Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Illusions Pass Smuggling, Todd
FIoshy Running Go On Despite
Defenses Built to Stop Them

pears more incredible. We've heard
Coach Ray Flaherty instruct his
secondary until he was blue in the
face and we've seen them follow
his advice to the letter, and still
Hutson gets away.
Here's the picture-a Packer back
throws a pass. Hutson is away
sailing down the field, sometimes at
full speed, sometimes at a half trot
Two or three defensive men play the
ball, keeping between Don and the
goal-line. The ball descendS lower
and lower until it is lost in cluster
of six or eight appraised arms
and the next thing you see is Hutson
streaking away by himself, with the
ball, and the defenders more often
than not gazing at each other in
confusion
The last time We saw Don pull that
trick was in the Redskins Labor
Day exhibition with the Packers at
Milwaukee. Every one knew what
was coming as soon as Hutson en-
tered the game near the end of the
first half-and nothing could be
done about it. While the eyes of
Washington scribes widened and
their jaws dropped, a Milwaukee
sportswriter merely yawned.
He did that three times in the
all-star game" he said simply. And
the stars had been set for him.
But if Illusions feats appear in
credible, how about our own Mr..
Todd's locomotive powers which
carry him, like Superman, through
places it's impossible for any other
man to pierce. We wouldn't accuse
dodgin' Dick of saturating his pants
with grease. but that's the way 1t
appears as he slides out of the arms
of tacklers apparently set to bring
him down. You saw what happened
Sunday on his 76-yard touchdown
run. Yet. like Hutson's catches.
that wasn't the exceptional for
Todd. He does it almost once every
game
At mere ITO pounds, Dick
naturally doesn't possess the brute
strength of Andy Farkas who cracks
a line as hard as any man we've
ever seen, barring Bronko Nagurski.
Incidentally, We just heard a
story about Nagurski illustrating the
respect land fearO even his own
Chibear teammates used to hold
for him. 1t seems the Bears were
lining up for a play in which
Nagurski was to carry the ball. AS
they took their places on the scrim-
mage line, the Bear tackle looked
across at the opposing lineman and
said:
"Nagurski's coming through here
with the ball. pal I don't know
what you're going to do, but I'm
getting the heck out of the way"
Todd Really Scrambles.
But Todd doesn't have to crack
the line. Give him the smallest
bit of an opening anywhere and
it's enough. His legs start to churn
like a miniature dynamo at high
speed and when the adjective
scramble" is used to describe his
actions, it means just what the
dictionary says: ito struggle eagerly
for something" For we never saw
a tot at Christmas time scramble
for his toys as fervently as Todd
starts to scramble when he gets
the ball under his arm.
AS for Dicks courage. it can't be
questioned. Often we've seen him
tackle bigger men with a grin
which must have been debating (to
the tackled as it was inspiring to
his teammates. And how about last
Sunday e. when he was knocked
cold by the fercest tackle of the day
Nello Falaschi's. and recovered to
punt twice and return an opposing
kick rs yards for the most brilliant
run of the game within the next
five minutes?
Call back those so destroyers, Mr.
President. Send Mr.. Todd to Eng
land. He's all they need.