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Show or SjHn'tn Information Call sM ini .12 1- Salt Lake City, I tali ) By Joint Mooney i iImimi mu t i Tribune Sports Editor San Diego State University will loin the Western Athletic Conter-encc- . cncctive July 1, 1978, Commissioner Stan Bates announced Saturday e enmg in Denver San Diego State had applied for WAC membership and in turn had accepted a WAC invitation to mem borship. Bates said, speaking for the Presidents' Council of the WAC. San Diego State president Dr Brage Golding made the announcement in California at the same time The WAC Presidents' Council, which has been studying and investigating the applications of between 10 and 1? prospective members, will continue its discussions at the annual meeting in May and perhaps at that time will be able to announce the name or names of other new members of the WAC. San Diego State thus becomes the first replacement for Arizona and Arizona State, who will leave the WAC after the 1977-7season to join a ilii Hu Sundux ailt'iiitKin bofore tin opening of the baseball season in Salt l.ako City was a highlight for the young reporter, because for a few hours that afternoon, he could bask in the sunlight and hold the spotlight. v ' The reporter had come home V - from N v .y'- V spring training ahead of the ball club. Maybe the training had been held ; 1 IMX w Sunday Morning S' Cull 12 at Bo Springs, y e s Wood-lan- John Mooney or Merced - where Uncle Charley Graham s Seals trained. But the fans turned out by the thousands to get the latest information about the players. The baseball writers knew most of the players by their names, numbers and positions, and such information commanded 8 the Pac-X- . "San Diego State is very compatible to the six continuing WAC universities, both in academic and Bates said. We athletic stature, have great confidence in the future of the Aztecs intercollegiate athletic program and are very pleased that They were on hand in the old wooden stands at Community Park to see if Eddie Mulligan had assembled a ball club from the Seal rookies to challenge for the Pioneer League pennant. "Swede" Swenson, Franny Cowan. Humpy Gilbert. Claude Engberg, Bob Howard, Joe Fitzpatrick, Ed Morrissey, Dick Hogan. Maury Yates, Max Guss. Homer Coleman. Paul Strand, Pat Goggin and Bud Brain might be along the first base dugout. checking out the pitchers. tor mereased opportunities nation, tl rei ognitinii tli.it WAC un-i" Imrship uttords Enrollment at San Diego State is 111 sioner added both men and women recruiting and in upgrading our athletic competition." Ken Karr, Aztec athletic director, added, "All our coaches and student athletes are very excited about Uncompetitive athletic available as a member of the Western Athletic Conference "We are elated over the prospect exfH-rienee- ear tennis and swimming. SDSC thud each year lol" three seasons m tin- H.otlie Coast Mhh-tissii meets San Diego State will shale III the W C television receipts and post season bowl revenue alter July 1. In lias Mulshed PCs Athletic Director Karr added, San Diego State will strive to play a WAC schedule complete seven-gamas soon as possible We hope to play sutlii ient games to be eligible fur the championship in 1978 m lootball and certainly by 19su at the latest. lie added e 15.iHKi-s.ea- While the WAC suggests a track and Held, the Atees have 2G individual NCAA champion slops, tile latest being the 1979 intermediate hurdler. Quentin Wheeler. Ill baseball. Salt Diego State boasts a winning percentage of tiju since 1950 and the latest major leaguer from the Atees is (Haig Nettles ot the Yankees Alee goiters already have won In SDS has a seven-gamYoung w streak opening this season. inning San Diego State averaged 34. Nd San Diego tails in the 5.1, e For example, Utah this last season played only live games with ITEl Five and Colorado not included games has been the minimum number ot contercnce games allowed tor the championship, which i' decided on percentages, Bates reminded Bounous Nabs Lead in Altas Snow Cup Utah Coach Fops Cals And along the third base line you could expect to see Occie Evans, Cal Woolley, Joe Barney, Lee Brown. Lynn Morgan and Tuffy Marks, DaKa Davis, Pete Dow. Paul and Joe McCune, Miner, Chuck Archibald, Nielsen, Leif Erickson. Les Sumnicht, A1 Ablett and Charlie Bates, Verne McCullough and Brick Woods. Smiley i Hughie - 7 w - By ;4 ALTA Junior National slalom champion Steve Bounous put together two superb runs here Saturday to edge Ogden's Seott Hoffman for the lead in the 55th annual Snow Cup skiing com lot it ion. University of Utah women's ski coach Carol Carter, fresh from a victory in the Senior National giant slalom last woek at Copper Mountain, Colo., won the women's race. Bounous finished the two-ruevent