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gflgflngrtfgCfmig ft THE LIFE OF PAPA BEAR Galloping Ghost's U.S. Tour Got Pro Football Off and Running "That's How I 1 if if- I 'iliiliiliilill mSk a So i i I' 4 I i ''-1 flf'; v'; 7YiYj Y'rk lY Yl 1 5 i Grange'lured another fans to Wrigley Field in a Sunday snowstorm and gained 140 yards as the Bears whipped the Columbus Tigers, 14-13. The following Wednesday, Grange scored four touchdowns against Donnelly's All-Stars in St. Louis. Donnelly was a prominent mortician-sportsman and one reporter, reflecting upon the one-sided score (39-6), conjectured that the All-Stars must have been recruited from among Donnelly's clientele.

Next Saturday, Grange was in Philadelphia and scored twice as the Bears beat the Frankf ord Yellow-jackets, 14-0, before 40,000 in a driving rainstorm in Shibe Park. Then, without even stopping to dry out our uniforms, we went on to New York for a Sunday battle with the Giants in the Polo Grounds. a Before a sellout crowd of 65,000, Grange clinched our 19-7 triumph by sprinting 30 yards with an intercepted pass. However, Red also acquired a painful neck injury when Joe Alexander, the Giants' center, upended him on the goal line. Bruised Arm The following Wednesday, Grange also Incurred a severely bruised left arm as the Providence Steamrollers handed us our first tour defeat, 9-6.

The Bears had played eight games in 15 days, and our 18-man traveling squad was in pitiful shape when we took on the Pittsburgh All-Stars on Thursday. We played the first five minutes with only 10 men in the lineup, then the referee complained and I called for a volunteer from the ranks of our heavily bandaged bench warmers. The. choice finally nar-rowed down between tackle Ed Healey and center George Trafton, who were nursing painful leg injuries, but could still hobble. Trafton reluctantly limped into action, and put in a miserable afternoon while Healey convalesced on the bench.

Fifth in a Series Now teste fc world the Ball Bounces C. also wore a derby and carried a cane. I think of kh i every time I see Adolph Menjou in the late TV movies. Frankly, Dutch and I figured that a middle-aged small-town theater operator who wore spats might not prove too tough a negotiator for a couple of bright young football executives from Chicago. But then, we also had made other mistakes.

When we finally sat down in a suite at the Morrison Hotel to work out contract details, Dutch and I offered C. C. a flat one-third of our net profits on the tour for Grange's signature. It quickly developed that C. C.

whose initials soon were to be translated, into the internationally known nickname of "Cash and Carry" also had a one-third figure in mind. But C. C. felt the Bears should accept one-third of the net, with two-thirds going to his side. Shot-in-the-Arm Starting at 10 o'clock that Saturday morning, we analyzed these fundamental percentages with C.

C. all day, all night and up until noon on Sunday. Finally after 26 hours, we staggered but of the suite with an agreement allowing the Bears to keep one-half of the receipts. We also were allowed to bear all the expenses. Monday morning's newspapers headlined the news that Grange would play for the Bears against the Cardinals in Wrigley Field pn Thanksgiving.

At 9 o'clock, when our tickets went on sale at Spalding's downtown store, a line of 2,000 customers quickly formed. I knew then and there Grange was the box office shot-in-the-arm pro football needed. Grange's pro debut attracted our first sellout crowd of 36,000, and I'm positive we could have sold another 30,000 tickets had space been available. Anybody who bought a ticket in expectation of watching Grange run wild was disappointed. The Cardinals bulwarked by Paddy Driscoll's ability to angle punts away from Grange held the Bears to a scoreless tie.

Three days later. 3i3 rnca 1 1BIi i (BY GEORGE S. II ALAS 1H7, ChictM Trlfcun. I The Bears signed Red (Grange on Nov. 22, 1925, only 24 hours after the nation's most famous football player had taken part jn his final collegiate game for Illinois.

It was a sensational story I don't think any other player ever has come close to equaling Grange's popularity, with the fans. Red was the product of an era which idolized its sports champions and he had the champion's knack of turning in his greatest performances in the clutch. When Illinois dedicated its new Memorial Stadium in '24 against Michigan, for example, Red galloped 95 yards for a touchdown on the opening kickoff. And, beforu the quarter was over, he gcored three more times pn runs of 67, 56 and 45 yards. No wonder my old friend, sports columnist Warren Brown, nicknamed him "The Galloping Ghost" Over a two-month period, Grange and the Bears barnstormed across the country, playing 20 games before crowds totaling more than 360,000.

Grange and his manager cleared about $250,000 from the tour, including movies and indorsements. The Bears Share came to about our first substantial profit since moving to Chicago in '21. I Successful Tour I've always thought it ras the tremendous publi-eity generated by the Grange tour which established pro football as a national sport Oddly enough, the success of the tour and our success in feigning Grange to a contractpivoted around our dealings with an enterprising gentleman named harles C. Pyle. In the faU of '25, Pyle was operating a movie theater near the Illinois campus.

One evening Pyle topped Grange in the lob-iy and Inquired: "Young inan, how would you like to make a hundred thousand dollars, or maybe even I million?" Grange expressed a na- firal curiosity about how his could be accomplished, and the next fnorning Pyle and his Chicago representative, Frank ambreno, called on Dutch Sternaman and me in our Chicago office. I "Grange is ready to turn firo," Pyle assured us. He'll join the Bears immediately after his final college game, and we'll go on tour for a couple of 'months schedule a string games down through Florida and out to the West Coast" No Word From Grange I Although neither Ster-naman nor I ever had lieard of C. C. Pyle, we had iiothing to lose by talking to him, particularly since Grange had not been answering our letters.

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