New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-05
COMMERCE GETS IN
THE FIRST PUNCH
Touchdown in Opening Quarter
Defeats the Morris
High Eleven.
BOTH TEAMS FIGHT HARD
Aggressiveness, However, Is
Spasmodic-Referees Mete
Out Many Penalties
Toward the End.

BY cettn n" of 10 a nling ART. the
High School OF Commerce loo-ball eleven
defeated Morris High at the Polo GrouniS
Yesterday afternoon. Gunther plunged
across the line for a touchdown. from
which Quinn Kicked .he goal. insice Inc
first five minutes of play. That finished
tho scoring. and the contest ended with
the score at 10 O.
After that Morris knit together tightly
its defence. Repeatedly Commerce was
slowly backed down toward its goal ami
on each occasion was successful In Wig
Cling out Of the threatening situation.
The Morris team, with the opportunity
to score looming brightly before it, al
WAYS lacked the decisiveness 70 put he
tallying play through.
On each side aggressiveness was spas
mode rather than sustained. This con-
trlbu,ed to a running battle up and down
the field, and kept the cohorts Of COM
merce shouting and waving the banners
Of blue and gold AT the southerly SIDE,
while Morris Justify cheered on its ma
room clad warriors from the northery
boundary.
Penalties were meted out with startling
frequency. Morris proved the offender at
the beginning OF the game. chiefly be-
cause of offs.de play Toward the close,
with Morris lighting desperately to score,
Commerce was frequently penalized foF
holding on the line
Huggenwig the Morris captain, Sener-
ally made mess Of his attempts at ITO
forward pass Twice he was downed III
his tracks before he tossed the ball Gun
Their was inclined to make the forward
passes too quickly for Commerce whica
resulted in the ball being intercepted. and
only two Of his dozen throws came OH
successfully
Hugeenwig had slightly the better or
his rival Quinn, at punting. The COM
merce backs, especially Quinn. usually
ran the ball back cleverly, while the
Morris team appeared so sluggish as uni
formly to contribute gains to Commerce
whenever Quinn booted the ball down the
field. on the whole. the doughty Gene
Quinn was the dynamic power that car
ried the Commerce eleven along. and the
victory was largely attributable 10 his
individual brilIiancy.
Huggenwig kicked off for Morris az the
beginning of the game, and II was quinn
who nailed the ball. He ran IT back for
q wards around tho left end. The MOTIFS
line temporarily checked the advance,
but il was slow in getting into tho plays
so that Commerce. hammer ring away dt
Graeb, Sweidle and Ellis, on the MOTIFS
left wing. carried the ball TO the 5-yard
line. In a ripping line plunge Gunther
was forced over through Sweidle for the
touchdown. and Quinn followed with a
pretty kick that sent the ball clearly be-
tween the posts.
Erwig distinguished himself by splen-
did run of 50 yards. following the COM
MERGE kickoff The Morris players
tackled the left end of the opposing line.
They found IL Improbable. however, ana
for a time the ball was being swappeo
back and forth. as either side tailed 10
make gains on downs. Commerce event.
uallv welded its forces together ana
forced Morris hack. compelling HuSsen-
wig 10 punt as the irst quarter ended.
Commerce fumbled badly in the second
quarter. II was slow and uncertain. and
II was only by an occasional end run. the
best OF which was a sprint by Parkinson
for . yards, that saved II in some uckish
situations. Quinn enlivened the thirH
quarter with a run around the LETT eno'
his favorite opening, for 30 yards Com
merce missed an opportunity TO score
again in this quarter, as with the ball on
the Morris 3-yard line Gunther. the quar-
terback. failed to make the required gam.
Manly. The Morris quarterback. made
run OF 40 yards I'm the last part OF the
game. There were frequent changes in
the line OF both teams at this stage. The
battle was i'm the centre of the field.
however. and il was there, with the ball
in Commences possession, that the con-
test ended