honored guest will be Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, whose presence means that the Packers officially will be invited to play in the All-Star game at Soldier field next August...LAMBEAU WILL ACCEPT: Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau will accept for the team. Sportswriters of state newspapers who have blocked the Green Bay eleven through its many championship encounters will be seated at the speakers' table, and will be introduced. The group will include Oliver Kuechle of the Milwaukee Journal and Stoney McGlynn of the Sentinel. Sportscaster Russ Winnie also will take a bow. Tom Temple's orchestra has been secured to play for the crowd while it is assembling and to provide incidental music. Following the banquet a Packer Victory ball will be held at Riverdale, and all fans who attend the dinner and receive free tickets. The Packers will be seated at a long table in front of the stage, in full view of the audience, and each will be introduced.

TEAM RECEIVES FINE WELCOME

DEC 12 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packers stepped off a Milwaukee Road train here late yesterday afternoon into another rousing old Green Bay welcome, such as this Wisconsin football capital reserves only for its championship teams. A crowd of several thousand people - and your estimate is as good as anyone's - packed south Washington street from Mason to Chicago streets, spilled over onto the area of fire station No.1, and skirted the rims of the old freight depot as the Packer coach, detached from the Chippewa at the junction farther south, rolled into its destination to the tune of sirens, auto horns, band music and good old American cheers. It was a reception which duplicated the enthusiastic homecoming in the championship year of 1936, but on that occasion the team has come from far-off New York, to face a crowd which had followed its playoff achievements almost entirely by radio...BACK FROM PLAYOFF SITE: Hundreds of the fans who turned out yesterday had seen the Green Bay-New York game at Milwaukee with their own eyes, but their numbers made it appear that the team has returned home from a distant battle scene. Almost every gesture of the 1936 welcome was duplicated. The players walked along the freight platform, upon which thick white paper had been spread, and confronted a microphone guarded at Art Murphy, Association of Commerce secretary, and Val Schneider and Al Michel of radio station WTAQ. Led by Hank Bruder, one of the real veterans of the Green Bay team, the Packers each halted and spoke briefly over the public address system. They were cheered loudly, with the loudest blast being reserved for Coach Curly Lambeau himself, who has piloted the Packers to five National professional football titles...BAND IS ON HAND: At the north end of the platform two Wisconsin Public Service buses, a pumper of fire station No.1, and a Leicht truck containing the red-coated Packer Lumberjack band, were drawn up in parade formation. The giant Packers worked their way through the crowd, dove into the buses, and a deliberate procession north on Washington street got underway, with police traffic officers clearing the way. The band, working hard and effectively on such hits as the Packer pep song, "On, Wisconsin", and that new national anthem, "The Beer Barrel Polka", set the pace as the small parade moved down the street, followed by a vast and admiring throng. All the way up Washington street were lines of smiling, grinning fans, waving and honking their welcome to the victorious team, once again champions of the professional world. At Main street the cars swung eastward and they turned again at Adams, to dump their occupants at the intersection of Pine and Adams streets. In the lobby of the Hotel Northland, an informal reception started all over again, as followers of the team pumped the hands of the players, sought autographs and conducted post mortems on the Sunday game, in which Green Bay once again put the metropolis of New York soundly in its place. The group, which arrived at the station, included more than a dozen Packers who arrived home early Sunday night, but who were packed into a bus and taken down to the junction, to arrive more properly a second time.

