A promising Class B 660 yards runner in 1964 who bypassed cross-country for football in the fall, Chula Vista junior Tim Danielson ran down defending state champion Mike Ryan and scored a stunning, 20-yard victory in the mile in the 47th state meet, defying the evening heat of Bakersfield.

Danielson’s time of 4:08 was a meet record and fastest ever by an 11^th grader in prep competition.  Tactically, Danielson was perfect.

Ryan, from Santa Clara Wilcox, forced the pace as most observers expected, running :58.4 in the first quarter, 2:01 at the half mile, and 3:04 for the 1320, but it became apparent that Danielson could win if he stayed close.

RYAN GASSED

“I could tell with about 220 yards to go he was getting tired,” Danielson said of Ryan. “I wasn’t really too tired, but that’s about the hardest race I’ve had.”

“I thought Tim had a better chance if the pace was fast like that; he could stay with him and outkick him,” coach Harry Taylor told me.

Danielson’s last lap was a comparatively slow :63, “but he wasn’t all out,” said Taylor.  “He was just following Ryan until the last 150 yards.”

Since late February, when Danielson set a school record of 4:25, he had cut an astonishing 17 seconds off his best time.

NEW EVENT

The two-mile, occasionally run in summer all-comers’ meets or other off-beat competitions, became a staple.

The difference between winning or losing in dual meets went from 52 and a fraction points to 57.

2/23/65

Silas Gross won the 120-yard high hurdles in :15.3, 180 lows in :19.3, and anchored his team to a 1:32.7 victory in Morse’s 78-35 dual meet win over Castle Park.

2/26/65

Lee Damron broke a 26-year-old San Diego High record of 1:59 in the 880-yard run with a 1:58.6 in the Cavers’ 74-51 win at El Capitan.

Jim Brewer broke two minutes for the Hilltoppers in the 1939 Southern Section finals.

–Tim Danielson set a Chula Vista record of 4:25 and Crawford’s Dave Colegrove hurled the shot a record 53-8 ½.  Crawford won, 79-35.

–Arnie Robinson’s 6-foot, 5 ½-inch high jump tied for the fifth highest in County history.  Hoover’s Eddy Hanks cleared 6-9 ¾ and Lyle Hull 6-6 in 1964, Hoover’s Jack Razzeto 6-5 ¾ in 1948, and San Diego’s Bob Logan 6-5 ½ in 1938.

Robinson, who topped 6-5 as a sophomore in 1964, also won the long jump at 22-9 ½ and Morse defeated Mar  Vista and Vista, 76-36-33.

–Pierre Frazier edged Kearny’s Bobby Johnson in a :09.8 100, :22.1 220, and  21-10 long jump, and Hoover won, 71-42.

3/2/65

Byron Olander of Helix ran the 100 in :09.7 and his brother Rick cleared 12-11 ¾ in the pole vault to break the school record of 12-7, set in 1956 by Jim Duea.

Byron also won the 440 in :51.4 as the Highlanders defeated Escondido, 81-32.

3/9/65

Mike Singletary came close to another vintage San Diego High record, racing the 440 in :49.5 as Singletary closed in on Norman Stocks’ record of :49.3 in 1946. San Diego beat Madison, 79-34.

3/12/65

Pierre Frazier won the 100 (:09.8), 180-yard low hurdles (:19.7), long jump (22-3 ½), and anchored Hoover’s 1:32.1 relay win that clinched a 61-52 victory over Point Loma.

Granite Hills’ sophomore George Brown heaved the shot 55 feet, 4 ¾ inches, in a 75-47 win over Monte Vista.  Grossmont’s Ed Speed had set a sophomore record of 56-5 in 1960.

—Hilltop’s Terry Rogers posted the fastest 880 of the season, 1:56.6 but the Lancers dropped an 80-33 decision to Sweetwater.

—Tim Danielson clipped 5 seconds off his Chula Vista mile record with a 4:20 in the Spartans’ 58-55 loss to Oceanside.

3/14/65

Point Loma’s Ron Hawkins hoisted the school record to 13-6 ¾ in the pole vault against Hoover, bettering Bruce Long’s 13-5 in 1962.

3/19/65

Pierre Frazier leaped 24 feet, 5 ½ inches in Hoover’s 94-22 win at St. Augustine, breaking Willie Steele’s school record of 24-3/4 in 1941.

3/20/65

Twenty-eight schools entered the 11^th annual South Bay Relays at Sweetwater.

Helix’ Byron Olander beat San Diego’s Rex Williams and Hoover’s Pierre Frazier in a :09.7 100.  Frazier won the large schools long jump at 23-9 ¾. Helix won that division with 50 points to San Diego’s 39.

–Granite Hills outscored Sweetwater, 41-37 ½, with Madison at 37 to win the medium schools competition.

The Eagles’ Tim Schraeder won the 100 in :10 and George Brown the shot put at 54-6 ½.

–Lincoln ran away with the small schools title with 61 points to La Jolla’s 30.

Mar Vista’s Mike Lemons pole vaulted 14-3 ½ to break the record of 13-5 ¼ by Lincoln’s Vic Montano in 1964.

4/5/65

The meet didn’t come down to the relay, which San Diego won in 1:31.2, and Hoover held on for a 57-56 victory over the Cavers.

Competition originally was scheduled at Hoover but wet grounds forced a postponement and a shift of sites to Balboa Stadium’s new, all-weather track.

A second delay of a couple days was necessary because Hoover did not have suitable shoe spikes for the asphalt (officially Grasstex) layout.

Hoover’s Pierre Frazier was the difference, winning the 100 in :09.8, 220 in :22, and long jump at 23-6.

A 4:29.9 victory in the mile by Don Walker and a first place and third place in that race got the Cardinals over the top. Hoover led, 49-48, entering the next-to-last event.

—Jay Elbel was second in the 220, won the 880 in 1:57.8, and anchored a 1:31.9 relay victory but Madison was short in another 57-56 battle against Mission Bay.

4/6/65

Mount Miguel edged Grossmont, 63-59, coming from a 58-50 deficit late in the day by going 1-2 in the mile and then a foursome of Tom Howard, Dain Demery, Mike Lybrand and John Trask won by 15 yards in a 880 relay school record 1:30.8.

4/17/65

Byron Olander won the 100 in :09.7, ran a :21.1 220 leg on Helix’ eight-man mile relay that set a record of 3:00.2, and a :50.3 anchor in a 3:23.9 four-man mile relay win.

Olander was selected athlete of the meet in the sixth annual San Diego Relays in Balboa Stadium. Lincoln dominated, winning seven events, including :42.9 and 1:28.6 in the 440 and 880 relays.

Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson stepped out of the mile and won the two-mile in 9:26.6.

Athletes vied in seeded (those with leading marks entering the meet) and rated competition.

UNOFFICIAL

Kearny’s Carl Giesser tied with three others at 13-6 in the relays’ pole vault.  Given an extra trial Giesser cleared the height and went on to negotiate 14 feet, 7 ½ inches, a record in the County but not considered because of the fourth attempt at the lower height.

4/20/65

Michael Singletary’s :48.3 quarter mile bettered the County record of :48.5 by Hoover’s Tom Agsten in 1963 but Lincoln won, 67-46.

4/27/65

Rudy Silas would represent Lincoln in the state meet long jump, but he was third to teammates Greg Stewart (23-5) and Barry Brinson (22-11) in the Hornets’ 82-31 win over Crawford.

Kearny’s Carl Giesser officially cleared 14 feet in the pole vault against Mission Bay, which won, 66-47.

4/30/65

Facing East with prevailing winds from the West, Morse’s layout for sprints, hurdles, and some jump competition invited outstanding results in those events, but with an asterisk or disclaimer.

San Diego’s 67-46 victory at the Skyline campus on the last day of the regular season included:

–A :09.9 100 and :21 flat 220 by the Cavers’ 440-yard dash ace Michael Singletary.

–:14.3 in the 120-yard high hurdles by Morse’s Harold Burt and :19.1 in the 180 lows by teammate Jerry Daniels.

–A 23-9 ½ long jump by San Diego’s Doyle Steel, for whom Steel’s 6-4 high jump couldn’t be attributed to the hefty breezes.

Most impressive, non-wind mark of the day probably was Morse’s 1:29.8 victory in the 880-yard relay.

5/7/65

LEAGUE TRIALS

And Finals would be held at the same sites.

EASTERN, @BALBOA STADIUM

Lincoln led all qualifiers with 28, followed by San Diego and Crawford, 17 each, Hoover (15), Morse (13), and St. Augustine (3).

AVOCADO, @SAN DIEGUITO

Vista’s Rick Fox ran his 880 heat in 1:58.8 breaking the record of 2:00.4 by Poage of Oceanside in 1963.

WESTERN, @KEARNY

Point Loma led with 21 qualifiers, followed by Mission Bay (17), Madison and Clairemont, 16 each, La Jolla (14) and Kearny (12).

Frank Heitman of Clairemont logged  the  mile in 4:28.9.

GROSSMONT, @GROSSMONT

Sophomore George Brown hurled the shot 57-10 ½ and El Capitan pole vaulter Andy Steben set a league record of 14 feet, 2 3/8 inches.

Brown’s teammate Arasmus Okware ran :49.7 in the 440.

Dual-meet champion Helix led with 18 qualifiers, with Mount Miguel and El Cajon Valley next at 14 each followed by Grossmont, 13, Granite Hills, 10, El Capitan, 5, and Monte Vista, 3.

METROPOLITAN, @SWEETWATER

The host Red Devils, backed by David Barajas’ 440 (:51.2), and 220 (:23.1) led with 26 qualifiers.

Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson set the pace with a 4:12.8 mile, almost 13 seconds faster than in the school-record 4:25 on Feb. 26.

Joe Brooks, the coach of sophomore star Armando Valencia at El Cajon Valley, said Danielson “can do anything.”

“He’ll make these guys look sick in the state meet,” said Brooks. a former distance runner at San Diego State. “If this kid Ryan (who has run 4:10.4) runs 4:06, Danielson will run 4:04.”

