The Washington times., 1938-07-16
POUR IN
FOR REDSKINS
LONE OPEN DATE.
BY CHICK KENNY


Within the next two weeks, the
Washington Redskins, world pro-
fessional football champions, will
add one more exhibition game to
their 1888 schedule and then settle
down to mark time for the opening
of the training grind, billed for
Wednesday, August 10. The open
date to be filled is November 20,
and at present no less than 10 cit
les throughout the East, South,
and Midwest have made overtures
to the Redskin management for an
exhibition showing of the National
Pro champs.
Business Manager Jack ESpey
and Owner George Marshall are
carefully weighing all offers, and
naturally will close negotiations
for the spot with those promoters
who will offer the best guarantee.
MANY BIDS
Feeler bids have been received
from Richmond, Charlestown, w.
Va, Newark, Paterson, Reading,
Erie, Shenandoah, Pa, st. Louis,
Cincinnati and Wilmington. Last
year, the Skins played in Charles
town and were so we'll received
that the promoters in these reSpec-
tive cities are attempting to have
Sammy Baugh and Company for
a 1888 encore.
The other exhibition game on
the Skin card is the battle with
the Louisville Tanks, champion of
the Midwest Pro League, carded
for November 6. Louisville has
taken to the pro grid game like
nobody's business and a sellout
crowd is guaranteed by the pro-
moters.
A new minor league goes into
operation in eastern Pennsylvania
this fall embracing such football
hotbeds as Reading, Scranton and
similar sized Second-claSs cities,
and with a bid for the Redskins
having been received from Read
ing, the local management may
help the cause along by showing
against the Reading Keys. OF
course, it will depend, too, on the
size of the guarantee.
RICHMOND CHOICE
Cincinnati and st. Louis, once
boaSted franchises in the National
Pro League, but the teams to repre-
sent these cities, failed to thrive,
with the result that the clubs were
forced to fold up after a year or
two Of playing before cold, empty
seats. Therefore it is extremely
doubtful that the Redskins will
gamble with game in either of
these spots.
The Redskins drew we'll from
Richmond last season for their
Sunday games in Griffith Stadium
here. And so far, this early in the
season, a goodly number of the
advance sale of season tickets have
been purchased by football fans
of the Old Dominion metropolis.
There is every likelihood that
Marshall and Espey may seriously
consider playing the November
exhibition at Richmond as an ad-
vertiSing medium and a gesture
of goodwill more than anything
else Should the price be right.
With the formation of several
minor football leagues around the
country this year, many of the
newly oragnized greenback elevens
are seeking sponsorship by tieups
with big league teams as farms"
patterned after the major league
baseball agreements.
GAME A SELLOUT
The Redskin management is
recipient Of a number of sucn
proposals, but at present is not
interested in such deals The
Reading team in the new Penn
sylvania circuit is one of these
clubs, that seeks the Redskins for
an agreement. Another is Lynch
burg, Va, which probably will
operate in the Dixie League the
coming season.
But at present the Redskins are
busily engaged with taking reser.
vationS for the all-star game to
be played at Soldier Field, Chicago,
the night of August 81. A tele-
gram was received yesterday from
Arch Ward. promoter of the game,
and sports editor of the Chicago
Tribune. According to the wire,
a block of 400 reserved tickets
on the 50-yard line will be for
warded from Chicago to Redskin
headquarters here Monday. The
tickets are priced at $3.50 and are
directly behind the Redskin bench
and extend upward to the top of
the huge stadium. These ducatS
will be available here Wednesday