Evening star., 1937-12-12
Redskins Rely Baugh Passing Beat for Title
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D. c. Pros to Gamble on Air
Play Against Chicago's
PoWerhouse Today.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

~HIcAGo, ILL.,, December Ii
The football championship of
the world, at least in widely
~ accepted theory, will be the
Jackpot played for here tomorrow by
Washington's Redskins and Chicagos
Bears in the National Professional
Leagues annual Dollar Bowl battle.
The game will begin at ais pm,
washington time.
With a cloudy, but reasonably COM
Portable, day promised by the Weather
Bureau, indications were that a near
capacity crowd of 10000 would be at
Wrlgley Field to see the Burgundy
1erseyed Eastern entry try to upset
the heavier, well-backed Bears, cham
pions of the Western division. Snow
was forecast later tomorrow, but the
game probably will be over by then.
The temperature may rise as high as
30 degrees above zero, it was pre-
dicted
AS the two teams finished their
drills today, Chicago odds-layers still
were willing to pay to 5 in the event
the baby team Of the league. WASH
ington, wins the game. Each eleven
will enter the battle with three game
winning streaks.
Clear skies and comparatively warm
weather for mid-December in Chicago
sent the sale Of tickets into high speed
during the last two days. Their fan
cles captured by tales of Slingin'
Sammy Baugh's remarkable passing
and Cliff Battles sensational broken
field gallops, Midwestern fans were
set to storm the gates of the baseball
Cubs ball yard early tomorrow morn
Ing to find choice seats among the
unreserved sections. Reserved seats
have sold we'll for two weeks, despite
some zero weather and almost daily
snow f1urries.
Cover on Field Until Game.
NOT until few minutes before
game-time tomorrow will the grid
iron be exposed to the cold. For
nearly a week the ground has been
covered with marsh hay and a 100
yard tarpaulin so as to keep the turf
from freezing. Early this week asphalt
burners were run over the field to thaw
the solidly-frozen ground to a depth of
from inches to foot. The hay and
tarpaulin were placed on the gridiron
In hopes of preventing another freeze.
1t was the bigger, bulkier Bear
team which fervently hoped tonight
that the turf will be dry and rea-
sonably safe under foot. With such
renowned line-smashers as Wrestling
Champion Bronko Nagurski and Au-
tomato Jack Manders in the back
field. Chicago relies chiefly upon an
overpowering ground game.
In contrast, the team which is rep
resenting the Nations Capital for
the flrst time, is more versatile.
faster outfit. The Redskins have no
crunching power house to match Ma
gurski but in Baugh's bullet passing
and Battles willLo'-the-wisp ball
carrying they have the twin threats
who a week ago ran wild against
the New York Giants to win the
Eastern half of the National League
race. Both teams will wear basket
ball shoes.
This is the players big game-the
one from which they reap the harvests
OF successful season. Sixty per cent
OF the net proceeds will be divided
among the Redskins and Bears. with
the winners taking so per cent OF
the purse. II the crowd tomorrow
fulfills expectations, the 26 Redskins
will collect approximately $500 apiece
II they win and around $400 apiece
II they are defeated. In addition, the
winning team automatically will face
the college all-stars next September
for $4,000 guarantee.