5/14/65

FINALS

WESTERN 

Four league records were set and one tied as Mission Bay outscored Point Loma, 56-53, for the team championship.  La Jolla had 28, Madison 25, Clairemont 18, and Kearny 11.

100—Rick Tauber, Mission Bay, :09.9.

Mile—Jeff Dragila, La Jolla, 4:27.5.

120HH—Dee Hayes, Mission Bay, :14.8.

180LH—Sam Fernandez, Mission Bay, :19.6 (tied).

Two-Mile—Lane Mason, La Jolla, 9:29.9.

EASTERN FINALS

Michael Singletary circled the Balboa Stadium track in :48.5 for one of three meet records.

Lincoln’s Otis Martin logged 9:41.3 in the first-time run two-mile and St. Augustine’s John Lewis turned 4:23 in the mile.

St. Augustine’s Tom Eklund clocked 1:55.6 in the 880 and San Diego overtook Lincoln in a 1:28.8 relay.

Lincoln scored 60 points, Hoover 35, Morse and San Diego 27 each, Crawford 23, and St. Augustine 12.

GROSSMONT 

Rick Heisel of Helix set a 180-yard low hurdles of :20.1 and also won the 120 highs (:15.1). With sprinter Brian Olander sidelined with a muscle pull, the Highlanders needed Heisel’s double.

Helix scored 52 points to 48 by Granite Hills, which emerged as a threat to the city schools in the big meets coming up.

The Eagles’ Tim Schraeder won the sprints in :10 and :21.7 and anchored a 1:30.5 victory in the relay. Arasmus Okware won the 440 in :50.3 and George Brown took the shot put at 57-9 ½.

METROPOLITAN 

Sweetwater ran away with the team title with 55 points to Hilltop’s 31.

David Barajas won the 440 in :50.3 and contributed to a 1:31.3 victory in the 880 relay.  Burte Jackson won the 180-yard low hurdles in :20.4 and long jump at 21-11.  Ward Ring’s :14.9 topped 120 high hurdlers.

Tim Danielson won the mile in 4:13.3 and Hilltop’s Terry Rogers set an 880-yard record of 1:55.2.

PALOMAR 

Carlsbad’s 68 points set the pace, almost doubling that of runner-up Ramona, which had 39.

AVOCADO 

Brent Rowlett’s 1:56.8 880 was the outstanding performance as Oceanside won the team title with 65 points to runner-up Vista’s 45.

Vista’s Dave Funderburk, defending Section champion,  hampered by shin splints and feet soreness late in the season, won the mile in 4:21.9.

5/20/65

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS

Eastern, Grossmont, Avocado, and Southern League qualifiers met in Balboa Stadium, where sophomore Armando Valencia of El Cajon Valley ran a 4:14.7 mile and defeated Dave Funderburk, who ran 4:15.2.

Helix led with nine qualifiers, followed by Granite Hills, 7, Lincoln and Morse, 6 each, Hoover, 5, and San Diego, 3.

5/21/65

Tim Danielson was running to where no San Diego athlete had gone, leaving records smoldering beneath his rapid legs.

The Chula Vista junior qualified with a scorching 4:08.7 in the trials involving entries from the Metropolitan, Palomar, and Avocado League.

5/28/65

Tim Danielson won the mile in 4:09.9, temporarily surrendering the spotlight to Granite Hills, which made history and won the team championship before about 6,200 persons in Balboa Stadium.

The Eagles became the first team not identified as Lincoln or San Diego to win since the Section’s first championship in 1961.

Coach Rudy Friberg’s squad clinched with 26 points when anchorman Tim Schraeder brought the baton home in the 880-yard relay in 1:28.6. George Brown took the shot put at 56-11.

Helix’ Byron Olander was  idle with a muscle pull and out of title contention. Lincoln was second with 23 points, followed by Morse , 22, Helix, 16, Hoover, 12, Point Loma and San Diego, 10 each.

COMPETITION FIERCE

The 880 was the showcase event as the first five finishers ran with marks that had been bettered only five times in area history.

Terry Rogers of Hilltop was the winner in 1:53.2, followed by Joe Gerry, Point Loma, 1:54.7; Tom Eklund, St. Augustine, 1:54.9; Rick Fox, Vista, and Nelson Edwards, Helix, each 1:55.2.

Records:

440—Michael Singletary, San Diego, :48.

Two-Mile—Otis Martin, Lincoln, 9:17.7.

120HH—Harold Burt, Morse, :14.4 (tie).

180LH—Silas Gross, Morse, :19.2 (tie).

6/5/65

STATE TRACK TRIALS, @BAKERSFIELD

Tim Danielson led a group of eight San Diego Section qualifiers in trials of the 47^th CIF State track meet on a 90-degree afternoon at Bakersfield College.

Danielson took the lead on the last lap of his mile heat and won in 4:15.2.  Lincoln high jumper Phillip Shelley tied with 12 others at 6 feet, 4 inches.

Pole vaulters Mike Lemons of Mar Vista (13-3) and El Capitan’s Andy Steben, who took only one jump in four hours and cleared 13-0, also moved on.

Michael Singletary of San Diego was second in :48.9 in one heat of the 440 and El Cajon Valley’s Armando Valencia was second his mile test in 4:16.3.  Bobby Johnson of Kearny was second in a 220 in :21.6 and Lincoln long jumper Rudy Silas tied for fifth at 23-7.

NONQUALIFIERS

120 high hurdlers Harold Burt, Morse, fifth in heat, :14.7; Lincoln’s Ted Scales, seventh in heat, :14.7;

Granite Hills’ Tim Schraeder and John Silva of University, each eighth in 100-yard dash heats in :10.3, Schraeder ninth in :21.7 in 220;

Morse’s Silas Gross (:19.1) and Hoover’s Pierre Frazier (:19.5), fifth and fourth in 180-yard low hurdles;

Hilltop’s Terry Rogers (1:54.6), fourth and Joe Gerry (1:56.2), sixth in 880 heats;

Shot putters George Brown of Granite Hills’ (55-10 ¾) and Dave Helton of Mar Vista (53-4 ½) unplaced;

Lincoln (1:29), sixth and Granite Hills (1:29.4), fourth in 880-yard relay heats;

Discus throwers Johnson, Granite Hills (152-1) and Dave Helton, Mar Vista (144-3), ninth and 12^th.

6/6/65

STATE FINALS

Danielson’s star was soaring. See introduction. 

San Diego’s Mike Singletary struggled in the stretch but gutted up for a 440 second-place :47.6, to the :47.4 of Garden Grove Bolsa Grande’s Randy Julian.

Andy Steben of El Capitan tied for third with three others in the pole vault at 14-1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A  North County dustup was decided in Oceanside’s favor when the Pirates won the Avocado League championship-deciding dual meet at Vista, 61-52.

The event, scheduled at Vista, originally was rained out several weeks before.

The schools, approximately 11 ½ miles and about 20 minutes apart along the State 78 corridor, could not agree on an agreeable makeup date.

I had a Tuesday column in the Evening Tribune called Track Topics and wrote a mostly Oceanside view of what became a neighborhood spat.

“He pulled a big stall and got away with it,” Oceanside coach Tom Shields said of Vista mentor Pepper Lysaker.

“We proposed two different dates, but evidently he had some injuries and wanted to wait until everyone was healthy,” said Shields, who was replaced by Lysaker when Shields left Vista for Oceanside this year.

“We’re in league preliminaries Friday and there’s a CIF rule that states a boy can’t change exponents in the same week,” said Shields.  “If he runs varsity on a Tuesday, he has to run varsity on Friday.”

The Pirates’ coach said he would not ask his Class B boys  to compete on the varsity level when their best chance in the upcoming CIF meets would be in the lower class.

Shields added, “They didn’t call us.  They sent us a post card last week saying today (Tuesday) would be a good day to hold the meet.”

Oceanside athletic director Don Huffman notified Vista honchos that “they had waited too long” to reschedule and that the Pirates were not going to participate. Avocado League bosses overruled Oceanside and declared the meet had to take place on the date of Vista’s choosing.

PANTHERS ALL WET?

Lysaker responded.

“Here’s what happened:  Our track was under water for a month during the rain.  It’s one of the lowest points in the city and everything drains on it.  It was in terrible shape and we just couldn’t run on it.”

“We offered to use our track,” said Shields.

Oceanside and Vista both dropped players into Class B when the teams finally met.

“We were fortunate,” said Shields.  “I think we would have won by the same score anyway. We lost about eight points, but they had to give away points, too.”

San Diego High and Grossmont were kings of the majors and La Jolla ruled the smaller schools. Hal Norris, Charlie Powell, Jerry Wood and Darnes Johnson were names of note.

It was a solid if unspectacular season in the San Diego area, but Norris, the first of a generation of outstanding shot putters at Grossmont under coach Jack Mashin, won the state championship and had a best throw of 58 feet, 2 1/2 inches.

The canny Mashin, always looking for competitive venues for his athletes, agreed to a meet in Los Angeles with the UCLA freshmen and entered younger shot putter Clyde Wetter in the Fresno West Coast Relays.

San Diego High’s Powell was No. 2 to Norris in the weight event but easily was the area’s premier athlete.  He also played baseball, on occasion wearing his flannel uniform and thinclad gear on the same day.

2/24/50

Grossmont won all three divisions, A, B, and C, in the second annual City Relays, a meet in which all field events were scored in aggregate and individual competition was limited to the 120-yard high hurdles and 100-yard dash.

San Diego’s Darnes Johnson won the dash in :10.2 and Jerry Wood of La Jolla set one of five meet records with a :15.1 clocking in the 120 highs.

Grossmont’s Hal Norris, in leading his three-man team to first in the shot put, set a meet record of 56 feet, 8 inches.

Grossmont outscored San Diego, 47-45, in Class A, La Jolla, 54-39, in B, and San Diego 44-34, in Class C.

Eleven schools, from the Coast, Metropolitan, and Southern Prep leagues entered the Balboa Stadium competition.

3/1/50

Hoover and Point Loma each won six events but the Cardinals clinched the 54-50 thriller after taking first and second in the mile, next-to-last event, won by Don Bush in 4:48.9.

