Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-23
LIONS BLANKED BY GIANTS
NIL Openers Sunday
$ Pair Top Contenders
By the Associated Press

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gets its season underway Sun
day and little time will be
wasted in getting the top con-
tenders together.
The New York Giants. de-
Tending champions. finished
their preseason schedule yes
terday with a ITO shutout of
the Detroit Lions. That gave
the Giants a 80 exhibition
record. best of the Eastern Di-
vision clubs.
The Green Bay Packers
battled back in the last two
minutes to tie the Pittsburgh
Steelers. 1910. Saturday night.
winding up with a SOL record
to top the Western Division
clubs.
The only other weekend ac-
ton found the Chicago Cardi-
mails beating the Baltimore
Colts, 1921. Saturday night,
and the San Francisco Forty
Miners eking out an unusual
l7-l4 victory over the Phila-
delphia Eagles yesterday.
Giants Meet Browns
On the basis of performances
In the exhibition schedule the
Giants and Packers would APP
pear to be logical favorites for
division titles. But pro foot
ball followers know it isn't quite
that simple.
Some light may be shed on
the situation Sunday, when the
Giants open with the Cleveland
Browns, perhaps their toughest
competition in the East. and
the Packers run into the Chi
cago Bears. last years Western
champions. Other openers find
Detroit at Baltimore, Chicago
Cardinals at San Francisco,
Philadelphia at Los Angeles
and Washington at Pittsburgh.
The Giants gave a Detroit
crowd Of 30.159 and a national
television audience a demon
stration Of defensive excellence
yesterday in handing the Lions
their first shutout in five years.
Only twice all afternoon did
the Lions make serious scoring
threats. getting to the Giants
10 on a 72-yard kickoff return
by Marvin Brown, 150-pound
rookie halfback from East
Texas State. and to the New
York 4 before a 65-yard drive
was stalled.
The rest Of the time the
Giants rugged defensive line
kept Quarterbacks Bobby Layne
and Tobin Rote we'll in hand.
Patton Starts II OF
Jim Patton, veteran defen-
sive star, picked of a Layne
pass and raced 43 yards for the
Giants first touchdown and
Quarterback Charley Conerly
passed 80 yards to Halfback
Frank Clifford for the other.
Don Chandler, who converted
after both scores, added a IL
yard field goal.
A Kezar Stadium crowd OF
2l817 was treated to a bizarre
exhibition as the Forty Miners
took a 100 lead into the final
period without benefit OF a
touchdown. A safety early in
the game stood up for a 20
halftime lead. Then in the
third quarter came another
safety and IS and 24-yard field
goals by Gordy Soltau. An g.
yard pass from Rookie Quarter
back John Brodie OF Stanford
to Rookie End Charley Mackey
from Arizona State added a
touchdown.
The Eagles got their scores
on a 6-yard squirt by Halfback
Ken Keller and a l-yard plunge
by Fulback Dick BielskL.
former Maryland star.
Lane Runs wild
Dick Might Train Lane
raced 70 and So yards on pass
interruptions TO pace the Car
dinals to their first exhibition
victory. Lanes second score
came just 30 seconds before
the end and broke a 21-21 tie.
Lamar McHan took care OF
the rest OF the Chicago scor-
ing, plunging over from a yard
out for six points and passing
TO Dick Brubaker for six more.
The Colts counted on a 80
yard run by Lenny Moore, a
bS-yard skrint by Cal Taseh