the engine came into sight around the bend to the south of the depot, a great shout rose from the throng, and when the coaches slid into their places beside the long platform the roar was at full strength. Across the street the fire department sirens were blasting out a scream of welcome, automobile horns were jammed down all along the streets, and the people themselves, standing in the glare of a spotlight batter, added to the intense dim with a steady cheer...DIRECTORS ON TRAIN: Out from the coach came the Packers, headed by Lon Evans, all-America guard, clutching the football which was used in the championship game. He was followed, one by one, by the rest of the team. As the players reached the microphone Lorny Wilkinson, WTAQ announcer, called upon each to express his opinion of the homecoming, the championship, or anything else he cared to. Included in the party were Leland H. Joannes, president of Green Bay Packers, Inc.; Dr. W.W. Kelly, A.B. Turnbull and Gerald Clifford, directors; and George W. Calhoun, secretary. Most of them spoke briefly. "It's great to be champions; I'm glad we're home" was the theme of most talks as the Packers responded to the acclaim of the crowd. All of the speakers were applauded vigorously. A Brown county highway department trailer was to have escorted the Packers to the Beaumont hotel, and arrangements had been made accordingly, but the trailer didn't show up, and the Packer squad broke up at the station, most of the men going to their respective homes or hotels. This disappointed a large group of fans who were waiting at the Beaumont hotel, where the team was to have been taken...ELEVEN AGAINST WORLD: Most of them moved over to the Northland, where several of the players live, and welcomed them there. A temporary bar was set up in the main dining room, and standing room was at a premium. All evening the autograph seekers were on the Packers' trail, and the players spent busy minutes scribbling their names as souvenirs of the occasion. To every last man, the team was proud and happy of its achievement, and of the magnificent reception it received from its home community - by many thousands of inhabitants the smallest city in the National league. To quote Clarke Hinkle: "That size business didn't mean anything on the football field. We were just eleven men against the world."

