New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-26
Touchdown in Final Period
Of Hard Game Brings
Ouadrennial Triumph
to Winners.

The football team of Dc Witt Gin
ton High School defeated the High
School Of Commerce on the Polo
Grounds yesterday afternoon. The
score was Z to 0, and the Red and Black
found the turn in the long lane of
defeat it has travelled since 1911. Vic
tory is to be won by Clinton every
four years, it would seem. Twelve
games have been played between the
schools, and Clinton has won in 1907,
1911, and 1915.
It was a triumph of a team well
grounded in fundamentals over band
of dauntless fighters. 1t may be SAID IN
all fairness 10 the victors that Com
mercc rose 20 heights Of which her most
optimistic followers had not dared TO
dream. II was a team inspired with
q mad spirit of conflict; q determine
ton to defend traditions and score a
victory when defeat was almost IN
.eyitatie But inspiration and deter
mination could not prevail against the
cold. mathematical precision OF the
Clinton team After d while the Com
merce men reverted to type and fought
with their hearts and hands, but not
with their heads.
Early in the last quarter Of this game
replete with thrills, Ritner, the elm
ton fullback, shot a forward pass TO
Polsky. who made a wonderful catch on
the LIZARD line, and went over for a
touchdown. Ritner punted out and
after the ball WAS heeled added the
goal from touchdown. And that was
the end Of the scoring even as 1t was
the beginning.
The end of the third period found
Clinton in possession of the ball on
Commerce's 40-yard line. At the start
of the last quarter Buster Brown, the
Clinton halfback, rounded Jerry Flood
for a run of fifteen yards, and was
clear, it seemed, when Harry Foster
nailed him with smashing tackle from
behind. The next play was fake run
with Eisenberg hitting the line. His
choice of place was bad, for he tried
to pass Cupid Ornstein, and was turned
back for a slight loss.
On the next play, however. Essen
berg chose wisely and well. lie massed
his backs on the right side of the
Commerce line and called for for
ward pass The ends drew the Com
merce backfeld away, and Polsky, run
ming lickety- split, grabbed the ball over
his shoulder and dove over the line for
TOUCHDOWN. hlNHcr puultu OUT anu
then drove the ball over for the add
tional point.
That score crowned with success one
Of several glowing chances which pre-
scented themselves to Clinton. In the
third period the Red and Black
TANNED with the ball down to the
Commerce 8-yard line, when the
Orange and Blue rallied and fought off
disaster. A forward pass was smashed
up. and a iifteen-yard penalty for
holding brought the leather back to
the 23-yard line Ritner then attempt
ed "A goal from the field, but the ball
few low and "A trife wide. In the sec
ond period Ritner drove one Of his
high spiral punts down to Commences
25-yard line, where Buddy Burns FUN
bled il, and a Clinton forward fell on
the ball. Again the Commerce team
played better football than it knew
how, and got the ball on downs. In
four plunges Clinton gained fewer than
three yards.
The portion of Commerce was to
fight defensive battle. The team
flashed in streaks. but on the whole