Walt Mehl played basketball from 1949 to 1952, with the Championship players Dick Jensen, Phil Vukicevich, Jerry Mullen, Frank Evangelho, Cappy Lavin, Willie Wong, and K.C. Jones. He graduated in 1953.
In the preliminary tussle the Don Frosh, led by Walt Mehl with twenty points, took an overtime verdict from the Bear Babes 54-49. Willie Wong amazed the crowd with his terrific floor game, despite his height disadvantage. The Dons entertain Kansas State at the Cow Palace tonight, and, in a return engagement, take on the Bruins of UCLA tomorrow evening.
In the realm of Don basketball, which closes out spring practice at the end of this week to make way for personal concentration on final exams (with no post-victory banquets scheduled), the fight still goes on for the forward spot vacated by graduating John Benington. Whether the move was significant or not, no one but Coach Peter Newell knows, but Jerry Hickey has been shifted from guard to forward. Jerry is the ham-handed boy who played a few games in the 1947-1948 season before running afoul of ill health during the eastward trip. His shift adds one more post-Benington contender to the,list of Don Giesen, Frank Sobek, Norm McKenzie and Walt Mehl. It's a happy quandary Newell is in, being doomed to select the best from among lads of such caliber (TheFoghorn).