GAGAN IS IMPRESSED WITH CHANGE IN CROWD LOYALTY

DEC 15 (Green Bay) - I was impressed before I left for the championship game, as the winner of the Walkers Football Sweepstakes, to write some of my experiences for the Press-Gazette upon my return. I had that in mind while I was having these experiences and feeling that the sportwriters who are so much better qualified than I am, have done a fair and a good job reporting the game I won't say a great deal about the play itself. It was undoubtedly a greater game, and a more thrilling game than any broadcaster could depict in words, however - even one as good as Russ Winnie and as familiar with the teams and plays. Many things about the trip were very thrilling to me, but are so personal they probably would not interest others. For example, the customs officials searching passengers baggage at Canadian stops; and the fact that my trip took me over five railroad systems, the Northwestern, Michigan Central, New York Central, out of Boston and down the Hudson River, and the Pennsylvania and the Milwaukee Road on the return trip. Some other experiences I guess might be of general interest. One of the strangest of these was the winning of the big crowd to the Packers. I had never been present before when an antagonistic crowd switched its loyalty during a game and finished up on the team they were opposed to when the game began. When the Packers dashed out onto the field (the great and historic Polo Grounds of baseball fame, and which I also had someday hoped to see) the crowd quite unanimously gave them a round of boos and Bronx cheers to start their day off...SAME CROWD APPLAUDS: By the middle of the third quarter the same crowd was applauding Green Bay and Boston equally. The fourth quarter found that entire crowd pulling for the Packers, yelling itself hoarse for them. Whenever Herber faded back they expected a thrill and the entire crowd stood. Also when Milt Gantenbein's touchdown was called back because of offside, the crowd booed the official more than any Green Bay crowd ever has done. My round trip ticket was good for 30 days stop over in New York. How I would have loved to have used a few more days. But when Coach Lambeau said, "Would you like to ride back with the boys in their car?, the adventure was too great to ever pass up. The Milwaukee Road has Edwin D. Crim assigned to the Packers and the Pennsylvania Road also had a special agent who remained right with the team. They were both thoroughly high class gentlemen. I'll never forget a cab ride we took to the grounds. The driver was a colored fellow. The two rails shoved me into the cab and then got in. The Pennsylvania man said, "This is a Packer player. His team left for the Polo Grounds before he was ready. You've got to get him to the grounds before they get there or it's his job...and yours too! They left 15 minutes ago!"...TAKES FAST RIDE: It's a wonder I could enjoy the game after that ride. The fellow never even slowed down. If a light turned red he swung around a corner and around a block or two. We certainly travel several extra miles. When we arrived at the entrance leading to the clubhouse or whatever it is called the Pennsylvania man said, "Go join your team, kid. This is on the Pennsy." Crim pulled out a bill and said "This is part of the Milwaukee Road service, if you'd like to know." And I left them there deciding who would pay for the ride. But I saw them later and in fact rode back to Chicago with them. We saw neither snow nor ice until we got close to Chicago. The Boston team is the swellest bunch of sports I ever met. Coach Lambeau said I had pegged them right. Turk Edwards was over to the hotel an hour after the game to see if his collision had injured Arnie Herber and seemed tickled to discover it had not. He threw his arms around Arnie when he met him in the lobby apparently uninjured. "Some times those things don't turn out so well," he said. Early Sunday evening the entire Boston team came to the hotel to spend some time with the team that had beat them. They are just plain high class - that's all. My greatest regret is that because I went to the broadcasting booth as prearranged I miss hearing whatever it was that Curly said to the boys between the halves. But he certainly turned on the heat. I wouldn't dare to pick a star performer because the whole team played so that a native Green Bayite quivered with pride and emotion. Milt Gantenbein however played the whole game in the Boston backfield. They simply couldn't get together on who was supposed to be watching him. And big Svendsen was just two Svendsens every minute...and one Svendsen is good enough. The Boston players and the New York fans, however, are not so cautious. Any fan who may have been slow in appreciating Arnie Herber can ask me what the Boston ex-all-Americans think and say about him, I'll tell them...HOTEL IS JAMMED: The hotel was jammed Sunday night so one couldn't even move. All that I heard anyone saying was "Which one is 'Erbeh'" or however they pronounce it there. In fact nearly all of the players some time during the evening was asked to point out "which one was Herber" and they picked it up as a kind of a slogan. All the way home the team had a lot of fun with the question...Bobby Monnett especially. He'd dash in and out of the special car and shout "Pardon me, old fellows. But which one is 'Erbeh'?" He drew a well placed kick for himself eventually. Well, I arrived in New York at 7 and left at 11. And the whole trip was 7 come 11 for me. I witnessed a broadcast in Radio City Music hall. I went to St. Patrick's Cathedral and there was Cardinal Hayes pontificating. In the dining car, I saw across the aisle from Alice Faye, the movie star. I sat on the Packer bench at the world championship game. I heard what the fellows talk about during the game. I saw Arnie Herber knocked balmy for the first time in his football career. I saw Riley Smith miss an important placekick - the first in sixteen tries. I was treated with unbelievable courtesy by everyone. Even at the pass-proof Polo Ground gates I said "I'm from Green Bay. I'm sitting with the team." And the turnstile keeper bent the bar down and said only "Okeydoke!" I spent a night and day with the world champion Packers on their private special car. They may be married men, and college and professional All-Americans. They may be hardened to 8-column headlines. But they were an overjoyed high school team coming home with the bacon that night. I didn't feel like a kid among them because they were all kids that night...everyone of them. I was warned and instructed by Russ Winnie that I could not mention names when I was introduced to the broadcast audience. But my debt was so great I ignored the orders and personally thanked Walker's Cleaners and Tailors for the biggest day of my life. It's breaking some other sort of rule to say names in a news story, too, but I want to repeat that word of thanks. Russ Winnie only said after, "You slipped one over on me, didn't you?" When I "What would you have done?", he smiled and shook hands and went on with the game. And I'd be most ungrateful if I didn't try to publicly thank Curly Lambeau. He was swell. With all that he had on his mind that day he was continually trying to make my trip interesting for me. He just put me on the team for a day, it seemed, and all the fellows accepted me. It was great!

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

DEC 15 (Green Bay) - Morale! That's what brought the 1936 National football championship to Green Bay. The authority - Earl L. Lambeau, who is "Curly" to thousands of Packer fans, and who again has piloted a fighting band of gridiron warriors to the world title. It was a tired but happy Curly who, the celebration over in the small hours of the morning, rested his head back on one of Karl Hagemeister's easy chairs and paid complete, glowing tribute to the men he has lived with and worked with during the great 1936 season. "Every man was working all the time," he said. "Can you imagine an extended professional football trip during which every man was in bed every night at 11:30, and no player broke training so far as to take a glass of beer?" "We had it. These Packers, the new champions, are as fine a squad of men as ever represented any city. They have been marvelous - not only on the football field, when they came back after a crushing defeat to win the national title, but in their every day relations toward their work, their coaches and the city they represent." The Packers are genuinely proud of Green Bay, although no more so than the hysterical city last night demonstrated that it is proud of the Packers. "Just too bad," shouted Lou Gordon into the microphone earlier in the evening, "that the Cardinals traded me to Green Bay!"  Lou can't get over that jump from a last place to a first place team. "Man, oh man, is it great to be home!" fervently said Bernie Scherer, as he sucked in the night air on the station platform. That from a player who less than four months ago had his first glimpse of Green Bay. Yes, the city has taken the team to its heart. And it should, even if the sentimental side of the championship is disregarded, when the million dollars worth of advertising to Green Bay is considered. The best story of the trip involves Lon Evans and his prize football. He lugged the championship oval all over New York getting autographs, and by barging into the National Broadcasting company headquarters he added such signatures as those of Parkrakarkas, Eddie Cantor, Kate Smith and Walter Winchell. An autograph-a-minute pace did Lonnie follow, until he collared one radio star coming out of the broadcasting room. "What program did you sing on?" demanded Lon. "Give me that football," replied the other, reaching for his fountain pen. And he signed: "J. Edgar Hoover."

