. The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association lacrosse guide. tter school. By 1917 Jamaica, Flushingand St. Johns had dropped out of the league and in 1918,when Stevens dropped, a small Public Schools AthleticLeague tournament was held, with Manual winning back theColonel Thompson trophy from Boys High. The gameexisted under these conditions until 1921, when CommercialHigh School took up the sport. Manual again won thetrophy, as it did in 1919 and 1920, by defeating Erasmus ina thrilling deciding contest. Although never a member of the league. Poly Prep Coun-try Day School has had a
. The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association lacrosse guide. tter school. By 1917 Jamaica, Flushingand St. Johns had dropped out of the league and in 1918,when Stevens dropped, a small Public Schools AthleticLeague tournament was held, with Manual winning back theColonel Thompson trophy from Boys High. The gameexisted under these conditions until 1921, when CommercialHigh School took up the sport. Manual again won thetrophy, as it did in 1919 and 1920, by defeating Erasmus ina thrilling deciding contest. Although never a member of the league. Poly Prep Coun-try Day School has had a strong team since 1919 when thesport was revived at the institution after a period of somehalf score or more years. This year the sport again came infor a big boom when the Crescent and some of the otherformer players of Brooklyn, helped to bring about the form-ing of a new interscholastic league. That league, which bids to be the most successful of itskind thus far established, has the following members: Man-ual, Erasmus, Boys, Commercial, Poly and Stevens. The. 2«W Spalding s Athletic Library 35 fact that four of the six members of this league have theirown home grounds will be a great help towards keeping thegame going. Manual Training is the pioneer of the Brooklyn schoolshaving had teams for almost twenty years. During that timeit has been in some league fourteen seasons and has won thechampionship thirteen times. Poly had teams representingthem about ten or twelve years ago, but dropped the sportfor a long period until popular sentiment caused its revivalin 1919. Boys High has been a strong opponent of Manual,these two schools fighting it out when there were no otherstaking an interest in the game. Boys is not far behind Man-ual as to the number of years it has had a team. Erasmus Hall has been the chief contender in the boroughsince 1917, being just nosed out in a number of cases. CoachJohn M. Battell of Erasmus, a former member of the CityCollege twelve, has done
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