Evening star., 1941-10-06
Kick That Conquers
Dodgers Is Second
0fHisCareer
Other Nicked Fordhum;
FIoherty and Boush
Derided by Crowd
Nv BILL DISMER, Jr.

Thanks 10 a Dig, QuleI-SpoktIl
Westerner, who started his college
career at Catholic University the
same year pro-football hit WASH
ington. the Redskins are back in
the thick of the running for the
194l Eastern championship.
Joe Aguirre of Utah, the biggest
end on the Redskin squad, didn't
stay long at c. U.-juSt one Sc
mester to be exact. Accustomed to
the wide-open spaces of the great
outdoors. Aguirre claims he just
didn't like the East, didn't even
bother to take mid-winter exams
at the Brookland school and set
sail for St. Mary's of California
as soon as things had been ar
ranged.
He must have liked the East a
little better today, though, espe-
cially as he begins to realize how
much a city of Fasteners, Wash
ington, likes him. For 1t was
Aguirre'S 36-yard field goal in the
third quarter yesterday that en-
abled the Redskins to whip Jock
Sutherlands Dodgers, 80, in the
lowest scoring - and hottest
game the Indians have won in their
9-year history.
Only His Second Goal.
Before yesterday. Aguirre had
kicked only one field goal in his life
but. like yesterdays. it was an i'm
portant game winner and brought
him national recognition. That was
the one he booted just about a year
ago to break up a 6-6 tie with
Fordham and give his Gaels a 9-6
victory. That's the boot that induced
the Redskins to draft him for Just
such an occasion as presented itself
yesterday and to keep him in the
face of such other outstanding ends
as Ed Hiestand of Vanderbilt. Jack
Stonebraker of Southern California
Sam Goldman of Howard and the
veteran Sandy Sanford.
There was nothing halfway about
Aguirres kick. Propelled with such
force that it landed a dozen rows up
in the center field bleachers, it un-
doubtedly would have gone over
from the 50-yard line. Sure to instill
confidence in him, that goal should
make an ever-ready threat from
now on.
But if it was Aguirre's boot that
actually won the game. it was
Frankie Filchock who again proved
the driving force behind the Red
skins and the player who undoubted-
lv would win the suit of clothes again
this week if tradition were not
against naming the same man for
more than one game season,
Filchock's ball-carrying and field
generalship again were something
TO see and the realization that he
mas captured the No. ! place in the
Hedsk1n fans esteem was evidenced
by an incident inconceivable four
years ago-or even last year.
For Coach Ray Flaherty and
Sammy Baugh actually were booed
by large ma jority of the 32.642
sWelter1ng patrons when it came
time for Baugh's team to relieve an
apparently touchdown bound team
led by Filchock. Having seen Fill
chock's team threaten Just previous
~ and then move Is wards in four
plays to Brooklyn's 29, the fans
were In no mood for a change.
But Flaherty, adhering to a wise
pre-game plan to insert fresh play
ers midawy of each period instead
OF letting one combination play a
full quarter, defied the boos to place
Baugh in charge. Two plays later,
after Andy Farkas had lost a yard
and Baugh had passed 10 feet over
Wayne Millner's head in the end
zone, Aguirre kicked his goal, with
Baugh holding the ball. for the
game-winning points.
There's no doubt that Flaherty
outsmarted the master, Sutherland
by his tactics of substituting whole
sale twice as often as is his custom
Even though the players were In and
out. the terrific heat took a toll OF
more than 10 pounds to Redskin-
Jim Barber losing IT pounds; Bill
Wilkin, Is, and Fred Davis, a. None
OF them, however, suffered case OF
heat exhaustion as did Referee Bill
Hewitt, who was fat on his back for
nearly two hours after the game
and they we're all fresher than the
Dodgers at the end.
Played on Hotter Days.
Moreover, the Alabamans-Davi
and Young-both claimed they hat
played in hotter weather durinI
their college days. But no Redskil
game ever was contested in NOR
ovenlike temperature.
Aside from the Redskins victory
which didn't elevate them abov
third place, but which left them NJ
farther behind the pace-settin
Giants. the feature of the game wa
the realization of the fact that Bill
Leckonby has succeeded Ace Parke