Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-08
Big College Football Ma
chimes Are Being Driven
Along at a Good Clip for
Next Saturdays Games.

dash in the Tiger scrlmmage yesterday, but
/ the results were not satisfactory when viewed
men made two touchdowns in fifteen minute
melee. while the freshmen eleven held the reg
ulars TO one touchdown in 10 minutes. The field
and ball were slippery, but there was not as
much fumbling as might have been expected.
Captain Bill Stephens is entering oil his
fourth season as member of the Central
High football team with better prospects
of landing an all-schoastic berth than
ever before. Bill has lost none of the
amazing speed that featured his open
field running last year, and has added 10
this an ability to dodge and suuirm away
from opposing tacIlers that increased the
eeams offensive strength by many yards
in the Wilmington High game. stephens
io-yard run in the opening period placed
the ball almost In the shadow OF the goal
posts and II was then a simple matter to
carry it the remainder of the distance.
Another big day is scheduled for tomor-
row in scholastic football, no less than
nine games being caIded for local grid
irons, Northeast High being the sole one
of the big schools that will take an off
day. Central High has drawn a difficult
assignment in It's game with Nnlanova
Prep which gave Northeast such a tussle
last week, but Howell expects his team
to improve on the Red and Blacks score
considerably. Following is the schedule
of tomorrow's games: Penn Charter VS..
Chestnut Hill, at st. Martins Frankford
High VS. Southern High. at Southwark
Field; Villanova Prep VS.. Central High
School, at Houston Field; Wilmington
High VS.. Atlantic City High, at Atlantic
City Haverford School vs. Episcopal, at
SD and Walnut streets; Bryn Athyn VS.,
Germantown Academy, AT Mannheim;
Chester4iigh VS.. West Philadelphia High,
at West Philadelphia; Lansdowne High
VS., Tolentine Academy, at Lansdowne.
Scholastic soccer will see its official
opening tomorrow. when Haverford
School plays Episcopal Academy on the
latter's field. Little or nothing Is known
of the respective merits of the two teams
but as both have invariably been leaders
in this branch of sport in former years,
a stirring contest is looked for.
Little or nothing has been heard as
yet from the Episcopal eleven aside from
its scoreless tie with Bryn Athyn last
week. This result came in the nature Of
a surprise to Episcopal, who has formerly
experienced nut little trouble IN ulsposlHs
of the out-of-town team, and does not
speak we'll for their chances of landing
the interacademic title again this fall,
especially in view OF Penn Charters fine
showing in its opening games. The cham
plonship has generally been won by either
one or the other Of these schools, but
the Quakers appear 10 have an edge on
their rivals this year.
As long as Central High retains Gilbert
Tomlinson. the national SS0-yard cham
pion, as a member of its swimming team,
the Crimson and Gold will be reasonably
sure of having a successful season. Tom
linson is IN a class by himself among the
schoolboys and is capable of beating all
comers from 100 yards up. His one draw
back is a desire to compete In all the
races possible in one afternoon, and in
this way invariably becomes stale before
the curtain drops on the aquatic season