New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-16
COMMERCE AND
EAST ORANGE
ELEVENS READY
Game One of Many Treats
on Scholastic Football
Card To-day.

The High School Of Commerce Will
face the football team Of East Orange
High School, which has been blazing a
broad trail through scholastic ranks
this season. on Lenox Oval. Lenox Ave
nue. and l45th Street. this afternoon
The teams will take the field at z
o'clock. and unless every sign carries
far 70 windward real battle will be
fought.
This Is only one course in the feast
which will be set for the followers OF
this gripping, virile spcr:. Manual
Training High School will engage the
team from New York Military Academy
at Ebbets Field, Erasmus Hall mlgh
School will face Bay Ridge at west
End Oval. Morris Will take the new
York University reserves, ana he wv
Clinton will try the mettle OF the 20
lumbia freshmen.
The game between Commerce ana
East Orange will mark the reopenlng
of football relations between the
schools. They met the last time on the
gridiron in 1907. when the Jersey boys
won by score of 10 to 0 after ter
rife struggle.
Commerce has q wealth of material
for this years team and the boys have
shown flashes of ability. After limp
ing start against Stuyvesant the team
was whipped by Pawling, but came back
splendidly against Boys High and won
convincingly. 1t is ready for the game
and confident, too. The great weakness
DISPLAYED In the Commerce team thus
far has been a lack of tactics and foot
ball strategy. Plays have been called
with little regard TO their strategic
value. There was a palpable lack OF
certainty in the play against Boys
High School.
Great reforms have been worked dur
ing the last week and great reforms
will have 10 be worked If victory is 10
be won against the Jersey lads. East
Orange has team well drilled in the
fundamentals. with f strong defence
and a versatile, forceful attack. II has
crushed all opposition thus far and is
confident Of victory to-day.
Manual Training will have its hands
full with the team from New York
Military Academy. Good teams are ira.
ditional at the Cornwall school, and
this years eleven is no exception. Hen
derson, the sensational quarterback, is
missing from the team, but other men
have stepped into his place, and the
loss is not too sevep. The Brooklyn
boys showed their worth in no uncer-
tain manner against Commercial on
Tuesday. Ii is a well rounded, power
full team that plays sound, aggressive
football throughout. Last year the
Military Academy won by score of
90 to 0.
Boys High School, which is looked
upon as the Joe Grim Of the gridiron,
will tackle Adelphi Academy at Adelphi
Field. In the flush of enthusiasm and
confidence inspired by that touchdown
against Commerce, the Boys eleven
may tear loose and experience the thrill
Of winning a game for the first time
since 1912 some time. There is little
likelihood Of this. of course. for Adelphi
has team quite up to the usual
standard.
The fur will fly when Erasmus Hall
and Bay Ridge clash at West End Oval.
Erasmus has been working out with
Columbia during the last several days,
and has gained much through associa-
ton with the college men. Bay Ridge
is not up TO the standard of last years
team, but il still Formidable enough to
cope with almost any situation that
arises.