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r.0 M3n 7 Life With Homer By Wiley Smith Utah Grid Coach Will Take Charge On Farm March I By DON SELBY Following the well publicized script almost down Antonelli, Gianis' Mound Ace, Balks At Cut of $5,000 By WALTER JUDGE Johnny Antonelli, lefthanded pitching ace of the San Francisco Giants, declared yesterday that he is dissatisfied with the contract the team offered him for 1958. Antonelli said from his Rochester. N. home cccc FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1958 -Sec.

II 7 V77 IT" VI (iiV IF THE WVI7A.TI0M OEE.IM 50RKY WELL, oOMEOTHEIi TIME. 1 to the final period, Stanford yesterday named Jack You'll love rrP Curtice as its new head football coach, effective 57IUSTMW-ri7UKE 7 lOU PWT I'VE NEVER 5EEU ON Jl TO 60 0U THAT bL TOP SOQNEfc MV CAR 7 LIKE FULL, NOW. to TO IT. SA -TWErLLHWETO, pkv nouoff'em! March 1. Official announcement of the appointment, confirming an Examiner forecast of last December, was that the club "has asked me to take a bigger pay cut made by President J.

E. Wal-i than I anticipated." ship four times In eight years. lace sterling following ap It is believed the Giants of proval by the university board President Sterling said Cur-ice was chosen because "he fered the 28 year old pitcher a contract calling for a $5,000 of trustees at its meeting in the Balfour Building here. Closest thing to a surprise coaches the sort of Imaginative football we like and because we are confident that he believes in and teaches the cut. Antonelli received an es' timated $31,000 in 1957.

was the fact that the appoint ment was for five rather than three. Antonelli admitted that he had a "bad year" in 1957 when he fashioned a 12-18 record, ideals we have always sought to embody in Stanford's ath Salary terms were not an nounced, but it is believed he letic program." Sterling added: will receive $15,500 a year. the poorest of his career. "I believe I will have a good year in 1958," Antonelli stated. WANTS TO BE HAPPY.

While Salt Lake City sources "We look forward to a long and productive association." To which Curtice added a pegged the figure at $19,000 $17,000 for coaching and $2,000 for serving a sum He said he has informed the aaaaaaaataaaaaW a MM I've 6ot vou A -Aievous I te! in mv ckowp, CAW 60 UP ON THE BU5 1 WU.HW6 THERE'6 50ME60PV AN7 RIPE BACK. PO0M? 7 THAT CAN'T BE M0VEP. ym ME! Vl- mer boys' camp leader Stan team that he is unhappy with fervent "amen," with the declaration that he hoped this would be "my last coaching -r av ''i i Ms la I ,1 tv tne contract it has sent him and that "if I'm not happy, I ford authorities declared positively that there were "no outside considerations." shift." can pitcn." Antonelli said he did not 5 ASSISTANTS. plan to attend the early Giant Selection of five assistant coaches will be up to Curtice. practice at Phoenix, slated to begin on Feb.

12. One reason Speaking to The Examiner for this, he indicated, is that his wife is expecting a child in by telephone from Salt Lake City, where he had just tend ered his resignation as athletic April, The pitcher and his wife have two other children. director and head football NOT HOLDOUT YET. coach at the University of Utah, Jack said he would pick Vice President Chub Feenev his staff after "going over the or me oiants, speaking for President Horace Stoneham, situation" with his predeces "I've never broken a contract and I don't like to move," he declared. "It was hard for me to make the decision to move to Stanford because people have been so good to me here.

It has been a happy place to live." EXPLAINS SHIFT. Curtice disclaimed a statement attributed to him in Salt Lake City that he always had "yearned for a taste of a big time operation." The 48 year did Kentuckian said his shift was motivated by his "respect for Stanford as a fine institution from an academic standpoint and for its fine athletic teams" as well as by his feeling that In Athletic Director Al Masters and Tay- (See 9, Col 2) JOHNNY-ANTONELLI 'Bad But Not That Bad' wno is in Phoenix, said: sor, Chuck Taylor. He said members of Tay llllllllllllllliilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lor's 1957 staff would receive consideration and that wheth Sports Today BAKKKTBAM, er he brought along any of his City Collect Qym CC8F vi. Wot THE Utah aides would depend on Contra Conn JC. 8 D.

m. dw Down Other caea achedulci imwinn in OkehSeen For Use of Coliseum Sport Section. "how things develop here." That is, whether one of his assistants becomes head coach KOI ASH RAf'UI KTS Unlvarmty Club and Olympla Club Cal, Indian Fives Vie Tonight By BOB BRACHMAN court Pacific Boaat Squash Racqueu of the Utes. "We have no desire to engage in public salary discussion with our players. This is negotiation time and we would not consider any of our players a holdout until March 1." (Giantt tlgn Bobby Thomson.

