Evening star., 1939-10-16
Teams Tough for Title
Rivals Tumble Hard
Before Tribesmen
Marshall Club in Spot
To Chalk Up League
Mark for Scoring
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

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skin touchdown A la German?
With a bit of Todd? Garnished
with a mixture of Farkas and Fill
chock? Or a scramble of veterans
and rockies? Redskin chefs have
them all on short order and it won't
take long to dish one up any way
you like 1t.
Would you have 1t on q record
making pass? A field-long run? Or
just a mere dash of not more than
10 yards?
No later than Saturday. night
Owner George Marshall was quoted
as saying there are no push lovers
In the National Professional Foot
ball League. Mr.. Marshall should
qualify that remark. What he un-
doubtedly means is there are no
push-overs until the Redskins have
played em. Then they all appear
to be push-overs.
Brooklyn, reputedly a strong con-
tender for Eastern honors, did a
week ago yesterday. Pittsburgh, a
team which held the New York
Giants to a 14-7 score and actually
outplayed the champions, seemed
even more of one yesterday. Yet
how are you going to explain the
fact that against other opponents
these same teams that prove set
ups for the Redskins manage to
emerge with some semblance of
glory?
Scoring Record in Making.
It wouldn't surprise if Washing
ton football fans were beginning
to think they have something in
their 1889 Redskins. In watching
them exceed their own season rec
ord score (and keep pace with the
Chicago Bears, who also ran up A
points against the Cardinals, the
25,982 enthusiastic spectators prob
ably were most delighted by the
realization that the Redskins punch
was to prove no short-live myth.
For in engulfing the Pirates in
that AHA scoring tide yesterday, the
Redskins brought their point total
to 85 in their last two games. To-
day, the Indians are averaging %
points a game for four games. If
they maintain that pace, they will
wind up with a league-scoring rec
ord for the 1l-game season. The
Chicago Bears scored 223 points for
q new high last year-or a 20-point
average-but at the rate the Indians
are going, they will finish with 253
And with new backs like Jimmy
German and Dick Todd now firmly
established as great runners and
passers to help such veterans as
Frank Filchock, Andy Farkas and
Sammy Baugh pile up the points,
a new scoring record by the Red
skins doesn't seem far-fetched.
Rewarded With Rest.
Coach Ray Flaherty declared a
rare two-day holiday, today and to-
morrow, while the boys were dress
ing after the game, but that fourth
period combination probably can
thank good old Ed Justice for not
being forced to report for practice
today. For while it appeared as
If German, Jim Meade and Don
Irwin were going to disgrace their
teammates by failing to score at
least once in the fourth quarter, but
when "Chug" took off on his touch
down run their skins were spared.
Who were yesterdays heroes?
Well narrow the choice to just 20
Redskins Sammy Baugh didn't get
In the game and you make the Sc
lection. Certainly, the local Foot
ball Writers Association rarely has
had harder job in naming the
most outstanding" Redskin to re-
ceive new suit than it did today
at the weekly luncheon.
If you say German, on the
strength of his 14-yard scoring run
on the first play after the opening
kickoff and his 86-yard return of a
subsequent kickoff, how about Fill
chock? If you name Finger, on
the strength of throwing two touch
down passes-one of them a daring
behind his own goal line heave
which established a league record
for distance, SO yards, how about
Farkas? If you tab Andy, who took
Filchock's pass on his own four and
sped SO yards for a touchdown, in
addition to plunging over for an
other from the 1-yard line, how
about Todd? And if you say Todd,
because of his two beautiful runs,
one for SO yards, how about the
Redskin line which opened the holes
for him to get through and provided
constant downfield blocking?
Somebody's due to get a suit, but
q lot of somebody's are no less de-
serving,
Meade Does All Right.
There's another Redskin who feels
particularly good today, too, even
though his work may not have been
as outstanding as some of his mates.
But Maryland's Jim Meade was one
Of the happiest of all the players
after the game, for he'd come
through with commendable kick
ing exhibition and torn off sizable
gains when given the ball in the last
period. Thrice was Jarrin' Jim
called upon to punt The first time
he kicked from his own 10-yard line
to Pittsburgh's "a. The second from
his 16 to Pittsburgh's 80 and the
last while standing nearly on his
goal line, he got one away to mid
field.
But one of Meade's acts, probably
overlooked in the fading moments