The Washington times., 1937-11-09
Improved Pirate EIeOen
Faces Redskins Sund0V
Blood Plays
Against D. c..
GridderS
COACH is STAR
BY HARRY COSTELLO

BY HARRY COSTELLO
That game next Sunday, in
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pa, now
looms as ultra-important to our
Washington Redskins.
The Pirate team, which went
down Sunday, II to 0, before the
New York Giants, is not at all the
team which will face Washington
on Sunday.
The Pirates Sunday had only a
small squad in uniform for the
New York game. Johnny Blood,
key man of the Pittsburgh team,
did not play against the Giants.
Other Pirates who did not see
service against the Giants include
Byron Gentry, Max Fiske, Vinny
Sites, Tex Holcomb, Sandy Sand
berg, Joe Cardwell, Popeye Karpo-
Wlch and By HaineS. All of them
were out Of the Giant game for
one reason or other, but will be
ready for Washington, according
to information from Pittsburgh
received in Washington today.
FAR DIFFERENT CLUB
Pittsburgh without Johnny Blood
on the job is far different team
than Pittsburgh without Johnny
Blood. The Pirate player-coach
not only is star in his own
right, but always he's an inSpira-
t1onal leader when he's on the
field of play, for the reason that
he never asks one of his men to
do something he himself cannot
do.
The Pirate attack with Blood
directing is twice as strong as the
Pirate attack with Johnny on the
side lines.
Pittsburgh'S plans should and
do go astray when the Pirates are
without the services of tackles like
Holcomb, Sandberg and Karpo-
wich. It is doubtful that Indy
Mayhem and Armand Niccolai at
their best are anywhere near as
good as Holcomb and Sandberg.
MayheW is a guard, yet he played
tackle Sunday, because the
Pirates were driven to desperation
for tackles. Niccolai is 10 pounds
lighter than Holcomb, Sandberg
and KarpoWich. Each of the last
named trio scales 235, as against
Niccolai'S 225.
In Sundays game, four Of the
Pirates had to play every minute
OF the game, which was a hard
one. That fact alone indicates
how crippled Pittsburgh was for
the Giant game. With a week in
which to whip their players into
shape for the Washington game,
the Pirates loom as a much
stronger aggregation than the one
which went down Sunday before
fluffy Leemans & Co.
In Sundays Pittshurgh-NeW
York game, John Bull" Karcis
was not himself. He was very
much off form, but there was a
reason for it; he has a new addi-
tion to his family lineup. I'M
mediately after the game, John
hied himself to his wife's bedside
to seen his newborn boy.
Karcis is one of Pittsburgh's
key men on attack. All who wit
messed that sensational 34-2O
game in Griffith Stadium. be-
tween Redskins and Pirates, will
recall the work of Karcis.
Washington must win over
Pittsburgh if the Redskins are to
stay in the running for Eastern
honorS. The Redskins, too, must
win over the Green Bay Packers
on November % in Griffith Sta
dium. Two rather large orders
now must be filled by Cliff Bat
ties, Sammy Baugh, Riley Smith,
Turk Edwa4's, ct al. Green Bay,
be it known, yesterday knocked
off the hitherto undefeated Chi
cago Bears, "a to IA, and is back
in championship form again after
suffering two defeats.
The Redskins, thanks to that
sensational 34-to-2O win Washing
ton scored a few weeks ago over
the Pirates, probably will pack
'em in next Sunday. AS for the
Sunday after that, the chances
are the record for attendance at
a football game in Washington
will be broken if the Redskins win
over the Pirates in the game com
ing up.