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1 4 i tH jC' in i -9 mm a To Giants, Redskins Are 'Spec! By NORM MILLER si (j ii To Jell's, BarsaBauskas Means IHlope By BILL VERIGAN WARNINGS HAVE gone out: Carl Barzil-auskas is a man to be avoided- He has been the lone giant of consistency this season on the Jets' defensive line. Ironically, if a coin at last year's college draft had landed on its other side, Barzilauskas might be in a Colt uniform today at Shea Stadium and John Dutton might be with the Jets. The Colts got first choice on the flip after the two teams were tied with identical 4-10 records- They went for Dutton, the Jets got Barzilauskas. Neither team is unhappy. There will be inevitable comparisons between them, but it won't be the first time their paths crossed.

They have the same agent, and they played side by side in the Senior Bowl. This year, Barzilauskas is at left tackle, Dutton is playing right end. If the Jets had gone for Dutton, they would have lost one of the great characters on their team. Barzo is so quiet that few would believe he is the proprietor of a bar in Indiana called Barzo's Blitz. On the other hand, he is also a regular at the religious chapel services held by the Jets before their games.

But what he really loves are fast cars. "Every year, I spend a lot of time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway he said. "Next year, I want to be on one of the pit crews. "The cars are a little snug for me, but I've done some drag racing. I started, with a Stock Chevrolet, then got a Modified Firebird, and we did pretty good." After that fast pace, he said living on Long Island with three other rookies is "a little like living in a monastery." By the time Barzo was 13, he was 6-3 and weighed 230 pounds.

(He's now 6-6, 270.) Playing football was inevitable, but he got very few scholarship offers when he graduated from Cheshire Academy. "It wasn't the kind of program that colleges were looking at," he said. "We had 17 guys on the team who had to do everything, and we didn't WASHINGTON Professional athletes generally are a callous lot with a universal lust for victory and little or no preference for victims or conquerors. But if you ask Giants vets, the majority will tell you they'd rather beat the Redskins than any other team in football. One of the principal reasons for this is frustration.

Going into today's game at RFK Stadium, the Giants have lost seven straight games to the Skins. What's more, they are 13 -point underdogs. There's another reason, too. It involves head coach George Allen and a series of incidents in which the Giants have come out on the humiliating end of their associations with his clubs dating back to a game in Los Angeles in 1966. And as recently as 1972, both Giant losses to Washington were aggravated by arguments that needled their frustration against Allen and his Skins.

Spinder Lockhart, the only active Giant who played in that '66 game against Allen's Rams, agreed yesterday that recollection is one of the reasons why "it's time we turned things around." "I'd like to beat the Redskins because they're such a good ballclub," said the Giants' defensive co-captain. And then, with caution, since there's no point in stirring up opponents with an item they might read in the newspapers: "Also because of all the things that have happened in our games with them." Spider, like many of the newer Giants, apparently can shape his attitude toward Allen personally as much as to the Redskins as a team. Giant fans can recall the start of this anirjf tfty during that disastrous 1-12-1 season of '66. Aim. Kilier-tnan was head eoach; Earl Morrall had been kayoed by a broken hand and th-s Giants were trying to carry on with Gary Wood and Tom Kennedy at quarterback.

Somewhere during the course of giving up a record 506 points for a season, the Giants met the Rams. Allen then was in his first season as head coach at LA and eager to make a score. He sure did that Sunday, 55-14 over the sad-sack Giants. It wasn't so much the magnitude of the shellacking that irked the Giants. It was the cheap stunt Allen pulled at the finish.

He called time out with seconds to play so that he could get in his kicking platoon for a meaningless field goal. The act seemed in such poor taste to some of his Rams that three players came to the bus taking the Giants to the airport and apologized to Sherman Allen was to go 3-for-3 over the Giants in his five seasons with the Rams. The last of is gallingly recalled by the likes of Ron Johnson, Doug Van Horn, Don Herrmann, Willie Young, Bob Tucker, Pete Gogolak and Pat Hughes, as well as Lockhart, That was the year the Giants were knocked out of a playoff spot by a 31-3 loss to the Rams on the final Sunday of the season. When Allen shifted to Washington in '71, he brought with him his aggravating domination of the Giants. Both Washington victories in '72 steamed up the passions of the Giants and their rooters.

In the first, at Yankee Stadium, there was a disputed official's call denying Ron Johnson yardage for a first down on a critical play that turned the ball game. The Skins went on the win, 23-16. And in the second, with the game safely won, the Redskins called time out with only seconds remaining to give Larry Brown the opportunity fj" a rub-it-in touchdown. A fist fight among rivu wriv ant coaches broke out after the final gun. "These kids are a young team," Alex Webster steamed in the dressing rocm.

"They'll remember this one." Well, more than a dozen Giant players remembered in last season's two games with Washington and still couldn't do anything about it. Allen's string of successes over the Giants ran to 10 in the Skins' 13-10 season opener this year. So now comes this return match that the Giants are not too well equipped to contest. Ron Johnson likely will not play much, if at all; first-stringers Ron Hornsby and George Hasenohrl are out; guard Tom Mullen and center Bob Hyland are and Jim Del Gaizo, an inexperienced lefty quarterback who had a mediocre first start last Sunday, is due to try again. Giants fans can be forgiven for crying-itWhen, oh when, will this end?" Carl Barzilauskas, rookie left tackle, has emerged as the surprise bulwark of Jets1 defensive line.

know what it meant to have things like films of opponents." Needless to say. his prep school lost a lot. He went to Indiana and lost more. He was preparing for a job with the Jets, who are favorites to post their second victory today. "My main problem is waiting on the line too long," he said.

"I have a tendency to worry about what's going to happen. The second time around for the teams in our division should be easier, but I'll probably need two years to recognize things the way I should." Dutton feels the pressure too. "There was more pressure at first," he said, "but Joe Ehrmann told me to take it easy. He said I'd have to spend this season learning. Each week I build on what I've got from the previous week." "We have great hopes for Dutton and Ehrmann," said a Colt spokesman.

"It could be another Donovan-Marchetti combination. Dutton is great on the pass rush, Ehrmann is better against the run. But there are other similarities. Dutton is a baby face like Gino Marchetti; Ehrmann is the tough guy like Art Donovan." For Dutton, 6-6 and 260, going to the Colts also meant learning to lose after playing for a winner at Nebraska. "I hate losing, but there have been a lot of things going on and we're still building," Dutton said.

"There are really no problems now, but there were a lot of hard feelings for a while over the firing of the coaches and all. It's still on a lot of guys' minds, but there's nothing to do but play." Dutton had two things going against him when he came to the pros: a reputation, an unfair reputation, for being hard to handle in college, and he had established that he would drive a hard bargain when he rejected a contract offer from San Diego before the draft. "I got the reputation during the last weeks of my senior season," he said. "A lot of guys were complaining about the workouts before the Cotton Bowl, so I called a meeting. It got back to the coaches that I was talking the team into a boycott of practice, but in all the time I played for Nebraska, I never missed practices and usually stayed late after practice.

It was just a few pansies who went running to the coach. "As far as the deal with San Diego, I simply didn't want to sign that contract. I'm glad I waited." ij John Dutton, Coifs' first-round draft choice, was selected fifth, just ahead of Jets' Barzilauskas..