Evening star., 1940-08-16
Once Little Regarded =,
Draftees Sparkle
As Boss Kibitzes
Rocks Impress Marshall,
Inspecting Grid Pros
For First Time
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.,
Star Staff Correspondent.

SPOKANE. Wash, Aug. l6.-Pos-
sibly Big Chief George Marshall's
initial inspection of the year didn't
have q thing to do with 1t, but re-
visions of early unfavofable opin-
ions of few Redskin rockies were
In order today following yesterdays
slam-bang scrimmage, the toughest
thus far.
It's only natural to assume that
all hands. veteran and freshmen
alike, put out" just bit more when
they saw their head boss sCrutinizing
every move, and mute evidence of
the ferocity of the contact work were
the bloody noses given Tackle Bill
Young, Halfback Ernie Pinckert and
End Wayne Millner.
But the outstanding development
is that trio of first-year men-aH
draftees-who mentally had been
consigned to the discard heap, today
were very much in the running
again for regular jobs. In the order
of their impressiveness yesterday,
they are Ernie Lain OF Rice, Willard
(Bolo) Perdue of Duke and Charles
tChuck) Slagle of North Carolina.
Lain Causes Comment.
Lain, 230 pounds and all, ripped
and tore through the defensive
lines in the manner which won
him second all-America honors
in his sophomore year in college.
The big boy. who claims he never
weighed under 23O since high school
days, literally was unstoppable, and
had Prexy Marshall asking with sar-
casm if this was the lad who was
being talked out of job before he's
had a chance to show what he
could do.
Perdue. who at first glance ap-
pears far too small for a National
League team, stamped himself as
one OF the toughest, if not the
toughest, lineman in camp by the
manner in which he was dumping
veterans all afternoon, both on the
offense and defense When he
gets mad, Perdue looks Just the
guy you wouldn't want to meet
on a back street at night but
whether that has any psychological
effect on the man opposing him is
Conjectural. At any rate, Perdue
not only was in two-thirds of the
plays when he was on defense. but
the manner in which he blocked
when his team had the ball was a
revelation.
When you stop and think. you
realize that Bill Hewitt, the Phila-
delphia Eagles great end from
Michigan. wasn't much bigger. if
at all, than Perdue. And Max
Krause, who saw Perdue block a
couple of Pitt punts in the game
which sent Duke to the Rose Bowl
in 1888, is on record that Bolo has
what it takes in the bigtime, height
or no height.
Slagle Draws Attention.
Slagle, the smallest rookie In
camp at feet 101a inches. was the
third who hadn't attracted more
than passing attention before yes
terday. But the chunky guard was
leading the Interference all after
noon and never permitting his ball
carrier to be hit until he was we'll
past secondary, while on defense he
showed as much fire and resistance
as any youngster on the field.
Bob Titchenal took a slight lead
in the contest for the No. 3 center
job when his past defense and gen.
eral defensive play exceeded that
of Steve Andrako, the rookie from
Ohio. Bob Fisher, the guard from
Southern California, was the only
other new lineman to stand out
and even he is taking 1t easy as
result of his appendicitis scar.