–Sweetwater won all but the 440-yard dash and swamped St. Augustine, 90-14.  The Red Devils’ Bill Handle high jumped 6 feet.

3/3/50

Chula Vista opened Metropolitan League dual-meet competition with a 74 ½-29 ½ victory over Coronado and Kenny White set a Spartans record with a shot put of 51-9 3/8.

–Sweetwater beat Escondido, 78 ¼-29 ¾, as Billy Howell cleared 12-3 ¼ for a school record in the pole vault.

–La Jolla whipped Kearny, 72-32, with Jerry Wood doubling in the hurdles (:15.6, :21.5) and Dick Blodgett taking the 880 (2:07).

3/8/50

Charlie Powell put the shot 53-7 ½ and Don (Blackie) Norsworthy ran the mile in 4:45.8 as San Diego won a non-league dual with Point Loma in Balboa Stadium,  71 ½-33 ½.

3/9/50

Chuck Embrey hurled the shot 49-4 ½ in La Jolla’s 67 ½-36 ½ win over Sweetwater. Kearny’s Danny Bain, competing in Class B against Escondido, cleared 6-2 in the high jump, compared to the varsity win at 5-8.

3/11/50

Grossmont’s  Hal Norris set a Long Beach Relays record of 56 feet, 8 inches in the shot put, bettering his 1949 record of 53-8; Chula Vista’s Kenny White was second (51-10 3/4), and Grossmont’s Clyde Wetter fourth (50-0).

Floyd Hanson of Grossmont tied for second in the pole vault at 12-3. Hoover’s Del Teter tied for second at 5-11 in the high jump.

3/15/50

Writer Gardner Morse of The San Diego Union predicted a 52-52 tie in the Metropolitan League showdown between Chula Vista and visiting La Jolla.

It wasn’t close.  Coach Sandy MacLaren’s Vikings won, 66 ½-37 ½, over Forrest Jamieson’s Spartans.

MacLaren surprised when he entered Bill Copnik, who had turned out for baseball, and Jim Ranglos, who was sitting out the spring after playing football and basketball.

Copnik won the high jump at 5-11 ¾ and Ranglos was second at 5-10.  La Jolla’s Ted Christman also was a surprising winner at :10.3 in the 100 and :22.4 in the 220 over favored Walt Bubel.

3/18/50

San Diego schools dominated the 29^th Southern Counties Invitational at Huntington Beach.

San Diego swept to an 18-point victory with 43 1/5 points in the large schools’ division. Grossmont was fourth with 21 1/2 and Hoover seventh with 10 3/5.

LARGE SCHOOLS

Darnes Johnson won a 220-yard dash heat in :22, and contributed a leg to the winning 880-yard relay team (1:31.6).

San Diego’s Herb McClister won a 440 heat in :52.7 and teammate Howard Simpson was first in the broad jump at 22-1/4.

Del Teter of Hoover took the high jump at 6-2 1/8. Floyd Hanson of Grossmont tied for first at 12 feet in the pole vault.

Hal Norris of Grossmont set a meet record of 56 feet ¾ inch in the shot put, topping the 54-8 1/2 by Anaheim’s Jerry Shipkey in 1943, and was followed by San Diego’s Charlie Powell and Norris’ teammate Clyde Wetter.

SMALL SCHOOLS

La Jolla (29), Kearny (28 1/4), and Chula Vista (28) were 1-2-3.  Coronado tied for 11th with 7.

Jerry Wood of La Jolla won the 120-yard high hurdles in :15 and was second in the 180 lows.

John Rushing of Kearny was first in the 180-yard low hurdles in :20.1 and second to a :10.2 100 by Keith Brownsberger of Bonita.

Goodwin of Chula Vista won one of the 880-yard races in 2:06.6.  Danny Bain of Kearny was first in the high jump (6-1 1/2).

La Jolla and Chula Vista tied for first in the 880-yard relay in 1:33.8.

3/23/50

Darnes Johnson won the 100 in :10.5, 220 in :22.8 and provided a leg on the winning relay squad (1:33) that decided the Coast League dual at Grossmont in the Hilltoppers’ favor, 55 ½-48 ½.

3/28/50

John Thomas set a San Diego school record of :20.1 in the 180-yard low hurdles and won the shotput at 48-9 ½, and Howard Simpson won the broad jump (20-9) and tied for first in the high jump (5-10) as San Diego won another Coast League dual on the road, 54-50, at Compton.

3/31/50

Grossmont edged Hoover, 52 1/2 -51 ½, and routed Pasadena Muir, 72 1/2-28 ½. in a triangular meet at Hoover, which beat Muir, 71-33.

Hal Norris set a Grossmont record of 57-10 ½, but the Foothillers clinched the meet when Alan Archard, Charles Miller, Clarence Hill, and Mike Martin won the 880-yard relay in 1:33.

–La Jolla set records and almost shut out visiting Escondido, 98-6.

Chuck Embrey’s 51-7 ½ shot put and Dick Blodgett’s 2:03.5 880 were Vikings varsity records, and Bert Rimmer’s 21-5 broad jump established a Class B standard.

–John Holcomb’s 22-3 ½ broad jump and John Benner’s 12-foot, ¼ inch pole vault set Kearny records in the Komets’ 59-45 loss to visiting Point Loma.

–Sammy Woldsdorf broke the Chula Vista record with his :20.5 in the 180 low hurdles.

4/6/50

Losing 83 ½-29 ½ in Los Angeles to the UCLA freshmen wasn’t unexpected, but Grossmont’s Hal Norris, who would go on to compete in football and track at California-Berkeley, was the day’s standout when he hurled the 16-pound, international-weight shot 49-2.

4/11/50

Hoover topped Compton, 63-41, on the Cardinals’ oval and Bill Heaton set a school record of 12 feet, 7 ½ inches in the pole vault.

Hoover’s Don Bush ran the mile in 4:39.6 and Ron Crotts won the broad jump at 21-9 and the 440 in a reported (later disputed) :50 flat.

4/12/50

Grossmont won 11 of 12 events and defeated visiting Pasadena, 93-11.  Hal Norris reached 55-7 in the shot put and Floyd Hanson cleared 12 feet in the pole vault.

4/14/50 

Hal Norris won the shot put in the Compton Gold Cup Invitational with a 56-foot, 5-inch toss and teammates Clyde Wetter and Ron Humphrey were second and fifth.

The Foothillers were sixth in team scoring with 16 points, behind Long Beach Wilson, the leader with 35 1/2.  Kearny and Point Loma tied for ninth with 8 points each.

Point Loma’s Bob Plant ran 4:36.9 in the mile for second and Hal Sweet ran 2:03.1 in the 880 and was third.

Floyd Hanson of Grossmont was second in the pole vault at 12-6, an event in which Kearny’s John Benner set a school record of 12-3 ¼ and tying for third.

4/19/50

Hoover and San Diego met on the same day, in track and baseball.

San Diego won the dual meet at Hoover, 63 2/3-40 1/3, as Darnes Johnson and John Thomas posted double wins in the 100 and 220 and 120-yard high hurdles and 180 lows, respectively.

Johnson ran a :10.3 100 and a not-timed 220, while Thomas was first in the highs in :15.7 and lows in :20.4.

The days’ best mark was by Hoover’s Ron Crotts, who broad jumped 22-10 ¾.

–No double winners but La Jolla routed Point Loma, 73-31, for the Metropolitan League dual meet championship and added B and C titles along the way.

Jerry Wood ran :15.2 in the 120 high hurdles and Burt Rimmer broad jumped 21-11 for the Vikings’. Connie Broome won the 100 for Point Loma in: :10.2.

4/21/50

The first annual Vista Relays featured athletes from Army-Navy, Brown Military, Fallbrook, Mountain Empire, Oceanside, Ramona, San Dieguito, and host Vista.

Escondido outscored Oceanside, 52-51, for the team championship before a gathering described as “800 shivering fans.”

Best individual mark in a meet that featured team aggregate results was the :10.1 100 by Vista’s Dave Pine.

4/22/50

Chula Vista’s Kenny White won the shot put with a throw of 53 feet, ½ inch, and teammate Tom Timmerman won one of two 440 races in :51.7 at the Chaffey Invitational in Ontario.

The Spartans’ Gerrel Prince reportedly was timed in :51.7 in finishing second in the second 440.

4/25/50

San Diego qualified 20 and Hoover and Grossmont 19 each in Coast League trials at Compton.

–La Jolla sent 17 entries forward and Point Loma and Chula Vista 11 each in

Metropolitan League trials at Balboa Stadium.

Dan Bain of Kearny set a Class B record in the high jump finals at 6 feet, 1 ¾ inches.  Bob Smerdon of La Jolla was notable with a 50-foot effort in the Class C shot put finals.

4/28/50

San Diego High scored 56 points to runner-up Hoover’s 40, followed by the 38 of Compton, and 26 of 1949 champion Grossmont in the Coast League finals, held on a chilly, rain-threatened afternoon in Balboa Stadium.

Pasadena Muir and Pasadena High brought up the rear with 18 and 1, respectively.

Hilltoppers Hal Espy, John Thomas, and the 880 relay team accounted for three of six meet records.

Espy toured the 440 in :51, Thomas the 180-yard low hurdles in :20, and the relay team of Darnes Johnson, Herb McClister, Frank Johnson, and Espy ran 1:30.4.

Other records were set by Grossmont’s Hal Norris, 56-10 shot put, and Floyd Hanson, 12-10 pole vault, and Muir’s Hank Warner :22 220.

–Kenny White bettered the Metropolitan League meet shot put record with a toss of 54-6 ½, eclipsing the 51-4 ½ in 1946 by George Pinnell of La Jolla.

Jerry Wood of La Jolla was timed in :14.7, breaking the mark of :14.8 by La Jolla’s Art Barnard in 1947 and Wood ran a leg on the winning 880-yard relay team that was timed in 1:31.8.

Chuck Engebretson of Oceanside was a double winner in the 100 (:10.1) and 220 (:22.5).

