Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-28

Over the hump in their schedule
and with the Eastern championship
clearly in sight, your Redskins def
nitely are blitzkr.eging the National
Professional Football League.
Victorious six times in as many
starts, it's not so much the fact that
the Indians still stand as pro foot
balls only undefeated, united team
but the manner in which they have
comprised that record.
And any implication that they are
one-man team was proven as un-
seemly as it was bemeaning to their
80 other players yesterday when they
came from behind, without benefit
of the assumed indispensable" one S
special skill to smack down the dan
gerous Lions, 20-14 in a great uphill
fight at Detroit.
Repulse Late Threat.
Man alive, but you'd have been
proud to have been one of those
28,909 at the University of Detroit
Stadiums record breaking crowd and
seen your team overcome the Lions
in the last period after having their
1870 lead overcome by their hosts,
largely on breaks. And you'd have
thrilled at the way they repulsed
Detroit's desperate last minute
threats when they marched 80 yards
to the Redskins 16-yard line, with
Bob Masterson and Wee Willie Will
kin breaking up the Lions final stab
by throwing Dwight Sloan for a IT.
yard loss.
The fact that the Lions knew
they had to win or abandon all
hopes of even a sectional title for
1870, makes the Redskins feat all
the more praiseworthy. Knowing
that the Giants were taking a
shellacking from the Bears, the
Redskins realized they didn't have
to win to maintain their lead over
their nearest rivals, but the 1910
Redskins are too proud tribe to
want to advance, save by their own
efforts.
And if you try to pick out single
outstanding player, you run into
trouble for the simple reason that
there were so many noteworthy
deeds by so many different players.
There was, for instance, Jimmy
Johnston's quick break into the
open and 66-yard run to a touch
down in the opening minutes Of
play with Wayne Millner blocking
out the last two prospective tacklers.
Stars and Stars.
There was Frank Filchock, lame
arm and all, tossing two passes in
the second quarter, the last of
which was a touchdown heave, on
which Bob McChesney made beau
tiful catch on the l-yard line,
twisting away from the Lions Fred
Vanzo and over the last white stripe
There was Dick Todd's game-win-
ming 6l-yard run in the final period
with perfect blocking shaking him
loose just past midfeld, with Dick
stepping on the gas to outrun two
pursuers who we're within arms
length at the Lions 30.
But aside from the scoring there
was Sammy Baugh's marvellous
puntlpg, especially quick kicking
which time and again got the Red
skins out of trouble and the Lions
into predicaments. His kicks aver
aged 50 yards.
There was the great play Of the
Redskins four guards-Dick Far
man, Steve Slivinski, Glen Stralka
and Clyde Shugart. There was
the continued showing of Rookie
Bob Seymour as a ground-gainer
extraordinary, the consistent i'm
provement of Jim Meade both as a
kicker and a line-bucker and the
revelation that Bob Hoffman, an
other freshman, will become some
thing more than a valuable blocker.
Hoffman, it appears, is quite a man
when he gets his mits on the ball as
was shown when he intercepted one
OF Whizzer Whites passes and ran
half the length of the field to the
Lions IL
Titchenal Justifies Choice.
There was also the continued
great all-around play of the rookie
center, Bob Titchenal, who again
justified his choice as the starting
center by smart backing up of the
line, vicious tackling and well-nigh
perfect passing.
In view of the fact that the Red
skins won, it is no alibi to state that
the Lions second touchdown. which
appeared decisive for a while, was
tainted. Indeed it was so question:
able that the officials decision al
lowing it brought Owner George
Marshall storming on the field from
his seat in the stands, as he hasn't
done since 1885.
With the ball on Detroit's %,
Baugh had shot a shovel pass to
Millner on an end-around play.
Tackled, Wayne claimed he tried to
lateral back to Baugh, but HOWE
Weiss got his hands on the ball,
headed for the sidelines and sped
IS yards down the field across the
Redskins goal Referee Bill Friesell
ruled 1t a tumble, not7a lateral, which
would have been dead at the point
Of recovery. Marshall was so vehe-
ment in his protests, that the Red
skins were penalized Is yards on the
ensuing kickoff, the Lions being al
lowed TO boot from the Washington
As instead of their own 40. Because
Bill Hanneman converted for the
second time and Bo Russell had
missed after the Redskins second
touchdown, the latter found them
selves behind at a later stage than
they had been all year.
First Score Was Earned.
There was nothing f1uky about the
ionc, fret Score met hofora the ond