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Show mm ewl ros ? meki Walsh Sees Chance for pBamfCfew ! Ky DAMS J. WAI.HH International News Sport Kditor j LOS ANGELES. Dec. 30-Th University of Alabama football tram, which never haa lost a Rtme Bowl game and possibly wn't Roinx to, jiti'l'lcnly rose in repute today for its New Year's day mcrttnft with California tk. tones began be;nx "brindled" very freely, as Kinjj 1., miner used to say, about the physical physi-cal condition of the California varsity var-sity lineup. - Notably, these concerned con-cerned thpmselves with the parlous stt of affairs 'it left end, ttie idea bt-inj that Mr. "Stub" Allison, the hivid coach, may he in there withj Man Mountain Dean before the close of the encounter. An m result, the latishly quoted odd of II tn A on California proba-: proba-: bly will recede to around even money, where Indubitably they belong In connection with any two unbeaten team that have no line on each other throuKh a common foe. Local Imagination Those odds, in fact, probably never were more than the figment of the local imagination any more than Uill stonca of speculators' prices on the 20-yard line were to be strictly supported hy fact. If you are interested in fact. Indeed, you can have a (3.30 ticket for $5 on any street corner right now and no questions ques-tions asked. I would like to be so completely cynical about everything and point out that the reason California is called the Bears is because of the kind of stories that are circulated in its behalf, 48 hours before Its biggest big-gest game of the year. But all I know is that Mr. Allison states that Willard Dolman will start the game at left end. Who will finish, none ran say; but it probably won't be Dolman. His ankle injury doesn't figure to stand up that long. Kpirirmlc Strike Moreover, the squad seems to have been overtaken by an epidemic of "left end-itis." Henry Sparks, the No. 2 man, is declared out altogether. alto-gether. So is Jack Hay. approximately approxi-mately the No. 3. Currently, they are talking of Loais Smith, a sophomore, sopho-more, and Jud Callaghan, an ex-scrub, ex-scrub, as Dolman's understudy. Klthrr way, this doesn't sound so humid In connection with an Alabama opponent which undoubtedly un-doubtedly will reverse back toward to-ward any weakness the Rears may happen to Inherit overnight. As 1 understand It, Alabama has averaged av-eraged 4 yards per play this year, indicating; It can't quite be so Inept In-ept as Its detractors have tried to show, and besides California's admitted ad-mitted second-halt vulnerability will hardly be benefited it Dolman Dol-man doean't last. All along It has been said that the Bears must run up something of an early score and there probably proba-bly is something in that, inasmuch as it plays a power game, supplemented supple-mented by greatly superior weight, and even its admirers don't deny it's an 'awful chump for a passing attack, at-tack, which doubtless Alabama will resort to, once it falls behind. Might Strike quickly As a matter of fact, it mightn't even wait that long, since a pass by Joe Kilgrow, all-America back, shouldn't be any less effective in the first period than in the last. Kilgrow, Kil-grow, in addition, is certain to do most of the running, particularly toward his right Anyhow, the chances are the Tide will wave Schwartx, California's talented right end, severely alone. Both teams are to work out today in the bowl, using the announced lineups with which Alabama faced Vanderbilt and California played its finale with Stanford. If any change is made, Cochrane will start at quarterback for Alabama in place of Bradford, just to add a bit of heft to a none too hefty team. But It has class and speed and smartness; also the tradition of success here. Not, briefly, the kind of team against mhlch you'd bet to much S to 5. |