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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089} (Cir. S. 341,840)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (C!r. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840)

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ernment and Politics, denounced the ABA's classification in the judicial-selection process as "a scandal." Mr Manion, for exam- pie, was downgraded for not hav- works. And, Antonin Scalia, a re- nowned legal scholar now on the ly given only a "'qualified" rating because he had limited trial ex-

the nominee.

It's noi.q..~rising that some liberals are m a state of high dud- geon over President Reagan's nomination of Bernard Siegan,

These people thought they had knocked out Prof. Siegan with a recent report in the Washmgton,

near end In the 98 straight years that the West Coast's top tennis players have been serving it up in the Pa- cific ·coast Men's Doubles Champi- onship, only once has the storied tournament not been completed. It made it through a depression and two world wars. Then came 1981. "We got through the quarterfi- nals,'' said William J. Kellogg, the tournament director since 1979. "Then it started to rain like mad. So we had a meeting of the players and tried to find a time when they could come back and finish. But we couldn't." And next to 1981 on the champi- ons list is: "Not completed, rain." The 1987 tournament, which began Friday and concludes today at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, appears safe from that fate. Besides a 96-for-97 completion record, the tournament is known for two things: inspiring the Davis Cup and providing a sneak pre- view of tennis' future stars. It began in 1890 in the Monterey area to promote real estate and the Del Monte Lodge. Nine years later, it turned into an East-vs.- West affair, as top-ranked players from schools like Harvard and Yale entered. One of the players from Harvard was a fellow named Dwight Filley Davis. It was this tournament, the story goes, that gave Davis the idea of a World Cup for tennis. He con- vinced his father to put up money for a trophy, and a year later the Davis Cup was born. The Del Monte tournament fea- tured singles and doubles until 1908, when it split. The singles stayed mNorthern California, and the doubles went south. It was played at various sites until 1943, when it came to the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club for good. Now, it 1s the second-oldest contin- uing tournament on the West Coast, behind the Southern Califor- nia Tennis Championships, which last summer celebrated anniver- sary No. 100. There is even history in the La Jolla tournament's solid-silver perpetual trophy. It was construct- ed in 1791 by Mathew West, a noted silversmith from Dublin, Ireland. The names on the trophy are fa-

Distinguished Professor of Law D.C.-based Legal Times that he

had criticized the Supreme mg authored any scholarly

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which ruled segregation in public U.S. Supreme Court, was similar-

They could be expected to op- pose Professor Siegan merely be-

schools to be unconstitutional.

cause he is well-known as a strict But a 1985 Siegan essay entitled perience when first named to the critic of judicial act1V1sm. That Arbiter" proved them false. The District of Columbia Circuit Professor Siegan 1s a nationally essay questioned the constitu- Court of Appeals. recognized constitutional author - tionality of quotas and forced ity and a scholarly author of sev- busing, not the philosophy of de- eral critically received books segregation. makes him the number-one tar- David Boaz, vice president of get before the upcoming Senate the respected Cato Institute, Judiciary Committee confirma- which published the Siegan essay tion hearings. The liberals, and and was respon ble for its m1s- especia lly the unen!Jghtened representation, has set things Democrats among them fear and right to the disromfit, no doubt. From the beginning of Lyndon Johnson's admm1stration through President Reagan's first term, 665 persons were nominated for the federal bench, of whom 326 had precisely the same ABA rat- ing of ''qualified" as that accord- ed Professor Siegan, and all of them were confirmed. As for lack of trial experience, Supreme constructionist and an articulate "The Supreme Court: The Final

The San Diego Union/Don Kohlbauer Rick Leach is going for his fifth consecutive title in the Pacific Coast Men's Doubles Championship.

Hunt. The other semifinal pits un- seeded Bruce and John Steel against sixth-seeded Curt Stalder and Chris Dunk. "This has been a preview of the players to come," Kellogg said. "If you look at the list of winners, •many have gone on to be top tour- ing pros." In other words, the future bodes well for Rick Leach. TOREROS ON TEAR - Six years ago, the Uni~ of San Diego men's team was7Jt.!Ying perennial power USC. The Toreros led, 4-2, after the six singles matches. Then they lost all three doubles - and the match. Last week they led defending NCAA champion Stanford, 4-2, after singles in Palo Alto. And this time, they won two of three in dou- bles. Granted, Stanford is struggling this season. The Cardinal (3-5) lost four starters from the champion- ship team and was playing without top returnee Patrick McEnroe (John's younger brother, who is out with a foot injury). But USD coach Ed Collins called it the biggest ten- nis win in school history, if for no other reason than that his Toreros showed they won't be intimidated by the "big boys," even at their place. Collins cited two matches as the keys to victory. At No. 5 singles, freshman James Edwards scored a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Barry Rich- ards, who was ranked 30 places ahead of Edwards in the juniors. At No. 3 singles, Scott Patridge was down a service break, 5-4, in the third set. But he broke back, held and broke again to win the match 7-5, 6-7 (7-5), 7-5 and give USD the commanding 4-2 lead it never relinquished.

