Evening star., 1951-08-21
3 Veteran Linemen
On Spot as Redskins
Contemplate Change!
By Lewis r. Atchison
Siar Siaff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.-Vet-
erans as well as rockies will have
10 fight for jobs with the Red
skins, Coach Herman Ball said to-
day. He is preparing to set up a
merit system to decide which 80
men will be retained for the Ma
tional Football League race.
Fullback Art Stewart and Half
back Morrie Parks, both rockies,
were released yesterday. and two
more probably will go before the
squad breaks camp next week and
heads for Amarillo, Tex, to play
the Detroit Lions in the third
game Of a seven-game exhibition
tour.
Ball said the remaining IS play
ers would be graded by what the
coaches detect in pictures of the
first two games and by subsequent
action on the field. A veteran will
get the ak as quickly as rookie,
he added.
Coach Defends System.
"It'S not the system but how
you play it," Ball said in defend
ing the strategy used, unsuccesS-
fully again, against the Forty
Miners in San Francisco Sunday.
We've got to find men who can
do what we want them to do"
At least three veteran linemen,
John Badaczewski. Bob HendrenI
and Jim PEBBLES, are on the spot
as a result of the teams two con-
eesutive defeats. Ball doesn't
know what to think about them
yet, but he's going to make up his
mind before the curtain goes up
on league play.
Maybe this business of bringing
'em along slower than last year
has had a negative effect" the
coach observed. Maybe we'll
begin to improve. Well certainly
have to improve to have any kind
Of a ball club"
DCACASC EOVCS S1CVGs
Ball said he believed the three
hnemen mentioned are capable of
much better football than they
have shown. He feels PEBBLES
needs more time to get back in
stride after being out of football
year. They aren't the only ones
who must show improvement, but
their cases point up the difficulties
under which the coaches currently
are laboring.
In two games, the Redskins er-
ratio defenSes have yielded 935
yards, almost one-fourth the total
lost in IL games last season. Balls
immediate reaction was to send
out an SOS for linemen and de-
fenSlve backs. Efforts to make
deals with the Lions and Phila-
delphia Eagles have been fruitless
but the realization that veterans
counted on to do a Job this wear
may not come through has inten-
slf1ed the search for replacements
NOTES Two new Redskins
casualties were added to the LIST
at yesterdays workout.
Coaches Larry Cabrelli and Orv
Tuttle pulled leg muscles.
Owner Tony Morabito of the
Forty-Niners was ready for the
gas-pipe Sunday morning with
virtually no advance sale for the
Redskins game. But SAG 000I
worth Of tickets were sold be-
tween IL am. and kick-ofr time
Sammy Baugh thinks the Rams
have an edge over the Chicago
Bears in Thursdays exhibition
game here. Sam believes the ,
Rams may be further advanced in
training. Redskins linemen
say Leo Nomellini, giant tackle
Tor the Forty-Niners, is vastly i'm
proved over last year. West
Coast critics of the Redskins pre-
dict a last-place finish for them
: Last year they said they
looked like champs and look what |,
happened. Rookie Tackle !
Jim Station left for a two-week
stay at home last night with his s
knee in a cast. Il