Evening star., 1941-08-14
Only Seven in Party
Taking Train Late
This Afternoon
1o Due to Be on Hand
When San Diego Comp
Is Reached Sunday
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

With the mocking cries of have
q nice vacation in California" ring
ing in our ears, yours truly was
prepared to board the Capitol Linn
tied this evening with the nucleus
of % Redskins, who will be delivered
to Coach Ray Flaherty in San Diego
Sunday night for a flve-Week train
ing period.
Only seven players, six veterans
and a rookie, were due to leave
Union Station here, but five will be
picked up tomorrow morning in Chi
Cago and 10 more Saturday at stops
in Oklahoma. Texas and New Mex
leo. Those due to eat their first
meal at the Redskins expense on
the B. & o. tonight were Bob Mas
terson, Bob McChesney, Wayne
Millner, frankie Filchock, Clyde
Shugart, Glen Stralka and Rookie
Ed Cifers from Tennessee.
Malone Gives Up Game.
Sure to be conspicuous by his
absence was big Charley Malone,
the veteran end, who has been with
the Skins since 1884 Well estab-
lished in business and with a posi-
BILE bright future in golf, the 81
year-old flankman wisely has de-
cided to give up football. Malone
was offered a contract but could
be given no assurance that he would
be retained in view of such prom
Using rookie ends as Cifers, AL Krue-
ger of Southern California, Ed HE
stand of Vanderbilt and Bill Grim
NETT of Tulsa.
Reaching Chicago tomorrow
morning, General Manager Jack
Espey will lead the Washington
delegation to the Santa Fe Railroad
Station for breakfast. at which they
will be Joined by Andy Farkas, Steve
Andrako, Wilbur Moore, Frank
Clair and Sam Goldman. The last
two are undrafted rookie ends from
Ohio State and Howard College.
The party is scheduled to pull
out of Chicago on the Santa Fe's
Grand Canyon Limited at 1890
o'clock tomorrow morning for the
start Of three full days on the rails,
not arriving in San Diego until
11:15 O'Clock Sunday night.
Halfback Bob Seymour and
Rookie Quarterback Elmer Gentry,
like Seymour product of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, are scheduled
to board the train at Waynoka
Okla. Saturday morning Later in
the day Dick Todd, Micky Parks
Bill Young, Sandy Sanford, Earl
Fullilove of Georgetown and Fred
Davis of Alabama are to join the
party at Amarillo, Tex, while Sam
my Baugh and XII Aldrich should
be waiting for the train at Clovis
n. Mex.
Stay Until September 7.
They will complete the party un-
der Espey's charge, the remaining
19 players under contract having
been ordered to proceed to San
Diego direct from their homes in
the Northwest and Far West.
The squad will remain in San
Diego until September 7, an intra-
squad game being scheduled i'll S
DIS Balboa Stadium the night OF
September g. From there the Skins
will go to Los Angeles for a week
playing a team of Pacific Coast ALL
Stars there on September IA That
night they will leave for Colorado
Springs to play second intrasquad
pame m Sentenher 20
Not until September % will the
squad return to Washington. It's
"a long time to be gone from the
tnissus and the babe, but if the
MeSsrs. MaSterSon, McCheSney
Millner and Shugart can stand it,
! guess we can, too. Even if am
the lightweight (202) of the jour-
nalistic trio of Flaherty, Haight
and Dismer.