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son hung up by Luckman in 1s43.
Baugh's previous best year was '43,
when he completed % six-pointers.
BY completing Is of his 80 passes
yesterday, however, Sammy bet
tered Cecil Isbells 1912 record OF
142 passes in one season by pushing
his own total to lat. He equaled
his own best previous one-game per-
formance. which was against New
York on December 3, 1914, but was
eight short of Davey O'Brien's mark
of 80 competitions in one game.
O'Brien, it will be remembered, made
his mark against the Skins at Crit
fith Stadium in 1910.
Runs Completions to 1,143.
Baugh prodded his all-time marks
to new highs. He now has thrown
l ,989 passes, completed 1,143 for
14,418 yards and 124 touchdowns.
Wilson Schwenk, former Cardinal;
.O'Brien and Isbell still top the
Singer for passes thrown in one
season, Schwenk heading the list
with 295. But none is close to
Baugh in efficiency.
Sam gave most of the credit for
his success to the line. Il thought
our line played a whale of game
alt the way through. They really
put out today, and If we'd played
like that in a few more games wee
be way out in front Nobody would
be close to us. The line did 1t,
and those boys deserve the credit
He peeled off his No. 80 jersey and
sat down on the little wooden stool
in front of his locker-the same
locker Bucky Harris used when he
managed the Mats. The Redskins
dressing room still humned with
excitement, although the stands
had long since emptied and the
fans had filed out still nodding
their heads and trying to convince
themselves it was true, that the
Skins had upset the mighty Chicago
Cardinals and probably wrecked
their championship hopes.
Most of the players were dressed,
or at least the r-combing stage,
when the door burst open and
Baugh came in from the field. The
exhilaration of the teams stunning
upset buzzed through the liniment-
laden atmosphere like an electric
current. Anybody would have
thought the Tribe had just skinned
the Bears-their favorite enemies
for the National League crown
What a difference from last week
and the weeks before. :
Baugh had just escaped from an
army of autograph hunters after
scribbling Sammy Baugh" until his
hand was numb.
For Sam it had been just another
game He was in there pitching. tt
coin a phrase. but he had good pro
lection for a change and receivers
who rose to the occasion with bril-.
liant catches. Phil Handler. assist.
ant Cardinal coach, called some O.
them "circus" catches.
Cards at His Mercy.
Baugh knew how we'll things were
going because they told me ever!
time I came back to the bench.
He didn't try to concentrate on an.
one receiver, although Paul Mckee
took seven passes to lead the field
but merely called the plays HI
thought would work, and the.
weren't necessarily pass plays. o.
the heavy, and in spots downright
soggy, field he had the Cards a
his mercy, but he needed the line
protection to make the passes clicl
and he got it.
II thought the pass Tom Farme
caught would be intercepted" h.
grinned. But didn't he make
swell catch on that one?"
But with interrogators encirclinl
him and firing question with tn
zest of young lawyers, Baugh looke'
over and saw Jim Hefti, a halfbacl
who began the season with tn
Tribe and later was farmed out TO
! experience. Sam reached through