New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
.DELUGE KEEPS SCHOOL
ELEVENS FROM FIELD
Four Contests Scheduled for
Local Grounds Must Wait
on Weather.
PLAYERS GLAD OF RESPITE
After Brief Rest for Cripples
Postponed Games Are Expect
ed to Make Championship
Outlook Clearer.

The appetite Of the youthful football en-
thusiasts went unappeased yesterday. Tho
light which was expected to be shed upon
the true condition OF affairs in interscho-
lastic football, as shown by actual COM
petition in games which have a definite
bearing upon the championship OF greater
New York failed. In its place came a
drenching downpour that converted the
gridirons into veritable quagmires and
made it impossible to attempt even
game OF football The authorities in
charge of the various teams decided TO
call all contests off and wait for better
weather later In the week, when some
thing like a fair test OF ability might be
made on dry field.
Four marlborough games were to have
been played. First in Importance was the
meeting of Commerce and Poly Prep, at
Poly Field. with the Clinton Boys High;
Stuyvesant-Bay Ridge and Morris-Curtis
games came next In Importance. Defying
the driving rain. several hundred stout
hearted schoolboys wendell their dripping
way to the fields equipped with banners
and lusty lungs, prepared to cheer their
favorites on to splashing victory, or dry
them off after damp and dismal defeat
The respite was more than welcome by
the crippled High School of Commerce
team With half a dozen or more boys
on the side lines caring for bruises and
minor injuries, the Orange and Blue was
anything but optimistic over the outcome
The game will probably be played on on
Tuesday or Wednesday. and by that time
Commerce expects to have her full fight
ing force in the field Tiger De Boer'
the plunging tackle will be back in the
game next week, and in all Likelihood 10
Slsskind, head coach, will send him
against Poly. The backfield problem is
causing not a little concern at Commerce.
for, with the exception of Russell Clapp'
none OF the men behind the line has
shown any real ability as plunsers. Gene
Quinn, however, recently drafted from
the Cubs. has shown some great speed
and ability to pick his openings In the
practice work.
Even though better prepared than ncr
opponents, Poly will also benefit by the
rest. Quinn and one or two other play
ers are bumped and bruised, and the va
cation will do them q world of good.
The Boys High School also welcomed
the chance to rest before meeting Chnto''
The Brooklyn team mas not been running
smoothly this season, and, trying 10 orlII
| the fundamentals into the boys, the
| coaches have driven them bit too fast.
Several of them bear the marks OF siren
nous practice, but the general work has
shown Improvement in the last few days
| inclined look nDCn
the brighter side of things.
| On the other hand. however. Clinton
found little to enthuse over in the peltinS
rain. The Red and Black was inclined 10
look upon this game as more or less Oh
practice scrimmage, mere stePpn's
stone for bigger games to come. Chnton'
however, will throw her full strength into
the game when the teams face each other
on Wednesday afternoon, for Commerce
downed Boys High by score OF s. 10 u
and Clinton is determined to equal, II not
better, those figures.
A few wet, bedraggled youngsters re-
traced their steps from Commercial F1eid'
out In furthest Brooklyn, where Erasmus
Hall High School was to have met COM
mercIal. The field was lake. and water
polo or canoe fitting would have been
| more I'm order than common or garoen
football. The tickets for YESTERDAY
game will be good when the teams tAhe
the field or Tuesday afternoon.
The list OF games scheduled for yester-
day and the days on which they VIII De
PLAYED follow: Commerce VS.. rory
Prep" Wednesday probably); st. PAU
VS. Manual Training. at Garden CITY. to-
morrow; Erasmus Hall VS.. Commercial
Tuesday; Boys High vs.. De Witt Clinton
Manhattan Field, Wednesday. and motifs
ys Curtis. Tuesday. The games between
Raw Ridge and stuyvesant. Flushing and
| Freeport, Peekskll N. A. ana broohiyni
Prep" and Hamilton Institute ana o
Johns Prep" have been declared OIL
| indefinitely.