Evening star., 1947-11-24
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Game of Year in
Stopping Rivals
By Lewis +. Atehison

Sammy Baugh and his Redskin
playmates may have wrecked the
Chicago Cardinals championship
dream yesterday, but the Tribe is
kicking itself for not clicking sooner
in the National Football League race.
The stunning 1921 triumph over
the Cards may have been the break
needed by the Chicago Bears to edge
into the Western division title, for
the Halas huskies took full advan-
tage of their opportunity by smack
ing down the Pittsburgh Steelers,
49 to T. to tie for the lead But be-
yond giving the Skins a badly needed
lift in morale it did them no good.
1t may have hurt because the high
er they finish the farther down
they'll be on the draft selection list
and this is year the Tribe needs to
grab the best of the crop.
Boston Yanks Upset Eagles.
In happier days when the Skins
were in the thick of the Eastern
flag scramble yesterdays achieve
ment would have been grand slam.
While the pace-making Steelers
were going to the cleaners the Bos-
ton Yanks staged another rebellion
and upset the. second-place Phila-
delphia Eagles. 21-14
In other National League games
the lowly New York Giants-still
winless-surprised by tying Green
Bay, PAPA, and the Los Angeles
Rams walloped Detroit, 28-7.
The crucial game in the Eastern
race now seems to be next Sundays
clash between the Steelers and
Eagles at Philadelphia, while the
Western chase may go right down
to the windup between the Cards
and Bears, December 14-one week
before the championship play-of.
Baugh had one of the best days
Of his 11-year pro career yesterday
in passing his mates to six touch
downs and a victory that had the
odds-makers tearing their hair.
But there were other factors in
volved in addition to Sans great
performance. Dick Poillon, for one
thing, caught one pass for a touch
down, kicked a 20-yard insurance"
field goal that gave his mates
TT half time lead, and booted all
six extra points. Poillon's Is points
boosted his total to SO for the sea-
son, placing him well up among the
league leaders. Poillon also took
care of the Redskin punting, a pre-
cautionary measure to guard against
injury to Baugh.
Lines Best Performance.
Washington's line came through
with its best performance of the
season, holding the Cards vaunted
ground game to 81 yards on the
heavy field and giving Baugh ade-
Iquate protection on passes. The
shift that sent Fred Boensch to
guard. John Sanchez to tackle and
moved Bill Gray to a line-backer
worked even better than Coach Turk
Edwards dared hope.
But picking out the outstanding
lineman would be like calling the
roll Big John Adams, however,
made Paul Christman, his own par
ticular target when the Cards had
the ball and Christman was trying
to pass. Ray Mallouf had more sue
cess but not enough to save the in
vaders from defeat. The whole
strategy was to rush the Cardinal
passer on defense and to give Baugh
plenty of time to throw when the
Skins had the ball, and it worked
to perfection.
Baugh completed passes to IL diff
ferent players-two to Joe Tere-
shinski, three to Poillon; seven to
Paul Mckee, two to Doug Turley;
(See ATCHISON, Page C-2.)