CORUM STANDS PAT, BUT PRAISES BAY TEAM

DEC 12 (Green Bay) - Bill Corum, sports editor of the New York Journal-American, who last week said that Green Bay eventually must lose its franchise in the NFL, bit back at his critics in a weekend column. He wrote: "Some of the more fervid fans of this section became exceedingly worth at your correspondent last week because he was so bold as to say that eventually something would have to be done about the Green Bay situation in the pro league. It still goes. Nobody knows better than I how stable and solvent the Green Bay situation is, how well the players are care for with year-round jobs, how much of a cradle of the pro game the town has been. Still, the day must come, if the National league is to be what it should be, when all the teams in it will have their own parks and be able to play their own world's series in 'em. Cooperstown was the cradle of baseball. It can't have a team in the major leagues just because of that. Eventually the situation would crack up from the inside. Even now there is resentment among Green Bay merchants and citizens about this game being moved to Milwaukee. They are putting up the age-old beef that they support the team through its regular season, only to miss out on the glittering after piece that attracts nationwide attention. They're right. Yet the fault is inherent in this setup and will continue to be. I'm afraid, until pleasant little Green Bay grows into a metropolis. In some ways pro football today is where pro baseball was 50 years ago. It is going through a period of change and adjustment. It is suffering from growing pains. A bigger percentage of pro league football clubs made money this past season than baseball clubs in the major leagues. And two of the gridiron outfits that finished in the red managed to do so in spite of fine attendance. Notably Brooklyn. The Dodgers drew fine crowds at home and fairly well on the road, but wound up about $8,000 in the barrel due to the natural mistakes of management in a comparatively new enterprise. The Brooklyn franchise is one of the best, if not the very best, just as it in baseball. Some day somebody is going to give our faithful Flatbush friends a winner, and then what a golden harvest and Arabian Nights celebration there will be in the city of homes. However, being quite definitely and obviously a small town boy myself, I'm for Green Bay to go as far as it can before what would seem to be the inevitable overtakes it. That Curly Lambeau can put together as good a football team as any man, and run it well, has  been proved over and over."

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

DEC 12 (Green Bay) - The playoff game of 1939 was one of those things which you run over in your mind for days and weeks after it occurs. You can write a lot of words about it, and you can discuss it constantly, but yet new angles and thoughts keep bobbing up, enough to refuel the hot stove league for many a long month. Thousands of football fans will recall the occasion in years to come as the greatest team exhibition they ever witnessed. There have been many more thrilling games; there have been hair-raising dogfights in which competing teams were matched to a fine point; hundreds of championships have been won in more spectacular fashion; but few fans will remember a squad performance as methodical, as determined, as flawless as that which the Packers submitted in reducing the New York Giants' reputation to shreds. How can you pick individuals from such a contest without doing the gravest injustice to those unmentioned? You think of Bill Lee, perhaps - one of the most valuable men on the Packer team, and you wonder how any selection of a mythical team can ignore the giant tackle from the south. And then the work of those two great guards, Buckets Goldenberg and Russ Letlow, crosses your mind and you shake your head in admiration at their work. So it goes, throughout the squad. Cecil Isbell said after the game that "it was won in the line," and to an extent he was correct, in that completely inspired play in the Green Bay forward wall enabled the Packer backs to do anything they wanted, at any time. But while any great football team must depend upon the work of its centers, tackles, guards and ends, so must a championship team have the pounding, ripping backs it needs to charge through for yardage, to pass over the heads of a crumbling defense. The Packers used their relentless ground attack Sunday to drag the New York backs forward, and when they struck through the air, it was with terrific force. Almost the entire Green Bay squad saw action, and not a man fell down on his assignments. The Packers played only one really great game in 1939 - one game in which they looked like title holders every minute of the way. They reserved this great show - this demonstration of what they really can do - for the last game of the season, when the chips were on the table and hundreds of dollars were waiting for distribution to the victors. Somehow, we couldn't help but feel yesterday, as the homecoming parade wound its way through the business section, that this little old city deserves an awful lot of credit for what the Packers have accomplished. Thousands of  upturned faces, waiting at the station for a glimpse of a team which had played only a little more than a hundred miles away, represent a great community spirit. Dozens of other small cities - small in terms of great communities - started in the NFL, back in its early days, and had the same chance as did Green Bay. They've all washed out, leaving us with New York, with Chicago, with Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Brooklyn, Washington, Pittsburgh. Leaving us with them, not only capable of staying in that company, but of beating the daylights of its best teams. Green Bay is indeed writing for itself a glorious athletic history.

