PACKERS WILL CHARTER PLANES FOR TRIP TO NEW YORK; BATTLE CARDINALS NEXT SUNDAY
NOV 8 (Green Bay) - When the Packers go from Chicago to New York next week for their NFL game with the Giants, they'll do it without touching the ground. Final arrangements have not been completed, pending receipt of bids from two air lines, but Coach Curly Lambeau said today that he has decided definitely that the Packers will be the first professional football team
to travel to a game site by air. The Packers play the
Giants at the Polo Grounds Sunday, Nov. 17, and the
previous Thursday they will leave for Chicago, there to
board two chartered airliners for the flight to the East.
They will return the same way, leaving New York
Monday morning, Nov. 18, and arriving home late that
afternoon...BENEFITS BY AIR TRAVEL: Lambeau
believes that the squad will benefit immeasurably by its
change in travel plans. Collegiate football teams which
have flown to game always have appeared to be in
better condition for so doing, and the Packer coach
recalls that as far back as 1926 Gene Tunney flew to
his Philadelphia fight with Jack Dempsey, suffering no ill
effects of sufficient importance to keep him from winning
the scrap. By leaving Green Bay on Thursday morning
and arriving in New York that night, the Packers will
miss only one day of practice. They will work out at
New York Friday and Saturday, and will be in prime
shape to tackle the Giants on Sunday afternoon. As the
New Yorkers are about the hardest club in the league to
beat on their home gridiron (reference: the Packers of
1938), Lambeau is anxious to get any advantage he
can...CARDINALS COME FIRST: Before the Packers
can entertain bird-like thoughts of their New York flight,
they'll have to concentrate upon a rugged assignment
closer at hand. Next Sunday afternoon they are billed to
meet the Chicago Cardinals at Comiskey park, facing
an opponent which is building up a new hose of South
Side fans and which has been undefeated on its home
grounds. The Cardinals are thoroughly convinced that
they will whip the Packers, to get even for the beating
they took in Milwaukee earlier in the season, and as
the Green Bay team is as unpredictable as a Green
Bay springtime, they may accomplish just that. The
Packers, in an out all season, hit a strong point in the
last half against the Bears last Sunday, but they'll have
to gallop at top speed for the duration of the Cardinal
game to avoid another shellacking...DEPRESSED BY
DEFEAT: The team is in good shape physically, always
excepting Joe Laws and Charley Schultz, who are lost
apparently for the year, but their mental state is another
thing, and many of the men have been depressed since
losing to the Bears. If they are unable to snap out of it,
the team may run into further disaster during its last
four games, all of them against tough, vengeful
opponents. Once the Cardinal and New York dates are
finished, the Packers will engage Detroit and Cleveland
before the end of the schedule.
HUTSON IN DUEL WITH LOONEY ON RECEPTIONS
NOV 8 (New York) - Members of the undefeated
Washington Redskins dominate the NFL race for
individual honors as it has never been dominated before,
according to statistics for the eight week of play
released today which reveal them among the first five
leaders nine times, with Slingin' Sammy Baugh the
standout of the NFL. Baugh, in addition to his amazing
record-breaking forward passing performances, is the
league's leading punter and also has the most yards
gained on intercepted passes. Jimmy Johnston and
Dick Todd are tied for scoring honors while Bob
Masterson is in a fifth place tie; Johnston is third and
Wayne Milner fifth in pass receiving, and Todd is also
fourth in ground gaining. Baugh has completed 68
passes out of 96 thrown for 950 yards, 10 touchdowns
and a 70 percent efficiency average in addition to
gaining 84 yards on intercepted passes, and punting for
a 49-yard average from the line of scrimmage. His
performances overshadow the close race for ground
gaining honors between Whizzer Whjte, Detroit, and
Banks McFadden, Brooklyn, and the pass receiving
stretch duel between Don Looney, Philadelphia, and
Don Hutson, Green Bay...WHITE REGAINS LEAD:
White regained the ground gaining lead from McFadden
with 366 yards to 326. McFadden's average of 7.4 yards
per carry is still the best in the circuit, however. Parker
Hall, Cleveland, remains in third place with 308 yards,
while Todd rose from seventh to fourth with 275 yards,
and Walt Nielsen, New York, jumped from twelfth to fifth
with 252 yards. Hutson tied a league record for one
game when he caught eight passes against the Bears,
to put him into a first place tie with rookie Don Looney,
Philadelphia, with 33 receptions for the season. It is the
first time Hutson ever caught eight passes in one game
though he has been in the league champion receivier
three of the last four seasons. Looney accomplished
the feat twice this season. The two leaders are only
eight receptions away from the league record of 41 in
one season. Johnston of Washington has 21 and
Gaynell Tinsley, Cardinals, 16. Carl Mulleneaux, Green
Bay, and Hutson are tied with five touchdowns by pass
receiving...RISES FROM FOURTH: Johnston rose from
fourth to a tie for first with Redskins teammate Todd in
scoring. Each has seven touchdowns for 42 points.
