interference, also does not appear in the Movietone films. Neither does that involving a disputed first down, where the ruling also was made by Headlinesman Larry Conover, the hub of the dispute.

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

DEC 15 (Green Bay) - Much was the disappointment of Coach Curly Lambeau and officials of the Green Bay Packers at the Orpheum theater last night to find that the disputed forward pass play, over which most of the officiating storm regarding the playoff professional game has ranged, was not included in the game film sent from New York. Whether or not anyone ever will know certainly where everyone was just before the ball was snapped on that play isn't clear just yet. Packer fans, however, will be interested in observing the pictures, for they reveal clearly the savage nature of the playoff contest, and are taken close to the field of play. Hinkle's touchdown, Herber's pass to Carl Mulleneaux for another, Becker's 66-yard run after catching Isbell's pass, Monnett's 33-yard sprint down the sidelines, Uram's spectacular catch of a Herber forward, and Tiny Enbretsen's field goal, all are included. Most of the running plays show the Giants in action, and fans will notice the shifty tactics of Tuffy Leemans particularly. The plays wherein the Packers were going the hottest along the ground are not included.

BUHLER HURT IN CAR CRASH

DEC 17 (St. Paul, MN) - Lawrence (Larry) Buhler, University of Minnesota fullback recently drafted by the Green Bay Packers, suffered severe injuries last night when an automobile he was driving skidded and crashed into a street car pole. The 21-year old football star was pinned in the wreckage so tightly it was necessary to use a crowbar to bend the steering wheel and instrument board to extricate him. At St. Luke's hospital, Dr. M.O. Thoreson gave him "a good chance to live unless complications set in." The injuries were described as multiple lacerations of the head, chest injuries, a broken nose and possible internal injuries...The condition of Larry Buhler, University of Minnesota football star injured last night, was reported as "good" this morning in St. Luke's hospital, St. Paul. Buhler's car skidded, crashing into a street car pole.

POSITION OF GANTENBEIN IS KEY TO PASS MANEUVER

DEC 16 (Green Bay) - Not in recent years has a single play in professional football raised such a controversy as the Arnold Herber to Milton Gantenbein toss in last Sunday's Green Bay-New York game, the ruling on which probably cost the Packers their fifth National championship. Not offered as an alibi or excuse, but merely as an explanation of what actually occurred - or was supposed to occur - on that disputed play, the above diagram is offered by the Press-Gazette sports department. The indicated position are those at the time the ball was snapped. On the play, Gantenbein shifts from his regular right end position to a spot at the left of the Packer left tackle. Bernard Scherer, Packer left end, drops back of the line of scrimmage. Cecil Isbell, left halfback, playing wide, moves up to the line of scrimmage at the right. Herber, the right halfback, takes a direct pass from center, runs to the right, jumps in the air and fires an over-the-line pass to Gantenbein, who has cut over to the right. The play was executed in that manner successfully for an 18-yard gain, giving Green Bay a first down on the New York 40-yard line. But it was recalled, and Gantenbein was ruled an ineligible receiver by Headlinesman Larry Conover...CONOVER WAS WRONG: Here is Conover's fallacy: he thought that Gantenbein had remained at his regular right end position, thus becoming ineligible to receive the pass when Isbell dropped in even with the scrimmage line. Had Gantenbein not shifted to the left side of the line, this would have been the case. But Gantenbein DID shift to the left side of the line. With Scherer back of the line of scrimmage, this maneuver made Isbell and Gantenbein the eligible receivers, along with Bruder, the quarterback, Hinkle, the fullback, and Scherer...MAN COVERED GANTENBEIN: Gantenbein points out that the Giants themselves recognized the legality of the play, because they assigned a man to cover him on it, which they would not have done had they regarded the Packer captain an ineligible receiver. There was no complaint from the Giant bench until after the pass had been completed and the first down attained. Then Coach Steve Owen raised the roof. There is a matter of Bernie Scherer's position involved, and this cannot be established any other way than by the word of that player himself, who vows he was comfortably in back of the scrimmage line. That the officials knew of the maneuver is evident by the action of one, who before the play started informed a Packer that Gantenbein was "lining up offside". "Never mind, he'll be onside when the shift is completed," the official was told. If Gantenbein had remained at his original right end position, between Bill Lee and Isbell, he would have been ineligible to receive the pass, and evidently Headlinesman Conover, who had a ragged afternoon as far as officiating was concerned, took it for granted that the Packer field leader had not left his position.

