Evening star., 1939-08-29
Only 5000 See
Skins Nip Coast
Stars, 70 10 I
Honors Go to Bough,
Forkos, Fi|chock; Pass
Defense Improves
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-De-
spite the skimpiness of their 2O-7
victory over the Pacific Coast ALL
stars here last night, there seemed
little justification for alarm today
as the Redskins sped southwark to
Los Angeles, their last port of call
in the Far West before heading
eastward a week from today.
A general indifference, a wholesale
feeling of fatigue and too large a
crop of new plays to try for the first
time were the three main factors at
tributed to the Indians failure to
make better showing against a
team of coast stars assembled for
one exhibition game. That, and their
opponents natural zealousness to
acquit themselves creditably against
one of the National Football Leagues
best-known teams.
Coach Ray Flaherty, a natural in
spirer of men, said he knew the Red
skins were not fired up for the game
and he saw no reason for them to be.
He pointed out that they have an
unusually large number of plays in
their repertoire for so early in the
season and that it was to be expect
ed that all of them wouldn't work
with the same degree of perfection.
But, he added, it was better to give
the team most of its plays at the
start with the knowledge that their
execution will improve with time.
Skins Dead on Feet"
A great many of the players, how
ever, said that they were dead on
their feet due, they believed. to
two reasons. Some believed that
their immediate workouts before the
game, on Saturday and Sunday had
been too long, while others said that
the nearly bare and stony field they
practiced on had taken lot out of
them.
The game was not without its ad-
vantages to the Redskins, however,
as definite signs of improvement
appeared. Their aerial defense was
better for one thing, as the Stars
completed only II of their Is heaves
and none of them was contributory
to their lone score Twice did the
Redskins intercept their hosts for
wards. Slingin' Sam Baugh, con-
versely, lived up to his best advance
notices, completing 9 out of Is, one
of them to Andy Farkas for a touch
down.
Sharing honors with Baugh, who
limited his other duties to one punt
which carried IS yards, were Frank
Filchock and Farkas. Filchock,
averaging 5l2 yards every time he
carried the ball, was the game
leading ground gamer. with 81 yards
in II attempts, excluding two run
backs of kickoffs of % and 40 yards.
Farkas' plunge and stretch over
the goal line for the first touchdown
in the second quarter climaxed a
50-yard drive featured by two of
Baugh's bullet passes, while a few
minutes later the little Hungarian
leaped high to take another, one of
Baugh's specialties on his finger
tips in the end zone for another.
1t was the most brilliant play of the
night.
Filchock's tumble Costly.
The Stars only score had its in
ception when they recovered Fill
chock's tumble on his own 31-yard
line. Al Braga of st. Mary's, their
outstanding threat, beautifully faxed
a reverse and ran around Ed Justice
to the S and two plays later Sobrero
crashed through right guard from
the 2-foot line.
Fumbles. two of them by Mime
sofas Wilbur Moore, halted the
Redskins on several occasions, but
their line, with Capt. Turk Edwards,
Jim Karcher and Bill Wilkin scintil-
lating, kept the Stars pretty well
bottled up.
A small crowd of 5000. which
barely allowed the Marshallmen to
break even on their stop. was the
biggest disappointment of all.