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Show Zero Weather Keeps Bears and Redskins Inside As They Await Battle for Pro Grid Championship 0 CHICAGO, Dec. 10 UP) Th weather man may be the twelfth player on the side of the Chicago Bears, western champions, when they meet the Washington Redskins, Red-skins, eastern titleholders, for ths national professional football championship at the National league baseball park Sunday. With sero weather forecast for the next two dayi, the Bears today to-day went up to S-5 betting favorites favor-ites over the eastern champions, The cold wave figures to harm th Redskins, who bav 19 men i from warm climes In their ranks, mora than th Bears, who have only thre players on-their (quad from below th Mason and Dixon line. Five of Washington's key men aren't a bit used to playing in sero temperatures. They ars Sammy Baugh from Texas Chriatlsn, Riley Ri-ley Smith from Alabama. Charley Melon from Texas A. A U., Les Olsson from Mercer (Georgis) and Erny Picked from Southern California. . j It'll be th coldeet weather Baugh ever played a football gam In if th forecaster's prediction predic-tion comes true. Already Baugh's teammates are calling him "Frost Bite." He shivers every time h looks out th window. -8ho' nuff, boy," remark Bsugh, "this is the north pole." Only Chicago playsrs from tha south are Bcattie Feathers. Tsn- J neesee; Frank Sullivan, Loyola (New Orleans), and Dick Plas- man, Vanderbilt. t |