Story on Pagi 8) Robinson, Basilio Go, March 25 Jack's Utah teams won the Al'TO RACING By PRESCOTT SULLIVAN Oakland Exposition: Pacific Indoor Skyline Conference champion races, fifth round, time trials at 7 p. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16. HOWARD'S (AP) County Supervisor Ken Since When Hasn't Pro Football Been Able to Live With Baseball? If there's championship neth Hahn issued another of mettle in the California Bears' his baseball forecasts for Los makeup it'll have to start show mg tonight and tomorrow at Angeles today. It begins to look as if the Los Angeles Dodgers' Men Gymnasium in Berkeley He predicted flatly that the housing problems will be resolved this week by permis when Pete Newell's defending Coliseum Commission would sion being granted them to move into the L.

A. PCC kings take on the big as CHICAGO, Jan. 16. (INS) Champion Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson will meet in a return 15 round vote tomorrow to let the Na signment. Coliseum.

Tonight at 8 clock, Howie tC" AAA a a A tional League team rent the 101,000 seat stadium in 1958 Meanwhile, we are finding a bit of amusement in match for the world's middle' Dallmar and his Stanford In Save zUo TO 4Uo on famous brand mulling over some of the objections which have so weight title in Chicago Sta dians move in to challenge the and 1959. Bears. Tomorrow, Oregon long frustrated Mr. Walter O'Malley in his search for a place Last year, at a time when it dium on the night of March 25. The date of the long awaited State Beavers and their bnl to light.

appeared the Dodgers might rematch was announced to liant Dave Gambee bring the Of these, the funniest is that voiced by the L. A. Rams, who SUITS TOPCOATS FURNISHINGS have decided against moving conference only perfect rec have asked that the Coliseum be closed to Mr. O'Malley and here from Brooklyn, Hahn was day by James D. Norris, president of the International Box his brood because of the bare spots a baseball diamond would ord (2-0) to Berkeley.

PRESSURE ON CAL. predicting in certain terms that they would indeed arrive. leave on the stadium football field. ing Club. Basilio dethroned Robin Man that's a lulu! The Rams may be too dumb or too That puts all the pressure on But he also predicted ear nonobservant to have noticed it, but professional footbal son as middleweight king via the low scoring but defea has been sliding into second base for years.

Fact is, of 12 NFL sively rugged Bears, who are All Wool Worsteds, Flannels Sharkskins split decision last Sept. 23 3-1 in PCC action. The lone teams, nine play all of their home games in ball parks. in New York's Yankee Sta The only exceptions are the Rams, the 49ers and 'the loss was pinned on them by dium. THEATER TV.

Now Green Bay Packers, and the latter outfit is only partially the Beavers from the North qualified for inclusion in this minority group. When the There will be NO national west. It was a slow-moving 55-43 affair at Corvallis in Packers play in Milwaukee they, too, are at home in a baL television. park. Instead, the IBC said the which Cal shot a miserable 2 per cent.

One might go so so far as to say that the NFL member 49" Sovereign Suits 6475 Record Suits 7500 Crescent Park Suits 8500 Eagle Suits Dout win be telecast on a Now 4r Now 58 Now 6800 The following night the ship would be constituted far differently than it is today lier this week that the Coliseum Commission would vote unanimously on Wednesday to invite the Dodgers to use the stadium. The commission instead postponed action until tomorrow. Before that time, the commission's finance committee plans to meet with representatives of the University of Southern California, UCLA and the Los Angeles Rams all football tenants at the Coliseum in an attempt to work out an agreement that will let the Dodgers in and still not be objectionable to the football renters. They have Beavers uncoupled UCLA were it not for the playing fields baseball has provided. closed circuit to a group of theaters throughout the Nation by the Teleprompter Net-, Yankee Stadium, built by baseball, is essential to the 68-61, to run their season New York football Giants, and where would the Pittsburgh mark to 10-1.

They haven' work. However, the match will be played in the two weeks since Steelers be doing business if the Pitsburgh Pirates hadn' built Forbes Field? and come to the area fresn broadcast nationally by radio. The radio network was not In Chicago, baseball enterprise makes it possible for the Bears to play in Wrigley Field and the Cardinals to operate ened up and as the PCC's top shooting, free throwing, and disclosed because negotiations rebounding club. They're sec in Comiskey Park. have not been completed.

