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Buck Shaw Is Coach Of Year Van Brocklin Also Honored The FISHIN' FOOL By RALPH STEVENS, l-J Fish and Game Writer UPI Poll Favors Eagles Heroes Over Packer Stars Christmas Anglers Told Stripers Taking It Easy Off Marin Shores Chances are that most of you folks will spend the weekend at home gloating over the gifts Santa left for you. But it could be that some of you received fishing tackle from St. Nick, and have a yen to try it out. Then, again, there is always that select contingent of hardy souls who dress warmly and laugh at the wintry weather. For them, I paint a word picture of the status quo of fishing hither and yon.

Here 1 On the Marin side of the bay the stripers are taking Grace Quan of China Camp reported only three boats out on none Monday and three Tuesday. water is dirty and somewhat choppy today she lamented. few angler stay out very long and very few bass, but a few nice flounders have been coming Tony Caruso, of Sausalito has been advising his clients to wait until 2 p.m. before going after bass in the Racoon a i Richardson Bay-San Rafael bridge areas. use fishing any insisted Tony.

herring are still around, but there is practically no action until the afternoons. The Ma-Ru took limits to 12 pounds one afternoon trolling with white bugeyes and four to six ounce STEVENS JOE NERYIANI of Joes launching at Santa Venetia Slough reports: fishermen and not very many bass. There were nine boats out over the weekend and about 10 bass came in along with a lot of nice flounders. Too cold for them to stay out very explained Joe. He mentioned Bill Bickle taking one bass and two flounders on Saturday, William Moungovan accounted for 10 big flounders, and Bill Fisher bad two bass and seven flounders.

Nerviani mentioned the extreme tides as one reason for the slowness. Roy Irwin of the Western Sports Shop in San Rafael gave honorable mention to Tony Muirhead and son. who took a Harbor indicate that bait fishing from the Berkeley pier to the Brothers has been on a par with the trolling. But, it also has been best in the afternoon and slow in the mornings. Skipper Pete Peterson and his party left the Berkeley Harbor at 1 p.m.

on Tuesday and landed 22 medium-sized bass in one hour and 45 minutes on bait. The Rodeo boat liveries reported few fishermen for rowboat fishing. But at least one boat out of Rodeo Resort made the grade. Tom Woden and two buddies collected limits of mediums fishing near the Radar Marker. 13-pound 8-ounce bass, fishing near the White Buoy at dusk.

Roy also gave special mention of Tony Silva of Mill Valley for getting the Schenley award last week for his 17- pound, 12 ounce striper caught near the white buoy below the bridge. YOUNG FRANK Andronico of Resort on Bethel island suggested I mention the rather good trolling in Tract at present. Best bet is with spreader, red and white feathered jigs and no sinker. Frankie also mentioned Dale Mcahring Jr. catching his limit to 21 pounds while fishing ala coiled line in the Tract.

Otto Walker, king of the catfisher- men, has been taking heavy toll of the tasty every time out. The overall picture in the back country is good one day, and not so good the next day. That applies to the rivers as well as Big Break. Sherman Island Lake and Tract. DREAM COMES TRUE FOR GOPHER STAR IRWIN TOLD me he had just returned from the South Fork of the Eel and found that stream yellow with mud.

Across the bay on the Contra Costa side, fishing has been at least fair to good for stripers and excellent for flounders. The reports out of the Berkeley 'Rip' Collins To Coach For Cubs CHICAGO Collins, former Chicago Cub and St. Louis Cardinal first baseman, today was hired as a Cub coach. It was the first coaching ap-i pointment since owner P. K.

Wrigley two days ago said he may have as many as eight coaches and have them name the manager. Collins, 55, had been with a sporting goods company the last nine years. The Cubs now have four coaches. In addition to Collins; there are El Tappe, Harry Craft and Vedie Himsl. PASADENA UR day 1 hope to be a good football wrote a 13-year- old Fargo, N.D., schoolboy in 1953.

hope I am good enough to play in the Rose Dave Mulholland scrawled the note to himself when his most immediate ambition was to make the grade school team. On the front side of the post card was a picture of the Rose Bowl. The youngster filed the note in his scrapbook and forgot about it. His mother didn't. A month ago, with Minnesota driving toward a national championship and its first Rose Bowl game, the card was remembered and the words brought back to the dreaming schoolboy.

Dave Mulholland, it turned out, was good enough to play in the Rose Bowl. When the Gophers face Washington Jan. 2. Mulholland will start at halfback for Minnesota. NEW YORK (UPD Coach Buck Shaw and quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, who lead the Philadelphia Eagles Monday in quest of pro biggest prize, today were named the National Football for 1960 by United Press International.

The white-haired, Shaw was voted the NFL coach- of-year and Van Brocklin was chosen Player-of-the-Year in a UPI poll of 39 writers who covered the 1960 campaign. The panel was made up of three writers from each league city. Coincidentally, both Shaw and Van Brocklin have announced they intend to wind up their respective coaching and playing careers with NFL championship game against the Green Bay Packers in Philadelphia. Shaw and Van Brocklin joined the Eagles together in 1958 when the club was one of the doormats of the NFL. Within three years they guided the Eagles to the Eastern Division championship.

