The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-11
tReg. U. s. Pat. OfR.l BY HARRY FERGUSON fITnited Press Shorts EditOrl

New York, Nov. 11.-(UF-What would you think If on the afternoon of July 4, 1922, they still would be trying to decide the championship of the Professional Football League with 9 perspiring young men run ming, passing and kicking while f1re- crackers popped all around them?
 Could be. Things are now in such a tangle that there is a good chance of play-off in both the Eastern and Western Divisions. Inasmuch as the regular schedule lasts through Dec. 2, it is highly probable that the championship game between the east and west won't be played until Dec. 21. From there 1t is only hop, skip and jump to Christmas and once you get into the holiday season anything can happen.
 Sudden Death
 Your agent learned today that in event a tie is played in the cham pionship game, the boys go right into sudden-death football. In other words, they keep on playing and the first team to score wins the cham pionship. That means, of course, that it can last indefinitely and 1t opens up many possibilities. Such as as- signing players to three eight-hour shifts and having the game continue right around the clock, turning on the lights when night falls.
 Men could watch the game all night, get shave, go to work and come back at 6 D. m. to take their seats and see some more football. College players could be graduated, drafted by the pros, sign contracts, be measured for uniforms and get their assignment to the night shift while the game still was in progress. The game could be moved back and forth, say between Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park in Chicago, so there would be no interruption in the base- ball schedule.
 Players would become bridegrooms, fathers and ask for a raise so they could pay the kids tuition while the battle still ragged back and forth between the one-yard lines.
 Here in the east the battle for the championship is likely to simmer down to the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgers performed a neat trick Sunday when they defeated the onrushing Wash ington Redskins. It kept the Dodgers in the race and it built a terrific gate for the Dec. 2 struggle between Brooklyn and the Giants. The Red- skins still have fighting chance for the eastern championship, but you can see what a job it is when the schedule calls for them to meet the Chicago Bears, Giants and Green Bay Packers on the next three Sum- days.
 Anyone Can Win
 At the start Of the season it ap- peared that the Chicago Bears, who won the title last year with that 73-0 business over Washington, were go- ing to crush everything in their path. But one of the chief attrac- tions of the pro league is that any team in the loop can, on given day, beat any other team if conditions and the breaks are right.
 Conditions and the breaks were exactly right for the Green Bay Packers the other Sunday and they gave the Bears a licking. That threw the western division race into con- fusion and now 1t can be either the Bears or the Packers, depending on what happens from here out.
 The Bears play Washington, De- troit, Philadelphia and the Chicago Cardinals. The Packers have to get past the Cardinals. Pittsburgh and Washington. If both the Bears and Packers win ell their remaining games, the western division will be tied.
 Button up your overocats, men. it's going to be 6 long, hard winter.