Evening star., 1940-12-28
Fine Pro Lot to Test Chibears' Power
Baugh, Todd, Barber
OF Skins on Team
Facing Champs
AII-Stors After First
Victory in Leagues
Post-Seuson Set
Srecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28.-The
greatest football team of 1910. per-
haps the most powerful gridiron
machine in all history. will pit its
organized power against a star
studded professional all-star assem-
bly, in Gilmore Stadium here tomor-
row.
The occasion will be the meeting
of the Chicago Bears; mighty cham.
pions of the National Football
League. and a team made up of the
greatest individual stars of the post
graduate circuit. The game is the
only post-season contest now per-
mitted under league rules.
A sellout crowd of 10000 customers
will witness the struggle between
the Chicago powerhouse. which
routed the Washington Redskins by
an unprecedented 70 to 0 score, tc
win the league title, and such in
dividual greats as "Slingin' Sammy
Baugh, Don HutSon. John Drake
Mel Helm and Dick Todd. Besides
Baugh and Todd, the Redskins also
will have Jim Barber III the game
The All-Stars have been whipped
into a formidable united front by
Ray Flaherty, coach of the Redsinks
who is out to avenge the humiliatine
defeat which his Eastern champions
suffered in the leagues 1910 playoft
for the championship in Washington
Just three weeks ago.
Third Game on Coast.
The game will mark the third
annual appearance in Los Angeles
of the leagues champions against an
aggregation hand-picked from the
rosters of the other teams of the
circuit. In the first contest of the
series, played in January, 1889, the
New York Giants won, 13 to 10, by
a thrilling last-half rally. Last
January, the Green Bay Packers
triumphed. 16 to 7, with a spec
tacular e8-yard touchdown pass
which went from Cecil Isbell tc
Hutson.
Tomorrow. the All-Stars will be
bidding for their first victory of the
series.
The contest tomorrow should be a
convincing test in the old argument
of team strength VS.. individual
prowess.
While the Bears. with their famous
man-in-motion 1T" formation, de-
veloped what has been acclaimed by
many critics as the most dangerous
offense in football. they did it with
out placing a backfield man on the
official all-America pro team select
ed by the Nations leading football
writers.
Despite the brilliant generalship
of Quarterback Sid Luckman and
the sensational running of Ray Mol
ting, Bill Osrranski and Bobby
Swisher, none of them landed in
the first team backfield, which con-
sisted of Baugh, Whizzer White
Drake and Ace Parker.
Baugh Has Great Help.
Baugh and Drake will be in action
tomorrow with the Stars, along with
such famous backs as Pug Manders,
Vic Spadaccini, Cotton" Price,
Clark Hinkle and Todd. The Bears
will enter the game at practically
full strength. The entire squad
with the exceptions of George Nc
Afee and Jack Manders, backs. who
were unable to make the trip on ac-
count of business commitments, is
ready for action.
However, the most important of
all the Bear invaders, Owner Coach
George S. Halas, will be missing
from the war zone. Halas will miss
seeing the Bears play for the first
time since the club launched its
spectacular career 20 years ago,
when he was the teams first-string
right end and the playing coach.
The Bears coach is in st. Vim
cents Hospital here, recuperating
from an emergency appendicitis op-
Grafton which was performed last
Sunday night.
Hearty (Hunk) Anderson and
Luke Johnsos, assistant coaches, will
direct the Bears. Anderson, whose
brilliant handling of the Bears line
was such an important factor in
the teams title drive this year, flew
here from Chicago to assume COM
mand of the club after Halas was
stricken
Masterson Aids Coaches.
Johnsos finished the task of pre-
pairing the champions for the con-
test, assisted by Bernie Masterson,
veteran quarterback.
Probable line-ups: