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Oil Succeeds Bill Terry Oak Knoll to Reopen N-ING 7 i i I VA'ED By Art Cohn VV L.I Sports Editor Wffli New S.F. Owner Manager of Giants They call him Allison's official apologist but old Dunbar, he just Jauchs their laces. "Sure I like Stub," Lee admits. "He's an honest, decent man." Former Boss No man is a hero to his valet and no football coach holds any illusions for the reporter on his beat. Dunbar's.

respect for Allison is the exception that proves the rule. And it runs Hutton Says Play Starts On Jan. 15 Off P. 'v To Command Farm System When I cam to The Tribune in the Fall' Qf 1038 I assigned Dunbar to cover University of California football. Day in, day out in rain and VOL CXXXV OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2.

1941' 22 NO. 155 in cold, in sickness and in health, fox better or for worse he haa faith fully pounded his beat Lee has not missed five days of practice in those SOME CAMERA HIGHLIGHTS FROM DUKE. UNIVERSITY JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 2 five years. i.r'ji By BOB BLAKE Oak Knoll Golf Club, Considered The New York Giante.

made One should be able to judge a man after observing him so closely for five yean. That's why Tasked Lee for his unvarnished opinion of mm stub. Mel Ott playing manager today and placed Bill Terry in charge of farm operations with the title of general one of the finest 'in Oakland when it is well groomed, will reopen on January 15, it was announced today. "If there was any phoney' in the man," Dunbar replied, "I would have discovered it by now. I've been at his side in victory and defeat, Each was given a two-year eon- The new owner is Tom Hutton, tinder all conditions up and down this Coast from Pullman to Los An tract.

Terry, who has been manager bf geles. Almost anyone is smart enough to fool me some of the time but San Francisco golfxourse owner, who has completed a lease deal with the Giants since the middle of the Arthur D. King, owner of the prop- season in 1932, will continue to act in an advisory capacity to. whatever extent Ott desires, President arty. Thus Oak Knoll is added to tha Horace Stoneham said in making no one could fool me for five years "I've watched him when his greatest team went through the season undefeated and won him the Rose Bowl and the National championship.

And I've been with him when his team fell apart and blew seven games in a single season. Ia those five years I've never caught Stub in, a deliberate lie strange man. As friendly we Jiave become through the years I've never really felt close to the man. I've been in his home only once and he has never been in mine. What's more, he never will and I Hutton list of successful courses which include HUlview in San Josa the announcement.

Ott, a great right-fielder and home-run hitter, has been with the club for 16 years. Meanwhile the Cleveland IndmnB and Crystal Springs in San Francisco, Hutton also owned tha old Ingleside course in San Francisco and Is now constructing a new lay announced that Manager Lou Bou- tcld him so. Because I've never forgotten that ours is strictly a business dreau's new coaches would be Burt relationship. And undue familiarity breeds contempt. For that matter, out which will have the same name.

Shotton, manager of the Columbus I doubt if few men ever have been close to Stub, He has few friends; RAY McCOY MANAGES (Ohio) Red Birds, and Oscar Me lillo, a Cleveland coach under Man' ager Oscar Vitt Bill Donald, the team doctor, is probably the closest 1 Hutton also announced that Ray "If my sons were starting out all over again and wanted to play foot. McCoy, former Sequoyah Country Club manager, will become resident ball, I'd ask them to go to California; they might acquire some of Alii manager at Oak Knoll. son's manly traits. I'm convinced that he is the greatest man in Pacific No professional has. been named.

Cosst football. The only other coach worth mentioning In the same breath is Jim Phelan but it is presumed Harold Beer, former' pro at the old San Francisco Ingleside, will receive the rid Figures Show Increase In Attendance "Take it from an old man, Art, a man who has seen all of 'em come end go for more than 40 years, Stub Allison is bigger than any of his fellow coaches, bigger than any of his critics. I've never known him to be a party to a mean or unkind act, even to those who bave been most Extensive improvements are being planned at Oak Knoll. Julius Lazzarini, chief sreens- unfair to him As Dunbar epoke of his friend, I envied Allison. So few of us, even keeper for Hutton, is in Oakland today conducting a survey of the grounds, in death let alone in life, ever will receive the sincere tribute: "He is an honest, decent man." NEW-YORK.

