Evening star., 1943-11-01
Scoring Pass Record
Sam Makes Easily
Downs Dodgers
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Cdlly dBdlilSI IIle FnllplIIS III Pnll-
adelphia next Sunday.
Possessor of a new league passing
record made in yesterdays 48-lO
win over the pitiful Brooklyn
Dodgers at Brooklyn is Sammy
Baugh, Mr.. Redskin himself. Sam
my shattered the league mark as
the Skins ran rougshod over the
Dodgers before II, All people at Eb-
bets Field, tossing six touchdown
passes for a total of 376 yards. That
was only 86 yards short of the total
yardage gained by the Redskins.
Sixteen of Sammy's % passes
were completed as the former Texas
Christian star threw scoring
heaves twice each to Wilbur Moore
and Joe Aguirre and once each to
Andy Farkas and Bob Seymour
FarkaS scored the other Redskin
touchdown, sliding over from the
2-yard line.
For q minutes Brooklyn made it
a ball game and Coach Pete
Cawthon had high hopes of a first
league win AS the Skins trailed at
the end of the first quarter l0-7.
Then Baugh wheeled into action.
He threw the ball from every angle
and for various distances to Aguirre,
Moore, Seymour and Farkas and
Cawthons jaw dropped by the
second
Fight Over by Half Time.
BY half time the game was AS
good as over for Washington led
2l-l0, and Brooklyn never threat
ened thereafter. Baugh was the
hero as he stood far back of the
stalwart Redskin line, calmly pick
ing receivers and tossing payoff
( passes.
Midway of the final quarter Red
skin Coach Dutch Bergman yanked
Sammy after he had played 53
minutes and soon sent in his second
team. That outfit scored the final
! touchdown with Farkas. only reg
ular backheld man in action, going
over for the score.
Two minutes and IA seconds
after the opening kickoff Baugh fell
back and tossed a pass from his
AS to Aguirre in the end zone for
the first touchdown. Bob Master
son came In to boot the extra point
/ A minute later Pug Manders. Brook
lyn fullback. broke out of a spread
formation and ran so yards for a
Brooklyn score BruiSer Kinard
converted knotting the count at
Tall. Brooklyn then went ahead,
1917, when Kinard kicked a field
goal from the 20.
At that point it loomed as ball
game as the Dodger line stifened
and hurled back Redskin 'thrusts.
But Baugh quickly took over. Fading
back to his 40. he heaved a fiat pass
to Wilbur Moore on the so and
Moore, outdistancing half the Dodger
team, legged it across for touch
down. Masterson again kicked the
extra point.
Baugh Goes on Rampage.
That score broke Brooklyns back
The Skins recovered Aguirre's sliced
kickoff-an accidental onside af-
fair-got a penalty break to the
Dodger % and Baugh passed TO
Seymour in the end zone. Again
Masterson' kick was good.
Early in the third period Baugh
passed from midfield to Aguirre
moving play to the 9, then COM
pleted to Aguirre in the end zone
Masterson converted. The next
Redskin score was another vari-
alton of the now familiar theme
This time Baugh tossed to Moore
on the so and Moore ran for a
/ touchdown, the play totaling II
yards.
| The attempted conversion went
haywire Masterson, coming in to
| kick. failed to report to the umpire
and the Skins were penalized. Then
Baugh fumbled. attempted to run
with the ball and passed to Master
SON. who got nowhere
Early in the final quarter Baugh
shot a 35-vard pass Farkas in
the end zone for another score
Masterson's kick was good. Coach
Bergman replaced all regulars, ex-
cepting Farkas and Tackle CLYDE
Shugart Farkas took over the Job
of making Brooklyn unhappy, run
ming punt to the Brooklyn IT, and,
after Frank Seno had bulled the
ball to the 4, Andy went over on
| the third try. This time Joe Pasoua
converted for the last point of the
| game.
Sammy Near Eighth Record.
Never before had Baugh looked
the master passer he was yesterday
Brooklyn was enVirelv unable tC
stop Sammy as he broke the league
record. But the Redskins diCr I
have much to lick. Earring that
brief outburst in the first perioo
when Brooklyn completely outplayee
the Reskins, the Dodgers never were
in the ball game. For few minutes
the Redskins didn't look 70, good
, But when Baugh started to go they
} played rings around the opposition
Only an injury seemingly cal
| keep Baugh from shattering the all
time season record of "a touchdown
passes in league games made b,
. Cecil Isbell of the Packers last year
In four games this year he ha
| tossed IA passes for scores. He ha'
, six games to go. His six touchdown
passes yesterday beat the game
record that was held by Ray Buivie
of the Bears 1937 and Isbell 1942)
Baugh also established another
game record yesterday. The 37t
yards he gained on Is connection!
in % pitches bettered Isbell's 33:
in the Green Bay-Chicago Cardina
game last year.
He now holds seven all-time pass.
ing records. If you tabulate Baugh
achievements since he turned prt
seven years ago you get these re-
suits: 598 competitions out of 1,08'
attempts for 1896 yards and II
touchdowns-a batch of five record
: when you count the number, as vel
as the percentage Of competitions.
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