The Washington times., 1937-09-27
Barrett, L. S. y. Shows
Receiving Skill on Sunday
End
Will Oppose
Redskins
TOPS TINSLEY
By HARRY COSTELLO

Some $4,000 Washington follow
ers Of professional football last
Friday night had a look at Gay
nell Tinsley, former Louisiana
State University star, as the stall
wart from the bayou country
caught three forward passes and
carried them for touchdowns
against the Redskins. TinSley
made a tremendous hit with the
local crowd.
Next Sunday, another Louisiana
State University star, one Warren
Barrett, end, will come to Wash
ington to oppose the Redskins.
Now, one hears very little Of Bar
rett. However, it is interesting to
note that two years ago, when
Tinsley and Barrett both played
on the same L. S. U. team, Barrett
was considered Tinsley's superior
as a catcher Of forward passes!
Barrett, nowhere near so big or
so rugged as TinSley, today re.
mains L. S. us outstanding for
ward pass receiver Of all-time.
NOT WEAK
Any thought one might have
had that the Brooklyn Dodgers,
who face the Redskins next Sun
day, in Griffith Stadium, are a
weak team, as teams go in pro
football, may now be tossed into
the discard. Yesterday, the Dodg.
ers defeated the rebuilt Cleveland
Rams, at Brooklyn, 81, a 21-yard
field goal by placement, kicked by
Dick Crayne, winning the game
for the Eastern team and placing
Brooklyn right in the swim in the
Eastern division of the National
Professional Football League race.
The Redskins play the Cleve-
land team later in the season.
The Rams, a surprisingly
rugged combination, had things
pretty much their own way for
more than three-quarters of the
game. Then, with the score 7-6
against them, the Dodgers took
the ball on their own 19-yard line
and went to town. A 41-yard jaunt
by Joe Maniaci, former Fordham
luminary, aided materially in
placing the ball IS yards from
the Ram goal line. Crayne booted
it from the 21-yard stripe.
PIRATES LOSE
In other games of yesterday,
the New York Giants, who fell
before the Redskins in the sea-
sons opener here, defeated the
hitherto undefeated Pittsburgh vi
rates by a 10 to 7 count, a field
goal by Tillte Manton, from the
11-yard line, deciding the issue,
and the Chicago Cardinals, win
ners last week over the Redskins,
were held to a 6 to 6 tie by the
Philadelphia Eagles, a 50-yard
forward pass, Dave Smukler to
Joe Carter, accounting for the
tying points.
Some notion of how well the pro
game is going in the East is given
by the attendance figures at New
York yesterday. The Giants and
Pittsburgh drew $4,000 spectators!
After yesterdays Brooklyn
Pittsburgh game, Coach Hugo
Bezdek, of the Rams, protested
the game. He claimed Ref
ere Tom Thorp had cred in his
decision on an important play
in the game, the error aiding the
Dodgers to win. The incident in
dispute came in the third period,
when with the ball on the Dodger
43-yard line and in possession of
Brooklyn Sam BuSick, of the
Rams, picked up what seemed
to be a tumble by Ralph Kerche-
val, Dodger backfield star, and
scampered with it across the
Brooklyn goal line.
Referee Thorp called the ball
back and gave it to Cleveland at
the spot where Busick had re-
covered it, ruling that Kercheval
did not tumble the ball but had
misdirected a lateral pass to
another Brooklyn player.
MAY RECOVER
Under pro rules, the defense
may run with a recovered tumble
but not with a misdirected lateral
unless caught in the air. On the
disputed play, Busick picked the
ball off the ground.
The Dodgers gained lat yards
by rushing to 70 for the Rams and
added So yards by overheads as
against As for the Cleveland team.
Each eleven scored eight first
downs.
EASTERN DIVISION
Opp.
Club w. L. T. Pts. Pts