GANNON, ZENOFF PROVIDE NEW SLANTS ON PACKERS

DEC 19 (Green Bay) - The Packers have disbanded for the season, but the publicity rumblings regarding the past season continue as sports scribes rehash the events of the National league schedule. In the Milwaukee News today, Morry Zenoff carried an interview with Ward Cuff, New York Giants blocking back, who explained his version of the disputed Gantenbein forward pass play. And in the Milwaukee Journal Sunday appeared another discussion of the Packers by Pat Gannon, in his column, "They Say in New York". These two articles follow: BY MORRY ZENOFF: Ward Cuff, back in Milwaukee again, Saturday added wood to the fire that now burns brightly in Green Bay, Milwaukee, New York, and all points east and west concerning that much discussed pass play of the Green Bay Packers in the pro title game last Sunday. The husky former Marquetter gives a player's eye version. He ought to know because he was right in the thick of it as regular halfback for the New York Giants, the new world's champions. In an exclusive interview with the Milwaukee News, he said: "Green Bay has no right to complain. We knew about that trick play. In fact, Steve Owen, our coach, warned the officials before the game to be on the lookout for it. Owen felt it was illegal and had been used illegally many times during the year. And you can believe me the Packers had eight men on the line of scrimmage when the ball was snapped on that play, thus making Gantenbein an ineligible receiver. Sure, the play is legal if the end drops back - but he didn't and that's what referee Bobby Cahn saw and called. We took possession and Packer chances were killed thereafter. Incidentally, I happened to have been the one to tackle Gantenbein when he caught the pass."...SAYS PACKERS STRONG: Cuff admitted the Packers' strength as a team but said: "They were lucky to have given us as much trouble as they did. We let them run all they wanted to between the 20s but the territory between the 20s and the goal lines belonged to us. The toughest team we had to play all year was Brooklyn, which held us to a tie. That day they played great ball. We were don there six times in one half and couldn't score." Back to his home port with Ward are his wide, Doris, and their daughters, Lee, Anne, four months old. They'll remain in Milwaukee until the day after Christmas, and then will take off in the new Cuff automobile for Los Angeles where Ward is to meet the Giants Jan. 2, going into training for a Jan. 15 game with an all-star team. After that he will help make up a basketball team composed of Giant men, Burnett, Poole, Danowski, Howell, Lunde and play games throughout the east, winding up with two weeks of play as the feature sports attractions of New York's World Fair the first week in April...BACK TO MILWAUKEE: Cuff will return to Milwaukee after that to assist Con Jennings in coaching the M.U. track squad. He will take a course in summer school leading towards a degree. The Cuff of today is slightly different from the Cuff who struck out to seek his fortune with the Giants two years ago. No longer the braggart, the carefree gambler against any and all stakes, Ward now is a team man, constantly praising his mates on the Giants, spending little time talking of the things he has done. But he couldn't deny the facts that he was the lightest man on the regular team, yet proved the team's outstanding blocker and the league's outstanding placekicker. In the latter department he led the league with eight out of 11 tries and booted 20 points after touchdown. One of his field goals sailed 43 yards. That was in the game with the eastern All Stars. He kicked another that night, enabling his team to win, 6-0...BY PAT GANNON: Here's blowing a salute to the Green Bay Packers - a bunch of "one legged" guys who stole a western title - geezers who were knocked down for a nine count time after time, only to get up and rap out 15 rounds to a decision. These buccaneers who pirated the division title with savvy, moxie and finesse (they really didn't have it, except in the clutch) rate 100 guns. In the league book they will go down as also rans. In the tradition of the game they will go down as one of the most spirited clubs ever fielded, in spite of uninspired play in spots. Scarcely better on paper than No. 3 club in the western loop, the Packers came within one pitch of nailing up a flag...HOLD KEY POSTS: Rolling down the stretch, the club enrolled veterans whose legs were all but gone, fellows geared as "spell" players, but holding No. 1 playing posts, ancients who were propped up for play with tape - legs virtually hung on with adhesive wrappings - and guys who had just one knee before they were wrapped up for battle. True, they mustered one of the greatest backfields the pro game has seen and some popeyed youngsters who were bruised and hammed into veterans as the season ran. But on paper the line didn't rate - too old, too green, too mediocre in spots. Yet, in the heat of battle, the weird forward wall somehow tempered and held - at least enough...THREATENED TO CRACK: There were men at times who were afloat - in fact almost drowned  - in the boots they were filling; ballplayers who gave more than they had in every fracas; old men who couldn't halt the charges of the initial moments of battle but who could get up off the flats of their backs and cool the hot boys down to a dry gasp before the battle ended. Time after time, the whole outfit threatened to fall apart - and did in spots. Such was the grand army of wooden men which came tottering into the Polo Grounds several weeks ago. It pushed the Giants around for tremendous yardage, but when the defense telescoped against the goal posts, the attack foozled and died. It was scarcely credible. No one here ever had seen a Lambeau club muff a ball game for lack of "umph". Yet this one did - four of five times. No one knew it then, but it appears now that the tape rolls had run out...LINE FOLDED UP: Then the boys came back for the title battle and in the first quarter that line folded up like a venetian blind. There were Giants in the Packer backfield on virtually every play and four or five "wooden" men out there being bowled down like palm trees in a hurricane. The Packers made approximately 20 yards on running plays in 15 minutes. Most revealing of all were two blocked punts. Even a high school team never should have a punt blocked if the passing and kicking is good, experts say. Yet the Giants were bounding through there like bullfrogs after flies, and nabbing punts right off the muzzle. Packers were sitting on their posteriors all over the lot. A green team would have run for the clubhouse, but the grand army of wooden men hung on until the money boys began to get unwound, joints loosened up and the hot boys began to cool...STILL MONEY PLAYERS: Then they came roaring back, on an explosion detonated by Arnie Herber, one of the almost forgotten men, but a money player even in his dotage. The "wooden men" slapped those Giants and cuffed them, broke their bones and bruised them black and blue. The fourth quarter was as rough a 15 minutes was ever seen, and the wooden men won the decision, make no mistake about that. One little break and they'd have won the title. They had it in their hands twice and lost it each time on the most disheartening of luck. Hyping that outfit up for a 11 game campaign was in its way a small miracle. They won on wooden legs, one leg at times, with mummies in tape and on raw nerve. They were flattened and got up to mow the boys down. They had moxie - great gobs of it. They beat better teams with that quality alone. They outsmarted faster outfits, outguessed them, outslickered them and outgambled them. There were times when Lambeau, they tell you now, gambled obviously and openly and with such long chance desperateness that the sheer nerve of it carried him through...PILE UP DEFENSE: They did strange and wonderful things at times - piling up a defense wide open here but impregnable there. They outscored the opposition, made huge use of everyness and even scored by gambling on the other fellow's mental processes. In fact, they masterminded a title in the west. You can kiss the boys good-bye, knowing that you haven't seen their like in many years, possibly never will again. They didn't have it, but you couldn't tell them that.

