Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-08
Merritt's Little QudkerS
Look Great in OutcIdSS-
ing Episcopal in Opening
Interacddemic Came
STAR NAN
By PAUL PREP

- III N hT'Nhl 1 J.. fDu'n pI l'ul
IL Charter for seven years and six
time champion in the annual 1nteraca
demic League grid grapples, has his
eleven all primed to come through once
more. Overcontdence will not handi
cap the little Quakers in the 1919 cam
paign for the gonfalOn. as Merritt has
instructed his players that they have no
cinch--there will be no easy going and
that they will have to fight for every
match.
The Penn Charter team got under way
yesterday afternoon at Strawbridge &
Clothier Field by running rough shod,
like n smooth and we'll oiled machine,
overwhelming Charley McCarthy's
Episcopal aggregation, Al to o. it was
the opening game in the interacs this
year. and Merritt's men started away
from the barrier with the speed that
gave promise of history repeating.
Mitchell Swell Player
Ed Mitchell. captain of PenI Char
ter. showed up as wonderful tieid gen
eral. all around player and most val
liable man on Merritt's staff. For three
and a half periods Mitchell used bril-
liant headwork i'll running his eleven.
Then. after being hurt three differ
ent times. he finally had to leave the
game. Mitch limped off the field with
wrcnched ankle. But after the con
test it was said that he probably would
get into the Germantown Academy game
next Friday. +
From the outset the little Quakprs
Outclassed and outplayed the Church
men. While Penn Charter was able to
get over only one touchdown in the
initial quarter, the champions got work
ing harder and faster in the next pc
riod, piling up four more touchdowns
and as many goals therefrom before
/ half time was called.
Aggressive Backfield
Another touchdown by Buerry in the
third quarter and goal for the addl l.
tional point by II. Statzell were the
! final points made. Casanave, Buerry,
Brill and Mitchell make fast playing
! backfield and the aggressiveness' of this
quartet may have lot to do in retain
| ing the title for Penn Charter this
/ year.
Penn Charter used no one system on
| the offense. On end runs Mitchell
showed himself as a fleet, sure footed
runner and hard to stop, Brill proved
he was a very good HEAVIER of the for
ward pass with either of the Stat2elI
brothers, r. and H., capable of hook
ing on to the leather within reaching
distance. In playing straight football
Buerry and Brill gained much grounc
on plunges off tackle and through the
center of the line.
Fpiscopal Academy, too, has a brace
of brothers holding down the wing posi-
tions. They are j. and A. Glenn.
Close Call for c. II. $.
Central High School assumed thu
undisputed leadership in the Inter
scholastic League race by shading SoutE
Philadelphia High yesterday Afternoon
on Houston Field, 6 to 0. The marrow
margin of one touchdown for the Mir
rors. not made until the third periot
on plunge through center by Saun
ders, gave Doctor O'Brien S team tn
edge. Harris missed the goal,
While Central outplayed Deal
Johnson's eleven almost throughout tn
game, the downtown Red and Blac
unset the dope materially by holdin
the big and strong Mirrors to the on
touchdown. This game proved tina
Central High School will not win tn
S championship this season so easily n
expected. The remaining games wit
West Philly and Northeast are going t
!, be gruellng contests, and the WHINE
j of the league will have proved itself on
Y of the best eleVens IN years.
' Swarthmore High continued its win
ming streak by defeating Darby Hig
a School, AZ to 6. Despite the one
o sided score Darby's constituents wer
: greatly elated over the teams showing
d McNally's touchdown in the first perioC
e which came as result of recovere
d tumble, was the first time for an op
= ponent to cross Swarthmore Highs got
p line in two years. Fricke was the in
. dividual star of the little Garnets. II
n scored three of Swarthmore's touch
h downs. while Yarnall added two an
y Powers got the other.
& Fullback Grange, Roberts and Brow
faGs 81 eIpn T@kes victory IL to ggsI Tsntbi ~
Horrocks kicked two Of the three goa