Hutson is third with 38 points; Ward Cuff, New York,
fourth with 36, and John Drake, Cleveland, and Bob Masterson, Washington, are tied for fifth with 32 points each. Masterson jumped from 12th place. Masterson and Ace Parker, Brooklyn, are tied with most extra points, 11 each. Armand Niccolai, Pittsburgh, regained a clear cut title to first place in field goal kicking with six. Clarke Hinkle, Green Bay, and Cuff have five each. Lee Artoe, Chicago Bears, has the longest placement, a 52-yard placement. Kent Ryan, Detroit, leads Hutson in pass interceptions, 6 to 5.
LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS
NOV 8 (Green Bay) - We certainly could not observe the passing of Milton Gantenbein as an active player of the Green Bay Packers without a feeling of heartfelt appreciation for the many long years which that veteran end spent guarding the flanks of the team representing his adopted city. Almost from the time Milt broke into active duty with the Packers, back in 1931, his was one of the best known names in professional football. Noted chiefly for his defensive strength, but also a deadly pass receiver, he roamed the gridirons of the National league for almost 10 years before his transfer to the Packers' ineligible list was announced. For many seasons Gantenbein - the Goose, his mates called him - served as field captain of the Packers. His name has appeared in starting lineups so many times that no accurate count could be kept. Possessing a powerful, box-like physique which rarely was affected by the most strenuous play, Gantenbein's reputation for toughness was hard won and well sustained. Never a high scorer, Gantenbein often was used as a target for Arnold Herber's forward passes when the fleet Don Hutson sped wide as a decoy, and nine occasions between 1933 and 1939, he accepted tosses over the goal line for touchdowns. A native of La Crosse, Milt won a great gridiron reputation for himself at the University of Wisconsin, where he served as captain his senior year. He was a fooler when he turned up for his initial Packer practice. Bothered with a leg ailment at the time, he shuffled through his first workout with an apparent sluggishness that prompted many an observer to comment, "There's a boy who came up just for the ride." Well, he's had many a ride since then. He's been to the Atlantic seaboard, to the gulf plains of Texas, along the Pacific coastal region, out to Hawaii and Waikiki, all with the Packers. His big No. 22 has flashed from the darkness of Solider field in two All-Star games, has born down indiscriminately upon enemy ball carriers from New York, from Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and the other great cities of the National football front...It's sad to see the passing of the old stars. No one just like them ever comes up to take their places. There never will be another exactly like Bobby Monnett, like Hank Bruder, like Milt Gantenbein. The Goose succeeded to a a famous number. That 22 was carried for years before Gantenbein's time by another great Packer wingman, Lavvy Dilweg. Those jerseys ought to be placed in a frame and stowed away for that little museum of Packer lore which the community will some day create for the memory of its historic football team. Pictures of great players will hang on the walls of that place. Fans of the past will come back to gaze again upon the likenesses of Verne Lewellen or Dilweg, Hubbard, Michalske; fans of the future will see the faces of Bruder, Hinkle, Hutson, Herber and others in that long parade of professional football immortality. And Gantenbein's name will rank high on the list.
