Evening star., 1942-08-16
arkas Faces Severe Test Redskins Plunge Into Squad Scmmage
Andy Must 0utshine
Todd 10 Recover
Regular Post
Tricky Knee Needs Test
Under Pressure; Rocks
Focine Telling Week
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON,
star Stan Correspondent,

SAN DIEGO. Calf, Aug. 15.-
After frying a week on the training
griddle the Redskins will become a
house divided tomorrow when Coach
Ray Flaherty separates them into
two teams for their initial scrim-
mage of the season.
It will be an important session be-
cause in one backfield will be Sam
my Baugh and Andy Farkas, the
Glet the Tribe is banking on for an
added offensive punch this season,
and the skins chief of staff will be
watching their work with a critical
eye. If Andy's game knee stands
up under pressure and Baugh's pis-
tol-like pitches have their old &C
curacy, the team will have lot Of
dynamite behind the line. But If
all does not go we'll Flaherty is pre-
pared to shuttle the deck and deal
. new hand.
Much Importance, too. attaches to
the debut of the rockies out here
scrapping for jobs. At least four
have been extremely impressive IN
the preliminary work, but have yet
to prove themselves under actual
game conditions. Flaherty, while
confident that all will deliver the
goods, nevertheless is withholding
final Judgment until he sees them
crack the line and get hit couple
Of times.
Farkas Must Meet Test.
Baugh and Farkas will team up
with Wilbur Moore and Elmer Gen
try against the Western combina-
ton in the intra squad game at
Balboa Stadium a week from to-
morrow. The opposing backfleld
will include Dick Todd, Roy Zim-
norman and Cecil and Ray Hare,
Farkas must outshine Todd to win
the starting assignment and must
do it through sheer power. That is
his particular mission In the back
field, supplying the power IN those
situations where more elusive, fea-
thery footed gent can't fill the bill.
Todd probably is the better all
around back because of his broken
field running. kicking and passing
but Andy is the lad who bangs into
'em and keeps going. He's got a
lot of foot.
He runs with the best in the
league" Flaherty was saying to-
day, "and we need his power. He'll
be a valuable asset to us 1t his knee
holds up
Baugh seems to have lost none OF
the old touch which has made him
the loops No. l passer since coming
into the big show True, he was
rated behind Green Bays Cecil Is
bell last year, but by and large any
player or fan will be willing to let
Sam do the passing for his money.
Poillon Tries Baugh's Style.
In practice, the rockies stood
around and just watched MIN dot
flgurative is during the first two
days of practice and then Dick Poll
lon. who aspires to passing role
himself, began initiating Baush's
form as closely as possible. II Poll
lon comes through, he and thinner
man will lend hand with the
chucking duties this season, but top
man on the totem pole will be the
tall Texan.
The Eastern line for the intra-
squad squabble will be as follows:
Ed Cifers and Bob Masterson, ends;
Fred Davis and Bill Young, tackles;
Glen Stralka and Clyde Shugart
guards, and Ki Aldrich, center.
The West will line up with A
Kruger and Bob McChesney at the
flanks; Willie Wilkin and Ed Beinor
tackles; Steve Slivinski and Dick
Farman, guards, and George Smith
or Bob Titchenal, centers.
Flaherty has not decided where
he'll use the rockies although they'll
get as much work, and probably
more, than the veterans. He is par
ticularly anxious to have gander
at Poillon. fervently hoping he'll
not turn out to be a one-day won
der. Poillon is triple-threater and
also will have ample opportunity tc
dig his foot into the cowhide.
Also rising rapidly in the coach's
estimation is George Watts, the
quiet, serious chap from Adeville
NJ A 225-pounder who can move
Flaherty likes his actions on the
field and the way he digs into his
assignments.