The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-09
PLAN
 TRACED TO GRID
 GIANTS OFFICES
Even Specs" Had to Pay $6.8O for $4.4O Tickets
 on Sunday Title Game
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
 United Press Staff Correspondent

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 New York, Dec. 9.-(UP).-Tim Mara protested today that the raid by federal agents on the ticket of- flee of his New York professional football Giants had been a frame up."
 The raiders charged, that they had paid g above the face value for several tickets to next Sundays worlds championship game between the Giants and the Green Bay Packers, and that the excessive charge constituted box office scalp ing.
 They arrested Mara's 29-year- r-old niece, Mrs. Helen Mara, who was in charge of the office, and Charles Chaplin, 21, a clerk, on charges of evading federal taxes by failure to stamp the amount received on the back of the tickets.
 Scalpers Scalped The tickets were marked at $4.50, and according to the federal agents, even the spectators were having to pay $6.80 for them. The ascend ancy of professional football had long ago assured sell-out of the 5000 to 60,000 seats at the Polo grounds for the championship game and tickets have been at a premium from the first.
 Mara, who promoted prize fights in the days of Tex Rickard and has promoted various sports events since then, said there wasn't any truth in the complaints. His niece was re- leased in his custody and he bailed out Chaplin for $250 pending action by a grand jury.
 The Giants, preparing for the big game, were giving serious considera- tion to lesson learned by the Chi cago Bears and Detroit Lions dur ing the regular campaign just end- ed.
 Beware of the Packers the second time out" was the warning sounded by the Bears and Lions. Each licked the Packers once only to have a rude awakening in return games.
 In their first meeting the Bears trimmed the Packers, 20, but were licked, 24-22, in their second en- counter. The Lions knocked of the Packers, 17-7, and then were routed, 28-7, in their return battle.
 The Giants, with a 15-3 victory over the Packers, were 'practicing overtime at the Polo grounds today with the Lions and Bears lesson up- permost in their minds.
 Curley Lambeau, Green Bay coach who learned his football at Notre Dame under Rockne, doesn't want his boys to feel that they have such a return game jinX over the Giants. He has told the Packers that they were awful in that first game with the Giants. The statistics show that Green Bay made 21 first downs to the Giants six six and had the game under control, 3-2, until Tuffy Leemans broke away for a 75-yard | touchdown run and Mel Hein car- ried on by intercepting a pass and scampering neat 50 for another score. Must Improve
 "We were something less than good" Lambeau said today. And If we don't play any better this time ] we'll get run out of the park by the Giants, who seem to be right at their peak"
 In practicing for the champion ship game Lam5eau has been stress ing passing which reached its sea- sons low against the Giants. The Packers have scored 20 times via aerials, with Don Hutson, the Sure- fingered Alabama boy getting nine of them to tie his own league rec ord.
 Our passing game is the keynote of our attack" said Lambeau. With our passes working, our running att tack is much stronger. To pass on the Giants we've got to get our re- ceiver away from Mel Hein, who did a great job against us last time and again against Washington" Green Bays attack has been strengthened by the recovery of three players who didn't play against the Giants last time. They are Hut son, Bob Monnett, elusive runner and the teams most accurate pasccr, and Herman Schneidman, blocking back. Fullback Clarke Hinkle who was nursing a bad leg in the 15-3 defeat, is in much better condition also.