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A 1937 picture ot Griffith Stadium shows Cliff(center! watching the Texas heavyweight m I a ly 4 m » | m IfcL i ¦ boxer Max Roesch renewing acquaintance with (right), also Texan.

Page 10 Continued From is no telling what heights Battles might Redskins ever had. He was a 8-fool 195- have attained had he played with better pounder who could bull the enemy line or teams. In the winter of 1932, having fin- run the ends. He was not exceptionally ished at Wesleyan, he entertained three fast, but he was shifty. He had no peer offers. when it came to returning punts. In tum. “Portsmouth was interested, and so were Cliff could kick, if necessary, and once in the Giants and the Redskins,” Cliff relates. a while- he passed, although it was the “Moneywlse, there was no real spread. In Cascade has an axdwsiva ingradiant ta changa drops off least of his skills. fact, there was no real money. I’d played chosen, naturally, an for a small school, not Notre Dame or Ohio daansing, door rinsing “shaaCs.” Thai’s why He was as All- water into League halfback, the Redskins State, and I guess the National League _ but after Ganatal Eiactric pots Cascade in ovary now Mobile Maid I barnstormed, following their defeat of the teams figured I wouldn’t pull any people Bears, he retired. He was only 28, just into the parks. “But whereas Portsmouth and New York too gUueee why slippery-clean, rinse aster about at his peak. These Mow me indirectly, sent nnmrml* stops spotting as no slides right off. Result: no wster “Lou Little offered me a 34,000-a-year contacted Mr. Marshall representative. other detergent can. Cascade’s .drops to dry into ugly spots, job to be an assistant coach at Columbia.” a personal I felt I should exclusive ingredient changes Cascade gets even glasses spot- Battles explained “It’s quite a bit more sign with Boston if Mr. Marshall thought water drops into free-flowing leas ... dot-up dean. Yet it’s than I’m making with the Redskins.” that much of me.” Meets. And CMcade’s unique wafer far delicate china patterns It strains the imagination today to real* Three times Battles led the National any other detergent. formula loaves everything so than ize that Battles was paid less than 12,700 League in ground-gaining. Three times—- at his peak. “Two hundred and sixty-five one as a sophomore pro—he was picked for dollars a game was what I got.” Cliff All-League honors. He was in fast com- reminisces. “We played 10 league games.” pany. too—, Harry New- He was bom 30 years too soon. Even 20 man. , ,' Beattie GENERAL ELECTRIC years. If the Battles of 1937 were playing Feathers, . Clark Hinkle. Tuffy you to today, he might well be the best paid per- Leemans and Teammate Baugh were other us9^^^yw former in the business, with his salary well backfield standouts. into five figures. Battles is unstinting in his praise of FBOCTEB* GAMUTS / Ifkt f| I He came out of Akron, Ohio, where he Baugh. “He made us in *37. The Boston was a basketball (not a football) star. His Redskins never had a passer. I was in- prowess with the round ball earned him a variably running against an eightman line. scholarship at West Virginia Wesleyan. In It was different when we moved to Wash- MN fact.evebv ueaomg football there, he started at end before he ington—and there, all nice and shiny, was dohwasheb manufactvjbhi / \jttj was shifted to the backfield. where he Sammy.” belonged. It is CUff’s studied opinion that Baugh He was not quite unknown to Washington was the greatest of aU passers. "He was fans when he reported as a pro in *37. In by himself,” Battles says, “if the receiver early St General Electrical New 1967 Mobile Maid. This the very 1930 s Georgetown was a* was no more than 30 yards away. For the full-capacity portable dishwasher plugs in like a toaster power and West Virginia Wesleyan a patsy. real long pass. I’d pick . But About the only times Wesleyan on say this for the . . . needs no installation. Features automatic double got the I’ll Sam—he brought game pre-rime, power wash and triple rinse. The marvelous board was when Battles took a punt and along with him.” Mobile Maid deserves a marvelous detergent. So G-E brought it back, all the way. In 1930 for With Baugh at tailback under Coach Ray pocks Cascade in every new Mobile Maid. Always example, Georgetown clobbered the Moun- Flaherty's single wing, Battles and Pinckert t— drops that spot! imi Pan athi in your inarhinr taineers. 67 to 12. AH of Wesleyan’s points at the halves and Smith at quarter, it was “Flush*way Drain’’ ends were scored by Battles a dream backfield Washington had in *37. seews now awriAisfeciai 1- Exclusive hand-rinsing of dishes for good** Little, who was coaching the Hoyas, ear- And of them aU, Battles was the first to be wannest TtoFOW g. New power-scrub washing action marked Cliff then as a future assistant. elected to football's Hall of Fame at sow MSB AT roue ismovaa soft food particles. Nobody. Lou rationalized, could carry a ball Rutgers. There will never be a day, per- 6-e oeaub how i 3. Tub and dish trays heavily costed so well without some of his skill rubbing haps, when one ball-carrier will break with vinyl plastic to cushion china. off on his pupils loose for runs of 84. 78 and 75 yards, as As in the case of Walter Johnson, there Battles did against the Giants. This was

12 THE SUNDAY STAB MAGAZINE WASHINGTON. 0. C.. MAT S. 1957