Dec. -Several changes are tslanned In the absence of a stand-out team on the Pacific: Coast caused the average attendance to take an amaz itVAIf in a Day's Work ing tumble in that section, the rest Thoughts of Dunbar and Allison remind me of a piece I've meant of the country has lust waded through the most prosperous foot At the moment I don't know if Stub has broken off diplomatic re tha general layout of the course. BEADY BY MN. 15 Work will start immediately and Hutton believes the course will be ready for golfers by January 15. The clubhouse will be reopened Improvements on tha building, among other items, call for complete re-decoration.

Hutton has been contemplating construction of a golf course on this-side of tha lay for mora than a ball season oh record. Athletic treasuries should be bulging like lauoni with this corner. Nor do I much carei it will not affect my copy, one way or another. corn country silos. Shaughnessy, of course, will not speak to me.

Strader is still a ques A study of home attendance fig -Mi ures for 74 of the Nation's leading tion mark since I have not even seen Rod since he came home from New York. I've a hunch Red is still on "Hello there" terms. He's the type. They tell me he lost everything but his sense of humor back East last gridiron-foundries reveals an average increase- of 4 per cent over last year. His original site was on tha te year, despite the West Coast's drop month I Alameda sida of tha tube and ha Culled upon to say a few kind words before the Football Writers of nearly 19 per cent for its 38 principal games.

had been nesntiatintr fnr th nmn. Association In New York; after the Fordham debacle, the Redhead cleared erty. The Fall madness struck a now his throat, grinned and cracked: nently mentioned in The Tribune high in the South, where the crowds averaged 15 per cent higher than in 1940. In the Southwest the figures "Because of the lack of time, the St. Mary's party had to cut short its usual sightseeing tour this year and we couldn't see the Statue of as a prospective buyer ot Oak Knoll when the course folded mora than a month ago, Liberty, So Fordhnm kindly showed it to us at the Polo Grounds.

leaped 10 per cent the East 9 per cent ani in the sprawling Mid When I rap a man's brains out I expect him to become angry, It is ssgf King operated Oak Knoll at a west over 2 per cent, with" the big mituraL It Is his prerogative -and I respect his right to refuse to speak to me. That doesn't bother me too much because I never forget that The nine snattenng ail records. The 359 home games tabulated by Tribune is paying me to report sports, not to make personal friends. the, Associated Press drew a total loss and a greenskeeper strike proved to be the final straw and ha closed the layout officially although players were allowed to use the property if they didn't mind -tha long grass. ORIGINAL PRIVATE CLUB At times it comes hard but it goes with the Job, It's not easy to pull the chain on men you personally like, men wltfiwiiorabtoiiitye flared attendance of 8,495,902, which boils down 'to--an average Audience of vie same hotel room, the same compartment, tne same ooiue, tne same 23,535.

The same 74 teams drew 8439,700 customers to their 859 home contests last season, an average of The course is 6410 yards arid was 22,079, The University of Pennsylvania constructed in the late 20's as a private club and it prospered for a while. John Black, was the pro topped them ail, playing to 358,000 in, six -home games. Unaffected by fessional in charge and he was succeeded in 930 by Mark Fry, present Sequoyah pro and State champion. confidences, the aame dreams But my first loyalty is to my profession. And, if it comes to a question of sacrificing a story or a friend, I am afraid that I must risk the chance of losing the friend.

Anyway, that is the way it has always been. Then there are the times when you have to make an even more difficult decision sacrificing a friend for a friend. That i why my home is divorced from my business. That is why my personal friends era not even remotely connected with any branch of sport I cannot afford to have any close friends in the business; will not allow, them to enter my private life, Not for my sake, for theirs. It would unfair to them, they would get hurt.

the blight that hit other coast teams, University, of Southern California entertained a whopping 322.000 in When Mark Fry left Oak Knoll six games at Los Angeles, Michigan his position was taken by Bill Burch who stayed with the course until f- ran third with a total of 301,606 ita closing. for five contests at Ann Arbor. The new Oak Knoll will not be Following is the Far West tabula- tion, offering comparative figures a private club. sst, -( fvV itiLiriii ii.ui mi -Maw for 1940 and 1941, with number of AU of Hutton -enterprises in golf An Untold Story on O'Doul home games: Prothro showing newlywed Tom, a quarterback how to heave a pass. And at bottom right we have Wallace Wade, coach of the Rose Bowl team, studying some gild dope.

Thty're celebratinc; In Durham, North Carolina, where Dulco University la located. At the top is Captain Bob Barnett chat-Una with Betty Allen, pretty co-ed. At bottom left Is Mrs. FAB WEST Some guys can take it and some guys can't. Neither should be praised are for the general public.