La Jolla won the team championship in the evening competition at Balboa Stadium with 56 ½ points.  Chula Vista had 40 ½, Point Loma 22, Kearny 18, Oceanside16, Coronado 12-1/2, Escondido 8, and Sweetwater 6.

4/29/50

Vista’s Mark Wilson set a Southern Prep League meet record of 4:57.2 in the mile in league finals at Vista.

San Dieguito won the team title with 79 3/4 points to Vista’s 79 and Army-navy’s 71 1/4. Mountain Empire had 19.

5/6/50

As in other CIF sports playoffs, track was in three groups, Northern, Central, and Southern.

Coast League thinclads were competing in the Central Group Divisional at Inglewood.

La Jolla and other Metropolitan League athletes, plus any qualifier from the Southern Prep, was part of the Southern contingent at San Diego State.

Darnes Johnson of San Diego posted career bests of :09.8 in the 100 and :21.4 in the 220 at Inglewood.

Johnson became the fourth Hilltopper to run :09.8, tying the school record jointly held by Jimmy Willson (1929), Mushy Pollock (1933), Glenn Willis (1941) and the third behind Willson and Pollock to run :21.4.

Grossmont shot putter Hal Norris (57-1), San Diego low hurdler John Thomas and quartermiler Hal Espy, and Hoover half milers Milt Hatchell and Phil Selter also won their heats at Inglewood.

Jerry Wood was a double winner at San Diego State, winning his hurdle heats in :14.9 and :20.1 and running a leg as La Jolla won the 880 relay in 1:32.2.

Kenny White of Chula Vista was first with a school record 56 feet, 1 ¾ inches in the shot put.

5/12/50

Grossmont junior Clyde Wetter won the high school shot put in the West Coast Relays at Fresno with a toss of 53 feet, 1 inch.

5/13/50

Glendale outscored San Diego, 34-25, and had 6 qualifiers to the Hilltoppers’ 5 in the Divisional semifinals at Compton.

Darnes Johnson was third to a :09.9 100 by Pasadena Muir’s Hank Warner but Johnson won the 220 in :21.4.

Hal Espy’s :50.7 440 was his best time of the season.

The Hillers’ John Thomas was not listed as qualifying but credited by San Diego High coach Bill Patten with a non-winning :19.5 in the 180 low hurdles. Glendale’s Steve turner set a Southern Section record of :19 flat in the lows.

–La Jolla’s Jerry Wood set the pace with :14.6 in the 120-yard high hurdles and :19.7 in the Southern Group divisional at Riverside Poly. Kenny White of Chula Vista won the shot put at 55-7.

5/20/50

San Diego-area athletes won  only two of 12 events but scored in 11 and their 57 points were almost half the possible 121 in the Southern Section finals at Long Beach Wilson.

Hal Norris of Grossmont won the shot put with a school-record throw of 58-2 ½ and the San Diego relay team of Darnes Johnson, Herb McClister, Frank Johnson, and Hal Espy was first in 1:30.8.

Norris led a 1-2-3 finish by area heavyweights. He was followed by Charlie Powell of San Diego, who was second, and Kenny White of Chula Vista, third.

Espy was second in the 440, won in :51.2, and Ron Crotts of Hoover was second in the broad jump, won by Glendale’s Steve Turner, who had a record jump of 24-6 ¼.  Darnes Johnson was third in the 100-yard dash and 220, which were won in :10 and :22.3.

Jerry Wood of La Jolla was fourth and fifth in both hurdle races.  Malcolm Lewis of Point Loma was fifth and fourth in the hurdles.

Glendale won the team championship with 28 points.  San Diego was second with 20. La Jolla had eight, Grossmont 7, Chula Vista 6, Point Loma 5 ½, Hoover 4, Oceanside 3, Coronado 2, and Kearny 1 ½.

5/28/50

Hal Norris of Grossmont was first in the shot put, with Charlie Powell of San Diego second and Kenny White of Chula Vista fourth in 32^nd state track meet at Hughes Stadium, Sacramento.

Norris’ winning put was 56 feet, 5 ½ inches, below his best of 58-2 1/2, and was followed by the 55-4 of Powell, and 53-8 of White, who was nosed out for third by the 53-11 of Taft’s Leon Patterson.

A San Diego relay quartet of Darnes Johnson, Frank Johnson, Herb McAlister, and Hal Espy was second in the 880-yard relay in 1:29.8.

Los Angeles Jefferson won the relay in 1:28.6 and ran off with the team title with 40 points.  San Diego was fifth with 8.

Bob Hose gave a glimpse as a sophomore at Clairemont in the San Diego Section finals in 1962, when Hose finished fifth in the 880 in 1:58.

It was a promising if overlooked run by Hose, as attention was focused on Hoover’s John Garrison, who would finish second in the state meet and tie the County record of 1:52.7 by Jim Cerveny of Mission Bay in 1957.

Hose was not at Clairemont the following school year, having transferred to Madison, which opened its doors for the first time in Northeast Clairemont.

Coaches Gordon Carter and George Hoagland, with a typically undeveloped first-year group, worked Hose in a variety of events, including the long jump and hurdles, but eventually Hose settled on the 880.

Sparks began to fly.

An out-of-nowhere, second-place finish in the state meet (1963: Sensational Finishes by Cavers’ Relay, Madison’s Hose), in which Hose lowered his time by six seconds from the league finals three weeks before, was followed by more sensational runs this year.

3/6/64

Richard Grise won the shot put at 54 feet, 1 inch, and the discus at 169-6 in Grossmont’s 83-39 rout of El Capitan.

—Hoover’s Eddy Hanks high jumped 6-5 ¼ in an 87-16 win over Clairemont, while Morse’s Arnie Robinson cleared 6-5 in a triangular meet that Oceanside won, 49 to Madison’s 42, and Morse’s 38.

3/10/64

Coronado’s Carl Giesser, whose pole broke a couple days before, recovered with a new implement in a meet with Crawford and Oceanside, clearing 12-6 in the vault and breaking the school record of 12 feet, set in 1946.

—St. Augustine’s John Wayne Wheeler also set a pole vault standard, 12-3 ¾, as the Saints beat their so-called little brothers from University, 67-37.

3/12/64

Coronado’s Carl Giesser went over the bar at 13 feet in the pole vault but Vista won the Avocado League dual, 58-46.

—Jack Evans set a Castle Park record of :19.4 in the 180-yard low hurdles, but Morse, winning its first meet ever, captured the triangular, 55 points to 47 for Castle Park, and 26 for University.

3/14/64

Grossmont (large), Hilltop (medium), and Lincoln (small) won their respective divisions in the 10th annual South Bay Relays at Sweetwater.

Records went to Lincoln’s Jimmy Fox, timed in :14.6 in the 120-yard high hurdles, and pole vaulter Vic Montano, 13-5 7/8 in the vault.

La Jolla’s Bob Millar, aided by a wind estimated at six to 10 miles an hour, over the allowable 4.473, beat favored Bill Massey of Chula Vista in a :09.6 100.

Millar ran :10.1 and :22 in the sprints and 1:23.8 in the 660 as a Class B performer in 1963.

3/30/64

The San Diego Relays in Balboa Stadium were highlighted by a long jump aggregate, high hurdles, four-mile relay, and shot put.

Lincoln’s Art Cooper (23-¾), Greg Stewart (22-9 ¾), and Barry Brinson (21-4 1/2) set a record of 67 feet, 3 inches, to win the Dean C.E. Peterson award for the outstanding team performance.

Helix’ Doug Nelson was chosen the day’s outstanding individual with a shot put of 58 feet, ¾ inch.

Grossmont’s Jim Kerr cleared the 120 high hurdles in :14.5 and Hilltop’s four-man, four-mile relay team ran 18:33.7 for other records.

4/4/64

Eddy Hanks of Hoover high jumped 6 feet, 8 inches, and had a good try at 6-10 in Hoover’s 62-42 win against Point Loma.

“It’s fantastic that he can jump almost one foot above his height,” said Cardinals coach Jack Murphy of the 5-10 Hanks.

—Bill Massey set Chula Vista records of :09.7 in the 100 and :21.4 in the 220 and anchored an 880-yard, 1:30.7 relay effort that won the meet, 53-51, over Hilltop.

4/7/64

El Capitan’s Tad Hendrickson ran the 880 in 1:55.9, best time in the County.

Mission Bay’s Bob Hallmark took a 440 duel from Lincoln’s Harold Moore in :50.1 and the Lincoln relay team, with Moore holding off Stan Morgan, ran a season-best 1:29.8.

4/9/64

Chula Vista won a 53-51 dual meet for the second week in a row, edging Sweetwater as Bill Massey brought the Spartans home again in a 1:30.3 relay, which followed Massey’s wins of :09.7 and :22.1 in the 100 and 220.

—Mission Bay clocked a school-record 1:30 in the relay and Bob Hallmark chased the 440 to a :49.7 finish.  Sweetwater’s David Barajas ran :49.6 and San Diego’s Howard Butler long jumped 23-2 ½.

4/10/64

Bob Hose, scholastically ineligible since the semester break, prepared for his first race by running a 1:54.9 880 in a solo, 6:30 a.m. time trial before school.

Grossmont beat Helix, 67-55, dealing the Highlanders their first league dual meet loss since 1960.

Rocky Collins (22-7 ¼) and  Jim Hammer (22-7 ¼), who tied for first, and Jim Newman (22-6) all bettered the 17-year-old school record of 22-4 ¼ in the long jump.

4/17/64

Bob Hose left his competition after 220 yards, clocked a :53 first quarter, and breezed to a 1:53.5 880 in his first competitive race since the 1963 state meet.

Mission Bay won the Western League dual, 71-33, but all eyes were on Hose, who said, “I was a little disappointed.  I was aiming for a 1:52, but I didn’t have a good finish.”

Mission Bay’s Stan Morgan ran :09.9 in the 100 and :21.2 in the 220 and Bob Hallmark’s :49.4 in the 440 broke the school record of 49.6 by Jim Cerveny in 1957.

—Vista’s Dave Funderburk took the County lead with a 4:23.6 mile in a 73-31 win over University.

