New-York tribune., 1918-10-07
Sixteen Clubs
Draw .Byes in
Soccer Matches
u. S. Football Assn. Reduces
Coming Competition to
Six Rounds
By C. A. Lovett

The National Challenge Cup Com
petition Committee Of the United States
Football Association, in a meeting at
the Broadway Central Hotel yesterday
morning, handled the early drawings
for the national championship matches.
Forty-eight clubs were entered, and six
teen clubs drew byes. Thus sixteen
games were scheduled for the first
round, to be completed by October 20,
the usual preliminary round being dis
pensed with, thereby reducing the COM
petition to six rounds from the Gus
tomary seven.
The draw in the New York district
allowed the Chinese Students Soccer
Club a bye. These games were ar
ranged: Clan MacDuff F. C. VS.. New
York F. c.; Morse Dry Dock and Re-
pair Company F. c., Brooklyn, vs.
Stndard Ship F. c.. Shooters Island,
n. y; Viking F. c. VS.. Tebo S. c.,
Brooklyn; Robins Dry Dock and Repair
Company F. c., Brooklyn, VS.. Longfel-
lows F. c., Brooklyn. In all instances
the first named club was drawn at
home.
New Jersey, the banner district, finds
Tietjen and Lang Dry Dock F. c.. Ho-
boken, with bye. and these matches
scheduled: Federal Ship F. c.. East
Newark, at home to Babcock F. c.,
Bayonne; Swedish A. c., Passaic. VS..
Jersey A. C., Jersey, City; Scottish
cent F. c., Elizabeth; Kiniey F. c.,
Harrison, vs. Paterson F. C.
In Connecticut the Swedish A. A.
Z. c. drew at home to Bridgeport City
OlneyvilIe Draws Bye
Olneyviile F. c.. of Providence, R. T..
drew bye in Southern New England,
where Pan Americans, of Fall River.
were drawn at home to ]. &, P. Coates
F. c., Of Pawtucket, R. I.
Following were the games arranged
in the North Massachusetts, district:
Fisk Red Tops, of Chicopee Falls. VS..
Fore River F. c.. Quincy; Boston Rovers
F. c. VS.. Merrimac Valley r. c.,
Methuen, Mass.
The draw resulted as follows in East
ern Pennsylvania district: Disston A.
A. F. c., Tacony. Philadelphia. VS.. Mer-
chant Ship F. c. B team, Hartman.
Penn; Hog Island A. A F. c., Hog
A team, Hartman; Bethlehem Steel +.
c., Bethlehem, Penn. VS.. New York
Ship F. c.. Camden, N. J.
Two byes were handed out in West
ern Pennsylvania, but in the second
round Homestead Steel F. c. was drawn
at home at Homestead, Penn, to Pitts
burgh F. C.
In the Ohio district. for convenience
in handling later rounds, four byes
were awarded in the first round The
draw for the second round was: Mag
yar-American A. c., Cleveland. VS.. Hy-
draulic Pressed Steel F. c.. Cleveland;
Goodrich F. c., Akron, vs.. Goodyear
f. c., Akron.
Again in the Michigan district byes
were awarded covering the first round.
but the draw for the second round
finds Solvay +. c.. of Detroit at home
to Roses F. c.. Detroit. and Corinthian
+. c., Detroit, at homo to Detroit F. {.
Three clubs in the Illinois district
drew byes in the first round. in which
Hricklayers' and Masons' f. c., of Chi
cago, was drawn at home to American
Hungarian A. A.. Chicago. in the first
round. The second round matches
Harvey, Ill, VS.. Scottish sh-Araerieans
F. c., Chicago; Bricklavers' and
Masons' C. or American Hungarian
A A. vs. Lincoln Park F. G.. Lincoln
Park, III.
Second Round Ends November II
The second round must be completed
by November II. Last season there
were but six more clubs entered than
this season. Before the entrance OF
the United States into the war. in the
1867 season. there were eighty-eight
clubs in the competition
The cup committee submitted a
proposition to the National Commis
sion to reduce the list of players and
by each travelling club from fifteen
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