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

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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,

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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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COMMERCE YEAR BOOK, 1912 Coach-MR. C. MATTHEWSON MdNdg67'TCHAUNCEY BELKNAP Captain-D. G. IDAVIDSON Team. Position. Team. Position, Archibald, Pearce ...... Left Forward Davidson ....... .... R ight Guard Smith ............... Right Forward Taub, Joseph . .. . .Left Guard Gruber ......... ........... C enter School. Com. Oppts. 1 School. Com. Oppts. Commerce E. R. C. ..... 18 17 Columbia Freshmen .... 13 33 C. C. N. Y. Freshmen... 19 29 Eastern District ........ 28 23 Mt. Vernon ............ 14 22 De La Salle ........ 17 Z6 Summit H. S. ........... 45 16 Newtown .......... .. Z3 11 Erasmus Hall .. . . 27 19 St. Paul's School .. . . . 142 , 6 Stuyvesant ............. 16 21 Bryant ........... ... 33 13 Manual Training ....... 26 l9 Plainheld ...... .. 57 23 Townsend Harris Hall.. 14 22 Morris .... ... Z1 13 Boys' High ............ 25 76 Clinton . .. . . 14 31 Flushing ............... 33 13 In the Indoor P. S. A. L. Championships the track team scored only two points, but in the St. Paul, Barnard, and Waterman Meets it performed creditably. The Annual Indoor Meet was again a big success. Coach-MR. H. E. ALDINGER Captain-EUGENE CARSON The crew started training before the Easter vacation, and worked hard for the race with Clinton. On Decoration Day, with five veterans in the boat we again beat Our Fifty-ninth Street rivals. Coach-MR. BACKUS. Captain-F. F. G,NEILI, A Manager-KREMER Team. Position. Team. I Position. O'Neill ........ ...... S troke Groff ............. .......... 3 Harnischfeger . ........ 7 Mann, McCahill .... ........ . 2 Thomson ,,,,, .... 6 Garvin ......... A. . . ..... . BOW McVVilliams . . . . . . 5 Kremer ......... .... C oxwain Koegler . ........ . . . . . . 4 . ' The baseball team played good ball throughout the season, winning the majority Of its games. Mr. Hance's coaching was again a big factor in the development Of the team, and its success was in large measure due to him. Coach-MR. WM. HANOE 4 Manager-HENRY KOELSCH Captain-EUGENE W. CARSON 39