Coaching Duke

The trolley ride to the central depot at Sixth and Main took about an hour from Redondo. From there it was a quick walk over to Seventh Street and the entrance to the LAAC, the city’s oldest private club. Its members included the wealthiest landowners, the nucleus of whom had transformed Los Angeles from an agrarian community at the edge of the continent to a bustling, modern metropolis. When the club was founded in 1880, Los Angeles had a population of about eleven thousand. By the time Freeth walked into the lobby on October 1, 1913, the city was pushing