Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-06
Juicy Odds Offered
On Chibears Find
Few Concerned
FIoherty Plans to Have
His Bossed-Down Team
At High Pitch Sunday
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
10, the Door Redskins.

10, the poor REDSKINS.
Accused of everything from being
one-man team at the start of the
season to group of penny-pinchers
at the end, Washington's once-favor-
lite football team finds itself nearly
bereft of supporters financiaD al
most on the eve of its biggest game
In three years. Frankly, there's not
only little Redskin money in town,
but current odds of rs on the Bears
may Jump to as high as 9-5 before
Sundays kickoff.
It's been a fltful year for the Red
skins. who have run the gamut of
recognition as one of the greatest
teams of all time to one which was
ship by one game.
Some time after their seventh
consecutive victory on November g.,
the Redskins seem to have lost the
spark which made them unbeatable
for more than Two months of the
campaign. It's this realization, that
they just managed to stagger in
when they could have clinched the
title three weeks before the season
ended, that's mainly responsible for
the lack of confidence in their home
town where it's never been lacking
before.
Line Drawn Against Farkas.
The announcement that the Red
skins didn't see fit to vote Andy
Farkas full share of the playoff
cash hasn't helped matters either.
but there's the side of those who
voted Andy only a half share to ex-
plain.
why should Andy be entitled to a
full share?" they ask. after all, he
hasn't played but two minutes all
season, yet he's received full salary
per game from the start. We all
know that Andy's salary isn't hay
and there still are some guys on this
ball club-veterans, too-who receive
as little as $3.50 game. Now that
they've got a chance to make as
much as 5000, you can't exactly
blame them for refusing to deprive
themselves in order to give Andy an
extra something he doesn't need"
Apparently, the squad was almost
unanimous in this opinion, for We
understand from a reliable source
that not more than seven of the 80
players who voted were in favor of
Andy receiving the full amount
Some of the older players it is said
tried to talk the others into making
Farkas' share a full one, but they
were voted down overwhelmingly
No Hint of Dissension.
We don't know that any ill-feeling
exists among the Redskins on &C
count of the Farkas matter and its
subsequent unfattering publicity
But we are confident that if there is
any suspicion of dissension that
Coach Ray Flaherty is the man to
break it up.
There's not much that the Red
skins. individually and as team
wouldn't do for Flaherty. If there's
such a thing as Astounding affection
between men, it's found between
Flaherty and his players. They
know that the championship repre-
sents his fondest dream and what it
would mean to him, personally, to
be known as the coach of the world S
best football team
They know him to be fair and
strictly impartial, intent upon seek
ing only the best possible way to
win games. If a star ball-carrier
sits on the bench most of the time
they reckon he knows what he's do
ing and if some strategy appears
questionable to the grandstand
quarterbacks, they'd be the first to
argue Rays side.
Flaherty Keys Team.
Flaherty has a knack of bringing
up team to its mental peak for any
game he particularly wanted to win
There have been times this season
when Ray didn't even try to "her
up" the Skins, realizing that it was
useless. After ALL" he explains
logically, you can't get excited over
meeting Pittsburgh or Philadelphia
or the Chicago Cardinals. You just
have to take your chances of being
hot or not. And it's worked both
ways. We walloped the Steelers by
30 points each time we played them
and nosed out the Cards and Eagles
bV only 7 pOintS. You never car