Evening star., 1941-09-02
Practice Sometimes
Fails TO Uncover
Player Talent
Meyers, TorneII, Bryant,
Buckingham, Hiestund
In Shoky Status
BY BILL DISMER. Jr.

SAN DIEGO. Calf, Sept. 2-On
the basis of what they've shown (or
haven't shown in the more than
two weeks they've been in training
five Redskin rockies already are
destined to be released. In the opin-
ion of byStanders they lust amt
got it."
Nevertheless. with the experience
of previous training camps fresh in
ones memory. it would be folly to
rule any candidate, veteran or
rookie, definitely out of the running
until the intrasquad exhibition
games next Saturday, September II,
in Los Angeles and September 20
in Colorado Springs.
Showed Little in Practice.
Stars like Bob MaSterSon. Clyde
Shugart and Bill Hartman tremem-
Der him, on the '38 team?) looked
for all the world like dubs in daily
practice, only to reveal talents that
no one dreamed they had when the
chips were down. Bob McCheSney,
for instance. recalled the other day
that he didn't believe he'd ever seen
a worse looking back than Hartman
when the University of Georgia star
first began practiCing with the Red
skins the year they played i'll the
Chicago All-Star game. Yet, any
RedSkin fan knows what Hartman
turned out to be-a passing. run
ming, kicking fool, who divided field
general duties with Sammy Baugh
throughout the season.
Every one thought that Shugart,
an Iowa State product, would be
among the first to be released when
he first came to the Indians in 1899,
yet he exhibited so much fight and
rugggednesS in the lntra squad
game that there was no question
about his being big-league material.
Masterson was liked from the start
during his freshman year, but his
training form was so bad the fol-
lowing season that the RedSkin
bosses already had his waiver pa
pers made out. But when the chips
were doWn-in the intra squad
game-Masterson was his old self
once more.
Saturday Night Will Tell.
So. there's no telling what one or
more of the rocks whom we've tabled
as lacking" will show here next
Saturday night. We can almost say
for sure that Morris Buckingham,
the center from San Jose State, will
be among the first to go. He not
only appears too small for this
league. but a quartet of such snap
pers-back as Bob Titchenal, Ki AL
drich, Steve Andrako and George
Smith would have given small op-
portunity to any newcomer.
Tackles Jim Bryant and Dick
Meyers of Gonzaga College and East
Washington Normal also seem fated
for early release, as does Deward
CTruck) Torneu, teammate OF
Buckingham at San Jose last year.
Tornell was a fullbck in college, but
reported here as a guard. But IN the
face of such returning vets as Dick
Farman, Steve Slivinski, Clem
Stralka. Vic Carroll and Shugart,
his number was up almost from the
start.
The least impressive end to date
has been Ed Hiestand of Vanderbilt.
Hiestand checked in week after
training started weighing 220, and
there's quite a bulge around his
waistline. He hardly measures up
to the form being shown by such
other end candidates as Al Krueger,
Frank Clair, Sam Goldman, Ed
Cifers and Joe Aguirre.
Still, in a game, he might be the
best of them all. No one will know
for sure until next Saturday night.