Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-18
GOOD SOCCER BY
INDUSTRIAL TEAMS
Fleisher and HardWick & Ma
gee in Close Race for
League Lead
EXPECT BOOM NEXT YEAR
Industrial Soccer
League Standings
BY DOUGLAS STEWART

Penn Soccer Coach and President Of rennsNi-
Nunia and Eastern District Football
Association,

NssOClntOn.
A s AN outcome of the effort on the
"A part Of the various industrial plants
in and around Philadelphia to en-
courage healthy recreation among their
employees a number of teams were got
ten up and the Industrial Soccer League
organized in the fall of 1915 with Eli
wood Cadwalladcr as president, Thco-
dorr Occhslc as vice president. John
Thornton as treasurer and Thomas
Scott as secretary
The teams in the league at the be-
ginning were Electric Storage Battery
Company. Crcsson Morris Company,
| MarteX Towel Fosters's Sons Com
pany, IIohlfcld Manufacturing Com
pany. David LuptOn's Sons Company,
Cramps Shipyard and Standard Roller
Bearing Company. Most of these teams
we're fairly strong, two or three of
them being strong enough to hold their
own with the best teams in the city.
The rules Of the league were care
| fully framed and the organization was
we'll handled and was quite successful
until the last year or so. when Il period
of industrial depression set in which
considerably handicapped the plants in
their efforts to put teams in the field.
OF the original members of the league
ton are the only ones now in the organ
ization aud only the Storage Battery
actively.
The active members Of the league at
present are Westinghouse Electric,
Electric Storage Battery. =. B. & Il.
W. Flpishcr. lIurdwick & Magee, Art
Loom Mills. J. 4. StctsOn Company,
y. SnellCnburg Company, Barrett Com
pany with Hohlfcld Manufacturing
Company and FlciSher Reserves as
associate members.
Play fer HohlfeId Cup
Herman TIChlfcld is tho donor of the
Hohlfeld Cup, which is competed for
annually in the Hohlfeld Cup COmpcti-
ton. and is intensely interested in the
development of tn" game in this vicin-
ity. He was the first man ever TO have
the privilege of taking the kickoff in
an international match in Philadelphia.
the occasion being that of the game
last July between Philadelphia and the
All Scots.
The Fleisher team is one Of the best
! industrial teams which has ever played
/ in Philadelphia. 1t just missed.
! through accident in the semi final. get
ting into the final for the llohlfcld
| Cup last season. and lis prospects are
good for coming through this season.
| The team is made mp of number OF
/ handy players, who play a good. clean
game.
4 great deal Of credit is due this
( concern for the interest it takes in its
various athleticS-sOCrer in particular.
In the national cup competition FleiSh-
er beat the HiberninnS and was only
nut out of the competition by the Phil
adclnhia professional team.
In the Industrial League COmpoti-
ton il is running HardwiCk & MaGcG
close for the lead, with ~ points AMI
six games to play, as against Hardwick
& Magee with 20 points and five games
to play. Hardwick x Mngce has lost
one game SO far, while Flcishcr has
lost none but drawn one.
Hardwick & Magee plays nice
game when in the lead, but shows a
tendency when losing to resort to
rough tactics, which is poor policy.
Storage Battery Is Game
The Storage Battery has lost half Of
it's games mainly because Of losing men
and putting weak team in tn" field
rather than dropping out. The policy is
n good one and will rebound to the
credit of the management when things
improve in their line of business. The
same condition applies to Art Loom,
although the team there is probably not
as strong as Storage Battery.
With the reutrn Of better conditions
many of the old elevcns are expected
to make their reaappearancc, together
with combinations from Fox Motor
Company and other plants and the pros
poets for next season seem bright.
Last season Hardwlck & Magcc team
won the Hohlfeld Challenge Cup. beat
ing out HOhlfeld in the final and Fleish
or the semi final and teams from Stct,
son and the SnClIenburg plants. As the
League competition is nearing its enc
the cup competition again will come tC
the fore with entries expected from the
present contenders in tho League as vel
| as from Hohlfeld, Barrett, Stetson
| Luptons and the others.