The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Red and Black Wins Seventh
Championship of Manhat-
tan and Bronx.
ONE TOUCHDOWN ENOUGH
Commerce Beaten z to O, Score
Coming in First Few Min
utes of Play.
BY SAMUEL j. BRooKMAN.

succession won the scholastic football
championship OF Manhattan and Bronx
on South Field yesterday. morning The
unbeaten Red and Black eleven was not
as impressive in its final game of the
season as in most of its earlier contests,
but it managed to score the only touch
down of the contest and beat its time
honored rival, High School of Commerce.
to 0.
Clinton on its record for the season
had expected TO defeat Commerce de-
cisively yesterday, but in figuring on
that result failed to take into account
the condition of the field. which slowed
up the game considerably. Clintons
backs, who had been relying on their
speed in circling the ends. found they
could not get away fast enough in the
mud and the effectiveness of their rum
ming attack suffered. At is turned out
the game instead of being a one sided
affair was pretty evenly contested. with
Clinton dangerously near being scored
on on two occasions.
In the first few minutes of play, while
hundreds of rooters were still streaming
In through the South Field gates. the
Clinton eleven managed to sustain an
offensive for nearly three-fourths. the
length of the field and touchdown.
After that, however although il gave
occasional evidence of a powerful attack.
Clinton was unable to advance con-
sistently. Commerce in the meanwhile
was gradually tightening its defence and
was calling on an aerial attack that all
but served its purpose. With Sam Boil
den hurting most of the passes, and
hurting them with surprising accuracy.
Commerce travelled ffty-three yards in
one period and forty in another, only to
fail when the Clinton goal line was
almost attained.
Few Clinton Passes.
Clinton rarely called on the forward
pass. Two were tried early in the game
and failed. A third just before the end
of the game netted twenty-five yards
but came too late to be of any conse-
quence. In the main the Red and Black
attacked the line or darted OFF tackle for
their gains with an occasional double
pass as an aid to deception.
Since Clinton always has been TO Com
merce what Harvard is to Yale the con-
test aroused plenty of interest in local
scholastic circles, so that there were
more than 1000 in the stands when the
game began. Had It been played in
the afternoon instead of morning the
crowd might have been twice as large
but the school elevens could not get.
permission to use South Field in the
afternoon. 1t was the usual noisy, bub-
asm knows no limit.
With Waterbury carrying the ball
most of the time but with LEVITT and
Hamon assisting materially Clinton
marched about 15 yards to a touchdown
shortly after the kickoff. There were
no particularly long gains during the
advance, most of them averaging from
three to eight yards but It was a
steady march. Commerce braced near
Inf 70 talr
the limit of four downs to carry the ball
over Waterbury finally plunged
through centre for the score and Seiden-
berg kicked the goal
Commerce took the aggressive for
while after the next kickoff but after
making two first downs was held for
downs at nidfield. Behind good inter-
ference Hamon on a double pass made
y yards around end and then series
OF short gains brought the ball to Com
meree's IS yard line when the first pc
riod ended
A penalty of fifteen yards for hold
ing cost Clinton an opportunity to score
then and there. Three rushes at the
line failed to gain the necessary dis
4ance and Seidenberg tried field goal
that failed the ball sailing high ana
travelling scarcely more than ten YARDS
Commerce could not gain consistently
and lost the Dali on uoWftSi dAl't eeiNf">
Il to Clinton's 45 yard line. Again Clin-
ION began working the ball down to-
ward the Commerce goal and had ad-
vanced TO the Is yard line when
Waterbury fumbled the slippery oval,
The half ended shortly afterward
Although Clinton had managed to
Keen the ball in Commences territory
throughout most OF the first two periods
IT was far different In the next two.
Determining to place chief reliance on
+he forward pass. Commerce Launched an
aerial attack soon after the kickoff In
the third period, and four successful
masses in a row by Bolden netted
total OF fIfty-three yards. Machemofsky
caught one Of the flings Weiner the next
Gluck the third and Greenspan the
fourth. That brought the ball TO Clin-
toms 20 yard line. Another pass failed
and then a sixth fling was Intercepted
by osnato on Clinton's II yard line.
Waterbury made twelve yards around
right end and another first down fol-
lowed on two rushes Then LEVITT broke
away off tackle for fifteen yards. At
that point, however, Commerce held its
ground well and took the ball away on
downs as the quarter ended.
CIinton's Narrow Escape.
On the first signal after the resump-
tion OF play Commerce called for for
ward pass. II sailed high and far and
fell into the arms Of Weiner for a thirty
yard gain that brought the fight to
Clintons i3 yard line. Another short
pass over the line OF scrimmags. Bolden
TO Machemofsky, netted five yards more
and then after two failures 20 dent the
Clinton barrier Bolden hurled n pass
over the Clinton goal line. a Commerce
youth got his fngertips on the ball. but
failed 20 hold II and It was Clintons
ball on its own 20 yard line.
LEVITT contributed a spectacular run
OF twenty-three yards. but Clinton was
forced 20 punt soon after TO Bolden. who
fumbled. but recovered on Commences
% yard line. Commerce found the line
too strong TO shatter and punted 20 mid
field pass. Waterbury TO Glauber,
was good for twenty-five yards and II
was Clinton's ball on Commences 20
yard line when the game ended The
lineup:
DE witt Clinton. Commerce.
C;ilmer. ........... Left end. ........... .Weiner
tslauber.. Left tackle...........T Levine
Csnato...........Left Etard. rd........Skibicki
Scidenherg ....... Centre. ........... Golden
Etanley...4..... Right guard. O.. O.. HoclShauser
Hcyman. ........ Right tackle. .........Alko
Rosenberg. Right end. GltfCit