Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-18
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The Roar of the Lions

PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL is NOT intended for boys
efete male adults 1t is rough business on the playing
field and have friends among the enemy But
neither it intended to be cruelty brutal sport and that
precisely Coach Buddy Parker of the Detroit Lions is
calling it,
So dsgustedy angry Parker at he trend toward dirty
football that he threatening to quit Not because we
lost he is saying out Of Detroit referring to the chicago
Bears 1921 win the Lions last Sunday for the Western
Division title Its because football is becoming dirty
It's been building up for two years just wonder whether
It's worth 1t to continue.
The Detroit club up in chiefly because of the
way Quarterback Bobby Layne was manhandled In the
second period when it touch and CO. Layne wound up
with brain conclusion and the Lions charging 1t was
accident They quoted claiming that the Bears
out to get" specific instructions from George
Haas, of the Bears
Football helluva game" Parker cries out when
team uses a Ratchet man to pull trick like that"
STRONG WORDS PERHAPS but more than few fans
feel that Parker safe ground The reputation Of
the always has been that of rough team And the
Lions No choice for the "hatchet man. Ed Meadows has
been noted for this roughneSS almost since he came into the
pro league.
"A man like that can tear everything trying to
build up this game President Edwin j. Anderson of the
Lions says Meadows is discredit to football and
should never be permitted to play again."
pays your money and takes your choice In Phila
depha when informed of Parkers remarks Commissioner
Bert Bell piously rolled his eyes and said II don't believe
that player in professional football would maicousy
njure another player"
Maybe So Incidentally what was Commissioner Bell
doing Philadelphia leveed his charges? may
be old fashioned theory but the idea here that
missioner present and remained available after
Big One.
MAYBE IT WAS COINCIDENCE that earlier in the
when the Baltimore Colts Telling into nice
team they lost their star quarterback George Shaw in
game against the Lost him for weeks Even
10 after it happened the Redskins inner circle
members that in the 943 championship playo with the
Bears their No guy Sammy Baugh was knocked out in
the second quarter They had been leading TO- but the
Bears won, 4l-21.
Come December 80 in Stadium the and New
York Giants will play for the socalled world championship
Commissioner Bell may not find convenient to attend but
there should be about 10000 Others the and they will
be watching this Both sides will have to clean
pro football will indeed, warrant the black eye Parker
already is trying to give 1t
This much can be said for Parkerhe isn't only crtczng
such comparatively small fry Meadows He went right to
the top charging dirty football grows
attitude Of the This the top Of pro football
all rght-the Even the commissioner jumps when
they whistle.
THE LAST TIME the the Giants played the
title in 1896 when they happened to play each other.
and II memory this a rough gh affair too
The Giants we're pretty crippled for this one Merle
Hapes and Frank Fchock had involved with "x
ring Hapes asked to control the points and barred
Fnchock was allowed TO play and he did whale OF job
passing for both OF the Giants touchdowns. But
though Flchock played the Giants too beaten up
before the game They more after it.
Bill Paschal the teams leading ground gamer had been
hurt This left Fhock George Franck and Frank Reagan
the key offensive backs and the ranks thinner the
Bears drilled onward Franck hurt and had to leave
the game Then Reagans turn and he wound up in
hospital with broken nose and several fractured ribs
Stout steve Owen was the horns Of the wel-known
dilemma He used DOolan who wasn't stickout
at Georgetown. Steve Filipowcs blocking back from
Fordham suddenly discovered he playing in runners
slot
Although FpOwiez hadn't carried the ball since his high
school days. he scored tOucha9wn But wasn't the game
Sths fans paid 70 see.