4/24/64

Lincoln and Hoover battled to a 54-50 Lincoln win in a rousing Eastern League showdown.

The Hornets’ Harold Moore held off Hoover’s Pierre Frazier as Lincoln won the relay in a season-best 1:29.1 to Hoover’s 1:30.1.

Frazier, unheralded and figuratively coming out of the weeds, stunned the Lincoln sprinters with a :09.7 100, won the 180 lows in :20.1, and was second in the long jump at 22-11 ¾.  Lincoln’s Greg Stewart went 23-1.

But as the afternoon waned all attention switched to the high jump, where Eddy Hanks cleared a measured 6-9 7/8, better than the accepted national record of 6-9 ¾ by Walt Mangham of New Castle, Pa.

National records are not recognized in dual meets and heights and distances are automatically reduced from eighths to fourths. Still, Hanks went as high as any high school jumper before him.

Lincoln’s Art Cooper and Hoover’s Lyle Hull stayed with Hanks jump for jump but each went out at 6-6 after clearing 6-4.

“My 6-8 jump was probably the best of the day,” Hanks told Joe Hughes of the Evening Tribune.  “It felt like I cleared the bar by three inches.”

4/30/64

Lincoln (Eastern), Mission Bay (Western), Grossmont (Grossmont), Escondido (Metropolitan), and Vista and San Dieguito (Avocado) clinched dual meet championships

After Lincoln’s dramatic victory over Hoover, the annual Eastern League showdown with San Diego, in comparison or expectation, was small potatoes.

The host Hornets scored a 64-40 victory, the most decisive loss for the Cavemen since they dropped a 69-35 decision to Point Loma in 1953.

San Diego’s Ronald Ivory took the County lead with a long jump of 23-3 ¾ and Lincoln’s Harold Moore doubled, :22.5 in the 220 and school-record :49.7 in the 440.

Moore, trailing San Diego’s Rex Williams on the anchor leg of the 880-yard relay, pulled up midway and the Cavers won in 1:29.2.

5/1/64

Bob Hose of Madison ran the 880 in 1:54.6, but Point Loma won the dual meet, 68 ½-35 ½, and John Bishop set a Pointers school record of 56 feet, 8 inches, in the shot put.

—John Link established a Hilltop record of 1:55.7 in the 880 but Escondido won the dual meet, 64-40, as Dan Starr doubled with a :10 100 and :21.8 220.

—Richard Pegler won the 100 in :09.9 and broke Lee Buchanan’s 10-year-old school 440 record (:50.7) with a :50.3 as Kearny swamped Clairemont, 79-25.

—Hoover high jumpers Eddy Hanks and Lyle Hull cleared 6-6 and 6-4, respectively, as the Cardinals took St. Augustine, 76-28.

5/2/64

Russ DuPont long jumped 22-2 1/8 for La Jolla Country Day in the school’s invitational, marking the first time since 1961 that a Southern Prep League tracker had made the Evening Tribune’s Best Marks list.

5/8/64

Bill Massey ran the season’s fastest 220, :21.1 and added a :09.8 100 in Metropolitan League trials at Chula Vista that saw Massey’s Spartans and Hilltop each qualify 10.

—Mission Bay’s Bob Hallmark, recovered from measles, ran the 440 in :50.4 as his team qualified 17 in Western League trials at Madison.

—“I didn’t think I’d be running today,” said Grossmont’s Gary Guglielmetti at the Grossmont League trials on his home track.

“At least I’ll be running with a hole in my foot instead of a wart,” said Guglielmetti after a :10.1, 100 qualifier, two days after surgery to remove a growth.

The Foothillers led by Donn Renwick’s :49.6 440, set the pace with 25 qualifiers.

5/12/64

Hoover, Lincoln, and San Diego each qualified 20 entries in Eastern League trials at Crawford.

Crawford’s Bob (Snortin’) Fortin surprised Lincoln’s Jimmy Fox with a :14.7 in the 120-yard high hurdles, better than Fortin’s career best of :15.1.

Hoover’s Richard Gauthier set a meet record of 54 feet, ½ inch, bettering the mark of 53-1 by Lincoln’s Richard (Stein) Howell in 1960.

Future Olympian and Morse sophomore Arnie Robinson won the Class B long jump at 22-5 5/8 and set a league record of 6-2 3/4 in the high jump.

5/15/64

WESTERN LEAGUE FINALS, @Madison

Bob Hose, running almost alone, blazed a 1:52.1 880, fastest in the state this season.

Hose’s performance  also moved him past Compton’s Devone Smith, who had led the state with a 1:53.1.

Richard Pegler won the 100 (:10.1) and 220 (:22) and anchored a Kearny foursome that also included Bobby Johnson, Robert Odom, and Carl Wright to a 1:28.7 relay victory, fastest in the area this year and fastest ever by a team not from San Diego or Lincoln.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE, @El Cajon Valley

Donn Renwick’s :48.9 440 and Grossmont’s 1:29.3 relay victory highlighted the Foothillers’ 63-point team championship total.

Helix’ Byron Olander won the 100 in :10 and 220 in :21.6 and Doug Nelson took the shot put at 55-7.  Richard Grise of Grossmont, who had a best of 55-10 ½ earlier against Helix, won the discus at 160-8.

EASTERN LEAGUE, @Balboa Stadium

Jimmy Fox led a Lincoln sweep in the high hurdles, set a meet record of :14.3 and returned to take the low hurdles in :19.6. Pole vaulter Vic Montano cleared a record 14 feet, 3 1/4 inches.

Harold Moore of Lincoln won the 440 in :49.9 and John Colson of Hoover the 880 in 1:56.6.  Richard Cota of St. Augustine set a meet record of 4:26.8 in the mile.

The 9-0 score in the highs and 8-1 in the lows pushed Lincoln to 58 points and the team title.  San Diego followed with 47 and Hoover with 42.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE, @Chula Vista

The host Spartans, riding Bill Massey’s :09.8 100 and :21.5 220, clinched the team championship when Massey anchored a meet and school-record, 1:30.1 victory in the relay.

The Spartans had 34 points to 32 for Hilltop and 31 for Escondido.

Coronado’s Bill Corlett ran a :50.1 440 and Hilltop’s John Link, one of the leaders in the 880, moved to the mile and won in 4:24.5.

Four meet records were set in the Avocado League as San Dieguito outscored University, 44 ½-36, for the team title.  Carlsbad scored 70 points to Poway’s 44 in the Palomar League meet.

DISCUS FINALS

5/20/64

Competition in the discus, 3 pounds, 9 ounces, had been resurrected in San Diego in 1962, but only by the Grossmont League.

The event, won by San Diego’s Eddie Moeller at the state meet in 1925 and ’26, was dropped by the CIF in 1931 and not included in the state meet again until 1949.

Point Loma’s John Bishop was a rare contestant outside the Grossmont loop.

Pointers coach Ed Thomas would review discus performances in the newspaper on Saturday and Bishop would compete against those marks on Monday.

“It’s the only way he can get any competition if you can call it that,” said Thomas.

Bishop, who would reach a career-best 56-10 in the shot put the next day in the finals, was second at 158-8 1/2 to Grossmont’s Richard Grise, the winner in competition at San Diego State, with a toss of 170 feet, 5 inches.

5/21/64

Doug Nelson of Helix set a San Diego Section meet record of 60 feet, 6 inches in the shot put, but the trials were mostly about the relay.

A Kearny team of Bobby Johnson, Mike Scanlan, Jim Hayes, and Richard Pegler ran 1:28 flat.  Grossmont and Chula Vista each logged 1:28.4.  San Diego clocked 1:29.1.

Kearny’s time was fifth fastest in County history.  Grossmont’s and Chula Vista’s were sixth and seventh.

5/28/64

Kearny won the 880 relay, edging Chula Vista and surprising Lincoln in 1:28.2 in the San Diego Section finals at Balboa Stadium

Lincoln’s time in third was 1:28.5 and the Hornets won the team title with 36 points, followed by Kearny with 22, and Grossmont, 18 ½.

The Friday evening at Balboa Stadium included four meet records.

Bob Hose continued his half-mile rampage, blistering the 880 in 1:51.1, better than Hose’s 1:53.4 a week before.

Doug Nelson upped the shot put record to 60 feet, 9 inches.

Vista’s Dave Funderburk lowered the mile record to 4:14.4, a whopping 6.4 seconds better than the 4:20.8 by Funderburk the previous week.

Eddy Hanks of Hoover cleared 6-8 in the high jump, bettering the 6-5 record in 1963 that was shared by Hanks, San Diego’s Tom Maloy, and Grossmont’s Phil Napierski.

6/5/65

Twenty-six qualifiers, two per event, comprised the San Diego Section contingent in trials in the 46^th state track meet at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

A crowd of more than 14,000 persons witnessed as 16 of the 26 moved on to the next day’s finals.

Bob Hose won his heat in the 880 in 1:53, third fastest of the day behind the 1:52.1 of Bakersfield’s Clark Mitchell and 1:52.7 of Compton’s Devone Smith.

Eddy Hanks tied with 11 other qualifiers at 6 feet 3 ¾ inches in the high jump.  Kearny’s Bobby Johnson, Mike Scanlan, Jim Hayes, and Richard Pegler qualified third in their heat in 1:27.7, fourth fastest in area history.

Vista’s Dave Funderburk, one of the expected leaders with a best of 4:14.4 in the mile, was outrun in the stretch and finished a non-qualifying fourth in 4:18. Mike Schwaebe of Granite Hills also did not make the cut but ran his fastest ever, 4:19.3. El Capitan’s Tad Hendrickson ran 1:55.9 in the 880 but did not qualify.

Neighbors Larry Turner (El Cajon Valley) and Glen Richardson (Granite Hills) were among the survivors in the long jump.  Turner went 23-9 ¾ and Richardson 23-5 ¼.

6/6/64

Bob Hose, lagging in sixth place and in traffic for much of the race, made a stunning move heading into the final curve.

Hose suddenly swung wide of the pack and bolted down the stretch to win going away in 1:51.7.  Clark Mitchell of Bakersfield was second in 1:52.8.