PACKERS TO PUT ALL THEIR CHIPS ON REAL OFFENSE
NOV 8 (Chicago) - Back in the days when there was a cheer on the Midway once in awhile, and something to cheer about, A.A. Stagg authored an axiom that has become part of modern football. He said the best defense is a good offense. After weeks of attempting to defend their world championship by various other means, the Green Bay Packers have gone back to Stagg's strategy this week in preparation for their engagement with the Cardinals in Comiskey park Sunday. Defense has been ignored. All stress is being placed on scoring...STRATEGY IN ALL-STAR GAME: "That was our strategy in the Chicago All-Star game," Coach Curly Lambeau said yesterday. "It was our strategy in the exhibition game with Washington. We are back to it now and we will stand or fall on it for the remainder of the season. We are willing to let the other fellow get as many touchdowns as he has time for, but we intend to be too busy getting them ourselves for him to outscore us." The Packers' three weeks' preparation for the All-Star game was devoted almost entirely to offense. The soundness of such strategy was demonstrated when the Packers came from behind with a burst of touchdown fireworks to gallop off with the game, 45 to 28. Washington, with is great scoring machine, follows the same plan, but when it ran up against the Packers, using the same tactics, went down to defeat, 28 to 21...PLENTY OF OFFENSE SUNDAY: After seeing the Packers miss half a dozen chances to tie the Bear game last week, Lambeau decided it was time to make a change. The change was a return to offensive football. He outlined his plan over long distance telephone yesterday, concluding the conversation with a promise that there would be plenty of offensive football in Comiskey park Sunday. Meanwhile Chicago's two baseball parks are busy places every morning with the Bears stepping up the tempo in Wrigley field in preparation for their invasion on Detroit Sunday and the Cardinals polishing their attack for the Green Bay game. The Bears will wind up their work tomorrow morning, then board an afternoon train for Detroit. Final preparations in the Cardinal camp also will be made tomorrow.
MILWAUKEE CHIEFS NOTES
NOV 8 (Milwaukee Sentinel) - Having made additional friends via their impressive victory over the Boston Bears last Sunday, the Milwaukee Chiefs undoubtedly will be playing before their biggest home crowd of the season next Sunday when they tackle the New York Yankees and Bill Hutchinson, the former Dartmouth star who is rated the top backfielder in the American league. Milwaukee football fans have taken kindly to the Chiefs, their hustle, their fight and their team spirit and they want to see what manner of team the Yankees are in view of the sound shellacking the New Yorkers dished out to the Milwaukee club a few weeks back. That they'll take another shellacking - or even lose - is the thought farthest from the Chiefs' noble brows. They know what was wrong in the New York game and they intend to prove their point. First of all, the previous game followed by a few days the Chiefs' first defeat of the year, at the hands of the Columbus Bullies, a team the Chiefs beat here and outplayed from Nome to El Paso at Columbus. Secondly, it was the Chiefs' third game in eight days. Thirdly, the Chiefs were forced to travel in day coaches, due to the financial mixup the previous owners got into and the inability of the American Legion to straighten out the financial structure prior to the trip. Now all is serene along the Chiefs' battlefront. The boys are eating regularly and they KNOW they can whale the tar out of Jack McBride's hopefuls...DON'T WANT WAR: Writing about the Chiefs and the American league brings to mind an earlier sports war - between the National Baseball league and the "outlaw" American league. Back at the turn of the century the American league started in opposition to the National. It was a war to the finish. The new baseball loop owners had no scruples, asked no quarter and gave none. They invaded the lair of the enemy, they stole National league players by offering bigger salaries and they forced recognition from the senior circuit. Since then the American league teams have done a fairly good job of proving their right to major league rank. What, I have been asked, would the National Professional Football league do if the American league decided to raid the National league teams and steal their players? First of all, it would be a grand and glorious thing for some of the players, but in the end it would be a disastrous thing for the majority of players and a number of teams in both leagues. The American league is not constructed financially to war with the established National league. Some of the National league clubs are not ready financially for such a war, but, in the main, the National can - and would - stand the rigors of a war much better than the younger circuit, which, I believe, is being built slowly, but solidly and surely. Much better, I think, for the American league to go along on an even keel, picking up such stars as Hutchinson, Sherman Barnes and Len Aken of the Chiefs and other highlighters than to attempt to raid the rosters of the National league...ROOM FOR BOTH: As a matter of fact there is room, plenty of room, for both circuits, and as long as they work