High School of Commerce - Caravel Yearbook (New York, NY)

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COMMERCE YEAR BOOK, 1912 The basketball team got an early start with Mr. Wagner coaching. It went through the season with varying success, and finished in second place beat Middletown Team. Brodhead ..... Mellen, Remy .. . Loesch ....... School. Heffley Institute Poly Prep ..... Townsend Harris Commercial ...... Jersey City ....... Eastern District .. in the P. S. A. L. Tournament. Among other accomplishments, Commerce H. S., thus winning the championship of Connecticut. Coach-MR. WAGN ER Manager'-EDWARD FOX Captain-G. LOESCH Position. . . . .Left Forward . .' .Right Forward ........Center Com. Oppts. 12 24 Q. ..- 7 .54 62 31 23 24 29 9 44 rv .. ... I T-earn. Keefe, Davidson Phillips, Cohen . School. Middletown .. Stuyvesant . . . Flushing ....... Morris ......... Columbia, '10 .. Townsend Harris Position. . . .... Left Guard Right Guard Com. Oppts. ' 16 19 3 24 . 4 32 21 27 20 35 7 18 11 12 9 Clinton .......... . . . 40 20 Fordham Prep. 56 Newtown ........ . .. 34 13 Stuyvesant ..... 27 19 Peddie Institute .... . .. 22 25 Patterson .... 56 13 De La Salle ..... 37 15 Although the track team this year did not have a very successful season, it was very active. A novelty was introduced in the form of a meet 'between the Freshmen and the Sophomores., which served to rouse a good deal of interest among the lower-termers in athletics. Coach-MR. H. ALDINGER Captain--H. A. SMITH Manager-H . RADT The year 1907 marks the first attempt to interest high school pupils in rowing. Commerce sent out the first of its three crewsg and that first one was surely a hunrmer, for it won the Harlem Regatta, beating Clinton by half a length. Coach-CAPT. NAGLE, of Harlem Rowing Club fllamzger-BRODHEAD Captain-FRANK F. O,NEILL V f Team, Position. Team. Position. O'Nei11 ,,, .... Stroke Harnischfeger .. ..... ..... 3 Vesley .i .... .... ' . . 7 Steinkamp .... ........ 2 Bfgdhead ,,,, ..... 6 G3.1'Vl11 ..... ....... B OVV Groff, Lang .. . . . 5 Kremer .. . ....Coxwain Gottschalt .. --- 4 37

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4 4 , X . ' cowiyiievlt Ylllf 'l l lvl' I is il +1 The baseball team struggled along tlirmigli an llllflj siii'i-rssfiil season w'thout the services of its captain and its liiri'livi'. Uni- voiisolzirffm was the 1 . two beatings we handed to Clinton, our grvziti-st riial in all lines of zitlilc-tics. C . i Teanm Hirschman .. Carson .. . McCabe .. Hall .... Smith . . School. New Rochelle Manual Training . Betts Academy N. Y. U., '09 VVebb Academy .. l'Poly Prep Football got a good start CflllL'll-Alll. XVNI. ll.iNc1. jllllllllyl'l'-'lJ. lf. SH11R!U.xN Cajlfzzilz-L. 'll. VUIUHS r l'iisilluI'l. .liatcher ight lgield CIIICI' l' lclfl l I'u:siIiuI1. '1 '2lUl- ....lWrst Iiase Xaifhlw ..'- - ---r ...Second liaise lflynn, Tilt-llin ...lt ...'l'hird llasc L'lloa .,..... ...l ....Sl1UI'I5lw1x liyllll .. --.4 .....l'itchci' VHDL Upplri. Svlimnl. , 7 hllrffls .... 9 S lfivrillliilii l'rt-'i 2 -l clint-in 7 2 lfaciilty .... . 3 12 i'.i',X.Y... 3 .3 clint-in .. tooo-oy .t-it lfielrl v-Hi. Uppli -l 2 1 3 4 5 14 -l 1 12 13 O this year inasmiicli as czinilitlzitcs for the team had no regular practice ground. NYith the :ilwlv cogicliing of Messrs. Fontaine and A. K. Aldinger this was no si-rimis ilimvlaziclc. liimrver. llllll a good team was soon developed. For thi- lirst part uf the sczisoxi wc met with almost phenomenal success, winning the first sewn gxuncs without a mishap. Toward the close, liowcvcr, our clcvcii wcakcm-il and lost four and tied one of the remaining live games. Team. Lommel, Phillips . Fox Hulse . Hertzig Carson f..-..... Stron g, School. Stevens Prep. .. Betts Academy .. De La Salle ..... Townsend Harris Stamford ....... Newark .. C0lll.'lIl'.K'-AlIQSSRS. l'iON'I'.-XIXI-Q ,xxiw .-Xi.iiixi:i1R jllllllllgfl'-XVIl.l.l.-XM lima.-XX Caplnin-l-low.-ian Sxirrii l'usillul1. 'l'i-giiii, .....lQight lfnil llaiwiii, l-Itiill ...Right Taclclt- lhirain ..... ...Right liiiziril Smith ........:.liUlllk'I' li. lliwlliiiauiii .....l,cll Giiztlwl lair-scli ..... .. Hallock, Stcinltaiiip, lJxx'iii-Slip. Uulll. Hpplrz. Svliiml. 5 ll cliiilmi .... lll li l iii'illi4iiii l'i't 33 ll hliirris ..... In ll lk-nt. Klan. -- 30 ll Xiqisliiiipgtiiii ll 7 lhws' lli--li . N 36 ' . 5 l'uSlll0Il. ..l.i.-lt ltllkl izirtcr liack g Q illcli hi--Iii llili li ltit llilt I- Siili li' UHIIIQ . .. g i 'QlCli linll llacli tunlll QYIIINIS. tx ll ll I3 ii ll ll lb ll 'V ll Il

