The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-14
By JOE WILLIAMS

Washington, Dec. IA. - Putting one little word after another and whatever became of the Chicago Bears? Well, 1t won't take much time for us to tell you. They got their ears pinned back and don't let anybody tell you different. It was the Yankees and the Cardinals all over again with a little added touch.
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 You know of course that the Bears are supposed to be the Yankees of football. And you prob ably read all about how the Bears could call the score in this game, the play of game for the champion ship. The odds were ridiculous, 8 to l. Who ever heard of such oddsP That was strictly fictional, but it was illustrative of how the people felt.
 And that could be explained. in a way too. The last time the Bears met the Washington Redskins in play of game they won 73-0. an unheard of, an incredible score. It just couldn't happen but 1t did. The impact of that holocaust was not easily dismissed, so when the big bad Bears came to town the locals were in a mood to surrender.
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 He Is Like Larry
 At this point we must bring up the spirit and the name back of the Washington team, Mir George Mar- shall, an cratic, explosive and an altogether charming fellow. It's just question whether you would call him the Larry MacPhail of pro football or whether you would call Larry MacPhal the George Marshall of pro baseball. They are that close together, a photo finish, in doing things the big way and the lurid l way and yet always doing them the right way. It must be the right way because the cash paying people al- ways try to break down the gates to get in, and they turned down an immense sum of money yesterday. i We've heard 1t estimated all the way up to a quarter of million dol- lars, but knowing MT. Marshall we are sure there was 8 certain amount | of exaggerat.on in that. MT. Mar shall is the t, De who is embarrassed when he must keep his monetary discussions down to such low terms.
 But to get back to the game. This Is going to be written down as one of the major football upsets of the year. Maybe 1t was and is. So far as MT. Marshall is concerned it un- doubtedly was. He did not arrange a victory dinner. Because he, 1t seemed to us, had conceded defeat in ad- vance and yet we could be wrong about that. It wasn't until the game was over that we met his wife, the charming ex-Corinne Griffith and It turns out she takes care of Mir. very well.
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 We have gone through a long stretch of years with MT. Marshall and getting him in 8 tame mood is ! very difficult thing to do. To go into the dressing room with him yesterday and listen to him admit ,o the Washington players that they 'eally won the game without his as- 'istance was 8 revelation. This is ;ort of kidding. The fact really is hat MT. Marshall is one hell of a yuy, and there should be more like iim in pro football. There is no- body in sports who can put on such , front as MT. Marshall and there Ire very few who can be so humble md we are ore. Of the few persons who know him who will subscribe o the legitimacy of his humility. He's a funny guy that way as he .ries to make you understand him his fiamboyancy and he gets ,ery mad if you don't. At the same lime, if you take a little time to understand him, you get him quick; He's just country boy. It's a for- hula they all use. We've been us- ng 1t for years.
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 We're still trying to get back to hat upset" the upset which must with Auburn beating Georgia and Holy Cross beating Bos- on College. The magic man of the Bears has always been George HaIas.