Evening star., 1938-01-24
MARGIN GREATER
THAN TITLE GAME
Whole Story Not Told Even
by 1870 Score as Bruins
Are OutCIassed.
BY FRANCIS e. STAN,


division Of the National Foot
ball League may have enter
tanned about the possible supremacy
Of the Chicago Bears are blasted
today.
The mid-December finalists for the
pro title met here yesterday and the
Redskins won again. 13 to 0. The
score doesn't tell the story. The
Bears were lucky In the Chicago
game to have held the Redskins to a
28-to-21 count, If this Cotton Bowl
game meant anything
When the Washingtons walked off
with the title last month there were
some doubling Thomases The field
at Chicago was Icy and Westerners
insisted the Bears strong running
game was stymied. The number of
apostles preaching this theory were
amazing.
But today there can be no doubt.
The Redskins didn't just beat the
Bears. They poured it on them.
Listen:
Washington rang up - first downs
TO 4 for Chicago.
The Redskins did not outpass the
Bears this time. They outran them
107 yards to 80.
The Bears vaunted ground attack
gained only more yard than was lost.
They rushed for SO yards and were
thrown 80 yards in losses.
Fists Fly Again Here.
THE game here marked the Red
skins second start as professional
champions Of the world. Next Sunday
they will play an all-star team in
Houston. But that isn't. important
To close their current tour they again
will face the Bears at Miami. This
happens on February 6, and the Red
skins are hoping for dry field.
Not that Coach Ray Flaherty's out
At Is faced with the necessity of beat
ing the Bears again. The Redskins
already have done it twice and that
should be sufficient. But willy-nilly.
as the boys don't put it, they'd like to
pour 1t on the Bears again-particu-
larly on dry field.
The pro titular game was played
on ice. Here yesterday Dallas was
flooded and the Cotton Bowl, although
one of the towns high spots, was
sea Of mud. A victory on a dry field,
then, would make it sort of unani-
nous.
Besides, the Redskins are beginning
to believe the Bears don't, like them
The teams staged riot at Chicago,
nd ty, Nx,l,s Iii
they resumed where they left off.
Baugh's Punt Starts It.
END DICK PLASMAN of the Bears,
who took poke at Sammy Baugh
In Chi, swung at the Lone Star Slater
again. Bob McChesney, the sprightly
Redskin end. and Joe Stydahar of
the Bears wanted cooler heads to stop
holding them apart. Other belligerents
Included Washington's Ernie Pinckert
and Turk Edwards and Chicago's Dick
Karr and George Musso. 1t was all
very boisterous.
Returning to the game, neither team
showed much sustained offense in the
first half. although the Redskins had
a decided advantage. Early in the
third quarter the Bears came as close
to scoring as they did all afternoon.
Russ Thompson blocked a qulck-kick
by Baugh and the Bears recovered on
Washingtons 29-yard line Two
plunges and pass netted exactly
nothing and Stydahar's field-goal at
tempt was wide. That represented the
Bears chief threat.
1t was another kick by Baugh,
however, that led to the first score.
Late In the third period a punt by
Sammy was grounded on Chicagos
S-yard line. When the Bears kicked
back Cliff Battles caught it in
midfield and raced to Chicago's 80.
Three line thrusts by Battles and
Baugh put the ball on the enemy 16.
Then Charley Malone, a star all day,
caught a pass from Sam to reach the
Bears 4-yard line. After Ed Jus
tice lost 4 yards trying to crack
the line. Baugh passed to Wayne Mill
ner for touchdown and Riley Smith
kicked the extra point.
MIDWAY Of the final period Keith
Molesworth attempted a pass
Center George Smith of the Redskins
intercepted on Chicago's 46, slipped
and fell, and regained his feet to run
to . touchdown behind burgundy
jerseyed wall of interference. Riley
Smith then made news by missing the
extra point after having converted
20 straight.
That was all there was to the game
itseH. For the Redskins, incidentally.
1t was their sixth consecutive victory.
They started in November against the
Cleveland Rams and, in succession.
bowled over the Green Bay Packers,
New York Giants, Bears, Pacific Coast
All-Stars and then the Bears again.
That Is why there is something more
than . sneaking suspicion that the
Redskins belong exactly where they
are-on top.
For the second straight week the
weather plagued your mighty warriors,
though, and took some of the edge off
the game. The three-day rainstorm
failed to let up until after the game
had started and the Redskins had to be
content with their guarantee. The
promoter dropped $1,000 and took his
place at the wailing wall with the
San Francisco game promoters.
Lineup and Summary.
l. I MilIner - Plssn,an
L. T...--Edvards --- THOMPSON
L. 0--..Young ----- Fortmann
K: doolnxal d:----olsson ---- ------- HsIssn Musso
r. T..---Barber " Stydahar
r. E.--Malone " Karr
q. Bar. Smith - Noting
4. H.----Pinckert ---------- MoIesWorth