Evening star., 1938-11-21
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

the Washington Redskins today
faced the task which they success
fully completed in both 1885 and
1887. And if history repeats itself,
they will be Eastern division cham
pions for the third successive season.
Because the Green Bay Packers
fell down on them yesterday by
losing to the East's pace-setting
Giants. the Indians still are in sec
ond place with only twCmore games
remaining for both contenders. But
because the Giants held similar
leads two weeks before the seasons
close both last year and the year be-
fore, only to lose to the Redskins
when the chips were down in the
final game, the champions are any
thing but discouraged.
AS a matter of fact. even if the
Giants had lost yesterday and re-
linquished their lead to the WASH
ingtons, the latter still would have
had to beat both the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates next Sunday and the Giants
the following week to retain their
title, unless, of course, they added
another tie or two to their present
record of two deadlock games with
the Brooklyn Dodgers, in which
event they still would have nipped
the Giants.
That is because both the Giants
and the Redskins have lost two
games. AS it appears today, the
team that loses a third game will
lose out. Thus, should the Giants
bow to the third-place Dodgers on
Thanksgiving Day. the Skins could
win by either beating or tying the
Pirates and the Giants in their
last two games.
Redisc0ver Punch.
Only in the event of New York
victory over Brooklyn and an un-
expected defeat at the hands of the
Pirates in Washington last home
game next Sunday would that final
game at New York be meaningless.
Should such an unhappy turn of
affairs come about, the Redskins
would have one more loss than the
Giants debited to them and al
though a Washington win over New
York would equalize the number of
losses suffered by each team, the
Giants would have two more games
in the victory column.
But despite their current posi-
ton in arrears, the Redskins still
think they will beat out the Giants
again. Happily. that thought is
based more on determination than
on the cockiness which previously
has been a trait with the champions
One little incident yesterday, when
they were rediscovering their scor-
ing punch with a Sis rout of the
Richmond Arrows at Richmond, re-
veals that it so happened that the
first report on the Giant-Packer
game was brought to the Redskins
in their locker room between halves,
the score at that time showed Green
Bay leading, 3 to O. AS it was an
nouhced a cheer went up from a
few of the players, snort went up
from another corner of the room
Huh! What do we care about that
score? We are still going to beat
the Giants ourselves"
Set on Revenge.
For you see the Redskins haven't
forgiven the New Workers for TAX
ing that 10-to-7 decision here in
October and they are set on re-
venge.
If the champions can sustain that
attack they flashed yesterday they
stand a good chance of doing it.
Granting the opposition they faced
was not of major caliber, the Skins
nevertheless showed more signs OF
the attack which carried them to
the world title last year than at
any time this season.
Sammy Baugh was the singer
of old, finding receivers with an un-
canniness which evoked the same
kind of admiration which he
aroused last year. George Karamatic
looked especially good in the open
field, once tearing off a beautiful
run of 80 yards for touchdown.
| That lone touchdown the Ar
rows scored was a gift, pure, SIM
ple and obvious. Just after the Red
skins had stopped the hosts only
scoring threat on their 4-yard
line by throwing three successive
plays for a loss of II yards, Baugh
shot another accurate pass-right
| into the hands of the Arrows safe
! ty man and the Skins let him run
to his teams only score Of the day.
Three Redskins are sporting gold
wrist watches as well as regained
| self-respect as a result of the days
activities in the Old Dominion cap
ital. Baugh, as was to be expected,
won the forward passing contest by
twice hitting the paper filling of
the tire at Is yards in three trials;
Tillie Manton won a place-kicking