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Show 'SvipscT Sffcr Tc!d i Rcnovs Pro I7cr Br Ma Grlffla ':.' , : NEW YORK. Noyi 15 . (UP) The National football league Tuesday Tues-day claimed passing star George Ratterman as 1U first' major victory vic-tory la new outbreak of bitter warfare with the rival All-America conference. All talk of peace went up In smoke as owner Ted Collins of the NFL New Tork Bulldogs snarled defiance of the A AC and was answered In kind by owner Mickey McBride of the A AC Cleveland Browns. But Collins really looped over haymaker when he claimed 'he has swiped Ratterman, blond touchdown touch-down maker, from the Buffalo Bills of the A AC. "I have signed Ratterman for four yean,' crowed Coll ma, "and he will begin playing tor a ta 195a" . , Collins refused any details, but the ' New Tork Dafly News reported re-ported that Rattermaa's contract with the Bulldogs calls lot a total at $40,050 salary for three years, Ratterman has been the whole shooting match for the Bills for the lest three years, ss far as their . attack Is concerned. This season he . ranks as the A ACS second best passer behind Otto Graham Of Me-Bride's Me-Bride's Browns, and he la retarded as one of the finest T-formaUoa field generals In the holiness. Blond, 23-year-old Georgie, -Notre Dame guard, would neither confirm nor deny Collins' claim. All he would say was he was "sur prised that Collins had said that. The Bills refused to comment at an. . .f It's been an open secret that Georgie was unhappy with the Bills, and this year he refused ta sign until after the first gam ef the season. Collins alas claimed that seven , . . of the N r L's 10 Warns will maka money this season "three of them. a lot of If one will break avea . and the other two, Including his own team, will lose a little." Collins elslmed thst sll seven A AC teams will lose money this season "as I see It. there are seven Collins la- that league," he Joked. On the other hand,' A AC Com-mlukmer Com-mlukmer a O. (Scrappy) Keating said his league "is not dead, not . dying, and not going to die." Keaslng said the two leagues , should use "common' sense" and agree on a common player draft, but, he added, "our aim Is to avoid a merger for any league." McBride flatly denied thst A AC was in financial trouble, but said thst If It doee fold, "I would sell and get out of pro football." He would not Join the ether league. 'The National league Is dominated dom-inated by a couple of persona who would treat me as small fry," said McBride. "Tve never been pushed around by anyone and I don't intend in-tend to let anyone push at round Ont team was frankly admitting lt'a hard up for dough the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. . The Peckers, a nonprofit eMa organisation, have rifted up aa lntraequad game for Thanksgiving day. And 100 Green Bay businessmen business-men have pledged ta sell out tha stadium of 33,000 easts. |