The sun., 1916-09-24

Scholastic Football Gets
Late Start This Season
~Infantile Paralysis Epidemic May Necessitate Cancella'
ton of Early Games-Few Teams Ready for
Opening Games-The Schedules.

Scholastic football in the greater city
an doutlying districts will get of to a
late start this fall due to the delay IN
the opening Of the high schools until to-
morrow because Of ~lnfantile paralysis.
One game Is scheduled for Wednesday n
six for next Saturday. II would not be
surprising II all are cancelled or post
poned untri later in the season. The
elevsns will not have had sufficient time
to practise and even h games OF
October Z will hardly And the teams In
condition to give q good account OF
themselves.
A few Of the more hustling coaches and
managers gathered the candidates for the
team a week or more ago. Since then
light practice has been held and this week
they will be prepared for more strenuous
work. Should the games be played as
scheduled these elevens will hold a de-
cidsd advantage over their opponents.
De Witt Clinton and h High School
Of Commerce Are among the schools that
started early practice. Commerce. un-
der the coaching OF Ed Siskind. held pre-.
liminary work before The closing OF
school last June. This will aid greatly be-
CT of the short practice season before
him. De witt Clinton candidates have
been drilling at Astoria Field for the
past week under the guidance OF Capt.
Hoving and Coach Cook. Clinton will
have practically q new team his year.
OF last years eleven there are but capt.
Hoving, who plays guard. and Quarter
back E%isenberg.
Brooklynites start Early.
In Brooklyn many Of the schools had
! REGULAR workouts last week. Commercial
was one Of the frst to get under way
and was closely followed by New Utrecht
and St. Johns Prep. Faculty Manage
A. J. Bove has been coaching the Com
mer-iai eleven. The new coach. Sam
| Foley. formerly OF Manual Training and
later OF Georgetown. will take hold this
week. Frank Gargan. who was In
| charge last year. resigned to take charge
OF the FordhAm eleven.
81. Johns Prep will have a number Of
veterans back. Practice has been going
on at the school field for more than 8
week. Many Of the second team OF las
year are trying for a berth on this year
eleven. OF the veterans there are Mac
kenzie. Ryan. Cotter. Trippe. Brady Col
lns and Mooney. Tom Thorp mas peer
mentioned as coach for st. johns
Felix q. LANCER. manager Of the lev
Utrecht team, has been in charge o
pract,ce held at West n Oval.
Bushw!ck High School will return tc
the Crid,ron this season. 1t has not peer
represented on the gridiron In severa
years. Its last eleven numbered among
its players Chris Schlachter OF Syracuse
picked as all American tackle. SiS
games have been arranged. with W
date, pending. Its first will be on Octo
Der I against Adelphi Academy on th'
latter's field. Its other games Will N
with Stamford. Conn. stuyvesant. 81
Johns Prep. New Utrecht and Boys
High.
Fine Prospects at Boys High.
Coach Wilson Of the Boys Higl
eleven will hold practice tomorrow ar
ternoon at the close Of school. he say
that with the material lief, over from
last year he will he able TO whip a team
into shape ready to play the st. Paul.
School next saturday. There are six'eei
who played in the game last year still
at the Marcy avenue school Charle'
Wright and Feiren are leading candi
dates for the ends Quayle. Howard ant
Palmer. tackles; Kaplan. Herzog ant
CAPT. Smith. guards or centre. while 10
the back field there will be Higgins
Herman Ind Wright. Daniels. Dassle
and Bernstein.
The private SCHOOLS VIII NOT open unti
October l. This will set them back eve
further than the high schools. Pol,
Prep and Adelphi OF Brooklyn have har'
schedules arranged. and II IL doubtful
whether they will be able to get read,
In time.
The usual big games. as the school
boys call them. will be played. In Man
haitian and The Bronx all Of the con
tests In which Stuyvesant. De witt Gin
ton and Morris play against each othe
are important. In Brooklyn the annua
conflicts between Poly Prep and Abel
phi Academy. Manual and Commercial
, Boys High and New Utrecht. CONNER
cial and Boys High. Manual Train'n