Evening star., 1938-08-26
REDSKINS RETAIN
D. c. CO[LEG|ANS
Turner, StraIka Will Go to
Chicago AII-Star Game.
Five Rockies Out.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Thirteen OF the % rockies, including
two Washington college products, who
started training with the Washington
Redskins August 10, beheld life
through rose-colored glasses today, as
sured, as they were, that they would
form nearly half of the squad which
will be taken to Chicago for the game
against the College All-Stars next
Wednesday night.
Amid the general joyouSness. how
ever, there was trace OF wistfulness
for the memory OF five OF their COL
leagues Of the past l6 days who de-
parted with downcast spirits. Those
hve-Fullbacks Charley Payne from
the University Of Detroit, Maurice
(Red Elder from Kansas State and
Johnny Spirida from st. Anselm's;
Quarterback Rink Bond from the Uni
versity of Washington "a brother Of
the Skins second-string tacklel and
Tackle Milton johnson from New
Hampshire University-were the ones
on whom waivers were being asked
Should no other National League team
claim them for the individual sum of
$40, they will be released outright. No
veterans were released in either
purge"
No matter whatever task confronts
him during the season, Coach Ray
Flaherty will have no harder job than
the one he had last night when he told
each Of the aforementioned quintet
that they had failed to make the
grade. Flaherty told reporters that he
rarely had handled squad Of football
players who had worked as hard or as
faithfully as the ones who reported
two weeks ago last Wednesday.
Turner, Stralka Among Survivors.
To have to tell some of them that
their labors, a great deal of which was
spent in terrific heat, had been in
vain took as much out of the consid-
crate red-headed mentor as a one
point defeat in a crucial game. Some,
he said, fell short by the narroWest
of margins; some might have made
the grade il given more time. But
league rules must be followed and the
player limit OF 80 is q hard-and fast
rule.
Even with last nights cut of five.
which brought to 10 the total of those
who have been released in the past
four days, Flaherty Is faced with the
necessity Of cutting three more. To
be added to the 81 now left are Andy
Farkas Of Detroit, who will join the
Skins after the Chicago game, and
Tackle Roy Young, who will Join them
after the Dallas fray. Who the three
will be to get the Ak, Flaherty will
take his time in determining. They
must be dropped before the first league
game on September IL.
With George Washington's Jay Tur-
ner and Georgetown's Glen Stralka
among those surviving last nights cut
were the rockies Jim (Jack Rabbit)
Abbitt, Dick (Old KEN Tuckey, Roy
Hartman, Leroy (sunshine) Camp
bell and George (Automatic) Kara
matic-all backs-and the new line
men, Hal Bradley. Bob Masterson. Bill
Moore. Wee Willie Wilkin, Hank Bar
tos and Micky Parks
Back, Guard, Tackle to Go.
Thus the roster today shows IL
backs, 6 ends, S tackles, 5 guards and
3 centers. With F'arkas and Young to
be added, the number of backs will be
raised to IS and the number of tackles
to 6. 1t is thought that one back, one
tackle and one guard will form the last
three to be released.
As was the case on Sunday, the
stands at Ballston were filled last
night when the Skins romped through
their only nocturnal workout before
leaving and their last public workout
before the all-star game. This morn
ing and tomorrow morning the squad
Is to work behind locked gates at
Ballston, perfecting new plays which
have been concocted solely for the COL
leoianS