Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Farkas' Return Adds
Test 10 Show for
Capital Roofers
Triumph for Tribe, Loss
By Dodgers Would Sew
Up Eastern Honors
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.,
Star Staff Correspondent.

and more than $4,000 persons are
expected to storm the Polo Grounds
here tomorrow to see that time
Redskins and the Giants.
For the first time since 1886, New
York will be taking the field in it's
return game with the Redskins
without chance of winning or even
tying for the Eastern championship.
But the meeting of pro footballs
greatest offensive and defensive
teams-and their sections greatest
traditional rivalS-has produced an
other sellout.
Only a loss by them, combined
with victory for the Brooklyn
Dodgers, meeting the variable Chi
cago Cardinals across the river, can
prevent the Redskins returning
home tonight as 1910 Eastern
champs. A tie for either the Red
skins or the Dodgers would make it
impossible for the latter to close
the two-game gap now separating
the sole remaining contenders.
But, according to the Giants, they
intend keeping their neighboring
rivals in the running to the last
game, provided the Dodgers do their
part by winning The Giants claim
the Redskins squawked entirely too
much after last years much-dis-
puted decision and they are set
upon wiping out that stigma of
luck" which the Indians have at
tached to the 81 victory Just 81
weeks ago today, as we'll as the T.
n defeat they suffered in Washing
ton in the second game of the cur
rent season.
Would Help Coach's Record.
Then too, the Giants would give
their coach, Steve Owen, an edge
IN the meetings with his old pupil.
Ray Flaherty, since they parted
company after the 1885 season. That
was when George Marshall plucked
Flaherty from the players ranks
to handle his Redskins their last
year in Boston. Since becoming the
Indians. coach, Flaherty has bat
tied Owen nine times to a draw
four victories apiece and a tie.
During those games, the Redskins
have scored Ill points to the Giants
S.
Tomorrow's irresistible force VS..
Immortality" aspect is borne out
by statistics on the rivals. In the
same number of games, the Red
skins have outscored the Giants
better than two to one, and their
ground-gaining record is some 700
yards better But although the
Redskins have yielded only more
points than the Giants, the latters'
opponents yardage reads much less
than the Redskins. Indeed. the
New Workers have surrendered less
ground than any club in the league.
While tomorrow's game primarily
Is regarded as a battle between
teams, individuals on both sides are
expected to spice the action into
a colorful spectacle. There will
be, for instance, Sammy Baugh
shooting at an all-time season pass
ing record. For tonight Sammy is
only 4 heaves and Is yards behind
the records established last year
by Parker Hall and Davey OBrien.
Halls LOG competitions and O'Briens
1924 yards are almost certain to
be passed tomorrow by Baugh. who
currently is credited with 102 and
1906, respectively.
FarkaS Returns to Action.
But most eagerly awaited by the
vanguard of Westinghouse four
ishing Redskin feathers on Broad
way tonight is the 1910 debut of
little Andy Farkas, the leagues
leading scorer last year. Farkas, fit
again after Labor Day eve OPP
Grafton on his right knee, is not
expected to start, but he will be in
the game before much time has
elapsed, Flaherty has promised.
Farkas' return leaves the Red
skins with only one absentee, Frank
Filchock, in bed at Washington's
Emergency Hospital Because Fill
chock is still suffering with an in
famed stomach caused by kick in
last Sundays game with the Bears,
Rookie Roy Zimmerman will ham
die the second and fourth period
Redskins. Zimmerman was the more
highly touted of two freshmen from
San Jose State, yet his teammate,
Center Bob Titchenal, earned a
regular berth with the Redskins be-
fore Zimmerman.
According to Giant observers lit
tie Eddie Miller and Tuffy Leemans
stand as the ones to watch. Miller
is rated the third best passer in
the loop, with 1872 percentage for
II attempts. Trailing only Baugh
and Cecil Isbell, the Giants 1861
pound sophomore is ranked ahead
of such admittedly fine beavers as
Davey O'Brien, Ace Parker and Sid
Luckman.
Leemans Still Ace Lugger.
Leemans, on the other hand, still
Is the Giants best ground gamer
and will enter the game as the
leagues third best. Tuffy, now in
his fifth year of pro football, is
averaging "a yards a rush. That
percentage is only 40 of a yard
behind the leading Whizzer White,
but White has gained 100 more yards
In SO more attempts
The Redskins aren't shedding any
tears over the fact that they won't
be worried with either of the two
Giants who beat them with field
goals here last year, Ken Strong and
Ward Cuff. Strong no longer is
with the team as an active player
and Cuff isn't expected to see ac-
ton. The latter suffered a brain
conclusion several weeks ago, but is
expected to view the game from
the Giant bench, probably in uni
form. It's entirely possible, of
course, that he will come out to