HONOR PACKERS THIS EVENING

DEC 16 (Green Bay) - Football-frenzied Green Bay, in a jubilant mood over acquisition of the 1936 NFL championship, the fourth for the Packers in eight years, tonight will toast what has been termed the greatest team in Packer history at a big public Victory banquet and celebration in the auditorium of the Columbus Community club. The event sponsored by the Green Bay Lions club will attack almost 2,000 adult and youthful Packer fans, it is expected, when the city climaxes an enthusiastic three-day welcome that began when the squad arrived here Monday evening after winning the championship playoff tilt last Sunday against the Boston Redskins at the Polo Grounds at New York...1,000 WILL DINE: Almost 1,000 diners will be seated on the main floor of the auditorium to partake of the banquet and stay for a diversified program which will include the introduction of the Packer players, other sports luminaries, sports editors and football writers from metropolitan newspapers, the Packer coaches, football corporation directors and others connected with the team. Looking on from the balcony will be nearly another thousand spectators who have purchased tickets for a seat that will entitle them to the entire show excepting the dinner. The clamor for tickets to the public demonstration has never been equaled previously and the Lions committee arranging the affair said there are thousands who are disappointed over not being able to attend. Of necessity the ticket sale for the banquet and the balcony had to be limited, members pointed out, although they expressed regret that a larger crowd could not be accommodated...PICTURES ARE RECEIVED: Sound movies of the Packer-Boston game last Sunday, taken by Fox Movietone News and furnished by the company without any cost to the Lions club, arrived here this afternoon from Milwaukee where they came in air express from the Fox studios in New York. While the length of the film was not determined, it was said by Vic Geisel, Orpheum theater manager who arranged for the movies, that they will include numerous important features of the game and the scoring plays. In addition there will be 20 minutes of other Fox Movietone football movies, furnished by the local theater. A preview of these this morning disclosed that they include about 10 Big Ten and other leading college games this fall and besides there are closeups of Fox Movietone's All-America football team selections. Use of the telescopic lens in the photography produced exceptional, clear "shot", the preview revealed and the movies no doubt will be the highlight of the program. The banquet is scheduled to start at 6:30, and the program will get underway around 8 o'clock. For the benefit of those unable to be present a broadcast of the entire program from 8 to 10 o'clock will be heard over both stations WHBY and WTAQ of St. Norbert college. Stations of the Affiliated Broadcasting company will pick up the program and re-broadcast it so that Packer fans throughout the state will be able to hear the major portions of it...DILWEG IS TOASTMASTER: Little in the way of speeches is scheduled. LaVern R. Dilweg, Lions president and former all-America end in college and the professional football world, is to act as toastmaster. The speakers' table and a special one reserved for the team are set on the stage, one elevated above the other. Row on row of long tables for the other diners run the length of the auditorium floor and presented a striking sight this afternoon with flowers and long streamers of green ferns. Every players' wife or friend will be presented with a corsage as will other women guests. Each person at the banquet is to receive a souvenir program which contains a large picture of the football champions that is suitable for framing. A special section has been reserved for sportwriters and for members of the Packers first championship team in 1929, many of whom are coming back for the event. Reservations from a number of cities outside indicates there will be a really representative audience from many sections of the state and even Upper Michigan. Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, is to be present to extend the Packers the invitation to represent the league against the college All-Star team in the annual charity contest at Chicago next fall. Dilweg and Owen B. Smith, general chairman of tonight's celebration, announced this afternoon that the Lions club is not sponsoring the "Victory Ball" tonight at the Hotel Northland, pointing our that it is being given by private interests...EIGHT STOVES BUSY: At the Columbus Community club, a score of workers were engaged throughout the day, preparing for accommodations of the largest banquet crowd in Green Bay's history. Eight additional gas ranges, secured for the event, were installed in rooms back of the stage. Women were busy preparing food for cooking; men were lining up tables and chairs and completing decoration of the auditorium. Plates, cups, saucers and silver, loaned in some instances by other organizations, were being washed, and hundreds of dinner players were being heated in a special contrivance built around a steam radiator. Waitresses were receiving instructions on how to proceed when the crowd arrives. Cooking of the approximately 1,000 steaks was scheduled to begin around 5 o'clock this afternoon, it having been calculated that 80 could be prepared at one time on the ranges available, and that the total number can be prepared of some of the other items on the menu was to be completed earlier.