Evening star., 1939-02-13
Capital Pro Grid Fans
Get Break as Lions
Are Listed Here
Bottle Between Section
Runners-up Of 1888
Will Cop Season

Marshall Goldberg and Harold
Stebbins - half of Pittsburgh s
dream backf1eld" of 1938-will be
seen in Washington next fall If
the Chicago Cardinals are success
full In persuading the former
Panther stars to play pro football.
The Cardinals. who will be coached
by Ernie Nevers for the first time,
were one Of the three Western
division teams drawn by lot as op-
ponents of the Washington Red
skins for the 1899 season, and Gold
berg and Stebbins we're among their
draftees in the college senior selec-
tions made by the pros last De-
cember.
Whether the Panther pair decide
to join the Cardinals or not, WASH
ington got a break on its home
schedule when the Detroit Lions
were assigned as one of its two
Western opponents to be met at
Griffith Stadium.
Lions Present New Coach.
The Lions, probably the most COL
orful team in the West, will be
coached for the first time by Gloomy
Gus Henderson, ex-Tulsa mentor,
whose teams used to make it hot for
George Washington elevens. Like
the Redskins, the Lions were run
ners-up for their sections title last
fall, losing out-also like the Red
skins-only in the last game.
They should present a fitting cli-
max to Washington's '39 pro football
season inasmuch as they are sched-
uled to play the last game here on
November 26.
The Redskins will play in Green
Bay for the first time in three years
when they travel west for a game
with the famed Packers on october
%. Runners-up for the national
championship, the Packers are the
third Western team on the Indians
schedule.
The Redskins will get away to an
auspicious start at home, as their
old rivals, the New York Giants are
scheduled as their first foe at Griffith
Stadium on October l. the day after
the Griffmen play their last home
game.
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Clark Active Trader.
CHICAGO, Feb. 13 LP.-The Ma
tional Pro Football League coaches
and officials have gone, but the
whispers linger on.
The circuits annual four-day
winter meeting closed yesterday
with several player deals still pend
ing and likely to be consummated
within few days.
Dutch Clark, Cleveland's new
coach, engineered a few deals. He
sent Vic Markov, Giant tackle, to
Brooklyn for Gene Moore, center on
the Colorado eleven that starred
Whizzer White. He also obtained
Tackle Jack Hadden from the
champion New York Giants for
Fullback Carl Littlefield, and traded
Tackle Dick Zoll to the Packers for
Dick Yerby, Oregon end.
Pirates Obtain Two Backs.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13 H).-Pres-
ident Art Rooney sent word back
home today the Pittsburgh Pirates
had obtained a pair of backdeld
stars in trades.
Additions were Dick Nardi, a
halfback from Detroit who led the
Big Ten in scoring as member of
the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1887,
and Sam Francis, fullback from
Chicago and former Nebraska star.
Rooney said the Pirates traded
Lou Tsouvas, former Stanford CEN
ter, for Nardi. Billy Patterson, for
ward passer from Baylor, who was
drafted by the Bucs, was sent to
Chicago for Francis.