Evening star., 1942-12-20
Merchant Marine Aid
From Pro League
Show Is Lauded
Teams in Chority TiIts
Held Superior to All
Bowl Participants
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (NANA) -
There are seven big football games
Ie1t on the waning schedule.
This list includes four or five bowl
games. I'll give you two of the most
1mportant-quite possibly the two
most important.
The first is the Washington Red
skins-All-Star pro game in Phila-
delphia for the Merchant Marine
Service, 100 per cent war fund con-
test that also will be one of the most
spectacular contests for 1912.
This game will be played at Shibe
Park, Philadelphia, on the Sunday
after Christmas.
The other will be the annual East
West game in San Francisco on New
Year Day between the pick of the
sections-East and West.
This game also will be 100 per
cent charity affair. minus any ele-
ment of profit beyond two of our
greatest needs.
These two contests both are for
tunate. You can't sell a charity
game -'nless it rates.
And these two greatest of all war
fund and charity games rate ca
pacity crowds. They will be two of
the top games of the year. No one
can argue against this point of view.
The four teams involved could
wreck any bowl competitor. And
I am not tossing the old monkey
wrench into any bowl game.
Bowl Teams Would Be Setups.
There isn't bowl competitor who
would have even an outside chance
against the Redskins. the All-Stars
or the East-West selections.
Can you imagine any bowl team
trying to handle that Redskin line,
or competing with Sammy Baughs
passing and kicking-the running
strength of Dick Todd and Andy
Farkas-or some bowl lineman try
ing to handle Wee Willie Wilkin
and his 260 pounds of nitroglycerine?
The game played at Shibe Park.
Philadelphia, for the seamen of the
merchant marine gets top rating.
In the first place. it will be one
Of the great football games of 1912.
The All-Stars will have their
share of wounded and raging Bears
out for revenge.
In the second place. there is no
war fund that can use 100000 or
more as effectively as this merchant
seamen's fund.
Merchant Sailors Forgotten Men.
was talking with Ed Mulrcorey,
former police commissioner of New
York, one of the countrys top cit
izens and chairman of this charity,
about the game.
Il wonder how many people
knew" he said, that these mer-
chant ship seamen have suffered the
greatest casualty lists of the war.
when you count proportionate losses.
There is no other form of war serv-
ice that needs help more. For they
are the forgotten people, in spite OF
death through oil-faming seas and
killing explosions.
I'm addition to this Commis-
sioner Mulrooney added, Il can't
figure out a better or a more thrill
ing football game
Even If you can't see the contest,
send in the price of ticket or two
to the Redskins-All Star pro game,
care of Shibe Park, Philadelphia.
This is another all-out war fund
charity affair.
1t is another game that has no
commercial touch. 1t is also another
game that is sure to be one Of the
big thrillers of the year
It will be worth more than mere
trife to see Paul Governali working
back of a strong line, throwing
passes to mon like Schreiner of Wis
consin and Dove of Notre Dame.
Governali Declared Best.
1t is still my opinion that Cover
nall is the best one-man football
team in the country.
BY that I mean there is no other
football player who could have ac-
complished this season what Cover
nall did with his Columbia support.
This includes Sinkwich, Hillen-
brand, Gafford Holovak, Fekete,
Castleberry. Prokop, Waterfleld,
Hirsch, Kuzma, Dobbs and any
others you might name.
There always is the chance that
Governali might show to greater
advantage with less support.
Governali will be only one among
many stars in this East-West all
charity game,
The two big charity games are
lucky in having direct appeal to
crowds looking for the high spots in
skill, class and thrills. Bowl games
could profit by these examples, if
they felt in the right mood.
Certainly there is no reason why
they shouldn't contribute at least
a part of their profits to some war
fund.
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