Evening star., 1938-11-30
Skins, Leaving Today
For New York Game,
Garry Fans Faith
10000 to Follow Team
To Sundays Contest
On Special Troins
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

The team which washington
sports fans have exemplified more
faith in than any other athletic Or
ganization ever to represent the
Nations Capital was to leave town
this afternoon on its most important
out-of-town mission Of the year.
Amid hundreds of entreaties to
Come back like you did last year"
and We'll be seein' you in New
York on Sunday" the Redskins
were scheduled to roll out of Union
Station at 4 o'clock and into Gar
den City, Long Island, some five
hours later.
There, secluded from those we'll
meaning individuals who inadvert-
emily might detract their attention
from the task at hand. the cham
pions will stay until Sunday morn
ing. when they will go by bus direct
to the Polo Grounds. Until then.
big-city life will be as remote to the
Redskins as are the chances most
Washingtonians think the Giants
have of beating them.
LASCE W OACA SAlI1Ss
A lot of Washingtonians wished
they were going along today with
the Redskins if for no other reason
than to get little of those 8-5 odds
which New Workers are said to be
Offering on the Giants. Although it
is likely such odds will drop before
game time Sunday, it still appears
as if the O'Mara club will take the
field as favorites over the Redskins.
But Washingtonians, who realize
the Redskins are 100 per cent physi-
cally fit for the first time this sea-
son, have implicit confidence in the
aility of the Indians to repeat their
final-game feat of the past two sea-
sons. That, above all, is the reason
why more than 10000 Of them are
planning to swoop up on the big
town Sunday.
AS a matter Of fact, more special
trains will be run to the Redskin-
Giant game than to the Army Navy
game last Saturday, usually the
largest annual exodus of Capital
folk for any football game. On one
of them will be 10 fans from Fred
erick, Nd, while the Redskins ofi1ce
has received requests for tickets
from Baltimore, Richmond and Nor
folk and nearby Virginia.
Miss Parker is Mascot.
Even "Miss Washington Of 1888"
will 70 along, for she-Dorothy
Parker is to be one of the mascots
for the Redskin Special which the
Junior Board of Commerce is
sponsoring. Also going on the
Junior Board train, which will
leave Saturday, afternoon q 1870
o'clock. will. be the runner-up to
Miss Washington, Nadine Petrey
Stanley Pearson, incharge of the
j. B. train. said today that nearly
500 young businessmen of the city
would take advantage of the early
departure.
Although he needed another suit
about as much as Roosevelt needs
smiles, 1t was an inspired Sammy
Baugh who was to board the train
today. For yesterday Baugh was
named as the most valuable Redskin
in Sundays game by local sports
writer's, and q free suit awaited him
at downtown store.
Before the season started 1t might
not have been dreamed that Baugh
would have to wait 10 games before
he was considered the most valuable
Redskin in any one game. But early
season injuries and inability to get
going kept the Singer out Of the
limelight until recently. Although
he never said as much, 1t was ru-
mored that Sammy ihwardly grieved
at his inability to help his team as
he had last year.
Seen rs Splicing Sammy.
If that was so, he should be q
different player today. recognized, as
he is, as the same valuable man
he was last year. Owner George
Marshall had thoughts along that
line, too, yesterday when he played
host to the luncheon meeting Of the
sports writer's where the vote was
taken. s.
THAT ought to pep Sammy up
lot. Watch the Singer go now, boys
You've not only done him q good
turn, but the whole team as well"
Incidentally, it might make Tillie
Manton, Roy Young. Jim Barber
Hal Bradley and Wayne Millnel
feel pretty good to know that they
also were thought to be the most
valuable by some Of the writer
present.