with a total time of 152.30 seconds, followed by Hollman with 155.75 and John Linirt, a senior racer from Squaw Valley, Calif., with 156.02. Carols Time Carol won the womens race with a time of 83.80. Hark City's Roxanne Toly was second in 84.38 and Robbie Lynn Beck, who races for Carol at the University of Utah, finished third with A few years later, as their baseball ended, you could expect to see Southy Frantz, Orson Bailey, Wayne Tucker, Lou Campagna and Lou Tezak, Feets Tedesco. Earl Owen, Ken Price, Fred Perc Schmucker, Sid Birdsley, Kelly Staker, Frank Glen Berge and Lee Christiansen leaning against the wooden railing. They were looking over Johnny Larrieu, Chickadee Alves, Eddie Sanford, Zac-cari- a. Rhymer in those days. Or mavbe it was Blazing Ben Guin-tinor Glen Tuckett, or the local pitchers. Vaughan Barker or Knowles Piercey, who drew attention. There were colorful managers Mulligan at Salt Lake, Tony Robello at Pocatello, Andy Harrington of Boise and Bill McCorry of Ogden, not to mention a skinny guy named Eddie Leishman from Twin Falls. Reno Cheso, John Moskus, Skip Kit sman, Diamond Cecil, Chuck Henson. George Triandos, Roy Partee, Vic Brocker, Dick Lamer, Bob and Dick Drilling, Gordy Hernandez, Hub Kittle, Joe Orengo. Tommy Thompson, Red Jri i. the list could go on and on. To sit in that old overhanging press box, between two of baseball s patJ.C. Derks of The Tribune riarchs who with and Les Goates of the News Frank K Baker of The Telegram and A Warden of the Standard-Examine- r completed a writers Murderers Row. . I with me in those The "chipmunks days were Marlowe Branagan of The I ribune and Con Harrison of the New s, but we spoke softly when the Deans were around, because baseball carried a reverence to the patriarchs. OjMiiingK Colorful Years earlier, Tom Cook rode a white horse up and down State and Main Streets, yelling "Baseball Today" through his megaphone. And "Beans" Lossee would stand at home plate with his megaphone and announce. "Batteries for today's game aie. And even earlier, the Wizards of the Wasatch would stage a pushball game in the infield before the game. One a piece of heavy equipment y ear. .tailed to sink into the soft infield around second base just before a game in the old Pacific Coast League. (.' Rinotti would have the Rotisserie decorated with Hags and pennants for every game And there were the rushes against the construction deadlines, like getting the park ready tor the old PCL. then getting the concrete stands finished for the start of the season, after a fire destroyed 'he wooden stands the night alter the p avoid of 1946. And there was the frantic the additional Concrete stands ready for Sait Lake's entry in the Pacific (.'oast League for the 1958 season once had a pi( ket opening problem when Commissioner Goggin Used larks dept employes to give a badly needed coat of green paint to the oin in unit Park grandstand and tunon put up pickets The ( 85.80. v : J;-.- gA ... - s .Sg K.i '5.- '0Spk r .A ,, . -- M,: v. ' portion of the mammoth crowd of some 17,000 spectators forms a backdrop Satur- - - W.V V. , .,. - ,s Tribune Staff Photos day as motorcycle rider begins his ascent up famed Widowmaker Hill during annual Bees .Motorcycle background in Club meet. Dv Prank R Porschatu is in view. Widowmaker Thwarts Huge Field Special tu The Tribune E- - M 0UNTA1N POI NT- - OF-TA crowd estimated by race sponsors "in excess of 17, WX) persons" swarmed over this south Salt Lake County terrain Saturday for the annual running of the Bees Motorcycle Clubs Widowmaker Hillclimb. Some of the warmest weather of Utahs spring greeted more than 400 riders and the massive gallery as six classes of riders assaulted the 1. long hill from 9 a m. until sundown No one topped the hill Stin Jose. Calif., rider Jim True returned to attempt sealing the crest a second year in a row , but the coast aee not only could not duplicate his 1970 eiiort. but fell to second overall behind his brother Ron. Ron True took home the biggest money in the exhibition class by attaining the highest distance on the hill some 1.550 feet. Jim True was I figure Pvt danced my share so should pay the fiddler April 15. but what bothers me is paying the tab for all those wall flowers who don't contribute any lliiug in Washington 1 s finished a 15th respectable III the Western Spring Senes held at Hark City two weeks ago. His 15th place is impressive when vmi consider he was competing against most of the l .S Ski Team and many lop Canadians Get Air SdiiiooIu- ei i oil the bump, su me to get dol." t ,1 hit ol ail' arter said o! her run 5 on people' rare -- know, there are a lot ol old in this country who like to he said with a simie probably the only college ski coach in An criea who is Id! actively racing m amateur