Evening star., 1940-12-10
|||-Fee|ing Of Mates
Won't Gust Andy,
Marshall Says
SIinein' Sam Will Sign
Again; Owner Confident
Of Fans Support
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Both Sammy Baugh and Andy
Farkas definitely will play with the
Redskins in 1941, Owner George
Marshall declared today, thereby
quelling rumors that the first would
retire of his own volition and that
Farkas would be forced of the
Washington squad because of
alleged ill-feeling on the part of
his teammates.
"Sammy's contract expired with
the last game this season." Marshall
acknowledged, but there1l be
another one rendered him, and he'll
accept.
"As for Andy, whose contract has
four more years to run, he's a great
little fellow and I'm all for him. II
some of the players felt unkindly
toward him because they thought
he was laying down and taking too
long to recover from his knee opera
ton, it just shows that they don't
know what they're talking about.
And If there's any dissension be-
cause of Andy, the dissenters will
60 - not old No. "A
All to Get Full Shares.
Farkas, incidentally, was one Of
four men on the Redskin payroll
denied full share of the playon cash
by their teammates, who will have
the difference made up to them by
Marshall. G.. P. announced to the
squad at its farewell luncheon at
the Willard Hotel yesterday that
the difference between what they
voted Andy, Don Irwin and Trainer
Doc Mauro and a full share would
be paid by him. He also said that
General Manager Jack Espey. COM
pletely forgotten by the players,
would be paid full share out OF the
Redskin treasury.
Bob McChesney, who played the
last and next-to-last games Of the
season with a broken hand. had
been awarded a bonus for "excep-
tional play" Marshall added.
Predicts Big Advance Sale.
AS the universal booings which
greeted the announcement OF l94l
Redskin season tickets Sunday at
time when the score stood some 500
against the Washington team, Mar
shall said that was "a perfectly
natural response to most untimely
announcement And then, brave
man that he is, he confidently pre-
dicted an advance sale in excess Of
this past season when more than
10000 season tickets were sold two
weeks before the first league game.
Washington fans are sensible
about things like what happened
Sunday he declared. They know
that that wouldn't happen again in
a million years if you put those
same teams on the field week after
week. Things like that-as our 49,
IA shellacking Of the Giants in 81
and the 800 lambasting they gave
us the following year-are only typi-
cal of the unpredictability of pro
football.
SOnHucnL Oh support
Sure it sounds terrible and it was
to the pride of a fandom like ours.
But they said we'd never get an
other crowd to 60 to New York after
that 1888 debacle and more than
10000 followed us there in 80. You
don't think Green Bay fans quit fol-
lowing the Packers after they
dropped 41-10 decision to those
same Bears in the opening game
this season. do you And you can't
imagine them failing to support
Curly Lambeau's team next year
just because the Bears beat 'em
twice in 1910, do you?
Mark my words, we'll have more
than 100000 in the till before We
open our 1941 campaign!"
An official announcement from the
Redskin office this morning said
148 new requests for Al season
tickets had been received yesterday
and q Christmas ticket orders
actually sold, $3.50 so being taken in
at the box Office. To date, 1857 20
has been taken in for 437 requests.
This does not represent the renewal
of orders from any current seat
holders.
Redskins Gloomy.
If any fan doubted that the Red
skins felt terrible about Sundays
awful events, they should have seen
them yesterday, when they met for
the last time as a team this year.
Pale and wan, some Of them ap-
peared still in daze. Some were too
choked up with emotion to speak.
You got the impression that they
couldn't have spoken dozen words
without breaking down completely
There wasn't much said about next
year. A lot of EN- apparently
realized they wouldn't be back. But
oh, how they'd like to replay that