Evening star., 1939-12-30
Cards Reach EI Paso
In Fine Condition
For Game Monday
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Sta6 Correspondent.

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of several new plays they'll spring
on the Arizona Bulldogs two days
hence we're smoothed out here today
as Catholic University gridmen got
back their land legs after the 2,100-
mile train trip across most of the
continent and all of Texas. Coaches
Bergman and Cotton of the Card
inal squad spent today drilling into
their charges the technique of
some new stunts they're fondly
hopeful will prove the killing punch
against Dixie Howells outfit in the
Sun Bowl game Monday.
Picturesque Texans. topped by ira
ditional 10-gallon chapeaus. greeted
the squad as the train rolled into
Ell Paso just after the Texan dawn
rumbled up behind the hills today.
HoWells University of Arizona boys
hav been here for day. and Howell
announced his strongest lineup. with
Wayne Ripper Pitts, high scorer of
the border conference, and Joe
Hernandez, slippery 150-pound half
back. to start the game Both teams
lost only one in nine games on their
college schedule.
Given Enthusiastic Welcome.
Bergman, completely satisfied with
an abbreviated workout on the
home field of Davie O'Brien and KY
Aldrich at Texas Christian in Fort
Worth yesterday, announced his boys
are ready for the fray. with all the
ailing men who left home in cold
weather feeling fit as fiddles under
the warm Texas sun. The boys
were particularly impressive at
passing and kicking. twin depart
ments of the game to which Anon
Carter, Texas foremost citizen, re-
ferred as typical Texas stuff. Carter
presented Coach Bergman and the
newspaper boys with 10-gallon
derbies, which is old stuff to him.
He has given away more than TO-
600 of them to Fort Worth visitors.
In return Bergman gave him foot
ball autographed by the entire foot
ball squad which will hang up along
side the shoes and jersey worn by
O'Brien and other football gear
worn by Texas gridiron immortals.
If the boys stand the banquet
league they'll lick the Bulldogs Mon
day, and Bergman is going to see
they aren't feted too much. Ell
Paso, like Fort Worth, has taken
its hair down to these husky lads
from the National Capital. Moth
ing approaching the warmth and
hilarity of the reception here today
has been seen since the Redskins
came back from Chicago with a
world pro championship in 1887
Yipping cowboys, pulchritudinous
Lone Star State lassies and all the
boys from the Chamber of Com
merce met the visiting f1remen, who
succumbed completely to the well
come, of which they had more than
taste in Fort Worth yesterday.
Try Field Today.
Out here where the West reigns,
they do things in a big way But
there's bad news around. Juarez,
just across the spindly Rio Grande
River in Mexico, is closed down.
Most of the viciousness and pic
turesqueness of the old Mexico town
has been taken away by a no gam
bling edict. The football boys will
visit Juarez tomorrow.
A long workout today at the
Texas School of Mines stadium,
where the game will be played Mon
day, will lead up to the final prac-
tice session tomorrow, last of the
workouts before game time at 2
O'Clock, Mountain time Monday, two
hours later than Washington time.
I'm very happy at the way every
thing has gone," said Coach Berg
man. All the boys are in good shape,
and full Of the old pep. Well do
all right in that game Monday"
But we almost lost Dutch and
Assistant Coach Fod Cotton yester-
day. Only by a little fast leg work
did they catch the rear platform of
the Sunshine Special after short
stop in Dallas. And the newspaper
boys also wish Washington could
have an arena like the Will Rogers
Memorial at Forth Worth. It seats
10000 people for indoor spectacles
and looks like q futuristic Office
building. They do things big here
in Texas.