Evening star., 1941-09-21
Ideal Weather Gives
Added Reason for
Return 10 Coast
Squad for Three Years
Hasn't Missed q Doy
Through Elements
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
Ctor Staff Cnrrecnorda

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo
Sept. 20.-Because of guarantees
which they received for three ex-
hibition games, the Redskins total
training expenses won't cost the
management more than 81 ,000
Which, to our way of thinking, is an
exceedingly cheap figure for putting
q National Football League squad
into playing condition.
InaSmuch as a final computation
cannot be made until after the Red
skins have returned to Washington
on Tuesday and all bills are paid,
exact figures are not available. But,
in round numbers, General Manager
Jack Espey will have written checks
totaling $4,000 for food and lodging
here. in San Diego and in Los Ange-
les. and $1,000 for railroad fares.
Coming within grand OF bal
ancing that amount is the $4,000
they received at San Diego, and the
$4,000 they got from last nights
game here and the promoters OF the
game at Los Angeles.
All dNOT
There's no doubt about everyone
connected with the team being sold
on the idea of returning next year
tn the Far West which they leave
for good tomorrow. For three years
the Redskins haven't missed a sin
gle day of practice or been forced
to postpone an exhibition because
of rain. Frankly, that's the biggest
talking point in answering the ques-
tions of critics who wonder why
they travelled 5000 miles from home
to train.
Westerners don't attribute this
grateful lack of precipitation to mere
luck. 1T Just doesn't rain out here
in the summer and early fall
months" they say, with all the con-
viction born of lifelong experience.
Argument No. 2 for the Redskins
preference for Western training sites
is the inevitable GOODNESS OF the
nights. None Of the players ever
will forget their first two Augusts
in Washington when they lost hours
of sleep because of the heat. But,
as the vacationer says on his post
card home. they sleep under blan-
kets every night out this way. When
it is time for the team to return to
Washington to open its official sea-
son, fall weather usually prevails.
Shows Up in Record.
Both of the aforesaid reasons for
coming West to train still might
be subject to question if the record
did not show that the Redskins won
more games the first two seasons
they trained in Spokane than in any
other combination of two years they
have been in the league. Nine vic
tories were chalked up last year
en- route to the Eastern champion
ship, and eight in 1899. Previously,
the Redskins had won as many as
eight games only once-in 1887
but they lost three that year in con-
trast to the two they dropped in
80.
The only other question which
might be raised is that of practice
time which is lost by travelling. But
only once have the Redskins spent
as many as two successive days on
the rails. and inasmuch as they
never drill the day after game,
anyway, they can't be said to have
wasted any time travelling the day
after an exhibition.
Asked If they consider any spot
In the East as training base, Own
er George Marshall replied that he'd
often thought of Asheville, N. C.
But although "feelers" have been
sent the Redskins by officials of
that North Carolina city, none ever
was very definite, and negotiations
never were opened.