegoKearny won the consolation bracket, 19-0 over St. Whitson struck out 10, walked one, allowed five hits, and profited from three double plays. La Jolla’s Bill Whitson was tournament most-valuable player as the Vikings defeated San Diego, 5-3, for the Lions title at Lane Field. –Don Hydrick of Chula won a division of the pole vault at 12-3. –John Rushing of Kearny won the 180 lows in :19.7 and La Jolla’s Joe Epps took a heat in the 440 in :52. –Clyde Wetter broke Hal Norris’ meet record (56-3/4) with a 57-9 ¾ effort, almost 7 feet further than Ontario Chaffey’s Don Vick, who would set a national record in 1953. –Walter (Red) Taylor won his heat in the 100 in :10.2, followed by Hal Espy, who also anchored the San Diego 880-yard relay squad to victory in one of three races. Several running events in the crowded field included two heats. Newport Harbor won the small schools division with 30 points, followed by Covina (24) and Kearny (21 3/5). San Diego outscored Long Beach Poly, 32 4/15 to 29, to win the large-school team championship for the third consecutive year in the 30 th Southern Counties’ Invitational at Huntington Beach. La Jolla advanced, 5-4 over Escondido and 3-2 over Grossmont.ĭoug Hubacek’s 3-run homer in the last of the seventh inning ousted El Monte and Tom Tomaiko scored on Bill Whitson’s single in the 10 th inning to top Grossmont. San Diego and La Jolla made the Lions seeding committee look good by reaching the championship game, the Cavers 22-1 over Oceanside and 6-3 over El Monte. –Lincoln Lucero set a Point Loma record of :20.3 in the 180 lows, but Hoover won, 53 1/3-50 2/3. The Vikings’ Joe Epps and San Diego’s Hal Espy were double winners in the 120-yard high hurdles and 180 low hurdles and 100 and 440-yard races, respectively.Įspy also anchored the Cavers to a 1:32.4 victory in the 880-yard relay and Frank Johnson won the broad jump at 22-6. –San Diego won an early City League dual-meet showdown against La Jolla, 61 2/3-42 1/3. Wetter revealed that part of his exercise regimen is standing several feet from a wall and falling against it with all fingers extended and kept straight to prevent flex. “A shot putter relies on the wrist snap for great power and distance,” the 5-foot, 8-inch, 180-pound Wetter told Gene Earl of The San Diego Union, “but strong fingers are just as important, to keep the ball from slipping while being released.” Wetter took his place among outstanding Grossmont shot putters. Coronado did not field a team.Ĭoronado was awaiting the results of its “telegraphic” track meet with Balboa High of the Panama Canal Zone.Ĭlyde Wetter took the national lead in the shot put at 58 feet, 3/8 inches, as Grossmont outscored Kearny, 73-31. Bill Duncan returned at Escondido and Chet DeVore at Chula Vista. Other new Metro coaches included Bob Ganger at Mar Vista and John MacDonald at Oceanside. John Green was named coach at Sweetwater, replacing Bruce Clarke, called to active duty by the Marine Corps in response to the war in Korea. Metropolitan League boss Joe Rindone, principal at Chula Vista, announced a double-round robin baseball schedule, highlighted by the annual carnival April 27 at Lane Field. San Diego Lions Club announced it was sponsoring a three-day, first annual baseball tournament of sixteen teams, including four outside the area, Anaheim, Brawley, El Monte, and Norwalk Excelsior. Teams could enter three persons in each event and their performances were totaled.Īn individual record was set when San Diego’s Hal Espy ran the 100-yard dash in :10.0. San Diego and La Jolla tied for first in the City Prep League Relays in Balboa Stadium, each with 51 ½ points, followed by Grossmont with 45.Īll marks were combined. Splitting the sports with regular and italics typefaces: San Diego High was Southern Section power, led by head coach Bill Patten (left in front row) and asistant William (Red) Burrows.Ĭlyde Wetter, his eye on Hal Norris’ 1950 school record of 58-2 1/2, took the Southern California lead in the 12-pound shot when he reached 56 feet, 4 ¾ inches, in a 66-38, dual meet win over visiting Sweetwater.\ Grossmont, picked below San Diego and La Jolla in early-season City Prep League forecasts and a non-factor in previous races in the Coast League, rode the strong arms of its pitching staff, headed by left-hander Ray Preston, to win the Southern Section title. The winners tied with 15 points each, edging the stunned Cavers, who had 14 ½. San Diego lost a title after a review of film from the 440-yard race in the Southern Section finals revealed that Hal Espy had finished fifth and not fourth, taking away a point from the Cavemen and awarding the team championship to Glendale Hoover, Glendale, and Compton. San Diego High was the champion in track and field…for three days.
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