SPORTS WRITERS ANGRY, BUT FULL OF PRAISE FOR PACKERS

DEC 12 (Green Bay) - Several New York sportswriters attacked the facilities at State Fair park, but nearly all of them had complete praise of the Packer football team, as indicated in excerpts from their stories following the game. Packer fans are interested in the attitude of Bill Corum, Journal-American sports editor, who has been a sharp critic of the Green Bay franchise. An earlier statement by Corum appears in another column on this page. After the game he wrote as follows: BY BILL CORUM (N.Y. JOURNAL-AMERICAN) - My advice to Tim Mara (owner of the Giants) is just to pretend it never happened. The Giants were sadly handicapped; they had the second best team. The previous Sunday they beat Washington, for the dubious pleasure of coming to Milwaukee to tangle with the Packers, by the margin of a missed kick. Yesterday they lost by a kick; this one in the pants. The large small town boys from Green Bay wound up with everything in the frolic at the fairgrounds, including the prize-winning pumpkin or football. To tell the truth they acted as though they'd never even heard of our Giants. The Giants trained at Superior, Wis., last summer. That was the closest they came to being superior in Wisconsin this football season. I'm afraid those Packers were mad at us. They chucked us around as though we were so many hams and not from peanut fed porkers, either. They treated us with the utmost lack of consideration and of course wound up on the long end of the 27-0 score. You can't very well say "Under the spreading Green Bay tree the village Gantenbein stood," can you? Or Isbell? Or Hutson? All the Packers were up high and hot as firecrackers in this smashing and vengeful triumph over a Giant team that tamed 'em three times running prior to yesterday...BY STANLEY WOODWARD (N.Y. HERALD-TRIBUNE) - The NFL can't stand many more events of this kind and expected to be taken seriously by the football public. The league revealed itself as definitely small time. For a day at least, professional football dipped back into its unsavory past and did itself incalculable harm. A large scale of the public and most of the shares were disgusted beyond words as they attempted to fight back to town through a monumental jam after the game. State Fair park is eight miles out. The Giants were in a state of collapse. The setting struck a new low for league competition. The press box, hung out on a projecting lip of the grandstand roof, waved and wobbled in a 35-mile gale. Never in 20 years of this sort of thing has your reporter extracted less enjoyment for a football game. You couldn't watch it for feat of the press box, anchored with two thin wire cables, would come loose entirely or the lip of the rook would break off. Probably no one was as unhappy as the press, unless it was the Giants, who demonstrated how dreadful a good team can be; the speculators who got stuck; or the people who bought seats in the front of the grandstand or chairs on the horse track beside the field. They might as well have listened to the radio. Perhaps they did get a peek or two at proceedings by standing on their chairs, which they all did. At that they probably had the edge on the Giants' linemen, who were flat on their backs most of the afternoon. Steve Owen, the Giant maestro, who went west to attend the funeral of his mother, telegraphed his players, "block and tackle. I am with you wholeheartedly." The players did neither. They played the worst ball they have exhibited since they lost the night game to Pittsburgh in the Polo Grounds a year ago last October. The Packers, who were hot, split their line, ran their ends and riddled their secondary with passes. It was a holocaust. There were a few redeeming features. One was the play of the Packers, who did everything right. Another was the squealing of the scalpers, who took a terrible hooking. An hour and a half before the game they were selling tickets in the entry of the Schroeder hotel for what they could get. The night before they had asked $30 a pair for tickets. No one could stand for that, particularly after listening to the stories of bogus tickets which were around...BY ARTHUR J. DALEY (NEW YORK TIMES) - It was brutal! The Packer line ripped the vaunted Giant forward wall to ribbons, opening vast holes on the offense and defensively smothering virtually every New York threat at its inception. The Packer backs were terrific in their driving force and artful aerials. The Maramen were dull and lifeless. The Packers even stole their thunder in opportunities as they intercepted six passes. They stole it, too, in field goal kicking. All season long Green Bay had booted only five placements. They hammered in two Sunday. Not once did the Packers advance into pay dirt