Eddy Hanks tied with three others in the high jump at 6-7 3/4 but was second on  misses.  He had two at 6-5 3/4 and winner Greg Heet of La Habra Lowell did not miss until 6-8.

Kearny ran fourth in 1:27.5 in the 880-yard relay but was disqualified because of a lane violation.  El Cajon Valley’s Larry Turner was fifth in the long jump at 23-9 3/4 (jumps in the trials were forwarded).  Grossmont’s Richard Grise was third in the discus at 174-6, and Vic Montano of Lincoln was fifth in the pole vault at 14-1.

6/13/64

Hose was entered in the 880 in the first San Diego Pre-Olympic Invitational, an event in Balboa Stadium involving world-class competitors and a prelude to the 1965 National AAU championships.

Also entered was Kansas high schooler Jim Ryun, who had become an overnight sensation the previous week as the first prep to run a sub-4:00 mile in the Compton Invitational.

Bob Timmons, Ryun’s coach, disappointed meet officials when Timmons slotted Ryun into the 880.

The Wichita East runner finished fifth in 1:50.3, but Hose was fourth and his blazing 1:49.2 tied the fastest ever run by a prep.

Fifty years later promoter Al Franken invited Ryun to to the new Balboa Stadium at the anniversary of Ryun’s 1965 mile victory in the National AAU championships.

I asked Ryun, who had upset New Zealand’s Peter Snell in ’65 and set the American record of 3:55.3, if he would re-visit his first race here in 1964 and that 880.

Ryun, reserved and diffident as a teenager in 1964, was friendly and jovial (as a now retired Kansas Congressman) but Ryun said he didn’t remember much about the race or the meet, other than “there was a guy named Bob Hose“ in the field.

 

Divorced from the Southern Section after 47 years, the new San Diego Section was one of the smallest in the state, 28 schools, and found itself with one automatic qualifier for each event in the state meet.

The legislation by the state CIF ended the possibility, however unlikely, of as many as three in each event, the number which graduated to the state meet from the Southern Section in previous years.

One was more than enough this year. See the subhead 6/3/61 below.

3/3/61

Bill Jones’ 6-5 high jump bettered Jones’ 6-3 ½ Grossmont record a couple weeks before.  The latter topped Joe Page’s 6-3 in 1947.

Ed Speed sent the 12-pound shot 61 feet, 1 inch, but didn’t break the Grossmont school record.

Speed was close to Jim Wade’s 61-5 7/8, with which Wade placed third in the 1957 Southern Section championships.

Speed and Jones were not enough as Lincoln won the nonleague dual, 57 1/2-46 ½.

3/10/61

About 1,500 persons converged on Grossmont to see Compton Centennial win a heralded triangular meet with 59 ½ points to Grossmont’s 45 ½, and San Diego’s 27.

Marks were disappointing because of wind and a slow Foothillers track, but Centennial ran 1:27.8 in the 880 relay (San Diego was second in 1:30.8), fastest ever on a local track.

Grossmont’s Ed Speed reached 61 feet in the shot put and Bill Jones won a high jump duel with the Apaches’ Cleve Liddell.  Jones cleared 6-4 and Liddell 6-3.

—Scott Knox ran the 880 in 2:01.8 and anchored Coronado to a 1:32.8 and school-record-tying 880 relay victory in a 58-46 loss to Chula Vista.

3/14/61

Ed Speed set a County record of 61 feet, 6 ¼ inches in the shot put, his third meet with an attempt of at least 61 feet, and Bill Jones high jumped 6-5 in Grossmont’s 82 ½-21 ½ win over Granite Hills.

Granite Hills’ Ray DeBolt bettered two Grossmont runners with a 2:00.5 880.

—Vernus Ragsdale raced to a :09.9 100 and :51.6 440 and Del Cooper logged wins of :15 and :20.4 in the 120-yard high and 180 low hurdles, and Lincoln topped Kearny, 79-25.

Three Lincoln broad jumpers, Walter Scott (22-10) and sophomores Donell Belcher (22-8 ½), and James Kennedy (22-1/2) swept the event.

3/19/61

Grossmont (large schools), Lincoln (medium), and Mar Vista (small) were the division winners in the seventh annual National City Relays at Sweetwater.

Several outstanding running marks eventually were not recognized because the Sweetwater track was discovered to be yards short of a standard 440-yard oval.

3/24/61

“I just decided this morning,” said Point Loma coach Ed Thomas.  “I don’t think I’ve ever made a wiser choice.”

The Pointers boss had taken a gamble and inserted Steve Brown, a virtually unknown Class B 1320 runner into the Class A mile. Brown responded with a 4:42.3 victory, providing the pivotal points in the 55 3/5-48 2/5 win over Clairemont.

The dual meet victory would clinch the Western League championship and atoned for the surprising loss in the 1960 showdown with the Chieftains.

4/1/61

Steady breeze denied records at Sweetwater in the sixth annual Easter Relays.

Lincoln’s Del Cooper ran a heat in the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.4 and Lou White of San Diego won the final in :14.5.

Both marks would have exceeded allowable breeze of 4.47 miles an hour had a wind gauge been present. Same with the :09.7 100 by Lincoln’s Venus Ragsdale in the heats, but Ragsdale won the wind-allowable final in :09.8, ahead of San Diego’s Thomas Phillips and Escondido’s Dave Blunt.

Lincoln’s 1:28.8 in the 880 relay and San Diego’s :42.8 in the 440 were records but meaningless because the Sweetwater track was yards short of a regulation 440 yards.

—Coronado was second among 15 schools with 15 points in the Laguna Beach Trophy meet.  Islander Scott Knox won the 440 in :50.9 and Norm Alm the 880 in 2:03.8.

4/7/61

—Jeff Moran ran :21.9, the season’s fastest 220, and bettered the Mission Bay record of :22.2 by Jim Cerveny in 1957 in an 86-18 rout of La Jolla.

—Lincoln’s 75 ½-28 ½ win over Hoover was marked by broad jumps of 23-4 by Walter Scott and 23-¾ by Ed Goodman.

—Mike Rudd of Point Loma hurled the shot 54-2, breaking the school record of 52-3 1/4 by  William Bradford in 1958.

4/12/61

Lincoln still held sway over San Diego, despite the loss of academic casualties Vernus Ragsdale and Del Cooper.

The Hornets defeated San Diego, 57-47, and just missed closing out the meet with a victory in the 880-yard relay.

The San Diego team of Eddie Logans, Raymond Dixon, Eddie Frost, and Thomas Phillips raced to 1:28.5 with a Lincoln foursome of James (Preacher) Johnson, Walter Scott, Ed Goodman, and Curtis Meekins a tick behind at 1:28.6.

—Clairemont’s John Stancil, Larry Godfrey, John Swallow, and Tom Rutkoske ran a school record 1:29.9  in the Chiefs’ 84-20 rout of Kearny.

—Jack Wilson’s :51.3 set a Helix 440 record as the Scots remained undefeated in dual meets, 77-26 over Sweetwater.

—El Cajon Valley’s Larry DePaul “won” a shot put competition against Mount Miguel with a toss of 49-6.  Assistant Mount Miguel coach Dick Ridgway, official judge of the event, ruled the attempt a foul because the shot landed outside the throwing area boundary.

El Cajon Valley would win the meet if the throw were ruled legal. El Cajon Valley coach Joe Brooks protested.  Days later the issue still was not resolved after a meeting of the San Diego Track and Field Officials’ Association at the Breitbard Athletic Foundation office.

Metropolitan Northern Division honchos eventually and surprisingly ruled in El Cajon Valley’s favor and the Braves scored a 53 1/3-50 2/3 victory.

4/21/61

Helix ended Grossmont’s streak of 29 consecutive Metropolitan League dual meet victories, 55 2/3-48 1/3.

Déjà vu.

The Highlanders were the last team to beat the Foothillers, 56 1/3-47 2/3, in 1957.

This Highlanders team clinched the meet with a 1:32.5 triumph in the 880 relay.

Grossmont’s trio of shotputters, Ed Speed, Brad Baer, and Dave Eichorst, usually good for a 9-0 sweep, had to be satisfied with a 6-3 scoring advantage.

A huge crowd of spectators lined the area around the competitors and saw Speed win at 59-7 ¾, but the Highlanders’ John Pottinger set a school record with his second-place 57-9 ¾.

Bob Vezza won the 100 in :10, 220 in :22, and advanced the school record to 22 feet, 6 inches, in the broad jump, and ran a leg in the relay. Vezza, Jack Wilson, and Larry Aiken staked Charles Hahn to a 10-yard lead at start of the relay anchor leg.

Hahn, who earlier set a school record of :51.2 in the 440, managed to hold on for the relay victory despite an unofficial :21 flat anchor by Grossmont’s Steve Adams, who closed to within two strides of the leader.

—Dave Price a future 60-foot thrower with the collegiate and international, 16-pound implement, reached 54-4 in the shot put for Clairemont.

4/28/61

Mission Bay’s Jeff Moran ran a school-record :09.8 100 in the Buccaneers’ 78-26 loss to Clairemont. The Chieftains’ John Stancil edged Moran in a :21.9 220.

—Walter Scott broad jumped 23-9 and teammate Ed Goodman 23-3 as Lincoln wrapped  the Eastern League championship, 82 1/3-21 /2/3, over Crawford.

—Point Loma claimed the Western league dual title, 59 ½-43 ½, overcoming Komet Bob Richardson’s double in the low hurdles (:20.3) and high jump (6-3/4).

—Granite Hills’ Ray DeBolt won an 880 showdown with Mount Miguel’s Gerry Mavrinac, running a career best and besting his rival by 10 yards in 1:59.7.

5/2/61

Helix’ John Pottinger became the all-time, sixth 60-foot thrower in the area, reaching 60-1 ¾ with the 12-pound shot in a Southern Division dual at Mount Miguel.

5/5/61

Chula Vista’s Gary Coleman logged a 4:29.8 mile, but Helix, lifted by John Pottinger’s 59 3 3/4 shot put, won the dual meet, 66-37.

