The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-21
BREAK SOCCER
 ENTRY RECORD
Thirteen Teams Submit Appli- cations For Play In Knock
 out Competition.
By JOE BOOTH.


 A meeting of the Bridgeport Public School Soccer League was held last evening in the rooms of the Board of Education when another soccer record was broken as no less than 13 | teams sent in their application to en- 1 ter the Spring Knockout Competition ran under the auspices of the league. Never before in the history of the | game in this state has so many school | teams entered in a competition ran entirely for schoolboys. The draw for the first round of the competition | which will be played on Saturday, | March 29, resulted as follows:
 At Seaside Park - Mckinley vs. Wheeler. Referee, MT. Faust. At Yellow Mill Park-Lincoln vs. Barnum No. 2. Referee, A. Stead. ! At Yellow Mill Park-Franklin vs. Barnum N. 1. Referee, B. Colway. At Old Mill Green - Garfield vs. Huntington Road. Referee, G. Mason. At Seaside Park-Shelton vs, Wal tersville. Referee, Joe Booth. The Prevocational, Elias Howe and Madison teams drew byes and will enter the second round of the compe- tition without playing in the first round. It is interesting to note that the Barnum team will have two teams in the competition and both teams will be engaged at Yellow Mill Park the same afternoon so that this will keep Miss Clark very busy in coaching her boys.
 There are no less than five new I'teams in the competition as Wheeler, Mckinley, Huntington, Waltersvtlle and Garfield have not previously i taken part in the game and it tends --3,, in popularity.
 1 The draw for the second round of 1 the competition will take place on the | Tuesday following the completion of | tire first round games. The games in | this competition are of one hours duration and if any games end in a | tie it will be replayed some evening | during the following week with half an hours duration. It Is arranged | that the competition will be complet- ] ed by Easter so as not to interfere with the baseball league.
 The claim against the Bridgeport City soccer team which has been sent into the Connecticut State Football Association by the secretary of the Southern New York State Football | Association, for the sum of twelve dollars for the failure of the local team to travel to New York last sea son, to play the deciding game in the New York State League has been
 dealt with by the Emergency commit
 tee of the local association. It has | been decided that no action shall be taken as the local team was not dealt
 with fair by the officials of that league in question. What action the
 officials of the Metropolitan associa- tion will now take Is awaited with great interest, there is doubt however
 that any further action will be taken.
 As far as the local club and the State
 association are concerned the case is
 now closed.
 Ernest Sharp, the trainer of the
 Bridgeport City Soccer team is now
 interested in the formation of a SOC
 cer team at the Lake Torpedo plant
 in this city. Ernest states that there
 are lots of good soccer players in
 that factory and a good team ought
 to be easily secured.
 The Swedish soccer team of this city
 Is the first one to enter both the State
 Cup competition and the Spring Cup
 competition. The Swedes seem to be
 taking the leading part in the game
 this season, which shows that they
 have the game at heart.
 O'Grady, the center forward of the
 Bridgeport Thistle team, is the most
 improved player of the season and
 his form during the past few weeks
 has surprised everyone. He only reg
 istered with the team to fill in case
 of emergency, but he has proved him
 self a surprise and he has gained a
 regular place in the team. This is a
 player who has learned all about the game in this city.
 McManus, who played with the Bridgeport Rovers team last season Is at the present time playing a fine game with the Newburgh Shipyard team in the Emergency Fleet Corpor- ation Soccer league. Other local play CTS enga ged there are Wilson (Rov- ers), Kilroy CTrue Blues), and Ff1des } Bridgeport City)
 player of New Haven who was seri-
 ously injured in the great war is at : the present time in New Haven in H furiough. He is to go to New York = this week end to have his ankle broke :. and set afresh,
 The Bridgeport Board of Recreation
 has moved to larger quarters, for the
 past two years it has been stationed } in room 507 at the First Bridgeport l National Bank building but yesterday I | {; 1E4