Reopening of the links means Oakland will now have two bourses for the public, Chabot, owned by the city, the second layout. or damned; that's the way they're made. Take the night I'm strolling 1940 142.054 305.0(10 SII4.000 through the lobby of the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn 341 1M, 1)1)0 noo 295.0(10 258.200 222.000 41.875 It was the third or fourth day of the. World Series a few weeks ago WRnhlnston U.S.C. U.C.L.A.

Stanford California Santa Clara St. Mary'a Oakland golfers have felt a need 30.1.0(10 and I was on the prowl for a story. At the other end of the room I noted a group of men second-guessing that afternoon's game and in the middle Turner Signed S0.000 for second course as Chabot, proving mora popular every usually has a peak week-end traf ef the mob was Lefty O'Doul. j. fic.

Alameda, like Chabot, has a The second I spotted Lefty I suddenly turned and made a bee-line a phone booth. Itwasn't afraid to meet him. was only that I didn' peak week-end a large number of the jjlayers are from This is one of the reasons why Buddy Baer Off Friday for Gotham want to embarrass the man. I had written several bitter columns on CDouL especially during and after his unfortunate brawl in a Holly LA. Mad Over Choice of Duke Sport Critics Open Drive for Pasadena To Name Easterners LOS ANGELES.

Dee. S. (U.B-When Coach Wallace Wada-wbo once said he'd never again bring a wood bar last Summer. He had a right to hate me. i Hutton reopened Oak- Knoll and frankly, the combination of Tom, Ray McCoy and Harold Beer will I had a job to do and I did It, I wrote what I thought, I was not To Box Breese" Richmond Negro Foces Ring Star.

On December 10 By ALAN WARD SACRAMENTO, 8. (U.R) HEY MEN, BETTER BUY YOUR SHRINE GRID TICKETS TODAY Smith, DeCorrevont Juzwjk, Westfolf Included on East Team for Contest By BILL TOBITT This may read like the outpourings of a circus barker or. a promoter but If you rJon't get your tickets. for the Shrine East-West game within the next two weeksyou don't get 'em. Lou Samuel, ticket manager for the came, a post he has ashamed of one word, I still feel the same way about it At the same time, hardly miss- I could see O'Doul's aide.

He was, to his way of; thinking, the innocent Buddy Baer will leave Sacramento Friday for New York to begin train-ing for his 15-round championship victim of circumstances, the mlsfortunate goat of an accident All Gridiron ngnt against Joe Louis in Madison Lefty had paid dearly. He had nearly lost his eyesight He had been eruelly scarred for life by a vicious maniac's broken cocktail glass; he had lost part of his vision in one eye, And I felt It was the most natural Square Garden January 9. Manager Ancil Hoffman said he Having exhausted virtually all his would select a training site when he thing in the world that he should want to bust a baseball bat over my local competition, far! Turner, sen arrives in New Y6rk, The fight is a football team this far West arrives dome for rapping him. K-n 'vi. charity bout for the Navy.

Bowls Filled For New Year's sutional Negro welterweight from Richmond, has been paired with with his" Duke team tor tha Rose Bawl game" against Oregon 'State I had made my choice when I wrote my first column on O'Doul Now thera could be no regrets. O'Doul and I were no longer friends. But the Babv Breese of Los Angeles in Pro Spirituals Replace College the people California held for the 17. years it has been an annual year's end event, moter 10-round least I could do was" duck out of sight and save him embarrassment the embarrassment of saying "Hello" and pretending to mean H. That's why going to see a game they had no Jazz oh Gridiron predicts tnat uecember lo, more tnan two.

weeica Deiore mam event here Wednesday nignt, December 10. I hit far the phone booth. part whatever in planning, MEMPHIS, Dec. J.tTrv- the New Year's Day playing ai rn cea -i ti a And I had almost reached the booth when a loud voice called me Oregon State won the right to time, the 59,659 saleable seats Negro spirituals will replace the from the other side of the room. A familiar voice.

Lefty O'Doul's. Breese is terrific right-hand puncher. Among his knock-out victims are Jackie Wilson, California welterweight and lightweight cham blues melodies in Beale Street's an In Kezar Stadium will be sold, choose its opponent by winning the Pacific Coast Conference title. It "What's the matter, he shouted, rushing up and shaking my nual Blues Bowl football game this yearall because of the Office of NEW YORK, Dec. that the Orange, Bowl finally haa jelled, look 'em over and take your choice for the New Year's Day football extravaganzas: Rose Bowl Oregon State (beaten twice) vs.