–Grossmont’s Ed Speed went 58-7 in the shot and the Foothillers raked Sweetwater, 94-10.

–Escondido won the Vista Relays with 54 points. El Cajon Valley’s Mike Graves, the area leader at 13-6 in the pole vault, did not begin competing until the bar was at 13 feet and missed all three attempts.

5/9/61

LEAGUE TRIALS

EASTERN, @CRAWFORD

Lincoln, the dual-meet champion, led with 15 qualifiers, followed by San Diego with 14, but the Cavemen sustained one of the day’s biggest setbacks.

Thomas Phillips, third in the Southern Section finals 100 in 1960, pulled a muscle winning his 100-yard dash heat in :10.1.

Phillips scratched from the 220 but hoped to run the 100 and relay in the league finals in three days.

San Diego’s Lou White ran a not-wind-aided season-best :14.6 In the 120-yard high hurdles.

WESTERN, @CLAIREMONT.

Clairemont led with 19 qualifiers eight more than runner-up Point Loma.

Best event of day was a 440 heat in which Point Loma’s Ron Steele (:50.3) edged Clairemont’s Larry Godfrey (:50.9).

5/9/61

METRO NORTHERN DIVISION, @EL CAPITAN

Escondido’s Dave Blunt, who turned out for track this season after playing baseball for three years, ran the 220 in :21.8 and won a 100 heat in :10.1.

“I think when he goes against some of those city sprinters he’ll improve even more,” said Cougars coach Charlie Bonebrake, whose squad qualified 14, behind El Cajon Valley’s 17.

Granite Hills’ Ray DeBolt, a favorite in the 880, with a best time of 1:59.7, switched to the mile and won his heat in 4:36.

DeBolt was the Southern Section champion in the Class B 660 in 1960  in 1:23.8.

METRO SOUTHERN DIVISION, @GROSSMONT

Helix and Grossmont each qualified 13 entries, but top mark went to Mount Miguel’s Gerry Mavrinac, who logged a 2:00.1 880.

AVOCADO LEAGUE, @VISTA

Scott Knox of Coronado raced to a :50.3 clocking in the 440 for the day’s top performance.  Teammate Norman Alm won an 880 heat in 2:04.7.

Knox and the Islanders led with 17 qualifiers.  Defending champion Mar Vista had 14.

5/12/61

FINALS

WESTERN LEAGUE, @LA JOLLA

Clairemont won the team title before about 1,500 persons at Scripps field on the Vikings’ campus.

John Stancil surprised teammate Larry Godfrey and Point Loma’s Ron Steele with a 440 win in :50.2 and Dave Price put the shot 54 feet, 2 ¾ inches.

The Chieftains outscored Point Loma, 63 1/2-51, although the Pointers’ Ray Alexander doubled in the 100 and 220 in :10.1 and :22.6 and anchored the winning 880-yard relay team to a 1:33.6 victory, and Steve Brown won the mile in a season-best 4:36.5.

EASTERN LEAGUE, @BALBOA STADIUM

Curtis Meekins’ :09.8 100, :22.2 220, and the last leg of a winning, 1:30.2 in the 880-yard relay led Lincoln to the team championship.

The Hornets outscored San Diego, 79 1/2-44 ½.

Hoover half milers John Garrison and Ralph Havens, ran 1-2 in the 880, Garrison winning in 2:00.4 to Havens’ 2:00.6.

Lou White ran :14.9 and :20 to win both hurdles races. White’s San Diego teammate Thomas Phillips, third in Southern California in 1960, was unplaced in the 100 but ran a leg on the relay despite a muscle pull sustained in Tuesday’s trials.

AVOCADO LEAGUE, @VISTA

Scott Knox logged a :50.0 quarter mile and Coronado outscored Mar Vista, 76 ½-56 ½, for the team championship.

Norm Alm won the 880 in 2:04.4 and the Islanders completed their domination with a 1:32.2 win in the 880 relay.

SOUTHERN PREP, @CAMP PENDLETON

Matt Burnett (:15.5, :19.9, 19-11 ½) won three events, highs and low hurdles and broad jump, to lead Army-Navy to the team title with 73 points to Ramona’s 49.

METRO NORTHERN DIVISION, @ESCONDIDO

Dave Blunt broke the oldest record on the books, running :21.4 in the 220, erasing the :21.5 by Oceanside’s Bill Huntales in 1937.

Blunt also won the 100 in :09.9 and anchored the host Escondido Cougars to a 1:31.8 win in the 880 relay.

El Cajon Valley’s Mike Graves, who couldn’t muster 13 feet in the Vista Relays one week before, cleared 14 feet in the pole vault, top mark in Southern California.

Escondido outscored El Cajon Valley, 59 3/4-56 ½, for the championship.

METRO SOUTHERN DIVISION, @Chula Vista.

Ed Speed of Grossmont and John Pottinger of Helix drew a crowd around the shot put ring.

Speed’s 60-10 effort had been bettered only by his 61-6 ¼ earlier this season.  Pottinger was second at 59-8 7/8.

Sixth-place Bill Burnett of Helix reached 52-5 1/8, which would have been first in the Eastern, Avocado, and Southern Prep leagues.

Grossmont edged Helix in the team race, 48 ½-45 ½.

5/19/61

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS, @KEARNY

A sprint duel was promised when Lincoln’s Curtis Meekins won his heats in :09.9 and :21.6 and Escondido’s Dave Blunt won his in :09.9 and :21.7.

Coronado’s Scott Knox became the favorite when he ran the 440 in :49.7.  Point Loma’s Ron Steele won his heat in :50.7.

Casualties included San Diego’s 880-yard relay team, disqualified for passing out of its lane; Walter Scott, 23-10 broad jumper from Lincoln, and Mount Miguel half-miler Gerry Mavrinac.

Lincoln led with 13 qualifiers.  Clairemont was next with 8.

5/26/61

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @KEARNY

Only one record was accepted in any sprint race as wind blew off the Kearny Mesa.

Escondido’s Dave Blunt won the 100 in a wind-aided :09.7 but his :21 flat 220 was under the legal limit of 4.47 miles an hour.

Scott Knox of Coronado won the 440 in :49.2, fastest ever in San Diego County, and bettered the school record of :49.5 by John Fawcett in 1937.

The day’s outstanding performance was the 14-foot, 3 ½-inch pole vault by El Cajon Valley’s Mike Graves, who also was competing on a runway that had the breeze at his back.

Lincoln won the team championship with 28 points to San Diego’s 22.

6/3/61

Three of the 12 San Diego entries, one for each event, scored in the morning-afternoon, 43rd state track meet at East Los Angeles College.

Mike Graves of El Cajon set a meet record of 14 feet, 2 ¼ inches, in the pole vault.

“I was pretty sure of myself,” said Graves.  “I wasn’t sweating too many people.   Figured once I got over 14 feet I could win it.”

Collectively this was the finest group of prep vaulters in one setting.  The next four tied at 13-10, marking the first time any group of five had gone that high.

Lou White of San Diego was fifth in :14.5 in the 120-yard high hurdles. Bill Jones of Grossmont tied for fifth in the high jump at 6-4.

None of the other San Diego competitors finished better than eighth (Crawford’s Bill Rainey, 1:58 in the 880).  Granite Hills’ Ray DeBolt ran his best time, 4:26.8 in the mile, but was ninth.

BETTER DAYS AHEAD

Escondido’s Dave Blunt was unplaced in the 100 trials in the morning and qualified at :21.5 in the 220, but was ninth in :22.2 in the final.

Blunt continued on in track at the University of Oregon and was one of the nation’s top 220 runners, finishing fourth in the national collegiate meet in 1965 with a wind-aided :20.7.

 

San Diego could have locked up another Southern California championship, but the Hillers, who had won team titles in 1929, ’38, ’41, ’42, and ’48, were outscored by a tall timber topper from Glendale Hoover.

Hurdler, jumper, and anchorman Jack Davis scored 19 of the Tornadoes’ 24 points, leaving the defending champion Hillers in second place with 16 points.  Third was Grossmont, with 13.

The 6-foot, 3-inch Davis, who earned Olympic silver medals in the 110 meters in 1952 and ’56, was a four-time national collegiate hurdles champion at USC and held the world record of :13.4 in 1956.

Davis became a real estate developer who also helped found the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista in 2007 and lived on Point Loma for many years before passing in 2012.

Meanwhile, coach Bill Patten’s San Diego squad and Jack Mashin’s Grossmont thinclads dominated the Coast League, and Sandy MacLaren’s La Jolla Vikings were a Metropolitan League power.

Grossmont’s Duane Pusey’s 13-foot, 3/8-inch pole vault was third highest in the country and Hal Norris’ 57-1 shot put was fifth.

2/24/49

Hal Norris of Grossmont put the shot 53 feet, 8 inches, and Hal Espy of San Diego ran the 100-yard dash in :10.1 in the first annual San Diego High Relays at Balboa Stadium.

Grossmont scored 56 points in Class A, 56 ½ in B, and 54 in C to sweep the field.  San Diego was runner-up in all three classifications with 41, 55 1/2, and 34, respectively.

3/4/49

Jerry Mock doubled in :10.2 and :23.5 in the 100 and 220 and Metropolitan League favorite La Jolla defeated Point Loma, 65 ½-38 ½.

3/15/49

Duane Pusey set a school record with a pole vault of 13 feet, 3/8 inches, and Hal Norris put the shot 53-1 ½ in Grossmont’s 81 2/3-22 1/3 win over Hoover.

The Foothillers won 11 of 12 events, with Alan Archard and Jim Weed doubling for wins in the hurdles and dashes, respectively.

Jerry Mock won the 100 in :10.5, 220 in :23.1, and the shotput at 46 feet in La Jolla’s 79 2/3-24 1/3 win over Sweetwater.

Ken Farnsworth ran :15.3 in the 120-yard high hurdles and :22 in the 180 lows, and Kearny outscored Escondido, 61-42.