WHITE, DANOWSKI TAKE TITLES IN NATIONAL LEAGUE

DEC 19 (Green Bay) - In the closest race in years for individual ground gaining and forward passing honors of the NFL, Byron (Whizzer) White, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Ed Danowski, New York Giants, emerged as leaders. White, former Colorado university Rhodes scholar all-American playing his first and last season of major league football, gained 567 yards in 152 attempts to cop the duke in the final week of play. Tuffy Leemans, New York Giants, and league leader in 1936, was second with 463 yards in 121 attempts. White was the only first year man to gain an individual title this season. Cecil Isbell of Green Bay ranked fourth in total ground gaining, having 455 yards in 85 attempts. Three new records were established in forward passing. Danowski completed 70 passes out of 129 for a 54.2 percent efficiency, a new NFL mark. He also raised his lifetime efficiency mark from 48.3 percent with a record of 255 completions out of 512 tosses over a five year span...TAKES FORMER TITLE: Danowski recaptured the passing title he held in 1935. Dougal Russell threw a pass to Gaynell Tinsley, Chicago Cardinals teammate, good for a 98 yard gain and a touchdown, to break the league mark for longest gain on a pass. The old mark was made last year on a Pat Coffee to Tinsley pass for a 95 yard gain. Sammy Baugh, Washington Redskins ace who led in passing in 1937, finished second this season with 63 completions, the same number completed by Ace Parker, Brooklyn Dodgers. Baugh's efficiency was 49.2 percent to 42.5 percent for Parker. Parker gained 865 yards on his aerials, the most in the league. Jack Robbins, Chicago Cardinals recruit from Arkansas, was fourth with 52 completions although he only played in 7 of the 11 games scheduled.

PACKER NOTES

DEC 20 (Appleton Post-Crescent) - You've heard a lot of remarks, all pro-Packer, regarding that much discussed play in the Packer-Giant championship game, in which the Packers lost the ball because an ineligible man caught a pass. Recently, Ward Cuff, former Marquette gridder and now with the Giants, returned to Milwaukee and had the following to say about the play and the Packers: "Green Bay has no right to complain. We knew about that trick play. In fact, Steve Owen, our coach, warned the officials before the game to be on the lookout for it. Owens felt it was illegal and had been used illegally many times during the year. And you can believe me the Packers had eight men on the line of scrimmage when the ball was snapped on that play, thus making Gantenbein an ineligible receiver. Sure, the play is legal if the end drops back - but he didn't and that's what Referee Bobby Cahn saw and called. We took possession and Packer chances were killed thereafter. Incidentally, I happened to have been the one to tackle Gantenbein when he caught the pass." Cuff admitted to the Packers' strength as a team but said: "They were lucky to have given us as much trouble as they did. We let them run all they wanted to between the 20s but the territory between the 20s and the goal lines belonged to us. Our line outplayed theirs all the way. The toughest team we had to play all year was Brooklyn, which held us to a tie. That day they played great ball. We were down there six times in one half and couldn't score." And speaking of the Packers, can you imagine any sportswriter having the nerve to write something like this about any coach or team: "Lambeau, the great masterminder, sitting on the sidelines and masterminding himself into a stupor, lost the game, not the Packers themselves. Curly saw that one punt blocked, but he must have thought the Giants were fooling. They showed him, however, a few minutes later when they blocked another that they were not playing peek-a-boo."