without mining a rich nugget. In sharp and bitter contest the Giants crossed the 30 yard line only twice. There was not a bad player on the Packers. Every man did a grand job, with the line more important than the backs. Baby Ray, Russ Letlow, Bill Lee, Buckets Godenberg, Charlie Brock, Svendsen, Larry Craig (defensive end in place of Hutson), Gantenbein and Carl Mulleneaux all were gorgeous performances. Green Bay used less than half a dozen straightaway plays, Spinners, half spinners and reverses wrought havoc with the New Yorkers. Passes riddled them completely. Even Leemans was stopped, just to show how the New York attack bogged down. On the defense, so violently did the Packers block that even Mel Hein was not at his best. The only New York standout was Johnny Del Isola. The rest of the Giants hardly were worth their salt. That may sound a bit cruel since every Giant played his heart out, but the psychological fillip was missing. Perhaps the absence of Coach Steve Owen, in Oklahoma for his mother's funeral, left the team uncertain and without confidence. That is not to be construed as an alibi, however. The Giants were beaten by a better team...BY WILLIAM T. EVJUE (MADISON CAPITAL TIMES) - Wisconsin may not be able to win football championships at Camp Randall, but Wisconsin can win a football championship - and how. Only one needed to be present among the 32,279 bug-eyed fans at State Fair park along about the third quarter yesterday afternoon to realize that a team assembled in Wisconsin and sponsored in the little city of Green Bay was making a monkey out of a highly touted team that won the championship last year and was playing a brand of championship ball that is rarely seen on any gridiron. The Green Bay Packers were champions yesterday - everything worked and there was beautiful machine-like precision as the team moved on to one touchdown and field goal after another. Yesterday's game was an eloquent testimonial to the great strides made by professional football in 20 years. A crowd of 32,279 people paid $83,510 to see the game. Back in 1919 Curly Lambeau borrowed $500 from an official of the Acme Packing company to buy the uniforms and the equipment to start the Packers. In the first year of the Packer history, there was no admission charge and the only revenue received was represented by the nickles, dimes and quarters that came from the sidelines when the hat was passed. When the proceeds of the first season in 1919 were divided, each player got $16.92 for the whole season's work. Yesterday, each Packer got $703 for playing in yesterday's championship game while each member of the New York squad got $445. There are members of both teams who receive as high as $5,000 for the season's play. The gulf between the $16.92 paid to each Packer in 1919 and the thousands of dollars paid to a Hinkle or a Danowski today represents the great strides that have been made. Incidentally, the Acme Packing company, from which the Packers got their first $500, has long since disappeared but the Green Bay team continues to be known as the Packers...BY GENE WARD (N.Y. DAILY NEWS) - Green Bay's mighty Packers ground a jittery, spiritless band of New York Giants into the turf. The Giants never had a chance. Everything they tried went wrong. Everything the Packers did was right. They couldn't miss. The Giants made a last desperate attempt to avert a humiliating shutout. Little Eddie Miller pitched one to Leland Shaffer and the big Giant back was bashed out of bounds just as the final gun cracked. One more play probably would have meant a touchdown. That was the last, decisive touch of irony, a fitting finish to the streak of hard luck which started early last week when Coach Steve Owen's mother died. The Packers were far superior to the Giants, it was no contest. As they steamrolled their way to victory, the Packers stole all the Giants' thunder. Our guys are rated as great pass interceptors - the Packer stole six Giants aerials, two of these interceptions set up touchdowns. Our Ward Cuff is a placekicker supreme - Green Bay's Paul Engebretsen and Ernie Smith toed one three-pointer apiece while poor Cuff missed two and Feets Barnum one...BY LOUIS EFFRAT (N.Y. TIMES) - The setup here at the state fairgrounds, site of the Giant-Packer playoff, presented the most amazing and fear inspiring picture of the day, overshadowing, by far, the action on the field. With a 25-mile wind, increasing in velocity, it appeared that a crowd was in danger of being swept into the next county. Not alone were many of the seats in the temporary, none too secure stands, but the wooden bleachers at the north and south ends of the field veered at such a crazy tangent that if the spectators looked straight ahead they saw might little of the football game. However, the