Evening star., 1942-12-28
Single Mistake
Thwarts Tribe
Of Triumph
Furkos' Unclever Pass
Snured for Marker
And AII-Stur Win
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

The experts who said the Redskins
without Sammy Baugh would be just
another football club almost had to
eat their words yesterday. Almost
but not quite, because short pass
that might have sealed a Redskin
victory boomeranged into a 97-yard
touchdown run by Bill Dudley that
tied the score and eventually paved
the way for the National League
All-Stars' l7-14 victory over the
champions.
The fray, committed on a field
frozen in the first half and mushy
in the second, ATTRACTED a meager
crowd of 1851 to Shibe Park at
Philadelphia, but sponsors of the
game said tickets bought but un-
used would swell receipts for the
benefit of the United Seamen's Serv-
ice fund
Dudley, feather-footed Pittsburgh
halfback, snatched Andy Farkas
pass on his own 3-yard line and
moved down the field like a kite in
a high wind behind cloud of inter-
ference for the score that changed
a threatened rout into a tight foot
ball battle. His run, almost a dupli-
cation of his 64-yard touchdown
romp with the kickoff in the OPEN
ing league game of the season
against the Redskins. snapped the
champions winning streak at IL
games
Dudley's feat. plus a 50-yard
march eliminated by John Petty's
smash from the 1-foot line. plus a
tremendous 43-yard field goal by Lee
Artoe, both of the latter from the
chicago Bears. were the winning in
gradients in the All-Stars' attack.
They were the high lights of game
in which the Tribe was outplaved
by wide margin in statistics and
which marked the first defeat of the
championship team in this annual
pro bowl battle
Aldrich Makes Snappy Score.
III Aldrlchs game pattern was
pretty much like Dudley's. In the
same curtain-lifter last September
ne Scooped up blocked kick and
raced 30-odd yards for badly
needed Washington touchdown.
Yesterday he attached himself to
Harry Hopp's h-bounding punt.
broke away from one tackler. was
escorted past the same Hopp by
guard Of teammates, and ran 30
yards for the afternoons initial
score. II was a smart play that
caught the All-Stars mapping and as
the half ended with the Redskins
ahead 10 bulked large on the
scoreboard.
To this the Tribe added their
final touchdown on a 16-yard pass
from Roy Zimmerman to Bob Sey-
mour. eliminating a 55-yard drive,
featured by zimmerman's passes,
that temporarily knotted the count.
The ill-starred pass tossed by
FarkaS was intended to be a carbon
copy of old Bronko Nagurski'S pa
tented play, short pass over the
line from a fake buck. but the Skins
left out the carbon. Zimmerman
had put his mates in position for
a shot at the goal by intercepting
Hopp's pass on the All-Stars' 25 and
Farkas had smashed through the
line to the 9-yard stripe before the
play was attempted.
In a spot like that Baugh prob
ably would have called for more
line bucks with Seymour running
the ball if Farkas was too tired as
some of the players later said. But
Zimmerman ostensibly was in COM
mand and board of strategy COM
prised of Farkas. Ed Justice and
MasterSon overruled him, calling
for the pass la Nagurski.
Andy Has Easy Target.
1t almost worked Farkas, who
ardently has longed to be a passer
as we'll as ordinary ball carrier,
leaped high in the air. Masterson
was in the clear and a short lob
would have netted a touchdown. But
Andy threw a sharp, low ball down
the alley, straight into the willing
hands of Dudley, coming up to stop
the running play. Zimmerman had
a shot at the one-time Virginia star
and missed.
Artoes boot had an inshoot that
brought it back on a true course
after it threatened to go wide of
the mark, according to Bill Young
and Vic Carroll, Redskin tackles,
who watched the balls flight. The
curve was not visible from the press
box but there is no question that
Artoe put plenty of power into the
KICK and 1t cut the Stanchions in the
middle.
An emergency ruling, adopted be-
cause OF manpower shortage, per-
mitted the All-Stars to employe more
than four men from any one club
yesterday and the Bears came up
with 10. They got 10 points for the
winning cause, but in the final
analysis 1t was Dudley's run that
won the day. In the waning seconds
OF the first half with nine Bears on
the field the All-Stars reached the
Skins 6-inch line and couldn't NIT.
the ball over. They had first down
on the 3-yard stripe, but both Gary
Famiglietti and Sid Luckman were
unsuccessful in their efforts tn
nudge it over the final chalk mark
The Tribe missed Wilkin, but not
as much as it missed Baugh. Zim-
merman's passes were hurried, large
ly because he didn't get the protec.
ton Baugh usually enjoyed, and his
timing was off. The absence of
Baughs kicking also hurt, for Zim-
norman couldn't get a quick-kick
over the Stars safety-man's head
and his regular punts didn't have
the uncanny placement and power
of the Texan, whose absence dis
gruntled his mates, to put it mildly.