Evening star., 1942-10-19
Face Dangerous Foe
Sunday in Romping
Pittsburgh Club
Buugh, Seymour, Todd
Supply Punch in 2l-l0
Win From Dodgers
BY LEWIS ATCHISON.

21-l0 victory over the Dodgers in
Brooklyn yesterday, the Redskins
are almost lock bet to be in the
championship play-of in December
But there are a few formalities to
be disposed of before cutting up
the melon.
First on the list is next Sundays
game with an oven-hot Pittsburgh
eleven that is raising the merry
Ned with its rivals after slow be-
ginning, and after that come the
Eagles, Chicago Cardinals, Giants,
Dodgers again and Detroit. Moth
ing Super-super like the Bears, but
well-Starched teams that can be
troublesome.
Coach Ray Flaherty comedies his
men may lose another game, pos
sibfy more. and, if the worst hap
pens, even get lost in an eleventh.
hour scramble for the play-off. He
isn't planning any losses, of course,
but it's possible, and Raymond is
taking a long view of the situation.
This week, for example, the
Steelers should be all smoked up
after blanking Philadelphia, 14-O,
for their third straight win. For
the first time since pro football
was introduced in the Smoky City
the team is a genuine contender for
something other than the BOBBY
prize. There are some astute Oh
servers who think the Rooney Bell
Corp. can snatch the pennant from
before the Redskins very eyes and
do it the hard way by beating
Washington.
Steelers Gain Confidence.
Flaherty thinks his men can bring
Bill Dudley and his mates to
grinding halt again, but the Skins
earned no respect from Pittsburgh in
their first meeting. The Steelers left
town feeling they had thrown away
the game and, indeed, until Ki
Aldrich blocked Armand Niccolais
attempted placement and recovered
for a touchdown, matters were going
badly for Washington.
The new confidence Pittsburgh
must have, born Of three consecutive
victories, isn't calculated to help the
EedskinS. They'll be talking to
sturdy outfit that has outgrown its
stovepipe pants days and may have
to shout to make themselves known.
After all, here IS PittSLurgh's golden
opportunity to lift itself above the
mob, to breathe the air in the upper
strata of football society and it is a
break worth fighting for.
The Redskins are in a precarious
position, blessed with confidence and
cursed with taint of overcon-
fidence. The coacn wants them to
have a degree of confidence to
guard against an inferiority complex,
but he doesn't want them infected
with the mistaken notion that press
clippings win games.
Baugh's Passes Click.
There was nothing wrong with the
Redskins conduct yesterday as they
spanked the Dodgers, who before
yesterday were thought to be Wash
lngton's only serious rival for Eastern
honors. Baugh pitched three touch
down strikes at the enemy, complet-
ing 10 of % for his Gays work, and
Bob Seymour and Dick Todd threw
in fancy brand of leg work to round
out the performance.
BGueh may have been guilty of
poor field generalsfir early in the
game when Washington got the bail
on Brooklyn's 7-yard line after Cece
Hare blocked Dean McAdam's punt
Sammy went into the air on the
third down, after Andy Farkas had
moved the pigSkin 3 yards in two
tries, and Brooklyn broke up both
passes to stop the attack.
That offensive failure kept the
Brooks in the ball game. 1t made
them cocky and after an exchange
of punts, on which McAdams un-
corked a boot that sailed 80 yards
on a fly, McAdams, Merle Condit
and Pug ManderS engineered So
yard march that all but netted a
touchdown. Hal Mccullough tossed
a pass to Wendy Butcher on the
goal line and he let it get away
from him.
Condit's 60-yard gallop through
wide hole in the right side of the
Redskins line, opened up when Dick
Farman was mouse-trapred, featured
Erooklyn's second march, culminat-
ing in touchdown. Baugh played
his safety position superbly on the
run, feinting three interfererS to get
Condit with bear hug that tenn
porarily STAYED off the score.
Condit Kicks Field Goal.
Brooklyn's second tally, a field
goal, was credited to Condit later
in the period when he kicked clean
placement from the 15-yard mark
Thereafter the Dodgers were no
threat. Bob Seymours 37-yard re-
turn of McAdams' punt planted the
ball on Washington's 47-yard line
and touched off its first goalWard
march. Sammy alternately ran the
ball with Todd and Seymour and
threw passes to Ed Cifers and Todd
before tossing the payoff aerial to
the latter. Dick went % yards to
pay dirt, with Bcb Masterson block
ing out McAdams to clear the way.
Brooklyns field goal, which fol-
lowed almost Immediately, was set
up by sucker" pass from Nc
Adams to Condit that netted Sc
yards and put the ball on the IA
yard line, where Todd nailed the
runner.
Dick made up for it by running
back the kickoff Al yards to Brook
lyn's 46, where Robertson and Nc
Adams nabbed him just before he
got into the clear. Four passes from
Baugh to Todd, with sprinkling of
running plays interspersed to keep
the Brooks guessing, netted the
score. Todd took the touchdown
pass standing all alone in corner
of the end zone while the Dodgers
were punched closely in the line to
repulse another thrust by Ray Hare
who had just been stopped for no
gcin.
The Tribe went 60 yards for its
final score, with Baugh's passes again
featuring One to Bob McChesney
was good for 10 yards and the next
to Farkas gained 26. Brooklyn lost
yards on a penalty before Baugh