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1 I coMMERcEtYraAnnook,121 The baseball record of 1907 is very incomplete, Scores l only mic gmmi being given We regret exceedingly that we are not able to give a suinrnary of the Whole season. Team. Fox ........ Lockwood . . Moran ....... Carson ........ Mellen, Clancy . School. Manual Training Man. College Fr Hackensack .... Coach-MR. VVM. HANCE Manager--WALTER FLYNN Captain-LEON MCCABE Position. Team. f 1S1l1 ff'- .. ...First Base Lommel .. ... . Catcher ...Second Base Flynn ... ..... 'Right Plclfl .....Shortstop Ulloa .... ....Cente.r Field ...Third Base McCabe ... ..... Lett Field . ...... Pitcher Com. Oppts. School. CUIU. ODIDIS- ....... 4 9 C. C. N. Y. Freshmen... Z4 l eshmen. 5 7 N. Y. U. Freshmen .. . 3 4 ........ 8 2 IQO7-O8 'All the teams turned out this year were handicapped by a lack of veteran material, and none of them had particularly good seasons. The foot- ball team started its season With an almost entirely green eleven, only two men remaining from the previous year. It had a poor season, losing to both Clinton and Boys' High. Coach-MR. A. C. FONTAINE Manager-EUGENE VV. CARSON Captain-C. R. KOEGLER .- Team. Position. Team. Ikmsititm, Dworsky ..... :Right End Steffens, Hirschman ....... Left Furl Vesely ..... ...Right Tackle Garvin ................ Quarter Back Thomson .... Right Guard O'Neill ............. Right Half lflack Rau ...... ........ C enter Xfvllltlllg, Gottschaldt.Let't Half Hack Upson .... ...Left Guard Harnischfeger . ........... Full Hack Koegler .. ...Left Tackle Pollard, Torrencc ......... ..Snhs. School. Com. Oppts. School. Umm, tlppigl Commercial .. . . ll 6 Clinton ...... , 5 o Stevens Prep. . O Z4 Mt. Vernon ......... 22 0 Betts Academy . 0 5 Morris ............... 5 5 East Orange . O 16 C. Man. Train. l-l. S. .... tl 1,2 C. C. Institute . O 21 Boys' Higli .......... S 17 De La Salle ...... .. . 6 0 The basketball team was composed of entirely new inziterinl. Blr. Klut- thevvson coached.th1s year, M1'. VVagner having left the school enrlv in the winter. The season was a sort of a see-saw between defeat and victory. hut the big game was lost to Clinton by a I4-31 sem-Q,