Conceivably, the two NFL clubs could play their games in ond only to the Bears in de Norris said that Basilio and Coverts, Velours one) Tweeds fense. Soldier Field, but the place is cold and uninviting and neither withheld approval of a' deal But the joust with the Beav ers is a "million miles away' as far as the Bears are con the Bears nor the Cards have ever wanted any part of it. In Philadelphia, the Eagles play in baseball's Shibe Park and in Detroit the Lions would have no place to go if base i in raglan or set-in-sleeves 49 75 Sovereign Topcoats Now 39 Robinson each would receive 30 per cent of the stadium gate receipts, the theater TV, radio and motion picture money. United Artists Corpor that would give the Dodgers lower rental fee than they pay. They abo have opposed putting home plate at the west cerned.

ball hadn footed the bill for the construction of Br Stadium. end of the field because turf would have to be removed. Now 4800 Now 6800 In view of those and other related facts which might be cited, the L. A. Rams are making jackasses of themselves when they protest against the pitcher's box marring the ation has contracted for the movie rights.

The promoter said the IBC had been guaranteed $275,000 from thea 6 5 00 Rock-Knit Topcoats 85 Eagle Topcoats Jess Hill, Southern athletic director, said to day, however, tha if we were ter TV. beauty of the 50 yard line. Down, boy! Visit From Man With a Scoop! iven "a ainereni arrangement on rental" he would be Speaking of the Rams, Red McQueen, veteran sports LNJUNS CAPABLE. Stanford, 1-3 in the conference, is first up and the Injuns are capable of knocking off Cal even though Dallmar is fearful that his good sophomore, Chris Burford, won't be ready for the fray. Burford came down with flu Wednesday and was pale around the gills yesterday.

If he isn't able, junior Doug Warren will assume the guard post. The key to both encounters, 35.00 All-Wool Sportcoats editor of The Honolulu Advertiser, and one of the best known "willing to let the Dodgers place home plate in the west Now 2195 Now 8" Basilio is 29 years old. Robinson will be 38 on May 3. SIGN THURSDAY. They will formally sign the contract for the return match here next Thursday.

men in the Islands, has what he calls a "scoop" concernin them. end even though it means Famous Brand Lambswool Short Sleeve Cardigan Gaucho, Reg. $11.95... playing some of our games on Here on a -brief visit, the old redhead says that when he was in L. A.

last week he learned the real reason for Norm Van Brocklin's "retirement." Car Coats, -jw e.c Reg. $18.95 to $39.95 NOW 20 Off Saving from 20, to 40 drastic itvings on broken lin.j. a skinned diamond." Pete Rozelle, general manager of the Rams, said his or ganization felt the same. Dodger President Walter O' No ticket prices will be announced until a proposed schedule is approved by the Illinois Athletic Commission. IBC officials are setting their sights on a potential $500,000 gate.

"Van Brocklin quit because he couldn't get along with the coach Sid Gillman," McQueen tells us. "The two were on the 'outs' all last season. "At times, I learned, Van Brocklin defied Gillman's (See LOW DOWN, Page 11, Column 5) Malley has offered to pay as far as the Bears are concerned is their ability to pick (See BRACHMAN, Page 10, Column 7) Open Monday till $200,000 a year for use of the stadium in 1958 and 1959. $400 Check elps Left Gloom lor Foxx 1 BUDGET PLAN 0f EfiVU Hi Kft HJ? 5 Jimmy Foxx, whose 534 home run total is second only to that of Babe Ruth and put him, in the Hall of Fame. Foxx, now 50, earned more than $250,000 during his long baseball career.

Today he is penniless, except for the check from his ex- manager, Jimmy Silan of Boston. "I'm broke," the once great slugger admitted frankly. "I'm five months behind in my rent, allowed to stay only because my landlord was good enough to give me 10 more days. children, John, 18; Nancy, 16, and Jim, 13. John, employed by an airline, has provided the family income the past six months.

The burly first baseman became ill just before (See FOXX, Page 8, Col 3) "I don't feel badly for myself. The money I lost and blew was my own fault, 99 per cent of it. But I'd like to give the children something." Foxx, separated from his wife, lives with his three MIAMI Jan. 10. (AP) A tarnished trophy awarded to the American League's most valuable player in 1932, a $400 check from a former personal manager and memories of his glory days.

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