The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-01
Ex-G.L Joes Going Great Guns L1 Big Show
BY JACK CUDDY


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, June 1.- (UP) - We were discussing his definite and final playing retirement" with the great Don Hutson of the Green Bay Packers, when into Toots Shor's jernt drift George Marshall, big chief of the Washington Redskins, and Tom Gallery of the Brooklyn club.
 Marshal spies Hutson, and in- quires, when is Curly getting into town?" Curly Lambeau is vice. president and head coach of the champion Packers. Blond Hutson of the wavy, light-brown hair says, Curly gets in in the morning"
 Marshall, the Washington laundry magnate who is married to Corrine Grif6ths of the silent screen days and Gallery, w.lo once was wed to zazu Pitts, who makes pathetically with the hands on stage and screen, sit down at a close-by table. Heavy frownS becloud their usually cheer full countenances as they converse.
 We never eavesdrop upon people unless we can hear what they are saying. And we never peek through keyholes-if they are plugged. Con- Sequently, we paid no attention to what Marshall and Gallery were saying-except to cup both ears with our hands in an effort to miss no scrap of conversation.
 From what we were able to hear (Without falling off our chair side ways) it seems that the brass hats of the National Professional Foot ball league will hold special meet ing at the Hotel New Yorker over the weekend And that this meet ing will consider from all angles the threatening maneuverS of that rival and ''upstart" organization known as the All-America Football Conference.
 It seems that the rival confer ence has the National League big gies worried no end because it is tossing money all over the map in an effort to lure away star college and service players, who in the nat ural course of events should belong to the National circuit. The Mar shall Gallery conversation indicated that the National leaguers were par ticularly scorched by the 'unethical and unpatriotic" efforts of the all- Americas to sew up players now in Uncle Sam'S uniform.
 The N L. meeting should be most interesting-if ore, could hide a dlc- taphone in their conference room. And if some of the N. L. charges are made public (which they prob ably won't) they might hit front pages.
 Anyway, Hutson-probably the greatest player in pro football his story-said, "Wotinells the matter with you? I've been talking to you for 10 minutes, and you haven't t heard word I've said.'
 We assured Don that he mis- judged us-that it was our custom to go into a trance during an inter- view-so that he words of our vlc- tim would be engraved lastlngly upon our mind-like making a radio transcription. You understand, then,' Salo tile greatest of all pass-receivers, that I'll never play again. That from now on I'll restrict my football activities to helping Lambeau coach the Packers. No, I'm not coaching the ends. I'm coaching the back field" He signed, after 10 years of play with the Packers-after four years with Alabama-and two years with Pine Bluff, Arkansas-1'l really miss the thrill of gridiron competition.
 We wiped our eyes daintly with a napkin and solaced him With: "Don-the football world and the record book will mourn your re- tirement, for the fifth time. Crlpes, Marshall and Gallery must have left for the Stork Club.'