New-York tribune., 1920-10-25
Commercial Is
Almost Certain
OF First Rank
Scarlet and Gray Has AL
ready Eliminated Manual,
Poly Prep and Erasmus
With the scholastic football seaso

With the scholastic football season
70. vet st the halfway mark CONNER
cisl High School, of Brooklyn, is SO
ueIl intrenched in first place in the
race for the high school championship
ot Brooklyn that only overwhelming
defeats in the remainder Of its game
can cost the Scarlet and Gray the title
Commercial has defeated the strongest i
eontenders Manual, Poly Prep and
Trasmas-and only Boys High and
New Utrecht remain to be vanouished
to give the Albany Avenue lads a clean
sweep in the F. s. A. L.
irasmuch as both New Utrecht and
Boys High have been defeated by Er.s-
mus and Poly Prep, respectively, they
should be easy for Commercial. The
Scarlet and Gray has yet to suffer 8
setback, but the epresentatives of
Stuyvesant High School, of Manhattan.
held it to : to : tie in the opening
contest OF the season.
Manual Trainings sensational 16 to O
victory over Flushing High School on
Saturday puts it back in the running,
but Manual can hardly hope for better
than second position in the race for
the title, as Commercial took it's mea-
sure in decisive fashion a few weeks
ago.
Poly Prep another of Commercials
victims, came through with a well
earned victory over the Red and Black
eleven OF Boys High School, wearing
out their opponents line and scoring
two toUohdowns in the last period,
Poly Prep ike Manual. still has an
opportunity to redeem itself, but the
Stigma Of its first defeat can hardly
be wiped out
The New Utrecht and Boys High
School elevens are the only ones in
the Borough of Brooklyn that can now
make football history by trouncing
Commercial But as both of these
schools los, their last weeks games.
such feat seems hardly possible.
New Utrecht lost to De Witt Clinton
10 Q. and Boys was beaten by Poly
Prep. l3 to O.
Brooklyn Prep. last years borough
champion showed surprising strength
By defeating the Hamilton Institute
eleven, considered TO be the strongest I
private school team in New York. The
Prep boys came back after Hamilton
had scored and finally emerged with a
7 to victory. This year Brooklyn
Prep eleven Will have no voice in the
Brooklyn title, as St. Johns Prep is
the only team it meets in that bor-
ough.
Very little can be said at this time
regarding the Manhattan teams. as the
first half of the season is taken up
With try-outs against out OF town
eevens and aggregations from the
other boroughs. The real race for the
Manhattan title does not get under
way until the big Election Day games.
On the contests that have thus far
been played, however, Dc Witt Clinton
again seems TO have good eleven, and
on Saturday came through with a vic
tory over New Utrecht III the hardest
battle 1t has had this season. Clinton
previously defeated Marquand, of
Brooklyn, and East Side High School,
Of Newark.
The High School of Commerce IS rep
presented by a strong team this year,
with 1 heavy backfeld, and may give
De Wit Clinton a fight for the title
but stuyvesant has gotten of to a roor
start / It's chances 40 not look very
prom ng.
Flushing High School seems about to
give up its three year reign as king
over all the high school teams of great
er New York, and on Saturday lost it's
second game Of the season to Manual
Training High School, Of Brooklyn,
Flushing. however, can have some con-
ISOLATION in the fact that it is sure Of
the Queens title
For some unaccountable reason, the
first game for the Catholic champion
ship between Fordham Prep and St
Johns Prep did not get under way, and
it VIII be interesting to watch the con-
tests between the Catholic schools for
tie title of the metropolitan district.
The other schools whicn will contest
for this title are Brooklyn Prep and st.
Peters Pren. of JERSEY IitY.