The sun., 1919-10-28
SCHOOLBOY RACES
ARE TAKING SHAPE
Best Elevens in Various Bor-
Oughs Are Beginning to
Prove Their Worth.

Now that the schoolboys have COM
pleted about half of their football sched-
ules, the prospective champions in the
various boroughs are fast coming to the
surface. In Brooklyn, Poly Prep again
looms up as the strongest contender for
the championship of that borough, while
on this side of the bridges. Clinton APP
pears to have the best chance of win
ming the Manhattan-Bronx title. The
Queens Borough championship, as in
past years. again will prove a wslkover
for Flushing
Brooklyn Props easy victory over st.
Johns Prep last Saturday places that
team in line for the Catholic high and
prep school championship of the city.
The Brooklynites now have only to dis
pose of Fordham Prep to annex that
title. These two teams come together
Saturday at Fordham Field.
In the Manhattan-Bronx race. Clinton
has so far the best claim to the title
OF the four games it has played the
Red and Black has won three and lost
one. 1t has beaten Dickinson High of
Newark, Columbia freshmen and Concor-
dia Prep by wide margins. Its only de-
feat was suffered at the hands of the
White Plains team by to 49,
The only team which is likely to
cause Clinton trouble in the race Is
Commerce. Although Stuyvesant has
made better showing than Commerce
the Orange and Blue. no doubt, will
prove keener rival to Clinton than the
East Side team.
Stuyvesant Wins One.
Stuyvesant has lost only one of its
four games. while Commerce has lost
three out Of four games played. Com
merce however, has met much stronger
teams than Stuyvesant and should be
considered first. Buck O'Neills lads
have met and lost TO Poly Prep. cham
pions of Brooklyn Stamford High, Con-
necticut title holders, and Boys High
of Brooklyn, while Stuyvesant was held
to scoreless ties by Commercial of
Brooklyn and Morris High.
The "Dutchmen's" only victory was
over the New Rochelle eleven, by 9 to 0.
Commences only triumph was over
Mount Vernon by to 0. Stuyvesants
failure to score on Morris when those
two teams met a week ago caused the
followers of the East Side institution to
lose much faith in its strength.
Morris this season has one of the
poorest teams which ever represented
the Bronx school and is not taken Sc
| riously in the Manhattan Bronx series.
Norris has failed to score single point
and has had 81 points marked against 1t.
The defeat of BOYS High and Com
mercial last Saturday practically elimi-
mates those two teams from the Brook
| lyn race. Boys High was considered to
| have a chance in the Brooklyn series,
but when Poly blanked the Marcy ave-
nue. lrds last Saturday by 10 to 0, the
Red and Black lost all its chances of
being a contender for the title
| The championship now rests between
| Poly and Erasmus, with the Dyker
| Heights lads favored to win It, Neither
of these teams has been scored upon
| this season.
Erasmus is leading Poly in scoring
| by a margin of four points. The Buff
and Blue in its three games has col
| lected 5S points to Poly's 81. Tho
Dyker Heights eleven, however, has
proved itself a much stronger combna-
| ton than the Buff and Blue, and is
| favored to win over Erasmus when the
| two teams meet
Both Manual Training and New
| Utrecht have made a miserable showing
| this season, and are not considered to
| have a chance with either Erasmus Or
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