greatest peril befell the writers assigned to cover the big game. A hurriedly wooden press box, perched 100 feet above the ground, trembled and swayed continuously and it appeared that any moment the whole thing would crash. When finally the men descended one remarked: "We're lucky to be alive," and all agreed...BY KEN SMITH (NEW YORK MIRROR) - After holding out for most of two seasons, stubbornly refusing to admit they were underdogs, the Giants finally broke down and confessed they belonged on the short end of the betting. Fans back home who have seen the level headed New York eleven weather storm after storm, losing only one of their last 24 games, will scarcely believe...that the Giants fell apart and floundered to the joy of 32,000 Green Bay rooters, who hooted them as soft touches. The Packer made monkeys of them, throwing the Giants' aerial defense into confusion in the first half, and in the second half even the New York line collapsed. Their offense was so inept that though they had the ball in Green Bay territory many times, nobody seemed to worry that the Giants would score. The Giants were suffering their worst off day of two years...BY BUD RENNIE (N.Y. HERALD-TRIBUNE) - It was the Giants' worst defeat of the year. They couldn't pass and they couldn't run against a fast charging Packer line which was forever breaking through. The Packers simply outplayed the Giants. Their plays clicked. They had a terrific defensive charge. They were alert and intercepted six Giant passes. They were easily the champions today over a Giant team which payed without its coach, Steve Owen, who was in Kansas, having attended his mother's funeral. Owen sent a telegram of encouragement to the team. It did no good...BY ROUNDY COUGHLIN (MADISON STATE JOURNAL) - The Packers trimmed the Giants in the Dairy bowl game yesterday. They were carrying the cream and the butter while the Giants couldn't get warm enough to say pass the skim milk. The Packers had no troubles in trimming the Giants at all. The Giants were lucky to get into the dressing room with their pants. The Packers came onto the field, looked at the goal post, saw that $700 cabbage leaves laying on the cross bars and said let's go bunch and Merry Christmas to you all. The Giants played as if they were glad to get out of the Dairy bowl game with the milk stool and the pail. The Packers had two centers who carried the ball much better than lot of Big Ten backs I saw all year. It was Brock and Svendsen. They were running and twisting like star Big ten backs when they intercepted passes. Every time you looked up Brock had a Giant pass intercepted and was running it back like a Kentucky colt through clover. One time Brock carried Giants on his back 15 yards just for a shoot the shoots ride. Coach Molenda sat in chair alone in front of Giants. He seemed dazed as the way the Giants were playing. He tried to pep them up by they had no pep in them yesterday. They were just a team who had a bad day and couldn't shake it off. In second half the Packers came out to put that game on ice and they just simply mauled them Giants around the second half something awful. The Giants didn't know they were in game in second half. The Packers tackles, Lee and Ray, were great, especially Lee who stood out. Ernie Smith was great when in also. The way that Andy Uram sneaks through that line. It was most lightning speed I ever saw a back use darting through hole in line. That Andy Uram folks is a wonder. He is one of the best I ever saw. The real star of the game was Brock at center for the Packers. Curly Lambeau outsmarted them Giants yesterday plenty. Why Curly had all this doped out beforehand. He was too cagey for them yesterday. The Packers played that game just as Lambeau wanted them to play it. The Packers were far more smarter team yesterday they were far greater outcoached. You got to tip your hat to Mr. Curly Lambeau of the Packers. Lambeau has the proper spirit that goes with a great coach also. You get Lambeau away from the Packers and they'll go to pieces folks. Take that from me. The Packers had one touchdown play there yesterday that was slickest thing I ever saw in football. It was pass from Isbell to Laws. It was so smooth it was like glass the Giants don't know yet where the ball came from or who got it. This Hinkle is great they stopped Hink cold yesterday from scrimmage. But his punting and kickoffs were great and his spirit was wonderful. Hinkle is one of the three greatest all around backs I ever saw play football. The Packers are one pro team who have that ol' college spirit in their play they are just like college boys out there they play for keeps they got the spirit and the will that goes with it to make them one of the greatest teams to ever play off all times folks.