competition She also placed second III the Senior National slalom and downhill m addition to her giant slalom win in Colorado Inst week She was competing against a Held of to veteran women skiers Junior ( handier Carol second. lit thv exhibition or opefli class, riders can use anything like chains on the rear tire or nitro in the fuel And there were a lot of those ' helper Saturday Bees' president Jim Stoddard proclaimed tin- "world's biggest hillclimb-inevent" as a "tremendous sui ( ess the best one ever " The attendance ot over 17.oou sot an record i were going over ol i. consistently three years ago. but the course was moved a few hundred feet to the south last year and only the Jim True has been able to see "the other side of Ihe mountain" on hi' bike 1 Bounous. 17. who graduated Iron) Hrovo High School m January, lias spent most oi his free time training and traveling to improve his skiing. He won three local races Ibis spring and 5011-fo- Riders V 1 4yn. s A .. v ; Roland Corning, newly elected presi dent o the ponsonng Sail Lake Junior Chamber ot Commerce, mustered a lorcr ot forty officials and gate keepers to condia t the event, ami the number ol out-o- l state competitors is larger than it lia been tor the last tew y e o s -- e iit ion Wiirtl Bounous skied the top of the giant slalom course wilh wide sweeping turns and managed to carry his speed from the steep Bunch-Bow- l fact through the first flat and over the bum). "1 lelt skied the top gates well and. except for the bump and the last flat, I lelt really good. was happy while I was skiing and. except for those two mistakes, had a good run. Steve said. He skied over the bump with more speed than anyone in the first seed and had his mind programmed for a straight line. He had to take a giant step to the right to make it through the next gate. Oil The Flat Right mi the flat, where the crank-ernight turns are. I dropped my hip and lost some time," Sieve said about the second spot of difficulty he experi-i-iii-eon the course. "1 felt fast on top, but as soon as hit the flat, I could just feel myself slow down m the soft snow. "Well. cant say I'm not happy with my time." Steve concluded, when he learned be had beaten deleluimg champion lloflmau by more than two seconds. 1 Bob Chesnes. Len Kasparovitch. Con Dempsey, Burt Barkelew, Bob Cherry n 1 Bothelo, Willie Enos, Ray Perry, Whitcy Burleson, Ray Price, A1 Jacinto, Freddie Moresco, Duke Marlowe, Nig Tate. Paul Piscovich or Rip Craig Hansell Tribune Sports Writer Developing Fans Jessen, Charley Gassaway, seven-gam- lootball schedule, provisions have been made in the past when teams could not clear a schedule to day all opponents non lli-- s y In basketball, the Atees reached the NCAA playotf twice in the last three y ears. Sail Diego State day s m its a. udu seat campus gym or ill the t San Diego Sports Arena, site of the 1975 NCAA Imals Azlees sponsor 11 sports tor The men will compete lor WAC titles m football, basketball, baseball, indoor and outdoor track, cross country, swimming, golf and tennis The remaining men's spurts ot soccer and volleyball will continue their Southern California associations while water polo will have independent status In lout ball, as an independent, tile l hist year, losing Aztecs were only to WAC Brigham The Dr Golding said in hi' statement, "We are delighted to be the first to be invited this year and equally pleased to be in a position to accept We are looking forward to friend !y but tough compotitiun and believe that our association with this prestigious conference will aid us in and Sandpiper tourna In tin- last three years. Sail Diego lias tmi'hed in the top Jo teams each 1 .in, lino in. - m ei it s as w ell ,i' bring runnei'siip in tie Fresno ('lassie and the Western 1! e la ni iegl at e 't.ulluin Sun e lo. the Aztei shave averaged over 55 OiNi Ians tor 7s home games m football Tile Atees have a live year loot ball record ot and a 17 year 19 27 t K'l eentage o! S3S (Mi"U lc post season bow compel itlon lor tin toolhall Aztecs, plus all Aei the For 78 Membership ether - 1.100 I'.in,- WAC Approves Aztecs they ,ire joining the WAC "Tile Aztecs bring a well rounded athletic program to the WAC including a winning gridiron tradition and a reputation nationally a:, a rising football." the commislower I- IT. 1077 April h Sport Mirror I Sr ilium' (f - 1 .10 1 r SjHtrt Srorr i be Mm w as once one of the ill impel!. ,lg ski iiuL Ami-lirIn those days, it you skied weii in die Aspen Roch Cup and bun Valley's HarrimaH Gup hemic making a good bowing in the Alta Snow Cup 7 1. t will ill See Huge i It, lee r Walter Humphries fights his motorcycle Saturdav to keep control in the of exhibition class chains of the Widowmaker Hillclimb. Note the (allowed in open classi on rear tire. III;. Cup , |