mous, too. Maurice "The Comet" McLaughlin won a record eight times between 1907 and 1919. The Kinsey brothers, Robert and How- ard, won four straight (1921-24). Longtime LJBTC head pro Lester Stoefen won in 1931. Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder teamed to win it three times in the 1940s. More recent winners include Tony Trabert (1953), Rafael Osuna and Dennis Ralston (1961), Arthur Ashe (1965-66), Bob Lutz and Stan Smith (1967-68), Raul Ramirez (1972), and Peter Fleming and Brian Teacher (1975-76). In 1978, Stanford freshman John McEnroe won. Rod Laver and Jimmy Con- nors also have been in the field (separately), but never got their names engraved on the trophy. Though the tournament is open to amateurs and pros alike, it bas become predominantly a college event in the past decade. "The col- lege coaches like it because it gives them a chance to work on doubles in the beginning of the sea- son," Kellogg said. "They can ex- oeriment with various combina- tions and it won't affect their record or ranking." Yet it was a high school senior who tournament officials insist made the most waves since the event has been held at the beach club. In 1982, the year after it rained, high school senior Rick Leach reigned with · SC freshman Tim Pawsat. Leach, the son the Trojans tennis coach Dick Leach, matriculated at USC the following year and won again with Pawsat. They won a third time last year, and this year Leach is in this morning's semifinals with new partner Scott Melville.' They're seeded second and play fourth- seeded Brian Flowers and Woody

therefore oppose more vigorous ly a conservative intellectual of Professor Siegan s stature, one who would be among the top legal minds m the fede, al Jud1c1- ary. If there is anything the liberals dislike more than a Neanderthal conservative, it is a brilliant one. Professor Siegan graduated with a law degree from the Uni- versity of Chicago aod later, as a practicing attorney was a re- search fellow in law and econom ics at that inst1tut1on. He 1s rec- ognized as one of the bnghtest lights at USD's prestigious law school, where he has taught for 14 years. So widely esteemed is Pro- fessor Siegan that Brazil recently sent for him to advise in the rewriting of its constitution. But such credentials don 't im- press those Democrats, civil- rights groups, and liberal organ- izations which have opposed Reagan court appointments re- gardless of the1r qualifications. Last year, they fought the confir- mation of Daniel A. Manion be- cause he was a small-city lawyer who had never published a schol- arly paper and was guilty of grammatical errors in his legal briefs. Where the liberals find scholarship, as in the case of Pro- fessor Siegan, they plow through writings to discredit and defeat

Court Justice Hugo Black had no experience m the federal courts before President Franklm Roose- velt nommated him. His only pnor judicial experience was as a police court judge almost three decades earlier. Yet, Hugo Black is generally regarded as among the court's 10 greatest justices. Under our constitutional sys- tem of government that provides for the president to appoint fed- eral judges. he is entitled to nom- mate those who share his philoso- phy m the public interest. The system has worked well during the life of the Republic, as wit- ness the balance achieved by President Reagan's conservative nominations against the liberal judges named by President Carter. It is outrageous that liberal groups should be conducting a witch hunt against Bernard Siegan solely because of philo- sophical differences. In addition to being eminently qualified to be a federal judge, he is a compas- sionate, dedicated man of unquestioned integrity. He is a scholar and a gentle man in the truest sense. The Senate should confirm his nomination without hesitation and thereby avoid em- barrassing itself.

of Professor Siegan's critics. '·J was wrong," Mr Boaz said in an interview last Friday. "I created a problem by falsely attributing the comments of someone else to Professor Siegan." Undeterred r this dramatic vindication, th liberal groups have intensifie their research through Professor Siegan's nu- merous articles and books in search of anything with which to assail him. Meanwhile, ciitics of the nomi- nation are making mucn of the American Bar Association's rela- tively low "qualified" rating given Professol Siegan, the rea- son being his lack of trial experi- ence. But Patrick McGuigan, di- rector of the Judicial Reform Project for the Institute for Gov-

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USD~ 1 ,-c,' escapes Lions' ambush By Jay Posner limes-Advocate Sportswriter SAN DIEGO - If only Paul Westhead had acted like nothing had happened during the game in- stead of after it, Loyola Marymount might have pulled off a major upset Saturday night. Instead, a technical foul whis- tled against Westhead, the LMU coach, was perhaps the turning point in the Lions' 99-84 loss to the Un~rsity of San Diego in a first- round game of the West Coast Athletic Conference tournament. Of course, you might not have known that from talking to Wes- thead after the ·game. Questioned about the technical, which came early in the second · half and keyed a 34-14 run by the host Toreros, Westhead said calm- ly, "The season's over. We got beat by San Diego. We wish them the best as they go into the second phase of the tournament." And the technical? "It was a great game," Westhead said. "A terrific game. The officials worked hard and I think San Diego is a very nice team." Indeed, the streaking Toreros, the WCAC regular-season champi- ons, won their 14th straight game Saturday before an SRO crowd of 2,500 at the USD Sports Center. Now 24-4 overall, USD will r,lay Pepperdine in the conference semifinals at San Francisco next Friday night at 6:30. The Waves upset Gonzaga 76-73 Saturday night. The Toreros also appeared sus- ceptible to an upset Saturday, but Westhead's technical swung the game in USD's favor. Asked one more time about the technic 1 , Westhead snapped, "Look, I'm trying to be nice and ~lease see USO, p e 02

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a 46-45 lead with 19·15 remaining in the game. Fifty-four seconds later, USD center Scott 'l'hompson leaned in- to LMU forward Mike Yoest and shot a short jumper. The shot went in as Yoest fell to the floor. "That was an Academy Award" Thompson said. "He's from LA and Hollywood's up there, so ma/ be h~ wants to go into the acting business. But I didn't think I hit

him that hard." Neither did USD Coach Hank Ega_n, but Westhead thought oth- erwise. Referee Ron Labetich ap- parently agreed with Thompson and Egan. He slapped Westhead with the technical. free throws, tli.en followed a USD miss with a tap-in basket. Suddenly, the Toreros led 51-46. ·/ / Thompson made two

you come right out and go for the jugular." Actually, it was Westhead's un- derdog team that was out after U.SD. And, after a wild first half that ended with USD leading 45- 43, the last-place Lions had taken

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