Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-06
Prospect Of Record
Title Payoff Will
Fire D. {. Pros
Club to Be Met Sunday
Still Stor-Poeked, Even
With Four Aces AiIing
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Judging from reports, those
Brooklyn Dodgers that the Redskins
will meet Sunday at Ebbets Field
are in bad shape physically. Four
of their outstanding players-Ace
Parker, Banks McFadden, Ralph
Kercheval and Bruiser Kinard-are
ailing, and the Dodgers last stand
is apt to be more rickety than
rugged.
Kercheval, one of the National
Football Leagues leading place
kickers, has, of all things for q
booter to have, a broken toe.
McFadden. up until last week the
loops leading ground-gainer, had
his hip hurt by the Giants last Sun
day. Kinard, second all-league
tackle last year, has just undergone
an operation during which skin was
grated on his right hand, badly
lacerated by Joe Stydahar's cleats
in the Bear game two weeks ago.
And Parker, that great all-around
back, is handicapped by an injured
left foot and ankle.
They say the Dodgers might have
beaten the Giants had Kercheval
been in shape. He had several OPP
portunities for field goals, but could
hardly lift the ball off the ground
with his busted tootsie Kinard
didn't even play against the New
Workers.
Indians Will Be on Edge.
But even if this high-class quartet
isn't at top shape for Sundays game,
the Dodgers won't be exactly mince-
meat for the Redskins. Not with
such guys as Pug Manders, Bill
Leckonby and George Cafego in the
backf1eld and a line which boasts
the fourth best defensive record in
the league
For that matter, the Dodgers
point defensive record is tops, as
no other club has limited the OPP
position to as low as II points as the
Dodgers have in their seven games
to date. But still you've got to
remember that the Redskins more
than doubled the average enemys
score against Brooklyn when they
took the seasons opener here, 24-17,
in September.
So near that payoff cash that they
feel almost aff1uent, the Redskins
aren't likely to blow Sundays game
because of overconfidence. They're
confident of repeating over the
Dodgers sure. But with their goal
so close, they're liable to be more
grinly determined than when they
started out against Pittsburgh last
week, which bodies no good for the
Topping crowd.
Record Melon for Players.
No matter where the champion
ship game is played, here or in New
York or Brooklyn, Redskins Chief
tain George Marshall predicts a new
high in cash remuneration for the
players of the contesting teams.
Marshall figures that members Of
the winning side will get around
S9lo, WIN Jne losers receiving ABOUT
$3.50. That winning figure is more
than triple what the Redskins got
in 1887 after beating the Chicago
Bears for the world championship,
when sub-zero weather held down
the crowd.
Marshail's reckoning is due to the
milder climate Of the East, which will
result in a larger crowd than at
Chicago, and to biggersstands than
Milwaukee's Fair Grounds, Western
playoff site for the Packers. Probably
10000 would turn out for the game
in Washington and between $4,000
and $4,000 in New York Last years
playoff in Milwaukee was before a
record crowd, yet that numbered
only 1892. And the champion
Packers collected only s7o397 each.