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Show All-Star-Pro Grid Tilt Sponsor Defends 'Payoff' of Players By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES. Jan. 29 WV Mr. Ab Young, the gentleman from Oklahoma, has the floor, and he's welcome to It The usually affable Ab wanted to give rebuttal to a few chosen remarks re-marks a week ago by big Steve Owen, coach of the New York Giants professional football team. They were directed at the recent re-cent pro engagement between some that was, from all accounts, better bet-ter than the attendance. Here's what Young says: The players knew they were playing for what they drew at the gate, and had no reason to expect it would be more than materialized. They knew, too, that they had to liquidate a $350 bill for uniforms uni-forms purchased, and then divide the rest if any. Appsrently there Wasn't much, If any, left, because Young said he saw to It that the boys got at least J10 apiece and paid, from his own pocket S154.17 to the uniform account. ac-count. "I am in possession of the re-icelpt," re-icelpt," he added. college ' all-star players and the Los Angeles Bulldogs. Owen I charged that the collegians had been unduly "exploited," and deplored de-plored the fact that rich talent from the west's campuses had been paid off at a mere $10 a head. "Barnstorming football" of this type, Owen said, was not good medicine for pro football. Young takes issue. He used to play football, and play well, back in Oklahoma; he is the athletic director at Black-Foxe Military academy; is an efficient footbaU official; and, more timely, was the coach of the college all-stars. In fact he coached them to victory over the tough Bulldogs in a game |