Duke (unbeaten, untied). Sugar Bowl Fordham beaten once) vs. Missouri (ditto). Cotton Bowl Texas A. M.

we and his agents already promptly sprang a surprise oh the Coast by choosing Duke for the pion, and Lew Jenkins, tne wono hand, "you're, not trying to give an old phI the chill, are you?" "Why no, Lefty," I lied helplessly, "I didn't even see you "I hope that'a it." Lefty said. "Don't forget we're old friends." have, disposed of the complete Production Management. Bob Reinhard Accepts Bid Of West Team lightweight titienoiaer. The Baby kayoed Wilson in game at Pasadena New Year's Day. Jhe OPM ruled against night foot oiock oi zz.uuu one dollar seats ex eluding only 2500 of them for dis ball due to a drought-caused uower And I couldn't take my eyes off his scarred cheek.

And his bum lamp. Southern California ring in what shortage. The committee changed Some guys can take it and some guys can't trlbution i to service men at four bits a throw, Tha two dollar seats was one of the country's major fistic upsets of the year, 1H0 cooled the date to Sunday afternoon. De vs. Alabama (beaten twice).

cember 14. are going rapidly, and likewise the Braven Dyer, Los Angeles sports writer to whom Wade first expressed his dislike of local contests, after a 7 to' 3 beating by University of Southern California in 1939, said "as a long time friend of Mr. Wade I'm hoping that he will hurry up Vhat Is Friendship? Because of the Sabbath date, thev cnoicer three-buck In'cl Jenkins before Lew became lightweight champion of the world. Breese, managed by Gabe Geno- dentally, there's a ten, per cent tax Bob Reinhard, California's great Orange Bowl Georgia (beaten once, tied once) vs. Texas Christian University (beaten twice, tied once).

The entry of Alabama, T.C.U. into- agreed to sing spirituals. Bill Handy, known as the "Father of the Blues," You think of people and thingj like that when your calendar pad informs you that the Coast Conference meeting opens at Talm Springs senior tackle, said today he had ac on top mis year. BIGGEST PRE-SALE cepted a bid to play for the West in attends tne game annually, lead vese, will arrive In Oakland several days before the fight, A victory by Turner over Breese In a few days and you; really ought to be down there to enjoy Palm and say he didn mean it WILLING TO FORGET ing the band with his golden the annual Shrine all-star football "I've never seen anything' like the Springs if not the Conference meeting: the bowl program surprised. It left unbeaten and untied Duquesne out trumpet.

demand we're getting this year" will Rive the 19-year-old Richmond game at 'San Francisco New Year's Day, even though his' Own team Then you start thinking of wasting your sweetness on the desert air. said Samuel. "This -is the biggest of the major bowl assignments. And of ducking down one hallway to avoid bumping into Shaughnessy meets Georgia Tech here five days boy National ring rating. EVEN FOR CONNIE Alabama and T.C.U, howeyer, ara willing to forgive and forget, even it he did slander the southern half of the great State of California "I just which he'd break down Andrews, Noted Sport before.

pre-game sale ever recorded at this early date, And 4 can't charge it only to run into Id Atherton. Who- will be locked arm and arm with If Harold Blackshear today was Reinhard was among the first to Willie Leiser, of course. And you wonder if it's worth it all up to the fact that there will Figure, Succumbs a pair of bowl' old reliables. The Crimson Tide has gone to the Rosa Bowl winning three games, losing one and tying one. receive an invitation from tne Western coaches, Babe Holliftgbery be no JBay Region teams playing MILWAUKEE, Dec.

3. as good a heavyweight as a year ago Connie Norden would be committing fistie suicide fighting the Negro a 10-round main event- here Not that you give a damn. You still have your aources. You'll get every story out 6f the meeting, secret and otherwise, through your pals. J' since the meeting is principally a social gathering, held for the ex- of Washington State and Maj.

