New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-15
Battle Ends with Ball Few
Inches from Goal of
Brooklyn Team.
TOUCHDOWN WAKES
UP A LISTLESS LINE
New York Boys Play Game OF
Their Lives in the Second
Half of Contest.

The time-honored Manual Training
ink imped off the Polo Grounds yes
ferdav. bruised and battered, with It's
funeral raiment torn TO shreds. A mar
gin of only nine inches was all that
saved the Manual team from leaving
the field beaten. but those nine inches
we're as nine miles to the Commerce
backs. Commerce, however broke the
string of reverses suffered at the hands
of the Brooklyn team. and playing a
game in the last half that played on
the feelings OF some four thousand
SPECTATORS. earned a draw with the
score standing at 8 to 6. In the pre-
liminary game the Commerce Cubs de-
feated the Manual Cubs by score OF
Z TO 6.
One minute and thirty seconds re-
NAMED to play in the fourth period
wben Commerce smashed through the
Manual line for n first down on the
I-yard line. The ball was brought
there by a gripping march down the
field. and it seemed as If nothing could
prevent Commerce from winning.
After three terrific lunges. had been
renulsed the ball rested less than a
foot away from the goal line. While
the lines crouched for the next attack
the officials called time, and one OF the
hardest fought games OF scholastic
football ever seen was over.
In the Arst half, Manual ripped ana
tore into the Commerce team ana
scored a touchdown in the first few
minutes Of play. 1t looked like walk
over. for the Commerce line was
sisting as paper, the ends an o
avenue 70 ground ahead. But
touchdown, while it reused the 50
of the Manual players, also Wa +"
spur to the Commerce team. The yle-"-
ing forwards and weak ends suddehlE
became a line of tempered steel and the
savage attacks of the Manual players
were hurled back.
Manual had three chances 10 score
One, as told previously, was seized. IN
the first period Commerce fum6led the
ball on It's own 40-yard line, and IN less
than ten plays Cam'nez, that sturdy
little batteripg ram OF the BrooKiyh
team. touched il TO earth behind the
Last chalk line. The other chances
were rendered unavailable by the Com
merce defence. Commerce had three or
four chances to put the ball over, but
failed TO develop a scoring punch IN
the attack. A tumble by Galligan cost
one possible touchdown.
In the third period, however. Com
merce found itself, and rushed the ball
down the field until finally Harry Fos-
ter fell on the ball over the line Tor a
touchdown. Fortune smiled on this
score. for Russ Clapp, the Commerce
captain. who was sent crashing into the
line. was hit so hard that he fumbled
Two Manual forwards lunged Tor the
hail but the ebert little Foster picked
i ND and dove over the last line That
tied the score. and while the Commerce
section prayed, Clapp tried for the easy
coal. Then the jinX bobbed up. Clapps
Rick few under the bar, not over.
There was no fuke of fortune IN
Manuals tally. Taking the ball on the
enemv's 45-yard line, Titus sliced
through between Foster and Collins Tor
first down. and Berry banged the line
for six Yards. The play OF the Manual
line was nearly perfect, and the
Commerce forwards were well cleaned
out Feuerstein circled Foster for ten
wards. and Caminez hurtled past Wick
i;dce for seven more. Three plunges
brought the ball to the 2yard line, and
then Cnminez hit the line for touch
down. Weller missed the goal
Ii Manual held the centre OF the stage
in the first half with its attack, honorS