The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-10

Four new individual records were established during the 1887 Nation- al Football League season and only two out of seven of last years lead. CTS retained supremacy in their specialties according to final statis- ties announced today. Tho new marks were made In passing and pass receiving,
 Three freshmen in the profession al ranks shared honors In three of the new marks. Slingin' Sammy HNuRh, Washington Redskins re- cruit from Texas Christian. com. pleted ei passes to shatter the mark of v made last year by Arnie Her. Dor, Green Bay.
 daynell Tinsley, first year end with tho Chicago Cardinals from Louisiana State, shared In two of the records. He gained 07b yards on tho receiving end of passes to sur. paAs tho new mark of B62 yards made two weeks ago by Don Hutton, Green Bay. Last year HutSon gained B20 yards for 0 new league Stan- dArd, and broke it In his final game of the current season, only to have the new mark shattered by Tinsley last Sunday.
 Nifty Passing
 Joe Reed, Tinsley's teanmate at l., s. U. last year, threw Tinsley e pass which gained 9b yards against tho Bears to break the old mark made on Q Herber to Hutson pass good for 83 yards against tho Bears In 1884.
 HutSon was responsible for the fourth new standard. He caught 4l paages to better the record 34 he caught In i030. Tinsley also passed last years mark by two catches.
 New individual leaders took titles from five out Of seven ie30 cham- pions. Hutson in pass receiving and Jack Mand0rS. Chicago Bears, in field goal kicking were tho only men who retained first places hold last year.
 off Battles, Washington and West Virginia Wesleyan, busted Tuffy LeemanS, Giants, as tho lead. ing ground gainor and in 50 doing became the first player in the his- tory Of tho National League to win this title twice. He won 1t first in 1033 and this year gained 874 yards In nine games for the second best total in the annals of the league. He didn't play in two games this year or he might have surpassed the mark of l004 yards made by Beattie Feathers, Bears, in 1884 in 12 games.
 Manders took the scoring title from Dutch Clark, Detroit, with 60 points, 24 of which came from eight field goals, giving him the leaders ship in this department also. Clarke Hinkle, Green Bay; Riley Smith, Washington, and Clark finished second, third and fourth in scoring with S7, D6, and 4O points respec- lively.
 Baugh, in addition to breaking Herber's completion mark, also be- came the iO37 leader In yards gain- cd by paSses. He completed 8i out of i7i passes for 1i27 yards. Her. bers yardago lest year was 1230 yards and set new league record. Ed DanoWski, New York Giants, was the second best passer with GO complctions out of i34 togscs for 8i4 yards. His efficiency was 40.2% aS against 47.3% for Baugh. Hc had only five passes intercepted, tho best record in the history of the circuit for those who have thrown more than one hundred passes. His record for the past four years is ieB passes completed out of 30S for the extremely high average of 4e.3%
 Pat Coffee, Chicago Cardinals, completed 62 Heriais to ~ for Hers ber, but Herber's yardage and eff. ciency was 070 yards and 4D.i% tc 300 yards and 43.0% for Coffee. Bob Monnett, Green Bay, had the best efficiency record with D0.0% coin- pletions, but no threw only 73 pass- eg.
 Runner Up
 Clarke Hinklc, Green Bay, was second to Battles iii ground gaining with 6O2 yards, and John Karcis of Pittsburgii was third with 6ii yards. Tie best average for ball carriers was made by E6nie Caddcl, Detroit, who carried 70 times for 42O yards,
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