3/18/49

Point Loma almost won out and wiped out Oceanside, 101-3, with a cumulative advantage of 248-19 in A, B (86-4), and C (63-12) in a Metropolitan League meet.

3/19/49

San Diego (34 ½) and Grossmont (21 ½) were 1-2 in large schools’ team scoring and La Jolla (35) won the small-schools competition in the 28^th Southern Counties’ Invitational at Huntington Beach.

Charlie Davis won the 100-yard dash in :10.3 and contributed to the Hillers’ other first place, a 1:33.6 effort in the 880 relay.

Hal Norris was first in the shot put at 54-4 ¾ and Duane Pusey cleared 12-6 in the pole vault for Grossmont’s firsts.

La Jolla’s Jerry Mock won a 100 heat in :10.4.  Teammates Jesse Estrada, 880 heat in 2:02.3, and Riley, mile in 4:44.2, also were victorious.

3/27/49

San Diego beat visiting Compton 75 2/3-28 1/3, as Charlie Davis won three events with season bests, 10 seconds in the 100, :22.8 in the 220, and 22-6 ¾ in the broad jump.  Davis finished his day anchoring San Diego to a season best 1:32.9 relay.

John Davis of the Hillers reached 52 feet, 3 inches in the shot put and Albert Rodin cleared 12-8 in the pole vault.

3/29/49

Hank Cagle squeezed in between two Grossmont runners for second place in the 880 and that was the difference in San Diego’s 52 2/3-51 1/3 showdown dual meet victory over Grossmont.

The Cavers still had to win, as expected, in the 880 relay.  Charlie Davis, Herb McClister, Darnes Johnson, and Hal Espy clocked a season best 1:31.7.

Dick Swanson also came through for San Diego with a 4:38.9 mile. Hal Norris’ season best 55-1 ½ led the Foothillers. 

4/2/49

Jim Weed and Alan Archard combined to separate Grossmont from Compton in a 62-42 victory at the Northern school. The duo scored 23 points.

Archard doubled with wins of :20.5 in the low hurdles and 20 feet, 6 inches, in the broad jump, and was second in the high hurdles.

Weed won the 440 in :51.8 and 100 in :10.2.

–Fentriss Neal set a school record of :52.3 in the 440 but Chula Vista bowed to Point Loma, 58 ½-45 ½.  Homer Broome doubled in :10.3 and :22.6 in the 100 and 220 for the Pointers.

4/8/49

La Jolla swept Classes A, B, and C and improved to 6-0 in all three divisions in a Metropolitan League dual at Escondido.

The Vikings of coach Sandy MacLaren defeated the Cougars, 89-14, in A, 70 ½-24 ½ in B, and 45-32 in C on the Grape city team’s layout.  Escondido had been unbeaten in Class C.

Jerry Wood, Jesse Estrada, and Jerry Mock wheeled for six individual victories.

Wood won the 120-yard high hurdles (:15.6) and 180 lows (:21.6), Estrada the 880 (2:06.3) and broad jump (20-6 ½), and Mock the 100 (:10.1) and 220 (:23.1).

–Hoover dropped a Coast League dual at Compton, 69 ½-32 ½, but the Cardinals’ Malcolm Herbert turned in the best time of the season, clocking :15.2 in the 120-yard highs.

4/20/49

Alan Archard tied for first in the 120-yard low hurdles in :13.3.  Hal Norris hurled the shot 53-11 ½, and Duane Pusey pole vaulted 12-9 as the traveling Foothillers outscored Pasadena, 70 ½-32 ½, and Pasadena Muir, 92 ½-10 ½, in a Coast League triangular.

–San Diego dominated Hoover, 79 2/3-24 1/3, in a Coast League dual under the lights in Balboa Stadium.

Malcolm Herbert of Hoover ran the year’s fastest high hurdles race, :15.  Dick Swanson of San Diego ran the mile in 4:39.4.

4/21/49

Fentriss Neal won the 100 in :10.3 and set a school record of :22.7 in the 220 in Chula Vista’s 64-40 win over Kearny.  Ken Farnsworth doubled in the hurdles (:15.4 and :20.3) for the Komets.

4/22/49

With Grossmont out of the Metropolitan League and now a member of the Coast, the coast was clear for La Jolla and the Vikings made a clean sweep of dual meets.

La Jolla beat Oceanside, 93-11, in class A, 89-5 in B, and 57-20 in C to finish with a 7-0 record in all classes.

4/23/49

San Diego did not win an individual event but rolled with its winning relay team (1:31.7) and piled up seconds, thirds, and fourths, and took the championship with 43 ½ points at the Compton Gold Cup invitational.

Grossmont was fourth behind the Hillers, Compton, and Long Beach Poly, with 23 points. Hal Norris set a meet record of 56-4 in the shot put and Duane Pusey was first in the pole vault at 12-9.

4/27/49

Grossmont qualified 24 entries in Class A.  San Diego had 17, Compton 13 and Hoover 11 in the Coast League trials at San Diego State.

Malcolm Herbert of Hoover set a meet record of :20.1 in the 180 low hurdles and Hal Norris of Grossmont bettered the shot put record with a toss of 55-2 1/2.

4/28/49

La Jolla and Point Loma, 1-2 in the dual meet season, each qualified 13 entries in the Metropolitan League trials at San Diego State.

Chula Vista’s Fentriss Neal, one of the league’s best sprinters, was forced to withdraw because of illness, depriving a matchup with La Jolla’s Jerry Mock, who took the lead in the 100 with a time of :10.

4/30/49

COAST LEAGUE FINALS, @COMPTON

Coach Jack Mashin, aptly known as the Fox of the Foothills, saw his Grossmont High squad surprise in the Coast League finals with a team-leading 69 1/2 points.

San Diego, the regular-season champion and a one-point dual meet winner over Mashin’s group, was second with 52. Compton had 38 and Hoover 11 ½.

Grossmont’s Alan Archard set a school record of :15.2 in the high hurdles and won the lows in :20.1, each time defeating favored Armstrong of Compton and Malcolm Herbert of Hoover.

The Foothillers’ Hal Norris set a meet record with a shot put of 56-6 ½.  Teammate Jim Weed took the 440 in :51.2.  Class B shot putter, sophomore Clyde Wetter, posted a record 51-3 with the 10-pound weight.

SOUTHERN PREP FINALS, @VISTA

San Dieguito scored 122 1/3 points, with second-place Vista far behind with 70 points.

Jack Albrecht of Army-Navy put the shot 45-7 ½ and Williams of Ramona ran the mile in 4:58.2 for meet records.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE, @SAN DIEGO STATE

5/2/49

Eddie Davis of Chula Vista ran the mile in 4:35.7, breaking the school record of 4:39.2, set in 1946, but La Jolla continued its dual-meet dominance with 62 points and won the team championship.

Jerry Mock of La Jolla was a double winner at :10.2 in the 100 and :22.5 in the 220.  Ken Farnsworth of Kearny also doubled, winning the high hurdles in :15.5 and lows in :20.9.

5/7/49

San Diego led all qualifiers with 10 in the Southern Section Divisional trials at San Diego State.

The Hillers’ 880 relay team of Charlie Davis, Herb McClister, Darnes Johnson, and Hal Espy clocked 1:31.6, their best time of the year.

Charlie Davis edged La Jolla’s Jerry Mock in a :10.1 100 and Mock topped Davis with a :22.2 220.  The Hillers’ Rudy Graham won the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 inches.

Competition involved qualifiers from the Coast, Imperial Valley, Metropolitan, Southern Prep, and Sunset leagues.

5/14/49

Jerry Mock of La Jolla was a double winner in the Divisional semifinal meet at San Diego State, winning the 100 in :10.2 and 220 in :22.2.

San Diego High was the unofficial team winner with 25½ points, Grossmont second with 19, La Jolla third with 18, and Compton fourth with 15.

5/21/49

San Diego’s defending Southern Section team champion finished second to Glendale Hoover, which had 24 points to the Hillers’ 16.  Grossmont was third with 13.

The meet at Long Beach Wilson saw the Tornadoes’ Jack Davis win the high hurdles (:14.5), lows (:19.2), finish second in the broad jump (23-7 ¼), and anchor the winning relay team (1:29.8) as Davis, trailing San Diego’s Hal Espy by two yards at the baton exchange, got to the tape two inches ahead of Espy, according to the report by the Los Angeles Times’ John De La Vega.

–San Diego had the same relay time as the winner.

–Jerry Mock of La Jolla was third and Charlie Davis of San Diego fifth in the 100, won in :09.9 by Russ Miller of Long Beach Poly.

–Eddie Davis of Chula Vista was third in the mile, won in 4:30.6 by Bob Simon of Pomona.

–Jim Weed of Grossmont was fifth in the 440, won in :50.6 by Jerry Borlin of Glendale Hoover.  Duane Pusey of Grossmont won the pole vault at 12-6 and teammate Dave Smith tied for third at 12 feet. Alan Archard was fifth in the 180 lows.

–Hal Norris of Grossmont was second in the shot put at 56-10 ½, won at 57-9 ¼ by future world record holder Parry O’Brien of Santa Monica.

–John Davis of San Diego was third in the shot put at 52-10. Hal Espy was second, four yards behind Miller of Long Beach Poly, who won the 220 in :21.5.

5/28/49

The 31^st state meet at the L.A. Coliseum was in the evening following afternoon trials.

–Hal Norris reached a career high of 57-1 in the shot put, ahead of Southern Section champ Parry O’Brien’s 55-2 3/4 and second to the 57-3 1/3 of Merced’s Elmer Wilhoite.

–John Davis of San Diego was sixth in the shot at 53-3 ¼.

–Norris was fourth at 45-9 1/2 and Davis fifth at 45-4 5/8 in the exhibition 16-pound shot, won by O’Brien at 47-11 ¼.

–Hal Espy of San Diego was fifth in the 220 in :22.1.  The 880 relay squads of San Diego and L.A. Jefferson were disqualified for lane violations in the trials.

–Duane Pusey was second in the pole vault at 12-9, won by Bob Widman of Harbor City Narbonne at 13-4 ½.  Grossmont’s Dave Smith tied for fifth at 12-3.