Evening star., 1944-10-30
Redskins Face Trouble in East as Packers Run Wild in We
Critical Games Ahead
|0f Tribe, Now in Tie
For Sectional Lead

Sharing the top rung of the Ma
tlonal Pro Leagues Eastern ladder
with Philadelphiais hig h flying
Eagles by virtue Of yesterdays 1920
triumph over the Card-Pitts, while
Philadelphia was trimming the
Giants, the Redskins now face what
appears to be the most critical por-
ton of their schedule in the three
games Immediately ahead.
Cleveland, tough kid of the
Western Division this year, comes
here Sunday. A week later the
Tribe hikes up to Brooklyn for a
return match with the vengeful
Tigers, then back again for the BIG
(and make that upper case, Mr..
Printer) setto with the Eagles.
They fought Philly to a 31-an stale
mate in their first engagement and
the second should produce an excit-
ing afternoon.
A breather with the surprising
Bostons follows, then comes the
Giant series. But by that time
We'll know whether we've got a
nominee for a play-off berth or an
also ran. Off yesterdays perform
ance you've got to concede the Skins
a good chance of picking up the
marbles, but it depends on couple
of important "ifs." If injuries don't
wreck them, and if they don't sud-
denly lose their scoring punch.
Skins Tally in Each Period.
Yesterday the Tribe didn't make
a first down in the first period,
but it counted in every quarter, pill
ing up 81 points in the last against
a team that had enough left itself
to score twice. Passes accounted for
four touchdowns, and the Baugh
brigade will note happily that Sam
pitched one.
But Baugh was outdistanced by
Frank Filchock, who connected for
a 57-yard scoring pass to Joe Aguirre
on the Skins first play of the game
and ended his afternoons work with
a 34-yard pitch to Doug Turley for
the final score.
The boys spent a lot of time
sparring for openings, no pun in
tended, but once they got their
scoring drives under way precious
little time was wasted en- route
Washington. for example, needed
only seven plays to score on its
most extended drive, which hap
pened to be the last, covering 50
yards. The remaining five pay-off
excursions were downright abrupt.
Aguirre, starting out as though
he intended to hog all the honors
again, was getting around like a
house detective before elected from
the game, along with the Chi-Pitts
Tony Bova, for allegedly fighting
Filchock's first pass found him all
alone deep in enemy territory. On
the second, ne merely got behind
stumpy Johnny Mccarthy, Card
Pitt safety man, reached over his
head to take Filchock's throw and
went to remaining IL yards for the
score. The play was good for 48
yards and eliminated series of
four plays.
Tribe Doesn't Waste Plays.
The Skins needed only three plays
to get their third marker, thanks to
"a 75-yard jaunt by Wilbur Moore,
with an assist by AL Fiorentino. Al
took out one tackler and slowed up
Safety Bob Thurbon. although the
latter collared Moore on the 5-yard
line, then couldn't hold him.
Moore also set up the Skins. next
touchdown by intercepting Johnny
Grigas' pass on the visitors 35-yard
line. -Four plays later Bob Seymour
crashed over from the 3-yard mark.
1t was Seymour, too, who finished
another three-play series, Juggling
a pass from Baugh over the goal
line behind an impressive wave of
interference in the fourth period.
Turley was on the receiving end
of Filchock's last scoring pass, the
final play in series of seven.
But the Chi-Pitts, meanwhile,
were making bit of hey-hey them
selves with Grigas knitting through
the Skin line for long gains and two
touchdowns The visitors pared
Washington's 14-point lead in half
after pouncing on Moore's tumble
on the opening kickoff of the Sec
ond half and driving Is yards on
seven plays. Grigas carried the ball
six trips. piling through center for
the touchdown.
The Rooney-Bell warriors shaved
the Skins lead to one touchdown
again early in the fourth period
when it looked as though it might
(See REDSKINS, Page A-11.)
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