Biff uywi ganius -ueuausB wt were sola out of the dollar tickets a week Thomas Andrews, 72, sports writer T.C.U. has won two games in tha Johea pf Nebraska. They delayed and say he didn't mean to be so harsh on us' three years ago. Our reception committee could" then function with so much more sincerity when Wallace his boys arrive late this month. Many of ago." and light promoter in the days when Milwaukee was one of the Sugar Bowl and one in the Cotton The task of determining what wiva purpose of consuming ai much liquor as is humanly possible, you i maybe you'd be' better off staying borne and writing the second making their choices until tha de eision on a Rose Bowl team Bowl for a perfect bowling score.

Nation's boxing centers, died today. tomorrow night But it is. the consensus ot experts Blackshear, recipient of severe-beatings the past season has slipped For the first time since the bowl cated what players would be avail- chapter ot your noveL Andrews was known throughout method of distribution to use for the 2500 service men's tickets has been placed before a committee. It has decided to allot them propor aoie. tha boxing world as the author of Then you think of the Westbay hacks, those highly ethical gentle- the customershere feel that if Wade doesn't likeCalifornia they are willing to rfiake it unanimous.

When business branched out into a four-ply New. Year's Day pick-me-up, only 6ne perfect-record team is in boxing annuals, which were among Bill Dudley Signs. of the press who glory in the fact that they are "personal friends" tt coaches and vice versa. They write nothing uncomplimentary, the most authorllativexver pro some, and as a result the comparatively green Norden is given better than an even chance to win. There was a time when Black- tionately to the various camps duced.

volved. Last January for in- stance, there were threeStanford but Samuel, who hem out for sell CHARLOTTESVILLE, Dec. i '( La, they love everybody. On two occasions he took- boxing ing them the day of the game, envisions difficulty, i j. Dudley, retiring captain of tha Vniversity of Virginia shear looked like a whale of a squads to Australia.

in the Rose Bow and Boston Col-legfi and Tennessee in the Sugar I watch these sychophants and I feel sorry for them. They'll never 1 what friendship really is. It is not "the taltry friendship and gos- the loudspeakers announced during the Loyola-Nevada game here Sunday that Duke had been chosen, a full-throated chorus of boos arose. Nevertheless it is conceded that Duke has a bang-up football team, that Oregon State did the best it "The -presidio already has asked football team and the Nation's lead f'-'- of mere man" of Poe's lament It is something more. for 1000-rrand has been informed ing collegiate scorer for 1841, tenta may be' held to three or four pect, but he has been the victim of rushing.

At a time he should have been meeting opponent)1 of a similar, degree of ability he- was handed tough, experienced cookies who proved too much for Harold. The foregoing does not mean Nor Eddie Booker Wins Doutot Dillings said Samuel. is remaining a man's friend when the rest of tha world has for-a n. It is calling Slip Madigan and Dink Templeton for some i ncfpt to get a story. It is berfig faithful to men when they art tively ias accepted a bid to play in the annual East-West AU-Star game, at San Francisco on New Year's Day." Bowl.

And Mississippi State in tha Orange Bowl had only a tie against its perfect record. Nebraska and Georgetown, the other teams in the Rose and Orange Bowls had beery--beaten only once as had the. Cot. ton Bowl Texas A. M.

WORK At SUNNYVALE BILLINGS, Dec. 2. W) The East team, which will be could under the circumstances, and that the welcome mat will be pushed out, however reluctantly, for the Blue Devils. -WANTS NEW DEAL I It is giving instead of taking for me, give me Dorothy Parker's hope: den will enjoy a walk-away in the coached by Bernie Bierman, Andy Kerr and Dud DeGroot, thus far in Eddie Booker, 160, Pacific Const scrapper, won by a technical knockout over Bill Connerty, 155, Boston. Diamond Figure Dies rrank Tabor headliner.

and Fordham. BISBEE, Dec. 2. (ffy-R. E.i NORDEN MUCH IMPROVED The participants for the Sun Bowl "'aul Zimmerman.

T.ns Aneeles cludes 2Q players, with three a back, a center and a guard to be named today, or tomorrow. at the end of the third round of a 10-round bout last night. If rny friendships break and bend, I rrri to rry i ii every foe Blackshear still can box and Souers, president of the Arizons-Texas Baseball League and supw- summed up the eame at E1 Paso- Tex, have not been situation accurately when he saidlchosen- but Arizona is expected to Chuck Henderson, 197, Los An- punch He has a long back- Its roster presents some impos Scles, and Webster Epperson, 199. the nubbin of the problem ground ox ring warfare to his credit, ing names, the most recent selectees draw the Western assignment if it wins its' final game with UUi this week. mienaeni oi uisoee puouc scnoois.

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