New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
PACE OF TRAINING
TELLS ON COMMERCE
Team Lacks Dash After Siren
uOus Daily Battles with
Fordham Eleven.
TUESDAY GAMES LOOM UP
Erasmus Manual and Poly
Prep. Boys High Double
Header Attracts the
Most Interest.

Header Attracts the
Most Interest.
As the championship football games
draw near, the student body at the High
school Of Commerce is somewhat uneasy
about the condition of the team. The
orange and Blue eleven has been prac-
Using against Fordham University. and
has found it work of the most strenuous
nature. Driven at top speed by the
tongue lashings of Tom Thorpe, Fordham
has shown little mercy to the schoolboys,
who bear the marks Of battle as re-
suit. II has been noticed, and by the
players themselves, that in the last few
days they have not been able TO get the
same drive into their attack, while the
Maroon backs have ripped their defence
into a thousand pieces.
There has been little disposition on the
part CT the coach to let up. 1t is prob
able however. that after the Morris game
tomorrow the boys will be allowed to
case down and get a chance to recuperate
before meeting Manual Training High
school in the game which may decide the
championship of greater New York. Last
week Commerce scrimmaged against
Fordham varsity three times, and by
way Of resting tackled the Fordham
Prep. team on another day.
Misfortune has camped close m the
trail of Commerce this season, and with
many of his best players on the side lines
Ed Sisskind has been at his wits ENDS
10 put a strong team in the field. Inc
loss of Howard Cam was a staggering
blow but his place has been filled by
Frank Parkington, who is making a re-
markable showing in practice. Russell
Clamp. at fullback. and Gene Quinn, at
The other half, with Gunther and Wittner
at quarterback, complete the first string
backted.
The schoolboys await with great inter
est the results of the four big games
tomorrow Much information VIII be
gained, for the true power of all teams
engaged will have TO be shown, and the
formations, plays and courts Of last re-
sort" as these desperate chance plays
fort TO stave of defeat
OF chief Importance are the games be-
tween Poly Prep and Boys High and
Erasmus Hall and Manual Training High
School. which will be played at Ebbets
Field. Never before in the history oil
scholastic football have two games OF
such Importance been played on the same
field on the same afternoon. Promptly AT
1.45 o'clock Boys High and Poly Prep
will take the field, and when they have
pIayed the first half will retire and Eras-
mus and Manual Training will night II
out for two periods. Boys High ana
Poly Prep will then finish their game
and. that over. Manual Training ana
Erasmus will bring their struggle TO
close.
Clinton and Commercial will meet on
Commercial Field, at Albany avenue
playing at 10 O'Clock in the morning 10
avoid conflict with the games at Ebbets
Field A we'll played game is expected
and while Clinton expects TO win, HOOKS
the coach. declared that single touch
down or a goal from the field would be
more than likely TO decide the issue.
Morris High School and Commerce VIII
clash on the Polo Grounds to-morro"
afternoon. Morris is discouraged over her
defeat at the hands Of Curtis High School
last week, but the boys believe they nave
an even chance Of defeating the 6Jth
street warriors
The clean record of Adelphi Academy
was smirched by the defeat suffered at
the hands Of Princeton Prep. but the
team WAS not disgraced in any way out
nlaved from start to finish by bigger,
stronger team, the Brooklyn boys fought
like Spartans. and never yielded an inch
without the most stubborn resistance
CAPTAIN Ibbotson was a power in the line
and piled up many play before 1t really
got under way. The Afford brothers
PLAYED well. too, and Don ran the team
with the cool skill of general III was
however. clear cut question OF lack OF
power. Tommy Brush, the former Eras-
mus Hall player, showed well for the
Tigerlets. and gained many yards with
his terrific plunging.
Llewellyn Wray, a former Adelphi LAD
now at Princeton Prep, refused to play
against his old school, and watched the
game from the side lines He almost
cheered when Leyser slid over the line
Z for Adephis lone score.
Hope Of high rating in the scholasuc
football ranks is about extinct in the
hearts of the stuyvesant High Schooi
players. At the beginning of the season
enthusiasm ran riot. and victory over the
big teams was freely predicted. The hrst
setback came with the defeat at the
hands of De witt Clinton, and the other
day. when Bay Ridge held them to 10
victory. that which springs eternal SANK
10 rise no more until next September
sounds the call again.
"Rube" Onley, the former Cohlinerc'a
High School football star now at Co'-
gate, played I'm the game against i"'o
on Saturday, and, according to the re-
ports OF the game, did well.
Steam Roller Hank Blodgett' aho'"o,
New York boy. showed the coaches o.
Annapolis his true worth In the gam
with Tebigb on Saturday, and has an en-