PACKERS MUST REPORT AT LOS ANGELES DECEMBER 23

DEC 13 (Milwaukee Journal) - The Green Bay Packers will rest only 10 days before they go back into training to collect the first spoils which await them as champions of the professional football league. They will meet an all-star pro team, selected by fans in the nine league cities at Los Angeles January 7. Lambeau has ordered the squad to report on the coast December 23. Dutch Clark, coach of the Cleveland Rams, probably will coach the all-stars. George Halas of the Bears declined because of his business. Green Bay has received offers for exhibition games but the league rules prohibit any games beside the coast all-star game and the Chicago all-star game. A special dispensation might be granted, but Coach Curly Lambeau is not inclined to ask for it. Honolulu has offered $10,000 and expenses for a game at the Hoolawiea celebration late in January. The Packers came out of Sunday's game with only one casualty. Bill Letlow, guard, got a bad bump on the knee and may not play in the Los Angeles game. The Packers were a little piqued upon learning after the game that the Giants had used Potsy Clark, former coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers, as a spotter with a telephone connection from the roof of the stand to the Giant bench. While the practice is general, the Packers felt they should have been appraised of the arrangement. The big break of the game, as some Packers saw it, was Brock's tackle of Tuffy Leemans on Green Bay's nine yard line in the first half. Leeman was apparently headed for a touchdown. Had he scored and the extra point been made, tying the score at 7-7 at the half, it might have been a different game. Lambeau doesn't agree. "We were getting better right along," he said, "and we would have still blown them off the field the second half. Had we kept our strongest lineup on the field in the fourth quarter, with the wind, I believe we could have scored two more touchdowns.

PACKERS DIDN'T DISAPPOINT FANS, WHO WERE SURE THEY WOULD WIN

DECR 12 (Milwaukee Journal) - This is the story of a not too freshly painted sign which epitomized the flaming spirit of this capital of the football world - and of champions who refused to short change the home folks, whose faith in them had never wavered. Otherwise, the sign wouldn't have been there, hanging on the weathered side of the old freight depot, and perhaps there wouldn't have been a homecoming of champions, either. But for things like that and folks like that, there might not even be the Packers. But the sign was there, proclaiming in bold letters of green and gold: "Welcome, Champions", and so were most of the townspeople as the mighty Packers came home Monday with their fifth world championship in the last 10 years. That sign was painted days ago; surely before anyone but these fans up here knew that the Packers were going to win the championship. These folks didn't dare dream of anything like that smashing 27-0 triumph over the New York Giants in Milwaukee Sunday - but they knew the Packers would come home as champions and they went right ahead with the sign, and with other signs and other plans, while the rest of the country trifled with such details as odds and points. Gone was the bitterness over the transfer of the championship game to Milwaukee. Cheering wildly in the crowd of more than 10,000, most of whom hadn't seen the game Sunday, were all those who had said they'd never go to another Packer game - and there were more than a few of them, from all walks of life. The Packers were coming home as champions and nothing else mattered. "But what if they had lost - what about the sign and all the other signs, then?" the reporter who should have known better, dared to ask. He got only a withering look of scorn and he knew there never had been any real doubt up here. As for the champions, they repaid that kind of confidence with a magnificent gesture of their own. Some of the boys - among them Hinkle, Laws, Mulleneaux, Gantenbein, Weisgerber, Tinsley and others - had driven back from Milwaukee after the game Sunday. But the fans were planning to welcome them at the depot and the fans had been told they would be there. So they piled into a bus, went out to De Pere and boarded the train there in order to be with the rest of the gang when the Packer special pulled into the spur at the old freight depot down at Mason and Washington sts. The train puffed in to the accompaniment of locomotive whistles, cheers, music and flares. The Packers' lumberjack band belabored its instruments over "On, Wisconsin", "Go You Packers" and "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight". The crowd clogged all available space around the long freight platform and nearby streets seethed with excited humanity. The din increased as the players appeared from the train and headed toward the waiting buses. On the way each was stopped briefly before the microphone presided over by Art Murphy of the Association of Commerce and Lavvie Dilweg, old Packer star. "The boys played their best game of the season; one of their best games of all times," said Curly Lambeau. "They sure deserved to win," seconded Red Smith. "Thank you, Green Bay," from Bill Lee. "Sure glad to be a winnah," drawled Jimmy Lawrence. "Glad we could bring back the championship," said Buckets Goldenberg. And so down the line as they filed along the platform. Then, with motorcycle and fire truck escort and blaring band, the procession moved downtown along streets lined with cheering fans. The champions will be honored at a dinner Thursday night at which they will be given their checks for $703.97, the winners' cut of Sunday's receipts. Cecil Isbell, Bill Lee, Buford Ray and Paul Kell are to married Saturday. Behind on the station platform two workmen in overalls looked after the crowd as it disappeared in the early evening darkness. "We ain't loaded the baggage yet," one of the reminded the other. "What do you want to do with the sign?" "Better store it somewhere," the other replied. "They'll probably want it for next year."