Evening star., 1941-11-30
New Passing Record
Expected Of |sbeI|,
Packers Star
lnvuders' Hutson, HinkIe
In Line to Shutter
Loop Score Marks
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

Before Washington'S largest foot
ball crowd of the season. a sellout
throng of nearly $4,000, the Green
Bay Packers will attempt to clinch
Q share of Western championship
nonors this afternoon by handing
the Redskins their fourth successive
defeat.
Non winners since the last time
they played in their own bailiwick
on November 2, the Redskins will
appear before home folks for the
first time as mathematically-e elm
mated contender for Eastern honors
in the National Football League.
And whether they will be greeted
with razzberieS or Sympathetically,
on the grounds that the breaks
might have been against them, is
a question that will be answered only
at 2 o'clock-the advanced time for
the kickoff.
The possibility that three all-time
individual National League records
will be broken by as many Packers
is expected TO vie in interest with
their teams chanch to finish ahead
of or In a dead heat with the Bears
and the Redskins opportunity to
land the runner-up spot in the
Eastern Division.
Hutson, Hinkle Near Records.
Don Hutson. the Packers peerless
end, Will enter the game less than
a touchtown's points away from two
lifetime marks. Now credited with
rs points. HutSon needs only three
more to tie Automatic Jack Manders'
lifetime total of 1868 and just four
more to equal the same guys record
of 70 for a single season. Let him
get on the scoring end of a touch
down pass and Hutson will erase
both marks with one fell sWoop.
However. Clarke Hinkle, three
times chosen au-league fullback dur
ing the 10 years he has been with
the Packers. will enter the game
with just one less point than HutSon.
Their personal battle for points is
not expected TO furnish the Packers
any cause for diSsention.
A third all-time record will go
to Cecil ISbell if he completes one
or any number Of passes for total
gain of 46 yards. That's the mere
yardage that separates his l941
passing record from Sammy Baugh's
aerial record of 1867, hung up on
passes last year. Isbell, incidentally,
is showing the way to Washington's
famed singer in the ebbing days of
the campaign with slightly higher
percentage of competitions. After
last weeks games ISbell was ranked
the leagues No. l paSser and Baugh
No. 2.
Skins Still Seek Extra Coin
Should the Packers win, as local
bettors seem to think they will. they
can do no worse than tie for the
Western title. In that event, it will
be up to the champion Bears to
whip the Philadelphia Eagles today
and the Chicago Cardinals next
Sunday to finish on even terms with
the Pack Each has knocked off
the other once in their home-and-
home series.
However. if the Bears lose one of
their remaining two games. the
the Packers winning today. would
be the Vests standard bearer with
out benefit Of a Western playoff on
December IA Should the Redskins
upset the Packers-and the dope
the Bears can clinch their second
successive playoff berth by winning
today and next Sunday.
Although out of the running for
the Eastern championship. today's
and next Sundays finale with the
Eagles are not meaningless to the
Redskins. They still have chance
to make some extra coin for them
selves by finishing second in the
Eastern Division. a notch which
might bring them between S125 and
$3.50 apiece
Big Air Battle Looms.
Like a dazzling array Of sky
rockets. most of today's fireworks
are expected to take place in the air.
With Isbell throwing to HutSon and
Baugh heaVing to whichever Red
skin will catch 'em, the game may
produce the greatest passing duel
ever staged at the Stadium.
Unfortunately the Redskins can't
expect to beat the Packers by stop
ping the Isbell-to- Hutson combin-
alton. Not with the Pack producing
such running backs as Hinkle, Andy
Uram, George Paskvan, Tony Can
edeo and ISbell. himself.
With such an attack, everything
favors the Packers-by about IA
points, after Baugh has passed the
Skins to a couple of touchdowns.