Evening star., 1939-10-17
High-Scoring Bears
Invade New York
For Next Clash
Tribe, With Schedule
Break, PIoy Packers
Following Week
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

So It's up to Western division
teams of the National Football
League not only to break the exist
ing deadlock between the Eastern
division leaders, but to determine
just how good the Redskins and
Giants really are.
For just about a month the WASH
ington and New York teams have
kept pace kicking inferior sectional
rivals around and battling to a
scoreless tie in their own game.
Meanwhile the Western division race
has developed into three-team dog
fight among the Detroit Lions, Chi
cago Bears and Green Bay Pack
ers-and the Redskins and Giants
play two of them on the next two
Sundays
The Giants will be the first to
have their spotless record threat
ened, for they lay it on the line
against the high-scoring Bears at
the Polo Grounds Sunday. A week
later the Redskins meet the con-
tending Packers at Milwaukee.
Redskins Get Schedule Break.
1t is no secret that the Redskins
now realize that they received a
decided break at this stage of the
championship race when the league
schedule was drawn up last winter.
For, while the Bears, fresh from
last Sundays AIT rout of the Car
dinals, are apt to be at top strength
for their game with the Giants, the
Packers likely are to be less than
that for their intersectional game
with the Redskins.
Because next Sunday the Packers
meet the undefeated and united De-
trolt Lions in crucial game, and
that should take some of the zip out
of them. In addition to experience
ing a natural letdown the week
after, it is not at all certain that
the Packers will emerge from the
Lion scrap unscathed. thus being
forced to send a weakened eleven
against the Redskins.
A>e'SA eAiCACoo, VIAo 1Iccu Day
squad-perennially one of the
leagues best-is certain to be just
about 100 per cent more formidable
opponent than the Eagles, Dodgers
or Pirates. And if the Redskins
come through at Milwaukee, cham
pionship talk then will have sub
stance.
Packers Will Test Tribe.
In their last two home games the
Indians opposition has been out
classed. Whether that difference
has been due to the fact that Brook
lyn and Pittsburgh really are much
inferior to other league teams or
whether the Redskins ferocious at
tacks would have made any oppo-
nent look bad is something that may
not be decided until the Redskin-
Packer game on October 20.
There is little doubt, though, that
the Redskins as team continue to
appear far greater team than
Washington's first championship
combination of 1887. Boosting backs
galore, SO that the absence of one
scoring threat only means the pres
ence of another, and showing as
deadly tackling as pro football
boasts, the Marshallmen have been
nothing but sensational.
Never before in their team history
have the Redskins been undefeated
after four league games as they are
today, and their total of 90 points
exceeds by nearly one-third the
greatest scoring power shown by
any former Indian team in a cor
responding period. Indeed, only
once before this season have the
Redskins scored more than 40 points
a game-the well-remembered 1914
rout of the Giants for the Eastern
championship two years ago.
The current season is little more
than one-third completed, and the
Redskins already have scored more
than 40 points in each of two games.