POPULAR CHOICE In the Player-of-the-Year voting, Van Brocklin was a sided choice. He received 27 of the 39 votes. Paul Hornung of the Packers had 8 votes, while Johnny Unitas and Rav Berry of Baltimore, Jimmy Brown of Cleveland and John Crowr of St. Louis each had one. Shaw beat out Vince Lambardi of Green Bay.

his rival in next title game, for Coach-of-the-Year honors, 23 votes to -14. George Wilson of the Lions received two votes. very nice but I take creditf or commented the gentlemanly Shaw upon learning of his selection, must pass it on to the group working for me. They did a great deal with what they had to work For the 33-year-old Van Brocklin. All-Pro recognition finally came in his 12th season.

Earlier in the week he was named All-NFL quarterback for the first time in his career. Van Brocklin reiterated when he learned of his latest honor. a good time to make my The popular proved a gritty competitor and a brilliant and inspiring quarterback in leading the Eagles through a 10-2 season in the tough NFL. After the Eagles lost their season-opener to Cleveland, they won 9 straight games to clinch the division crown. Friday, Dec.

23, I960 FUTURE PRO STAR? Lilly's A Dilly For West Squad SAN FRANCISCO a lad named Bob Lilly from down Texas way who is on the road to becoming another living legend of the west. Lilly is a 250-pound guard who hails from Texas Christian and who will be playing for the MEN OF THE YEAR Coach Buck named the National Football League's Shaw of Philadelphia Eagles poses of the and Van Brock- with quarterback Norm Van Brocklin lin of the today as title game with Green Bay Monday United Press International poll, in Philadelphia nears. Shaw was in Raiders Disagree On Winner Of Playoffs Marin Ski Club Plans New Year's Weekend In Snow OAKLAND UP Oakland's coaching staff and some of the Raider players see eye to eye on the outcome of the American Football championship game on Jan. 1. Head Coach Eddie Erdelatz and his staff agree Los Angeles should defeat Houston.

The Raiders took two beatings from the Chargers. 52-28 and 41-17, while splitting with 37-22 and wining 14-13. the Chargers are physically sound, there is no team plosive as Lowe, but is a in the league which compare J-er Jack fac- quarterback than has Kemp and here again is tor which should work in Veteran defensive end Charlie Powell observed: has better balance. Blanda is a smarter quarterback than Kemp and a better short passer. 1 think Los Paul Lowe is a more dangerous runner than anyone Houston has.

Billy Cannon has great potential and is a fine halfback. He isn't quite as ex- bet- Plans for a New weekend holiday in the snow will be main topic at the Marin Ski final meeting of the year next Wednesday, President Dick Kure said today. Kure said reservations for the New weekend at the cabin near Donner Summit would be accepted at the meeting to be held in Brookside School, 8 p.m. Prospective members are invited to attend the Wednesday meeting. Refreshments will be served.

West in the East-West Shrine Game here Dec. 31. Lilly has a bad says Abe Martin, his coach at TCU and an aide in the All-Star tilt, still plays better than the average football player. But when he has a good day, out of this According to Martin, Lilly is a cinch in the professional ranks. The lad is only 21, stands still is growing.

By the time a seasoned pro probably scale around 270. the best man ever had for the pro says Martin. can play tackle, guard, linebacker or defensive end. He can play on either offense or defense. He moves around fast.

MAKE IT he is having a good day he makes tackles all over it. Martin quotes one of the other players about Big Bob: I were as big and strong as he said the man, charge other folks just to the story that reporters asked Lilly who was the outstanding man on the USC team when the Trojans tangled with TCU early in the a 7-6 win for TCU. After thinking the question over for a while, Lilly drawled: ah guess have to say that little fellow playing end for Note: McKeever stands only 6-1, weighs 225. Pitcher To Speak Arthur L. Schallock, a graduate of Tamalpais High School and College of Marin and a the field.

Whoever he plays for, pitcher in three World Series make One of the best things Martin liked about Lilly is the way the lad got into TCU. remembered him as a high school kid at Throckmorton, said Martin. he moved to Oregon. We wrote a letter to him asking if he would like to come to TCU. We got a letter back from him say- he offered scholarship.

So we got him for a 3-cent stamp. On top of that, he hitch-hiked the down to our school during the summer months to make sure let him Lilly is so strong, says Martin, that he often picks up small sports cars just for the fun of for the New York Yankees, will speak about baseball at the Tuesday noon luncheon meeting of the Mill Valley Rotary Club at the Municipal Golf Clubhouse. 10,000 MILES OR 1 YEAR guarantee Saturdays LOU'S Wheel Alignment 626 Lindaro San Rafael Call GL 6-0903 Competitive Skiing Begins This Weekend TAHOE CITY Competitive skiing opens at Dodge Ridge this weekend with the Golden Nugget Slalom. With heavy snows blanketing the whole Lake Tahoe region, excellent skiing was anticipated at all resorts in the area. The Golden Nugget Slalom is open to all skiers, with gold, silver and bronze nugget awards to go to the swiftest.

with says Erdelatz. Angeles has the best passing! team in the league and I feel pass defense is the Assistants Marv Feldman. Tommy Kalmanir and Ed Cody concur. Angeles has stronger offensively and Kalmanir claims in the line where the outcome of every game is Rebuttal comes from some players. has better says defensive end Carmen Cavalli.

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